bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Tracking and Elimination of Blockhole and wormhole in MANETS
Authors:   Ph.D. (Pursuing) from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India., Malladi* Ramakanth Reddy , Govardhan Dr. A. ,   Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India.
Published: January 2020

Now a day’s wireless networks are achieving lots of fame depending upon the needs of the people in wireless connections without based on geographical location. To make communication possible with the people and to exchange the data from source to destination by not using any of the wires for that enabled wireless networks. Such types of networks operation mode provide internet and connection services to cellular to alone or they may be connected with more than 1 point. The problems shown by these networks are limiting the band widths, power of the battery and enhancement of quality & coverage transmission problems and these are similar to the problems of wireless communication. The major problems in MANET are black hole attacks and worm hole attacks.in this paper we propose the best detection, prevention and isolation techniques for various attacks which occur in Manets.Finally, the experimental analysis shows that we have reduced the major attacks by malicious node.Finally, by analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of all the existing techniques, we proposed an algorithm to detect wormhole attack in ad hoc networks.
A Novel Technique on Detect Melanoma in Dermoscopy Images By using Deep Learning
Authors:   M.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, CSVTU, Chhattisgarh, India., Diwan* Tarun Dhar , Sinha Dr.Upasana ,   Associate Prof., Department Compter Science & Engg., J.K. Institute of Engineering, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India., Choubey Dr. Siddhartha ,   Associate Prof., Department , Compter Science Engg.,Shri Shankaracharya College of Engineering, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India.
Published: January 2020

Melanoma is a typical sort of malignant growth that influences countless. As of late, profound learning strategies have been appeared to be very precise in arranging pictures in different fields. This investigation utilizes profound figuring out how to consequently distinguish melanomas in dermoscopy pictures. To begin with, we preprocess the pictures to evacuate undesirable antiques, for example, hair, and afterward consequently fragment the skin sore. We at that point group the pictures utilizing a convolution neural system. To assess its viability, we test this classifier utilizing both preprocessed and natural pictures from the PH2 dataset. The outcomes a remarkable execution as far as affectability, explicitness, and exactness. Specifically, our methodology was 93% exact in distinguishing the nearness or nonappearance of melanoma, with sensitivities and specificities in the 86%– 94% territory.
Scrum: An Agile Process Reengineering In Software Engineering
Authors:   Research Scholar, Computer Science & Engineering, Indus University, Ahmedabad, India., Bhavsar* Krunal , Shah Dr. Vrutik ,   Research Guide, Computer Science & Engineering, Indus University, Ahmedabad, India., Gopalan Dr. Sameer ,   Research Co-Guide, Business Administration & Management, Indus University, Ahmedabad, India.
Published: January 2020

BPR (Business Process Re-engineering) is an organizational mechanism leading organization towards change management as and when it is required. In the form BPR, Agile practices have had a remarkable impact on Software Engineering Management (SEM) in software development organizations across the world. It has enhanced collaboration and productivity of Software Engineering (SE) teams and improved the level of quality of software products. Nowadays Scrum has been trending into software development organizations as a standard SDLC approach. Scrum is the framework of the Agile methodology, built on empiricism control theory, asserts that experience brings knowledge and increases decision making capabilities. The empiricism control theory is built on three pillars: Adaptation, Inspection and Transparency. This research study presents Scrum as a trending SDLC framework using empirical analysis. We have analyzed literature reviews, case studies, and research surveys; and implemented Scrum in our software development unit and carried out the reasons, why Scrum is trending in software development organizations. How the scrum artifacts, events and values play a vital role in upholding the Scrum pillars and strengthen the capabilities of Scrum team members to address the software engineering management challenges; compared to traditional software development approaches.
Moth Flame Optimization based Reactive Power Planning
Authors:   Electrical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India., Kar* Manoj Kumar , Kumar Sanjay ,   Electrical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India., Singh Arun Kumar ,   Electrical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India.
Published: January 2020

Reactive power planning is one of the challenges facing an integrated power network to operate efficiently. It requires optimal coordination of all the reactive power sources in the network. In this work, Moth flame optimization (MFO) based algorithm used for optimal location of flexible alternating current transmission system (FACTS) devices. In standard IEEE 30 and IEEE 57 test systems the proposed approach is examined. The static Var compensator (SVC) and thyristor controlled series capacitor (TCSC) are the two FACTS devices used. The load ability of the power system is enhanced by installing FACTS controllers considering both active and reactive loading. The reactive sources are placed optimally which is chosen by considering position and size of FACTS devices. The proposed method with FACTS devices is compared with other recent techniques like Particle swarm optimization (PSO) and gravitational search algorithm (GSA). It is observed that the MFO based approach is better as compared to other methods in terms of loss and the running cost at various loading conditions.
Stereo Matching with Cost Combination and Disparity Refinement
Authors:   Department of IS&E, N.M.A.M. Institute of Technology, Nitte, Karkala, Karnataka, India, Deepa*
Published: January 2020

