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Complex analysis and geometry
No full textThe papers in this wide-ranging collection report on the results of investigations from a number of linked disciplines, including complex algebraic geometry, complex analytic geometry of manifolds and spaces, and complex differential geometry
Mechanochemical transformation of organic pollutants on phyllomanganates and clay minerals surfaces
No full textTowards a tableau-based procedure for PLTL based on a multi-conclusion rule and logical optimizations
No full textWe present an ongoing work on a proof-search procedure for Propositional Linear Temporal Logic (PLTL) based on a one-pass tableau calculus with a multiple-conclusion rule. The procedure exploits logical optimization rules to reduce the proof-search space. We also discuss the performances of a Prolog prototype of our procedure
The Holy Office in the Marche of Ancona: Institution and Crimes
No full textThe essay examines the history of the Inquisition in a little-known area of the papal states, the Marca of Ancona, where political and religious dissent had spread since the late Middle Ages leading to the introduction of judges delegated by the Pope to oppose 'heresy'. Focusing mainly on the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the article will address the following issues: 1) The beginnings of anti-heretical repression under Paul IV and Pius V; 2) The territorial organization of the Holy Office, its seats and vicariates; 3) Sixtus V and the second phase of the Inquisition in the Marca; the shrine of Loreto and its Penitentiary; 4) The control of the port of Ancona: Christians, Jews, Muslims; 5) Catholic discipline in the seventeenth century: the familiari and the role of the tribunal; 6) The status of the surviving documentation. The essay could be placed in the third section of the book and it will certainly provide a detailed fresco of how a local office of the Inquisition worked in Italy during the early modern period
Mario Moretti, Ancona (Ancona). Regio V - Picenum ; Michelangelo Cagiano de Azevedo, Interamna Lirenas vel Sucasina (presso Pignataro Interamna). Regio I - Latiurn et Campania
No full textDe Laet Sigfried Jan. Mario Moretti, Ancona (Ancona). Regio V - Picenum ; Michelangelo Cagiano de Azevedo, Interamna Lirenas vel Sucasina (presso Pignataro Interamna). Regio I - Latiurn et Campania. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 16, fasc. 1, 1947. pp. 211-212
Trends in contemporary mathematics
No full textThis book covers a wide spectrum of hot topics and current trends in mathematics, including noncommutative algebra via deformation theory, optimal transportation, nonlinear potential theory, kinetic theory and gas dynamics, geometric numerical integration, finite simple groups of small essential dimension, optimal control problems, extended Dynkin diagrams, spin glasses, aspherical closed manifolds, Boltzmann systems, birational geometry of projective varieties and directed graphs, nonlinear diffusion, geometric constructions of extremal metrics on complex manifolds, and Pell’s equation in polynomials. The book comprises a selection of contributions by leading international mathematicians who were speakers at the "INdAM Day", an initiative dating back to 2004 at which the most recent developments in contemporary mathematics are presented
Malinconia e miscredenza. Una donna davanti all'Inquisizione di Ancona (1610-1611)
No full textIl saggio affronta il problema della miscredenza popolare nella prima età moderna attraverso la storia di Agata Malatesta, inquisita nel porto di Ancona, abitato da una folta comunità ebraica, all'inizio del Seicent
Lipid-coated zinc oxide nanocrystals as innovative ROS-generators for photodynamic therapy
No full textPhotodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a medical treatment that combines the administration of a nontoxic drug, called photosensitizer (PS), with light irradiation of the targeted region. It has been proposed as a new cancer therapy, promising better selectivity and fewer side-effects compared to traditional chemo- and radio-therapies. PSs indeed can accumulate specifically within the region of interest so that when the light is directly focused only in that region the therapeutic effect is highly localized. Traditional PSs, like chlorins and porphyrins, suffer from several drawbacks such as aggregation in biological media and poor biocompatibility. Thus, the development of innovative photosensitizers able to overcome these issues is crucial to the therapeutic action of PDT. Among the others, nanostructured Zinc Oxide (ZnO) has been recently proposed as new therapeutic agent and PS thanks to its semiconducting properties, biocompatible features, and ease of functionalization [1]. Nevertheless, further efforts are needed in order to improve its colloidal stability in biological media and to unravel the effective therapeutic mechanism. Here, we propose the synthesis and characterization of lipid-coated ZnO nanoparticles as new photosensitizer for cancer PDT [2]. First, by Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) experiments, we show that the lipid-coating increases the colloidal stability of the ZnO NPs in Phosphate buffered saline (PBS). Then, using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) coupled with the spin-trapping technique, we demonstrate and characterize the ability of bare and lipid-coated ZnO NPs to generate Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in water only when remotely actuated via light irradiation. Interestingly, our results aware that the surface chemistry of the NPs greatly influence the type of photo-generated ROS. Finally, we show that our NPs are effectively internalized inside human epithelial carcinoma cells (HeLa) via a lysosomal pathway and that they are able to generate ROS inside cancer cells. [1] B. Dumontel, M. Canta, H. Engelke, A. Chiodoni, L. Racca, A. Ancona, T. Limongi, G. Canavese and V. Cauda, J. Mater. Chem. B. under revision. [2] A. Ancona, H. Engelke, N. Garino, B. Dumontel, W.Fazzini and V. Cauda, to be submitted. The support from ERC Starting Grant - Project N. 678151 "Trojananohorse" is gratefully acknowledged
Ema Popivoda - solo recital in Ancona
No full textEma Popivoda - piano solo
Concert at Theatro Delle Muse in Ancona, Italy
Date: 28.11 2022
Program: authors compositions by Ema Popivod
The commercial development of Ancona, 1479-1551
No full textThis thesis will examine and attempt to explain how, in the first half of the sixteenth century, the central Italian port of Ancona achieved its greatest economic importance relative to other cities in the whole of its history. It will be seen that this development coincided with and was causally connected with the rise of other ports as widely dispersed as London, Antwerp, Ragusa and Constantinople.
During this period Ancona was transformed from a port of merely regional significance into a major international entrepot where the raw materials and manufactured goods of the Ottoman Empire were exchanged for agricultural produce and industrial goods from Italy and Western Europe. These changes were caused by developments outside Ancona itself, in particular the political stability of the lands of the eastern Mediterranean under Ottoman rule and the growing tendency for merchants to use land rather than sea trade routes as a result of improved organisation of land haulage and the growth of piracy.
The thesis has been based mainly on the hitherto unconsulted notarial archives of Ancona, and it should help to revise the view that post-medieval notarial records are of little value in studying commercial history. Other sources in Ancona itself and in the main cities with which she traded have also been consulted.
The thesis is arranged in six chapters. Chapter I sets the political and commercial framework of the Mediterranean with which Ancona was to develop. Chapter II sets the city in its geographical, historical and political perspective within this Mediterranean.
Chapter III consists of an examination and criticism of the sources consulted. Chapter IV is the core of the thesis, describing the commercial development if the city and attempting to explain it. Finally Chapters V and VI discuss the way in which trade was carried on in Acona. Chapter V deals with the structure of the merchant community and the way in which merchants operated, whilst Chapter VI deals with the organisation and operation of shipping
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