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INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTS FOR MANAGING PERSONNEL OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
Authors: Shushpanov Dmytro , Lifanova Mariana
Published: January 2020

The article explores coaching and mentoring as innovative personnel management tools and their importance for the effective management of human resources in order to increase the company's competitiveness. The interpretation of the term “coaching” is given. It has been analyzed as one of the important factors for improving the organization’s activity. At present, the topic of coaching has become one of the most sought after in the field of management and consulting. The benefits of coaching are presented and characterized.
Successful experience of using coaching technologies in multinational corporations, in particular on the example of companies of the USA, Japan, Singapore and Western Europe is considered. Coaching was compared with mentoring. Mentoring puts more emphasis on the practical part when an experienced employee trains the less experienced. Mentoring is a long process.
The main advantages of using these management tools in the context of globalization are substantiated. Basic coaching models are presented and characterized. Coaching technologies are aimed at transforming the company personnel management system. They are aimed at achieving the goal with the most optimal use of resources and the development of company employees. Coaching technologies create an environment where change happens most easily, quickly and naturally. For greater productivity, relationships between volume managers and employees must be based on partnership, trust and security.
The scientific principles of coaching implementation in organizations as a method of managing their development and effectiveness are highlighted. It has been proven that coaching allows employees to adapt to change as quickly as possible and achieve maximum self-realization.
IMPROVEMENT OF ENTERPRISE STAFF TRAINING SYSTEM
Authors: Babiak Halyna , Illiash Iryna
Published: January 2020

The article substantiates the importance of improving the personnel training system of the company under the current competitive conditions. It has been found that providing continuous training and increasing the level of professional and personal competences allows to ensure high results of work, to maintain competitiveness of the firm and the staff both in the internal and external labor markets. Thus, it is substantiated that the vocational training system is a very important tool for effective management of the organization. The peculiarities of the organization and conducting of professional training at the enterprise of the “Pearl of Podillya” Ltd., in particular: the role of certification in the process of identifying the need for professional development; methods of performance appraisal at a particular enterprise; the first attempts to organize the learning process with the help of a specially created unit in the personnel management structure; the nature of the forms of training applied at the enterprise depending on the needs and results of training, positions and sphere of activity of employees; the importance of in-house trainings and seminars, special certified development programs, internships and mentoring in the training and professional development of employees of the enterprise are revealed. Problems in the process of organization and training of personnel at the enterprise are found out, namely: chaotic and poor planning of training results, limited financial resources, insufficient connection between training and motivation (material and moral) of employees. It is suggested to: take into account the experience of other countries and successful companies in the field of personnel development; provide a transparent system for the relationship between certification, learning outcomes, career advancement and remuneration; implement staff rotation, individualized vocational training planning and continuing education.
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Diakiv Olha , Ostroverhov Viktor , Yuryk Halyna
Published: January 2020

The aim of the article is to substantiate the innovative approaches in the work of nurses, because their competence ensures availability and quality of medical and preventive care to the population. The subject is defined as the stages of development of nursing personnel, including education, career growth, and employee motivation.
In order to achieve the set aim and to solve the chosen tasks, modern research methods have been used. They include scientific abstraction (in the study of the categories of “core competencies”, “competence”); systematic approach (to substantiate the principles influencing the professional development of the worker), sociological survey (questionnaire) (to determine the methods of motivating nursing personnel), etc.
The provisions and conclusions of the work are presented as a system of measures aimed at improving the competence, capacity building and utilization of the intellectual capital of health institutions.
It is revealed that the core professional competencies of nursing staff are the basis of employee development in the organization, and they help determine the level of professional competence of nurses, their practical skills.
Innovative technologies for the development of nursing staff are disclosed, including: building core competencies, individual development plan, performance appraisal, career planning, training and staff development, employee motivation.
It is established that the employee clearly defines his needs, goals, expectations in the individual development plan to know how to develop in the future and properly plan the steps and necessary measures to achieve the goals. Performance appraisal allows the assessor to determine the professional competence of the nurse. When planning nursing careers, it is necessary to take into account the specifics of the healthcare sector, the constant increase of requirements for the quality of medical services, the introduction of new medical technologies, etc. Motivation behind the career choice is often founded upon the principles of charity, assistance, care, compassion, and being altruistic.
THE SOCIETY NEED IN RATIONAL INTELLECTUAL USE TO PROVIDE FUNCTIONING AND DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Babii Petro
Published: January 2020

