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Chapter Central occupations: stills from a city in movement
(2022)
This visual essay dwells on the particular struggle for the historical city center of São Paulo enacted by contemporary urban occupation movements. The series of photographs, taken during multiple periods of ethnographic ...
Progetti di territorio
(2005)
The research is aimed at investigating the changes in the methods of "construction" of representations of the territory due to the communicative evolution of disciplinary statutes and to the increasingly stringent and ...
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics and continuum models for the transport of protein molecules
(2014)
The present work makes use of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations and continuum models to investigate the behavior of biomolecules in experiments such as mechanical pulling and driven transport across nanopores. ...
Chapter Rappresentazione, costruzione e visualizzazione di risorse terminologiche diacroniche nell’era del web semantico
(2021)
This article introduces the model DIATERM, devoted to representing the diachronic evolution of concepts and terms in a given domain, according to Semantic Web standards and Linked Data technologies. The approach adopted ...
Chapter Una montagna di debiti. L'Italia e la gestione del debito pubblico tra le due guerre
(2020)
The surge in public debt during the recent pandemic crisis has made high debt a prominent policy issue. Italy is an interesting case study since it has experienced high levels of debt for a significant part of its history. ...
Il tempio nel tempio
(2015)
The wooden monument in the Panthéon in Paris unfolds its originality in conforming itself as a real small-scale rustic temple. Its formal features recall, on the one hand, the archetypal origin of western architecture, ...
Chapter Il Musil di Claudio Magris
(2021)
This paper discusses the importance and frequency of Magris’ explorations of Musil and his major work as a novelist, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. It investigates the reasons why Musil’s novel is so important, and not only ...
Chapter Sostenibilità e riproduzione del capitale territoriale: il problema della scala di analisi
(2020)
Starting from a critique of the concept of "natural capital" which helps in defining the concepts of territorial and rural capital, the utility is affirmed of measuring the sustainability of individual and collective actions ...
Chapter La reprise du dialogue avec la slavistique occidentale après la mort de Stalin. L’exemple de Julian Grigorevič Oksman (1894/95-1970)
(2017)
Prominent historian of Russian literature, one of the best pushkinists of his time, Ju. Oksman was sent to a camp in Kolyma in 1936. Upon his release in 1947, he found a position at Saratov University, then he moved to the ...
Chapter La relazione tra il costrutto di mattering e il benessere nelle sue concettualizzazioni (edonico, eudaimonico e olistico). A systematic review
(2022)
Perception of mattering, defined as individual’s feeling of being important for others (Rosenberg and McCullogh 1981), is a construct which in the recent years has received an increasing amount of attention as a factor ...
Giudicare l'arte
(2016)
This volume examines how the definition of art is not to be considered the prerogative of philosophical and aesthetic disciplines, but should rather assume decisive importance for the legal protection of the art object. ...
Chapter Rereading Italian Travellers to Africa: Precursors, Identities and Interracial Relations in Narratives of Italian Colonialism
(2022)
This essay considers a number of travellers’ writings about Africa which are reread to construct and deconstruct Italian colonial identity. It focuses on Cesare Cesari’s Viaggi africani di Pellegrino Matteucci (1932), which ...
Chapter New ‘Excavations’ in the Pergamon-Museum and in the Gipsformerei of Berlin and New Elements for the Study of the Decorative Programme of Kammer B in Yazılıkaya
(2023)
Based on the work conducted during winter 2017 both on casts of the Hittite reliefs exhibited at the Pergamon-Museum and the original matrices of the Humann casts (1892) kept at the Gipsformerei in Berlin/Charlottenburg, ...
L’ermetismo e Firenze
(2016)
This is the second of the two volumes dedicated to Hermeticism and Florence published by Firenze University Press (the first one entitled Critici, traduttori, maestri, modelli can be purchased separately). Between 1930 and ...
