bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Achieving the Success of Sustainability Development Projects through Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Capability
Authors: Zhang Haili , Song Michael , He Huanhuan
Published: January 2020

There has been increased interest in studying how big data analytics capability (BDAC) and artificial intelligence capability (AIC) lead to sustainable innovation and performance. Yet, few studies have investigated how these two emerging capabilities affect the success of sustainability development projects through the mediating effects of the sustainability design and commercialization processes. Based on Day and Wensley’s theoretical framework for diagnosing competitive superiority, we propose a research model to investigate how sustainability design and commercialization mediate the relationships between two emerging capabilities and sustainable growth and performance. To test the proposed research model, we collected empirical data from 905 sustainability development projects from China and the United States. This study makes theoretical and managerial contributions to sustainable development theory. The study findings reveal several interesting results. First, BDAC and AIC not only increase the proficiency of sustainability design and commercialization but also directly enhance sustainable growth and performance. Second, sustainability design and commercialization mediate the positive effects of BDAC and AIC on sustainable growth and performance. Finally, the empirical analyses uncovered several cross-national differences. For sustainability design, BDAC is more important than AIC in the United States, while AIC is more important than BDAC in China.
A Procedure to Support Systematic Selection of Leading Indicators for Sustainability Performance Measurement of Circular Economy Initiatives
Authors: Kravchenko Mariia , Pigosso Daniela C. A. , McAloone Tim C.
Published: January 2020

Circular economy (CE) is considered a vital model to tackle resource scarcity and reduce waste by promoting strategies that redefine production and consumption systems. Industrial actors integrate CE principles in their strategic and operational practices to overcome these challenges, simultaneously aiming at enhancing their sustainability performance. Despite numerous frameworks to guide organizations in innovating towards CE, very few have embedded explicit sustainability considerations to assist practitioners in understanding the potential sustainability performance of the CE initiatives early in the development process. To assist a structured process of measuring sustainability performance, the main goal of this paper is to propose a procedure for a systematic selection of suitable leading performance indicators to support an informed sustainability-oriented decision-making process. To fulfill this aim, a hypothetical-deductive approach has been followed to, firstly, develop the selection procedure, and secondly, evaluate and improve it using a case study approach. The findings reveal that the procedure enables a systematic selection of relevant indicators by taking into account the manifold combinations of CE strategies and business processes, characteristics of the company and its sustainability objective. Different from many other approaches, the novelty lies in relying on a dynamic, as opposed to ‘prescriptive’, indicator selection process to induce learning about sustainability considerations significant for a particular CE initiative and corporate context.
Fostering Circular Economy Through the Analysis of Existing Open Access Industrial Symbiosis Databases
Authors: Jato-Espino Daniel , Ruiz-Puente Carmen
Published: January 2020

Digital evolution underwent great progress in the late 20th century, democratizing the use of the Internet and, therefore, access to public sources of information. This technological shift caused great impacts on different fields, including Industrial Symbiosis (IS). IS stems from the concept of Circular Economy and requires well-structured information to encourage waste reuse. Under these premises, this investigation aimed at processing and analyzing existing open-access IS databases from several perspectives, including types of business areas, waste and new uses involved. In addition, existing IS data were explored with the support of different tools, such as correspondence, network and correlation analyses. The application of this methodology to a set of 496 shortlisted IS exchanges led to several findings, highlighting the strong relationship between metallurgy and the production of cement, the key role played by the electricity production sector both as a donor and a recipient, the versatility of the agriculture area due to their capacity for reusing a variety of waste as fertilizers and the importance of chemical products and steam and hot water as new uses. Overall, these results provide companies with efficient and understandable knowledge to donate or receive materials.
Impact of Nonlinear Thermal Radiation on the Time-Dependent Flow of Non-Newtonian Nanoliquid over a Permeable Shrinking Surface
Authors: Zaib A. , Khan Umair , Khan Ilyas , M. Sherif El-Sayed , Nisar Kottakkaran Sooppy , Seikh Asiful H.
Published: January 2020

Symmetry and fluid dynamics either advances the state-of-the-art of mathematical methods and extends the limitations of existing methodologies to new contributions in fluid. Physical scenario is modelled in terms of differential equations as mathematical models in fluid mechanics to address current challenges. In this work a physical problem to examine the unsteady flow of a third-grade non-Newtonian liquid induced through a permeable shrinking surface containing nanoliquid is considered. The model of Buongiorno is utilized comprising the thermophoresis and Brownian effects through nonlinear thermal radiation and convective condition. Based on the flow symmetry, suitable similarity transformations are employed to alter the partial differential equations into nonlinear ordinary differential equations and then these ordinary differential equations are numerically executed via three-stage Lobatto IIIa formula. The flow symmetry is discussed for interesting physical parameters and thus this work is concluded. More exactly, the impacts of pertinent constraints on the concentration, temperature and velocity profiles along together drag force, Sherwood and Nusselt numbers are explained through the aid of the tables and plots. The outcomes reveal that the dual nature of solutions is gained for a specific amount of suction and flow in the decelerating form A < 0 . However, the unique result is obtained for flow in accelerating form A ≥ 0 . In addition, the non-linear parameter declines the liquid velocity and augments the concentration and temperature fields in the first result, whereas the contrary behavior is scrutinized in the second result.
The Toxicological Intersection between Allergen and Toxin: A Structural Comparison of the Cat Dander Allergenic Protein Fel d1 and the Slow Loris Brachial Gland Secretion Protein
Authors: Scheib Holger , Nekaris K. Anne-Isola , Rode-Margono Johanna , Ragnarsson Lotten , Baumann Kate , Dobson James S. , Wirdateti Wirdateti , Nouwens Amanda , Nijman Vincent , Martelli Paolo , Ma Rui , Lewis Richard J. , Kwok Hang Fai , Fry Bryan Grieg
Published: January 2020

