bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Optimal Deep Learning based Data Classification Model for Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis and Prediction System
Authors:   Research Scholar, Dept. of CSE, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India, Ganesan* M. , Sivakumar N. ,   Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry, India, Thirumaran M. ,   Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry, India, Saravanan R. ,   Assistant Professor, Dept. of IT, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College, Puducherry, India
Published: January 2020

In recent days, deep learning models become a significant research area because of its applicability in diverse domains. In this paper, we employ an optimal deep neural network (DNN) based model for classifying diabetes disease. The DNN is employed for diagnosing the patient diseases effectively with better performance. To further improve the classifier efficiency, multilayer perceptron (MLP) is employed to remove the misclassified instance in the dataset. Then, the processed data is again provided as input to the DNN based classification model. The use of MLP significantly helps to remove the misclassified instances. The presented optimal data classification model is experimented on the PIMA Indians Diabetes dataset which holds the medical details of 768 patients under the presence of 8 attributes for every record. The obtained simulation results verified the superior nature of the presented model over the compared methods.
ASCE and E – Journals Impact on Learning in GMRIT Knowledge Resource Centre
Authors:   GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam, Andhra Pradesh, India., Rao* T Venkata
Published: January 2020

The present study envisages the usage of e-journals and ASCE journals by the faculty members and students of GMR Institute of Technology (GMRIT). Today information technology plays a vital role in every field of life especially in education and also proposes to determine the resolution of using of e-journals, entree place for probing e-journals, ideal format for accessing it and proposals for promoting the use of e-journals. The present engineering college libraries are subscribing different packages as per the AICTE norms. The present paper explains about usage reports of the e-resources journal of the ASCE (American society of civil engineers) and its impact on learning.
A Novel Clustering Algorithm Introducing New Denoising Technique
Authors:   Department of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, KSA, A.* Hanan , Mahmoud Hosni ,   Dept. of Computer and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alexandria, Egypt
Published: January 2020

Breast cancer is one of common cancers in the developing countries. Detection at an early stage is very crucial for better chance of treatment. The techniques used to detect breast cancer are complex and time consuming. Computerized extraction of tumor areas from mammogram images is challenging due to shape and density of breast tumors which can sometimes surrounded by mucous (mucin). One of the challenges is to detect boundaries which can be blurred under noise factor. In this paper, we are introducing a clustering technique combined with specific structural features operations. A new noise elimination algorithm eases the noise problem and enhance the segmentation process using discrete cosine transform. Followed is the segmentation phase where classifying breast tumor from normal tumor are performed using a combined DCT and fuzzy c means algorithm. The contributions of the research are utilizing new filtering technique for noise removal. We also use Fuzzy C mean clustering algorithm using DCT information to determine the initial number of clusters. The tumor extracted segments are then transferred to the frequency domain using DCT and is used to for classifications. A test algorithm is implemented to classify new mammograms. Experimental results for all the proposed algorithms are extensively performed. The noise removal algorithm are proven robust. The experimental results of the search algorithm depicted different match and mismatch cases. 93% of the cases were a match case and predicted correctly. 5% were light cases and could not be detected from the images.
Measurement of Temperature of the Core of Concrete during Progressive Compressive Loading using Temperature Sensors
Authors:   PG Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, AITS Rajampet, Kadapa, AP, India., Bindhusha* T. Sai , Narayana S.M.V. ,   Principal, AITS Rajampet, Kadapa, AP, India., Kumar T. Naresh ,   Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, AITS Rajampet, Kadapa, AP, India.
Published: January 2020

Structural health monitoring and health diagnosis have become the integral parts of 21st century structural engineering practice. Many non-destructive tests are being used to assess the condition of the concrete in existing RCC structures. In addition to these Non-destructive tests sensing systems are also used to monitor the structural health of RCC structures. If a structure fails pre maturely; the consequences are not only the in effective usage of materials and reduction in life span of structures but also loss of money and sometimes loss of lives. When the load is applied on a structural element, it undergoes some deformation or volume change. Deterioration of concrete may be due to many reasons. But the serviceability is very important for the structures. During the application of external loading, concrete structures, and offer resistance and during this process, energy is utilized by the structure to resist the external load. The concrete is solid like a stone and some heat is developed in concrete during the process of loading. By embedding the temperature sensors in the concrete, it is possible to read the temperature developed inside the concrete. In the present investigation an attempt is made to find the change in temperature of concrete at different ages at regular intervals of progressive compressive loading starting from no load to failure of concrete. This will be useful for estimating the health of concrete structures as it is possible to find the temperature changes and the condition of concrete at different percentages of ultimate load.
Growndwater Quality at Down Stream Area of River Basin by using Geospatial Engineering
Authors:   Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Kallam Harandha Reddy Institute of Technology, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India., Moparthi* Dr.Satish Kumar , Kumari Ms.G.Venu Ratna ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, P.V.P. Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India., Dattatreya Kumar Mr. Ambati ,   Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, V.R Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India., Raju Mr. M.V. ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Vignan’s Foundation for science Technology and Research, Deemed to be university, Vadlamudi, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Published: January 2020