The article deals with the works of domestic scientists who have researched the problems of creation, management and intellectual use. The views of scientists are focused on understanding the management of processes of intellectual use, the study of intellectual resources in the knowledge economy, the study of aspects of valuation of intellectual capital and the influence of factors on its management mechanism, the establishment of the place of intellectual assets in the national innovation system.
The purpose of the research is based on the development of ways to manage the process of intellectual use in the domestic knowledge economy. This will maximize the efficiency of the use of individual, corporate and state intellectual capital.
It has been established that developed countries implement and implement knowledge management programs that help achieve business efficiency, society and the state. Declining government funding for higher education institutions is hampering the creation of new knowledge, leading to lower revenues for the business sector and budget revenues.
State levers in the field of education that can improve its quality and prevent the migration of knowledge are revealed. At the state level, education reforms should be implemented that focus on the quality of the teaching staff of higher education institutions.
Illuminated tools for managing knowledge based on innovation and serving as intangible assets. Models characterizing the influence of knowledge on financial and economic activity have been formed. These models reflect the process of exchanging intellectual resources between partners.
A cyclic-conectic model of the application of new knowledge for the purpose of their commercialization or capitalization is proposed. It is noted that knowledge as a resource is dual in nature and requires a specific approach to assessment and management. A price-margin model of intellectual use has been developed that includes certain components that affect the size of the margin.
An Assessment of Mangrove Rehabilitation Programs in Bolaang Mongondow Selatan Regency, North Sulawesi
Authors: Djamaluddin Rignolda
Published: January 2020

While the results of many mangrove rehabilitation efforts have not been optimal due to various factors, the rate of mangrove forest deforestation remains high in Indonesia. This research was designed to test the principle “planting certain mangrove seedlings on suitable habitat would be survived”. The test was based on an assessment of six locations in Bolaang Mongondow Selatan Regency where mangrove rehabilitation programs were implemented. This assessment was conducted by using a spot check method to analyze any variables associated with plantation area feasibility, and the use of a participative approach to collect additional information. Results from this study confirmed that mangrove seedlings have to be planted on the right habitat and that the implemented rehabilitation programs have followed a try and error or speculative approach, and have not been supported by sufficient technical and theoretical competencies. Keywords: artificial plantation, natural regeneration, mangrove, rehabilitation        Deforestasi hutan mangrove di Indonesia berlangsung cepat, sementara itu banyak upaya rehabilitasi belum memberikan hasil yang optimal karena berbagai faktor. Penelitian ini menguji secara khusus prinsip “benih yang ditanam di tempat yang cocok akan tumbuh”, melalui penilaian enam lokasi program rehabilitasi mangrove di Kabupaten Bolaang Mongondow Selatan. Penilaian dilakukan menggunakan metode pengecekan lapangan (on spot check) untuk menganalisis variabel-variabel yang berkaitan dengan kelayakan lahan tanam, dan pengumpulan informasi melalui pendekatan partisipatif. Hasil penelitian menegaskan bahwa “jenis bibit yang ditanam harus sesuai dengan lahan tanam”. Upaya penanaman yang dilakukan masih menggunakan pendekatan coba-coba atau spekulatif, dan tidak didukung pemahaman teknis maupun teoritis yang memadai.Kata kunci: mangrove, penanaman artifisial, regenerasi alami, rehabilitasi
Fish Abundance In South Poigar Rivermouth South Minahasa
Authors: Kamurahan Nuske , Bataragoa Nego E. , Lohoo Anneke V.
Published: January 2020

The objective of the study is to know the fish individual abundance and biomass in the mouth of Poigar River. The study employed swept area method, sampling was done at high tide and low tide of a new moon and full moon phase using a beach seine. The seine covered 2700 m2 at low tide and 900 m2 at high tide. The fish catches in both moon phases and tidal conditions consisted of 40 species of 25 families and 481 individuals. Total fish weight was 3,804 g. The individual abundance in the new moon was 0.0004/m2 – 0.1200/m2, and the biomass in the new moon was 0.0002 g/m2 – 0.5044 g/m2. The individual abundance in full moon was 0.0004/m2 – 0.0622/m2, and the biomass in full moon was 0.0002 g/m2-0.4017 g/m2. As a whole, both individual abundance and biomass in new moon and full moon at were 0.3922g/m2  and 2.7778 g/m2, respectively.Keywords: abundance, biomass, river poigar.AbstrakTujuan penelitian yaitu untuk mengetahui kelimpahan individu dan biomassa penelitian ini menggunakan metode (swept area), pengambilan sampel dilakukan saat air surut dan air pasang pada fase bulan baru dan bulan purnama dengan menggunakan pukat pantai. Luas daerah sapuan pukat pada periode surut 2700 m2 dan periode pasang 900 m2. Hasil tangkapan selama dua periode bulan saat air pasang maupun air surut sebanyak 40 spesies ikan dari 25 famili, 481 individu dan berat 3804. Ki bulan baru 0,0004/m2-0,1200/m2, Kb bulan baru 0,0002g/m2-0,5044g/m2. Ki bulan purnama 0,0004/m2-0,0622/m2, Kb bulan purnama 0,0002g/m2-0,4017. Secara keseluruhan kelimpahan individu dan biomassa pada fase bulan baru dan bulan purnama saat air surut dan pasang adalah Ki sebesar 0,3922/m2 sedangkan Kb sebesar 2,7778 g/m2.kata kunci: Kelimpahan, biomassa, sungai poigar
Self-termination of contactless photo-electrochemical (PEC) etching on aluminum gallium nitride/gallium nitride heterostructures
Authors: Miwa Kazuki , Komatsu Yuto , Toguchi Masachika , Horikiri Fumimasa , Fukuhara Noboru , Narita Yoshinobu , Ichikawa Osamu , Isono Ryota , Tanaka Takeshi , Sato Taketomo
Published: January 2020