This paper presents an approach that use combined cost method and disparity refinement for stereo matching. Here disparity is obtained using the intensity, gradient, histogram of gradients for cost computation. Later disparity refinement is performed using Weiner filter. The correctness of matching is enhanced in the proposed method. The combined use of cost measure ensures the effective evaluation. The proposed approach produces good quality disparity map.
Strength Characteristics of Recycled Aggregate Concrete by Ann
Authors:   Assistant Professor, S R Engineering College, Warangal, India., Haripriya* Sandela , Rajesh Boorla ,   Assistant Professor, S R Engineering College, Warangal, India., Sudarshan Dara Swetha ,   Assistant Professor, S R Engineering College, Warangal, India., khan Md.Ikramullah ,   Assistant professor, S R Engineering College, Warangal, India., Bhaskar Bandi ,   Assistant Professor, S R Engineering College, Warangal, India.
Published: January 2020

Development Practices is the Key to the Next Generation for having a progressively imperative and better work concerning Engineering Perspectives. Various sorts of research have been done previously and are being done in the present on building materials extensively used for Constructions. With the ultimate objective to shield the future and proportion the trademark resources, various examinations have been coordinated over some vague period on reactions and wastes leaving undertakings, fantastically warm power plants, to facilitate the use of wastes thusly reusing them and screen the normal resources which are comprehensively using being developed practices[1-5]. A positive quantity of mortar and cement paste from the authentic concrete stays connected to stone particles in the recycled combination when demolished concrete is crushed [11,15]. The adhered mortar presence at the surface of an overwhelmed concrete mixture usually degrades the great of the recycled mixture and therefore the fresh and hardened residences of concrete crafted from it compared to herbal aggregates. As per the investigation, the compressive strength of cement was anticipated utilizing artificial neural system models Firstly, to prepare the ANN model to anticipate the compressive strength of RAC, The predicted compressive strength was contrasted and the exploratory compressive strength and correlation are carried out[12-14]. Training and testing of the ANN model are done utilizing compressive strength results of RAC collected from literature, the practical values obtained are used to validate the ANN model. Then the percentage error between the experiment and predicted compressive strength is obtained
Sentiment Mining of Product Opinion Data
Authors:   Department of Computer Science & Engineering Amity University Gurgaon., Thada* Dr. Vikas , Shrivastava Mr Utpal ,   Department of Computer Science & Engineering Amity University Gurgaon., Ms Ruchi  ,   Department of Computer Science & Engineering Amity University Gurgaon.
Published: January 2020

Sentiment Analysis has gotten a focal point of consideration for the retrieving of web information and text corpora. At the point when we talk about sentiment analysis, it investigates the people's criticism or conclusion or audits in the wake of removing those reviews from various stages. While, when we find out about Sentiment Analysis, it recognizes the mining or analysis, which are communicated through content and afterward we investigate it. The fundamental goal of Sentiment Analysis is to reason feelings and ideas. In this paper the research work has done sentiment analysis on Amazon Reviews. The data set used is Amazon Reviews on Unlocked Mobile phones dataset of 413840 records. There are number of columns for the dataset like Product Name, Price, Rating, Brand Review text and the count of people for whom the review was helpful. But the research work has used on the Rating and Reviews columns. The research work has applied bag of words, tf-idf and n-grams techniques. It was found that n-gram with bag of words approach gave a maximum testing accuracy of 97% and AUCROC score of .967. Using deep learning approaches and their comparing with used ones is left as future work.
Table Teacher: Voice Based Application for Learning Tables using Amazon Alexa
Authors:   Department of CSE, PES University, Bengaluru, India., Bhat* Chinmay Subray
Published: January 2020

With the evolution of sophisticated NLP algorithms and cloud based solutions, virtual assistants started to reach every home and office in the city. This paper proposes a technique for teaching basic mathematical tables for kids. The device will ask the questions and expect the answer in number format in return. The input received from the kid will be processed and validated. In case of correct answer, the next question will be asked. If answer is wrong, the kid is suitably notified. This ability to interact with the device in natural form like voice would keep the kid engaged to the process of learning. Proposed skill is available for enabling for all the echo family users and the result of customers using the skill is analyzed. The skill used AWS server less service Lambda as backend and Amazon Voice Service for front-end.
Recognition of Two Connected Handwritten Digits Based on User-Defined Algorithm
Authors:   Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Prasad V. Polturi Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Vijayawada, A.P, India., Reddy* Dr. R.Vijaya Kumar , Raju K. Prudvi ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Prasad V. Polturi Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Vijayawada, A.P, India., Venugopal G ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Prasad V. Polturi Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Vijayawada, A.P, India., Rao Dr. B.Srinivasa ,   Professor & HOD, Department of Information Technology, Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering, Mylavaram, A.P, India.
Published: January 2020

