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Mean, variance and skewness for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
No full textMean, variance, and skewness of the first passage time distribution for a normalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and for time-independent thresholds are obtained for a set of preassigned initial values. This is done to complement the statistical tables by Keilson and Ross (1971) and in order to allow for ranges of the parameters of neurobiological interest
A neurogenetic and morphogenetic approach to hippocampal functions based on individual differences and neurobehavioral covariations.
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Adrenocorticoid receptor binding in the rat hippocampus: strain-dependent covariations with arousal and habituation to novelty
No full textStrategies for the valorisation of monastic architectures. The Case of the Badia of Pattano in Cilento
No full textThe regeneration of rural areas is a current issue that needs valorization strategies, on a small and
large scale, of the cultural heritage hosted in it and often forgotten or abandoned. Cultural heritage
represents a precious resource, the result of interaction and connections over the centuries between
populations and places. The main route consists in the innovation of the forms of management and
dissemination through the current ITC, placing as a basis the synergy interaction of different fields of
research. This paper is part of a wider research on Cilento’s monastic architectures, on their interrelationships
and ramifications in a fabric generally not prone to contamination. The attention is focused
on the Badia of Santa Maria of Pattano in Vallo della Lucania (SA), testimony of eastern monasticism
in southern Italy, an almost forgotten Byzantine architecture that needs enhancement by means of
strategies and processes based on multiscalar approaches and open minded.
Through the contextual critical reading of the archive documents and the infographic models produced
by systematic surveys, the initial objective is to identify and date the most significant transformations
of the monastery, to understand its relationship with the territory
Timber: materialization and abstraction
No full textIn The Origin of the Work of Art, Martin Heidegger explores the conception of ‘things’ as formed matter: if we appeal to use, function or purpose, form is prior to matter, since matter (-mater) wouldn’t be distributed in such manner where this not because of the form. If we elaborate this idea of “determination” or intention, the determinative character of the form is bound up with the purpose of the component made with a particular material, because material is something to be shaped according to intention. In the other hand, a second etymological meaning through the root –mater presents material as an agent of development: it spurs on processes than can be seen as extensions of the substance of matter, instigating perceptual possibilities, acting: absorbing, smelling, degenerating… Instead of the idea of determination, we are elaborating now the idea of “understanding”.
Triggered by this discussion on materiality and within the scope of timber as an architectural material, the following question is yet to be answered: is there an ideal form of the material, a form that gets closer than any other to that which timber should be? This work looks at the processes that have shaped and shape timber as a material in order to analyze if it can be released from culturally expected formal notions and respond to applications which extend its material history
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