Contactless photo-electrochemical (PEC) etching was successfully demonstrated on AlGaN/GaN heterostructures using a K2S2O8 aqueous solution. The etching was conducted by a simple method such as just dipping the sample with Ti-cathode pads into the solution under UVC illumination. The etching morphology of the AlGaN surface was very smooth with an root mean square roughness of 0.24 nm. The etching was self-terminated in the AlGaN layer, whose residual thickness was 5 nm uniformly throughout the etched region. These contactless PEC etching features are promising for the fabrication of recessed-gate AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors with high recessed-gate thickness reproducibility.
Experimental Validation of Hybrid Polymer Composite Material Robotic Single Link Flexible Manipulator
Authors:   Research scholar, BSAR Crescent Institute of science and Technology, Chennai, India., S* Ramalingam , Mohideen S Rasool ,   professor, BSAR Crescent Institute of science and Technology, Chennai, India., Rajan Srinivasan Sounder ,   professor, Marine Engineering, AMET university, Chennai, India., P S Sridhar ,   professor, Marine Engineering, AMET university, Chennai, India.
Published: January 2020

The prime aim of this research is to conduct an experimental validation for the assessment of behaviour of a hybrid composite material. The hybrid lightweight composite material is used as a robotic link for replacement of rigid and giant manipulators. The combination of fibre material methodically processed and technically merged with epoxy, resulting in hybrid composite material which is used as robotic link movement application and experimentally validated with respect to its functional behavior and cost-effectiveness. In this experimental investigation, composite material is taken as a flexible link for vibration amplitude control analysis and flexible deflection determination using modern control system with various joint stiffness coefficient. The numerical evaluations are conducted for lightweight composite material as an alternate of rigid and solid link. The modelling of composite flexible link is carried out for precision and accuracy on the basis of Lagrange’s equations of motion. The vibration investigation of the system is carried out and reduction of vibration is evaluated using model-based controller in the experiment.
Introducción a las categorías conceptuales del bioderecho en la discrecionalidad jurídica
Authors: Castaño Bedoya Alejandro
Published: January 2020

La identificación de la denominada dispersión epistemológica en las decisiones en bioderecho se evidencia en la incorporación crítica al materialismo, en particular, y a las nuevas formas de fisicalismo, ya que su base epistemológica se encuentra en un contexto mucho más amplio que la explicación unificadora de la relación mente-cerebro. De ahí que teorías de la argumentación adoptadas por autores como Wroblesky, Aarnio y Alexy identifican una doble exigencia en la justificación: por un lado, la llamada justificación interna, regulada por la lógica a la hora de conectar las premisas o conectar los enunciados que forman parte del razonamiento judicial y, por el otro, la justificación externa, focalizada en los argumentos o razones utilizadas para justificar aquellas premisas o enunciados. El bioderecho implica reconocer que se plantea una crítica al materialismo y al fisicalismo, camino que ya la psicopatología recorrió para entender fenómenos como la intencionalidad, la interpretación de conductas humanas y los supuestos interpretativos de la arquitectura de la decisión jurídica.El estudioso del bioderecho debe identificar esos supuestos, muchas veces irreflexivos; ello implica dar razones acerca de la relación mente-cuerpo subyacente; de los elementos que componen la acción humana jurídicamente relevante; la configuración de los bienes humanos básicos involucrados en la litis en el bioderecho; elementos todos estos que hacen necesario repensar el estatuto cognoscitivo del derecho, en general, y del bioderecho, en particular.
civilización del Anáhuac: filosofía, medicina y ciencia
Authors: Gómez Álvarez José Enrique
Published: January 2020

Reseña del libro: Velázquez, Lourdes. La civilización del Anáhuac: filosofía, medicina y ciencia. Editorial Notas Universitarias, México, 2019. 215 pp.
Investigations on Nonlinear Tito System using Passivity Based Control in
Real Time
Authors: C Priya , Ponnnusam Lakshmi , S Ramya , S Aparna , M Rajeshwari
Published: January 2020