Chapter “Paesaggi della Memoria. Laboratorio didattico tra passato della Resistenza e presente”. Per un uso delle fonti nella pratica didattica
(2022)
The paper aims at describing some topics linked to the use of sources in didactical practises, almost of all in didactics of history. It underlines their relevance for didactic practises, as technology makes possible to ...
Epistolarum iuvenilium libri octo
(2013)
The three-volume correspondence by Pier Candido Decembrio represents a precious source for the history of northern Humanism and, more generally, for the understanding of the fifteenth-century civilisation. The first ...
Fifth international Symposium on the lacertids of the Mediterranean Basin
(2004)
The volume collects the contributions to the Fifth International Symposium on the Lacertids of the Mediterranean Basinheld on the island of Lipari between 7 and 11 May 2004. The study of the Mediterranean lacertid lizards ...
Chapter A Rhetorical Model of Debating
(2021)
A rhetorical model of the debate centered on the image of a labyrinth is more suitable than the metaphor of debate-as-game in describing the benefits of arguing in front of an audience. The labyrinth best expresses that ...
Chapter I primi due secoli della storia di San Miniato
(2021)
The essay sketches the activity of Abbot Ubertus from San Miniato, who rebuilt the church and worked to promote the monastic complex as a spiritual pole, a cultural centre, and a shelter for poor and pilgrims, condolidating ...
Chapter Transforming Building Industry Knowledge Management: A Study on the Role of Large Language Models in Fire Safety Planning
(2023)
This paper discusses the potential use of AI in general, and large language models (LLMs) in particular, to support knowledge management (KM) in the building industry. The application of conventional methods and tools for ...
Chapter Welfare and demography in the time of Malthus. Regional and local variations in poor relief and population developments in Flanders, c. 1750-1810
(2020)
Flanders represents a particularly interesting region for research that aims to investigate the development of socio-economic inequalities at the local and regional level. The relationship between and effects of structural ...
L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century
(2023)
The studies presented here analyze the relationship between the knowledge economy and innovations, productivity, and economic growth in the premodern period (13th-18th centuries) by considering the following questions: how ...
Chapter Il ‘diritto dei valori’. La tirannia dei valori economici e il lavoro nella Costituzione e nelle fonti europee
(2022)
After analysing the different meanings of the term «value» and the passage from juridical positivism to «the right of values» (described in its essential characteristics), the essay points out the constitutional principles ...
Chapter Renewable power sources in coastal areas. A viability assessment in the scope of needs and regulations
(2020)
The work deals with renewable energy project, in the context of the deregulated energy market. Special attention is focused on renewables and on the situation in Italy from the standards point of view. The set up of a wind ...
New quantum simulations with ultracold Ytterbium gases
(2019)
In recent years, the unprecedented experimental control of the laws of quantum mechanics has led to the so-called quantum technology revolution, a terminology adopted to refer to the applications in which quantum properties ...
Chapter «Buona strada, Papà!»
(2023)
In David Sassoli, intelligence and cognitive awareness are placed at the service of primordial ethical values: in the passionate defence of knowledge, freedom and commitment to the common good. His deep and strong love for ...
Chapter Salerno: il porto e le metamorfosi del waterfront
(2020)
The port of Salerno, one of the largest on the Tyrrhenian coast, was implanted in the Middle Ages west of the city. Deteriorated over time due to neglect and serious problems of cover-up afflicting the area, it was replanted ...
Chapter Massimo Quaini: geografia storica, fonti, conoscenze territoriali e loro uso politico e socio-culturale
(2021)
Quaini's commitment is aimed – with the development of the Gambian concept – towards the construction of a critical and operational historical geography (usable for the aware and sustainable management, institutional ...
Chapter The Fight for Social Justice – Lalage Bown: A Lifetime’s Mission
(2023)
This chapter examines the life and legacy of the remarkable and inspiring Emeritus Professor Lalage Bown, OBE, who died in 2021, aged 94. The author locates Lalage’s commitment to adult education to a post-war Second World ...