Water is the most precious natural resource for the survival of any living organism gifted by GOD which is available as surface water and Groundwater. Rivers are the most important surface water sources to meet the daily requirement of water demand for various activities of the people at any area around the whole world, but in the current scenario rivers are getting pollute due to various natural and manmade activities especially at the down steam areas of rivers. The major source for downstream pollution are due to the runoff of the nearby areas and also some times through the upstream polluted water flow of the rivers which is quite common in the developing cities of our country either by the negligence of the people and or due to the unaware of un desirable consequences of coastal pollution on the environment as well as on the living standards of the people living near to the coastal belts. Geo spatial technology is the advanced tool in water resource engineering to understand the exact existed scenario of groundwater prospects with high accuracy and reliability. The present study is carried out at downstream area of Krishna River in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, all the groundwater samples were collected from hand pumps and the bore wells at study area for three times and the average values are considered as final values, Analysis was carried out by using standard analytical procedure and the final average results were projected in GIS maps and then correlated with IS–10500-2012 drinking water quality standards to assess the present condition of groundwater at study area.
An Unsupervised Iris Based Biometric System with Inherent Feature Thresholding
Authors:   Research Scholar in Rayalaseema University, Kurnool, A.P, India., Korukonda* Venkata Rathnam , Reddy Dr. E. Sreenivasa ,   Professor &Dean, University college of Engineering, Acharya Nagarajuna University, Guntur, A.P, India.
Published: January 2020

This paper provides a general indication of the existing approaches rely on basic factor (i.e. extraction of iris information, affine transform, and distance matrix) as input. An essential factor in effective design of IRIS based biometric approach is the accuracy with which the model can estimate a region of interest (i.e. IRIS) within constraints and unforeseen issues, which can be very problematical but need of the hour. We introduced a new IRIS based biometric system that incorporates various factors that takes complete information of eye for developing the feature set (digest) while affine transforms are not incorporated while the three sets distance measure is incepted to enhance accuracy. The algorithm-based size of template, functionality of distance measure and/or scope, methods and/or function of application through well-defined scientific and statistical principles. Unfortunately, the accuracy of the existing approaches is limited despite the large scale of experience with several improvements based on digital image processing and statistical models. Henceforth, we incorporated several texture analysis algorithms with computing techniques along with several parametric enhancement constraints to ensure the feasibility, effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed framework in comparison with the existing methods.
Enhancement in Performance of Financial Crisis Prediction using Hybridization of Machine Learning Classifiers
Authors:   Department of Computer and Information Science, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India., Christy* S. Anand , Arunkumar Dr.R. ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Published: January 2020

Financial Crisis has been the stern problem experienced by various organizations or even common people when interested in investing in any Financial institutions like banks, Funds development institutions etc. Hence it is mandatory that a reliable prediction system should be applied in early prediction of Financial Crisis Prediction thereby preventing investment in weak financial institutions that might lead to bankruptcy. The Paper focuses on designing a Hybrid Optimized Algorithm called Hybrid Unified Machine Classifier (HUMC) based on Machine Learning Technique that would be capable of identifying categorized and continuous variables in a financial crisis dataset and determine the confusion matrix that can be instilled in performance analysis tool comprising of analytics and prediction related to Accuracy, F-Score, Sensitivity, Specificity, False Positive Rate (FPR) and False Negative Rate (FNR) respectively. Early testing with the training set of Australian credit dataset were tested with machine learning classifiers like Decision Tree, PART, Naive Bayesian, RBF Network and Multilayer Perceptron algorithms with accuracies 85.50%, 83.62%, 77.24%, 82.75% and 84.93% respectively. The Algorithm HUMC was developed based on combining classification features from decision tree, identifying hidden nodes and model with boosting technique that could enhance the performance levels of the Financial Crisis Prediction. The design of algorithm comprised of best characteristics of both classification and neural networks that are capable to find categorization criteria in the dataset at the first level and also to find the hidden continuous data during the second stage respectively. The design of HUMC was implemented and tested with MATLAB. The Result showed that HUMC algorithm showed greater accuracy (86.25%) in comparison to other classifier models along with other performance measures. Thus, this algorithm enhances the prediction of Financial Crisis predictions with good performance.
Performance Aspects of Multiband Microwave Planar Devices for Wireless Applications
Authors:   Department of ECE, Aurora’s Technological and Research Institute, Hyderabad, India., Sivasundarapandian* S. , Reddy M. Shravan Kumar ,   Department of ECE, Aurora’s Technological and Research Institute, Hyderabad, India.
Published: January 2020

