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Sustainability and management control systems
No full textThe chapter deals with sustainability management control systems, which involve instruments and processes that help organisations align their actions with sustainability goals. In particular, based on the main international literature, the chapter defines sustainability management control and sustainability management accounting, exploring their main characteristics and role as managerial tools to support decision-making, sustainability strategies and accountability to different stakeholders.
Further, the chapter delves into specific sustainability accounting and control tools, such as Life Cycle Assessment and the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard
L’Utopia della città in movimento. Luca Ronconi e La Biennale Teatro di Venezia (1974-1976)
No full textThe article addresses Luca Ronconi’s artistic direction of the Theatre and Music Section of the Venice Biennale, between 1974 and 1976. This period represented a formative experience that prepared him for his later work at the Laboratorio di Prato. The article focuses on Ronconi’s idea of space and the principle of movement, both of which deeply influenced his directorial approach, in relation to urban cultural policies, and the artistic creation of the play Utopia. The article considers the 1974 Biennale, remembered as “The Biennale for a Democratic and Anti-fascist Culture”, as well as the 1975 and 1976 editions, during which Ronconi invited Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook, Living Theatre, Ariane Mnouchkine, Meredith Monk, La MaMa Theatre, Odin Teatret, Robert Wilson, and Giuliano Scabia, among others. In particular, the 1975 edition subverted the traditional urban perceptions of Venice by deconstructing its mythologised and conventional imagery. Ronconi approached the city through a planimetric vision that incorporated the industrial area of Porto Marghera, Malcontenta, and Mira, conceived as part of a horizontal dynamic in which relationships are negotiated. Ronconi deliberately shifted towards the idea of “laboratory”, which undermined the notion of festival and proposed a new theatrical paradigm composed of public meetings, seminars, scientific sessions and improvisations which stimulated unprecedented forms of civic participation. The article frames these experiences through the notion of movement, are recurrent motif throughout the director’s artistic career
Erudito, storico e muftı̄: la figura di Abū l‐Wafāʾ b. ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al‐Wahhāb al‐ʿUrḍī al‐ Šāfiʿī di Aleppo (993‐1071/1585‐1660) nelle fonti biograficoletterarie.
No full textThis article presents an overview of a notable family of Aleppo, the al-‘Urḍī /’Urḍī–zāda who was mainly active and became prominent in the late 16th and most of the 17th centuries. Based on literary and archival material, the author focuses in particular on the figure of Abū l-Wafā’ al-‘Urdi (d. 1660), a well-known jurist, shafiite muftī and historian. His unfinished magnum opus, the biographical compilation entitled Maʿādin al-ḏahab fi’l-aʿyān al-mušarrafa bi-him Ḥalab [The Gold mines regarding the distinguished personalities by whom Aleppo is ennobled] is one of the last examples of local historiography and provides first-hand insight into the life of ottoman Aleppo.
In addition, the article presents a selection of unpublished documents from the city’s Sharia Court Records which bear witness to the socio-economic role of Abū l-Wafā’ al-‘Urdi and his family as part of the local elite
Enacting semi-periphery: conditions of post-accession migration from Poland to the UK
No full textSince Poland’s accession to the EU in 2004, the sizeable community of Polish migrants in one of the top destination countries – the UK – have been subject to growing discrimination and hate speech in the form of negative media coverage, as well as unequal labour practices. This article explores the impact of the 2004 enlargement of the EU on the migratory experiences of Poles by examining the way the cross-EU free-movement regime contributes to their vulnerability and exploitation. It aims to uncover the way European integration explains the unequal treatment of Polish migrants in the ‘old’ Member States. The paper addresses the following questions: what factors have driven the increased number of Polish migrants in the UK in the context of the 2004 EU enlargement? Do economic discrepancies between the EU Member States, which fuel intra-EU migration, likewise shape migrant vulnerabilities? Adopting the theoretical lens of the World-Systems Analysis and the notion of biopower, this paper argues that the peripheral position of Poles in the EU single market during the early post-enlargement period has been reinforced by the migration experiences. This is an outcome of structural pressures that make the perspective of migration appear as aspirational and promising
"La musica dell'Herat timuride e i suoi echi"
