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Chapter Profiling visitors of a national park in Italy through unsupervised classification of mixed data
(2021)
Cluster analysis has for long been an effective tool for analysing data. Thus, several disciplines, such as marketing, psychology and computer sciences, just to mention a few, did take advantage from its contribution over ...
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 ...
Europa: un progetto in costruzione
(2023)
The volume, created by the collaboration between the University of Florence and the University of Lisbon, aims to celebrate the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, a year after his death in january 2022. ...
Europa: un progetto in costruzione
(2023)
The volume, created by the collaboration between the University of Florence and the University of Lisbon, aims to celebrate the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, a year after his death in january 2022. ...
Chapter Monitoring coastal areas: a brief history of measuring instruments for solar radiation
(2020)
The first measuring instruments of solar radiation, for meteorological aims, were made only in 1800s. In 1896 OMI established a commission for radiometry which led, in 1905, to choose Ångström pyrheliometer as standard ...
Quando avere un lavoro non basta a proteggere dalla povertà
(2020)
Having a job is not always a guarantee against poverty, for oneself and one's family. This depends on the one hand on the level of income acquired through work, on the other hand on the worker’s family situation. While a ...
Chapter Bruno de Finetti economista corporativo: dall’economia programmata alla costruzione della funzione di preferenza sociale
(2021)
Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985) is well known as the founder of the subjective theory of probability. Less known, with a few exceptions, is his contribution to economic theory during the early stage of his scientific career. ...
Chapter Accoppiamenti giudiziosi. Professionismo militare e signoria rurale in Italia nei secoli XIV e XV
(2023)
Mercenarism and Lordship are deeply linked in the Italy of the 14th and 15th centuries. It is difficult to distinguish between these two realities. Equally, it is difficult to understand the social impact of the mercenary ...
Chapter Per Sergio Caruso
(2023)
In a short message that testifies to a long and solid relationship of friendship, reference is made to the vast multidisciplinary culture of Sergio Caruso, to highlight his propensity to listen and constantly discover new ...
Chapter Real-Time Geometry Assessment Using Laser Line Scanner During Laser Powder Directed Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing of SS316L Component with Sharp Feature
(2023)
Directed energy deposition (DED) is a major metal additive manufacturing (AM) technology that is increasingly used in many industries due to its ability to manufacture complex components of arbitrary shapes and sizes. ...
Liberalismo, democrazia, socialismo
(2009)
In recent years the leader of "Giustizia e Libertà" has been the focus of a renewed and extensive attention. The author reconstructs the itinerary of Carlo Rosselli, conducting the theoretical analysis in the light of the ...
Chapter Isolation and molecular characterization of Fusarium species (Fungi, Ascomycota) from unhatched eggs of Caretta caretta in Tuscany (Italy)
(2022)
Caretta caretta is the only sea turtle species nesting along the Tuscan coastline, where nests are becoming more numerous and widespread, as well as the number of Sea Turtle Egg Fusariosis (STEF)-affected eggs. In this ...
Maria Skłodowska Curie: l’obstination dans l’effort d’un génie
(2017)
«Luigi Dei takes a very personal approach to presenting the life and achievements of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, setting them in the broader context of the history of science and European culture between the nineteenth and ...
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 ...
Educazione, cittadinanza, volontariato
(2013)
In a complex, global, multicultural and post-modern society such as the contemporary one, the concepts of "democracy", citizenship "and" training” are undergoing a more urgent and necessary rethinking, which is tracing ...
La riforma della Politica Agricola Comunitaria e la filiera olivicolo-olearia italiana
(2003)
The book illustrates the results of a wide-ranging survey of the overall situation of the olive oil market and the Italian production chain for olives and olive oil. Based on the results of this investigation, two possible ...
Nuovi paesaggi e aree minerarie dismesse
(2013)
This work discusses the processes and dynamics of the landscapes of the mining industry, of the degraded areas, and of their possibilities for redevelopment through the creation of "new landscapes". The case of abandoned ...
Il mercato non basta
(2017)
The volume presents the thesis of the social roots of the European crisis, supported by an empirical analysis that highlights the extent to which the inequality between EU citizens, which grew with the 2008 recession, ...
Góngora y Tirso de Molina: lo culto y lo sorprendente
(2021)
For the first time, this book parallels the works of Góngora and Tirso, analyzing their different involvement in the expressive modalities of the Baroque that both interpret and value in a hyperbolic way. With efficiency ...
Maria Skłodowska Curie: l’obstination dans l’effort d’un génie
(2017)
«Luigi Dei takes a very personal approach to presenting the life and achievements of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, setting them in the broader context of the history of science and European culture between the nineteenth and ...
Chapter La Città dei Mestieri. Educazione al patrimonio e comunità di pratica
(2022)
History and its teaching have progressively lost authority while, at the same time, the question of history remains evident: it is an essential human instinct to question oneself about one’s past that manifests itself even ...