Chapter Massimo Quaini, territorialista
(2021)
The essay illustrates Quaini’s inputs to the construction and the theoretical/operational development of the territorialist school and, later on, of the Territorialist Society, of which he was one of the major founders and ...
Chapter Politica e politiche dell’Italia in Africa, 2008-2018
(2021)
The contribution looks at the Italian policies towards Africa in order to attest if and how migration issues influenced the political agenda and the decision-making process both of the government and the parliament, ...
Chapter La “ricezione” di Dante nella letteratura bielorussa
(2022)
For Belarusian literature, the perception of Dante’s work assumes a concrete form only at the beginning of the 20th century and is linked, above all, to the names of Janka Kupala and Maksim Bahdanovič. The literary group ...
Chapter Processo formativo e transizione al lavoro: percorsi nell’Alta Formazione
(2022)
Restructuring personal and vocational training by means of the harbinger of a not merely economistic idea of employability represents a fundamental and ineradicable task of educational research and pedagogical reflection. ...
Designing Autonomy at home. The ADA Project
(2019)
Designing Autonomy at Home. The ADA Project. An Interdisciplinary Strategy for Adaptation of the Homes of Disabled Persons. Housing adaptations are one of the main tools for improving quality of life for people with severe ...
Go Southwest, Old Man
(2009)
Go Southwest, Old Man, a sort of personal remake of 'Go West, Young Man', the founding episteme of the American nineteenth century, conciliates these two souls (well, not to be pretentious, let's simply say two sides) that ...
Chapter Dante e la Slovacchia: traduzione, ricezione e studi danteschi dopo il 1989
(2022)
The aim of the paper is to outline the main developments in research, translation and reception of Dante’s work in Slovakia after 1989. The period in question is particularly significant for the overall evaluation of the ...
Ebrei nella Terraferma veneta del Quattrocento
(2005)
This book is a collection of the proceedings of the study seminar held in Verona on 14 November 2003. This was the occasion for the presentation of the results of archive research performed by young researchers on the ...
Chapter Along the Caeretan coast and forward on
(2020)
The territory along the coast north-west of Ro me, still well preserved; in the Etruscan period was for the most under Caere control; it had the three important ports. The territory of Caere has been analyzed for a long ...
Traduzione di A presença dos dias / La presenza dei giorni
(2020)
Adalberto Alves is an internationally renowned Portuguese poet, translator and arabist essayist and he is the author of a wide literary activity. The collection of aphorisms A presença dos dias / La presenza dei giorni is ...
Plants and vegetation of NW Ethiopia
(2022)
Pichi Sermolli’s work with his more than 2750 collections of plants from nearly 150 localities on the Lake Tana expedition in Ethiopia in 1937 was interrupted by World War II, but completed in 1947 at the Royal Botanic ...
Chapter L’iconografia di Giovanni Colombini (1304-1367): fondatore dei gesuati
(2020)
This work will try to follow the development of the iconography of Blessed Giovanni Colombini from the first images handed down to us throughout the XV century. By reading the hagiographic sources, we will try to go back ...
Chapter Neuroscienze per l’architettura
(2021)
Discusses the Indian design treatise the Vaastu Veda in relation to visual neuroscience. Relates visual perception in architecture to functional organisation of the brain. Relates Hubel and Weisel’s orientation sensitivity ...
Chapter «A quei tempi». Spagnolismo e teatro all’italiana. Miti e stereotipi
(2020)
The contribution concerns the relationship between Pietro Napoli Signorelli, his Storia critica de’ teatri antichi e moderni (Critical history of ancient and modern theaters), and the defense of Spanish literature by the ...
Chapter L’innovazione degli approcci sociologici per una prospettiva eco-territorialista
(2023)
Eco-territorialism focuses its proposal on the relationship between environmental issues and the territory. For sociology, this is a partly unprecedented challenge. Indeed, environmental sociology has never taken an explicit ...