The present paper proposes a model for recognizing unconstrained offline two connected handwritten Numeral digit strings. The Numeral strings are segmented and isolated numerals are obtained using sliding window approach with user defined algorithm. Hence the present paper proposes a segmentation-recognition system using the sliding window approach with user defined classifier. The sliding window is used for discovery the interconnection spots and optimal angle for cutting the adjacent digits at the same time and a minimum of 5 features are extracted from each isolated digit for classification. The exploratory outcomes directed on a recently gathered database of manually written digits and got promising results. The overall efficiency obtained using the proposed method is about 98.51%.
Soil Data Analysis and Crop Yield Prediction in Data Mining using R – Programming
Authors:   Department of Computer Science, Govt. Arts College for Women, Krishnagiri - 635 001. Tamil Nadu, India., Samundeeswari* K. , Srinivasan K. ,   Department of Computer Science,, Periyar University Constituent College of Arts &Science Pennagaram, Dharmapuri - 636 803, Tamil Nadu, India.
Published: January 2020

Data mining is better choices in emerging research filed- soil data analysis. crop yield prediction is an important issue for selecting the crop. earlier prediction of crop is done by the experience of farmer on a particular type of field and crop. predicting the crop is done by the farmer’s experience based on the factors like soil types, climatic condition, seasons, and weather, rainfall and irrigation facilities. data mining techniques is the better choice for predicting the crop. the analysis of soil plays an important role in agricultural filed. soil fertility prediction is one of the very important factors in agriculture this research work implements to predict yield of crop, decision tree algorithm is used to find yield. the aim of this research to pinpoint the accuracy and to finding the yield of the crop using decision tree and c 4.5 algorithm is used to predict the yield of crop using r- programming and also to find range of magnesium found in the collected soil data set. this prediction will be very useful for the farmer to predict the crop yield for cultivation
Use of Artificial Neural Network for Inquiry Follow Up System in Sales Operations for Two-Wheeler Automotive Dealership.
Authors:   Research Scholar, Department of Operations & IT, ICFAI Business School (IBS), Hyderabad, India., Bhatt* Vaidik , Sashikal P ,   Professor, Department of Operations & IT, ICFAI Business School (IBS), Hyderabad, India.
Published: January 2020

Artificial neural network can be the good classifier based on its capabilities of supervised learning and back propagation of the error. We have used this capability of ANN for distinguishing buyers and non-buyers in the automotive industry sales to save the time of the sales consultant in order to provide the better services to the potential buyer and convert the inquiry into the sales. Based on the six parameters with the ANN consisting of one hidden layer and 4 hidden units we have checked the results which is satisfying.
Selection of Best Frequency Range for Soil Urea Prediction
Authors:   Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, GVM’s GGPR College of Commerce, Ponda, Goa, India., Vernekar* Sulaxana R. , Parab Jivan S. ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics, Goa University. Goa , India.
Published: January 2020

Soil is a complex system and its nature determines the types of crops that can be cultivated. Soil testing plays an important role in determining its ability to grow crops. Conventional soil testing methods are found to be cumbersome and expensive and also time consuming. Hence there is a need for methods which can give fast results and help in effective crop cultivation. Soil exhibits both spatial and temporal variability. The traditional methods of soil testing do not take into account the variability of the soil and uniform application of external inputs is done. This leads to over or under use of fertilizers, which in turn results into soil turning infertile, ground water getting contaminated etc. Precision Farming technique makes use of new technologies to take into consideration the variability exhibited by soil and is also called as site specific management. Soil nutrient testing is an important aspect of soil testing which helps in finding out the available soil nutrients and which in turn determines the crops that can be cultivated. Various techniques have been developed to determine the soil nutrients but most of these techniques are found to be time consuming. Hence there is a need to develop techniques which can give real time measurements of soil nutrients. This paper discusses about the use of RF spectra for predicting the soil nutrients. The RF spectra are obtained using a cell which is designed based on the principle of dielectricity. Samples were prepared in the laboratory by mixing five different components namely urea, potash, phosphate, lime and salt in distilled water. RF spectra of different samples having varying concentrations of the components were recorded. Multivariate analysis based on the Partial Least Square Regression technique was used to predict the amount of urea in a sample. The prediction of urea was done using two different frequency ranges i.e 10MHz-500MHz and 500MHz – 1000MHz and analysis of the results was done to determine which frequency range gives better results. The results show that percentage error of urea prediction is better in the frequency range of 500MHz-1000MHz as compared to 10MHz-500MHz.
Design and Implementation of 802.15.4 Transceiver for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) on FPGA
Authors:   Research Scholar, Dept. of ECE, Jain University, Bangalore, India., S.P* Guruprasad , B.S Dr. Chandrasekar ,   Director, CDEVL, Jain University, Bangalore, India.
Published: January 2020

