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ALLE ORIGINI DEL MUSEO DEL COLLEGIO ROMANO
Authors: BARTOLA ALBERTO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title At the origin of the Roman College Museum lies the scientific and experimental collection of the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680). Through the testamentary legacy of Alfonso Donnino (1651), the Museum was enriched by a collection of antiquities, portraits, rare and precious objects. Through Kircher's correspondence, the notarial documentation and Filippo Bonanni's Notizie circa la Galleria del Collegio Romano (1716), the paper presents the history and fortune of the famous museum from 1651 to the first half of the XVIII century.
DOCUMENTS RELATIFS L'HISTOIRE DE L'ASTRONOMIE CHINOISE ET AUX RAPPORTS SCIENTIFIQUES ENTRE L'EUROPE ET LA CHINE (XVIIE-XIXE SICLES) CONSERVS LA BIBLIOTHQUE DE L'OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
Authors: IANNACCONE ISAIA 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle ABSTRACT /title Documentsconcerning the ChineseHistoryof Astronomy and scientificrelationsbetweenEuropeand China (XVII-XIX centuries) The Library of the Astronomical Observatory of Paris contains many ancient documents relative to the scientific relation between Europe and China in the XVII-XIX centuries. These include letters, papers, notes, and astronomical observations of Jesuit scientist missionaries in China such as A. Gaubil (1689-1759), F. Verbiest (1623-1688), I. Kogler (1680-1746), etc., translations including the Bu Tian Ge (Song of Pacing the Heavens, 590 ca.), translated and annotated by A. Gaubil. The documents are important not only in the field of astronomy, but also of geography, anthropology, linguistics, uses and customs, etc., and are indispensable for the comparative study of the Europe-China scientific development. The aim of this second paper on the Paris Observatory's fond chinois is the recovery, analysis, revaluation and systematic presentation of this patrimony.
INSTRUMENTS PERFECTED FOR MEASUREMENTS OF MAN AND STATUES ILLUSTRATED IN LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI'S DE STATUA
Authors: SCAGLIA GUSTINA 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title L'articolo discute la storia e l'importanza del trattato DE STATUA di Alberti. Particolare rilievo dato agli strumenti, perfezionati da Alberti stesso, per misurare una figura umana o una statua.
TRE LETTERE DI GEMINIANO MONTANARI A GIAN DOMENICO CASSINI *
Authors: DEGANI FRANCA CATTELANI , BARBIERI FRANCESCO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title Here are been transcribed three letters sended by Geminiano Montanari to Gian Domenico Cassini. The first two, written in 1669, deal with his experiments with different types of tempered glass and with the tears or gocciole e vermicelli di vetro che rotti in qualunque parte si stritolano d'un subito in minuta polvere. The third, dated 1673, regards mainly the inspections made by Montanari on the S. Petronio sundial in Bologna.
THEORY AND TECHNOLOGY: THE AVOGADRO MANUSCRIPTS AT THE TURIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Authors: CIARDI MARCO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title Scopo dell'articolo quello di presentare l'intera collezione dei manoscritti di Avogadro conservati presso l'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino e una nuova immagine di uno scienziato di cui generalmente nota soltanto l'attivit nel settore della teoria fisico-chimica. Avogadro, invece, partecip direttamente anche allo sviluppo artigianale e tecnologico del Regno di Sardegna attraverso la sua attivit di consulente per l'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.
BACHI, POLLI E GRANI. APPUNTI SULLA RICEZIONE DELLA GENETICA IN ITALIA (1900-1953)
Authors: POGLIANO CLAUDIO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title Italian geneticists managed to establish the boundaries and structures of their own community only after the Second World War, when they promoted, in the space of a few years, a series of initiatives culminating in the Ninth International Congress of Genetics (Bellagio 1953). This essay traces the ways in which, from the beginning of the century, the revolutionary and swift development of the discipline found its context and interested audience in Italy. In contrast to our standard picture, there was no shortage of naturalists to dedicate themselves enthusiastically to genetics, even launching a campaign in the 30's for its 'political' recognition. But cultural trends after the First World War, and especially the directives of the Fascist regime, tended to favour scientific practical and economic values and keep the theoretical and interpretative nature of their work to a minimum. This was ultimately futile, given the indifference with which the centres of power responded. It was the reason, too, for their extremely weak, or almost non-existent participation in the preparations for the evolutionary synthesis in which European and American scientists were involved, which changed appreciably the character and methods of biology.
PIERRE GASSENDI'S DE PHILOSOPHIA EPICURI UNIVERSE REDISCOVERED*
Authors: PALMERINO CARLA RITA 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title Fra i manoscritti della British Library stato trovato un codice contenente una copia non autografa dei libri VIII-XI del De vita et doctrina Epicuri, la prima versione manoscritta a noi pervenuta del SYNTAGMA PHILOSOPHICUM di Pierre Gassendi. Se i libri IX-XI, composti fra il 1636 ed il 1637 e dedicati alla canonica epicurea, erano gi conosciuti attraverso il Ms. Carpentras 1832, il libro VIII, terminato nel marzo del 1634, invece quel De philosophiaEpicuri universe, che Pintard, Rochot e Bloch segnalavano come perduto. Questo articolo analizza il contenuto del De philosophia Epicuri universe e mostra come le parti di esso che non furono riversate da Gassendi nel Liber promialis del SYNTAGMA PHILOSOPHICUM (De philosophia universe) vennero integrate nell'apologia De vita et moribus Epicuri pubblicata nel 1647. Contrariamente a quanto si pensava, quest'opera, scritta fra il 1633 ed il 1634, fu infatti modificata da Gassendi prima di essere data alle stampe.
