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New information subjects in L2 acquisition: evidence from Italian and Finnish
(2015)
Recent work on second language acquisition within the generative framework has pointed out interfaces (syntax-discourse, syntax-semantics, etc.) as a residual domain of vulnerability in L2. Rather than in core syntax, it ...
Trame controluce. Il patriarca 'protestante' Cirillo Loukaris / Backlighting Plots. The 'Protestant' Patriarch Cyril Loukaris
(2015)
Cyril Loukaris (1570-1638), Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria and later of Constantinople, is a fascinating and controversial figure. In addition to being a religious authority, the patriarch proved to be a first-rate ...
Chapter Measuring the effectiveness of COVID-19 containment policies in Italian regions: are we doing enough?
(2021)
A successful fight against COVID-19 greatly depends on citizens’ adherence to the restrictive measures, which may not suffice alone. Making use of a containment index, data on sanctions, and Google’s movement trends across ...
Lo spettacolo senza riforma
(2016)
The San Samuele theatre company from Venice constitutes a perfect example of the extraordinary vitality of the early-eighteenth-century troupes, before the success of Carlo Goldoni’s dramaturgy. Reconstructing the chronology ...
La Habana del Este
(2022)
The Atlas of Territorial Heritage in the Municipality of East Havana is a useful tool in order to reach a complete knowledge of an extended Cuban municipality belonging to Havana, Cuba. At the same time the atlas is useful ...
Chapter Axel Honneth: il lavoro come ambito di riconoscimento e di conflitto normativo
(2024)
The article briefly traces the perspective on work developed by Axel Honneth in the context of his recognition theory. For Honneth, work is a vector of social recognition, a field of conflict but also of solidarity, and ...
Chapter Educare alle relazioni e alla sessualità: il ruolo della scuola nel promuovere il benessere e prevenire la violenza di genere e l’omofobia
(2023)
The contribution illustrates the role of relationship and sexuality education in promoting health and well-being among young people and preventing gender-based violence and homophobia.
L’Italia repubblicana e gli aiuti internazionali
(2024)
The book examines the complex process through which Italy passed from being ‘recipient of international aid’ to ‘donor country’. It does so by looking at the different actors which characterised this shift: national and ...
Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata for e-Communities
(2002)
DC-2002 marks the tenth in the ongoing series of International Dublin Core Workshops, and the second that includes a full program of tutorials and peer-reviewed conference papers. Interest in Dublin Core metadata has grown ...
Chapter Ernst Jünger: la Mobilitazione totale e il lavoro
(2024)
The essay offers an analysis of the issues surrounding the notion of work and Total Mobilisation in Ernst Jünger. The First World War constitutes a historical event that through its call for Total Mobilisation leads all ...
Molecules of an author in search of memory
(2014)
Loosely based on Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, the play has a Fahrenheit 451 setting. In a world without books or memory appears a common man, the Man in the street, with some heets of writing that he cannot make out. ...
A 150 anni dall’unificazione amministrativa italiana. Vol. VIII
(2016)
In 1865, there was the enactment of the laws of administrative unification for the Kingdom of Italy. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary, the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Florence organized a study ...
Chapter Lavoro individuale, lavoro sociale, nuovo senso del lavoro. Teologie del lavoro e cultura economica
(2024)
The introduction proposes an interpretation of the ideas of work of our civilization that problematizes the question of the sociality of work. Remembering that for Karl Marx the novelty of the capitalist mode of production ...
Dall’amministrare all’amministrazione
(2014)
This volume questions the hinges of modern statehood, through the reconstruction of the institutional story of subalpine companies. During the chronological period examined (1717-1853), the companies characterised the ...
Chapter Adriano Olivetti, la ricomposizione delle ‘due culture’ e il ruolo delle arti figurative
(2024)
The author of this chapter worked for more than 30 years in Olivetti and nowadays meets often people interested in the peculiar history of this international industry. This paper aims to facilitate the understanding ...