The IEEE 802.15.4 standard provides mainly accessing, monitoring, and controlling capability of the Wireless devices. This standard supports short-range wireless communications and Low Rate (LR) - Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). This manuscript presents the fully integrated digital 802.15.4 Transceiver, which suitable to ZigBee Device Standard at 2.4GHz range. The 802.15.4 Transceiver design includes an 8-bit input data sequence mapped to lower and Upper Symbols followed by Chip-sequence conversion as per the IEEE standard. The chip sequences are mapped separately as even and odd sequences used for the Offset-QPSK Modulation. The chip synchronization achieved by using a proper clocking mechanism on the receiver side. The 802.15.4 Transceiver design is implemented on Artix-7 FPGA using Xilinx Environment. The hardware constraints like Area (Slices), Frequency, and Power are analyzed. The proposed work also compared with existing similar approaches with more significant improvements in chip area and Power.
The Use of English among Supply Chain Workers in Malaysia
Authors:   Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Institute of Marine Engineering Technology, Bandar Teknologi Maritim, Pantai Remis Road, 32100 Lumut Malaysia., Zarina* M. K. Puteri , Rosly S. ,   Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Institute of Marine Engineering Technology, Bandar Teknologi Maritim, Pantai Remis Road, 32100 Lumut Malaysia., Nurain J. ,   Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Institute of Marine Engineering Technology, Bandar Teknologi Maritim, Pantai Remis Road, 32100 Lumut Malaysia., Ismail A. ,   Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Institute of Marine Engineering Technology, Bandar Teknologi Maritim, Pantai Remis Road, 32100 Lumut Malaysia, Khalid N. ,   Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Institute of Marine Engineering Technology, Bandar Teknologi Maritim, Pantai Remis Road, 32100 Lumut Malaysia
Published: January 2020

English language is an international language which is predominantly used as the language of process and development. In Malaysia, English is the medium of communication in major development activity areas such as business, education, and others. Supply chain industry, particularly logistics, is one of the rapidly expanding economic sectors in Malaysia. The global landscape of the industry is changing rapidly, and this has generated many issues which are worthy of in-depth research related to logistics especially those involving the use of English as a business language. This paper investigates the use of spoken English amongst workers in logistics companies in northern parts of Malaysia. Data were collected from a survey questionnaire distributed to the respondents in the logistics and inventory departments of the respective companies located in Penang and Perak, Malaysia. The findings suggest that the spoken English is indeed useful in daily activities in their occupation.
Distributed Resource Allocation for SWIPT-Enabled Cognitive Networks With and Without Perfect CSI
Authors: Xu Yongjun , Sun Haijian , Wang Jie , Gui Guan , Guo Song
Published: January 2020

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)-enabled cognitive networks (CRNs) is recognized as one of most promising techniques to improve spectrum efficiency and prolong operation lifetime in 5G and beyond. However, existing methods focus on the centralized algorithm and the power allocation under perfect channel state information (CSI). The analytical solution and the impact of the power splitting (PS) on the optimal power allocation strategy are not addressed. In addition, the influence of the PS factor on the feasible region of transit power is rarely analyzed. In this paper, we propose a joint power allocation and PS algorithm under perfect CSI and imperfect CSI, respectively, for multiuser SWIPT-enabled CRNs scenarios. The power minimization of resource allocation problem is formulated as a multivariate nonconvex optimization which is hard to obtain the closed-form solution. Hence, we propose a suboptimal algorithm to alternatively optimize the power allocation and PS coefficient under the cases of the low-harvested energy region and the high-harvested energy region, respectively. Moreover, a closed-form distributed power allocation and PS expressions are derived by the Lagrangian approach. Simulation results confirm the proposed method with good robustness and high energy efficiency.
Vorrei. Corso di lingua italiana di livello elementare 1
Authors: Baldini Serena , Marini David
Published: January 2020