Academic Debates on the Jews in Wittenberg: The Protestant Literature on Rituals, the Dissertationes and the Writings of the Hebraists Theodor Dassow and Andreas Sennert
Authors: Veltri Giuseppe 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
Of not little interest is a phenomenon which touched upon Protestant academies in the seventeenth–eighteenth century and their teaching and research: the Protestant academic interest in Hebrew and Jewish studies as shown by the dissertationes, the typical academic place to be taken as indicator of the main stream and major trends of this era. We have a huge number of still unexplored dissertations on Jews, Judaism and Hebrew languages in university archives, a window onto the perception of Judaism and reelaboration of Jewish sources for university students, university teaching, and candidates for positions in Christian society. The article focuses on the Wittenberg dissertations in Jewish studies and about all on the archive of the professors Theodor Dassow and Andreas Sennert. A list of the archive of Sennert has been added as appendix.
We Are what We Eat: Food in the Process of Community Formation and Identity Shaping among African Traders in Guangzhou and Yiwu
Authors: Bodomo Adams , Ma Enyu 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
In this paper we analyze two African communities in Guangzhou and Yiwu, China, arguing that among Guangzhou Africans on the one hand, Black Africans, particularly West Africans, have a tighter community and interact more with each other than Black Africans in Yiwu. On the other hand, Maghrebian Africans in Yiwu have a tighter community and maintain a more cohesive interaction than their counterparts in Guangzhou. Evidence for this characterization of the communities comes from food and communal food-eating habits. There are hardly any West African restaurants in Yiwu while there is an abundance of West African and other Black African restaurants in Guangzhou where there is more community patronage. In contrast, there are more concentrations of North African restaurants in Yiwu than in Guangzhou. We discuss the crucial role food and food-making and eating places play in providing structures and avenues for community bonding to promote community formation and community identity shaping.
China’s ‘Chocolate City’: An Ethnic Enclave in a Changing Landscape*
Authors: Li Zhigang , Lyons Michal , Brown Alison 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
The recent rise of African communities in Guangzhou has been widely noted. To understand this ‘Chocolate City,’ with a series of field surveys in 2006-2010, we examine its different development stages and shed particular light upon its internal and external linkages. Three modalities: the emerging enclave, the prosperous enclave and the collapsing enclave, have been identified. The rise of the ‘Chocolate City’ has been mainly attributed to the rise of Sino-Africa trading and the efforts of local entrepreneurs. The prosperity of the City was backed by the local states. However, the involvement of local polices, the reform of the local immigration regime and the deterioration of economic relations resulted in its recent collapse. We argue that this ‘Chocolate City’ is a restructuring ethnic enclave underlying the impacts of ‘transient glocalization.’ The rise and fall of the ‘Chocolate City’ indicates the dynamic relations between the transient global-local nexus, immigration regime, and local geography.
NOREPRESENTATIONWITHOUT TAXATION: TRADINGRIGHTSFOR REVENUE IN THE POST-COMMUNIST WORD·
Authors: MLLER JRGEN 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
Summary: Almost a century ago, the academic current of fiscal sociology voiced a very strong claim about the relationship between rights and revenue. Rights, the argument went, have historically been traded for revenue in a grand "quid-pro-quo." In other words, rights have only become effective where the rulers have been dependent upon broad-based taxation. If we let this insight travel to the post-communist countries - where we find an empirical tripartition between democracies, hybrid regimes, and autocracies locking in over the 1990s - we discern an interesting result. The statistical relationship between rights and revenue, or democracy and taxation to phrase it in a different way, is very significant in this quarter. The variance on the "fiscal" variable accounts for close to three fifths of the variance on the "democratic" equivalent - and this figure rises to almost four fifths if we eliminate the one salient outlier of Belarus. Rights and revenue go hand in hand, just as they did in early modern Europe.
INNOVATIONS IN THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE BALKAN REGION'
Authors: NIKOLOV DIMCE 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
Summary This article offers an overview of the innovation efforts and opportunities in the public administration in the Western Balkans. It focuses particularly on the relation between the public administration reform processes in the countries of this sub-region and the innovations in the public sector. The case by case review on the current situation in public administration and innovations shows that in spite of the similarities, there are significant differences among these countries. The final section of this article indicates that both the reforms and innovations in public administration in the Western Balkans is a difficult task for all governments in this region. Nevertheless, the innovation process has started and it must continue.
IDENTITY-FORMATION AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE "NEW SERBIA": BLENDING TRADITIONS WITH A "EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE"
Authors: COHEN LENARD 
Published: November 2012

