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The design of transportation networks: a multi objective model combining equity, efficiency and efficacy
No full textA network design problem consists in locating facilities (nodes and arcs) that enable the transfer of flows (passengers and/or goods) from given origin-destination pairs. The topic can have several applications within transportation and logistics contexts. In this work we propose a multi-objective model in which balancing or equity aspects, i.e. measures of the distribution of distances of users from the path, are considered. These kinds of models can be used when there is the need to balance risks or benefits among all the potential users deriving from the location of the path to be designed. The application of the proposed model to a benchmark problem used in the literature to test these kinds of models, shows that it is able to find solutions characterized by significant level of equity but also of efficiency and efficacy
In margine a due testi agiografici alto-medievali (Vita Barbati; Passio Sanctorum Septem Dormientium)
No full textThe «Vita Barbati» and the «Passio Sanctorum Septem Dormientium» are two hagiographical texts of the Early Middle Ages. Particularly, the «Passio Sanctorum Septem Dormientium» tells a story who had a great circulation through the Middle Ages, from Gregory of Tours to Paul the Deacon and Jacob of Varagine. In this paper the Author can attempt to explain the literary qualities of these two texts (tipology, style, language, "descriptiones personarum", use of the "cursus" and rhetoric topics), trying to demonstrate how hagiographical texts too have often a literary interest, together with its historic and religious significance
Idee vecchie e nuove sull'entrata in vigore del Codice Teodosiano in Occidente
No full textThe purpose of the article is to afford the topic of when and how the Theodosian Code
gained legal force in the western part of the Empire, lately solved with solutions that do not
ought to be widely accepted. Overlooked theories on the subject, here is stated that in the
West there was no official enactment of the Code because its copying and spreading into the
chancellery of the judges would have been evaluated by contemporaries as far as enough to
give legal strength to it. No question was raised for lack of simultaneity with eastern part of
the Empire because the constitution that enacted to the Code and gave legal force since January
2 439 in the East (Nov. Th. 1) was not even known in the West (that’s why the Senate met
in December 438). The sending of Nov. Th. 1 to the West in 447 shows that in the eastern part
of the Empire a distintinction between enactment and spread, by officially copying the legal
book of Theodosius, was made, so they want to mend the mistake taken into the West in the
legal procedure to enact and spread the Code
Gli studi sulla cittadinanza romana prima e dopo le ricerche di Giorgio Luraschi
No full textThe purpose of the essay is to proceed to an overview of Giorgio Luraschi’s researches about the Roman citizenship, compared to the previous studies on it, and to check how they have been discussed by Scholars. The analysis of leges de civitate issued between 90 and 89, to which Giorgio Luraschi paid much attention, done, Luraschi’s thought on the gain of Roman citizenship by strangers (with brief references to the loss of civitas) is systematically organized, inspecting the characters of the procedure and the effects of citizens’ registers, not bypassed ways in which Latins could reach Roman citizenship, in force of ius migrandi (and the connected effects of citizens’ registers in that particular issue) and of ius adispicendae civitatis per magistratum (and the related topic of double citizenship in late republican times), and ending with the exclusion of the gain of Roman citizenship by birth in the particular matter ruled by the lex Minicia de liberis, as conceived, in relation to the date, object and people interested by the law, by Giorgio Luraschi (and other Scholars)
Riflessioni sull'alluvione e sugli altri fenomeni fluviali, anche a margine della riforma apportata dalla l. 37/1994
No full textThe essay deals with acquire of ownership by fluvial activity in Roman Law, with particular reference to adluvio. The topics herein studied are natural description of fluvial events in Roman law sources (quite complex on adluvio), their juridical nature (increase or in some cases decrease of land that borders with a river), legal effects of them (acquisition of property ipso iure by the land owner rather as a juridical acquire iure gentium than as a mere physical increase of land with no legal matters related to it, also in case of adluvio and of the phenomenon later called avulsio in legal tradition), condition of lands where fluvial acquires could take place. A glance is also given to modern regulation of French and Italian code about fluvial phenomenon as well as to the reform carried out in Italy in 1994. Taken into account this new enactment, massive trouble of distinguishing «incrementi» in 941 Italian civil code article (heritage of Bartolus’ doctrine) from the kind of adluvio ruled in 942 Italian civil code article, with different rules of law (private property in art. 941, public property in art. 942), is underlined: a solving solution is proposed
Sildenafil normalizes MALAT1 level in diabetic cardiomyopathy
No full textA large body of evidence recently highlighted the involvement
of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in cardiovascular
disease [1] and some dysregulated lncRNAs have
been associated with diabetic cardiomyopathy [2–5].
