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Messina, città nobilissima : descritta in VIII. libri /
No full textIncludes index.Engraved t.p. vignette (allegory of Messina). Full-page engraved port. of author, leaf [4]v. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials."Nella quale si contengono i suoi primi fondatori, sito, edificij sacri, & publichi, porto, fortezze, strade, piazze, fonti, venute di principi, funerali, feste sacre, secolari, vsi, armamento, & della dignità sacra & secolare, con altre cose notabili & degne di memoria."Mode of access: Internet.Copy 1 signed on front free endpaper recto by Giacomo Soranzo, and dated 1728.Binding, c. 1: later heavy paper. Page edges blue. Binding, c. 2: later vellum. Author, title & date written at head of spine. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredge
The wronskian and its derivatives
No full textArticolo testo di una conferenza tenuta presso l'Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti (Messina
A Revised Sex Assessment of the Epigravettian Human Remain ST1 from San Teodoro Cave (Messina, Sicily)
No full textBias in skeletal sexing is well known and depends upon the completeness of the skeletal remains. The problem is very hard concerning prehistorical remains.
We applied ‘Visual methods’ and ‘Probabilistic Sex Diagnosis’ (DSP) on the coxal bones on the Epigravettian
skeleton (ST1) from San Teodoro (Messina, Sicily).
On the basis of cranial characters and the overall robustness of the postcranial skeleton, it was suggested,
since the time of the discovery, a male sex for ST1. This determination was later modified on the basis of the pelvic girdle morphology, and the skeleton was attributed the female sex for many years by large consensus.
Our results indicate without ambiguity that ST1 is a male and show the importance of applying update
methods of sex determination to ancient remains
Il decremento termico del cadavere: dalle formule empiriche all'applicazione pratica
No full textIl decremento termico del cadavere: dalle formule empiriche all’applicazione pratica Messina V., Lucidi D., Ciallella C. Dipartimento di Medicina Legale – Sapienza Università di Roma Nel presente lavoro vengono riportate le osservazioni sperimentali relative al decremento termico nel cadavere e le formule elaborate per descrivere il fenomeno, partendo dall’equazione fondamentale di raffreddamento di Newton. Nel tempo si so-no susseguite diverse formule empiriche ricavate da studi osservazionali che vengono analizzate fino a quella di Marshall e Hoare, sottoposta ad ulteriore elaborazione da parte di Henssge, che ha elaborato l’omonimo nomogramma, la cui applicazione a casi pratici viene illustrata. La necessità di una risposta ad un quesito specifico rende l’indagine relativa all’epoca della morte immanente nell’attività del patologo forense; tuttavia è doveroso considerare che, anche dall’analisi delle conoscenze sul decremento termometrico nel cadavere, si rileva che la maggior parte dei dati empirici si fondano su osservazioni in condizioni standard e, quindi, descrivono l’andamento in una dimensione ideale che, nell’applicazione al caso concreto, necessita di approssimazioni e richiede adeguamenti che rendono il dato materiale (derivato dall’osservazione empirica) su-scettibile di variazioni cospicue. Fra i numerosi algoritmi, attraverso i quali è possibile descrive la dispersione termica nel cadavere, nessuno ha avuto attuazione pratica tale da venire normalmen-te impiegato nella pratica forense, tranne quello di Marshall e Hoare, che è stato sot-toposto ad ulteriore elaborazione da parte di Henssge il quale ha, a sua volta, elaborato un nomogramma nel quale è possibile attribuire un’incidenza ponderata ai vari fattori (intrinseci ed estrinseci) che determinano la dispersione termica nel caso concreto: è l’unico metodo disponibile in letteratura con queste caratteristiche e la sua validità è stata verificata in studi scientifici controllati
La restituzione prospettica: dall’immagine fotografica alla definizione metrico-geometrica del monumento
No full textIl volume è presente nella Biblioteca Nazionale centrale di Roma (consultare il catalogo on-line all'indirizzo http://193.206.215.17/result.php
HUMAN PEOPLING OF SICILY DURING QUATERNARY
No full textABSTRACT
The early human peopling of Sicily and Western Mediterranean shores is one of the debated topic in the archaeological and anthropological literature over the twentieth century. This discussion involves not only the specific issue of the peopling of the continental island, but fundamentally the reconstruction of human migration routes and dispersals across the Mediterranean area during Early and Middle Pleistocene. Even if the common route of faunal and human movement is considered from North, and relative to the Messina strait crossing, several authors, on the base of archaeological evidences, hypothesized an early peopling and an African provenance through the Sicilian Channel. This hypothesis has been mostly rejected even if diverse palaeontological and especially archaeological findings of Modus 1 and 2 artifacts from Southern
Sicily renewed the attention to this issue. However most Sicilian archaeological evidences are spotty and frequently dubitative, as they lack of stratigraphic context. Direct anthropological data are scarce and relative only to the Upper Palaeolithic and indicate a H. sapiens migration from Italian mainland.
