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Molecular imaging in Parkinson's disease
(2011)
The present work explores brain functional changes in drug-naïve Parkinson's disease (PD) patients by means of molecular imaging techniques. Thirty-one consecutive drug-naïve PD patients from the Neurological Clinic of the ...
Chapter Inequality in pre-industrial Luxembourg (1766-1842): comparing the effects of the end of feudalism in rural and urban areas
(2025)
This paper uses the land distribution derived from the Maria Theresa cadastre in Luxembourg from 1766 and a land registry of 1842 to compare wealth inequality in Luxembourg City and Dudelange, a rural municipality in the ...
Chapter Gli studi linguistici
(2025)
The purpose of this study is to reconstruct the course of linguistic studies at the School of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri” from its beginnings to the present day. Starting from the birth of the institution by the ...
Chapter Per una centralità del lavoro basata sulla persona
(2024)
The sixth part of this volume includes contributions that cover the years of our country's history ranging from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present day. In this period of time the first transition from ...
Chapter Etica e lavoro sostenibile nella società complessa
(2024)
In the face of the growing complexity of firms’ production systems, it is necessary to seriously consider a new focus on the values that have governed labour law discipline until now. On this basis, the present essay ...
Studi contrastivi di linguistica slava: grammatica e pragmatica
(2023)
The volume contains Andrea Trovesi’s linguistic writings, hitherto scattered in various journals and miscellanies, all characterized by a pragmatic approach. The first part collects studies on Slavic vocative conducted ...
Nel mondo degli Slavi. Incontri e dialoghi tra culture.
(2008)
This book is a tribute to Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, Full Professor of History of Russian at the State University of Milan and a leading authority on Polish studies, mediaeval Russian literature and Ukrainian studies, both ...
Chapter Lavoro giusto e lavoro decente: la sfida del terzo settore
(2024)
The purpose of the contribution is to speak in favour of the urgency to harmonize the two dimensions of human labour: the acquisitive dimension and the expressive one. To this end, the paper suggests that an effective way ...
Chapter La rivoluzione del lavoro moderno
(2024)
The chapter introduces the section of the volume that deals with the historical period from the first beginnins of the industrial revolution to its most mature phase (Fordism) up to just before its crisis. It analyses the ...
Chapter Challenges in archiving the personalized web
(2024)
The decision-making algorithms embedded within online platforms are determining content shown to users. This personalization steers the dissemination of information, in contrast with the idea of a universal World Wide Web. ...
Chapter Prosperare a credito, rovinarsi con i debiti: l'indebitamento come catalizzatore della mobilità sociale nel nord della Catalogna (1785-1800)
(2025)
This paper focuses on studying the agricultural credit system and its impact on social mobility and economic changes in Catalonia, especially in the Empordà area, during the late 18th century. It analyzes how indebtedness ...
Chapter Intelligenza artificiale e strumenti digitali del mercato dell’arte. Considerazioni introduttive
(2025)
Starting from the inseparable link between art, person, and creativity, the artistic nature of works generated solely by AI is excluded. However, intelligent technologies such as blockchain and NFTs provide new tools to ...
Per una formazione al lavoro
(2012)
The volume is a collection of the papers from a study seminar held at the University of Florence Faculty of Education and Training Sciences in March 2012 entitled Formazione e orientamento al lavoro. Le sfide della disabilità ...
Language and Education in Petrine Russia
(2024)
With this book, twenty-four specialists on 17th and 18th-Century Russia from Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, China, and the United States celebrate the sixty-fifth birthday of Maria Cristina Bragone, professor of ...
Promuovere il dialogo sociale
(2004)
In a very timely study resulting from analysis and comparison, the author - professor of Work Sociology at the University of Florence - captures the effects of the European Community guidelines in promoting the inclusion ...
Scalar Verb Classes
(2012)
This monograph discusses scalar verb classes. It tests theories of linguistic form and meaning, arguments and thematic roles, using Estonian data. The analyses help to understand the aspectual structure of Estonian. In ...
