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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 ...
Topics in fluvial and lagoon morphodynamics
(2002)
The present book covers topics both on fluvial and lagoon morphodynamics. The first part is dedicated to tidal environments. Topics include an overview of main morphological features and mechanisms of estuaries and tidal ...
Chapter Cross-linguistic considerations on preverb stacking (with special reference to Bulgarian)
(2017)
The term preverb stacking (PS) designates the co-occurrence on one verbal base of two or more prefixes bearing spatial, aspectual, or quantificational meanings. The phenomenon is especially productive in Slavic but is also ...
Chapter National Qualifications Frameworks as A Policy Instrument for Lifelong Learning in Ghana, Malaysia and Serbia
(2020)
The development of national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) around the globe has been influenced by Anglo-Saxon countries and a global policy of intergovernmental organisations. The main aim of this paper is to explore ...
Florentia
(2019)
Thanks to this fourth volume belonging to a series which well represents the Department of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage of the University of Florence, it has been possible to restore a continuity, albeit with ...
Chapter Il fantasma di Alatiel: desiderio, parola e memoria in Decameron II 7
(2020)
The aim of this essay is to analyse the story of Alatiel in its philosophical context, comparing the novella with the erotic and ethic conceptions in Middle Ages. From this point of view, it is possible to recognize two ...
Chapter Identità narrativa e memoria autobiografica: prospettive per un dialogo interdisciplinare
(2022)
The essay proposes a reflection on narrative and storytelling, on the idea of the subject and personal identity, based on Ricoeur's philosophy but from a broader constructivist and bio-psycho-social perspective. Narrative ...
La politica cambia, i valori restano? Una ricerca quantitativa e qualitativa sulla cultura politica in Toscana
(2011)
How do Tuscans see politics? What is their relationship with it? Is there something different from the «red subculture» of the First Republic? Articulated answers to these questions emerge from this research commissioned ...
Chapter Umberto Gori: un profilo biobibliografico
(2022)
Academic biographical profile and scientific publications of Umberto Gori.
L’intervista immaginata
(2022)
Journalism invented the interview, a tool to investigate the lives of writers. This indiscretion triggers the authors’ reaction: a new literary genre, the imagined interview, becomes a shield to protect their own intimacy ...
La prosa dell'ermetismo: caratteri e esemplari
(2016)
In this book, Francesca Nencioni uses semantics to reconstruct, with skill and intelligence, the 'characters' and 'specimens' of the Hermetic prose (Parronchi, I giorni sensibili; Luzi, Biografia e Ebe; Bigongiari, La donna ...
Percorsi, flussi e persone nella progettazione ospedaliera
(2013)
What does it mean to design hospitals according to the flows while satisfying the users' needs? How do the different parts of the hospital body bind together? When can a spatial and functional relationship be rightly defined ...
William Blake e William Butler Yeats
(2009)
Da Blake a Yeats. Sistemi simbolici e costruzioni poetiche is an investigation into the – from many aspects decisive – influence that the symbolic system and visionary poetry of the great English romantic William Blake had ...
Chapter Puer bonus communicandi peritus. Esercizi e strumenti per dibattere tra pari
(2021)
The peer learning project RApP (Ragazze e Ragazzi apprendono tra Pari) took place at the ISIS Gobetti-Volta high school in Bagno a Ripoli, Florence. With the aim to develop debate and public speaking activities, the project ...
Chapter Ripensare gli indicatori per le politiche per l’innovazione attraverso il Design-thinking
(2021)
The final chapter contains the proposal to rethink the policies for innovation based on the approach defined Design thinking. Particularly important is the introduction of concepts such as global order parameters, referring ...
Chapter La professionalizzazione del coordinatore dei servizi alla persona. Quale ruolo nel mondo del lavoro?
(2022)
In view of the increasing number of social enterprises in recent years, the European Commission (2020) has undertaken a mapping study (2014-2020) of social ecosystems in order to understand their evolution, activities, and ...