Slow lorises are enigmatic animal that represent the only venomous primate lineage. Their defensive secretions have received little attention. In this study we determined the full length sequence of the protein secreted by their unique brachial glands. The full length sequences displayed homology to the main allergenic protein present in cat dander. We thus compared the molecular features of the slow loris brachial gland protein and the cat dander allergen protein, showing remarkable similarities between them. Thus we postulate that allergenic proteins play a role in the slow loris defensive arsenal. These results shed light on these neglected, novel animals.
Effects of Persulfate Activation with Pyrite and Zero-Valent Iron for Phthalate Acid Ester Degradation
Authors: Imran Muhammad A. , Tong Yuzhen , Hu Qing , Liu Mingzhu , Chen Honghan
Published: January 2020

Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are often detected in remediated groundwater using appropriate oxidant materials by in situ groundwater treatment. The study compares zero-valent iron–persulfate with a pyrite–persulfate system to degrade three PAEs—di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), and dimethyl phthalate (DMP). Column experiments were conducted, and rapid oxidation occurred in a pyrite–persulfate system due to sulfate radical generation. DMP concentration was found at about 60.0% and 53.0% with zero-valent iron (ZVI) and pyrite activation of persulfate, respectively. DBP concentration was measured as 25.0–17.2% and 23.2–16.0% using ZVI–persulfate and pyrite–persulfate systems, respectively. However, DEHP was not detected. The total organic carbon concentration lagged behind the Ʃ3 PAEs. Persulfate consumption with ZVI activation was half of the consumption with pyrite activation. Both systems showed a steady release of iron ions. Overall, the oxidation–reduction potential was higher with pyrite activation. The surface morphologies of ZVI and pyrite were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and XPS. Intensive corrosion occurs on the pyrite surface, whereas the ZVI surface is covered by a netting of iron oxides. The pyrite surface showed more oxidation and less passivation in comparison with ZVI, which results in more availability of Fe 2 + for persulfate activation. The pyrite–persulfate system is relatively preferred for rapid PAE degradation for contamination.
Current practice and attitudes towards vaccination during pregnancy: a survey of GPs across England
Authors: Wilcox Christopher R , Little Paul , Jones Christine E
Published: January 2020

Background

Antenatal vaccines are commonly delivered in primary care, yet the views of GPs regarding these programmes have been neglected in research to date.

Aim

To establish the attitudes and current practice of GPs towards antenatal vaccination and their views on the optimal location for delivery of this service.

Design and setting

A multicentre online survey questionnaire.

Method

A questionnaire was sent to GPs across England between December 2018 and January 2019.

Results

The majority of 1586 responders considered antenatal vaccination safe (96% for influenza, 89% pertussis). GPs were significantly less confident in their knowledge of pertussis compared with influenza vaccination (64% versus 80% were confident, P<0.001), and many desired further education (59% versus 48%, P<0.001). Few (37%) discussed vaccination with pregnant women regularly, but most (80%) felt their recommendation would influence decision making. Those with greater confidence in their knowledge of pertussis and influenza vaccination, and who were >2 years since qualifying, discussed vaccination significantly more often (odds ratio [OR] 3.52, P<0.001; OR 2.34, P = 0.001; OR 1.76, P = 0.003, respectively), regardless of whether they routinely saw pregnant women. Most (83%) reported that antenatal vaccination was GP led in their region, yet only 26% thought it should be primarily GP based. GPs expressed disconnect from antenatal care, and many suggested that midwives and/or secondary care should take greater responsibility for the delivery of antenatal vaccination.

