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Effects of a trapped vortex cell on thick wing profile
No full textExperimental investigation on the effects originated from a trapped vortex cell on the NACA0024 airfoi
The millet: an intermediate body of the Ottoman religious and legal pluralism
No full textEven if there still is a wide debate about the nature and the de nition of the empire, most scholars agree that every empire consists of something called a ‘core’ and something called a ‘periphery’. Furthermore, most of them agree that both ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ are situated in geographically bounded spac- es inhabited by culturally differentiated elites and populations. The Ottoman Empire (1302-1923) was one of the most important and long-lived traditional empire of European history. Like others (Habsburg and Romanov) it was characterized by the vastness of the territory and by the ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity. The Ottomans successfully maintained the imperial rule over a vast domain for many centuries thanks to their intrinsic exibility and ability to integrate diverse populations through pragmatic and tolerant poli- cies. To do that, the Ottomans created new institutions as intermediate bodies, between the core and the peripheries culturally and geographically conceived. Among these the institution of millet represents an original example of a vertical integration model as well as an innovative instrument involved in the management of interethnic relations. The term millet, originally used to refer both to one of the religions and the religious community itself, has been used to account for the administrative and legal status of the large numbers of non-Muslim under the Ottomans between the 15th and the 20th century
La caduta dell’Impero ottomano e gli arabi, dall’universalismo al particolarismo
No full textIl crollo dell’impero ottomano e la nascita del nazionalismo o, meglio, dei nazionalismi arabi sono due questioni strettamente intrecciate, per quanto il crollo dell’impero ottomano ha consentito alle correnti nazionaliste già vive presso i popoli inclusi in quell’organismo onnicomprensivo di rafforzarsi e di diventare più assertive. Ci focalizzeremo sul mondo arabo dopo la guerra in una prospettiva temporale di lungo periodo. La nostra tesi è che il nazionalismo (pan)arabo e i nazionalismi arabi si siano sviluppati su fondamenta deboli e contraddittorie
The millet: an intermediate body of the Ottoman religious and legal pluralism
No full textEven if there still is a wide debate about the nature and the de nition of the empire, most scholars agree that every empire consists of something called a ‘core’ and something called a ‘periphery’. Furthermore, most of them agree that both ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ are situated in geographically bounded spaces inhabited by culturally differentiated elites and populations. The Ottoman Empire (1302-1923) was one of the most important and long-lived traditional empire of European history. Like others (Habsburg and Romanov) it was characterized by the vastness of the territory and by the ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity. The Ottomans successfully maintained the imperial rule over a vast domain for many centuries thanks to their intrinsic exibility and ability to integrate diverse populations through pragmatic and tolerant policies. To do that, the Ottomans created new institutions as intermediate bodies, between the core and the peripheries culturally and geographically conceived. Among these the institution of millet represents an original example of a vertical integration model as well as an innovative instrument involved in the management of interethnic relations. The term millet, originally used to refer both to one of the religions and the religious community itself, has been used to account for the administrative and legal status of the large numbers of non-Muslim under the Ottomans between the 15th and the 20th century
Computational Analysis of Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interactions in Non-equilibrium Hypersonic Flow
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A Bayesian semiparametric vector Multiplicative Error Model
No full textInteractions among multiple time series of positive random variables are crucial in diverse financial applications, from spillover effects to volatility interdependence. A popular model in this setting is the vector Multiplicative Error Model (vMEM) which poses a linear iterative structure on the dynamics of the conditional mean, perturbed by a multiplicative innovation term. A main limitation of vMEM is however its restrictive assumption on the distribution of the random innovation term. A Bayesian semiparametric approach that models the innovation vector as an infinite location-scale mixture of multidimensional kernels with support on the positive orthant is used to address this major shortcoming of vMEM. Computational complications arising from the constraints to the positive orthant are avoided through the formulation of a slice sampler on the parameter-extended unconstrained version of the model. The method is applied to simulated and real data and a flexible specification is obtained that outperforms the classical ones in terms of fitting and predictive power
University Collections:Managing the artistic heritage behind the University ivory tower
No full textThe management of university museums and collections has been an issue for decades as they have played a crucial role in supporting the three missions of the higher education system: research, teaching and making academia’s resources available for public use. In this paper, we focus on the Italian case, where the enhancement, management and accessibility of university collections are all part of the evaluation system for universities. Our aim in this work is to propose a reconnaissance of university art collections in Italy and investigate the three managerial challenges defined by the Council of Europe: accessibility, financial sustainability and communication of university collections. The findings show that Italian universities hold an enormous cultural heritage, mainly undervalued, both in terms of number of artworks and in terms of the artworks’ economic value. In addition, Italian managerial approaches show significant critical issues regarding the three managerial challenges
A circuital model to compute the field distribution on rectangular apertures backed by rectangular cavities
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