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Chapter Il ‘distacco’ dalla famiglia d’origine. Concepire la rinascita in età adulta
(2022)
Adulthood, once defined as a goal, today, has increasingly blurred outlines. While many speak of "adultescenza" (adult-adolescent) to describe the situation of those who interpret their adulthood in adolescent terms, today, ...
The Custodians of the Gift
(2020)
Emerging from more than two decades of research in the field and in the archives, the essays collected here explore the multifaceted topic of the Fijian firewalking ceremony, the vilavilairevo. The collection examines the ...
Chapter Determinants of social startups in Italy
(2021)
The so called "Startup Act" (Decree Law 179/2012, converted into Law 221/2012), has introduced in Italy the notion of innovative companies with a high technological value, denoted as the innovative startups. Among them, ...
Chapter Learning in Cities to Create Sustainable Societies
(2023)
Cities play a leading role in addressing many of the global challenges of the 21st century. They are an important part of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, which assigns them multiple tasks. Cities should be ...
Chapter A BIM-Based Framework for Facility Management Data Integration in Heritage Assets
(2023)
The operational phase of a real estate asset accounts for approximately 80% of the overall investment and management costs throughout the entire life cycle of the building, and the activities of space management and ...
Fear Appeal e Message Framing
(2013)
Our health is largely linked to our actions, habits and lifestyles. This implies greater personal and responsibility and, at an institutional level, the possibility and the obligation to act to prevent diseases and promote ...
Chapter Paesaggio e musei: sulle tracce di Massimo Quaini
(2021)
International policies have recently acknowledged the responsibilities of museums towards the landscape. We trace a critical summary of the debate developed in museology and geography about the relationships between museums ...
Chapter I santuari gesuati
(2020)
The historical studies on shrines paid little attention to Yesuati’s shrines and this paper starts analyzing the causes of this phenomenon. The essay presents four shrines managed by the povari di Cristo, highlighting both ...
Chapter Considerazioni su PSI Com6 3 e lo scriba A3 di Ossirinco
(2019)
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Chapter Determinants of the transition to upper secondary school: differences between immigrants and Italians
(2021)
The determinants of the transition from lower secondary to upper secondary school of Italian and immigrant teenagers (16-19 age range) were identified joining the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions ...
Homo oeconomicus. Paradigma, critiche, revisioni
(2012)
Pantaleoni and Pareto re-established economic theory on the basis of homo oeconomicus which, despite criticisms, went on to become a strangely popular concept, not only among economists, but even in common parlance, where ...
Molecular Magnetic Materials on Solid Surfaces
(2008)
This PhD thesis summarises a study of the nanostructuration of single molecule magnets and organic radicals on metallic surfaces, carried out by the author in collaboration with a number of research groups in Italy, France, ...
Chapter Old landmarks and new functions. Coastal architectures redesign the geography of the coastal belts
(2022)
If from 2nd post-war period and for following 20 years coastal space has maintained even a minimal break with anthropized spaces, starting from the 1970s rapid industrial development has increasingly occupied coasts. These ...
Guida per la valorizzazione della multifunzionalità dell'agricoltura
(2009)
This book publishes the results of the inter-regional project on "Evolutionary dynamics of agricultural enterprises and multifunctionality". Starting from the identification of a shared theoretical framework of the concept ...
Chapter Il lessico del magistero nelle prose erudite di Giovanni Boccaccio
(2020)
The contribution aims to illustrate the results of the research conducted on the lexicon of the Petrarch-Boccaccio magisterium relationship. The research also made use of the comparison between Boccaccio's various masters: ...
History/Histoire e Digital Humanities
(2018)
This volume reconstructs the birth and evolution of the Italian literary history in France and England during the 19th century. In the French context, a comparative reading of the works by Pierre-Louis Ginguené and Jean ...
Chapter Parole 'difficili' con un sistema di valutazione automatica. Risposte di italofoni e di non italofoni
(2021)
This paper is concerned with lexical competence in the study of Italian for academic purposes, notably learned words formed with Greek/Latin elements. To improve and check receptive knowledge of such “difficult” vocabulary ...