The RF front end receiver plays a key role to fulfill the demands of the numerous applications in the wireless communication .This article of lettering portrays about the analysis of planar microstriplines based multiband passive microwave devices which are simulated in ADS (Advanced Design System) software. Also we have designed a multiband band pass filter, and multiband hybrid coupler which are essential in the front ends design of receivers such as software defined radio and cognitive radio. Here BPF covers the frequency range from 400 MHz-2GHz and hybrid coupler covers from 1-5GHz. With the use of these components the single band RF front end will become the multiband front end receiver architecture.
International Scenario of Certifications and Rating Systems for Green Buildings.
Authors:   Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Dr. D.Y Patil Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pimpri, Pune, India., Ravikar* Aboli A. , Joshi Deepa A. ,   Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Dr.D.Y Patil Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pimpri, Pune, India., Menon Radhika ,   Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Dr.D.Y Patil Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pimpri, Pune, India.
Published: January 2020

Sustainable development in the construction industry demands implementation of a green rating procedure and certification to assess building. The rating tools set benchmarks for green measures for constructing and use of buildings to reduce their negative impacts on environment thereby making it more sustainable. In this paper, Rating systems and certifications across the globe are studied and compared to give a clear understanding of all for any green building project to be evaluated upon. There are 18 major certifications and 18 rating systems all over the world, however in India there are three rating systems which are mostly used viz. IGBC, GRIHA, LEED. It is recommended that a more simple system is needed for enhancing the participation of all stakeholders in Green building construction thereby leading to sustainable development.
Heat Transfer Reaction on a Viscous Dissipative Free Convective Radiating Stream over a Permeable Laminate within Presence of Induced Magnetic Field
Authors:   Department of Mathematics B V Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT), Narsapur, Telangana, India., Kumar* P.Pramod , Malga Bala Siddulu ,   Department of Mathematics, School of Science, GITAM (Deemed to be University) Hyderabad, Telangana, India., Matta Sweta ,   Department of Mathematics CMR Technical Campus Kandlakoya, Telangana, India, Appidi Lakshmi ,   Department of Mathematics, CMR Technical Campus Kandlakoya, Telangana, India.
Published: January 2020

The fundamental point of the paper is to inspect the heat transfer consequence on a viscous dissipative unconfined convective Radiating stream over a permeable shield in the existence of induced- magnetic flux. Consistent magnetic field of force will be applied vertically towards the plate which is electrically non-conducting. Partial differential equations which are non linear coupled worked out by Galerkin technique, the consequence of Radiation with Heat source parameter and other physical features on velocity, temperature along with induced-magnetic field are explained by graphs.
Statistical Feature Extraction and Classification using Machine Learning Techniques in Brain-Computer Interface
Authors:   Ph.D research Scholar of Computer Science, Sri Sarada College for Women (Autonomous), Salem - 16, India., Kanimozhi* M. , Roselin Dr. R. ,   Associate Professor of Computer Science, Sri Sarada College for Women (Autonomous), Salem - 16, India.
Published: January 2020

Brain Computer Interface is a paralyzed system. This system is used for direct communication between brain nerves and computer devices. BCI is an imagery movement of the patients who are all unable to communicate with the people. In EEG signals feature extraction plays an important role. Statistical based features are essential feature being used in machine learning applications. Researchers mainly focus on the filters and feature extraction techniques. In this paper data are collected from the BCI Competition III dataset 1a. Statistical features like minimum, maximum, standard deviation, variance, skewnesss, kurtosis, root mean square, average, energy, contrast, correlation and Homogeneity are extracted. Classification is done using machine learning techniques such as Support Vector Machine, Artificial Neural Network and K-Nearest Neighbor. In the proposed system 90.6% accuracy is achieved.
Design Solutions of the Mechanism of Energy-Saving Direct and Indirect Drive for Magnetic Starters
Authors:   Chair of the Department “Electrical energy”, candidate of physics-mathematical sciences, Bobokulovich* Oloviddin Sadullayev , Akbarovich Bobonazarov Bobomurot ,   senior teacher of the Department “Electrical energy”
Published: January 2020