The concept of passivity for nonlinear systems attracted new interest in nonlinear system control. This work aims to develop a control algorithm using Passivity Based Control (PBC) for a Two Input Two Output (TITO) system namely spherical-conical interacting coupled tank system in real time. Conical tank spherical tank combination together with the interaction makes the system highly nonlinear system. Real time model of the SISO and TITO systems are obtained experimentally by black box modeling. A computer based control system is developed and the process data is obtained using USB based VUDAS-100 data acquisition module. The algorithm for control is developed in the PC with conventional PI controller and also with PBC and the controller performance is compared. The robustness of the controllers is validated by imposing both servo and regulatory operations. Both the SISO and TITO system results obtained in real time shows that PBC works efficiently with improved performance compared to ZN based PI controller
Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Deployment and User Pairing for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Schemes
Authors: Wang Jie , Liu Miao , Sun Jinlong , Gui Guan , Gacanin Haris , Sari Hikmet , Adachi Fumiyuki
Published: January 2020

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) significantly improves the connectivity opportunities and enhances the spectrum efficiency (SE) in the fifth generation and beyond (B5G) wireless communications. Meanwhile, emerging B5G services demand of higher SE in the NOMA based wireless communications. However, traditional ground-to-ground (G2G) communications are hard to satisfy these demands, especially for the cellular uplinks. To solve these challenges, this paper proposes a multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) aided uplink NOMA method. In detail, multiple hovering UAVs relay data for a part of ground users (GUs) and share the sub-channels with the left GUs that communicate with the base station (BS) directly. Furthermore, this paper proposes a K-means clustering based UAV deployment and location based user pairing scheme to optimize the transceiver association for the multiple UAVs aided NOMA uplinks. Finally, a sum power minimization based resource allocation problem is formulated with the lowest quality of service (QoS) constraints. We solve it with the message-passing algorithm and evaluate the superior performances of the proposed scheduling and paring schemes on SE and energy efficiency (EE). Extensive experiments are conducted to compare the performances of the proposed schemes with those of the single UAV aided NOMA uplinks, G2G based NOMA uplinks, and the proposed multiple UAVs aided uplinks with a random UAV deployment. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed multiple UAVs deployment and user pairing based NOMA scheme significantly improves the EE and the SE of the cellular uplinks at the cost of only a little relaying power consumption of the UAVs.
Assoggettamento e passioni nel pensiero politico di Judith Butler
Authors: Mastroberti Chiara
Published: January 2020

Chiara Mastroberti retraces the most decisive moments of Judith Butler's work with the aim of deepening Butler’s thoughts on the relationship between political subjection and individual passions. Rereading La vita psichica del potere and Parole che provocano (1997), passing through Vite precarie (2004) and Critica della violenza etica (2005), the author analyses Butler’s discussion on fear, paranoia, melancholy and desire, framing it within the philosopher’s broader ethical and political reflection. At the core of this reflection, there are the dialectics of "psychic life", oscillating between adherence and resistance to the social norm: passions are the key to reading this text in order to understand the origin and limit of the contemporary subject, its "passivity” and the secret of its survival.
Il tempio nel tempio
Authors: Guzzo Eleonora
Published: January 2020

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, through adherence to the literary topos of the Vitruvian hut, on the other hand the return to simple natural principles preached by Rousseau. The tombeau project is considered both in its prestigious theoretical context and in the historical context of revolutionary France. The analysis of unpublished documents, the elaboration of new surveys and digital photographic studies support the attribution hypotheses, just as they complete the examination of the classic proportions of the work, between rule and revolution.
«A Marvellous and Strange Event»
Authors: Baratta Luca
Published: January 2020

In early modern England, the birth of a human being with congenital physical deformities was an event which aroused horror and fascination, disgust and morbid curiosity. In a time when modern science was taking its first steps, this kind of prodigy sometimes appeared as a sort of divine punishment for a moral fault, sometimes as a bizarre pastime, or political weapon, or a pre-medical investigation. By deepening such a multifaceted and constantly changing phenomenon, "A Marvellous and Strange Event" tries to build a complex analysis perspective on the English cultural and social history between the 16th and 18th century.
La teocrazia
Authors: Richichi Iolanda Anna
Published: January 2020

This study analyses the crisis and transformations of theocracy as a political model in Europe in the first half of the 18th century. The work focuses on the transition from a positive and normative seventeenth-century consideration of theocracy, associated with the Jewish people, to its description in the 18th century as a universal, negative and primitive model. To this end, three authors are examined in their role of emblematic figures of this change, namely: Jacques Basnage, John Toland and Giambattista Vico. The study then highlights a radicalisation phase in mid-eighteenth-century France in the works by Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, and ends with the description of Boulanger’s theocracy in Diderot and d'Alembert’s Encyclopédie.
L’Eleganza è frigida e L’Empire des signes
Authors: Colucci Dalila
Published: January 2020