Chapter Errors of Interpretation: Vincenzo Maggi and Sperone Speroni, Readers of Francesco Robortello
(2023)
This paper considers errors of interpretation in textual criticism in Renaissance Italy. It focuses on the reading of Francesco Robortello’s In Aristotelis poeticam explicationes, published in Florence by Lorenzo Torrentino ...
Oro
(2007)
The word "gold" has influenced the imaginations of various populations over the centuries and the search for gold has been an extremely fascinating event to a multitude of societies in the past. In this publication, which ...
Chapter Linear regression pathmox segmentation tree: the case of visitors’ satisfaction to attend a Spanish football match at the stadium
(2021)
Analysis of a dependency model can be furthered by assessing whether a model and/or the impact of regressors on dependent variables differ if heterogeneity is observed. In other words, it may be interesting to assess ...
Arsinoe 3D
(2023)
The volume illustrates the reconstruction of the excavation mission conducted by the «G. Vitelli» Papyrological Institute in the winter between 1964 and 1965 on the site of Arsinoe, ancient capital of the Fayyum district. ...
Chapter La signoria dei d’Arco nell’alto Garda
(2023)
In the 14th and 15th centuries the Counts of Arco, settled immediately north of Lake Garda, played an important 'hinge function', linking politically now with the powers of the strong Italian cities. The Counts of Arco had ...
Un soffitto viola
(2005)
The book is offered as a reflection on psychological practice which, with a light touch of self-irony and a easy, flowing language, addresses various significant nodal aspects of the profession. The different chapters, ...
ViCES - Video Conferencing Educational Services Main Project Outcomes
(2012)
This e-book has been developed as result of the Video Conference Educational Service (ViCES) project under the TEMPUS action of the European Commission (144650-TEMPUS-2008-IT-JPGR. It is intended to serve as a set of ...
History/Histoire e Digital Humanities
(2018)
This volume reconstructs the birth and evolution of the Italian literary history in France and England during the 19th century. In the French context, a comparative reading of the works by Pierre-Louis Ginguené and Jean ...
Chapter Errors of Interpretation: Vincenzo Maggi and Sperone Speroni, Readers of Francesco Robortello
(2023)
This paper considers errors of interpretation in textual criticism in Renaissance Italy. It focuses on the reading of Francesco Robortello’s In Aristotelis poeticam explicationes, published in Florence by Lorenzo Torrentino ...
Chapter Dante, Remigio de’ Girolami, il sistema angioino: teologia e politica
(2020)
This article draws a comparison between Dante’s vision and the cultural, political, and propagandistic conception promoted by the Angevins, from the divergences in the interpretation of Aquinas’ doctrine of Justice to the ...
La riforma universitaria nel quadro dei sistemi di governance europei
(2014)
Over the past 30 years, all European countries have been affected by reorganization processes concerning their higher education systems. In this volume, two aspects of this type of reorganization are discussed: changes in ...
Chapter Il ‘distacco’ dalla famiglia d’origine. Concepire la rinascita in età adulta
(2022)
Adulthood, once defined as a goal, today, has increasingly blurred outlines. While many speak of "adultescenza" (adult-adolescent) to describe the situation of those who interpret their adulthood in adolescent terms, today, ...
Folding and aggregation studies in the acylphosphatase-like family
(2009)
Folding and misfolding of proteins are considered two sides of the same coin. The delicate equilibrium existing between these two processes is crucial for any living organism and its alterations can lead to the onset of ...
Chapter New Perspectives on Nation-building and Orientalism in Italy from the Risorgimento to the Republic
(2022)
In this introductory essay, the editors discuss the new perspectives offered by the volume on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism and oriental studies in Post-unification Italy. ...
Chapter Srbi u XVIII veku prema katolicizmu i protestantizmu – mehanizmi i strategije asimilacije novih kulturnih elemenata
(2019)
The paper illustrates the similarities and differences in the strategies applied by the Orthodox Slavs to keep a connection with their basic code of (auto)-identification (i.e. Orthodoxy), as well as with the cultural ...
