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Contributo psicometrico alla costruzione del Mini Personality Test
No full textIn questa ricerca sono stati affrontati alcuni dei processi necessari per la validazione del Mini Personality Test (Cioffi e Pastore, 2005). L'analisi fattoriale esplorativa, eseguita sul primo dei campioni estratti, ha confermato le tre dimensioni (Estroversione, Nevroticismo e Psicoticismo). L'analisi fattoriale confermativa, condotta sul secondo campione estratto, ripresenta i risultati dell'analisi fattoriale esplorativa. Il modello risente (come nella versione originale del test) dei valori insufficienti dello psicoticismo. I risultati negativi potrebbero però essere legati al cambio di categoria subito da alcuni items
Viviani A., Golia C., Cioffi M. 1996 Magnetic effects on non-linear Marangoni flow in plane liquid bridges
No full textItalian Academy Colombia Fellowship
No full textDuring the fall semester spent at the Italian Academy , cosponsored by the Earth and Environmental Engineering Department of Columbia University of New York, I worked on the research project ‘ Climate changes from decade to century: flood/drought dynamics’.
Such a research project involves different partners and Institutions , namely Columbia University (USA) , University of Rome ‘ La Sapienza’(Italy) , National Research Center (CNR-Italy), Institute of Numerical Model (Russian Science Academy), University of Tuscia Italy).
The research goal is to produce scientifically sound scenarios of flood and drought risk in N. America and Europe and their projected changes under IPCC scenarios.
A novel integrated modelling approach is used to address this issue. The approach entails integration of analyses from a low order dynamical systems model, a medium resolution current ocean-atmosphere GCM, and statistical tools for connecting atmospheric moisture transport and extreme precipitation incidence to the underlying low frequency climate state.
A low order model explores the interactions of the key natural modes of ocean-atmosphere variability and their interaction with the mid-latitude atmosphere.
The CGM model INMCM3.0 (Volodin & Diansky 2006) allows to simulate planetary climatic conditions for long periods of time under current conditions and under enhanced greenhouse gases conditions. However, given its complexity only a limited number of ensemble runs can typically be performed for a fixed set of parameters. Thus, its use is complementary to the low order models where substantial exploration of the parameters and the associated regimes can be done.
In the Fall semester spent in the Italian Academy the research has been addressed to study:
- the organization and evolution of climate extremes in the mid-latitude as they are influenced by low-frequency climate modes associated with ocean-atmosphere interactions; specifically such influences have been explored by using observations and low-order models.
- precipitation extremes simulated by the medium resolution GCM ( INMCM3.0) as are analyzed for the Mediterranean region.
The main findings of the study are extensively discussed in the paper ‘Surface Temperature Gradient and their relation to Mid-latitude Circulation Dynamics & Interannual Precipitation variability: Trends and links to Enso in Observations and Low-order Climate Models ’ by C. Karamperidou, F. Cioffi & U. Lall, and in the two presentations at the AGU2010 Fall Conference , namely (a) ‘"Northern Hemisphere Meridional and Zonal Temperature Gradients and their Relation to Hydrologic Extremes at Mid-latitudes: Trends, Variability and Link to Climate Modes in Observations and Simulations" , by C. Karamperidou, U. Lall & F. Cioffi ; (b) GCM Projections of Precipitation Extremes in the Mediterranean: Changes and Low frequency Characteristics by F. Cioffi ; U. Lall , E. Volodin , C. Karamperidou , R. Purini .
