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Craft-based experiences to revitalize touristic urban centers: the Venetian case study
Full text linkCraft enterprises can play a crucial role in revitalizing urban
centers generating positive externalities for local communities and
territorial ecosystems from both economic and social perspectives.
Their impact can benefit from the increasing interest among tourists
in search of authentic interactions with local SMEs. This paper
introduces a literature review framing culture-based regeneration
projects as initiatives aimed at promoting territorial heritage, local
know-how, working practices, and overall local attractiveness.
Craft businesses can indeed play a pivotal role in this context,
especially when their offerings combine educational features and
tailored services that respond to the curiosity of an increasingly
sophisticated tourist demand. The analysis of three case studies
involving craft enterprises in Venice’s historic center illustrates the
links between craftsmanship, territorial economic growth, social
benefits, and enhanced city attractiveness. The chapter aims to
demonstrate that through strategic management consulting and
effective ecosystem integration, it is possible to foster urban and
social regeneration, leveraging local and mindful touristic demand
Negotiating Avicennism in Postclassical Ottoman Philosophy: The Treatment of Hylomorphism in Ḫocazāde’s (d. 893/1488) Gloss on Mullāzāde’s Hidāya al-ḥikma Commentary
No full textḪocazāde’s gloss on Mullāzāde’s commentary on the Hidāya al-ḥikma is one of the few extant Ottoman paratexts on Avicennan natural philosophy. Remarkably, over a third of its lemmata are devoted to defending hylomorphism, underscoring its status as a central—and contested—issue in fifteenth-century Ottoman pedagogy, where scholars sought to secure an autonomous place for natural philosophy within a curriculum otherwise dominated by metaphysics and theology. While largely following Mullāzāde’s defense of Avicennism, Ḫocazāde adds clarifications and emendations aimed at addressing theological objections and guiding his contemporaries. In tandem with his Tahāfut al-falāsifa, where hylomorphism appears as a minor issue reconcilable with divine creation, Ḫocazāde’s gloss affirms the centrality of matter and form for scientific investigation in natural philosophy. Hylomorphism’s tension with kalām atomism reflects not the fifteenth-century Ottoman curricular incoherence but disciplinary compartmentalization: Avicennan physics could be taught as a constrained explanatory model—bracketing Neoplatonic doctrines—while kalām retained atomism for theological purposes. Ḫocazāde’s gloss thus offers a rare vantage point on how Ottoman scholars selectively affirmed, rejected, or reinterpreted Avicennism within the framework of postclassical kalām, contributing to the reception of Avicenna’s paradigms at Ottoman madrasas
Passeggiando con Glauco a Venezia. Una mitologia letteraria sul presente
No full textThe contribution focuses on the image of Venice that emerges from literature, cinema, and TV series in recent decades. Three cultural models are identified and defined with three figures taken from Greek mythology: Dionysus (1980-2000), which was the time of a Venice immersed in luxury and lust; Narcissus (2000-2020), which was the time of a different, private Venice, seemingly far from its most well-known image; and Glaucus (2020-present), in which Venice becomes a meeting point for universal archetypes valid for the whole world
Bone char material for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) adsorption: Effect of the activation on surface characteristics and performance
Full text linkAir pollution is a problem of great concern, with increasing atmospheric concentrations of toxic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) such as BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and o-xylene).
We report the development of adsorbant materials derived from tuna fish bones. Tuna Bone Char (TBC) was obtained with a pyrolysis process; and activated with K2CO3 treatment (indicated as KTBC, due to the potassium carbonate activation). Characterisation showed that the activation protocol led to a significant increase in the surface area – from 97.45 to 1826.59 m2/g for TBC and KTBC; furthermore, the activated material also showed higher porosity (total pore volume of 2.22 cm3/g, micropore volume of 0.38 cm3/g).
BTEX dynamic adsorption tests showed KTBC excellent adsorption properties, particularly with o-xylene (adsorption capacity q of 147 mg/g). The higher adsorption of o-xylene was explained considering its kinetic diameter matching KTBC pore size dimension. KTBC also showed to be very efficient in humid conditions (q = 61.2 mg/g). Repeated tests with the same powder indicated a 20 % decrease after the first cycle, with no further decrease in additional cycles. Empirical regression models for q0 and kTh (Thomas model), and τ and KYN (Yoon-Nelson model) were developed for BTEX breakthrough curves and showed agreement with experimental breakcurve data (R2 > 0.905).