No full textWith the accession to the throne of Šāhruḫ (1377-1447), who succeeded his father Tīmūr (1336-1405), the capital of the Timurid empire was moved from Samarkand to Herat - nowadays western Afghanistan - which thus became the new pole of attraction for artists and intellectuals from the vast area. Over time, the city became the fulcrum of an exceptional season of cultural flowering that scholars collectively refer to as the 'Timurid Renaissance', whose apogee occurred between 1470 and 1506, when Herat was ruled by Sultan Ḥusayn Bāyqarā (1438-1506). The article examine the music of this “Renaissance”; we begin by looking at musicological treatises composed by authors who were often also poets and men of letters. We then focus on the work and influence of ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Ġaybī Marāġī (Marāġa, 1360? - Herat, 1435), who lived at the court of Herat for about twenty years. He was at the same time a multi-instrumentalist, a cantor, a composer and a great musicologist of the Arab-Islamic tradition, representative of the so-called Systematist school. After this section dedicated to to the genius of Marāġī, I I move, then, to the cultural milieu of Herat and its great exponents, who were often also musicologists. Among them Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Rahmān Ǧāmī (1414-1492), considered the last great exponent of medieval classical poetry; the younger ʿAlī Šīr Navāʾī (1441-1501), a minister (vizīr), fellow student and personal friend of Bāyqarā, author of many works composed mainly in čagatay Turkish but also in Persian under the pseudonym Fani. Together with them, the lesser-known Kamāl al-Dīn Šīr-Alī Banā'ī (also Bannā'ī or Binā'ī, 1453-1512), also a poet, musician and musicologist. After this, I leave the floor to the remarks on the poets, miniaturists and musicians and composers of Herat made by Emperor Bābur (1483-1530), who visited the city on his way down to conquer India. As in a musical suite, at this point I make a modulation and dwell on the evidence found in the manuscripts that allow us to reconstruct the status of musicians at the Timurid court. In the following section, entitled 'Listening to the Miniatures' I take into exam many miniatures of the epoch depicting musicians: from which it is possible to reconstruct adopted musical instruments, as well as forms and modes of performance. I move toward the conclusion by taking into exam the 'echoes' of Timurid Herat school: the first is the influence on Ottoman art music (maqām), Uzbek-Tajik art music (shash maqom) and on the Mughal world. From this I move to a series of recordings dedicated to Marāġī and to the ambient of Herat that should be intended as an 'echo'
ἀνέῳγεν, ἀνέῳκται (Phryn. Ecl. 128, Orus fr. A 6a, Thom.Mag. 30.11–31.14)
No full textThis article provides a philological and linguistic commentary on the perfect forms ἀνέῳγεν and ἀνέῳκται discussed in the lexica Phryn. Ecl. 128, Orus fr. A 6a, Thom.Mag. 30.11–31.1
RAT-CC: A Recurrent Autoencoder for Time-Series Compression and Classification
No full textThe growth of interconnected devices has led to an enormous volume of temporal data that requires specialized compression models for efficient storage. Besides this, most applications need to classify these data efficiently, and having to reconstruct the original data from the compressed representation to then classify them is not optimal. For this reason, we propose a Recurrent Autoencoder for Time-series Compression and Classification, termed RAT-CC, that allows to perform any classification task on the compressed representation without needing to reconstruct the original time-series data. RAT-CC leverages a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent autoencoder with a dual-loss function: the standard reconstruction loss to minimize reconstruction error; and an embedding loss to preserve relative distances in the compressed embedding space. This combined loss ensures that the learned embeddings remain meaningful for classification tasks while preserving the necessary information for reconstruction. We assess the compression and classification performance of RAT-CC on four datasets taken from different domains. RAT-CC is implemented in Keras and freely available at (https://github.com/ChJ4m3s/RAT-CC)
Jus superveniens e inerzia della pubblica amministrazione
No full textIl Consiglio di Stato, attraverso la sentenza n. 7422/2024, torna a pronunciarsi sul tema della rilevanza delle sopravvenienze normative nel corso del procedimento, nell’anomala ipotesi di ritardo della pubblica amministrazione. Il giudice ribadisce la validità dell’applicazione del principio del tempus regit actum, in base a cui il provvedimento finale deve seguire la disciplina vigente al momento della sua adozione e non al tempo di presentazione dell’istanza, anche nel caso in cui il procedimento si concluda oltre i termini di legge. Avverso gli effetti negativi - la sottoposizione a norme più sfavorevoli - derivanti dall’inerzia dell’amministrazione, al privato è riconosciuta la possibilità di richiedere il risarcimento del danno da ritardo
Is there a Wittgensteinian Legacy on Habit?
No full textThe paper focuses on the connection between Wittgenstein’s “post-Tractarian” philosophy and contemporary debates on the nature of habitual behaviour and its alleged automaticity by looking at the problem of the normativity of habits and the role of custom in changing and preventing dysfunctional habits. I argue that Wittgenstein’s philosophy can be an additional useful tool to engage in a re-consideration of habit as it has been advanced by the pragmatist tradition against an operational account. In particular, I argue that Wittgenstein’s conceptualization of habit and custom can be used to address the dichotomy between habit and intelligence, and the dichotomy between habituation and control. Firstly, I present Wittgenstein’s use of the notion of custom as Gepflogenheit to undermine the former dichotomy. Secondly, I present Wittgenstein’s use of the notion of custom as habituation (Gewohnheit) and its relation to sensibility to undermine the latter dichotomy. Finally, I apply Wittgenstein’s insights to the issue of habit crisis and change through a comparison with Dewey’s account in his Human Nature and Conduct