Ascolta i brani audio dei dialoghi This volume, born from the fifteen-year-long experience of teaching in classes of monolingual students from North American Universities, and born from many years of training in the fields of philosophy, linguistics and analysis, aims at meeting the students' essential linguistic needs, while also considering the improvement of the motivational framework as its main educational goal. To this aim, the text’s structure is based on communication, and features a wide range of interactive activities in order for the students to be directly in contact with the real context and to be able to use the target language in an authentic way. The manual includes both a Textbook and a Workbook, as well as a section in English with grammar cards and a general glossary. In addition to the activities for the classroom, each unit includes a part dedicated to home exercises and a partial glossary, which the students have to fill in. The text does not offer separated cultural inserts, which are rarely integrated into the didactic programming; on the contrary, it features very short and simple cultural notes.
«Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774
Authors: Natali Ilaria
Published: January 2020

The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to limit confinement of the insane. This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled according to contemporary standards: James Carkesse, Anne Finch, William Collins, Christopher Smart and William Cowper were hospitalized, sequestered or exiled from society. Their works cope with representations of insanity, medical definitions or practices, imputed illness, and the judging eye of the ‘sane other’, shedding new light on the dis/continuities in the notion of madness of this period.
I prefissi verbali nella Povest’ vremennych let
Authors: Ruvoletto Luisa
Published: January 2020

Through the analysis of the predetermined verbal forms of the Povest 'vremennych let (11th-12th centuries), this book sheds light on the aspectual meanings of verbs with prefix, in order to verify the degree of evolution of the Slavic-oriental aspectual system in the most ancient phase of its attestation. The study on prefixes and the ways in which they interact with the actional characteristics of the starting verbs allows us to identify the consequences of prefixing at the lexical, actional and aspectual level. Terminative verbs with prefix acquire the resultative value ("protoperfective") and are subjected, in part, to secondary suffixation, a phenomenon that will contribute to the grammaticalization of the aspectual category in Russian and other Slavic languages.
La prevenzione delle infezioni correlate all'assistenza
Authors: Saint Sanjay , Krein Sarah , Stock Robert W.
Published: January 2020

Nearly 2 million Americans develop a healthcare-related infection each year, and about 100,000 of them die because of it. Yet, these infections could reasonably be prevented by adopting and implementing evidence-based interventions aimed at improving the quality of infection-preventing activities. However, too many hospital staff members still oppose to these initiatives. There is a technical know-how for preventing infections, but the human problem of adapting it is often left untreated, and remains therefore unsolved. This book was designed to solve this problem. Using flowing style and a simple language, the book leads its readers through a step-by-step description of how a quality improvement intervention could take place in an ideal hospital, identifying possible obstacles and offering practical strategies to overcome them. This text makes use of the authors' vast clinical experience, and enriches it with examples, anecdotes and simple practical indications.
Le pubblicazioni dell’Istituto per l’Europa orientale
Authors: Mazzitelli Gabriele
Published: January 2020

With the additional help of archival material, the first part of this volume reconstructs the history of the Institute for Eastern Europe (Ipeo), founded in Rome in 1921, whose activity was characterized by a remarkable editorial production closely connected to the birth and development of Italian Slavic Studies. Despite the inevitable coexistence with fascism and the submission, somehow, to a line of conduct which especially in the 1930s accompanied the regime’s policy, the Ipeo’s activity was marked above all by a sincere desire to spread knowledge of a world which was still quite unknown in the Italian context under many aspects. The Ipeo operated until the end of World War II, when the government funding and even the political and cultural assumptions which had favoured its birth ceased because of the changed geopolitical context, determined by the end of the conflict. The second part of the volume covers the General alphabetical catalogue of all Ipeo’s publications, accompanied by a Chronological catalogue and by an Index of authors, editors, translators and preface writers.
Edwin John Ellis’s and William Butler Yeats’s The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical
Authors: Antonielli Arianna , Nixon Mark
Published: January 2020

Edwin John Ellis’s and William Butler Yeats’s The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical. A Manuscript Edition, with Critical Analysis presents, for the first time, the manuscript – in facsimile and transcription – of the so-called Quaritch Edition (1893), written and edited by Edwin John Ellis and W.B. Yeats. The relevant manuscript material is held at Special Collections of the University of Reading, within the “Papers of Edwin John Ellis” (MS 293/2/2), and at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin (NLI MSS 30,289 and 30,534). This edition, with a rich apparatus of editorial and critical notes, will yield new insights and discoveries about the genesis and the composition of The Works of William Blake, give the reader a sense of how the manuscript corpus relates to the published version, and thus provoke new critical discussions.
La policromia dei Monochromata
Authors: Lenzi Sara
Published: January 2020