Chapter Investigation of the Acceptance of Virtual Reality for Planning Decisions in Early Design Phases
(2023)
In recent years, with the increasing digitization of the construction industry, the potential benefits provided by the adoption of Virtual Reality (VR) have been shown especially in interdisciplinary networking among ...
Chapter «Indietro non vogliamo tornare, indietro non sarà possibile tornare»: David Sassoli e António Costa perante os desafios europeus
(2023)
This article looks at the privileged relationship that David Sassoli had with Portugal at a time when the presidency of the European Parliament was shared with the presidency of the Council of Europe entrusted to António ...
Chapter National Qualifications Frameworks as A Policy Instrument for Lifelong Learning in Ghana, Malaysia and Serbia
(2020)
The development of national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) around the globe has been influenced by Anglo-Saxon countries and a global policy of intergovernmental organisations. The main aim of this paper is to explore ...
Chapter Spatial planning prospects on changeability process of urban and natural (Land)scape relations - The dynamics of Ancona on the West and Rijeka on the East Adriatic Coast
(2022)
The urban and natural landscape relations are temporal, spatial, and perceptive phenomena complemented by providing functions and holistic principles that arise from the spatial planning approach. The research aims to ...
Chapter Spatial planning prospects on changeability process of urban and natural (Land)scape relations - The dynamics of Ancona on the West and Rijeka on the East Adriatic Coast
(2022)
The urban and natural landscape relations are temporal, spatial, and perceptive phenomena complemented by providing functions and holistic principles that arise from the spatial planning approach. The research aims to ...
Porto_Alegre una biografia territoriale
(2005)
The experience of Porto Alegre has and continues to represent for the entire world a benchmark standard in terms of the participation of citizens in territorial government. Dwelling principally on the technical-instrumental ...
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
(2021)
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 ...
Chapter Le competenze digitali degli insegnanti
(2022)
Over the last years, the interest in teachers’ digital competence has become the object of increasing attention. The progressive digitalization of our societies led the European legislator, in 2006, to reformulate the ...
Chapter Risorse digitali per la didattica: una rassegna ragionata
(2022)
The paper presents a reasoned review of digital resources useful for historians and the teaching of public history. This review will not be limited only to the tools of search and treatment of sources on the web, but will ...
Chapter Relazioni pericolose: i gesuati e la povertà
(2020)
This essay looks at the specific iconography of saint Jerome in the artistic commissions of the Jesuati during the 15th century. This specific iconography meant to show the Doctor of the Church as the illustrious founder ...
Educazione in età adulta
(2018)
This volume shows the outcome of a series of meetings and seminars which, on several levels, contributed to the construction of the International Conference La ricerca sull’Educazione in età Adulta nelle università italiane ...
Chapter Deep Learning Based Pose Estimation of Scaffold Fall Accident Safety Monitoring
(2023)
According to the Ministry of Manpower, falling and slipping accidents are one of the most common accidents in addition, falls from heights (FFH), including accidents during scaffolding work, are still a major cause of death ...
Chapter Il lavoro come progetto educativo nel pensiero di John Dewey
(2024)
The chapter explores the theme of work in John Dewey's pedagogical thought within a cultural, economic and social framework in reference to the historical context of the time and in relation to his idea of emocracy, ...
Vero per finta
(2024)
What does it mean for Domenico Starnone to tell a story? From his debut with Ex Cattedra to his latest works, which mark him as one of the most intriguing authors in the Italian literary scene, this study attempts to unify ...
Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett
(2016)
This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a ...
In the garden of the world
(2020)
In the garden of the world. Italy to a young 19th century Chinese traveler. On September 14th, 1859, at the first light of dawn, a young Chinese traveler named Guo Liancheng 郭連城 (1839-1866) landed in Civitavecchia, Italy, ...
DPs, Phi-features and Tense in the Context of Abyssinian (Eritrean and Ethiopian) Semitic Languages
(2016)
This study discusses DPs, Phi-features and Tense in Abyssinian Semitic languages. DPs and TPs have parallel structures. Their subjects are generated within the projection of lexical categories which move to Spec positions ...