Chapter Da convitato di pietra a protagonista: appunti per una storia del tirocinio
(2022)
Practical traineeship has reached a stage of high juridical and scientific recognition in the initial training courses to become preschool and primary school teachers, but also in the field of methodological and didactic ...
Chapter San Cataldo (Lecce, Italy): The Historical Evolution Of The Coastal Landscape
(2020)
San Cataldo is located on the Adriatic sea about 10 km east from Lecce (Italy). Since ancient times it was a port and the remains of a Roman pier are visible: the study illustrate the evolution of its coastal landscape ...
Chapter David Sassoli: por uma Europa mais livre, mais justa e mais próspera
(2023)
This essay aims to reflect on the political and ecological future of Europe, starting with the figure and the democratic values of David Sassoli.
Chapter Curriculum InstitutionALE – Professionalization of Adult Education Institutions
(2023)
Curriculum InstitutionALE is an orientation framework for strengthening Institutions of Adult Learning and Education. It provides basic guidelines for managing capacity and organisational development and suggests indicators ...
Forme di narrazione autobiografica nelle letterature scandinave. Forms of Autobiographical Narration in Scandinavian Literature
(2015)
Starting with the great authors of the past, autobiographical requests have been a distinctive feature of Scandinavian literatures. Today, after the modernist experiments of ego building, there is the affirmation of narrative ...
Chapter Digital Shogun and Electronic Imperialism: Japanese History through the Lens of Historical Videogames
(2023)
This chapter looks at how Japanese history is represented in videogames. The focus is on the difference between historical videogames produced in the Western world and those produced in Japan. I am going to highlight how ...
Comunicazioni
(2022)
Volume 14 of the Comunicazioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» is divided into three sections: 1. Editions and rieditions of texts; 2. Critical notes; 3. Chronique de lexicographie papyrologique de la vie matérielle. ...
La variazione semantica del verbo essere nelI'italiano parlato
(2010)
The book proposes a corpus-driven study conducted on 14,000 occurrences of the verb to be in the corpus of spoken Italian C-ORAL-ROM, in the light of the main proposals for semantic interpretation of the verb. This puts ...
A cento anni dalla Grande Guerra. Vol. 3
(2017)
The volumes on the Great War that are here published are the result of a series of seminars held at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Florence between 2014 and 2015. Starting from the ...
A cento anni dalla Grande Guerra. Vol. 3
(2017)
The volumes on the Great War that are here published are the result of a series of seminars held at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Florence between 2014 and 2015. Starting from the ...
Chapter Paesaggio e musei: sulle tracce di Massimo Quaini
(2021)
International policies have recently acknowledged the responsibilities of museums towards the landscape. We trace a critical summary of the debate developed in museology and geography about the relationships between museums ...
Chapter Considerazioni su PSI Com6 3 e lo scriba A3 di Ossirinco
(2019)
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Chapter Public History, memorie scolastiche e formazione. Esperienze in Toscana
(2019)
The contribution includes the interventions at the round table of the schools which welcomed the educational initiatives linked to the "School Memoirs" (Memorie di Scuola) project - the first specific Italian experience ...
Chapter Are Caulerpa species able to settle and develop on rhodolith beds? The case study of Marine Protected Area “Capo Carbonara”
(2022)
The two green algae Caulerpa taxifolia (M.Vahl) C. Agardh and Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder, (Chlorophyta; Bryopsidales) are among the most invasive alien macroalgae in the Mediterranean Sea. The aim of this study was to ...
Dal suono alla parola
(2004)
An up-to-date manual conceived to guide the reader through the most interesting and recent theories in the vast field of psycho-neuro-linguistics. After a review of the latest theories on the perception and production of ...
Chapter The impact of technological change on medieval fashion
(2022)
In the early fourteenth century, a new fashion system appeared in Europe, one which was based on constant change and the privileging of the new. This paper argues that the new system did not appear simply as a response to ...
Oro
(2007)
The word "gold" has influenced the imaginations of various populations over the centuries and the search for gold has been an extremely fascinating event to a multitude of societies in the past. In this publication, which ...