The so-called "monochromes" on marble are twelve paintings on marble slabs from the Roman age, mostly coming from Herculaneum, and are now preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and at the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna. These paintings were included in several publications. Despite that, they continued to raise many questions and there was a lack of studies focusing entirely on them. Furthermore, it had barely been clarified that, despite the name "monochromes", these works are completely polychrome. By combining the archaeological data and the information obtained from the non-invasive archaeometrical analysis, it was possible to achieve brand new results, which allowed for a better understanding of some aspects of these works, such as their iconography, the used pigments used and the clients’ choices.
La prosa dell'ermetismo: caratteri e esemplari
Authors: Nencioni Francesca
Published: January 2020

In this book, Francesca Nencioni uses semantics to reconstruct, with skill and intelligence, the 'characters' and 'specimens' of the Hermetic prose (Parronchi, I giorni sensibili; Luzi, Biografia e Ebe; Bigongiari, La donna miriade; Gatto, La sposa bambina), proposing a new way of reading the works which marked the early Hermetic period in Florence. Using stylistic tools, analysis of language, rhythm and melody, and a comparative perspective shifting continuously among the genres, the author gives new semantics to the category of absence (through female metamorphosis, transience and death), and explores the coordinates of time (the hours of day, the movements of stars and planets, the alternation of seasons) and space (the four elements, the beloved places and the real landscapes), then combines synchronic investigation with an excursus on the study of semantic variables in the two editions of Biografia e Ebe and La sposa bambina.
Visioni critiche
Authors: Ferrone Siro
Published: January 2020

Like a two-faced Janus, Siro Ferrone carried out both research on theatre and theatre criticism, combining academic research and stage experience. His reviewer activity, carried out without interruptions, is now for the first time transcribed and organically collected in a volume. The articles, which appeared on the pages of “l'Unità-Toscana”, are today an important source for the analysis of significant shows staged in the main Tuscan theatres between 1975 and 1983. The result is the documentation of a period of fertile and avant-garde theatrical production, here retraced through the aware and illuminating testimonies of one of the main Italian historians of performing arts.
Arte nell’arte
Authors: Degasperi Angelica
Published: January 2020

The volume analyses the representation of ceramic artefacts appearing in some Tuscan artistic works dating back to the 14th and 15th century and aims to combine the data emerging from iconographic sources with those relating to material and written documentation. It also aims to grasp the potential of iconography, trying to understand the extent to which it is possible to identify archaeologically well-defined cultural areas; it also attempts to establish whether the representations of specific details of everyday life correspond to a realistic description of everyday life itself, or rather are a reflection of feelings of curiosity, amazement, ambition or appreciation for the beauty of the objects. The study highlights how iconography is able to integrate our knowledge on the medieval ceramic productions and on the social context of use of specific vascular forms and types.
Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett
Authors: Cauchi Santoro Roberta
Published: January 2020

This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings).
Automi, realtà virtuale e formiche
Authors: Di Feo Marzio
Published: January 2020

Automi, realtà virtuale e formiche (“Automata, virtual reality and ants”) proposes an analysis of the complexity of the war phenomenon through three different approaches: in the microphysics of the individual action, in simulated reality and in a metaphor with the biological environment. The investigation into the nature of the interactions between man and machine presents the attempt to dominate the Clausewitzian uncertainty of the battle through an automated, post-human system. This seems to be resolved in the Omega Point, which the theologian de Chardin had identified as a point of escape from entropy and from the disorder of reality. There is neither a scientific solution, nor a theological fate. Intelligence is shared through the semantics of the satellite, of the drone and through the information passing from machine to machine. While the warriors will act as a swarm, by sharing a huge amount of data, each one of them on the exocrine glands of the machine, St. Basil was right when he warned that whoever claims to speak on the nature of things (and therefore on war) should first of be able to speak of the nature of the ant.
Rifugiati
Authors: Pomara Severino Bruno
Published: January 2020

The book brings to light a little-known story: the arrival in Italy of thousands of Moriscos exiles, descendants of Arab-Muslim origin, settled for centuries in the Iberian peninsula, baptized following the Christian Reconquista (1492), often accused of crypto-Islamism and betrayal of the homeland, eventually expelled and deported from Spain (1609-1614). What are the obstacles encountered by refugees along the journey of their exodus? What is the behavior of the authorities with respect to the landings? And in what terms have the refugees interacted with the local populations? These are current questions to ancient problems that Italy, in its political fragmentation, has already experienced.
Bibliometria e scienze del libro: internazionalizzazione e vitalità degli studi italiani
Authors: Turbanti Simona
Published: January 2020

