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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 ...