These results show that bone char can be used for gaseous pollutants with the activation playing a key role in surface modification and performance enhancement. This research offers a sustainable and effective route to convert marine biowaste into advanced adsorbents for VOC and air pollution control
Universally Wheeler Languages
No full textThe notion of Wheeler languages is rooted in the Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT), one of the most central concepts in data compression and indexing. The BWT has been generalized to finite automata, the so-called Wheeler automata, by Gagie, Manzini, and Sirén. Wheeler languages have subsequently been defined as the class of regular languages for which there exists a Wheeler automaton accepting them. Besides their advantages in data indexing, these Wheeler languages also satisfy many interesting properties from a language theoretic point of view. A characteristic yet unsatisfying feature of Wheeler languages however is that their definition depends on a fixed order of the alphabet. In this paper we introduce the Universally Wheeler languagesUW, i.e., the regular languages that are Wheeler with respect to all orders of a given alphabet. Our first main contribution is to relate UW to some very well known regular language classes. We first show that the Strictly Locally Testable languages are strictly included in UW. After noticing that UW is not closed under taking the complement, we prove that the class of languages for which both the language and its complement are in UW exactly coincides with those languages that are Definite or Reverse Definite. Secondly, we prove that deciding if a regular language given by a DFA is in UW can be done in quadratic time. We also show that this is optimal unless the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis fails
The Uncharted Margins of Arabic Philosophy: Challenges and Prospects in Surveying Philosophical Marginalia in Arabic Manuscripts
Full text linkFrom Antiquity until the dawn of Modernity, Aristotelian logic and the corpus of texts known as the Organon served as the bedrock of scientific method across a vast geographical area extending far beyond the borders of the Mediterranean. In the Arabo-Islamic tradition, logic appears to have formed a staple part of the curricula of higher-level education until the nineteenth century. However, the contexts and modalities through which the discipline was concretely taught and studied largely elude our understanding to date. This is partly due to the considerable diversity in which education was provided in different geographical and temporal settings. Philosophical and scientific education in the Arabo-Islamic context manifested itself in a variety of non-standardized curricula that changed significantly over the centuries and across the different geographical areas under Islamic influence. Students wishing to educate themselves could rely on educational institutions such as madrasas, travel to join the intellectual circles of renowned experts, or pursue self-directed learning. Information on the curricula and texts studied in different educational contexts is unfortunately somewhat limited, especially when compared to our knowledge of university education in Latinate Europe during the same period. The activities of many scholars, professors, and students who engaged with philosophy across all regions of Europe, North Africa, and Asia under Islamic influence are, therefore, largely inaccessible.
A promising strategy to access this large missing part of the history of Arabic philosophy is a novel approach to the “common denominator” of philosophical education and practice throughout the Islamicate world: the manuscript book. This paper delves into the preliminary challenges and the prospects of the analysis of philosophical marginalia in the Arabo-Islamic tradition
Assessing behavioral competencies: The BECOME360 framework
No full textThis chapter adds to the current debate on the assessment and measurement of emotional and social intelligence competencies through the development and the validation of an instrument BECOME360 (BEhavioral COmpetencies Multi-rater Evaluation) which aims at measuring a comprehensive set of 31 behavioral competencies. Based on literature review and empirical investigation, this instrument is intended to contribute to the stream that focuses on competencies as behavioral manifestations of emotional intelligence. In order to test their validity and reliability, the newly developed scales were tested in five different studies on samples of students and practitioners from different cultural settings. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed
Marquises from after [the reign period] Chien-yüan on, Table Number Eight
No full textAnnotated translation of Chapter 20, with translator's commentary at the en
‘Beholding the orbit of the beloved’s face within the chain of locks / One sees embodied the absurdity of infinite regress and vicious circularity alike’: The Convergence of Theologico-Philosophical Referencing and Poetic Subjecthood Among the Early Ottoman Learned Elite
No full textThis article examines a handful of extant lyrical fragments in Turkish composed by fifteenth-century Ottoman medrese professors who were not primarily known as poets but as scholars producing works in Arabic on ḥikma (Avicennan philosophy) and kalam (philosophical theology). In these instances, poetic subjecthood was articulated through intricate interplays of theologico-philosophical allusion that linked poetic utterance to medrese scholarship and the authors’ identities as members of the learned elite, making such fragments vehicles for layered meanings reflecting their intellectual concerns. Building on a meclis-centered approach to literary contextualization, the study situates these fragments within the doctrinal frameworks of postclassical medreses to show how Ottoman scholars engaged ḥikma and kalām in didactic forms of poetic expression. In doing so, it moves beyond the prevailing emphasis on generic Neoplatonic imagery in Ottoman lyric poetry, instead highlighting explicit scientific references in extant lyrics on scholarship, love, and social critique, and considering their implications for the interplay between literary tradition, intellectual innovation, and poetic subjecthood
Navigating Environmental Justice Framework: A Scoping Literature Review Over Four Decades
No full textThe scoping literature review examines nearly four decades of scholarly contributions, navigating the evo- lution of the environmental justice framework from its nascent roots to its contemporary dimensions. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of its conceptual trajectory, identifying key themes, pillars, and current directions. Spanning 7001 publications, the review employs lexical-metric content analyses to syn- thesize the corpus and reveal semantic clusters and temporal trends. The data underscore the increasing scholarly interest in environmental justice, manifested in a well-established field of study and multidiscipli- nary approaches. The analyses identify four pillars underpinning the framework: assessing built environ- ment quality, mitigating climate change effects, promoting responsible research and innovation (RRI), and emphasizing human dimensions. The pillars reflect the classical justice dimensions (i.e., distributive, proce- dural—also in its participatory sense—and recognition justice, respectively), while restorative justice is a cross-cutting dimension. They undergo significant transformations over time, defining some directions toward which the current scientific debate seems to orient: ensuring everyone’s well-being, realizing just transition, reducing global inequalities, and facing societal challenges together. Overall, the review delin- eates two complementary and interconnected frameworks: environmental justice as a theoretical frame- work for global issues and environmental justice as a concrete framework for situated issues. The conceptual frameworks have implications for environmental governance and activism, advocating for dem- ocratic, participatory, and cooperative approaches. Furthermore, they suggest avenues for future research, particularly in understanding social dynamics that bridge global and local concerns, aligning research agen- das with the interests and needs of affected communities