Chapter Conclusions
(2022)
The summary highlights the extent to which the articles collected here go beyond previous research on bishops and open up new perspectives: The contributions no longer only ask about the "hard power" of bishops. Instead, ...
Chapter Conclusions
(2022)
The summary highlights the extent to which the articles collected here go beyond previous research on bishops and open up new perspectives: The contributions no longer only ask about the "hard power" of bishops. Instead, ...
International and Comparative Studies in Adult and Continuing Education
(2020)
This volume gives theoretical and practical insights in international and comparative research in the field of adult and continuing education. The 16 contributions of this volume give three perspectives on international ...
Chapter Parole 'difficili' con un sistema di valutazione automatica. Risposte di italofoni e di non italofoni
(2021)
This paper is concerned with lexical competence in the study of Italian for academic purposes, notably learned words formed with Greek/Latin elements. To improve and check receptive knowledge of such “difficult” vocabulary ...
Chapter La polemica confessionale fra ortodossi e cattolici negli scritti di Gerasim Zelić
(2019)
The paper summarizes the results of a research project dedicated to Serbian archimandrite Gerasim Zelić (1758-1828), one of the main protagonists of the interconfessional polemic that engulfed the Serbian Orthodox community ...
Chapter La polemica confessionale fra ortodossi e cattolici negli scritti di Gerasim Zelić
(2019)
The paper summarizes the results of a research project dedicated to Serbian archimandrite Gerasim Zelić (1758-1828), one of the main protagonists of the interconfessional polemic that engulfed the Serbian Orthodox community ...
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 Da citizenship a citizenshop: la de-universalizzazione della cittadinanza nell’epoca della globalizzazione
(2023)
The article is focused on some transformative trends in citizenship profiles, all of them carachterized by a de-universalinzing dynamics. The starting point is T. H. Marshall's citizenship scheme, that is thought to be ...
I centri minori italiani nel tardo medioevo
(2018)
In the late Middle Ages, Italy was one of the most urbanized areas in Europe. Its coasts, the Apennines, the perialpine area and the plains were all home to a large number of smaller towns, lands, villages, castra, and ...
Invito alla Psicologia sociale
(2005)
The volume presents topics and authors (K. Lewin, M. Sherif, S. Moscovici, S. Milgram and H. Tajfel among others) that characterise social psychology in a specific sense, as a discipline that works on the situational ...
Invito alla Psicologia sociale
(2005)
The volume presents topics and authors (K. Lewin, M. Sherif, S. Moscovici, S. Milgram and H. Tajfel among others) that characterise social psychology in a specific sense, as a discipline that works on the situational ...
Chapter Chronotopes of Affectivity in Literature. On Melancholy, Estrangement, and Reflective Nostalgia
(2015)
Basing our analysis on the concepts of ‘emotion’, ‘feeling’, and ‘mood’ as defined by data from the cognitive sciences, we argue that human emotions are both universal and intrinsically linked to literary and artistic ...
Molecular Magnetic Materials on Solid Surfaces
(2008)
This PhD thesis summarises a study of the nanostructuration of single molecule magnets and organic radicals on metallic surfaces, carried out by the author in collaboration with a number of research groups in Italy, France, ...
Chapter Paradigmi storiografici per insegnare la storia dell’educazione: riflessioni da una pratica di Public History
(2019)
Teaching the history of education to future educators? One possible way to avoid the sclerotization of the discipline into an excessive focus on handbooks is to conceive it as a public history practice, interrogating ...
Chapter Le gare d’amicizia e d’amore de Arcangelo Spagna: una posible refundición de Duelo de honor y amistad
(2020)
This work aims to examine the adaptations of the ‘comedia nueva’ by Arcangelo Spagna, a Roman clergyman who lived and worked between the end of the XVII century and the first decades of the following one. In particular, ...
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 ...
