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Come un Ministro per la cultura
(2020)
Elegant, lofty, charming, brilliant, bellicose, refined, capricious, superb, temerarious, vain. Giulio Einaudi is an oxymoron. From the extensive literature that has furthered our understanding of his figure, he emerges ...
Chapter Immigrati, aree suburbane, identità di quartiere
(2024)
The author proposes a key to understanding the presence of immigrants within cities that has so far been less frequented by studies, examining the settlement in suburban areas and the formation of neighborhood identities: ...
Chapter Louis René Villermé: la nascita dell’inchiesta sul lavoro all’origine delle moderne scienze sociali
(2024)
This chapter focuses on the emergence of industrial pauperism in France during the first half of the 19th century. It explores the liberal elites’ first responses to the spread of new forms of exclusion and deprivation ...
Chapter Cultural boundaries, epigraphic boundaries
(2024)
The concept of borders, examined from the point of view of the epigraphs, reveals how the use of inscriptions was a well-established strategic device among the elites: in particular, the knowledge of the value and efficacy ...
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
(2019)
The International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA) came into being in 1999 from the particularly felt need of sharing know-how, objectives and results between areas ...
Il mercato del vino nella Grande Distribuzione Organizzata in Italia
(2020)
This report analyzes the composition and trends of wine sales in the Italian large-scale retail trade in the period 2009-2017. The analysis focuses on wine sales by type of product, i.e. sales format, color, still/sparkling ...
Chapter Ludopatia e sovraindebitamento: alcune considerazioni intorno al giudizio di ‘meritevolezza’ del consumatore
(2024)
This paper, after a short analysis of the essential discipline of the consumer over-indebtedness settlement procedures, focuses on the judgement of the merits of the debtor with a gambling disorder.
Sustainable Management of Mediterranean Coastal Fresh and Transitional Water Bodies: a Socio-Economic and Environmental Analysis of Changes and Trends to Enhance and Sustain Stakeholders Benefits
(2009)
This volume presents the Proceedings of the International Conference of the WADI project held in Malta, 5-8 November 2008, at the end of the project itself. The WADI project funded by the European Commission, was carried ...
Chapter La documentazione archeosismologica dell’edilizia storica in aree a rischio sismico: primi dati dalla ricognizione e dall’analisi di alcuni casi studio del centro storico di Firenze
(2024)
The historic center of Florence was involved in 2016-2018 by a two-year project focused on the archaeoseismological reading of some buildings, with the aim of collecting information for a first evaluation on the presence ...
Chapter Money and its alternatives in Early Modern extractive industry: The many media of exchange in mercury mining
(2024)
«Alternatives to money» have a long history in Western extractive industry, extending to the 20th century. Before cash wages became a requirement of law, miners received their earnings in varieties of commodity and fiat ...
Chapter La libertà come non dominio. Il contrasto all’uso arbitrario del potere attraverso la ragionevolezza, le clausole generali e l’abuso del diritto
(2024)
The article deals with freedom as non-domination, emphasising the importance of protecting individual freedoms against arbitrary power. Through an approach that integrates theories of influential thinkers such as Amartya ...
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
(2024)
In this comprehensive volume, Italian and international scholars contribute to nearly 200 chapters, delving into the evolution of concepts surrounding work and leisure in Western culture from Homer to the present day. With ...
Chapter Competenze digitali e innovazione nell’istruzione: metodologie di formazione e valutazione
(2024)
The Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 focuses on digital skills development and drives digital transformation in school education. The EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is crucial to accelerate the digital ...
Baretti’s England
(2024)
The essays in this collected volume explore various aspects of Giuseppe Baretti, a key figure of the Italian Enlightenment, focusing on his personality and works, as well as the English environment that shaped his life. ...
Chapter Il diritto del lavoro e il lavoro post-fordista
(2024)
The article wonders if and how Italian labour law has reacted to the post-fordist transformations. The original identification between labour law and fordism will be firstly addressed. The main changes brought by post-fordism ...
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Meyer. Attività sanitaria e scientifica 2011
(2013)
The Meyer University Hospital Report on health and scientific activity is a valuable tool for sharing and disseminating information that summarises the working methods, the results and the lines of improvement that must ...
Looking to methods and tools for the Research in Design and Architectural Technology
(2015)
The volume presents the research experience of young researchers and PhD candidates, dealing with the Italian scientific area 08-C1 (Design and Technology of Architecture), with a discussion about scientific issues and ...
Chapter La polemica sul lusso nel Settecento
(2024)
Unlike in the past, the phenomenon of luxury in the modern era marks a paradigm shift that has an immediate impact on the development of work in the capitalist sense. The wealth produced by the arts, commerce and work ...
Challenging Centralism: Decentramento e autonomie nel pensiero politico europeo
(2011)
This book, which is the result of a project of Research of Relevant National Interest (PRIN 2007), presents an overview of theoretical-political thought as a challenge to centralism, starting from the late Middle Ages and ...
Chapter Dialogo con Riccardo del Punta: dal primo al secondo Manifesto
(2024)
The author develops a dialogue with the theses and thought of Riccardo del Punta, focusing his reflections on the work done together in drawing up the "Manifesto per un diritto del lavoro sostenibile" and "Il diritto del ...