Among them, a higher expression of the lncRNA metastasis
associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1)
has been observed in diabetic cardiomyopathy [6, 7].
However, a clear understanding of the molecular mechanisms
leading to pathological regulation of lncRNAs in
diabetic cardiomyopathy is still missing. Our prior work by
Barbati et al. [8], established that, in the presence of high
glucose, nitric oxide (NO) signaling derangement might
alter the epigenetic landscape of cardiac cells, both in vitro
and in vivo, via transcription factor CREM activation
When the road layout becomes persuasive for the road users: A functional study on safety and driver behaviour
No full textThe paper describes a research aimed at investigating drivers’ behaviours in two experimental setups, a real and a virtual environment. A road layout characterized by a S-shaped curve has been considered. The aim of the research was to appraise the relationship between the human behaviour and the road geometry. First of all, the results show a delayed speed adaptation when approaching the same curve in various conditions, in both environments. The authors investigate when and where each driver acts, and how his action is influenced by the perception of the layout, as it is guaranteed by markings (standard and reinforced by retroreflective post-delineators). Different driving scenarios are examined, concluding that improved road markings: usually permit a better perception of the road, especially of the curve stretches, and a general reduction of average speed; sometimes have a not positive effect, specifically where there is a variation of the size of the roadway; have a negative role on the long straights; decrease the scattering of driver behaviours. The research also suggests a practical criterion for selecting calibration sections of the speed diagrams, in order to assure a good accordance between virtual and real environment
Ancora a proposito della Vita Barbati episcopi beneventani (BHL 973)
No full textArticolo.
Tenuto conto del rilevante ruolo della Vita Barbati come emblema della definitiva cristianizzazione dell’antico ducato longobardo, si è proceduto ad una rilettura del testo sulla base della relativa più incisiva bibliografia, mirando ad un approfondimento della proposta agiografica e del relativo modello di santità dell’opera stessa
A forest typology for monitoring sustainable forest management: the case of European Forest Types
No full textSustainable forest management (SFM) is presently widely accepted as the overriding objective for forest policy and practice.
Regional processes are in progress all over the world to develop and implement criteria and indicators of SFM. In continental
Europe, a set of 35 Pan-European indicators has been endorsed under the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of
Forests in Europe (MCPFE) to measure progress towards SFM in the 44 countries of the region. The formulation of seven
indicators (forest area, growing stock, age structure/diameter distribution, deadwood, tree species composition, damaging
agents, naturalness) requires national data to be reported by forest types. Within the vast European forest area the values
taken by these indicators show a considerable range of variation, due to variable natural conditions and anthropogenic
influences. Given this variability, it is very difficult to grasp the meaning of these indicators when taken out of their ecological
background. The paper discusses the concepts behind, and the requirements of, a classification more soundly ecologically
framed and suitable for MCPFE reporting than the three (un-informative) classes adopted so far: broadleaved forest,
coniferous forest, mixed broadleaved and coniferous forest. We propose a European Forest Types scheme structured into a
reasonably higher number of classes, that would improve the specificity of the indicators reported under the MCPFE process
and its understanding
Brevi note su natura ed effetti giuridici dell'alluvione in una lex di Teodosio II del 440
No full textThe essay deals with acquire of ownership by alluvial activity in Roman Law, with particular reference to a constitution issued by Theodosius II in 440, happily known in its reasonably original extension (Nov.Th.20, sum up by Justinian’s code commission in 534 [C.7.41.3]). The topics herein studied are natural description of ‘adluvio’ in Roman law sources (quite complex on this issue), juridical nature of ‘adluvio’ (increase of land that borders with a river), legal effects of ‘adluvio’ (acquisition of alluvial increase by the land owner rather as a juridical acquire ‘iure gentium’ than a mere physical increase of land with no legal matters related to it), condition of lands where alluvial acquires could take place. A significant connection with other fluvial events that gained relevance in Roman law (known in legal tradition as ‘avulsio’, ‘alveus derelictus’, ‘insula in flumine nata’) is always set forth in the article
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