Chapter Il lavoro e l’Intelligenza Artificiale generativa
(2024)
The transfer into the machine first of the manual skills and then of the worker's thoughts has determined an unprecedented condition for the production activity which must be analyzed according to the purposes of the ...
Chapter Le Carte: al di là del genere
(2024)
Le Carte, consisting of three huge volumes, are a precious mine for the researcher interested in Luigi Meneghello: collecting fragments of ideas, work projects, stories, thoughts from the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties – ...
Wood Modification in Europe
(2019)
This report is a result of a questionnaire and subsequent collation of data, which outlines the current status of wood modification across Europe in terms of national inventories and groups that have reported current ...
Chapter Valutazione della propensione alla mediazione tramite eXplainable AI
(2023)
Mediation in civil trials can effectively resolve disputes outside of court proceedings, easing the burden on the courts if successful. Efficiency in identifying disputes is essential, as a failed attempt at mediation can ...
Chapter Il lavoro secondo Adriano Olivetti
(2024)
The contribution takes into consideration the experience made by the Olivetti during the guidance by Adriano Olivetti in 1940/ 50 with specific reference to the work organization, based on human principles, people, ...
Chapter Da Pascasius al Brain Disease. Per una storia dei paradigmi del gambling
(2024)
From the first manual on the treatment of gamblers in 1561 to the present day, what has changed? Through the presentation of the main interpretative models that have followed, the contribution aims to offer a critical ...
Il giardino riflesso
(2015)
In Luigi Meneghello's work, the representation of the plant world refers to a subtext of images and symbols: a network of botanical isotopies which transforms into a system while allowing for an alternative and unprecedented ...
La sociologia di Luciano Cavalli
(2007)
The Faculty of Political Science of Florence – the oldest school of political and social science in Italy, founded in 1875 by Carlo Alfieri and named after his father Cesare – has a tradition of study that is widely ...
Piante ed ebbrezze
(2010)
Among his numerous interests, the scholar Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) also devoted himself to psychotropic plants, which he described in monographic contributions and in popular writings of a medical character, more ...
Chapter La mediazione di mattering e senso di comunità nella relazione tra partecipazione e benessere
(2024)
The aim of the present study is to analyse the mediating role of perception of mattering to family and friends, as well as the sense of community in the association between participation (volunteering and recreational ...
Chapter La riscoperta dell’ozio nella letteratura inglese di fine Ottocento: Robert Louis Stevenson, Jerome K. Jerome, Oscar Wilde
(2024)
The Victorian era is often considered to have been dominated by the 'Gospel of work', that is, the ideology that identified work as one of the supreme virtues. However, starting from about the 1870s, this ideology started ...
Models and analysis of vocal emissions for biomedical applications: 5th International Workshop: December 13-15, 2007, Firenze, Italy
(2007)
The MAVEBA Workshop proceedings, held on a biannual basis, collect the scientific papers presented both as oral and poster contributions, during the conference. The main subjects are: development of theoretical and mechanical ...
Le teorie, le tecniche, i repertori figurativi nella prospettiva d'architettura tra il '400 e il '700
(2015)
The Modern Age perspective was born as a bridge between art and science. It made art necessary and science visible; its breeding ground was architecture, which has always involved the lovers of one and the other in synergy. ...
Chapter Mapping submerged vegetation and water quality using multi- and hyperspectral imagery of Oristano Gulf (Italy)
(2024)
Shallow water habitats are among the most important and productive ecosystems on the planet. These ecosystems, which include seagrass meadows, are important biodiversity hotspots. The spread of seagrass can be managed by ...
Chapter Le similitudini animali nel De lite inter Naturam et Fortunam di Albertino Mussato
(2024)
The paper analyses a brief passage from the dialogue De lite inter Naturam et Fortunam by Albertino Mussato, in which two animal similes are employed. The sources of these similes are identified, revealing a combination ...
Gerasim Zelić e il suo tempo
(2019)
Gerasim Zelic (1752-1828) is one of the most emblematic figures of the Serbian cultural scene between the 18th and 19th century. He as an archimandrite of the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Krupa, a diplomat and a writer. ...
