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Pianificazione ambientale e sociale per le Nuove Vie della Seta. Il caso della Banca Asiatica d’Investimento per le Infrastrutture
No full textThe Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) highlights the role of large infrastructures in promoting socioeconomic progress. Environmental and social planning will play a pivotal role to ensure that the BRI is tuned with the protection of nature and soci- etal needs. This paper appraises environmental and social safeguards employed by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), one of BRI’s key actors. Results show that their rationale, scope, and function are aligned with international practice. Their efficacy however may be jeopardized by the limited capacity of the Bank to oversee the screening and assessment of impacts. More importantly, the safeguards endorse an obsolete conceptualization of sustainability, centred on the mitigation of impacts, rather than on the transformation of socioeconomic development patterns
Quantitative human health risk assessment along the lifecycle of nano-scale copper-based wood preservatives
No full textThe use of nano-scale copper oxide (CuO) and basic copper carbonate (Cu2(OH)2CO3) in both
ionic and micronized wood preservatives has raised concerns about the potential of these
substances to cause adverse humans health effects. To address these concerns, we performed
quantitative (probabilistic) human health risk assessment (HHRA) along the lifecycles of these formulations
used in antibacterial and antifungal wood coatings and impregnations by means of
the EU FP7 SUN project’s Decision Support System (SUNDS, www.sunds.gd). The results from
the risk analysis revealed inhalation risks from CuO in exposure scenarios involving workers
handling dry powders and performing sanding operations as well as potential ingestion risks for
children exposed to nano Cu2(OH)2CO3 in a scenario involving hand-to-mouth transfer of the
substance released from impregnated wood. There are, however, substantial uncertainties in
these results, so some of the identified risks may stem from the safety margin of extrapolation
to fill data gaps and might be resolved by additional testing. Our stochastic approach successfully
communicated the contribution of different sources of uncertainty in the risk assessment.
The main source of uncertainty was the extrapolation from short to long-term exposure, which
was necessary due to the lack of (sub)chronic in vivo studies with CuO and Cu2(OH)2CO3.
Considerable uncertainties also stemmed from the use of default inter- and intra-species extrapolation
factors
Imperium sine fine dedi? Il principato di Augusto e il problema della dimensione temporale
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The Influence of Tanizaki’s Early Works on Edogawa Ranpo’s Novels. A Comparison between Konjiki no shi and Panoramatō kidan
No full textFrom his debut in 1923, Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) acknowledged the influence of Tanizaki
Jun’ichirō and often referred to his works. Tanizaki had published several short stories characterised
by tantei shumi between 1911 and 1927, yet the link between the two authors lies not only in their
choice of the narrative genre. Tanizaki was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and translated many of
his stories including The Domain of Arnheim. Ranpo, too, was overtly inspired by Poe’s stories The Domain
of Arnheim and Landor’s Cottage, which can be seen in the plot and descriptions of Panoramatō
kidan. The aim of my investigation is therefore to examine the path that leads us from Poe’s The Domain
of Arnheim, to Tanizaki’s Konjiki no shi, and from Poe and Tanizaki to Ranpo’s Panoramatō kidan
Selected Papers AIUCD 2016
No full textl V Convegno annuale dell’Associazione Italiana di Informatica Umanistica e Cultura
Digitale si è svolto a Venezia nel settembre del 2016 sul tema “Edizioni digitali: rappresentazione, interoperabilità, analisi del testo e infrastrutture”. In continuità con i convegni
precedenti (2012-2015) e seguenti (2017-2018), lo spirito di AIUCD 2016 è stato interdisciplinare e multidisciplinare. Non solo sono stati presentati studi che hanno messo in
relazione singole discipline umanistiche con singole discipline di ambito informatico, ma
anche contributi che hanno richiesto il coinvolgimento di molteplici discipline umanistiche
da un lato (ad esempio: storia della letteratura e storia dell’arte) e informatiche dall’altro (ingegneria informatica e scienza dell’informazione)
Personal Names in the Aramaic Inscriptions of Hatra
No full textThis book offers a comprehensive linguistic evaluation of the 376 personal names attested in the roughly 600 Aramaic inscriptions of Hatra, the famous Northern Mesopotamian city that flourished in the Parthian age, between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD. This study benefits from the publication of many Hatran inscriptions during recent decades, which have yielded rich onomastic data, and some fresh readings of these epigraphic sources. This work is subdivided into
three main parts: an “Onomastic Catalogue”, a “Linguistic Analysis”, and a “Concordance” section. The “Catalogue” is organized as a list of entries, in which every name is transliterated, translated (whenever possible), discussed from an etymological perspective, provided with onomastic parallels, and accompanied by its attestations in the Hatran Aramaic corpus. The “Catalogue” is followed by a “Linguistic Analysis” which describes, firstly, the principal orthographic, phonological, morphological, and syntactical features of Hatran names. The linguistic discussion proper is followed by a semantic taxonomy of the names which make up the corpus and an overview of the religious significance of the theophoric names. Charts of “Concordance” end the book
Distribution of fragrances and PAHs in the surface seawater of the Sicily Channel, Central Mediterranean
No full textThe Mediterranean Sea is highly influenced by several anthropic pressures, including different kinds of organic pollutants. Fragrance Materials (FMs) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) were investigated in the surface seawater of the Sicily Channel in offshore and coastal areas. Total concentrations of FMs and PAHs resulted respectively up to 112 ng L−1and 43 ng L−1, with similar distributions of both classes of analytes. Low values were detected in some coastal samples, due to the upwelling of deep and unpolluted waters, while the presence of gyres probably accumulates contaminants in offshore areas. Confirming previous works, the allergenic and oestrogenic Salicylates generally resulted the most abundant FMs and diagnostic ratios indicated combustion processes as the sources of PAHs. The coupling of the well-known PAHs with a new class of Personal Care Products (PCPs) helped the identification of the major environmental drivers: the results highlighted the role of mesoscale hydrodynamics and suggested long-range atmospheric transport as key factors. The first detection of the selected FMs in open sea areas supports the hypothesis of their environmental persistence