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Biographical note and scientific works of prof. Duccio Cavalieri
No full textThis is a short self-biographical note by Duccio Cavalieri, containing a catalogue of his scientific works. It is a data-set file, not an essay
“But you think they’re qualifed I assume”: a comparative analysis of hypothetical questions in the InterDiplo Covid-19 Corpus
No full textHypothetical questions are a category of conditional questions that manipulate the representation of causal relations and reinforce the persuasiveness of the message. The speaker opts for an assumed truth with the purpose of indirectly obtaining interlocutors’ personal points of views avoiding direct confict-related situations. In this contribution, we focus on the use of hypothetical questions in media interviews in which diplomats and experts within the sector are asked about the pandemic situation. Specifcally, we examine similarities and diferences in the type and function of hypothetical requests posed by western and eastern journalists to answer the following research questions: 1) What is the linguistic design of HQs deployed in media discourse involving diplomats? 2) What discourse-pragmatic functions do HQs serve in those interviews? The comparative study is carried out on the InterDiploCovid 19 corpus (Facchinetti, Cavalieri & Corrizzato 2021), a collection of media interviews in which interviewees are interviewed in English on the spread and the socio-economic consequences of Covid19. We adopt a corpus-assisted discourse analysis focusing on a selection of markers and structures (but/and/what if; assuming (that); let’s assume; had + inversion) often associated with hypothetical questions and investigating the diferent functions as to their context of use. As data demonstrate, journalists tend to ask HQs to formulate conjectures and create scenarios functional to the line of questioning of the interviewer. Both western and * The article has been jointly planned by the two authors: Sara Corrizzato has dealt with sections 1, 3 (3.1), while Silvia Cavalieri with sections 2, 3 (3.2), 4. Silvia Cavalieri and Sara Corrizzato 132 eastern journalists seem to prefer ‘confrm’ HQs making a more extensive recourse to leading questioning strategies
L' ospedale dei Cavalieri a Rodi
No full textAn article discussing the history and architecture of the hospital that was used by the Order of St. John in Rhodes, Greece.peer-reviewe
Editorial: Zebrafish Epigenetics
No full textA key area of focus in the field of epigenetics pertains the comprehension of the functional relevance of the epigenetic mechanisms occurring during embryogenesis to shape normal developmental trajectories and adult phenotypes (Atlasi and Stunnenberg, 2017; Skvortsova et al., 2018; Cavalieri, 2021; Marchione et al., 2021).
Several lines of evidence highlighted that the small freshwater cyprinid Danio rerio, commonly known as zebrafish, is an excellent vertebrate model for research purposes in the field of epigenetics (Huang et al., 2013; Balasubramanian et al., 2019; Horsfield, 2019; Cavalieri, 2020). The general strengths of zebrafish over concurrent models are well known: ease of husbandry and maintenance in laboratory, high fecundity, external fertilization, short life cycle and generation time. Beyond this, the increasing popularity of zebrafish for epigenetic research purposes is due to two main reasons. First, components of the epigenetic machinery have been widely characterized in zebrafish, showing overall conservation with mammals (Howe et al., 2013; Cavalieri and Spinelli, 2017). No less important, zebrafish embryos are optically translucent and relatively permeable to a wide range of compounds, allowing non-invasive live imaging of morphogenesis and phenotypes following exposure to environmental stressors that challenge the epigenome (Godinho, 2011; Ali et al., 2014). Altogether, these benefits also make zebrafish an outstanding model for large-scale screening of potential therapeutics targeting epigenetic regulatory mechanisms
Genre variation and changes in frame sequences across cultures: the case of Criminology RA abstracts in English and French
No full textThough not as widely studied as the Research Article (RA), the abstract has attracted increasing interest among researchers over last decades (Swales 1990, Bhatia 1993, Dos Santos 1996, Lorés-Sanz 2008, Bondi/Cavalieri 2012, Cavalieri 2014). A number of contrastive or comparative studies of abstracts in English and other languages (Martín- Martín 2005, Lorés Sanz 2006, Van Bonn & Swales 2007, Diani 2014) have already been carried out considering mainly the hard sciences and some soft sciences such as linguistics and history, however no cross-cultural analyses have been conducted so far between RA abstracts in English and RA abstracts in French published in the legal field. This paper seeks to investigate genre variation and changes in frame sequences comparatively in English and French RA abstracts from criminology journals. Using a genre analytical approach to qualitative and quantitative data, the paper reports on two comparable corpora, i.e. English and French, of electronically retrieved abstracts from Criminology Journals published in 2014. The two corpora are composed of three journals per language, namely Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology for the English corpus, and Champ Pénal, Criminologie, Revue Canadienne de Droit Pénal et Criminologie for the French corpus. The analysis will be carried out following two main steps, i.e. a macro-analysis and a micro-analysis. In the former step, the corpora are compared by the analysis and discussion of the basic IMRD rhetorical move structure for the RA often proposed in the literature (e.g. Nwogu 1990; Swales 1990; Bhatia 1993; Ventola 1994; Martín-Martín 2002) and the additional five moves model postulated by Dos Santos (1996) with the aim of investigating the linguistic and rhetorical variation in the abstract genre from a cross-cultural perspective. In the latter, we look at frame sequences (Bondi/Cavalieri 2012) combining forms of self-mentions and frame markers (Hyland 2005), i.e. personal patterns, impersonal patterns and locational patterns (Dahl 2004). Provisional results show that the abstracts under investigation largely follow the international conventions based on the norms established by the English-speaking international academic community. However, variation across the two cultures emerged from the linguistic realizations of framework sequences. Cross-cultural implications are discussed at the close
The Horizontal Metropolis : HM : a radical project
No full textTwo contrasting terms are joined to conjugate the traditional idea of metropolis with horizontality; to combine the center of a vast territory—hierarchically organized, dense, vertical, and produced by polarization—with the idea of a more diffuse, isotropic urban condition, where center and periphery blur. Beyond a simplistic center versus periphery opposition, the concept of a horizontal metropolis reveals the dispersed condition as a potential asset, rather than a limit, to the construction of a sustainable and innovative urban dimension.