Giustizia sostenibile
(2023)
The volume develops the concept of sustainability in the justice field through a series of essays outlining a comprehensive framework for new models aimed at improving justice efficiency as prompted by the National Recovery ...
Models and analysis of vocal emissions for biomedical applications
(2003)
This book of Proceedings collects the papers presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications, MAVEBA 2003, held 10-12 December 2003, Firenze, Italy. The ...
Chapter Chiesa e vita religiosa nel territorio pistoiese tra l’XI e l’inizio del XII secolo
(2024)
Between the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the religious environment of the Pistoia area was profoundly influenced by the different currents of the ‘Gregorian Reform’, which arrived here early and strongly contributed to ...
La violenza nel teatro contemporaneo
(2023)
The volume aims to investigate the concept of ‘violence’ and its representation in different theatrical genres, both in original works and in adaptations that have been written and staged between the 20th and 21st centuries. ...
Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond
(2024)
Imperial frontiers have been a topic of research and a source of fascination for decades. This volume deals with the Carolingian Empire, particularly Italy, collecting fifteen essays on the military, economic and social ...
Le corrispondenze familiari nell'archivio Dessí
(2003)
The volume presents a specific historical-geographical background, that of Sardinia in the ‘30s and ‘40s, of the Scuola Normale in Pisa, of Ferrara in the first post-war period, against which it shapes the figure of a ...
Chapter Frédéric Lordon: il lavoro tra desiderio e servitù
(2024)
According to Lordon, Spinoza help us to understand the non-rational dimension of social action and, more generally, the ability of capitalism to last over time, despite the continuous creation of inequalities and social ...
Chapter Sull’abuso del diritto. Riflessioni a margine della recente giurisprudenza sul rapporto di lavoro
(2024)
Moving from Del Punta’s observations and the most recent labour jurisprudence, the author reflects on the abuse of rights as an autonomous juridical category, reconstructing its troubled doctrinal and jurisprudential ...
Chapter In funzione esemplare: il modello Athena. Strumenti di organizzazione del lavoro del giudice
(2023)
The contribution aims to describe the so-called Atena model, a tool to support the judge, aimed at: a) enabling him to better exercise his powers of management and direction in the context of individual litigation, including ...
Chapter Social Inequalities and the Great Famine in the County of Flanders (1315-7)
(2025)
The Great Famine of 1315-7 is one of the key moments in the social and economic history of Northern Europe during the late Middle Ages. The adverse weather conditions of 1315-6 combined with high demographic pressures ...
Chapter ‘Educare in Europa’ ed ‘educare all’Europa’: profilo professionale e competenze del docente europeo
(2024)
After thirty years of political cooperation in the field of education and training, the framework of competences required of the "European teacher" has not yet been defined at European Union level, i.e. of a teacher who, ...
Liberare e federare
(2016)
For many years, the figure of Silvio Trentin (1885-1944) had been forgotten. Then, between the Seventies and the Eighties, the profile of this highly original jurist, acknowledged as the protagonist of the vast and complex ...
Il diritto al risarcimento educativo dei detenuti
(2016)
The enforcement of the sentence in a (re)educational perspective is a highly debated topic in different approaches, including the multidisciplinary ones. In this volume, the topic is discussed from a compensatory perspective, ...
Scritti giovanili
(2019)
— Table of contents — VOLUME I Early period edited by Piero Antonio Carnemolla VOLUME II The Romanistic foundation. Writings on History and Roman law edited by Patrizia Giunti VOLUME III Principles against totalitarianism ...
Chapter Sea level rise projections: risk and impacts on populations in the mediterranean basin
(2024)
Extreme Sea Level Rise (ESLR) refers to the significant elevation in ocean levels driven by climate change and other anthropogenic and geophysical factors. This phenomenon poses a substantial threat to coastal populations, ...
Chapter Ricerche archeologiche recenti nelle città medievali della Puglia centrale. Il caso di Canosa e Bari
(2024)
The contribution intends to present the study of an unpublished fragment of an inscribed ciborium, found during excavations conducted in 2001 by the then Archaeological Superintendence for Puglia in the area of the former ...