Città e territori da vivere oggi e domani
(2007)
Town planning entails the complex task of studying the habitat in its variegated aspects, with the objective of introducing functional transformations in response to the demands of the community. Since it is an experimental ...
Chapter Round Table comment. Fashion as an economic engine: continuity and change
(2022)
This comment points out the medieval precedents of many developments characterized as new in the early modern manufacture, sale, and consumption of fashionable textiles and clothing, although these developments were more ...
Chapter Aria di casa. Du Bos e il carattere delle piante-nazione
(2020)
Plants-Nations have very different characters in different countries or in different ages in the same country; like wines, in every terroir they have a particular taste and always preserve it, though some years are better ...
Chapter Monitoring coastal areas: a brief history of measuring instruments for solar radiation
(2020)
The first measuring instruments of solar radiation, for meteorological aims, were made only in 1800s. In 1896 OMI established a commission for radiometry which led, in 1905, to choose Ångström pyrheliometer as standard ...
Il mercato non basta
(2017)
The volume presents the thesis of the social roots of the European crisis, supported by an empirical analysis that highlights the extent to which the inequality between EU citizens, which grew with the 2008 recession, ...
Chapter Bruno de Finetti economista corporativo: dall’economia programmata alla costruzione della funzione di preferenza sociale
(2021)
Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985) is well known as the founder of the subjective theory of probability. Less known, with a few exceptions, is his contribution to economic theory during the early stage of his scientific career. ...
Tra sperimentalismo scapigliato ed espressivismo primonovecentesco poemetto in prosa, prosa lirica e frammento
(2012)
The book sets out to reconstruct why and how poetry and prose came to meet and mix in Italy between the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century; contrary to what has taken place in ...
Chapter «Stilo… memoriaeque mandavi»: Two and a Half Conspiracies. Auctors, Actors, Confessions, Records, and Models
(2022)
Conspiracies frustrate contemporaries, historiographers, and historians. This article explores roles, focalization, and confession in three conspiracies related to Italy, from the 6th, 4th, and 9th centuries respectively. ...
Chapter Unemployment dynamics in Italy: a counterfactual analysis at Covid time
(2021)
This work performs a counterfactual analysis on unemployment dynamics in Italy during the year 2020. In doing so, ARIMA models are estimated and used to make projections for the 2020 quarters. This exercise is performed ...
Chapter Limiti alla crescita, universalismo e progresso sociale
(2020)
The paradigm of limits to growth has been legitimized by important contributions, both scientific and philosophical. Although it has oriented the political program of the major ecological movements, its weakness is to be ...
Chapter Employability and Transitions towards Work: MSc Degree Programme in Educational Planning and Human Resource Development, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Brescia
(2018)
The acceleration of changes underlines the need to enhance our efforts to adapt education to the dynamics of the current economic situation and the issue of employment. In the framework of the circular economy, pedagogy, ...
Chapter Profiling visitors of a national park in Italy through unsupervised classification of mixed data
(2021)
Cluster analysis has for long been an effective tool for analysing data. Thus, several disciplines, such as marketing, psychology and computer sciences, just to mention a few, did take advantage from its contribution over ...
Educazione, cittadinanza, volontariato
(2013)
In a complex, global, multicultural and post-modern society such as the contemporary one, the concepts of "democracy", citizenship "and" training” are undergoing a more urgent and necessary rethinking, which is tracing ...
Chapter Aria di casa. Du Bos e il carattere delle piante-nazione
(2020)
Plants-Nations have very different characters in different countries or in different ages in the same country; like wines, in every terroir they have a particular taste and always preserve it, though some years are better ...
La riforma della Politica Agricola Comunitaria e la filiera olivicolo-olearia italiana
(2003)
The book illustrates the results of a wide-ranging survey of the overall situation of the olive oil market and the Italian production chain for olives and olive oil. Based on the results of this investigation, two possible ...
Quando avere un lavoro non basta a proteggere dalla povertà
(2020)
Having a job is not always a guarantee against poverty, for oneself and one's family. This depends on the one hand on the level of income acquired through work, on the other hand on the worker’s family situation. While a ...
Chapter Accoppiamenti giudiziosi. Professionismo militare e signoria rurale in Italia nei secoli XIV e XV
(2023)
Mercenarism and Lordship are deeply linked in the Italy of the 14th and 15th centuries. It is difficult to distinguish between these two realities. Equally, it is difficult to understand the social impact of the mercenary ...
Tra sperimentalismo scapigliato ed espressivismo primonovecentesco poemetto in prosa, prosa lirica e frammento
(2012)
The book sets out to reconstruct why and how poetry and prose came to meet and mix in Italy between the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century; contrary to what has taken place in ...
Vita sotto le armi, vita clandestina
(2010)
The diaries of the cavalry lieutenant Carlo Ricciardi (1916-1966) record personal events and impressions of the Second World War in Italy, Yugoslavia and Russia. They bring clearly to the fore the logistic difficulties ...