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    The Content of CLIL and beyond: classifying typologies of microlanguages for teaching and learning purposes

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    When content is conceived as language and language is not the direct content of the learning process, the question of a language education extended to all school levels, all branches of academic disciplines and all professions is central to the development of a metalinguistic awareness which otherwise would escape most non-linguists. Matteo Santipolo proposes a detailed classification of the continuum of specialised discourse, which has the advantage of precisely indicating where CLIL Language can be located, i.e., between “Mediated” and “Didactic Jargon”. Santipolo even suggests replacing CLIL with JIL (Jargon Integrated Learning), the specific microlanguage used in communication between language and discipline instructors and neophytes. Aside from the didactic implications of this shift discussed by the author, his “modest proposal” seems to agree with a long-time cherished persuasion on the part of CLIL trainers and trainees, which is primarily advocated by the University Language Centres in Italy, that in CLIL contexts the L1/L2 needed is nothing but a professional language demanding its own dedicated certification rather than the ones for General Language

    Unmixed Graphs that are Domains

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    We extend a theorem of Villareal on bipartite graphs to the class of all graphs. On the way to this result, we study the basic covers algebra of an arbitrary graph G. We characterize with purely combinatorial methods the cases when 1) is a domain and 2) G is unmixed and is a domain

    The Participatory Turn at Local Level in Time of Crisis: Processes, Conflicts and Paradoxical Effects

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    In the past decades, private, civil society and third sector organizations, or even the citizens, have been more and more involved within the decision-making processes. In the case of welfare policies, participation has gradually been considered a positive strategy at contrasting the crisis of legitimacy of the welfare states, to ameliorating the policy implementation in dealing with the new societal challenges, and to exploiting the informal resources of the grass-roots organizations. Nevertheless, some controversial issues must be taken into consideration, because to date it is still hard to understand why participation has become so significant in public discourses, in which ways it affects the policy processes, what will be the effects of the economic downturn, which role will participation have to deal with its challenges. The paper investigates these kind of issues in the case of the Tuscany (Italy) welfare reforms, strongly oriented to the participatory turn, and its developments in the urban area of Pisa, revealing a kind of participation that could be described as an ephemeral-decorative factor of the “new” institutional design, with a declining capability to move the institutional attention towards the various effects of the economic crisis and the other ongoing transformations of the urban context

    On the dual graph of Cohen–Macaulay algebras

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    Given an equidimensional algebraic set X⊆Pn, its dual graph G(X) is the graph whose vertices are the irreducible components of X and whose edges connect components that intersect in codimension one. Hartshorne's connectedness theorem says that if (the coordinate ring of) X is Cohen-Macaulay, then G(X) is connected. We present two quantitative variants of Hartshorne's result: (1) If X is a Gorenstein subspace arrangement, then G(X) is r-connected, where r is the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of X. (The bound is best possible. For coordinate arrangements, it yields an algebraic extension of Balinski's theorem for simplicial polytopes.) (2) If X is an arrangement of lines no three of which meet in the same point, and X is canonically embedded in Pn, then the diameter of the graph G(X) is less than or equal to codimPnX. (The bound is sharp; for coordinate arrangements, it yields an algebraic expansion on the recent combinatorial result that the Hirsch conjecture holds for flag normal simplicial complexes.) On the way to these results, we show that there exists a graph which is not the dual graph of any simplicial complex (no matter the dimension)

    TUTELA DEL LAVORO E LIBERTA' D'IMPRESA NEI PROCESSI DI ESTERNALIZZAZIONE

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    L’elaborato analizza le conseguenze lavoristiche della successione fra imprenditori, muovendo da una ricognizione delle varie tipologie di esternalizzazione con le relative esigenze e principali criticità. L’indagine si concentra in primo luogo sul trasferimento d’azienda, esaminando la normativa e la giurisprudenza europee per passare poi alla disciplina di diritto interno, alle procedure sindacali e a uno specifico focus sul trasferimento delle aziende in crisi. Successivamente l’autore si sofferma sull’appalto, prendendone in particolare considerazione gli indici di genuinità, i criteri di distinzione dalla somministrazione illecita di manodopera e la tutela delle maestranze in caso di avvicendamento fra imprese. Da ultimo, la ricerca approfondisce le c.d. “clausole sociali”, sia di prima che di seconda generazione, valutandone la compatibilità con il diritto eurounitario e con la costituzione nonché riflettendo sui possibili rimedi in caso di loro violazione.The author analyzes the labour consequences of the succession between entrepreneurs, starting from a recognition of the various types of outsourcing with the related needs and main critical issues. The survey focuses primarily on the transfer of businesses, examining European legislation and case-law and then moving on to internal legislation, trade union procedures and a specific focus on the transfer of companies in crisis. The author then dwells on the contract, taking into account in particular the indications of authenticity, the criteria of distinction from the illicit administration of labour and the protection of workers in the event of turnover between companies. Finally, the research deepens the "social clauses", both first and second generation, assessing their compatibility with European law and with the constitution and reflecting on possible remedies in case of their violation

    Hamiltonian paths, unit-interval complexes, and determinantal facet ideals

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    We study d-dimensional generalizations of three mutually related topics in graph theory: Hamiltonian paths, (unit) interval graphs, and binomial edge ideals. We provide partial high-dimensional generalizations of Ore and Posa's sufficient conditions for a graph to be Hamiltonian. We introduce a hierarchy of combinatorial properties for simplicial complexes that generalize unit-interval, interval, and co-comparability graphs. We connect these properties to the already existing notions of determinantal facet ideals and (tight and weak) Hamiltonian paths in simplicial complexes. Some important consequences of our work are: (1) Every unit-interval strongly-connected d-dimensional simplicial complex is traceable. (This extends the well-known result "unit-interval connected graphs are traceable".) (2) Every unit-interval d-complex that remains strongly connected after the deletion ofdor less vertices, is Hamiltonian. (This extends the fact that "unit-interval 2-connected graphs are Hamiltonian".) (3) Unit-interval complexes are characterized, among traceable complexes, by the property that the minors defining diagonal term order which is compatible with the traceability of the complex. (This corrects a recent theorem by Ene et al., extends a result by Herzog and others, and partially answers a question by Almousa-Vandebogert.) (4) Only the d-skeleton of the simplex has a determinantal facet ideal with linear resolution. (This extends the result by Kiani and Saeedi-Madani that "only the complete graph has a binomial edge ideal with linear resolution".) (5) The determinantal facet ideals of all under-closed and semi-closed complexes have a square-free initial ideal with respect to lex. In characteristic p, they are even F-pure
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