Conclusion

There is support among GPs to embed vaccination programmes within routine antenatal care. Further educational resources, specifically designed for the needs of GPs, are needed to facilitate opportunistic discussion with pregnant women about vaccination.
У пошуках свого голосу: жінки, обвинувачувані у дітовбивствах, у Східній Галичині на зламі ХІХ–ХХ століть (на прикладі однієї історії)
Authors: Черчович І.
Published: January 2020

У статті проаналізовано кримінальні справи жінок, що були судимі за дітовбивство у кінці ХІХ – початку ХХ століття: які стратегії захисту звично обирали підозрювані, в який спосіб у вчиненому злочині віднаходили місце для власної віктимності та як її використовували? Для цього застосовано метод case studies, щоб на прикладі конкретного випадку – розглянутої Крайовим судом Львова у 1906 році справи Марії Петришак – зобразити найпоширеніші тенденції, характерні для більшості кримінальних проваджень на цю тему
Ключові проблеми застосування суспільно корисних робіт як виду адміністративного стягнення
Authors: Яковець І. , Лук’янченко Є.
Published: January 2020

У статті приділено увагу проблемам застосування адміністративного стягнення у виді суспільно корисних робіт, упровадженого для погашення наявної заборгованості зі сплати аліментів. Зокрема, розглянуто проблемні питання відповідальності осіб, які ухиляються від їх відбування, передбаченої нормами Кодексу України про адміністративні правопорушення та Кримінального кодексу України. Окремо приділено увагу питанню щодо подальшого виконання рішення суду про накладення суспільно корисних робіт стосовно особи, яку було засуджено за злісне ухилення від їх відбування.
Оптимізація системи правоохоронних органів як суб’єктів протидії корупційним правопорушенням
Authors: Ткаченко М.
Published: January 2020

У статті, на основі аналізу норм чинного законодавства України та наукових поглядів вчених визначено проблеми оптимізації системи правоохоронних органів як суб’єктів протидії корупційним правопорушенням та окреслено напрямки їх вирішення.
Bibliografía sobre Literatura Fantástica (2000-2016)
Authors: Sardiñas Fernández José Miguel
Published: January 2020

Esta bibliografía recoge fichas sobre: teoría de la literatura fantástica, crítica e historia de ese género principalmente en el ámbito hispanoamericano, y dos obras que le sirven de referencia. Su propósito es ofrecer, a estudiosos del tema, un corpus ordenado de algunos estudios publicados entre 2000 y 2016. La norma bibliográfica que ha servido de base es la de la MLA, según la séptima edición de su manual de estilo.
El perfil del profesor de archivística, bibliotecología, ciencia de la información y documentación: un acercamiento desde el análisis documental
Authors: Jaramillo Orlanda , Arana Duque José Pablo , Salazar Álvarez Leidy Marisol
Published: January 2020

El texto expone los resultados del análisis documental sobre el perfil docente de archivística, bibliotecología, ciencia de la información y documentación; análisis que se delimitó geográficamente en Colombia obteniendo resultados insignificantes, por lo que fue necesario ampliarlo a Iberoamérica, lo cual permitió conocer trabajos de autores colombianos que han investigado sobre el tema desde el ámbito de América Latina y han sido publicados en otros países. La mayoría de los estudios encontrados corresponden a los resultados de las investigaciones realizadas en el marco del Seminario de Educación Bibliotecológica del IIBI-UNAM; al igual que los trabajos relacionados con procesos de autoevaluación y formación profesional que han servido para abrir la perspectiva del tema del perfil docente de bibliotecología. Trabajos que permiten afirmar que, aunque existe una profunda relación entre formación-perfil profesional y perfil docente, en las agendas de investigación el tema del perfil docente no ha tenido presencia. Es necesario un perfil docente en el área polivalente, flexible, capaz de adaptarse al medio, con pleno desarrollo de las competencias y con habilidades para favorecer en otros sujetos la reflexión crítica, la autonomía, la responsabilidad y la formación a lo largo de la vida.
Formulasi Pasta Gigi Herbal Ekstrak Daun Sukun (Artocarpus Altilis) Dan Uji Aktivitas Antibakteri Terhadap Bakteri Streptococcus mutans
Authors: Yuliastri Wa Ode , Ifaya Mus , Prasetyo Mulyadi
Published: January 2020

Prevalensi karies di Indonesia pada tahun 2013 berkisar 72,3%. Karies gigi yang disebabkan oleh bakteri Streptococcus mutans dapat dihindari dengan bantuan senyawa kimiawi maupun tindakan mekanis. Pengunaan bahan alternatif dari bahan alam dalam sediaan pasta gigi sedang dikemabangkan. Salah satu tanaman yang dapat digunakan adalah daun sukun (Artocarpusaltilis). Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian eksperimental laboratorium. Pada pembuatan sediaan pasta gigi herbal ekstrak daun sukun dibuat 3 formula dengan konsentrasi ekstrak masing-masing 10%, 15% dan 20%. Penelitian ini menggunakan uji ANOVA (Analysis Of Variance) untuk melihat perbedaan signifikan dari masing-masing perlakuan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan hasil pengujian evaluasi fisik yang palik baik adalah formula III. Pada pengujian aktivitas antibakteri diperoleh daya hambat paling baik pada pasta gigi herbal adalah formula 3 dengan rata-rata luas daya hambat sebesar 21,37mm yang dapat dikategorikan memiliki daya hambat yang sangat kuat. Hasil uji ANOVA juga diperoleh nilai p<0,005 yang menunjukkan adanya perbedaan signifikan dari masing-masing konsentrasi. Sediaan pasta gigi herbal ekstrak daun sukun (Artocarpusaltilis) dapat disimpulkan bahwa pembuatan sediaan pasta gigi herbal stabil pada evaluasi fisik dan memiliki aktivitas antibakteri terhadap bakteri Streptococcus mutans.
Instytucje i mechanizmy polskiego i ukraińskiego systemu politycznego. Analiza porównawcza
Authors: Sokół Wojciech
Published: January 2020