Proteins as possible targets for antitumor metal complexes: biophysical studies of their interactions
(2009)
There is considerable interest today for the reactions of anticancer metallodrugs with proteins as these interactions might feature processes that are crucial for the biodistribution, the toxicity and even the mechanism ...
Chapter Razionalità economica, lavoro salariato e divisione del lavoro in Mandeville
(2024)
Mandeville lives in a transitional age in which economics, morality and politics are not clearly distinguished. He emphasises the contrast between the emerging economic rationality and Christian ethics, between utilitarianism ...
Il piccolo Pantheon
(2018)
In Paris, the Little Pantheon is the theatre on rue de Chartres which, together with other showrooms, competed with the great Pantheon on rue Soufflot between the 18th and 19th century. The Little Pantheon introduced the ...
Chapter Libertà, giustizia, lavoro nel socialismo liberale
(2024)
Liberal Socialism was written by Carlo Rosselli during his confinement on the island Lipari, from where he escaped in 1929. In Paris he continued his struggle against fascism until his assassination in 1937 with his brother ...
Nazioni come individui
(2020)
The theory of national characters sees an individual in every nation. Each individual has a body, a face, a character. The same goes for nations: every nation has a body (the land), a face (the fisionomy), a character. ...
Beni culturali umani
(2024)
The essay explores the legal status of human remains that arouse cultural interest. Through the analysis of several cases—such as that of the ‘Cesare Lombroso’ Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin—the category of ‘human ...
Social and Institutional Innovation in Self-Organising Cities
(2022)
Today’s scenario is characterized by a global connectivity space where uninterrupted streams of information, people, and goods flow, through multi-scale socio-economic processes. All of this requires rethinking well-accepted ...
MUSINT 2
(2016)
Musint 2 is a text to be read, accompanying the new MUSINT II website, following and innovating the general features of the previous MUSINT. But, as the two on-line projects differ in both technical aspects and content ...
Teorie sociologiche alla prova
(2009)
Intellectual integrity and a challenge to rhetoric are the two strategic objectives of those who take up the hazardous path of sociological knowledge. This book does not presume to respond fully, but at least attempts to ...
Lezione di sguardi. Edoardo Detti fotografo
(2017)
This volume documents Edoardo Detti's photographic activity, perhaps a “side” aspect, yet a fascinating and essential one for understanding his personality and his work. Many things are known about Detti: the several works ...
Chapter «Quanto ci vuole per descrivere un gesto?». Luigi Meneghello e la parola che de-scrive
(2024)
This article delves into Luigi Meneghello’s authorial perspective on description, exploring how his unique approach shapes narrative and character. By examining key excerpts, the essay highlights Meneghello’s intricate use ...
Corpi globali
(2008)
Corpi globali addresses the recent phenomenon of the proliferation of sexual services on payment, from street-walking, more visible and "disturbing", to the secluded world of top escorts, and comprising the broad range of ...
Contributi italiani al XIII Congresso internazionale degli Slavisti
(2014)
The Italian contributions to the XIII International Congress of Slavists (Ljubljana, 15-21 August 2003) had a very limited circulation between the participants in the congress and the restricted circle of experts. Considering ...
Chapter The role of rebreather divers in the study of a marine deep-water cave ecosystem
(2024)
This study delves into the diverse marine habitats of Jubilee Shoals, a submerged rocky reef off Pissouri Bay, Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean). The habitats include Posidonia oceanica meadows on the plateau, coralline ...
Chapter Constructing territories, deconstructing the landscape: a conclusion
(2024)
This article examines the main places where elites accumulated, consumed and displayed resources in order to demonstrate their ability to control and organise their dominated spaces. Indeed, in these segmented societies, ...
Sfingolipidi bioattivi e loro ruolo nell'azione biologica di fattori di crescita e citochine
(2012)
This book gives an analysis of the role of the bioactive sphingolipids sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and ceramide 1-phosphate (C1P) in the skeletal muscle. The enzyme that produces S1P, sphingosine kinase 1 (SK1) has proved ...