Around 1990, Terry McGee, an urban researcher at University of British Columbia, coined the term desakota, deriving from Indonesian “desa” (village) and “kota” (city). Desakota areas typically occur in Asia, especially South East Asia. The term describes an area situated outside the periurban zone, often sprawling alongside arterial and communication roads, sometimes from one agglomeration to the next. They are characterized by high population density and intensive agricultural use, but differ from densely populated rural areas by more urban-like characteristics.
The new book The Horizontal Metropolis investigates such areas alongside examples in the US, Italy, and Switzerland. The study highlights the advantages of the concept and its relevance under economical, ecological, and social aspects. The concept reflects a vision of global urbanization that does no longer allow for “outside” areas and that will test the urban ecosystem to its limits.
Chiara Cavalieri is an architect and Professor of Urbanism and Territorial Management at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium and member of the executive committee of the Habitat Research Center at EPFL in Lausanne.
Paola Viganò is Professor at EPFL in Lausanne and the University Iuav of Venice. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design and at multiple European schools, and is a founding member of the European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism (EMU)
RHETORICAL VARIATION IN ENGLISH AND ITALIAN LAW RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS: A CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
No full textThe study of academic discourse has become an area of great interest over the last two decades, especially from a genre perspective (e.g. Swales 1990, 2004; Bhatia 1993, 2004). Research in the field has mainly focused on highly conventionalised written academic genres, such as research articles, abstracts, and textbooks, often combining linguistic and rhetorical analysis. Although not as widely studied as the research article itself or the textbook, the abstract has drawn the attention of a number of genre researchers (Salager-Meyer 1990; Bhatia 1993; Kaplan et al. 1994; Santos 1996; Bondi 1997, 2001; Hyland 2000; Martín-Martín 2003; Dahl 2004; Lorés-Sanz 2004, 2009; Samraj 2005; Pho 2008; Bondi and Cavalieri 2012; Bondi and Lorés-Sanz 2014).
Genre-based studies on research article (RA) abstracts have received quite a lot of scholarly attention in English (e.g. Graetz 1985; Berkenkotter and Huckin 1995; Santos 1996; Hyland 2000; Lorés-Sanz 2004; Cross and Oppenheim 2006; Swales and Feak 2009), across different disciplinary fields (Harvey and Horsella 1988; Salager-Meyer 1990; Tibbo 1992; Lindeberg 1996; Anderson and Maclean 1997; Hartley and Benjamin 1998; Samraj 2005; Busch-Lauer 2014; Cavalieri 2014), and across cultures. There are studies comparing English with Spanish (Martín-Martín 2003, 2005; Lorés-Sanz 2009), French (Crosnier 1993; Van Bonn and Swales 2007; Alonso-Almeida 2014; Hatzitheodorou 2014), Portuguese (Johns 1992), German (Busch-Lauer 1995), Swedish (Melander et al. 1997), and Arabic (Alharbi and Swales 2011). One notable exception to date is lack of attention to abstracts written in Italian.
The context of this work is provided by a previous study (Diani 2014) which looked at the rhetorical structure of English and Italian RA abstracts in the field of linguistics. The aim of the present study is to extend previous observations to the field of law, with the intent of investigating the rhetorical preferences that characterize the members of the international and Italian scientific communities in this disciplinary field.
