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The restoration of a notable building: Palazzo Testa-Pelosi in Frigento
No full textWithin PON_MeTRiCs “Methodologies and technologies for the management and recovery of historical centres and prestige buildings” research project, the DiARC multidisciplinary research group coordinated by author, in order to verify the achieved methodological acquisitions, converged, in the research’s ending phase of Experimental Development – after the examination of some exemplarizing case studies – on the area in the North-West urban fabric of the historical Centre of Frigento. These project insights involved many disciplinary skills – the relief, the technological and environmental design, the restoration, the architectural and urban design – beginning with some basic preliminary contributions provided by the disciplines of history of architecture and the city. All these contributions and experiments had a significant moment of synthesis and integration in the project proposals for Palazzo Testa-Pelosi. This noble building of ancient construction, now in a ruinous state, was paradigmatic of a coherent intervention with the research themes and objectives in order to recover valuable artefacts, recognizing the historical and documental value of monumentum or of primary element (Rossi, 1966) to this vestige in relation with the urban fabric (Caniggia-Maffei, 1984). The case of Palazzo Testa-Pelosi, in this framework, is paradigmatic precisely because it raises a number of issues and theoretical and methodological hubs within research and design in the relationship between old and new, in the field of urban restoration and posttrauma building re-construction. A relationship that is particularly significant when the ancient, its vestiges being ruined largely lost their formal unity while retaining a significant testimonial value both for the urban location and for the spatial qualities, for the morphologicaltypological structure of which they represent a stable stage and relevant re-formulation
Chiaramonte Gulfi an experience of urban morphology
No full textThis paper is aimed to describe a project for the city of Chiaramonte Gulfi elaborated during the International Laboratory of Architecture_LId’A coordinated by Laura Thermes. In one of the laboratories – directed by the author with Federica Visconti and coordinated to those by Carlo Moccia and Marco Mannino – the team worked on the redefinition of the “city walls”. Over the 1970s, it resulted from the construction of a continuous line of buildings in relationship to agricultural divisions and peri-urban plots. The thin strip determined, on one hand, a new “urban artifact” of morphological value – even if of less architectural value – as a kind of city walls of the ancient city, and, on the other, it opposed the typical nebulized growth of the sprawl-city. The project aims to propose a comprehensive reformulation for this wall, working in some of the significant places, highlighting discontinuities, openings the city to the landscape and establishing new relationships between the Comiso’s plain below and the perched character – like in the acropolis – of the medieval centre, re-entering portions of nature still existing in the urban fabric. The project combines two ways of architectural composition, the stereotomic and the tectonic, and develops the theme of the bastion corresponding to a hiatus of the wall, proposing a new condition overlooking towards the landscape of the Comiso plain and, at the same time, representing an element of a distinctive and interconnected system of “places” able to establish long distance relationships and summarize the whole urban morphology and the geography of Chiaramonte
The great microbial beauty
No full textWith this book, Maureen O’Malley aimed to fill the gap
between the philosophy of microbes and the philosophy of
‘macrobes’ (a neologism coined by O’Malley and Dupre ́
to indicate cellular organisms other than microbes). After
a conceptual introduction, the first chapter reports two
exemplificative case studies, followed by brief perspec-
tives concerning the philosophical content of microbiology
and about the philosophy of biology in light of microbiolo-
gy. At page 41, the reader will find a bottleneck: from this
point up to the conclusions, the author will cover topics in
which the consideration of microbiology leads one to radi-
cally and/or incrementally rethink philosophy of biology
assumptions
Mobile biomonitoring of atmospheric pollution: A new perspective for the moss-bag approach
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Mobile Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution: A New Perspective for the Moss-Bag Approach
by Maria Cristina Sorrentino 1,Fiore Capozzi 1ORCID,Karen Wuyts 2,Steven Joosen 3,Valentine K. Mubiana 3,Simonetta Giordano 1ORCID,Roeland Samson 2 andValeria Spagnuolo 1,*ORCID