Troppo occidentale per l’enigma-Giappone: it is with these words (meaning “Too Western for the Japan-enigma”) that Goffredo Parise, in the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” of 16th April 1984, titled his bitter review of L'Empire des signes by Roland Barthes, written more than ten years earlier but published in Italy by Einaudi only then, four years after its author’s death. Parise loved Japan, where he had stayed for over a month in 1980, and from that experience had drawn his last, great reportage: L’Eleganza è frigida. It was this Japan-enthusiast part of him who accused Barthes and his obsessive semiologic analysis of distorting the essence of Japanese culture, imbued with Zen thought and intolerant to any structural reading. Starting from a suggestive posthumous criticism, this book proposes an unprecedented comparative journey through two twentieth-century readings which are apparently irreconcilable, yet curiously converging in the collection and re-invention of the exotic literary topos of Japan, seen as poetic and existential utopia.
Per amor del cielo
Authors: Marconcini Samuela
Published: January 2020

This work outlines the phenomenon of conversions to Catholicism which took place in Florence between the 17th and 18th century, and starts by reconstructing the history of the House of Catechumens. In the second half of the 17th century, thanks to a noblewoman from Florence’s bequest, the Institute offered hospitality to "infidels" of all origins, and the number of conversions increased considerably. Such liberality ended up causing a serious economic crisis, which the Lorraine Grand Dukes tried to solve in the 18th century by restricting the field of action to Tuscan subjects only. However, there was no lack of abuse and interference by clergymen, especially towards Jews.
Per le riviste di Vecchietti negli anni ’30-’40
Authors: Dessì Giuseppe
Published: January 2020

Retracing Dessí’s collaboration in the magazines “L’Orto”, “Primato” and “Cronache” directed by Giorgio Vecchietti, among stories, essays and reviews that have remained largely unpublished, means deepening the writer’s artistic development by exploring into the creative laboratory of his debut. The 36 texts collected and commented by Francesca Bartolini allow us to analyse the thematic and stylistic approaches that were further developed and deepened in the subsequent production. At the same time they take into account the years of the fascist dictatorship, allowing us to investigate the development of an intellectual conscience engaged in an anti-fascist, rebel movement typical of many writers of that generation. Weaving the critical discourse with the reading of the correspondence, the complex relationship that linked Dessí to the three editorial offices is noted, testifying to the passion of a young artist eager to follow his inclination, but also aware of the difficulty of preserving his freedom and identity in the limitations of the regime.
Lezioni di Sistemi Dinamici
Authors: Ricci Riccardo
Published: January 2020

This work is based on the “Notes for the course of dynamic systems” written by Professor Riccardo Ricci in 2005 and subsequently reworked until the year of his death, which occurred in 2013. Starting from the latest version, the scholars have undertaken a review and expansion that led to this manual. The text is aimed at bachelor students of the courses in Mathematics, Physics and Engineering. Moreover, it presents the fundamental topics of Lagrangian mechanics and the dynamics of rigid bodies and variational principles, with a hint at Hamiltonian mechanics.
L’Alto Tigri nelle età del Bronzo Antico e Medio
Authors: D'Agostino Anacleto
Published: January 2020

The region crossed by the upper course of the Tigris River, in south-eastern Turkey, has long been an area little known from an archaeological point of view. The intensification of field research, starting from the nineties of the last century, has produced the evidence on which to base a first reconstruction of the history of the settlement and of the material culture of these territories, located between the high Anatolian-Eastern lands and the Mesopotamian plains. The results of the excavations and field surveys indicate that between the end of the Ancient Bronze Age and the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age a process of transformation and reorganisation of the local communities matured. The appearance of large architectural complexes and buildings in medium-small sites, characterised by particular sets of objects and red-brown ceramics, could reveal the development of socio-political realities more structured than those of the previous period. Moreover, this could be an expression of the Khurrite world which, according to historical studies, would locate one of its main settlement areas in the Tigris region.
Dialogare: compendio di chimica
Authors: Peruzzini Riccardo
Published: January 2020

This compendium is aimed at all students who, in the transition from secondary school to university, have to face a chemistry exam in their course of study and want to fill their knowledge gaps or, simply, to review the minimum topics of the subject, before deepening them during university courses. By studying and reviewing the various topics, grouped in parts and units, the reader will therefore have the possibility to access the fundamental notions that make up “General Chemistry”. The end-of-chapter exercises are an additional aid allowing students to carry out a self-assessment and, possibly, to identify particularly “difficult” topics to be further studied.
La inutilizzabilità della prestazione
Authors: Peruzzi Pietro
Published: January 2020

