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The INO 2018 Annual Symposium: Extreme Light-Matter Interactions
Get PDFThe Annual Symposium of the National Institute of Optics is a two-day meeting that brings together researchers from all the Units of the Institute to present their latest findings and engage new collaborations. The 2018 INO Symposium had a special focus on extreme light-matter interactions and the European Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), a large-scale European Project promoted by Gérard Mourou, 2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics, who was also a special guest of the event, participating in the launch of the new ILIL-PW laser installation at INO-Pisa.The Annual Symposium of the National Institute of Optics is a two-day meeting that brings together researchers from all the Units of the Institute to present their latest findings and engage new collaborations. The 2018 INO Symposium had a special focus on extreme light-matter interactions and the European Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), a large-scale European Project promoted by Gérard Mourou, 2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics, who was also a special guest of the event, participating in the launch of the new ILIL-PW laser installation at INO-Pisa
Using an in-situ infra-red camera system for sea turtle hatchling emergence monitoring
Get PDFWe tested for the first time the efficiency of the use of infra-red (IR) cameras for sea turtle hatchling monitoring. The cameras were installed on one green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and four loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nests during 2014 and 2015 nesting season in the south-east Mediterranean, Turkey. The camera monitoring, even with the limited sample size, have successfully corroborated the previous observations and provided further insights on hatchling emergence behavior. The analysis of the camera recordings revealed that hatchlings emerged from the nests asynchronously in varying numbers of groups and different group sizes, while c. 60% hatchlings emerged during the first 5 days of emergence activity. 98.6% of hatchlings emerged at night with a peak activity between 21:00 and 00:00. The day of first emergence varied between 38 and 64 days since egg deposition, while the day of last emergence varied only between 60 and 65 days. Total emergence activity continued up to maximum of 22 days, which is longer than that of previous records. Overall, the present study showed that IR camera monitoring is a promising tool for sea turtle monitoring and can provide detailed insights on sea turtle hatchling behavior
Grapevine trunk disease in European and Mediterranean vineyards: occurrence, distribution and associated disease-affecting cultural factors
Get PDFA survey was carried out in 22 European and some non-European Mediterranean countries in 2015 and 2016, to gain insights into the main fungal grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) in Europe. Information was obtained from 105 viticulture regions, representing approx. four million ha of vineyards. Vintage and table wines are the main industry products, followed by nursery plants and table grapes. Diverse scion cultivars are grown, with 13 cultivars providing 50% of survey respondent production, and Riesling Italico, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot predominating. The five most used rootstocks are SO4, 110R, K5BB, 41B and 1103P, together representing about 50% of survey respondent production. Despite the diversity of grapevine training, Guyot and cordon remain the most widespread methods, and grapevines are mainly hand-pruned. The use of pneumatic shears and mechanical pruning is becoming more common in some countries. The survey questionnaire proposed a simplified set of symptoms or diseases occurring in mature vineyards [apoplexy, esca complex leaf symptoms (including Grapevine Leaf Stripe Disease, GLSD), dead cordon, Eutypa related dieback, Botryosphaeria or unidentified agent dieback, Phomopsis cane and leaf spot]. Apoplexy and esca/GLSD, defining the esca complex, were the most frequent and increasing syndromes in almost all countries, except Israel and the United Kingdom, where these diseases are not present or not recorded in the survey. Dead cordon and Phomopsis cane and leaf spot were mentioned as occurring in a large number of regions but not frequently. Within individual countries, the profile of GTDs varied according to the region, and to pedo-climatic and production conditions. GTDs on young vines were uncommon, but remain a subject of concern in some of European countries with large nursery production. This overview on spread and relevance of GTDs in Europe and related aspects will be a useful starting point for policy makers and for collaborative research on factors contributing to the increasing disease incidence of GTDs
Going underground. New dimensions for new urban models
No full textThe dialectic between vertical and horizontal urban development models seems to leave out the depth of the underground. The increasing urbanization, the consequent strong density as well as growing environmental concerns push the search for new models of development towards the subsoil frontier. Recognized resilience properties and a strong potential for sustainability indicate the underground as a natural destination for strategic infrastructures, consolidating its reputation as a surface service layer. Instead, we want to illustrate how the underground can contribute incisively to the revision of urban models by introducing new spatial and performance parameters, both in new and historic contexts, and how it is now urgent to achieve integrated planning and planning of the environment in all its depth
