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Chapter Exploring competitiveness and wellbeing in Italy by spatial principal component analysis
(2021)
Well being is a multidimensional phenomenon, that cannot be measured by a single descriptive indicator and that, it should be represented by multiple dimensions. It requires, to be measured by combination of different ...
Chapter A drone’s eye view: A preliminary assessment of the efficiency of drones in mapping shallow-water benthic assemblages
(2020)
The study assesses consumer drone efficiency for surveying shallow-water benthic cover. We hypothesised that using a drone would reduce duration, and manpower requirements, while increasing accuracy, relative to manual ...
Chapter Enhancing the Realism of Virtual Construction Safety Training: Integration of Real-Time Location Systems for Real-World Hazard Simulations
(2023)
In numerous studies, virtual training for construction safety has been proposed as a promising approach. However, creating realistic training scenarios requires significant resources, encompassing various elements such as ...
Chapter Adult Learning and Education for Poverty Alleviation in Africa. Challenges and Opportunities for Women
(2023)
This chapter examines the contributions of Adult Learning and Education (ALE) towards empowerment and poverty reduction amongst women in Africa. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasise the need for countries of ...
Chapter Enhancing the Realism of Virtual Construction Safety Training: Integration of Real-Time Location Systems for Real-World Hazard Simulations
(2023)
In numerous studies, virtual training for construction safety has been proposed as a promising approach. However, creating realistic training scenarios requires significant resources, encompassing various elements such as ...
Secondo Convegno Nazionale della Società Italiana di Scienze Sensoriali
(2008)
Over the last decade there has been a growing interest in sensory science in Italy. This has clearly resulted in an increase in the number of researchers engaged in this sector and the number of companies that exploit ...
Chapter Le risorse documentarie dell’Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica del CNR per un’analisi di termini giuridici rilevanti: il caso di studio della parola «razza»
(2021)
Part of public opinion believes that Article 3 of the Italian Constitution should be reformulated by eliminating the word "race", because of its historical meanings. Some jurists disagree with this opinion believing that ...
Chapter Migranti e rappresentazioni. Linguaggio, integrazione, discriminazione
(2021)
Public discussion on migration is addressed through frame and signification processes in which journalistic production plays a crucial role. Compared to the past, more diversified and articulated frames are adopted in the ...
Chapter Le ragioni di una ricerca in una bottega del sapere del XXI secolo
(2023)
The chapter describes coordinates, steps and goals of the research work the book results from, starting in a 2019 which represented the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death and the first valuable opportunity for a revival ...
Chapter Pervasività della signoria
(2023)
The article examines two explicitly different meanings of the expression 'pervasiveness of lordship'. The first moves from the more commune meaning of pervasiveness, understood as a synonym of capillary diffusion, to ...
Chapter Prolusione
(2022)
Divided into ten points, this paper aims to illustrate how fashion produced modernity, understood as valuing the present, especially its progressive and evolving elements. A process that focused on amplifying “personal ...
Chapter Les réseaux négociants européens et les échanges entre la France et l'Europe du Nord (XVIIe-XIXe siècles)
(2019)
France was a country that had great agricultural potential and natural resources that allowed it to not be dependent on external markets, especially raw materials from the North. French ports, however, maintained close ...
Chapter Innovations and the art of deception: mixed cloths in Venetian Crete (17th century)
(2022)
This paper investigates innovations of the early modern European textile industry and practices of cultural transfer using seventeenth-century Venetian Crete as a case study. It explores the use of novelties, such as mixed ...
Chapter E-Procurement in the Australian Construction Industry: Benefits, Barriers, and Adoption
(2023)
A clear benefit of e-procurement technology in the construction sector is its capacity for in reducing waste and costs. Despite its successful adoption in other major industries, the take-up of e-procurement in the ...
Chapter La Spagna di Claudio Magris, Claudio Magris in Spagna. Primo approccio al mondo ispanoamericano
(2021)
Magris appears so often in the Spanish national press as to make it nearly impossible to be exhaustive. It is very difficult and complicated to talk about Claudio Magris’ presence in Spain and the presence of Spain in his ...
Chapter Un manifesto per la modernità: venti anni di Utopia e disincanto
(2021)
The current essay aims to highlighting the importance of Magris’ Utopia e disincanto. The year of its first publication (1999) was a watershed moment in his career, as it paved the way to a new season of public engagement ...
Tra altari e barricate
(2020)
The Roman Republic of 1849 is one of the most exciting moment of the heroic season of the Italian Risorgimento, a short adventure in which the contemporaries recognized the opportunity to realize ideals of freedom, tolerance ...
Chapter Inequality in Early Modern Spain: New evidence from the Ensenada Cadastre in Castile, c. 1750
(2020)
This chapter addresses income inequality by offering new evidence based on the Ensenada Cadastre, a unique database on Castilian households circa 1750. We find that inequality in 18th-century Spain was substantial, especially ...
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2012 Florence
(2012)
The key aim of this Event is to provide a forum for the user, supplier and scientific research communities to meet and exchange experiences, ideas and plans in the wide area of Culture & Technology. Participants receive ...
“Still Blundering into Sense”. Maria Edgeworth, her context, her legacy
(2019)
“Still Blundering into Sense”. Maria Edgeworth, her context, her legacy. This collection of international contributions, as well as celebrating Maria Edgeworth’s 250th anniversary, proposes some further investigation on ...