The aim of the study is to compare selected elements of the political systems of the Republic of Poland and Ukraine in both structural and functional terms. The subject of the study is the genesis and direction of systemic changes, the speciﬁ city of governmental systems, mechanisms of political rivalry and its main actors, i.e. political parties. The analysis shows that systemic solutions in Poland were characterised by greater stability, attachment to the principles of the rule of law and democratic values. In the political system of Ukraine there was quite a large dynamic of change in this area. These changes were instrumental to a greater degree than in Poland and subordinated to preferences that were dominant in particular periods.
Improvement of Hf-based metal/oxide/nitride/oxide/Si nonvolatile memory characteristics by Si surface atomically flattening
Authors: Ohmi Shun-Ichiro , Horiuchi Yusuke , Kudoh Sohya
Published: January 2020

The effect of Si surface atomically flattening (SAF) on the Hf-based metal/oxide/nitride/oxide/Si (MONOS) nonvolatile memory (NVM) characteristics was investigated. The memory window (MW) obtained in the C–Vcharacteristics for the Hf-based MONOS diode was increased from 4.5 to 4.8 V by the Si SAF. The charge centroid (Z
eff) was found to be shifted from the center of the HfN1.1 charge trapping layer (CTL) to the interface at block layer and CTL for the Hf-based MONOS diode with the Si SAF. Furthermore, the MW of 3.2 V was realized for the Hf-based MONOS NVM with improvement of device characteristics by Si SAF.
Klasifikasi Kinerja Pengajaran Dosen Menggunakan Metode ANFIS Sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Sistem Penjaminan Mutu Internal (SPMI)
Authors: Afriliana Ida , Sulasmoro Arfan Haqiqi , Sofyan Ali
Published: January 2020

A college is a place for education providers that aim to produce quality human resources and be able to face increasingly fierce work competition. Lecturers become one of the important elements in producing competent human resources. The task of the lecturer is to carry out the Tri Dharma of Higher Education which includes teaching, research and community service. The purpose of this study was to obtain a teaching performance classification of lecturers using the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) method as an effort to improve the internal quality assurance system. Where in this learning process planning, implementation, evaluation, control and improvement have been carried out as a form of implementation of the Internal Quality Assurance System (SPMI). The data used in this study are data from the questionnaire sheets of lecturers' reaction sheets from students to the teaching of lecturers who support courses. The data used is data for 1 academic year, namely data for the 2017/2018 academic year. The results of this study are that ANFIS is suitable for classifying lecturers' performance because the accuracy obtained is 0.5.
Avaliação histométrica, radiográfica e imunológica dos tecidos periodontais de ratas ovariectomizadas com periodontite induzida
Authors: Nassar Carlos Augusto , Boamorte Carolina , Pasqualotto Lais , Maller Ana Claudia , Nassar Patricia Oehlmeyer , Sagae Sara , Brancalhão Rose , Ribeiro Lucineia
Published: January 2020

Objetivo: A relação da osteoporose com pós-menopausa é controversa, mas pode ser um fator de risco para doença periodontal. Assim o objetivo deste projeto foi avaliar a influência da deficiência de estrógeno nos tecidos periodontais de ratas ovariectomizadas com peridontite induzida. Material e método: Quarenta ratas com 8 semanas de vida foram divididas aleatoriamente em 4 grupos: 1) Grupo controle; 2) Grupo ligadura; 3) Grupo ovariectomia; 4) Grupo ovariectomia e ligadura; sendo que todos os animais receberam dieta padrão e água à vontade. Aos 70 dias de vida os animais foram anestesiados e foi realizada a indução da doença periodontal, sendo após este procedimento aos 79 dias de vida, as ratas também foram submetidas à anestesia e à cirurgia de ovariectomia.  Aos 100 dias de vida, as ratas foram sacrificadas sendo retiradas as hemimandíbulas esquerda e direita de cada rata para análises histomorfométrica e radiográfica, bem como amostras do tecido gengival para avaliar os tecidos periodontais. Resultados: Os resultados demonstraram que na análise radiográfica e histomorfométrica do osso alveolar dos primeiros molares inferiores nos grupos onde foi feita a indução da doença periodontal por ligadura, houve maior perda óssea alveolar significativamente (p<0.05). Em relação às concentrações de citocinas, os grupos que foram ovariectomizadas apresentaram concentrações maiores estatisticamente significante em relação aos demais (p<0.05). Conclusão: Assim pode-se concluir que a deficiência de estrógeno poderia contribuir para uma evolução mais rápida da perda óssea alveolar em ratas ovarietomizadas.
Innovación y gestión de la identidad en tiendas de abarrotes en México y Colombia
Authors: Tenjo Beltrán Jorge William
Published: January 2020