Le chemin d’Abel
(2024)
This research aims to contribute to the study of the current of non-violence in Islam. A phenomenon often considered extraneous to the heritage of this religion, it nevertheless has several examples of commitment, among ...
Chapter Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysis
(2025)
In this paper, we set out to explore trends in mobility levels in six smaller towns in the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages and early modern period. We use pairs of tax lists to divide the population into quintiles ...
Per una pianificazione "a misura" di territorio
(2011)
The text proposes several approaches for reflection on the subject of the governance of territorial consumption, addressing two critical issues: the dimensioning of planning and the concept of territory as a common good. ...
Chapter Shoreline detection by applying semiautomatic algorithms for hyperspectral and multispectral satellite imagery on the beaches of the Gulf of Oristano (Sardinia, Italy)
(2024)
Coastal areas are influenced by natural processes and human activities and require effective monitoring tools to understand their dynamic evolution. This study utilizes satellite imagery and semi-automatic shoreline ...
Chapter La professionalità dei lavoratori tra legge e contrattazione collettiva
(2024)
The essay addresses the traditional yet very relevant topic of protecting workers' professional skills, with particular attention to the intricate relationship between the two main sources: law and collective bargaining. ...
Chapter An approach to inequality and social mobility in Northern Castile (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries)
(2025)
This work is a first approach to economic inequality and social mobility in the north of Castile in the 15th and 16th centuries, aspects that are little known and, especially, scarcely measured. On the one hand, the sources ...
Chapter Lavoro, libertà e utopia nel dibattito francese contemporaneo
(2024)
The article offers an account of the recent debate on work, freedom and utopia in the French humanities and social sciences. It is organized around the four thematic cores that seem to condense its richest or most promising ...
Chapter Female social mobility in an impartible inheritance society at the end of the pre-industrial era (north-eastern Catalonia, 1750-1825)
(2025)
This paper aims to contribute to the study of female social mobility through marriage, by presenting a study case for north-eastern Catalonia, during the second half of the 18th century. This is a region where there was a ...
Linguistic Variation Issues: Case and Agreement in Northern Russian Participial Constructions
(2016)
This study offers a novel approach to a longstanding problem in Slavic Linguistics, the formal representation of the Northern Russian participial constructions in -n(o)/-t(o). Unlike previous works, the methodological ...
Verbum e ius
(2018)
The theme of the relationship between Verbum and ius, between faith, natural law and positive law, was the core of an intense debate during the Middle Ages. It was not restricted to the centres of knowledge; on the contrary, ...
Le norme stabilite e infrante
(2018)
Le norme stabilite e infrante. Saggi italo-tedeschi in prospettiva linguistica, letteraria e interculturale collects linguistic and literary essays which analyse the writing styles of authors like Vasari and Goethe, forms ...
Chapter Insider/Outsider Art. Percorsi e intrecci creativi tra arte e psichiatria
(2024)
Artistic expressions are a non-discursive symbolic language and promote the understanding of human experience. In the 19th and 20th centuries, outsider artists admitted to psychiatric hospitals offered a contribution to ...
Chapter Dalla libertà delle opere alla vocazione all’impegno diligente. Lavoro e professione in Martin Lutero
(2024)
This chapter presents an overview of Martin Luther’s doctrine on professional activities developed in On the Freedom of a Christian, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, and some Postils. This doctrine will ...
Chapter Controllo a distanza e diritto alla protezione dei dati. Sulla complementarità dei due sistemi normativi
(2024)
The author examines the practical consequences of integrating Article 4 of worker’s Statute which regulates the limits of the employer's remote monitoring power, with the legal framework for privacy protection. The essay ...
Chapter I timori di una società normocentrica: cinque argomenti fallaci contro il linguaggio ampio
(2025)
At a time when the international political situation seems to undermine the very discussion on DE&I language policies, it is urgent to dwell on five arguments often brought up in the debate in opposition to the inclusion ...
Chapter Libri su Atto. Una ricognizione in biblioteca fra erudizione storica sei-settecentesca e cultura ecclesiastica dell’Otto-Novecento
(2024)
Starting from XVII century many works were written with the aim to emphasizing the figure of Atto, a Vallumbrosan monk and bishop of Pistoia, canonized in 1605 thanks to the involvement of the Vallumbrosan order and the ...