These findings are summarized in the following. The analysis of rainfall patterns under global warming shows an increase of rainfall extremes in both frequency and intensity in northern Europe and a decrease in most of the Mediterranean. In the latter region an increase of dry conditions is also observed. The change in the rainfall patterns can be explained by a northward shift of the North Atlantic winter storm track that is one of the main factors in determining moisture and heat transport associated with extreme hydrological events. It depends on how the jet stream dynamics are modulated by large scale ocean-land boundary conditions which depend in turn on both the state of evolution of the known inter-annual and multi-decadal natural variability ( e.g. El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)) and on changes in meridional and zonal surface temperature gradients ( Equator- Pole gradient (EPG) and Ocean-Land contrast ( OLC), respectively). From the 20th century observations is emerged that different combinations of EPG and OLC are associated with precipitation anomalies at mid-latitudes as Mediterranean and European regions. The Northward shift of the North Atlantic storm track and the associated rainfall patterns are related to a reduction of both EPG and OLC as a consequence of anthropogenic forcing
CIOFFI, C. (translation and notes by) Anonimo Cesariano, La guerra d’Africa (Bellum Africum), original text included, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2022, ISBN 978-88-00-75031-8
No full textTraduzione e note di commento al Bellum Africum, opera di discusso autore
The Musical Life of Billy Cioffi: A Narrative Inquiry
No full textabstract: The purpose of this study is to raise questions by exploring, writing, imagining, and telling the musical life stories of Billy Cioffi. Billy Cioffi is a professional musician, band leader, private teacher, professor of English, and, formerly, a musical director for acts such as Chuck Berry, Del Shannon, and others. In this document I explore the life of Billy Cioffi with the following questions in mind: 1. What might Billy's musical experiences, expertise, teaching, and learning teach us about music education? 2. What might the story of Billy’s musical life cause us to question about institutional music education? 3. How might his story trouble beliefs and perceptions about music teaching and learning? Prior to Billy’s story, which appears as a novella, I raise questions about popular music, its histories, and its place in music education contexts. Following the novella, I invite readers into four different “endings” to this document.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Music Education 201
Approcci critici e progettuali in tema di intervento sui centri storici in Italia
No full texti centri storici nella tutela dell'antic
Strumenti di gestione e pianificazione dei beni paesaggistici
No full textstrumenti per la gestione della tutela del paesaggio adeguati ai principi della convenzione europea ratificata nel 2004 nonché alle finalità di tutela del codice "urbani
Tutela del paesaggio nelle politiche europee e nazionali
No full textDisposizioni europee e nazionali concernenti la tutela del paesaggio - analisi della Convenzione europea del paesaggi
Cathédrale Saint-Cyr et Sainte-Juliette, West Apse and NaveCathedral of Saint Cyricus and Saint Julitta, West Apse and Nave
No full textNevers is situated east of Bourges in rural Burgundy on the banks of the Loire River. Its cathedral, dedicated to martyr saints Julitta and her young son Cyricus (Julitte and Cyr), is unusual in that it has two apses: a Romanesque apse facing west and a Gothic apse facing east joined by a Gothic nave. This arresting juxtaposition of styles is only one of the features that testifies to the church's vitality throughout history. The 11th C. Romanesque cathedral (dedicated in 1058) was built on the foundations of a Carolingian church and retained its orientation toward the west. After fires damaged the church in 1211 and 1308 the nave and choir were rebuilt in the contemporary Gothic style, which included re-orienting the church toward the east. Nevertheless, the western apse with its late 12th C. fresco of Christ in Glory, was retained. (The fresco was later whitewashed and only re-discovered in 1879-although in poor condition. It was restored in 1990.)The cathedral was classified as an historical monument in 1862.In July 1944, Nevers suffered bombardment. The church was damaged and all of the 19th C. stained glass windows in the nave and both apses were blown out. Out of that destruction, the Cathédrale Saint-Cyr et Sainte-Julitte stretched its history both backward and forward. In the course of repairing the war damage, a 6th C. Baptistery was uncovered. It had been constructed as a free-standing building with a hexagonal pool for baptism of adults at its center, surrounded by eight marble pillars that delimited an ambulatory and supported a mosaic-covered dome. As early as the 1960s state agents concerned with historical monuments, representatives of the church and artists began to collaborate on efforts to replace the cathedral's windows. These efforts finally began to bear fruit in the 1980s. By the summer of 1981, when Father Paul Cioffi captured this image, the first of Raoul Ubac's windows had been installed: an abstract composition of undulating golden yellows in the center of the Romanesque apse. Ubac (Belgian, 1910-1985), working with master glazier Charles Marq (French b. 1923) and l'Atelier Simon Marq, added a blue-green window on either side of the central golden one, and a rose-colored design in the oculus in the apse arch above the fresco. Since the 1990s, artists François Rouan (French b. 1943), Gottfried Honegger (Swiss b. 1917), Claude Viallat (French b. 1936) and Jean-Michel Alberola (French b. 1953), in collaboration with various glass studios, have installed 1052 square meters of new stained glass creations. Work was completed ca. 2005. ca. August 198
Design experiments for the Domitian coast masterplan
No full textThe project starts from a study of the Domitian Coast Masterplan drawn up by the architect Andreas
Kipar.
The objective of the Plan is to better interpret the strategic lines of eco-sustainable development,
concretely aiming at the valorisation of the resources in an area of 75,000 hectares with a stable
population of about 370,000 inhabitants.
The general redefinition project starts from strengthening the attractors already present in the area.
This can be done by implementing and valorising the identity of the places, while also reinforcing both
the concept of community as well as the important relationship with the sea.
The new projects and development indications will be in line with the European directives on zero land
consumption as well as with the requests coming from the territory, in order to generate a model of
peaceful coexistence between the eco-sustainable and economic compatibility requirements resulting
from the tourism – territorial valorisation.
The starting point becomes the landscape in a general sense, no longer intended as a physical place
to be preserved tout court, something that has not managed to avert the significant looting that has
been carried out for years, but rather becomes the driving force of sustainable development through
the use of waterways and wetlands, naturalistic areas as well as historical and archaeological areas.
In the future, it is imagined that the landscape could become a cultured type of tourist attraction,
ranging from bathing to nature areas, integrated with the extensive agricultural system
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