I servizi ecosistemici nella pianificazione bioregionale
(2020)
After years of indiscriminate exploitation, the Anthropocene period is giving us back a nature whose reactions make the Earth less and less habitable: reversing the route has now become a urgent priority. The paradigm of ...
Memorie
(2016)
Jeanne (Jane) Oulman Bensaude belonged to a Parisian Jewish upper middle class family related to the world of finance and fully involved in the cultural and political life of Paris in the second half of the nineteenth ...
Chapter Introduzione. La traduzione del linguaggio specialistico dei beni culturali: dalle pratiche passate alle metodologie attuali
(2023)
The Introduction presents the chronological evolution of the practices employed in the translation of the language of cultural heritage. All the Chapters in this volume share close ties with the objectives of the research ...
Il Sistema previdenziale pubblico tra vincoli e scelte
(2019)
Social security systems are in crisis almost everywhere in the world, partly due to the bad management from the past, especially far back in time, and partly due to their intrinsic characteristics, which were not always ...
Chapter Lavoro emotivo, lavoro emozionale e strutture sociali nel contributo di Arlie Hochschild
(2024)
Within the field of the sociology of work, Hochschild’s concept of emotional labor is considered one of the author’s most relevant and enduring contributions. For Hochschild, the expression and management of emotion are ...
An Integrated Nonlinear Wind-Waves Model for Offshore Wind Turbines
(2011)
This thesis presents a numerical model capable of simulating offshore wind turbines exposed to extreme loading conditions. External condition-based extreme responses are reproduced by coupling a fully nonlinear wave kinematic ...
Innovation in research: the challenge and activities in progress/ L'innovazione nella ricerca: la sfida e l'attività in corso
(2009)
The fourth edition of the Osdotta seminar, was held in Turin from 10-13 September 2008. The Seminar, set up as a moment of reflection about the tendencies that characterize the internal research of the Technology of ...
Translatio sanctitatis
(2019)
This volume analyses the phenomenon of the thefts of sacred relics in Medieval Italy, in particular through the stealthy translationes, the hagiographic stories narrating the transfer of the relics from one place to another ...
Lingue, letterature e culture migranti
(2016)
The volume collects the contributions presented at the first Seminar organized in 2014 in Florence by the Section of Intercultural Studies of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies on the theme ...
Chapter I dolori del giovane Čechov. Considerazioni filologiche sui racconti giovanili
(2019)
The article addresses textual decisions made by Čechov’s editors in publishing his early short stories. We demonstrate that choices made by other editors and translators has depended crucially on the configuration of his ...
Chapter Chiese e cappelle dello spazio signorile
(2023)
The purpose of the essay is to illustrate the role of territorial ecclesiastical institutions in the organization of the Trentino lordships of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. From a de facto hegemony and control, ...
Automi, realtà virtuale e formiche
(2016)
Automi, realtà virtuale e formiche (“Automata, virtual reality and ants”) proposes an analysis of the complexity of the war phenomenon through three different approaches: in the microphysics of the individual action, in ...
Chapter Il ‘machismo’ russo: il caso di A.V. Lunačarskij
(2019)
Empirio-criticism had a huge impact in Russia, where the works of Ernst Mach and Richard Avenarius works were avidly translated and discussed, while the question of whether or not their ideas could be combined with Marxism ...
Generazione Erasmus?
(2008)
The Erasmus programme is one of the outstanding Community initiatives, even if it is spoken little of outside the world of the university. This book, one of the first devoted to the subject, analyses the virtuous effects ...
Histaminergic neurotransmission as a gateway for the effects of the fat sensing molecule Oleoylethanolamide
(2019)
The histaminergic system is a pleiotropic system that commands general states of metabolism and consciousness, including learning and memorizing both pleasurable and aversive events. Brain histamine mediates the central ...
Competing, cooperating, deciding: towards a model of deliberative debate
(2021)
Will there be any ‘happy dispute’ again? A debate among people holding different opinions that does not end with a repetition of the initial idea, but rather with an improvement of one’s own beliefs and those of others? ...
Chapter 11. Preparazione del personale delle biblioteche (1976)
(2024)
L'articolo affronta il tema della preparazione professionale dei bibliotecari, questione che deve essere esaminata nell'ottica delle biblioteche come istituti cardine della politica culturale di un'amministrazione. Il ruolo ...
Chapter Le teorie della fine del lavoro, ideologie e provocazioni
(2024)
The “End of work” theories targeted the transition towards a digital and service society stating the end of full employment, widespread prosperity and endless economic development. The increase of unemployment and the ...
Chapter I principi e le principesse di Florbela
(2023)
Images of “princes” and “princesses” can be found in a number of Florbela Espanca’s works. Indeed in some poems she goes as far as to represent herself as such, highlighting these terms in both titles and content, notably, ...
Cognizione e realtà
(2018)
Cognition implies perception and judgement. Perception consists in interpreting a sensory stimulus: it is a common process in every animal with a brain, and can be described as a Bayesian inference where the interpretive ...