The service covered by an obligation corresponds, in the definition offered by the law (art. 1174 of the Italian civil code), to an interest of the creditor. What happens if this interest, in the context of a contractual relationship, can no longer be satisfied due to unforeseen causes not attributable to the parties? The jurisprudence affirms that when an interest is objectively functional and necessary for the realization of the contractual program, its infringement can lead to the cancellation of the legal bond. However, what are the exact legal consequences of such cancellation, and what are its forms? This is the essential content of this work, aimed at investigating the foundation and content of the extra-legislative category of the unexpected unusability of a service.
Magnetic Nanostructures
Authors: Lottini Elisabetta
Published: January 2020

This thesis reports the results of studies conducted at LAboratory for Molecular Magnetism (LA.M.M.) of the University of Firenze concerning the synthesis and characterization of rare-earth free nanostructured materials for permanent magnet applications. Ferrite-based magnetic materials doped with transition metal ions are studied with particular attention to the correlation between their magnetic properties and nanostructures. Firstly, the magnetic behaviour of single-phase ferrites nanocrystals with enhanced anisotropy was analysed, in order to under stand the correlation between the final properties and particle size, shape, crystallinity, composition, etc. Then, hybrid bi magnetic core|shell nanoparticles were prepared focusing on the aftermath and required conditions of exchange-coupling establishment between the two moieties.
Image Understanding by Socializing the Semantic Gap
Authors: Uricchio Tiberio
Published: January 2020

Several technological developments like the Internet, mobile devices and Social Networks have spurred the sharing of images in unprecedented volumes, making tagging and commenting a common habit. Despite the recent progress in image analysis, the problem of Semantic Gap still hinders machines in fully understand the rich semantic of a shared photo. In this book, we tackle this problem by exploiting social network contributions. A comprehensive treatise of three linked problems on image annotation is presented, with a novel experimental protocol used to test eleven state-of-the-art methods. Three novel approaches to annotate, under stand the sentiment and predict the popularity of an image are presented. We conclude with the many challenges and opportunities ahead for the multimedia community.
Dalla pagina alla parete
Authors: Toschi Caterina
Published: January 2020

The volume retraces the influence of futuristic typographic experimentalism on the dada photomontage, investigating the progressive transformation of the alphabetical fragment into an image in the research of the first avant-garde movements. Moreover, it analyses the avant-garde reinterpretation of the neue Typographie in central-east-Europe. From the "Words-in-Freedom" to the Lautgedicht, from the Manifesto Poems to the first photomontages, the role of typography in the affirmation of two postulates of the twentieth-century artistic culture is analysed: the use of the word is the form and the value of the procedure is the meaning of the work. A chronology, commented on by photographic and documentary materials, which also offers the reader an instrument of exegesis in synergy with the critical text, paying particular attention to the testimonies of the Dadaists in the context of the neo-avant-garde movement.
Lettere agli amici fiorentini
Authors: Dalmati Margherita
Published: January 2020

The lucky discovery in Athens of the letters of Luzi, Traverso and Macrí to Margherita Dalmati allowed to complete the epistolary of the Greek poet and harpsichordist preserved in the archives of Florence and Urbino. The 341 pieces available thanks to Sara Moran's research allow us to trace her contacts with the great protagonists of post-war literary Florence, also showing their links with the Roman and Milanese environment. Throughout the “thaw” years, the letters offer the reconstruction of Dalmati’ militancy in Cyprus’ struggle for independence, of her friendship with Cristina Campo, of the translations into neo-Greek of Luzi's poetry. The 60s and 70s are marked by her promotion of Italian poetry in Greece, and of Greek poetry in Italy, through collaboration with magazines and the translation for Einaudi, together with Nelo Risi, of Kavafi’s poems. The letters - tender, funny, ironic and affectionate - of the four voices involved in the book illuminate important moments of the culture of the second half of the 20th Century as well as of the protagonists’ life, while among and around all of them an enchanting woman with her musical voice can be admired, whose name was little known until now.
Come la consulenza direzionale crea conoscenza
Authors: Ciampi Francesco
Published: January 2020

The management consulting firm is commonly considered the archetype of the knowledge-intensive firm. However, the theme of knowledge creation through the implementation of the consultancy intervention is still a widely unexplored research field . This work aims at filling this gap by proposing a conceptual model whose aim is to clarify and trace the cognitive paths used as a means of expression by the potential of managerial knowledge creation of the management consultancy intervention. The proposed model represents originally applies the theories interpreting the dynamics of knowledge creation as knowledge conversion processes to the specific context of the consultancy relationship. It contributed to the understanding that, in advanced consultancy contexts, this potential consists in the possibility of generating new entrepreneurial knowledge which is not only explicit but also, and above all, silent (such as, for example, new experiential diagnostic skills and new abilities for the intuition of the solution to business problems).
Knowing Through Consulting in Action
Authors: Ciampi Francesco
Published: January 2020