Within this field, extensive research has been conducted on the analysis of non-academic texts (e.g. Bhatia 1993, 2008; Gotti and Williams 2010; Bhatia et al. 2012). To the best of our knowledge, however, little attention has been paid to the analysis of academic legal texts such as RAs (Feak et al. 2000; Tessuto 2008; Peacock 2011; Sala 2012, 2014; Tessuto 2015), and RA abstracts in particular: in fact, only few studies are known to us (Frey and Kaplan 2010; Tessuto 2012; Hatzitheodorou 2014; Sala 2014; Cavalieri and Preite forthcoming). This paper seeks to fill the gap by providing insights into variation across the two cultures emerged from the linguistic realisations of the rhetorical moves characterizing the abstract genre in the discipline of criminal law
System Dynamics modeling for Product-Service Systems. A case study in the agri-machine industry
No full textThe increasing role of services in the strategic plans and the economics of industrial companies poses new relevant organizational and management challenges. Shifting from a transactional to a lifelong relational approach with the customer requires major consideration of those processes which are carried out through the service network. Empirical decisions for tackling such new market opportunities could turn out to be counterproductive if taken on the fly, affecting negatively the overall performance of a service network. This paper exploits the potential of continuous simulation as a support for handling decision making processes in a Product-Service System context. A System Dynamics model has been developed and, within this paper, has been specifically applied to quantitatively assess how the introduction of preventive maintenance contracts can influence the overall service performance of a manufacturer of farm machinery
Rhetorical Variation in English and Italian Law Research Article Abstracts: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis
No full textThe study of academic discourse has become an area of great interest over the last two decades, especially from a genre perspective (e.g. Swales 1990, 2004; Bhatia 1993, 2004). Research in the field has mainly focused on highly conventionalised written academic genres, such as research articles, abstracts, and textbooks, often combining linguistic and rhetorical analysis. Although not as widely studied as the research article itself or the textbook, the abstract has drawn the attention of a number of genre researchers (Salager-Meyer 1990; Bhatia 1993; Kaplan et al. 1994; Santos 1996; Bondi 1997, 2001; Hyland 2000; Martín-Martín 2003; Dahl 2004; Lorés-Sanz 2004, 2009; Samraj 2005; Pho 2008; Bondi and Cavalieri 2012; Bondi and Lorés-Sanz 2014).
Genre-based studies on research article (RA) abstracts have received quite a lot of scholarly attention in English (e.g. Graetz 1985; Berkenkotter and Huckin 1995; Santos 1996; Hyland 2000; Lorés-Sanz 2004; Cross and Oppenheim 2006; Swales and Feak 2009), across different disciplinary fields (Harvey and Horsella 1988; Salager-Meyer 1990; Tibbo 1992; Lindeberg 1996; Anderson and Maclean 1997; Hartley and Benjamin 1998; Samraj 2005; Busch-Lauer 2014; Cavalieri 2014), and across cultures. There are studies comparing English with Spanish (Martín-Martín 2003, 2005; Lorés-Sanz 2009), French (Crosnier 1993; Van Bonn and Swales 2007; Alonso-Almeida 2014; Hatzitheodorou 2014), Portuguese (Johns 1992), German (Busch-Lauer 1995), Swedish (Melander et al. 1997), and Arabic (Alharbi and Swales 2011). One notable exception to date is lack of attention to abstracts written in Italian.
The context of this work is provided by a previous study (Diani 2014) which looked at the rhetorical structure of English and Italian RA abstracts in the field of linguistics. The aim of the present study is to extend previous observations to the field of law, with the intent of investigating the rhetorical preferences that characterize the members of the international and Italian scientific communities in this disciplinary field.
Within this field, extensive research has been conducted on the analysis of non-academic texts (e.g. Bhatia 1993, 2008; Gotti and Williams 2010; Bhatia et al. 2012). To the best of our knowledge, however, little attention has been paid to the analysis of academic legal texts such as RAs (Feak et al. 2000; Tessuto 2008; Peacock 2011; Sala 2012, 2014; Tessuto 2015), and RA abstracts in particular: in fact, only few studies are known to us (Frey and Kaplan 2010; Tessuto 2012; Hatzitheodorou 2014; Sala 2014; Cavalieri and Preite forthcoming). This paper seeks to fill the gap by providing insights into variation across the two cultures emerged from the linguistic realisations of the rhetorical moves characterizing the abstract genre in the discipline of criminal law
Cavalieri integration
No full textWe use Cavalieri's principle to develop a novel integration technique which we call Cavalieri integration. Cavalieri integrals differ from Riemann integrals in that non-rectangular integration strips are used. In this way we can use single Cavalieri integrals to find the areas of some interesting regions for which it is difficult to construct single Riemann integrals. We also present two methods of evaluating a Cavalieri integral by first transforming it to either an equivalent Riemann or Riemann-Stieltjes integral by using special transformation functions h(x) and its inverse g(x), respectively. Interestingly enough it is often very difficult to find the transformation function h(x), whereas it is very simple to obtain its inverse g(x)
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