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Chapter L. Tolstoj lettore di scrittori e filosofi occidentali: fra indipendenza e appropriazione
(2017)
This article focuses on Tolstoy’s attitude towards the European writers he reads. From what he says about them (in his Diary, notes, letters, prefaces), we can characterize his attitude towards the Western cultural tradition ...
Chapter Transferring useful knowledge. Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship
(2023)
Human capital is central to current debates about the sources of growth and divergence in the premodern economy. Apprenticeship, the key formal arrangement by which occupational skills were transferred in this period, has ...
Chapter Comparative Adult and Continuing Education: A Guiding Essay
(2020)
This paper provides a guide for developing a research design for comparative studies in adult and continuing education. To that end, a research methodology will be presented that was developed at the COMPALL and INTALL ...
Chapter L’Urbano. Origine e fortuna di una novella pseudo-boccaccesca
(2020)
The paper pursues an investigation on an apocryphal text still underinvestigated by scholars: the Urbano, falsely attributed to Boccaccio. The first part focuses on its fortune in the Boccaccio’s canon, from the first ...
Chapter Fisco e mobilità geografica. Il censimento ostiatim in un villaggio della pianura campana (1522)
(2021)
The paper studies a rare record: the census (numerazione dei fuochi) of Fratta piccola (today Frattaminore), a village near Naples, in 1522, focusing on the process of counting the households in the Kingdom of Naples and ...
Chapter Determinants of spatial intensity of stop locations on cruise passengers tracking data
(2021)
This paper aims at analyzing the spatial intensity in the distribution of stop locations of cruise passengers during their visit at the destination through a stochastic point process modelling approach on a linear network. ...
Spazi e politica nella modernità tecnologica
(2006)
This notebook is the fourth in the series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina and Bruna Consarelli, lecturers in the history of political ...
Chapter Application of the Internet of Things (IoT) for Energy Efficiency in Buildings: A Bibliometric Review.
(2023)
Buildings are experiencing tremendous transformation, where Internet of things (IoT) is been used to transform traditional buildings into smart structures. While there are viable IoT techniques, developing IoT applications ...
Chapter Environmental training of the Italian Coast Guard between tradition and innovation
(2020)
The Coast Guard is an organization committed to safeguarding the marine environment, that requires specialized personnel. Therefore, it is necessary to integrate the "basic" preparation, with "specialist" training in ...
Chapter Post-stratification as a tool for enhancing the predictive power of classification methods
(2021)
It is well known that, in classification problems, the predictive capacity of any decision-making model decreases rapidly with increasing asymmetry of the target variable (Sonquist et al., 1973; Fielding 1977). In particular, ...