El objeto de este trabajo es mostrar la situación de las tiendas de abarrotes como microorganizaciones por medio de la innovación y analizar la presencia de dicha capacidad desarrollada entre las mipymes junto a la importancia de la gestión de la identidad en la comunicación organizacional para apalancar acciones de mejoramiento. El trabajo se dimensiona y desarrolla a través de un comparativo en las diferentes comunidades de dos países como México y Colombia representadas en un territorio local en este tipo de negocios. Permitiendo promover nuevas perspectivas de la comunicación organizacional para las microorganizaciones.
Comment on “DIO Suppression Attack Against Routing in the Internet of Things”
Authors: Verma Abhishek , Ranga Virender
Published: January 2020

We have thoroughly studied the paper of Perazzo et al., which presents a routing attack named DIO suppression attack with its impact analysis. However, the considered simulation grid of size 20mx20m does not correspond to the results presented in their paper. We believe that the incorrect simulation detail needs to be rectified further for the scientific correctness of the results. In this comment, it is shown that the suppression attack on such small sized network topology does not have any major impact on routing performance, and specific reason is discussed for such behavior.
Breve storia della biologia dalle origini al XX secolo
Authors: Simonetta Alberto Mario
Published: January 2020

More and more, in the last three centuries, Natural Sciences have become critically important for the development of civilization, and their influence on our daily life grows day by day. However, the history of Biological Sciences has been largely ignored: despite the proliferation of books on the different aspects of biology, and although there is a parallel growing concern about environmental problems, up to now a methodical discussion on the development of all biological disciplines from their origins has been lacking. The volume therefore intends to fill this gap, placing itself as a meeting point between teaching purposes and advanced disclosure, and with the aim of drawing a wider public closer to scientific culture. In this sense, it was conceived as a historical journey, but with attention to the figures of scientists as well as to their research work. The development of biological knowledge and theories from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century is illustrated with an agile synthesis, placing it within the historical and cultural events of each period.
Schemi di negoziato e tecniche di comunicazione per il tessile e abbigliamento
Authors: Guercini Simone , Piovan Roberto
Published: January 2020

The volume provides teaching support for the degree course in Textile and Clothing Marketing, but thanks to its layout it can also be suitable for professional operators. The first part analyses the trading activities in sales, through a series of schemes which are useful for a systematic presentation of the topic. The second part focuses on communication techniques; in particular advertising, considering how strategically important it is for the formation of the value not only of products, but also of corporate assets. Finally, several cases of companies operating in the textile-clothing industry, all characterised by a strong brand image, are offered.
Ricerca empirica e management
Authors: Lazzeretti Luciana , Brusoni Giancarla
Published: January 2020

La management research studia le decisioni strategiche delle imprese e dei loro manager per definire basi teoriche comportamentali comuni. Tale area di studio ha ampliato le tecniche metodologiche utilizzate, ricorrendo non solo ad analisi di tipo qualitativo, ma anche a quelle quantitative. Nel libro sono stati raccolti materiali utili ad evidenziare il contributo delle metodologie statistiche alla management research. In particolare si illustrano: i principali strumenti di ricerca (dalla survey alle meta-analysis); le aree di applicazione nelle diverse funzioni aziendali (quali la produzione ed il marketing); le analisi statistiche utilizzabili (di tipo descrittivo o esplicativo).
Critica sociale e individuazione
Authors: Spinosi Nicola
Published: January 2020

The process of individuation (according to Jung) aims to free us from what is not for us, to strip us of encrustations, of fashions. However, this process should not be the prerogative of the development of the person: it should instead extend, as a model, to the development of socio-cultural criticism, in the sense that we should be able to identify the characteristics of each collective phenomenon. By paying attention to the suggestions offered by the news, politics, social psychology, fiction, and cinema, the texts collected in this volume make up this project - articulating identification with social criticism - to try and throw off the shackles that prevent us from being in front of new and strange facts without comparing them and referring to old, usual, habitual, obvious facts.
Note su progetto e metropoli
Authors: Arrigoni Fabrizio Franco Vittorio
Published: January 2020

The general hypothesis that guides the volume can be summarised in the clarification of the gradual reduction of some of the fundamental aspects of the project discipline: the notion of rooted living, the role of synthesis of dissimilar knowledge performed by architectural design, its taking charge of broad strategies of social and productive coordination. The aim of the work is not the one of showing an escape from this difficult condition. The work rather intends to trace an ethical horizon of the contemporary project.
Invito alla Psicologia sociale
Authors: Spinosi Nicola
Published: January 2020

The volume presents topics and authors (K. Lewin, M. Sherif, S. Moscovici, S. Milgram and H. Tajfel among others) that characterise social psychology in a specific sense, as a discipline that works on the situational dimension, looking into other terms to grasp in the "here and now" the articulation between individual and collective, also meaning the culture to which we belong. After giving a historical framework of the discipline in relation to the main psychological schools of the twentieth century (psychoanalysis, behaviourism, Gestalt theory, cognitivism, cultural psychology), the research methods and themes on which the action of social psychology is exercised are outlined.
Il recupero del sé attraverso l'autobiografia
Authors: Trisciuzzi Leonardo , Sandrucci Barbara , Zappaterra Tamara
Published: January 2020