Chapter Il museo della scuola come luogo di sperimentazione di percorsi di Public History: il caso del Museo della Scuola «Paolo e Ornella Ricca» dell’Università di Macerata
(2019)
Public historians have definitively recognized the crucial role that museums – on par with libraries, archives, schools as well as media, cultural and tourism industry, and «all other sectors where the knowledge of the ...
“Still Blundering into Sense”. Maria Edgeworth, her context, her legacy
(2019)
“Still Blundering into Sense”. Maria Edgeworth, her context, her legacy. This collection of international contributions, as well as celebrating Maria Edgeworth’s 250th anniversary, proposes some further investigation on ...
Chapter Retrofitting of Buildings to Improve Energy Efficiency: A Comprehensive Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Directions
(2023)
A large body of research has been developed with the aim of assisting policymakers in setting ambitious and achievable environmental targets for the retrofit of current and future building types for energy-efficiency and ...
Chapter Experience, sensorial skills and personality qualifying a wine consumer as an expert
(2021)
This paper analyses the characteristics of wine consumers that may qualify them as wine experts. The wine evaluation expertise of consumers, as measured by various degrees of self-perceived ability, is hypothesised to ...
Chapter Il «faticato peregrinaggio» di Isidoro Carini negli archivi e nelle biblioteche di Spagna (1881-1882)
(2021)
The Relazione by Isidoro Carini about his research mission in Spain (1881-1882) and the events of its publication allow to reconstruct the beginnings of both the use of spanish sources for the Sicilian and Italian medieval ...
Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Meeting Stakeholder Interests
(2007)
This book collects together 46 papers presented at the Third Biennial Conference of i-Rec, International Group for the Diffusion of Research and Information on Post-Disaster Reconstruction. The various sections of the book ...
Polish Culture in the Renaissance
(2013)
During the most recent conference of the Renaissance Society of America, two sessions were devoted entirely to the Renaissance in Poland. In fifty-nine editions of what is considered the most prestigious international ...
Chapter Evaluation of Computer Vision-Aided Multimedia Learning in Construction Engineering Education
(2023)
Due to the practice-oriented nature of construction engineering education and barriers associated with physical site visits, videos are invaluable means to expose students to practical curricula content. Prior studies have ...
Chapter Il diritto del lavoro e i valori nella crisi
(2022)
The essay deals with the relationship between values and labor law following in the first part a logical thread that moves from two essential foundations: Europe and the trade union. The author considers the crisis of these ...
La Nostra Vita con Ezio e Ricordi di guerra
(2021)
Our life with Ezio and Memories of War, written by Flora Aghib Levi D’Ancona traces the life of her husband Ezio Levi, a Jewish Italian philologist and hispanist, their experiences of exile in the US where the couple fled ...
Chapter Ricerche sullo Zibaldone Magliabechiano: il De doctoribus seu inventoribus tra Paolino Veneto e Boccaccio
(2022)
In the De doctoribus seu inventoribus inserted in the Zibaldone Magliabechiano, Boccaccio reports names and short biographies of several distinguished men and women that he read in Paolino Veneto’s Chronologia Magna. By ...
Le tecnologie dell’informazione nella scrittura di Italo Calvino e Paolo Volponi
(2020)
Over the last decade, considerable attention has been paid to how the information society and digital tools are changing the cultural and linguistic scene where literary production takes place. But what are the roots of ...
Bibliografia di storia della psichiatria italiana 1991-2010
(2010)
This bibliography renders account of the over two thousand books on the history of Italian psychiatry that have appeared over the last twenty years. The aim is thus to support the demand for a new historiographic approach ...
Chapter Experience, sensorial skills and personality qualifying a wine consumer as an expert
(2021)
This paper analyses the characteristics of wine consumers that may qualify them as wine experts. The wine evaluation expertise of consumers, as measured by various degrees of self-perceived ability, is hypothesised to ...
Chapter Adult Learning and Education for Poverty Alleviation in Africa. Challenges and Opportunities for Women
(2023)
This chapter examines the contributions of Adult Learning and Education (ALE) towards empowerment and poverty reduction amongst women in Africa. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasise the need for countries of ...
Chapter Por uma Europa com vontade de futuro
(2023)
The Europe of the future, democratic, freedom fighter, promoter of peace and well-being, is a task of all Europeans. The founding fathers of the European project opened up the path that men of good-will like David Sassoli ...
Chapter The impact of public research expenditure on agricultural productivity: evidence from developed European countries
(2021)
The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of public research expenditure on agricultural productivity in developed European countries. Our research provides original evidence, making possible a comparison with ...
Chapter E-Procurement in the Australian Construction Industry: Benefits, Barriers, and Adoption
(2023)
A clear benefit of e-procurement technology in the construction sector is its capacity for in reducing waste and costs. Despite its successful adoption in other major industries, the take-up of e-procurement in the ...
Studi confraternali: orientamenti, problemi, testimonianze
(2009)
This book is a collection of articles by Italian and foreign scholars designed to offer an overview of the processes and issues involved in the history of the confraternity movement, as yielded by studies in the historical, ...
Chapter A Preliminary Investigation of Knowledge Management Tools for the Construction Sector
(2023)
Knowledge management (KM) is used by construction firms to establish organizational memory (OM) and consequently improve their performance by learning from past mistakes and best practices. Knowledge is the input to ...