Management consulting firms are often discussed as being the firms whose core product is knowledge itself. However, despite the fact that consulting firms are generally aware of the value of knowledge for their own organizations and for their clients, the empirical evidence shows that even today the (economic and, above all, cognitive) value-creation potential related to the transition from consulting approaches geared to the transfer of “best practices” (consultant as expert) to consulting approaches geared to the cooperative creation of new knowledge and managerial capabilities (consultant as a facilitator of new managerial knowledge and capabilities creation processes) is rarely consciously perceived and, consequently, is not adequately planned for and exploited. This book interprets management consulting from a knowledge perspective, and proposes a general conceptual framework for investigating and interpreting that potential.
Kant e l'ortodossia russa
Authors: Pozzi Vera
Published: January 2020

The diffusion of Kantian philosophy in the Russian culture was a singularly early event: even the Orthodox ecclesiastical Academies were involved in this process, despite the control exercised by the censorship in defense of the metaphysical and theological tradition. The history and sources of the "philosophy of ecclesiastical academies" are also examined through the analysis of the works of two authors (I.Ja. Vetrinskij and P.D. Jurkevic), who, with their reaction to the Kantian "revolution", attested to the deep awareness of the necessity of a real confrontation with criticism. This investigation is completed by an appendix dedicated to the complex events of Kantian studies in the Russian language during the decades marked by the Soviet regime.
Sedad Hakki Eldem. An aristocratic architect and more
Authors: Acciai Serena
Published: January 2020

The volume is dedicated to the theoretical and constructed work of Sedad Hakki Eldem. As part of a line of research on the Mediterranean and its ability to combine the settlement principles, the book focuses on the ability of the ancient world to work out a project, applied to the story of Sedad Hakki Eldem, a key person of 20th Century Turkish architecture and the one who most of all tried with his work to give Turkish modern architecture a vernacular character. The book studies the work of the Turkish architect through the key themes of the construction of the city, such as the analysis of monuments and houses, and also deals with the theme of travelling, Eldem's legacy to the city of Istanbul and his relationship with the Turkish-Ottoman house read as a primary reference for modern Turkish architecture.
Il paesaggio figurato
Authors: Valentini Antonella
Published: January 2020

Drawing is a powerful form of communication, and it can activate the imagery. This volume discusses two themes: the representation of landscape, where the image is used for descriptive purposes, and the prefigurement of landscape, where drawing is the tool for the definition of scenes. The two actions are closely related. Outlining the structure of the landscape (for which the bird's eye view appears to be an effective representation) enables the deduction of the constitutive and evolutionary rules which necessarily lead to the identification of the rules of good behaviour for the preservation and transformation of the landscape. Drawing these action guidelines can help aim the transformations, as it allows the simple and straight communication of the ways in which it is possible to intervene in our common living environment.
Una storia, un archivio
Authors: Bianchi Roberto
Published: January 2020

Idalberto Targioni (1868-1930) was a foundling, peasant, worker, extemporaneous poet, union activist, anti-militarist, socialist and mayor, interventionist and early fascist, man of the regime and lastly a penitent. A controversial figure and protagonist of his time. This volume, through the reorganization of the unpublished papers, the drafting of the archive's consistency list (published here) and the examination of other sources, offers an articulated reconstruction of the life of a significant figure in the Kingdom of Italy. Targioni’s story sheds new light on the life of foundlings, peasant culture and socialist municipalism, on the conversions to war and the passages to Mussolinism, on the dynamics within the regime, the contact between public and private dimensions in the biographies of Contemporary Italy.
Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology
Authors: Lalic Branislava , Eitzinger Josef , Dalla Marta Anna , Orlandini Simone , Firanj Sremac Ana , Pacher Bernhard
Published: January 2020

Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology is an introductory textbook for meteorology and climatology courses at faculties of agriculture and for agrometeorology and agroclimatology courses at faculties whose curricula include these subjects. Additionally, this book may be a useful source of information for practicing agronomists and all those interested in different aspects of weather and climate impacts on agriculture.
In times when scientific knowledge and practical experience increase exponentially, it is not a simple matter to prepare a textbook. Therefore we decided not to constrain Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology by its binding pages. Only a part of it is a conventional textbook. The other part includes numerical examples (easy-to-edit worksheets) and recommended additional reading available on-line in digital form.
To keep the reader's attention, the book is divided into three sections: Basics, Applications and Agrometeorological Measurements with Numerical Examples.
La paraipotassi in italiano antico
Authors: Pesini Luca
Published: January 2020

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 'coordination' and 'subordination', the author proposes an analysis of this syntactic module in ancient Italian, addressing aspects such as its debated origin and the possibility of establishing typological comparisons with structures which are documented in other languages (outside the Romance and Indo-European spheres as well). The research focuses in particular on the identification of the discursive and textual functions of the para-hypotaxis, which were investigated in five texts from the time span between the end of the 13th century and the middle of the 16th century.
L’evoluzione della codifica del genitivo dal tipo sintetico al tipo analitico nelle carte del Codice diplomatico longobardo
Authors: Valentini Cecilia
Published: January 2020