An accurate definition of memory would embarrass any serious scholar. Briefly, memory could be defined as a wonderful mechanism, a way to transport us back in time. Memory is therefore a mental activity that binds us over time, it is what gives meaning to the existence. Self-narration or autobiography means first of all asking oneself about the status of one's own identity, it means communication, communicating to ourselves and to others who we are; it means transforming the interior monologue into dialogue with otherness; it means marking and regulating our emotions through the representation of the events of our life.
Da Galileo Galilei a Cosimo Noferi: verso una nuova scienza.
Authors: Pellicanò Antonino
Published: January 2020

La Travagliata Architettura (1656-1660) written by the Florentine Cosimo Noferi - whose edition is given in the volume - is one of the most singular manifestations of Galileo Galilei’s scientific influence and master's work in the fields of Architecture and Urban Planning. In fact, Noferi's work not only traces a precise picture of the evolution of techniques in the seventeenth century, but, by coming from a context of profound cultural change, also sets itself as a milestone from which it is possible to restart the evolution of the constitutive features of modern architecture.
Sintesi e discussioni su temi di chimica generale
Authors: Alessandri Stefano
Published: January 2020

This work stems from the need to provide an additional teaching aid, to supplement the textbooks and notes taken in class, for students of General and Inorganic Chemistry courses. The goal is to enhance the understanding of three topics, presented in a particularly concise manner, with few concession to some demonstrations (Acid-base chemistry in water, Non-additive relationships between potential reaction standards) useful for clarifying some problematic aspects of the addressed topics.
Tecnologia alimentare 1
Authors: Zanoni Bruno
Published: January 2020

The volume represents a complete and updated manual on the dehydration of food products describing all the technical methods known to date, together with the phenomenology of the operations and the principles for the design and control of dehydrated foods. A significant role is also assigned to the mathematical prediction of the effectiveness of the operations aimed at obtaining a food product with reduced technological damage, as well as to the description of the functional schemes of the plants.
Elementi di chimica
Authors: Spinicci Roberto
Published: January 2020

This book is designed as a teaching aid for the first-year students of many University faculties, being conceived for the new type of course set up through the recent reorganisation of university studies. The principal objective is therefore to provide a tool for the study of the basics of chemistry and the classic arguments of a chemistry course, seeking to establish a guiding thread in the treatment of the various subjects.
The work is therefore arranged essentially in two sections, so that the student can appreciate, through the study of chemistry, the formation of the resources and materials present on the earth, their energetic and structural properties and their reactivity.
The first section is therefore developed through an analysis of the properties of the atomic nucleus, and then through that of the structural properties which explain the stability of the matter.
The second section instead addresses the analysis of the reactivity of matter, elaborating the concepts of chemical equilibrium and chemical kinetics.
Linee di fuga. Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze
Authors: Berni Stefano , Fadini Ubaldo
Published: January 2020

Foucault and Deleuze, "untimely" thinkers after and with Nietzsche. In substance, thought is such only when it creates friction, generates opposition and, in short, serves as a toolbox for saying something different, even by forcing and betraying the literal thought of the writer. This doesn't mean we can say anything and everything, following a trend that has been, in a sense, attributed precisely to post-structuralism – the current of thought in which the two French philosophers are generally placed. The ontology of the modernity to which Foucault referred, taking up the Nietzschean teaching on unmodern or untimely living, signifies that the philosopher has to look to the present, grasp the world in transformation and try, as far as possible, to forge ahead with his own line of deterritorialisation (to take up Deleuze and Guattari). Philosophy must not only grasp the theoretical aspects but must fully investigate the socio-cultural complexity, identifying at least some areas of the conceptual framework of a study that is also intended to be politically incisive.
Appunti di museologia naturalistica
Authors: Cipriani Curzio
Published: January 2020

In this work, the essential concepts of Naturalistic Museology are presented as they are treated in the course of lectures held at the Faculty of Letters. The first part has a general character and takes into consideration, after providing a picture of the historical evolution of naturalistic museums, their three fundamental tasks, namely conservation, teaching and scientific research, and ends with hints of museography, in particular on the problems of environmental parameters and safety. The second part refers, with specific contributions from museum operators, to the problems and characteristics of the various sections of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. An appendix, reserved for students of History and Protection of Archaeological Heritage, deals schematically with rocks and, in a more analytical way, with palaeontological techniques.
Sub-Wavelength Probing and Modification of Complex Photonic Structures
Authors: Vignolini Silvia
Published: January 2020

The aim of this thesis consists in the study and modification of complex photonic nano-structures. Nowadays, propagation of light in such materials is a rich and fascinating area of research, both for its fundamental implications and for its practical technological impact. To deeply investigate light propagation inside these structures a high spatial resolution technique is required, especially because intriguing effects often occur on length scales comparable with the diffraction-limit or involve coupling phenomena on this length scale. For this reason in this thesis a Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscope represents one the most straightforward tool both to study and locally modify complex photonic nano-structures from perfect periodic to completely random ones.
Oro
Authors: Bindi Luca
Published: January 2020