In this work, the operating mode of the magnetic starter analyzed and the design solutions of the model of an energy-saving drive for switching off the supply of the switching coils and the hanging of the operating state of the magnetic starter are considered.
Traffic Sign Recognition using Spatial Transformer Network with Multi Structure Convolutional Neural Network
Authors: Taeg Lim Myo , Won Kim Dong , Ho Chung Jun , Jin Ahn Woo , Kyoo Park Sang , Koo Kang Tae
Published: January 2020

Convolutional Neural Network is one of state-of-the-arts and demonstrated its superior performance in various computer visions systems recently. The conventional convolutional neural network has one-way structure to train image information with fixed sizes of filters in general. However, this structure only learns image information followed by one fixed sizes of filters and this is not the best to achieve high performance of the network. In order to achieve high performance of the network, this paper suggests a novel convolutional neural network which consists of spatial transformer network and multi-structure convolutional neural network. Spatial transformer network is robust against distorted images. Multi-structure convolutional neural network uses different sizes of filters for global and local information from the given images. The proposed algorithm, spatial transformer with multi-structure convolutional neural network (SPMCNN) demonstrates its classification performance on German traffic sign recognition benchmark.
Simultaneous Monocular Visual Odometry and Depth Reconstruction with Scale Recovery
Authors: Liu Guoliang
Published: January 2020

In this paper, we propose a deep neural networkthat can estimate camera poses and reconstruct thefull resolution depths of the environment simultaneously usingonly monocular consecutive images. In contrast to traditionalmonocular visual odometry methods, which cannot estimatescaled depths, we here demonstrate the recovery of the scaleinformation using a sparse depth image as a supervision signalin the training step. In addition, based on the scaled depth,the relative poses between consecutive images can be estimatedusing the proposed deep neural network. Another novelty liesin the deployment of view synthesis, which can synthesize anew image of the scene from a different view (camera pose)given an input image. The view synthesis is the core techniqueused for constructing a loss function for the proposed neuralnetwork, which requires the knowledge of the predicted depthsand relative poses, such that the proposed method couples thevisual odometry and depth prediction together. In this way,both the estimated poses and the predicted depths from theneural network are scaled using the sparse depth image as thesupervision signal during training. The experimental results onthe KITTI dataset show competitive performance of our methodto handle challenging environments.
Una muchedumbre o nada
Authors: Di Meglio Francesca
Published: January 2020

Una muchedumbre o nada. Coordenadas temáticas en la obra poética de Josefina Plá investigates the aspects still little studied and offers new interpretations of the poet's work (Canary Islands 1903 - Asunción 1999). The intertextual analysis, which has explored not only the verses but also the stories, essays and plays, has revealed a network of relationships, metaphors and thematic axes (such as erotic passion, the yearning for motherhood or the meditations on the multiplicity of the individual and the relationship with time and death) that develops both internally, between the various fields of the author's production, and externally, establishing explicit links or revealing implicit affinities with authors such as Rokha, Unamuno, Pirandello, Seneca, Heidegger or García Lorca.
Senza lavoro?
Authors: Alacevich Franca
Published: January 2020

Will the new technological revolution inevitably destroy work? And will we have to get used to a society creating less and less employment opportunities? Shying away from apocalyptic as well as naively optimistic predictions, the Lecture offers some points for reflection on this question, constantly recurring in the media and the public, political and scientific debate. Based on what the past taught, the future depends on business and political strategies, and even on individual social actors.
La decima musa
Authors: Schettino Vincenzo
Published: January 2020

Is it possible to tell science using the tools of poetry? This book explores this issue by examining the often contradictory way of thinking of scientists and poets and by presenting an anthology of “scientific poetry”. The variety and number of examples proposed are surprising: they range from the simple description of fragments of science, to didactic poems, to the wonder and celebration of great discoveries and protagonists, to science as a metaphor for human life, to social and environmental implications of its use, to poetry as a vehicle for a more friendly approach to the natural world, to the humour of technical facts. The breadth of these themes seems to agree with the Italian poet Eugenio Montale when, talking about poetry, he said: «All you need is a sheet of paper and a pencil, and you're done».
Soggettività dissonanti
Authors: Voli Stefania
Published: January 2020

Through the tales of a group of former activists of “Lotta continua”, an extra-parliamentary left-wing group, this work traces the cycle of mobilization which Italy went through during the Seventies, in search of the intersections between collective events and subjective experiences. The text focuses on two themes which are considered the tips of a controversial shared memory: political violence on one hand, and neo-feminism on the other. These two steps result fundamental in the process of subjectivation of individual men and women, and their effects can also be traced by observing the individual and collective outcomes of "demobilization".
Giudicare l'arte
Authors: Palandri Lucrezia
Published: January 2020