A Giuseppe Dessí. Lettere editoriali e altra corrispondenza
(2012)
This volume completes the valuable work of cataloguing carried out on the correspondence of Giuseppe Dessí conserved in the 'Alessandro Bonsanti' contemporary archive of Florence. The research, launched by Chiara Andrei ...
La rappresentazione nel progetto di territorio
(2011)
The leitmotif running through this book is a meditation on the various iconographic representations constructed in the course of research and during the drafting of planning instruments on various scales. There is special ...
Chapter Le signorie del Mezzogiorno aragonese attraverso i libri dei relevi
(2021)
The essay provides an overview on fiefs and seigneurial powers in the Kingdom of Naples in the Aragonese era, on the base of findings and research issues drawn on the serie Relevi kept at the Archivio di Stato of Naples. ...
Nessuna isola è un'isola
(2008)
This book, the result of research carried out for the PhD in landscape design at the Florence University Faculty of Architecture, elaborates a methodological process for landscape planning in the smaller islands, comparing ...
Chapter «Débarquer/démarquer»: Voltaire e Magellano
(2021)
Following Voltaire’s Essai sur les mœurs, the first explorers of the new worlds are innocents: they respond to the mythic imagery of the first man. It is on their successors that lays the blame: interested in material ...
Chapter Fast and Secure BIM Design Using Blockchain: An Example of Makeshift Hospital Project for COVID-19 Treatment in Hong Kong
(2023)
A crucial action of COVID-19 combat is the quick design and building of makeshift hospitals (MHs). Although adopting building information modeling (BIM) promotes the digitalization and communication of design collaboration, ...
Chapter Towards a Digital Era in AEC Higher Education: Combining Theory and Technology to Develop and Deliver Architectural Master Classes
(2023)
In recent years, technology has been playing a transformative role in the field of built environment, architecture, and construction education. It can be argued that the emergence of digital technologies has revolutionised ...
Chapter «Di pietra un Villanel, che da lontano par vivo»: il Villano con la falce di Valerio Cioli nel giardino mediceo di Pratolino
(2020)
In the second half of the 16th century, in the garden of the Medicean villa of Pratolino the sculptor Valerio Cioli created, among other groups, the Villano con la falce, which represented a peasant in the act of sawing ...
Chapter Un elenco di beni fra i papiri di Londra
(2019)
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Esercito, istituzioni, territorio. Alloggiamenti militari e «case herme» nello Stato di Milano (secoli XVI e XVII)
(2009)
What was the impact of the armies of the King of Spain on one of the territories of its composite monarchy during the centuries of the early modern age? What changes took place in the relations of power between the local ...
Chapter La governance dell’accoglienza straordinaria in Toscana
(2021)
How was migration multilevel governance implemented at the regional level in Italy during the refugee crisis? The chapter analyses the case study of the Tuscany Region in 2017-2018. The first part focuses on the migration ...
Chapter L’Arno al tempo di Leonardo, fra geomorfologia e geografia storica: un’analisi diacronica
(2023)
The chapter offers a methodology to reconstruct the structure of the Arno course, between Empoli and the mouth, at the beginning of the 16th century. Various documentary deposits have been used: analysis of geological ...
Chapter La lingua italiana come strumento di parità di genere nelle Università
(2023)
The paper examines the studies on the relationship between language, sex and gender in Italian academia; the search for non-sexist linguistic strategies for the representation of women and men; the related support of ...
Le lingue slave tra struttura e uso
(2016)
The volume, originating from the 5th Slavic Linguistics Meeting (Rome, 25-27 September 2014), reflects the state of the most recent research carried out in Italy in this discipline. It aims to continue the tradition already ...
Percorsi di macritica
(2007)
This book is centred on the work of Oreste Macrí: scholar of Italian, French and Spanish literature; comparatist, metricist, theorist and translator in continual dialogue with Europe; historian and friend of the leading ...