Forme di narrazione autobiografica nelle letterature scandinave. Forms of Autobiographical Narration in Scandinavian Literature
(2015)
Starting with the great authors of the past, autobiographical requests have been a distinctive feature of Scandinavian literatures. Today, after the modernist experiments of ego building, there is the affirmation of narrative ...
La riforma universitaria nel quadro dei sistemi di governance europei
(2014)
Over the past 30 years, all European countries have been affected by reorganization processes concerning their higher education systems. In this volume, two aspects of this type of reorganization are discussed: changes in ...
Chapter Curriculum InstitutionALE – Professionalization of Adult Education Institutions
(2023)
Curriculum InstitutionALE is an orientation framework for strengthening Institutions of Adult Learning and Education. It provides basic guidelines for managing capacity and organisational development and suggests indicators ...
Chapter Experience, sensorial skills and personality qualifying a wine consumer as an expert
(2021)
This paper analyses the characteristics of wine consumers that may qualify them as wine experts. The wine evaluation expertise of consumers, as measured by various degrees of self-perceived ability, is hypothesised to ...
Chapter Resistenza all’acquisizione della struttura del discorso e della gerarchizzazione sintattica in un corpus acquisizionale italo-russo
(2016)
In this paper we present some statistics data regarding the preferential choices of native speakers of Russian and Italian and of Italian speakers of Russian with respect to the discourse structure and syntactic hierarchy. ...
Chapter Maritime Networks and Premodern Conflict Management on Multiple Levels. The Example of Danzig and the Giese Family
(2019)
This article argues that a novel way to analyse maritime networks in premodern northern Europe is to trace the activities of people involved in conflict management. These people were traders, magistrates, judges, urban ...
Chapter Treblinskij ad di V. Grossman nell’Europa dell’immediato dopoguerra (1945-1947)
(2019)
The literary essay Treblinskij ad (The Hell of Treblinka), written by Vasilij Grossman and first published in the journal Znamja in 1944, circulated widely at the end of World War II, with editions appearing in several ...
Chapter Rappresentanza e cittadinanza
(2023)
One of the characteristics of advanced democratic societies is their fragmentation. This is a serious challenge for the synthesis activity that political representation has the task of carrying out. Right-wing parties, ...
Chapter Dal Filostrato ai rispetti di ambiente laurenziano: la ricezione quattrocentesca della prima lettera di Troiolo a Criseida
(2020)
The article informs that some octaves of Boccaccio’s Filostrato can be found since the turn of the 14th century as a single Rispetto d’amore or in series of Rispetti continuati or even under the title Canzona. Boccaccio’s ...
I centri minori italiani nel tardo medioevo
(2018)
In the late Middle Ages, Italy was one of the most urbanized areas in Europe. Its coasts, the Apennines, the perialpine area and the plains were all home to a large number of smaller towns, lands, villages, castra, and ...
Chapter The Community Education Program: A Reflection on Good Practice in the USA
(2020)
This good practice essay puts the Community Education Program (CEP) as a focus for comparison between West Virginia (USA) and Germany/European Union (EU). The essay is a combination of reflections on qualification frameworks, ...
Trasformazioni geometriche e figure dell'architettura
(2014)
The volume examines a controversial architectural treatise written at the end of the 17th century by the Spanish mathematician and polygrapher Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz. The work, entitled Architectura Civil Recta y ...
Chapter Paradigmi storiografici per insegnare la storia dell’educazione: riflessioni da una pratica di Public History
(2019)
Teaching the history of education to future educators? One possible way to avoid the sclerotization of the discipline into an excessive focus on handbooks is to conceive it as a public history practice, interrogating ...
Chapter The Mountain Village of Razëm
(2020)
Part II of the book focusses on Razëm, a hamlet of the mountain village of Vrith, in the Municipality of Malësi e Madhe. Razëm lies within the Regional Natural Park of Shkrel and is considered the “gateway” to the Western ...
Chapter A Robotic Method to Insert Batt Insulation into Light-Frame Wood Wall for Panel Prefabrications
(2023)
Currently, industrial robot arms are trending in prefabricated building construction; however, a notable gap exists in established automated processes and related research specifically for the insertion of batt thermal ...