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. Based on this premise, this work retraces the evolution of the concept of art and its limits in the case law of US courts, focusing on the constitutional aspect of the freedom of artistic expression. This volume notes how the cases in which judges must decide whether or not an object constitutes a work of art can say much more about the nature of judgement than about the nature of art itself.
Imaging and engineering optical localized modes at the nanoscale
Authors: Caselli Niccolò
Published: January 2020

In this thesis we experimentally developed high-resolution groundbreaking imaging techniques and novel methods suitable for nanophotonics materials. The experimental results are carefully supported by theory and numerical calculations. We engineered the propagation of light by exploiting devices that strongly localize electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale. The proposed techniques have a large field of application. We deeply investigated ordered and disordered based single and coupled nano-resonators, called photonicmolecules, and develop a laser-assisted local oxidation of the dielectric environment. These results put the basis for an unprecedented investigation of light behaviour in optical nano-resonators. Therefore, they would pave the way for novel devices that exploit the strong coupling regime between single light emitters and localized optical modes.
Study and design of topologies and components for high power density DC-DC converters
Authors: Calabrese Giacomo
Published: January 2020

Size reduction of low power electronic DC–DC converters is a topic of major interest for power electronics which requires the study and design of circuits and components working under redefined requirements. For this purpose, novel circuital topologies provide advantages in terms of power density increment, especially where a single chip design is feasible. These concepts have been applied to design and implement an integrated high step-down multiphase buck converter and to study the miniaturization of a stackable fiflyback architecture. Particular attention has been dedicated to power inductors, focusing on the modeling and measurement of magnetic materials’ hysteresis and core losses.
Rilevare l’architettura in legno
Authors: Porzilli Sara
Published: January 2020

This volume presents the research work carried out in the field of survey and representation methodologies for the documentation and analysis of wooden buildings. Thanks to the investigations carried out within a European project financed by the 7th Framework Program, several traditional Karelian villages, reported in this publication as case studies, have been documented with the aim of drawing guidelines for the development of suitable methodological protocols for documentation, analysis , survey, census and representation of complex systems. The research lays the foundations for the definition of an updated modus operandi to support the operators who are engaged in restoration, protection and preservation projects of the wooden architectural heritage.
La costruzione sociale della finanziarizzazione: verso la convergenza dei sistemi bancari?
Authors: Betti Marco
Published: January 2020

The developments in the globalization process, the increased strength of European integration and the improvements in communication technologies have put the convergence of institutional structures of the different capitalist systems at the centre of the debate. In this perspective, banks play a crucial role. In the new context, movable assets become indeed increasingly profitable, which reduces the weight of traditional activities in the financial statements of banking institutions. Starting from these premises, the volume investigates the extent of the de-intermediation and financialisation processes of the main Italian banks, deepening their connection with the cultural, relational and political dimension.
Ai confini d'Europa
Authors: Chini Chiara
Published: January 2020

Investigating the contacts between Italians and Irish over the decades separating the two world wars is like opening a small Pandora's box, creating a lively and unexpected portrait of the great number of political and cultural exchanges between two countries. Italy has always been an important cultural and spiritual reference point for Ireland; Ireland, on the other hand, has exerted a particular appeal among the Italians, appearing as a distant and mysterious place, a country of saints and heroes. Two geographically distant yet culturally close nations, whose plurality of relationships are interesting to investigate and deepen. This work brings to light an unexpectedly rich picture of a small world of passions and entanglements, of patriotism and opportunism, uniting two countries which have always been tormented by the same complex: being on the edge of political games in Europe.
Lo spettacolo senza riforma
Authors: Galletti Lorenzo
Published: January 2020

The San Samuele theatre company from Venice constitutes a perfect example of the extraordinary vitality of the early-eighteenth-century troupes, before the success of Carlo Goldoni’s dramaturgy. Reconstructing the chronology of the training activity led by the theatre company manager Giuseppe Imer makes it possible to observe the extraordinary versatility of the actors from the Commedia dell’Arte, and the breadth of a repertoire which, between 1726 and 1749, spaced from dramas to musical interludes, passing through the “canovacci” of the commedia all’improvviso and tragedies. Thanks to unpublished documents and to a critical analysis of the repertoires, the author appoints the actors as the main protagonists of the spectacular Venetian scene, and offers important updates on the migrations of troupes in the second quarter of the 18th century.
Caccia e territorio
Authors: Corinto Gian Luigi , Fratini Roberto
Published: January 2020