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Department of Biology, Campus Monte S. Angelo, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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Department of Bioscience Engineering, Campus Groenenborgerlaan 171, University of Antwerp, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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Department of Biology, Campus Groenenborgerlaan 171, University of Antwerp, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Plants 2021, 10(11), 2384; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10112384
Received: 11 October 2021 / Revised: 26 October 2021 / Accepted: 3 November 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Potential of Plants to Absorb Xenobiotics)
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In this work the potential of moving moss-bags, fixed to bicycles, to intercept particulate matter (PM) and linked metal(loid)s was tested for the first time. Seven volunteers carried three moss-bags for fifty days while commuting by bicycle in the urban area of Antwerp, Belgium. Moreover, one bike, equipped with mobile PM samplers, travelled along four routes: urban, industrial, green route and the total path, carrying three moss-bags at each route. The saturation isothermal remanent magnetization (SIRM) signal and chemical composition (assessed by HR-ICP-MS) of the moss samples indicated that the industrial route was the most polluted. Element fluxes (i.e., the ratio between element daily uptake and the specific leaf area) could discriminate among land uses; particularly, they were significantly higher in the industrial route for Ag, As, Cd and Pb; significantly lowest in the green route for As and Pb; and comparable for all accumulated elements along most urban routes. A comparison with a previous experiment carried out in the same study area using similar moss-bags at static exposure points, showed that the element fluxes were significantly higher in the mobile system. Finally, PM2.5 and PM10 masses measured along the four routes were consistent with element fluxes
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Rain Motion Vectors Analysis From the Radar Network in Italy
No full textIn-cloud motion vector retrieval is of great interest in several atmospheric science research fields. Short time extrapolation of radar data (precipitation nowcasting), assimilation into numerical weather prediction models, study of atmospheric circulation, as well as reference scenarios for future satellite missions, are glaring example where the knowledge of in-cloud motion vectors can play a relevant role. In this work, a dataset of nearly one-year and half of measurements collected by ground-based weather radars over the Italian peninsula, is used to perform the reconstruction of horizontal in-cloud rain motion vectors (RMV) using both optical flow-based solutions from literature and an innovative extension of the multiple Doppler solution that make use of mosaicked Doppler radar data. The outcomes of the techniques implemented are evaluated in terms of reference Doppler measurements, reanalysis wind fields from ERA5 and evaluating the impact of the RMVs in a semi-lagrangian precipitation nowcasting framework. To the author knowledge, this is the first attempt in quantitatively evaluating RMVs. Results show that the use of Doppler information enhances the dynamic range of the retrieved RMV intensity with respect to optical flow-based solutions giving a better agreement with the ERA5 too. In terms of precipitation nowcasting, the use of Doppler-driven RMV does not give significant improvements due to gradients shown by RMV intensity when constrained with the measured Doppler
L’arte di scrivere la storia. Il narrativismo proposizionale di Arthur C. Danto
No full textIn the field of research of theory of history, Danto is mostly known as the author of Analytical Philosophy of History (1965), that is as the author of one of the key texts of the so-called Narrative Turn. But this work loses many of its own shades of meaning, if isolated from the rest of Danto’s production. The philosophy of history articulated in the work of 1965 is only the first piece of an atypical philosophical system, within which each of the parts communicates with the others. Based on this awareness, the present work aims to reconstruct, in essential lines, Danto’s theory of history, paying particular attention to the links it maintains with the rest of the system. In addition, while complying with this goal, it will also be useful to highlight the main influences of the continental tradition that resonate in his metahistorical synthesis. In this way, hopefully, we will show the importance of two of the least exercised interpretative gestures on this portion of the American philosopher work, that we think are fundamental, if you want to understand its authentic meaning
ASO Author Reflections: How Long will We Perform Lymphadenectomy in Endometrial Cancer Patients?
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