Nevertheless, palaeontological and palaeogeographic data do not exclude the possibility of a Middle Pleistocene human peopling at least.
Our different research fields helped us to face the problem through diverse perspectives, on the main intent of a critical revision of all the available data from palaeontology, archaeology, palaeogeography and physical anthropology.
We propose a critic discussion of the industrial evidences, the georeference of lithic and faunal retrieval sites during Early and Middle Pleistocene and a tentative palaeogeographic reconstruction of Middle Pleistocene coastal lines of Sicily on the base of the georeferred sites. Furthermore, using cranial morphometry in a wide comparative analysis between Upper Palaeolithic Sicilian, European and African samples, we indicate the probable population relationship in Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic transition periods. Our results do not exclude the possibility of several sporadic human peopling related to the Messina Strait accessibility since the Middle Pleistocene. A pulsating trend of
dispersal and extinction characterized humans in Sicily at least until Mesolithic transition
On the performance of advanced three-dimensional models for cylindrically bent plates subjected to arbitrary boundary conditions
No full textBased on recent researches (e.g. [1–3]) aimed at approaching the three-dimensional dynamical values (natural frequencies and mode shapes) of multilayered plates subjected to classical although arbitrary boundary conditions, the interest of the present communication is based on the attempt to test the pres- ent simple analytical approach while preserving the accuracy of the results within the frame of the exist- ing modern calculators. Such an attempt has been previously pursued by the present author through the classical theorem of virtual displacements along with the adoption of the global piecewise smooth func- tions (GPSFs) [4]; as is shown by Messina and Rollo [2] and Messina [3], such a formalization has allowed one to deal with a multilayered architecture as if the plates were made up of a single layer sub- jected to classical arbitrary boundary conditions with, these latter, even dealt with through only three distinct functional bases. The fact that any explicit continuity conditions of the relevant interfacial stress components are not explicitly introduced could be worth mentioning. The above-mentioned analyses left, however, open questions; indeed, Messina [3] noticed certain boundary conditions as mainly respon- sible for a low convergence of eigenvalues to the expected exact three-dimensional counterparts.
After investigating the mentioned influence of boundary conditions [3], this writer became aware of static analyses of possible relevant interest. In particular, this writer noticed with extreme interest the paper by Vel and Batra [5] to which the attention of this note is essentially addressed. Vel and Batra [5] analysed the generalized plane strain deformations from a static point of view and by using the Eshelby– Stroh formalism. In spite of the different nature of the problem (static in [5], dynamic in [1,3]) we must accept the fact that a possible slack convergence at exact values in a static analysis is a particular aspect of its dynamic counterpart and vice versa.
Therefore, this author discusses the performance of the Eshelby–Stroh formalism, illustrated by Vel and Batra [5], in comparison to the capability of an analytical model to deal with multilayered plates as if they were made up of a single layer architecture [1,3] within the frame of static deformations. Interestingly the comparison will show how sometimes the explicit introduction of the required natural boundary conditions can reduce the accuracy of the results. Moreover, it is shown how the GPSFs bring remarkable benefits when used to model multilayered plates; the benefits can even increase when the GPSFs are used in multiple dimensions rather than only through the thickness of the plate. In passing, and finally, the present comparison shows a slight disagreement with Vel and Batra [5] for few transver- sal stress component distributions; this slight disagreement, however, is definitely of extremely minor importance when compared to the clean and helpful frame offered by the analysis of [5]
Analysis of Earthquake Damage to Ancient Buildings on the San Raineri Peninsula, Messina, Sicily
No full textA study aimed to shed some light on building collapse caused by the
strongest earthquakes in the San Raineri Peninsula (Messina) is here reported.
Although a compilation of structurally damaged buildings is widely reported in historical
sources, the interpretation of seismic collapse has often been doubtful or ambiguous.
We therefore performed an exhaustive and detailed review of seismic effects
caused by the 1783 and 1908 earthquakes on the peninsula buildings. Geological and
geotechnical data were also collected on the peninsula. The results of boring data
reveal high seismic vulnerability for the peninsula in some areas. The study shows
that the ancient buildings were damaged by settlement due to soil liquefaction rather
than by seismic shaking of the large walls. The obtained results show that further
investigations must be carried out in this area for a correct town planning of the
peninsula.Published2067-20793.10. Storia ed archeologia applicate alle Scienze della TerraJCR Journalrestricte
Aldo Messina. — Le chiese rupestri del Siracusano, 1979 (" Monumenti ", 2)
No full textBuxton D. R. Aldo Messina. — Le chiese rupestri del Siracusano, 1979 (" Monumenti ", 2). In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 25e année (n°97), Janvier-mars 1982. pp. 71-73
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