Despite a feeling of clear opposition towards hunting is widely spread, it does not seem possible to imagine a world in which the hunting practice is completely eliminated. Hunting, or rather and more generally wildlife hunting activities, have deep historical and cultural roots. In recent times, ethical and cultural sensibilities and views, as well as personal and collective choices (all very legit) have emerged around the hunting activity. This study therefore offers a broad overview of the changes which have taken place in hunting wildlife policies, with particular reference to Tuscany.
La villa di Galileo in Arcetri / Galileo's villa at Arcetri
Authors: Godoli Antonio , Palla Francesco , Righini Alberto
Published: January 2020

Villa Il Gioiello, built in the measured, harmonious style of the mid-16th century on the hill of Arcetri just outside Florence, is where Galileo spent his last years, under house arrest. Recently restored, it was not simply Galileo’s prison, it was also an observatory, a place of study and maybe even a place of leisure when he was tending the small vineyard that grew just over the courtyard wall.
Dialogare: compendio di biologia
Authors: Frizzi Filippo
Published: January 2020

The compendium collects the basic themes of biology in a very simplified form, ideally following the programmatic criteria of secondary school. The didactic program is articulated starting from the molecules that make up living organisms to end at the theoretical basis of ecology and environmental protection. All the main topics of life sciences such as genetics, anatomy and the evolution of organisms are addressed, always trying to convey the heart of the theoretical concept through a simple but adequate terminology. The goal is to offer a first look at the basis of biology to those who intend to carry out an in-depth study of this subject, which is extremely fascinating but also decidedly complex, vast and multifaceted.
In limine
Authors: Pireddu Alberto
Published: January 2020

Architecture has always been suspended in the indefinable (although necessary) tension between a 'truth to be revealed' and a 'truth to be built' and the foundation of the project is to be found, as Kenneth Frampton teaches, in the mutual relationship identified as between the topos, the typos and the 'tectonic', which is thus doubly linked to the specific conditions of a place and to the universal existence of architecture. This volume collects a set of works as found in their relationship with the Earth and that participate in the quest for the double truth mentioned above. From Verona to Fisterra and Cádiz, from Istanbul to Pompeii, the extraordinary nature of the site establishes the settlement principle, but more than that: the project, moving within the precise limits of the discipline, defines for them solid conceptual, as well as physical, bases.
Diario social di un Rettore 2
Authors: Dei Luigi
Published: January 2020

Don Carlos Galvèz's dream could very well be a dream of Maestro Manzi. Luigi Dei's book is dedicated to a public school that believes in children, gives value to teachers and wants to wake up every morning to rediscover the world from scratch. (Centro Alberto Manzi)

A true homage to teaching and the need for quality public education. A collection of thoughts and ideas formulated as ad hoc quotes, poems and operettas. Suggestions for the re-evaluation of research in Italy: a project in which we are actively engaged. (AIRIcerca - International Association of Italian Researchers)

A window on the Italian scene painted by those who live it every day. Travel notes but also concrete proposals to improve research in our country, perfectly in line with our objectives. (Tempesta di Cervelli)
De bibliothecariis
Authors: Guerrini Mauro
Published: January 2020

In the activity of the librarian, the technical dimension, essential for working with professionalism, cannot ignore or be separated from commitment, attention to civil rights and the way in which they are lived and practiced within the community to which they belong. Ensuring access to information cannot be limited to 'our' library: it must be a responsibility that concerns the territory where we live and operate, looking to our colleagues who may find themselves in a difficult situation and especially to the people who have difficulties in exercising their rights. The hope is that the transmission of registered knowledge will contribute more and more to the freedom, rights and well-being of all. Will it still take time to understand that investing in libraries means investing in democracy, economic development and the quality of life? As always, the reference framework for understanding and interpreting library problems is that of the comparison with international library traditions, starting from the European continent, as the profession of the librarian today has a theoretical framework and an operational dimension of global reach.
I Mannelli di Firenze
Authors: Focarile Pasquale
Published: January 2020

The volume reconstructs the role of the "art objects" in the renewal of identity (social, political and cultural) of the Mannelli family, among the oldest families of the Florentine patriciate. During the 17th Century the main exponents adopted a lifestyle inspired by the Medici court, gradually dismantling, but at different times, the dress of the merchant. The analysis of the main town and countryside residences and of the displaying of the objects of art, conducted on a documentary basis and with the “display of art” critical tools, returns the fundamental stages of the renewal process and, together with numerous autonomous episodes of unpublished patronage and collecting, the emergence of common narrative strategies of historical and political identity through art objects.
La dimensione normativa dell'imprenditorialità accademica
Authors: Nucciotti Alberto
Published: January 2020