The vitality of a scientific field is usually attested by the fallout that research and publications have on the community of scholars who practice it and, therefore, on the development of the discipline itself and of its methodologies. The degree of “health” of a field of study, as well as its ability to get out of its niche of scholars and to see its validity recognised, is assessed by analysing whether and to what extent the works are read, commented on, cited by scholars from other geographical contexts and / or other scientific branches. The volume presents a research focused on the analysis of the level of internationalisation and vitality of Italian studies in the disciplines related to the study of books and documents, conducted through a series of parallel bibliometric investigations (query of citation databases, searches in Google scholar, application alternative metrics, library catalog analysis).
Dialogare: compendio di logica
Authors: Bruni Riccardo
Published: January 2020

“Logic”, as understood in this volume, is the set of knowledge at the basis of man’s reasoning faculties: understanding, analysing, arguing. The text presents a review of topics which are useful to strengthen the skills related to reasoning faculties through a brief introduction to the theoretical aspects and exercises intended to assess the understanding. The volume is divided into parts, which are organised in teaching units. The parts and units are presented in such a way that, following the thread in the order in which they are proposed, we move from one topic to the next, acquiring the prerequisites necessary for to what comes after. The text therefore lends itself to a “systematic” use, aimed at an extensive study. However, nothing prevents the reader from adapting the material to other needs, choosing only a few topics that they consider useful to integrate their knowledge, to do a “review” or to further practice on already known topics.
Dialogare: compendio di matematica
Authors: Buratta Daniele
Published: January 2020

This compendium is designed as a review of basic mathematics topics and is mainly aimed at students who are looking for valuable help to integrate their knowledge and correct their deficiencies in the subject, as well as to succeed in the math admission test of the University of Florence. The topics covered are divided into five macro areas: Numbers, Powers and Radicals, Literal calculation, Equations, Inequalities and absolute value, Exponential and logarithmic functions. For each one of the topics, the fundamental theoretical notions are offered with specific examples and a selection of single questions, thanks to which the student can immediately check their knowledge. Moreover, there is also a section collecting all the answers to the questions with extensive examination on the correct process and on the possible errors. This analysis represents the real strength of this work since it allows students to self-evaluate and learn from their mistakes.
Dialogare: compendio di fisica
Authors: Lima Manuela
Published: January 2020

This compendium represents a starting point for those who wish to review the main topics of Physics in view of the admission tests to the scientific faculties. The main purpose of the text is to intrigue the reader, invite them to ask questions about the world around us and provide them with the basic skills to face the admission test to the University, serenely and with the appropriate competence. This is not a book and it is certainly not exhaustive, but it remains consistent with the topics proposed in the admission tests. The volume is divided into 8 parts which deal with the main topics that students face during secondary school: kinematics, dynamics, fluids, gas, thermodynamics, electrostatics, geometric optics and waves. Each topic is accompanied by multiple choice questions with frequently commented answers. The complexity in the presentation of the topics is weighed on the knowledge that a student leaving the secondary school should have acquired during the course of their studies.
Le feste ittite del tuono
Authors: Barsacchi Francesco Giuseppe
Published: January 2020

The book contains the philological edition of the corpus of Hittite texts currently collected under number 631 of the Catalogue des Textes Hittites by E. Laroche. They constitute the description of religious ceremonies celebrated in connection with the atmospheric phenomenon of thunder, interpreted as a manifestation of the god of the storm, which was the greatest divinity of the Hittite pantheon. The documents of major extension, presented with a transliteration and translation, are accompanied by a philological comment, aimed at highlighting their structure as well as lexical and grammatical peculiarities, and are introduced by an analysis of dating conducted on a palaeographic basis. The minor fragments are presented in transcription and, where possible, in translation. The text discusses the possible attribution of each fragment to the corpus, based on structure and content. The critical edition of the texts is preceded by an introductory chapter in which the nature of thunder-related festivities and their status in the Hittite cultural calendar are discussed.
«Raccogliere, pubblicare, illustrare carte». Editori ed edizioni di documenti medievali in Lombardia tra Otto e Novecento
Authors: De Angelis Gianmarco
Published: January 2020