The word "gold" has influenced the imaginations of various populations over the centuries and the search for gold has been an extremely fascinating event to a multitude of societies in the past. In this publication, which is part of the "Le Perline del Museo" series of the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, the concept of "gold" is explored from several points of view. The book is divided into 11 chapters dealing with gold from various points of view: its chemical-physical properties, how and where it can be found in nature, the mineralogy of gold, the processes to extract it, what can be done with gold and gold over the centuries, up to a brief description of the California "gold rush" of the late nineteenth century. The publication is enriched with beautiful images of gold in all its forms. For the realisation of the publication, the author collaborated with the American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA), the Museum of the City of San Francisco (San Francisco, USA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA).
Nuovi orientamenti negli studi di marketing
Authors:   Biblioteca Polo Universitario di Prato PIN
Published: January 2020

The volume collects the proceedings of the presentation of the new book collection on Business Economy of the Library of the University of Prato - Biblioteca del Polo Universitario di Prato. The fund, which is also the result of a donation from Pier Giovanni Marzili, houses bibliographic material useful for Marketing courses and more generally for the activities of the Faculty of Economics.
Raccontaci lʼipertensione
Authors: Lagi Alfonso , Nuti Ranuccio , Taddei Stefano
Published: January 2020

For the first time, a detailed study has been carried out on the real world of people suffering from high blood pressure, involving the doctors who are directly in contact with them, who shoulder the responsibility of the diagnosis and make the decisions about treatment.
Data were collected from fifty-eight patients diagnosed and monitored in the clinics by twenty-nine specialist physicians who supplied information about the diagnostic work-up, the follow-up and the therapy.
The data were collected using an online questionnaire and were processed statistically.
The result is a cross-section of interesting and original results, featuring a number of peaks of excellence and various troughs of negative criticality, which call for reflection and for decisions on action to be taken. The figures are hence useful for both clinicians and epidemiologists and all those who are involved with medical governance.
Dopo la morte dell’io
Authors: Dolfi Anna
Published: January 2020

The death of the self passes through modern culture. However, chooses for himself the role of Psychopomp in obeyance not only to stylistic but also to profoundly ethical reasons. Bassani interrupts his narrative writing to give unity to the Romanzo di Ferrara and to entrust poetry with verses in the form of an epitaph. The testimonial "need” seems to emerge, giving meaning through the Prologue to the Giardino dei Finzi-Contini and to what will come after. It seems that the coherent constructive geometry of an entire work (intertwined since the beginning with refined European readings, figurative and Longhiani memories that Anna Dolfi highlights with wise precision) fully reveals the excess of the hourglass shape, of the conical structures that allow to glimpse distant flakes of light, pushing the real on the perilitant discrimination of the shadow. There, where the existing (objects, characters / people) is offered as a painted image alive only thanks to refraction and indirect projection of the gaze. This book investigates the strategies of Bassani’s memory and his playing on revelation / concealment, while deeply analysing the compositional paths of the texts in their allocative ways (the very privilege, in poetry, of the dialogic and epistolary form). Moreover, the work strongly questions the places of the distance, the introjection of mourning, the relationship between history and truth, between the code of reality and the effect of reality, the convergences between biography and culture (in the names of Caravaggio, Cézanne, De Staël, Morandi, Bacon; Dante, Manzoni , Tommaseo, Hawthorne, James, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud ...), offering a new and suggestive interpretation of Bassani's “writing beyond the heart”.
Molecular imaging in Parkinson's disease
Authors: Polito Cristina
Published: January 2020

The present work explores brain functional changes in drug-naïve Parkinson's disease (PD) patients by means of molecular imaging techniques. Thirty-one consecutive drug-naïve PD patients from the Neurological Clinic of the University of Flor-ence underwent clinical assessment, neuropsychological assessment, MRI, [123I]FP-CIT SPECT, [18F]FDG PET.
First, [18F]FDG-PET was employed to identify in drug-naïve PD patients brain metabolic alteration uniquely related to disease process and not modulated by anti-parkinsonian therapeutic intervention. Second, [18F]FDG-PET and [123I]FP-CIT SPECT were employed together to explore the early functional changes in brain function related to dopaminergic depletion in the putamen and in the caudate nucleus.
Tuo lumine. L'accademia dei Risvegliati e lo spettacolo a Pistoia tra Sei e Settecento
Authors: Fedi Maria
Published: January 2020

Starting from a vast documentary corpus, the result of in-depth archival research, the volume offers an original perspective on the main forms of entertainment in Pistoia between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing in particular on the theatrical activity of the most important cultural institution in the city, the Accademia dei Risvegliati. The survey also examines realities of secondary importance that contributed to enriching the urban cultural fabric, such as the minor stages, the sacred theatre and private entertainment. A broader overview also allows the readers to frame the scope of festive celebrations and occasions for public entertainment, presented through significant exempla.
An Integrated Nonlinear Wind-Waves Model for Offshore Wind Turbines
Authors: Marino Enzo
Published: January 2020