ATEE Spring Conference 2020-2021
(2021)
This book collects some of the works presented at ATEE Florence Spring Conference 2020-2021. The Conference, originally planned for May 2020, was forcefully postponed due to the dramatic insurgence of the pandemic. Despite ...
Capitoli autobiografici
(2013)
Leonardo Manigrasso has made use of the most up-to-date tools made available by stylistic criticism and translation studies to offer a series of intense “debates” and comparisons between the greatest poets-translators born ...
Subalternità siciliana nella scrittura di Luigi Capuana e Giovanni Verga
(2017)
The volume explores the work of two classic authors such as Capuana and Verga under the lens of the postcolonial perspective, accepting the thesis of the Italian unification process as an internal colonisation process. The ...
Artigiani a Genova nei secoli XII-XIII
(2015)
This study differs from the traditional approach to the history of Genoa in the Middle Ages, which is tied to the definition of the ianuensis mercator. On the contrary, it aims at showing aspects of the artisans’ life, and ...
A fianco del paziente
(2024)
The book deals from a medical history and ethical point of view with the relationship between the doctor and the healthcare workers-patient, and on the other side the patient. The author traces the evolution of this important ...
Chapter Identifying cliffs morphodynamics: a 3D GIS approach for a better hazard management. Examples in Croatia
(2024)
In this paper, we present a simple method for elaborating and mapping a multivariate index for coastal cliffs. The final map aims to classify zones of low, medium and high hazards related to morphodynamics. This classification ...
Le dimensioni del principio solidaristico nel terzo millennio
(2024)
The volume includes a series of reflections – with a marked interdisciplinary character – on the current legal status of the principle of solidarity. In each of the contributions included in the book the authors investigate, ...
Chapter Storia della collaborazione tra Wikidata e le biblioteche della Rete URBE nel controllo di autorità
(2024)
The contribution draws a history of the presence of the identifiers of the authority records of the URBE network libraries in Wikidata, and of the collaboration that has evolved since 2020 between the Wikidata community ...
Catalogue of books printed before 1801 in the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze
(2014)
The present catalogue is the second of three volumes which record the books printed before 1801 currently held by the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali of the Università degli Studi di Firenze. ...
Chapter I luoghi della Terra Santa nella Bible d’Acre: sulle glosse del codice Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, nouv. acq. fr. 1404
(2024)
The contribution proposes an analysis of a selection of toponymic glosses to the Bible d’Acre (BA) contained in the ms. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, nouv. acq. fr. 1404 and in the ms. of the Occitan version ...
‘Maledetta Signora’
(2023)
Juventus is a national symbol, the most loved club by Italian people, but also the most hated. The disdained, the hostility, the controversial that follows this team has no equal in the history of Italian sport. The ...
Development of novel ultrasound techniques for imaging and elastography. From simulation to real-time implementation
(2013)
Ultrasound techniques offer many advantages, in terms of ease of realization and patients’ safety. The availability of suitable hardware and software tools is condicio sine qua non for new methods testing. This PhD project ...
Il voto italiano all'estero
(2012)
The novelties brought in by the legislature on the Italian vote abroad marked a turning point both for Italian politics, with the introduction of foreign representation, and for the communities of Italians abroad. But what ...
Studio sulla contaminazione ambientale delle acque causata dall'escrezione umana dei farmaci
(2007)
The use of substances for pharmaceutical use, either as disinfectants or used clinically for diagnostic purposes, cosmetic products or personal hygiene, is widespread in all areas of daily and working life. Recently, the ...
La paraipotassi in italiano antico
(2018)
Dante's verse "If I spake false, thou falsifiedst the coin" (Inferno, Canto XXX, verse 115) is a typical example of what would later be defined as “para-hypotaxis”. On the basis of a reconsideration of the categories of ...
Relazioni pedagogiche
(2013)
The volume starts from the monograph of the author entitled Per una pedagogia di “confine”, deepening a series of pedagogical relationships, from the epistemological level of the relationship of pedagogy with other ...