Chapter Ezio Tarantelli: il lavoro come partecipazione
(2024)
Ezio Tarantelli, probably the most important Italian labour economist, dedicated his short life, tragically broken by a terrorist ambush, to a full participation of labour in the management of the economy, in accordance ...
Ibridazioni balzachiane
(2013)
The hybridisation of different arts and genres is one of the peculiar aspects of Balzac's aesthetics, whose writings surprise for their originality and unsuspected modern perspective. In the first and second part of the ...
Mobilità quotidiana e complessità urbana
(2007)
The contemporary metropolises are in continual transformation and are characterised by the presence of resident and non-resident populations. Inhabitants, commuters, city users, tourists and businessmen represent segments ...
Diari 1952-1962
(2011)
In these private notes, the quest for the self appears like a journey of dual metaphorical significance through the intricate weft of the pages and the labyrinth of life. The Diari 1952-1962 of Giuseppe Dessí are presented ...
I mille volti del regime
(2020)
The volume collects eight essays on Italian politics, economics, law and culture during Fascism. Several of the writings highlight the role played by important personalities, some attached to the regime, such as Guido Jung ...
Chapter Mounier. Lavoro, otium, sindacato
(2024)
The "community personalism" matures in the reflection on work, person, economy and politics between capitalism and collectivism. Even with intuitions, the sense of work fluctuates quite a lot. Exploited and oppressed, it ...
Misurare la vitalità delle piante per mezzo della fluorescenza della clorofilla
(2012)
The book begins with a detailed description of the characteristics of the photosynthetic apparatus and the processes that take place there, to then present the general principles of fluorescence. After that, it gives a ...
Chapter Declinare manufatti (e cultura materiale) al presente
(2024)
Starting from some recent events (2021), the contribution intends to reason on archaeological artefacts and their current status, asking questions for which there is often no answer. In particular, considering them as ...
Chapter Modelling of wave height, currents and sediment transport at Locos beach (Torrevieja, Spain) before and after nourishment
(2024)
The paper studies the impact of nourishment with coarse sand at Locos beach in Torrevieja, Spain, in January 2020, on coastal dynamics. The objective is to model the changes in wave heights, currents, and potential sediment ...
The relentless body. L’impossibile elisione del corpo in Samuel Beckett e la noluntas schopenhaueriana
(2014)
The overbearing affirmation of the body, with its instincts and impulses, and an effort aimed at suppressing that same push: this powerful dialectic deeply marks Beckett's works, and becomes a crucial reflection of the ...
Chapter Inequalities in access to the food market: the city as a producer of norms in the fourteenth century (Low Countries)
(2025)
This article examines the unequal organisation of the grain market in the Low Countries in the fourteenth century. It looks in turn at the ways in which several towns compensated for their difficulties in accessing food ...
Chapter Il lavoro intraprendente nell’economia della conoscenza e della complessità
(2024)
Over the course of history, the idea of labour has changed a lot, both in theoretical representations and in practical life. In the capitalism of ‘800 and in the Fordism of ‘900, the use of rigid machines imposed a ...
Chapter Honour, social capital and alternative currencies: the “leisting” custom in the cities of the Late Medieval Low Countries and Rhineland
(2024)
In this paper we analyse a specific legal clause inserted in debt contracts in the late Medieval Low Countries: the ‘leistinge’ custom. It implied personal sureties, i.e., vassals or councillors of the debtor (and sometimes ...
Deissi, riferimento, metafora
(2008)
This collection of essays by young specialists in linguistic disciplines addresses the oldest – and yet still topical – issues in the debate on language. It also includes a contribution by the famous Russian semiologist ...
Chapter Platform Workers, Autonomy, and the Capability Approach
(2024)
In this short essay dedicated to the memory of Riccardo Del Punta, my aim is to highlight one of his (many) contributions to labour law, and to reflect on possible ways to apply it on a timely question. Is it argued that ...