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Chapter Adapting BIM-Based AR Positioning Techniques to the Construction Site
(2023)
While Building Information Modelling (BIM) can support the management and visualisation of construction projects, Augmented Reality (AR) holds great promise to enhance interaction with these complex models. The accurate ...
Antinoupolis III
(2017)
Antinoupolis III, yet another volume having as its object an extremely important archaeological area in Graeco-Roman Egypt: the city founded on the left bank of the Nile in 130 AD by Hadrian in honour of Antinoos. Over 700 ...
Chapter Prediction of wine sensorial quality: a classification problem
(2021)
When dealing with a wine, it is of interest to be able to predict its quality based on chemical and/or sensory variables. There is no agreement on what wine quality means, or how it should be assessed and it is often viewed ...
Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia
(2001)
Humanity From African Naissance to Coming Millennia arises out of the world's first Dual Congress that was held at Sun City (South Africa) in 1998 that refers to a conjoint, integrated meeting of two international scientific ...
Chapter FCM-Enabled Approach for Investigating Interdependencies of BIM Performance Factors in the Sustainable Built Environment
(2023)
In pursuit of a sustainable built environment, BIM plays a crucial role in the project's performance and has egressed as a powerful technology in the construction industry, impacting the outcome and the project delivery ...
Chapter A bibliometric study of global research activity in relation to the use of partial least squares for policy evaluation
(2021)
Structural equation modeling (SEM), especially partial least squares path modeling (PLS-PM) has become a mainstream method in many fields of research. In the last years it has been increasingly disseminated in a variety ...
Tramandare la memoria sociale del Novecento
(2021)
The volume contains the proceedings of the conference Tramandare la memoria sociale del Novecento (Florence, 11.21.2019), on the occasion of presenting Gino Cerrito’s archive. owned at present by the Social sciences library, ...
Per un’altra Firenze
(2020)
The Covid-19 pandemic has had unprecedented and dramatic consequences on the cultural activities and the development of tourism in italian cities. In the midst of this scenario, the Department of History, Archeology, ...
Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage – Florence 2007
(2010)
COST Action IE0601 "Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage" (www.woodculther.org) aims to improve the conservation (including study, preventive conservation and restoration) of European Wooden Cultural Heritage ...
Per un’altra Firenze
(2020)
The Covid-19 pandemic has had unprecedented and dramatic consequences on the cultural activities and the development of tourism in italian cities. In the midst of this scenario, the Department of History, Archeology, ...
Migrazioni in Italia: oltre la sfida
(2021)
‘Going beyond the challenge’ means looking at the phenomenon of migration in its complexity, through a multi and interdisciplinary approach. The chapters that make up the first part offer an over-view of the phenomenon, ...
Chapter Le vestigia dei gesuati
(2020)
The essay traces the salient historical steps of the Jesuat congregation, highlighting its genesis and development up to the year of its suppression (1668). The focus is on the dynamics triggered by the born of the Jesuat ...
Chapter Resisting a Total Loss of Digital Heritage Web 2.0 – Archiving & Bridging Thesaurus for Media Art Histories
(2018)
While Media Art has evolved into a critical field at the intersection of art, science and technology, a significant loss threatens this art form due to the rapid technological obsolescence and static documentation strategies. ...
Chapter Higher Education and Work-Related Learning from Professionalism to Professionality
(2018)
Within a complex economic, political, and social scenario that requires high-level competencies as well as increasingly active citizenship, the European and international agenda for higher education needs to be renewed and ...
Chapter Predoni a casa nostra e il geografo solidale: Massimo Quaini tra terra e acqua
(2021)
In accordance with the main goals of this collection of essays in honour of Massimo Quaini, the text focuses on a peculiar character of the Ligurian geographer’s sensibility, his attention to landscape protectionresearch ...
I Kalasha del Hindu Kush: ricerche linguistiche e antropologiche
(2010)
The Kalush are the last Kafirs (pagans) of Hindu Kush and speak an Indo-European language, which makes them a particularly precious resource for the Indo-European scholar. This thesis offers an in-depth study of their ...
Chapter Considerazioni su arte francese e arte italiana: da Luigi XII e Francesco I alla Maison de Gondi di Saint-Cloud e agli Orléans
(2020)
The paper retraces the relationship between Italian and French art from the late 15th to the early 18th century, by focusing on some relevant episodes related especially to the Pio di Savoia and the Medici families and ...
Chapter The Notions of Erroneous Conscience in Pierre Bayle
(2023)
This essay explores the reciprocal contamination of the notions of error and erring at the beginning of the early modern time in Latin and Romance languages, through the example of the concept of “erroneous conscience”. ...
I sistemi museali in Toscana
(2006)
The volume presents the results of a research promoted by an agreement between the Department of Business Sciences of the University of Florence and the Tuscany Region with the aim of defining the framework of museum ...
I sistemi museali in Toscana
(2006)
The volume presents the results of a research promoted by an agreement between the Department of Business Sciences of the University of Florence and the Tuscany Region with the aim of defining the framework of museum ...
Chapter L’autorappresentazione dei signori rurali (secoli XIV-XV): spunti di riflessione
(2023)
Is it possible to identify models of self-representation characteristic of rural lords in 14th-15th century Italy? Are these models common to the whole of the Peninsula, from the Alps to Sicily? What are their main features ...
Tramandare la memoria sociale del Novecento
(2021)
The volume contains the proceedings of the conference Tramandare la memoria sociale del Novecento (Florence, 11.21.2019), on the occasion of presenting Gino Cerrito’s archive. owned at present by the Social sciences library, ...
Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage – Florence 2007
(2010)
COST Action IE0601 "Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage" (www.woodculther.org) aims to improve the conservation (including study, preventive conservation and restoration) of European Wooden Cultural Heritage ...
Chapter Dante epilettico, o anche isterico. Una storia psichiatriico letteraria di fine Ottocento
(2021)
In the last decade of the 19th century psychiatric sciences in Italy proposed many psychopathological interpretations of exceptional personalities. An important role was played by the psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso with his ...
Chapter Essays on the Spread of Humanistic and Renaissance Literary Civilization in the Slavic World (15th-17th Century). An Introduction
(2020)
In this article the author, after briefly summarizing different interpretations of the Renaissance, shortly outlines some modes that have characterized the reception and study of Humanism and the Renaissance in Slavic ...
Chapter L’Ateneo e la Chiesa cattolica
(2024)
The contribution offers an initial reconstruction of the relationship between the University of Florence and the Florentine Catholic Church from 1924 to the present. There is no academic bibliography on the subject, so the ...
Chapter Una tragedia cinquecentesca italo-spagnola: La Reyna Matilda di Giovan Domenico Bevilacqua
(2020)
The subject of the intervention, a curious example of Italian-Spanish translingualism of the late 16th Century, the tragedy La Reyna Matilda, written in Naples in Spanish by an Italian writer, Giovanni Domenico Bevilacqua, ...
Chapter Una tragedia cinquecentesca italo-spagnola: La Reyna Matilda di Giovan Domenico Bevilacqua
(2020)
The subject of the intervention, a curious example of Italian-Spanish translingualism of the late 16th Century, the tragedy La Reyna Matilda, written in Naples in Spanish by an Italian writer, Giovanni Domenico Bevilacqua, ...
Chapter Other Criteria. Problematic Nudes
(2022)
In the 1960s and 1970s this formalist version seen in the previous chapter began to show signs of fatigue. Some critics and art historians began to show interest in the personages on stage in Les Demoiselles. Early on John ...
Chapter Dal Desdén di Moreto ai Plaisirs di Molière
(2020)
In 1664 Molière and his troupe played in the gardens of Versailles, in front of the Sun King, La Princesse d'Elide a rewriting of the Desdén con el Desdén by Moreto. As Maria Grazia Profeti pointed out in her writings, ...
Chapter Monitoring changes over a 10-year period, through vegetation maps, in a coastal site in Apulia region (southeastern Italy)
(2022)
This study aims to detect, analyze, and evaluate the habitat changes, between 2010 and 2020, occurred in the Mediterranean wetland system of “Zone Umide della Capitanata e Paludi presso il Golfo di Manfredonia”. We classified ...
Chapter Realizzazione di un video a 360°: dimensioni tecniche e operative
(2022)
After a brief overview of some sectors where 360° video is used and which can benefit from its adoption, the chapter illustrates the technical aspects of 360 ° video, the equipment needed for shooting, the requirements and ...
Chapter Humors, Passions, and Consciousness in Descartes’s Physiology: The Reconsideration through the Correspondence with Elisabeth
(2023)
By pushing Descartes to more clearly explain the union of body and soul beyond the functioning of a ‘strong’ passion, namely sadness, Elisabeth wants Descartes to review his idea of the passions, and his understanding of ...
Chapter 5 anni di monitoraggio, controllo e prevenzione della pesca illegale nel Parco Sommerso di Gaiola (Golfo di Napoli)
(2020)
The Gaiola Underwater Park is a small Marine Protected Area located in Naples (Italy), funded in 2002 to preserve the biological and archaeological heritage. In fact, because of the metropolitan context in which it is ...
Chapter Human-in-the-Loop Digital Twin Framework for Assessing Ergonomic Implications of Exoskeletons
(2023)
Exoskeletons are increasingly being recognized as ergonomic solutions for work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the construction industry. However, users of active back-support exoskeletons are susceptible to various ...
Chapter Dalla geografia storica all’archeologia del paesaggio e dell’ambiente. Una irrinunciabile eredità di Massimo Quaini
(2021)
This contribution discusses the legacy of Massimo Quaini’s research in the field of postclassical rchaeology and, in particular, in the study of landscape and environment. Its active participation in the archaeological ...
Chapter The (not so violent) staseis and metabolai in the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia
(2022)
The Athenaion Politeia chapter 41.2 lists eleven changes (metabolai) to the Athenian political system from the heroic age to the democratic restoration of Thrasybulus in 403 BCE; the city allegedly remained unchanged until ...
Chapter Humanism and the Renaissance in Recent Histories of Ukrainian Literature
(2020)
In this article, the author analyzes how the broad theme of the reception of Humanism and Renaissance is treated in two important histories of Ukrainian literature, respectively Muza Roksolans’ka. Ukrajins’ka literatura ...
Chapter Humanism and the Renaissance in Recent Histories of Ukrainian Literature
(2020)
In this article, the author analyzes how the broad theme of the reception of Humanism and Renaissance is treated in two important histories of Ukrainian literature, respectively Muza Roksolans’ka. Ukrajins’ka literatura ...
Chapter Amori proibiti in palazzo Mondragone Carnesecchi. Un’inedita cupola di Antonio Puglieschi e una memoria medicea
(2020)
The recent discovery of a dome painted by Antonio Puglieschi in the Mondragone Carnesecchi palace, representing Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan, offers the occasion to reflect on the symbols used by Francesco I de’ ...