Chapter Marx e la concezione del lavoro
(2024)
The article analyzes the centrality of the question of work in the thought of Karl Marx, focusing in particular on the role that work has in the Marxian conception of man and in the materialistic understanding of history. ...
Social capital, economic growth and well-being
(2012)
In the long run economic growth does not improve people's well-being. Traditional theories – adaptation and social comparisons – explain this evidence, but they don't explain what shapes the trend of subjective well-being ...
La Götterlehre di Karl Philipp Moritz. Nell’officina del linguaggio mitopoietico degli antichi
(2020)
The unpublished translation of Götterlehre (1791) by K.Ph. Moritz presents the mythopoietic process of the Ancients by means of the tale of the origins of the numinous and of its ekfrastic structuring into the great mythical ...
Reti marittime come fattori dell’integrazione europea / Maritime Networks as a Factor in European Integration
(2019)
This wide-ranging theme takes Braudel’s concept of the “Mediterranean” as its starting point. Braudel’s vision of an enclosed sea as a geographical opportunity for economic integration between nations with different ...
Chapter Percorsi di libertà per bambine e ragazze
(2025)
Intersectionality—how gender intersects with race, class, and disability—has become central in understanding how girls experience discrimination. Although progress has been made in areas like primary education and vaccinations, ...
Chapter Reviews of the Pre-Critical Kant
(2025)
This paper deals with the reviews of Kant’s pre-critical philosophy before 1770, which involve minor works such as Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels, ...
L'interpretazione dei luoghi. Flânerie come esperienza di vita
(2013)
The volume aims at offering an overview of the studies on the flâneur. It consists of three parts and an appendix. The first part defines the figure of the flâneur. In particular, the flâneur’s characteristics are first ...
Chapter Profilo di Salute: documento strategico di progettazione e autovalutazione della Rete di Scuole che Promuovono Salute
(2024)
The "Health Profile" of schools promoting health represents a strategic plan aimed at integrating health promotion within the educational context. This document seeks to establish collaboration between regional authorities ...
Chapter Comprendere un testo su carta o su schermo: il ruolo delle Funzioni Esecutive in età scolare
(2024)
The literature indicates a disadvantage of reading comprehension in digital mode compared to reading comprehension in print mode. The shallowing hypothesis explains this disadvantage by suggesting that on digital, readers ...
Attraversamento di luoghi simbolici. Petrarca, il bosco e la poesia
(2021)
Adelia Noferi (1922-2014) was one the greatest scholars of Petrarch, Bruno, and D’Annunzio and twentieth-century poetry, as well as one of the most refined theorists of the twentieth century and its poetics. This book ...
Chapter A proposito del Khazneh al-Faroun
(2024)
One of the most famous monuments of Petra is considered by questioning its nature as a sepulchral monument, generally accepted. In the light of its architecture and its topographical location, other possible functions are ...
Ingegneri & Ingegneria a Firenze
(2013)
The initial idea for this volume was born while rethinking the organisation of the University of Florence following the recent reform, with the aim of retracing the evolution of the Faculty of Engineering throughout its ...
Le parole della discriminazione
(2025)
The Authors of this volume, with different perspectives and emphases, from a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary point of view, analyse the pervasiveness of discriminatory phenomena such as sexism, homophobia, racism, ...
Chapter Chiamami con il mio nome: la carriera alias all’università
(2023)
After defining the alias career and outlining its legal basis, the article comments on its diffusion in the Italian and international university context. It then dwells on the case of the University of Florence, discussing ...
L’archeosismologia in architettura
(2015)
This volume deals with the very current issue of prevention and protection of the historical buildings from seismic risk, offering a methodology of investigation, called “archaeoseismology”, developed within university ...
WINDERFUL Wind and INfrastructures
(2004)
WINDERFUL (an acronym for Wind and INfrastructures: Dominating Eolian Risk For Utilities and Lifelines) is the title of a research project carried out by eight Italian Universities from the end of 2001 to the end of 2003. ...