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Summary: Serbia has been undergoing a persistent identity crisis throughout most of the 200 years of its existence as an emergent and then independent polity. Recently, the visibility of issues relating to identity-building and statebuilding in Serbian political life have been heightened owing to Montenegro's referendum on sovereignty, the possibility of Kosovo obtaining independence, and Serbia's "new" position as an independent state. Drawing extensively on Serbian research, the article explores the transformation of political culture and political identities in post-Milosevic Serbia. The author contends that progress towards Europeanization and democratic consolidation in Serbia will require another major democratic breakthrough or at least a catalytic realignment of political forces (only partially obtained in the wake of the January 2007 Serbian elections). Serbia's future democratization remains contingent on the emergence of broad elite and public consensus around notions which blend a liberal and civic orientation with the positive aspects of Serbian tradition.
Working memory span for pictures, names, and touched objects
Authors: Fernandes Alexandra M. , Albuquerque Pedro B. 
Published: November 2012

Through an immediate serial recall task, working memory for objects’ pictures, objects’ names and touched objects was evaluated with and without a simultaneous articulatory suppression task. Each group performed the task in one modality: seeing object pictures presented on a computer screen, reading out loud two-syllabic object names presented in a computer screen, or touching real objects without sight. The task was performed twice by the participants, once with articulatory suppression and once without articulatory suppression. The objects were presented sequentially for three seconds each, starting with lists of two items and progressively increasing the number of items by one, according to the participant’s performance, until a maximum of 10 items. The results showed that span values were similar in the three modalities, with an average of five items being recalled without articulatory suppression and about four items being recalled with articulatory suppression. This study suggests similar performance in immediate serial recall tasks regardless of presentation modality. Articulatory suppression presented an equivalent effect in all groups, impairing recall performance in average by one item. Results are discussed attending to the verbal nature of the task, which implies the recall of the object’s name, and the impact of articulatory suppression in common object’s encoding.
Watching touch increases people’s alertness to tactile stimuli presented on the body surface
Authors: Bellan Valeria , Reverberi Carlo , Gallace Alberto 
Published: November 2012

Several studies have shown that watching one’s own body part improves tactile acuity and discrimination abilities for stimuli presented on that location. In a series of experiments we asked the participants to localize tactile stimuli presented on the left or right arm. In Experiment 1 the participants were not allowed to watch their body, but they could see another person’s left arm via a LCD display. This arm could be touched or not during the presentation of the stimuli. We found that when the participants saw the arm on the screen being touched, their responses to the tactile stimuli presented on the left and on the right arm were faster and more accurate than when the arm on the screen was approached but not touched. Critically, we did not find any illusion of ownership related to the hand seen on the screen. In Experiments 2 and 3 we varied the position of the screen with respect to the participant’s body midline and the image displayed on it (an arm or an object of equal size). The participants gave faster responses when an object rather than a hand was displayed on the screen. Moreover, the responses were slower when the hand on the screen was placed in front of the participants, as compared to any other position. Taken together the results of our experiments would seem to suggest that watching touch activates multisensory mechanisms responsible for alerting people regarding the possible presence of tactile stimuli on the body surface.
An interaction between body orientation and gravity produces a novel illusion in visual distance perception
Authors: Mander Charles M. , Harris Laurence R. 
Published: November 2012