A long eighteenth century - on the footsteps of the erudite tradition and of the Muratori’s publishing method - and a very short nineteenth century, enclosed between the first post-unification decade and the threshold of the Great War, when the advent of a new and professionalised generation of scholars (Bonelli, Vittani, Torelli, Manaresi) would also impose a radical change in Lombardy in the field of palaeographic-diplomatic research. These are the coordinates (of a conceptual rather than a chronological nature) of the book, which for the first time analyses a significant period of medieval history under a historiographic perspective and retraces the careers, projects, the initiatives of the individuals and institutions that have animated that epoch. The editors and the editions of medieval documents coming from Lombardy are at the heart of the publication, although wider perspectives and many protagonists whose fame goes beyond the borders of regional culture revolve around them. The process of defining a modern diplomatic philology in the editions of Lombard sources is followed, marking its salient stages and turning points. However, in the background stand out the broader (as well as stronger and ideologically connoted) themes of Medieval studies before and after the Unification of Italy. These are the issue of the Longobards, the myth of the Commune civilisation in the Risorgimento culture, the identity of the Visconti-Sforza state. Analysing the editors and the editions of medieval documents in Lombardy between the nineteenth and twentieth century means shedding a significant light on the very dynamics of the organisation of regional historical research. Such analysis moves within a lively debate offering scientific and cultural implications between the hegemonic Milanese centre and the sometimes riotous municipalisms of the many suburbs.
Storia dei conventi cappuccini toscani dalla fondazione al 1704
Authors: Morozzi Ubaldo
Published: January 2020

This publication concerns the history of the Tuscan Capuchin convents since their foundation in the 18th century, analysed through the transcription and critical edition of a manuscript written in 1704 by Filippo Bernardi da Firenze (1649-1721). It is a source of great interest both for considering the events happening in the convents, and more generally for the history of Tuscany itself. In fact, the manuscript collects numerous transcribed documents - dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century - whose originals are now partially lost. Through these testimonies it is possible to retrace the events of the Tuscan communities and obtain numerous information of a social, anthropological and cultural nature. The manuscript is preceded by a historical introduction to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and by the biography of Filippo da Firenze.
I bandi liturgici nell’Egitto romano
Authors: Stroppa Marco
Published: January 2020

The calls for the appointment of the liturgical officers, that is, those who were obliged by the state to carry out public service duties, constitute a category of documents produced within the Roman administration of Egypt in the second and third centuries AD; these public notices were issued by the strategus, head of a region. It is a homogeneous group of Greek papyri - about twenty, including two unpublished texts - collected for the first time in this volume: a transcription is provided for each liturgical call, accompanied by the translation and a commentary. Through the comparative analysis of the texts, interesting data emerge to determine the typology of the documents and to reconstruct the development of some procedures of the liturgical system during the second and third centuries AD.
Una voce parigina nel Futurismo russo: la poesia di Ivan Aksenov
Authors: Farsetti Alessandro
Published: January 2020

Ivan Aksenov is one of the most neglected figures of early 20th Century Russian literature. The few scholars who have noticed his great originality interpret his verses above all as an application of the principles of Cubist painting in poetry, in the light of the experiences of Mayakovsky &Co.; these investigations denote a poor knowledge of the author, who did not fail to declare the incompatibility between the two artistic media. This book is therefore the first systematic study of Aksenov's poetry, starting from a reflection on the philological state of the texts, to move on to the reconstruction of his aesthetic thought and to integral analyzes of poetic compositions. An unprecedented theory of art emerges from this - which develops ideas of Tolstoy, Vjaceslav Ivanov and Freud - and a production in verses characterized by daring metric innovations and a flow-of-consciousness poetics of the with a subtly humorous urbanism that recalls authors such as Apollinaire and Cendrars. It is thus intended to highlight the peculiarity of Aksenov, the only Russian poet from the Futurist area to have participated, even for a few months, in the cultural life of Paris in the 1910s and an advocate at home of themes and stylistic elements partly related to the French esprit nouveau.
A cento anni dalla Grande Guerra. Vol. 1
Authors: Bagnato Bruna , Ferraris Luigi Vittorio , Gori Umberto , Guderzo Massimiliano
Published: January 2020

The volumes on the Great War that are here published 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 centennial, the authors wanted to take stock of some specific aspects of the studies related to the First World War. To this purpose, historians, military analysts, political scientists and sociologists have questioned the meaning of the fracture that marks the beginning of the twentieth century and, consequently, the basic aspects of the new policy of the “short century”, from both an Italian and European perspective.
A cento anni dalla Grande Guerra. Vol. 3
Authors: Corbinelli Carlo , Diodato Emidio , Di Martino Basilio , Mini Fabio , Ramoino Pier Paolo , Sanfelice di Monteforte Ferdinando
Published: January 2020

The volumes on the Great War that are here published 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 centennial, the authors wanted to take stock of some specific aspects of the studies related to the First World War. To this purpose, historians, military analysts, political scientists and sociologists have questioned the meaning of the fracture that marks the beginning of the twentieth century and, consequently, the basic aspects of the new policy of the “short century”, from both an Italian and European perspective.