How does the current regulatory change in academic work influence the emergence of innovative commercial behaviours among industrial engineers within public universities? In particular, an attempt was made to reconstruct the emergence of an entrepreneurial regulatory dimension as a social construction process involving the main investigators and research groups in third academic mission activities. An in-depth qualitative analysis is carried out based on semi-structured interviews with academic engineering personnel, against the background of a reconstruction of both the development of industrial engineering as an academic discipline, and a recognition of the main changes that have taken place in the Italian academic field in recent years.
Economics of Institutions and Law
Authors: Petretto Alessandro
Published: January 2020

This book provides a set of lectures for an intermediate course in Public economics devoted to four topics, in many elements related each other. The first one is the Economics of institutions and political economy, as a general framework to analyze the public intervention in modern economies. The second one is the Economics of Law, which is at the basis of the working of the exchange economy. The third one is the Economics of public services enterprises ownership and the fourth one is the Economics of the organization of public administration in providing public services, with particular reference to the National health care systems and to the local public municipalities. As the standard textbooks in the field usually do not treat within unitary and comprehensive terms these issues, the book would provide an attempt in this direction.
Pier Candido Decembrio
Authors: Ponzù Donato Paolo
Published: January 2020

The oldest translation in a modern language (vulgarization) of Caesar's commentaries, published in 1438 by Pier Candido Decembrio and dedicated to Filippo Maria Visconti and Inigo d'Avalos, is published for the first time in a critical edition. The text is presented by a rich introduction, which provides a detailed overview of the work, with particular regard to the dedications that accompany it, the style of translation and the Latin exemplar used by the humanist, recognized in a code of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden, which, already severely damaged during World War II, was restored at the request of the author of the research at the Government of Saxony, revealing the exceptional ecdotic revision made by the Decembrium on the corpus Caesarianum. The online edition of the volume is accompanied by a special appendix to the philological introduction, which includes all the errors and lessons of the manuscripts that have passed on the vulgarization.
Metastasi cartacee
Authors: Rekut Oleksandra
Published: January 2020

Six chapters, divided into four paths, over a time span that from the 19th Century reaches the year 2000, have made it possible to give voice to canonical authors and outsiders, to prose writers and poets who investigate and confront on one of the most dramatical themes of the contemporary consciousness, that of oncological disease. A sort of oncography syllabary characterized by an extraordinary mixture of medical terminology and commonplaces, colloquial expressions and courtly loans from classical languages, foreign idioms, dialects and periphrastic language originated from 'oncologhems' used instead of the word 'cancer', as well as from synaesthesias, tropes, processes, remembrances, olfactory and visual perceptions and the inflation of interrupted works.
Carlo Cecchi: funambolo della scena italiana
Authors: Schepis Chiara
Published: January 2020

Carlo Cecchi: funambolo della scena italiana (Carlo Cecchi: a funambulist of the Italian stage) constitutes the only monograph on the Florentine actor, director and master of dramatic art of the Italian theatre. The book reconstructs the actor’s artistic story in order to carve out two attitudes characterizing his relationship with the stage: the personal training path and the modalities of the trainer job: Apprenticeship and magisterium. While this study unwinds, Florence takes on a particular centrality: from an abandoned and renegade homeland to an intentionally rediscovered island, in which the actor-director lives one of the most significant phases of his maturity, directing the Teatro Niccolini from 1980 to 1995 - recently reopened as a school for a wide group of students, actors-protagonists of today's stages.
Teoria e ricerca sull’apprendimento del tedesco L2
Authors: Ballestracci Sabrina
Published: January 2020

Teoria e ricerca sull’apprendimento del tedesco L2 (Theory and research on learning German L2) is a technical-scientific manual designed for German language teaching courses in the context of training courses for future teachers. It offers an overview of the main theories and disciplines that deal with L2 language learning and teaching, describes the main research conducted on German L2 focusing on the particular case of guided learning for Italian speakers and, based on the results obtained from the research conducted so far, proposes a reflection focused on didactic. The volume is intended as a starting point for reflection also for teachers of German L2 already working in the schools as well as for researchers and scholars engaged in the study of language learning.
Una professione plurale
Authors: Alacevich Franca , Bellini Andrea , Tonarelli Annalisa
Published: January 2020

Crisis, malaise and social fragmentation are recurring themes in the representation of the middle classes. The volume, based on the results of an investigation into the forensic profession carried out with the contribution of the Bar Council of Florence, delves into the issue by placing itself in a line of studies that has recently regained vigour within the Italian and international sociological debate. By touching on a plurality of themes and using mixed investigation methods, the research has allowed the authors to verify how different employment situations translate into an unequal distribution of life chances and into different attitudes towards profession, politics and social life, allowing also to explore the role played by lawyers in change processes.
Storie di vita e di malavita. Criminali, poveri e altri miserabili nelle carceri di Milano alla fine del medioevo
Authors: Gazzini Marina
Published: January 2020