Rischio di impresa e responsabilità civile
(2013)
The volume analyses the theme of "business risk" with an original and interdisciplinary approach from a dual point of view: the control and internal management of risks by the company, and the criteria for imputing liability ...
Chapter La signoria rurale e le trasformazioni economiche della fine del medioevo (area lombarda e Italia centro-settentrionale). Qualche riflessione
(2023)
The lack of adequate historiographical insights has cast a negative light on the role of lordship in the late medieval economy; it has traditionally been seen as an obstacle to the free expression of market forces and thus ...
Interprétations du discours métalinguistique
(2006)
Ancient linguistic reflection in India was able to combine the analysis of Sanskrit with the awareness that the language through which this analysis is conducted (Sanskrit) is different from the object it examines. Although ...
La prosa sovietica nel contesto socio-culturale dell’epoca brežneviana
(2020)
The main purpose of this work is to re-examine the literature published in the USSR during the Brežnevian era (1964-'84). Although it was considered insignificant and uninteresting, quickly forgotten after its conclusion, ...
Chapter La professionalità per l’occupabilità in una lettura di genere
(2024)
Laws promoting gender equality are important. Still, they alone are not enough to bring about a significant change in the socio-economic dynamics that are responsible for creating an unequal gender distribution in the labor ...
53rd National Meeting of the Italian Society of Biochemistryand Molecular Biology (SIB)andNational Meeting of Chemistry of Biological Systems – Italian Chemical Society (SCI - Section CSB)
(2008)
The 53rd National Congress of the Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SIB), which will be held in Riccione from 23 to 26 September, is characterised by the elevated scientific level and interdisciplinary ...
Chapter Парадоксальность Кроткой
(2023)
A Gentle Creature’s Paradox. The aim of this article is to analyze a smile as a mimetic, nonverbal facial expression. Although a smile most often displays joy and pleasure, it sometimes expresses emotions such as sadness, ...
La variazione semantica del verbo "essere" nelI'italiano parlato
(2010)
The volume proposes a corpus-driven study on the 14,000 occurrences of the verb “essere” (to be) in a corpus of Italian speech C-ORAL-ROM, in the light of the main proposals for the semantic interpretation of the verb. ...
Single molecule magnets sublimated on conducting and magnetic substrates
(2015)
Single Molecule Magnets (SMMs) showing bistability and quantum phenomena are promising candidates for spintronic applications. In recent years, the study of hybrid surfaces composed of SMMs on conductive and magnetic ...
Chapter Linguaggio inclusivo: limiti e potenzialità di uso nei manuali di italiano L2/Ls
(2024)
Instances derived from the need for nonsexist use of language and the new sensibility toward a broader language that considers the expressive needs of all kinds of identities are still scarcely discussed in L2/LS Italian ...
Chapter A. Supiot: senso del lavoro e giustizia sociale
(2024)
This chapter outlines the main concepts examined and defined by the French jurist Alain Supiot, and traces the argumentative trajectories of his proposals for reflection and action, which - as the document seeks to emphasize ...
Finite-Size Effects in Stochastic Models of Population Dynamics: Applications to Biomedicine and Biology
(2010)
Population dynamics constitutes a widespread branch of investigations which finds important applications within the realm of life science. The classical deterministic (macroscopic) approach aims at characterizing the time ...
Per le riviste di Vecchietti negli anni ’30-’40
(2016)
Retracing Dessí’s collaboration in the magazines “L’Orto”, “Primato” and “Cronache” directed by Giorgio Vecchietti, among stories, essays and reviews that have remained largely unpublished, means deepening the writer’s ...
Chapter Arti, tecniche e mestieri in Diderot e nell’Encyclopédie
(2024)
The Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (1751-1772) is the laboratory of experience of the new technical-rational values produced by the 18th century and the philosophie. Science ...
Governare la città
(2007)
The social and political organization and the power culture of an important medieval city-state constitute the glue of the essays recollected here. The approach to the history of Genoa concerns different aspects, which lie ...