This thesis presents a numerical model capable of simulating offshore wind turbines exposed to extreme loading conditions. External condition-based extreme responses are reproduced by coupling a fully nonlinear wave kinematic solver with a hydro-aero-elastic simulator.
First, a two-dimensional fully nonlinear wave simulator is developed. The transient nonlinear free surface problem is formulated assuming the potential theory and a high-order boundary element method is implemented to discretize Laplace's equation. For temporal evolution a second-order Taylor series expansion is used. The code, after validation with experimental data, is successfully adopted to simulate overturning plunging breakers which give rise to dangerous impact loads when they break against wind turbine substructures.
Emphasis is then placed on the random nature of the waves. Indeed, through a domain decomposition technique a global simulation framework embedding the numerical wave simulator into a more general stochastic environment is developed.
The proposed model is meant as a contribution to meet the more and more pressing demand for research in the offshore wind energy sector as it permits taking into account dangerous effects on the structural response so as to increase the global structural safety level.
Das literarische Gesicht im Werk Heinrich von Kleists und Franz Kafkas
Authors: Vitale Claudia
Published: January 2020

The topics of physicality and face in Kleist and Kafka as well as the problem of perception, which are the focus of this work, fit seamlessly into the context of a fruitful exchange of different scientific experiences. The present work underlines and promotes a double perspective: the methodology of German studies, which is based on philosophy and cultural anthropology, on the one hand, and the literary and art-historical approach of the Italian, historical and humanistic tradition on the other, which is still clinging, in a certain way, to the canon of beauty of the late Renaissance.
Modernità MinoicaL'Arte Egea e l'Art Nouveau: il Caso di Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo
Authors: Caloi Ilaria
Published: January 2020

The sensational discovery in the early twentieth century of the prehistoric civilisation of Crete, named Minoan after the mythical king Minos, and the contemporary birth of Modern Art in Europe has led many scholars to discern analogies between Minoan art and Art Nouveau. This work analyses the entity and significance of Minoan art in the textile productions that made the name of the artist Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo. The famous "Knossos shawls", created by Fortuny from 1906 on in his Venetian studio in Palazzo Pesaro Orfei, which has now become the Fortuny museum, feature decorative motifs taken from the decorations visible on vases and frescoes in the famous Minoan centres of Crete, such as Knossòs and Festòs, dating to the second millennium BC. Understanding his way of representing the past and the exotic – in particular the Minoan civilisation of Crete – and bringing it back to life, allows us to penetrate the expectations and the demands of European society between the 19th and the 20th centuries. The reference to a culture such as the Minoan, which precisely at the beginning of the 20th century was dubbed by the academic world as a "modern" civilisation and defined as quintessentially the first "European" civilisation, contributed to render the Knossos shawls inspired by it the very height of fashion.
Struttura e costruzione / Structure and Construction Nuova edizione / New Edition
Authors: Gulli Riccardo
Published: January 2020

This book explores several aspects of the variegated relationship that connects the operational principles of a structure to its translation into written form, between the laws that govern its structural rationale and the technical solutions that decree the feasibility of its construction. This is considered an essential subject for the training of aspiring engineers, whose education is often strongly conditioned by a didactic approach that divides the knowledge of construction into circumscribed and independent disciplinary units. This same approach negatively connotes the progressive transformation of the professional profile of the contemporary engineer, from the original figure of a designer of technical solutions to that of a specialist-assessor of structural performance. The result is that such figures sometimes lack the critical instruments inherent to a knowledge that does not begin and end within models of scientific explanation, but has to be comprised within a broader cultural dimension featuring the coexistence and mutual nourishment of different branches of knowledge, including History, Science and Design through to the ultimate dynamics of Architecture.
Progetti di territorio nel contesto europeo
Authors: Rispoli Francesca
Published: January 2020

Among the emerging issues in territorial planning, the territory project is one of the areas of work at once most promising and most problematic. The aim of the research is to identify the possible fields of action of the territory project, understood as both a policy project and as a concrete action for transforming the space. The conceptual analysis aims to identify new methods of planning designed to overcome the limitations of the technical-normative approach, forms of 'flexible deregulation' and the corporate planning model. The case studies explore the role of the physical project as a specific activity of learning, exploration and construction of the territory, understood as a historic-social construct and the active subject of planning.
Paesaggi Protetti
Authors: Salizzoni Emma
Published: January 2020

The urgency for policies to plan and manage the European Mediterranean coastal landscape is now evident: along the Latin Arch exceptional landscape values are accompanied by a growing anthropic pressure that is speeding up its transformations, creating significant problems; it is here, more than in other places, that the challenge posed by the preservation—development pair emerges. This study looks at the strategies developed within three protected coastal landscapes that have taken up the challenge. Interpreted as test laboratories for landscape policies, they give precious cues for the planning and management of the ordinary coastal landscape.