The volume deals with an uncommon theme in medieval history: the prison and its inhabitants. In the medieval prison, the prisoners - waiting for their sentence, or imprisoned for debts, or because socially dangerous or found guilty of a crime - were not abandoned to themselves; families, the Church, devout lay people and public authorities took charge of their needs. In the case of Milan, the prison system and the relationship between prisoners, justice and mercy takes on particular nuances. Prisons (including private ones) are numerous and scattered throughout the city: the largest is a prison-hospital, which certainly imprisons, but suggests that it is useful (for economic reasons) to help the survival of the offender and their return to society. The citizens of Milan in the 15th Century are also aware of the risks of abandoning prisoners (men and women) to a justice that, for its costs, only protects the strongest. Here are the Protectors of prisoners: useful not only to the weak ones in prison, but also to the Dominus, who supports them. The duke, interested in correcting the system excesses, is also (and perhaps above all) eager to show himself merciful, and as such superior to the law. Investigating the condition of prisoners thus proves to be a way to grasp not only the dynamics of social exclusion and inclusion relevant to the control of deviance, but also the mechanisms of relationship between rulers and subjects in the late Middle Ages.
A cento anni dalla grande guerra. Effetti inattesi. Vol. 4
Authors: Alacevich Franca , Pescarolo Alessandra
Published: January 2020

The volumes on World War I which are published here are the result of a series of seminars held at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Florence between 2014 and 2015. Starting from the occasion of the war’s 100th anniversary, the authors wished to take stock of some specific aspects of the studies related to World War I. Historians, military analysts, political scientists and sociologists have also questioned the meaning of the fracture which inaugurated the 20th century and, consequently, the basic features of the new policy of the 'short century', in both an Italian and European perspective.
Il lessico miceneo riferito ai cereali
Authors: Vittiglio Nicola Antonello
Published: January 2020

This book constitutes a study of the lexicon of cereals as witnessed by the Mycenaean inscriptions. The study focuses both on the nouns used to designate cereals, on their compounds and derivatives, and on the terms with which they relate (adjectives, theonyms, toponyms, etc.). The volume is divided into three chapters. The first chapter analyses the six Mycenaean terms together with their derivatives and compounds - phonetically transcribed - which designate cereals or include their names: wheat, barley, wheat flour, barley flour, bakers (= those who bake bread) together with others nouns belonging to the same semantic field, such as seed. The second chapter focuses on three Mycenaean logograms designating cereals: *120, *121 and *129, interpreted respectively as wheat, barley and flour. The third chapter describes the wide set of terms appearing contextually in the inscriptions in which cereals are attested, and groups them according to their meaning: human and divine recipients, toponyms, adjectives, other administrative terms, etc. Finally, the conclusions present an overall assessment of the data analysed in the previous chapters, that is an assessment affecting the economic, political, social and religious sphere of the Mycenaean civilisation.
Le identità nazionali nell'Unione Europea
Authors: Amato Giuliano
Published: January 2020

This Reading aims at recreating the evolution of the seventy-year-long history of integration, of the complex and changing balance between the reasons behind the safeguarding of national identities and interests and those behind the "research" and "creation of common interests".
Mare, fiume, ruscello
Authors: Stöckle Susanne Magdalena
Published: January 2020

Mare, fiume, ruscello. Acqua e musica nella cultura romantica (Sea, river, stream. Water and music in romantic culture) re-reads German literature between the 18th and 19th centuries, focusing on the figure of water, following the theoretical-methodological lines traced by Gaston Bachelard in his studies on material imagination, especially in his 1942 work L'eau et les rêves. The work investigates the elective affinities between liquid substance, poetic word and music in the romantic period. The rereading highlights the large number of "liquid-aquatic" metaphors in Franz Schubert's lieder works, with particular attention to the cycles Die Schöne Müllerin (1823) and Winterreise (1828). The study is conducted in an interdisciplinary perspective that extends, between literary and musical analysis, to the reading and listening of the Lieder.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Piękno niezłomnego poświęcenia / Maria Skłodowska-Curie. The Obstinate Self‑sacrifice of a Genius
Authors: Dei Luigi
Published: January 2020

Maria’s strength of character, the patience and obstinate self-sacrifice mentioned above, began to emerge. As she confessed in a letter: "I have been through some very hard times and the only thing that alleviates the memory of them is that, in spite of everything, I have come through honestly and with my head held high.” More emphatically she also wrote, "First principle: never to let oneself be beaten down by persons or by events.”
A fragment of the book