Chapter Zu slavisch-baltischen Konvergenzen (und ihr Fehlen) im Aspekt-Tempus-Bereich
(2023)
The article provides a survey of aspect-tense (AT) grams in (North) Slavic and Baltic, with some account of Finnic. More recently developed grams (bound morphology and constructions) are evaluated against a deeper diachronic ...
Isotopic fractionation study towards massive star-forming regions across the Galaxy
(2021)
One of the most important tools to investigate the chemical history of our Galaxy and our own Solar System is to measure the isotopic fractionation of chemical elements. In the present study new astronomical observations ...
A Journey to the West. Observations on the Chinese Migration to Italy
(2013)
This volume presents the results of a number of studies about Chinese migration to Italy carried out between 2003 and 2013. The data discussed in the different chapters were collected mostly through ethnographic fieldwork ...
Chapter La schiavitù dei contemporanei
(2024)
Slave labor survived the abolition of slavery. Karl Marx analyzed both the role of legal slavery in the original accumulation of the capital and the forms of forced labor inherent to the “free” labor relationships (wage ...
Chapter La presenza del vescovo Atto nella storiografia pistoiese del Novecento
(2024)
The paper critically retraces the twentieth-century Pistoiese historiography dedicated to the figure of Bishop Atto, highlighting its evolution from a prevalent interest in the political dynamics connected to the birth of ...
Lettere a Ruggero Jacobbi
(2006)
Lettere a Ruggero Jacobbi offers an extensive register of over a thousand pieces of letters sent to the author over a period of forty years (from 1938 to 1981) and of about seventy letters written by him to various ...
Tecnologia per il web learning
(2007)
This book maps out a course through the methodological and technological innovations of internet-based training, setting the emphasis on the collaborative character of experiences of learning and on the interactivity of ...
Una biblioteca in divenire. La biblioteca della Facoltà di Lettere dalla penna all'elaboratore
(2005)
This book illustrates the history of the Library of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Florence, tracing it from the origins up to the present: “from the pen to the computer”, against the backdrop of ...
Chapter Quindici anni di catalogazione in URBE: dalle Varianti locali (2009) alla Commissione sulle Varianti locali e la catalogazione in URBE (2024)
(2024)
The paper describes URBE’s journey towards cataloguing uniformity. Starting with the recognition of the state of the art of cataloguing in URBE and the analysis of the document List of Local Variants to the AACR2/RDA ...
Chapter Ipse sui vatis vota libellus agat. Entstehungskontexte des Liber ad honorem Augusti
(2024)
The Liber at honorem Augusti has traditionally been interpreted as a work of court historiography that was supposed to legitimize the still hardly consolidated Hohenstaufen rule in the Kingdom of Sicily. In contrast to ...
Cuba in the World, the World in Cuba
(2009)
The volume approaches Cuba as a nation that hosts a convergence of extraordinary global developments and, in turn, projects itself onto the world's major cultural, political and economic processes. From different perspectives, ...
Chapter Il futuro dell’Europa
(2023)
One of David Sassoli's most outstanding initiatives was the Conference on the Future of Europe, concluded in 2022, which aimed to promote the European construction based on the voices of citizens. Given the Europe's ...
Chapter Psychometric properties of a new scale for measuring academic positive psychological capital
(2021)
Positive psychological capital (PsyCap) is the name given to a set of psychological dimensions (hope, resilience, self-efficacy, and optimism) that may support students in their effort to achieve better academic results ...
Chapter Artigianato digitale
(2024)
The figure of the craftsman, contrary to common opinion, has always represented the tradition that is constantly renewed. Today this figure is even more an expression of contemporaneity, where customization, regeneration ...
Il passato nel presente: la lingua dei beni culturali
(2020)
As a sign, tangible heritage is the most visible trace of the past in our daily life. In constant dialectic with the intangible heritage, it constitutes a physical presence that forces us to take concrete awareness. Knowledge ...
Chapter Contrastare l’odio on-line contro le persone LGBTQIA+: un’attività a portata di click
(2023)
This essay analyses the hatred that permeates social networks and presents some valid linguistic and narrative strategies to dismantle the basis of hatred by breaking down prejudices and stereotypes and deconstructing fake ...