La questione del dialetto in Giuseppe Lombardo Radice
Get PDFSince Unification in 1861, the linguistic issue has been in Italy a topic of fundamental importance in the schooling-nationalization process. For a long time refused in school and considered as a “bad” and “dirty” language, it is only since the first decades of the twentieth century that dialect acquires a new dimension in the classroom. Among the main supporters of this new development is Giuseppe Lombardo Radice, author, in particular, of the programmes for elementary school of 1923. The essay reconstructs his thought on the matter and the new elements he introduced in the didactic field
Cosmic Education in Maria Montessori: Arts and Sciences as resources for human development
Get PDFThis article reflects on the concept of cosmic education set out by Maria Montessori in strict correlation to those of cosmic vision and cosmic plan. Cosmic education is considered here as a fundamental direction within the original core of the thought of Maria Montessori since the early twentieth century. Among the different orders of consideration that support the actuality of cosmic education, two are the object of analysis. The first concerns the content plan that aims to create interactions with the various disciplinary fields (scientific, historical and geographical education, etc.) as a unitary vision and development of knowledge. The second concerns the existential level: it embraces and summarizes the concepts of “ecological education”, “education for peace”, and “education for the world” in themselves to the point of recalling implications of ethical and aesthetic education
La fantasía infantil y el rol del padre en Un monstruo viene a verme. De la novela al cine
Get PDFA Monster Calls, a novel by Patrick Ness, is based on the original idea of Siobhan Dowd, and it was adapted to the cinema by J.A. Bayona in 2016. This article explores how the cinematographic language presents the figure of the father. The study is based on the method of analysis based on the theories of Aumont and Marie and Lavandier. We will analyse the father's role in relation to the child and the family structure, and we will see how the father’s non-presence creates alternative survival situations for the child. Analysis tools will be used to establish a criterion to examine the father’s character, with the support of the shooting script, the storyboard and the novel
Gulag e poetica. Il correlativo oggettivo carcerario di Julija Panyševa
Get PDFThe article discusses recent studies on Gulag poetry/Lirica della ‘zona’, particularly the ones written by Andrea Gullotta and Claudia Pieralli. It focuses on Ruki ‘Hands’, a short poem composed by Julija Panyševa quoted by Pieralli in his works, and demonstrates its level of formal complexity. The author applies Lotman’s notion of archiseme to this poem, thoroughly examining its “semantically charged phonemes”, thus revealing its phonosymbolic dimension. This formal complexity, largely neglected until now, suggests to consider more deeply the artistic features of Gulag poetry and its testimonial-aesthetic unity. Furthermore, since Ruki was written in an isolation prison – Lefortovo – literary critics should probably consider that prison poetrycan be very different fromcamp poetry. As Foucault pointed out in his seminal works on the penitentiary system, different kinds of repression can differently influence poets’ production. The author observes that often prison poems insist on prison realia, referring to objects and material from prison life. This recalls T.S. Eliot’s notion of objective correlative. In this specific poem, handsseem to symbolize and objectify the particular double emotion of the prisoner-poet: the emotion of an unexpected encounter with a brother-prisoner and, at the same time, the possible reminder of a previous meeting out of jail. In order to evoke a similar emotional response in the reader, Julija Panyševa seems to create a specific prison objective correlative. At the end, the author presents an Italian translation of Panyševa’s Ruki.The article discusses recent studies on Gulag poetry/Lirica della ‘zona’, particularly the ones written by Andrea Gullotta and Claudia Pieralli. It focuses on Ruki ‘Hands’, a short poem composed by Julija Panyševa quoted by Pieralli in his works, and demonstrates its level of formal complexity. The author applies Lotman’s notion of archiseme to this poem, thoroughly examining its “semantically charged phonemes”, thus revealing its phonosymbolic dimension. This formal complexity, largely neglected until now, suggests to consider more deeply the artistic features of Gulag poetry and its testimonial-aesthetic unity. Furthermore, since Ruki was written in an isolation prison – Lefortovo – literary critics should probably consider that prison poetrycan be very different fromcamp poetry. As Foucault pointed out in his seminal works on the penitentiary system, different kinds of repression can differently influence poets’ production. The author observes that often prison poems insist on prison realia, referring to objects and material from prison life. This recalls T.S. Eliot’s notion of objective correlative. In this specific poem, handsseem to symbolize and objectify the particular double emotion of the prisoner-poet: the emotion of an unexpected encounter with a brother-prisoner and, at the same time, the possible reminder of a previous meeting out of jail. In order to evoke a similar emotional response in the reader, Julija Panyševa seems to create a specific prison objective correlative. At the end, the author presents an Italian translation of Panyševa’s Ruki