Does perceived distance depend on gravity? The moon illusion, in which the moon looks smaller when viewed overhead, suggests that it might, although so many factors are involved in this complex illusion. Prior research assessing perceived distance had blindfolded observers walk to a remembered location. However, this precludes altering an observer’s orientation relative to gravity. Here, a crossmodal comparison of a visual line and a standard-length tactile rod provided a novel means for assessing the perception of distance by exploiting size constancy — a shorter perceptual visual length (measured in rod lengths) corresponds to a shorter perceived distance from the observer. Experiments were conducted in a fully decorated room that was oriented at 90° with respect to gravity (the York University tumbled room) and in an identical normally oriented control room. Observers maintained an upright orientation with respect to the rooms. Observers judged the length of a variable visual line, projected with a laser and a pair of galvanometers, and varied by a QUEST procedure, relative to a fixed length tactile rod. The length of the visual line matched to the reference length was significantly longer — compatible with being perceived as further away — in the tumbled room than in the control room. A separate experiment failed to replicate this change in distance perception when the observer’s orientation relative to gravity was changed outside the tumbled room, suggesting that the effect is due to a conflict between visually- and gravitationally-defined reference frames.
Evaluative similarity hypothesis of crossmodal correspondences: A developmental view
Authors: Jankovic Dragan 
Published: November 2012

Crossmodal correspondences have been widely demonstrated, although mechanisms that stand behind the phenomenon have not been fully established yet. According to the Evaluative similarity hypothesis crossmodal correspondences are influenced by evaluative (affective) similarity of stimuli from different sensory modalities (Jankovic, 2010, Journal of Vision 10(7), 859). From this view, detection of similar evaluative information in stimulation from different sensory modalities facilitates crossmodal correspondences and multisensory integration. The aim of this study was to explore the evaluative similarity hypothesis of crossmodal correspondences in children. In Experiment 1 two groups of participants (nine- and thirteen-year-olds) were asked to make explicit matches between presented auditory stimuli (1 s long sound clips) and abstract visual patterns. In Experiment 2 the same participants judged abstract visual patterns and auditory stimuli on the set of evaluative attributes measuring affective valence and arousal. The results showed that crossmodal correspondences are mostly influenced by evaluative similarity of visual and auditory stimuli in both age groups. The most frequently matched were visual and auditory stimuli congruent in both valence and arousal, followed by stimuli congruent in valence, and finally stimuli congruent in arousal. Evaluatively incongruent stimuli demonstrated low crossmodal associations especially in older group.
An invisible speaker can facilitate auditory speech perception
Authors: Grabowecky Marcia , Guzman-Martinez Emmanuel , Ortega Laura , Suzuki Satoru 
Published: November 2012

Watching moving lips facilitates auditory speech perception when the mouth is attended. However, recent evidence suggests that visual attention and awareness are mediated by separate mechanisms. We investigated whether lip movements suppressed from visual awareness can facilitate speech perception. We used a word categorization task in which participants listened to spoken words and determined as quickly and accurately as possible whether or not each word named a tool. While participants listened to the words they watched a visual display that presented a video clip of the speaker synchronously speaking the auditorily presented words, or the same speaker articulating different words. Critically, the speaker’s face was either visible (the aware trials), or suppressed from awareness using continuous flash suppression. Aware and suppressed trials were randomly intermixed. A secondary probe-detection task ensured that participants attended to the mouth region regardless of whether the face was visible or suppressed. On the aware trials responses to the tool targets were no faster with the synchronous than asynchronous lip movements, perhaps because the visual information was inconsistent with the auditory information on 50% of the trials. However, on the suppressed trials responses to the tool targets were significantly faster with the synchronous than asynchronous lip movements. These results demonstrate that even when a random dynamic mask renders a face invisible, lip movements are processed by the visual system with sufficiently high temporal resolution to facilitate speech perception.
Electrophysiological correlates of tactile and visual perception during goal-directed movement
Authors: Juravle Georgiana , Heed Tobias , Spence Charles , Roeder Brigitte 
Published: November 2012

Tactile information arriving at our sensory receptors is differentially processed over the various temporal phases of goal-directed movements. By using event-related potentials (ERPs), we investigated the neuronal correlates of tactile information processing during movement. Participants performed goal-directed reaches for an object placed centrally on the table in front of them. Tactile and visual stimuli were presented in separate trials during the different phases of the movement (i.e., preparation, execution, and post-movement). These stimuli were independently delivered to either the moving or the resting hand. In a control condition, the participants only performed the movement, while omission (movement-only) ERPs were recorded. Participants were told to ignore the presence or absence of any sensory events and solely concentrate on the execution of the movement. The results highlighted enhanced ERPs between 80 and 200 ms after tactile stimulation, and between 100 and 250 ms after visual stimulation. These modulations were greatest over the execution phase of the goal-directed movement, they were effector-based (i.e., significantly more negative for stimuli presented at the moving hand), and modality-independent (i.e., similar ERP enhancements were observed for both tactile and visual stimuli). The enhanced processing of sensory information over the execution phase of the movement suggests that incoming sensory information may be used for a potential adjustment of the current motor plan. Moreover, these results indicate a tight interaction between attentional mechanisms and the sensorimotor system.