Bruges nesso economico tra i popoli romanici e germanici (secoli XIV-XV) / Bruges: The Economic Nexus between Romanic and Germanic Peoples (14th-15th Centuries)
(2024)
In this contribution, presented at the Accademia Belgica in Rome in 1967, Federigo Melis tackled a topic that was much discussed in those years, namely the role of Bruges as a national and international marketplace between ...
Lectures on Solid Mechanics
(2008)
This volume presents the theoretical basics of solid mechanics collecting the lectures held by the Authors for the course of Mechanics of Solids to environmental engineering students at the University of Florence. Lectures ...
Chapter Uso e diffusione della ‘moneta alternativa’ in Sardegna tra XI e XIV secolo
(2024)
Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the economy of Sardinia (which was then divided into four kingdoms or giudicati: Cagliari, Arborea, Torres, and Gallura) was characterized by a limited use of currency, which was ...
L'Università degli Studi di Firenze 1924-2004
(2005)
The volume collects the texts of the interventions held on December 17, 2004 in the Aula Magna of the University of Florence during the presentation of two volumes of the work published by Olschki publishing house “L'Università ...
Innovazione tecnologica e cambiamento dell'università
(2003)
It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, ...
Structural changes, international trade and multisectoral modelling
(2008)
In September 2007 the national team members of the International Inforum (Interindustry Forecasting Project at the University of Maryland) group held the XV annual World Conference in Truijllo, Spain. Such Conferences offer ...
Chapter Linguaggio ampio: una possibile strada verso la convivenza delle differenze
(2023)
The essay asks the following questions: What is broad language (and why not call it inclusive or representational)? What is its social, cultural and metacognitive reflection relevance? What are the possible risks its use ...
Chapter L’agricoltura e il lavoro agricolo
(2024)
During the Middle Ages agriculture and agricultural labor was involved in a new system of values, due to the expansion of Christianity, and this valorization had a great impact on society and economic development of Western ...
Chapter Appunti sull’emigrazione bergamasca nelle città della terraferma veneta nel Quattrocento (con particolare riferimento a Verona)
(2024)
The author takes as an example the emigration from Bergamo to offer a picture of its insertion in the Venetian mainland in the fifteenth century, focusing in particular on immigration in those centers which were happily ...
Chapter La città dei gatti di Hagiwara Sakutarō. Poesia e quarta dimensione
(2024)
Neko Machi (City of Cats, 1935) is a peculiar short story that occupies a relatively unique space within Hagiwara Sakutarō’s oeuvre. Within this narrative, a protagonist plagued by a poor sense of direction stumbles into ...
Chapter Le conseguenze economiche dell’innovazione bellica. La produzione di «artiglierie alla francese» a Firenze tra Quattro e Cinquecento
(2023)
The paper aims to assess the financial impact of the rapid assimilation of the French-style artillery into Italian warfare. The focus will be on the policy adopted by the Florentine Republic to improve the efficiency of ...
L’impresa selvicolturale alla luce del decreto legislativo 3 aprile 2018, n. 34 “Testo unico in materia di foreste e filiere forestali”
(2020)
The Consolidated Law on forests and forest supply chains (Legislative Decree 34/2018) sets new balances in the management of national heritage forestry, introducing principles and rules to enhance its intrinsic multifunctionality. ...
Chapter Il lavoro dei moderni: antropologia, politica e sapere tra Rinascimento e Illuminismo
(2024)
Examining the ideas and representations of work between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment means focusing on a variety of different aspects and perspectives, in which the elements of continuity and discontinuity with ...
Studio di ceppi batterici per il biorisanamento di suoli contaminati da Cr(VI)
(2010)
Chromium, in its hexavalent form [Cr(VI)], is a dangerous environmental pollutant. Bioremediation, which exploits the capacity of microorganisms to reduce Cr(VI) to Cr(III), is an interesting alternative to chemical-physical ...