The subject of this work is the morphosyntactic analysis of a corpus of Latin documentary papers which were written in the centre and the north of the Italian peninsula between the 7th and the 8th century. The study focuses on the competition, in the nominal phrase, between synthetic and analytical encoding of the dependent name, which is the result of the grammaticalization process of the phrase starting by the preposition “de”, which in the Romance phase replaced the genitive case. This change is interpreted on a semantic basis, making use of the functional domain of possession. The volume also analyses nominal morphology which, although characterized by polymorphism and inconsistency, manifests phenomena such as the levelling of random oppositions and the reconstruction of inflectional paradigms, two inverse processes which find their cause in the principle of animacy.
Il rispetto del principio di pari opportunità
Authors: Ragno Francesca
Published: January 2020

Recent political and case-law newspaper articles have brought to the attention of the public opinion the scarce presence of women in the governing bodies of Italian provinces, municipalities and regions: several statements by the administrative courts have nullified the formation of the city councils where no woman had been appointed, or where their inclusion was too low to guarantee effective gender equality. The core of this work focuses on this very topical issue, with a look at the history of women presence in Italian politics and at those good administrative practices which include an effective participation of women in city government.
Luoghi per lavorare, pregare, morire. Edifici e maestranze edili negli interessi delle élites micenee
Authors: Montecchi Barbara
Published: January 2020

This volume presents a study of the Mycenaean buildings and construction workers (14th - 13th century BC approx.), characterized by a completely original view and an interdisciplinary approach, and aimed at integrating textual and archaeological data. The main problem the author is confronted with is the lack of coeval written sources specifically dedicated to the construction and the organization of construction sites, and of direct information on the classification of buildings. Therefore, her study aims at deepening the knowledge of the architectural typologies and building workers mentioned in the Mycenaean texts, at filling the gap between the types of buildings known thanks to epigraphs and the archaeological remains, at outlining the socio-economic framework required for the construction of buildings for important employers and for the organization and maintenance of the employed workforce.
Structural and functional aspects of membranes
Authors: Evangelisti Elisa
Published: January 2020

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a common form of dementia characterized by the formation of extracellular senile plaques composed of aggregated amyloid peptide (Aβ). The present studies provide evidence that: cell resistance to amyloid toxicity is related to lipid raft cholesterol content. Cholesterol and GM1, affect the susceptibility of Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD) broblasts to Aβ42 oligomers in opposite ways, by modulating amyloid binding to lipid rafts and its subsequent toxic effects. The degree of toxicity of the oligomeric species results from a complex interplay between the structural and physicochemical features of both the oligomers and the cellular membrane. Neuronal differentiation of human mesenchymal stromal cells increases their resistance to Aβ42 aggregate toxicity.
Filosofia e storiografia nel dibattito anglo-americano sulla svolta linguistica
Authors: Bondì Davide
Published: January 2020

This book proposes a critical examination of the main approaches of contemporary historiography, with the aim of bringing out their latent conceptual structures. Reinhart Koselleck wrote that «Historical knowledge always focuses on something more than what is found in the sources»: it is all about making its theories and values explicit, as they are also particular and historical facts themselves, which have clumsily been raised to universal principles. The author brings to light the pre-eminent forms of our relationship with the past through an analysis going from historiography to philosophy - from Pierre Nora, Carlo Ginzburg, Lynn Hunt to Hayden White, Jacques Derrida, Frank Ankersmit; from the New Cultural History and the histoire de la mémoire to the narrativism and to the philosophies of the historical sublime. Going beyond speculation, it is perhaps possible to aspire to a new alliance between historical and philosophical thought, to delimit a “middle space” between the unstructured praxism of a historiography without philosophy to the excessive idealism of a philosophy without history.
Hydrogen production using Purple Non-Sulfur Bacteria (PNSB) cultivated under natural or artificial light conditions with synthetic or fermentation derived substrates
Authors: Adessi Alessandra
Published: January 2020

The aim of this thesis was to verify the feasibility of the hydrogen production process with purple non sulfur bacteria both under sunlight irradiation in an up-scaled system and with the use of low cost substrates. Among the products offermentations tested the best results were obtained with a medium derived from vegetable wastes. The use of a genetically modified strain of Rhodopseudomonas palustris insensitive to ammonium opened the way towards the use of wastes with attainment of high hydrogen yields also in inhibiting conditions. The experimentation carried out under natural irradiation demonstrated the full feasibility of the process using sunlight instead of artificial light in a semi-pilot reactor: the production rates were the highest so far reported for comparable outdoor systems.