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Buccione, R., Fortunato, E., Paternoster, M., Rizzo, G., Sinisi, R., Summa, V., Mongelli, G. 2020. Geochemistry and mineralogy of lacustrine and fluvio-lacustrine sediments: The case of the Pietra del Pertusillo fresh-water reservoir (Basilicata region, Southern Italy). EGU2020-9588 EGU General Assembly 2020, May 4-8.
No full textCaratteri idrogeologici ed idrogeochimici del settore meridionale dei M.ti della Maddalena (Appennino Meridionale, Basilicata).
No full textHydrogeological and hydrogeochemical features of the southern sector of the Maddalena Mounts (Southern Apennines)
The study area is located in the central-southern sector of the Maddalena Mounts and is part of a complex geological-structural framework generated by the tectonic overthrusting of the Limestone-Platform Unit onto the Lagonegrese Unit. The terrains outcropping in this area belong to five distinct stratigraphical-structural Units, which are, from bottom to top: Lagonegrese Unit, Limestone-Platform Unit, Liguride Unit and Miocene Flysch Unit. The Maddalena Mounts ridge is an important and complex carbonate hydrostructure of the Marzano Mount-Maddalena Mounts
stratigraphical-structural Unit. The study area is bounded, both westward and eastward, by huge tectonic discontinuities along which the Diano valley and the Meandro and Agri valleys have developed, respectively, and, northward and southward, by the alignments of Brienza-Atena Lucana and Casalbuono-Grumento Nova, respectively. The hydrogeological surveys have been carried out in order to define the pattern of groundwater circulation in the aquifer, which is extremely complex and fractioned. For this purpose, hydrogeochemical surveys have been also carried out of the basal water springs and some springs (nearly 30) located at middle-high elevation, by measuring in situ pH, electric conductivity and temperature, and by collecting water samples to determine, in laboratory, the main chemical constituents.
Hydrogeochemical data, which have been interpreted also in the light of the geological-structural and hydrogeological frameworks, and the evaluation of the average unit yield for each groundwater basin, have allowed us to suggest reliable hypothesis about the fractioning of the groundwater circulation and, consequently, to define the groundwater basins which feed the main springs of the area
Norm, Virtue and Information: Individual Behaviour and the Just Price in Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologica
No full textThis paper aims at putting forward the analytical stake of the few passages that Thomas Aquinas devotes to prices and exchange, mainly in the Summa Theologiae. At first sight, his objective is to enlighten a confessor vis-à-vis his penitent, or the judge in an ecclesiastical tribunal, by way of a group of normative prescriptions, tending to distinguish that which is just in commercial transactions from what is not. But on second thoughts, this objective leads the author to a more complex construction, which involves establishing a referential norm - the just price - to which the transaction price should be compared. It is recalled here that resorting to the just price - the discussion of which chiefly takes place in the commentaries on the Ethics avoids any consideration of individual behaviour. However, this last comes to the forefront when the issue dealt with is to explain the reasons why such a transaction price is equal to, or on the contrary departs from the just price. Thomas Aquinas' treatment of this issue allows one to acknowledge a) that individual behaviour is characterized by virtue or by vice in various informational contexts, and b) that the making of a transaction price is the result of a negotiation process between buyer and seller. In a context of correct information, where the partners are both virtuous, Thomas Aquinas explains why the transaction price is equal to the just price - in the exchange in se - or could differ from it - in the exchange per accidens. But focussing on the exchange in se, both an asymetry of information and the vice of at least one of the partners give rise to deception strategies leading to transaction prices, presented as just by the party who knows it is not, and agreed upon as just by the deceived party. Lastly, the possibility of retaining information during the negotiation process paves the way for the opportunity for the virtuous seller to protect himself against the higher power of negotiation of a possible vicious partner. Although aiming at a different goal, Thomas Aquinas thus provides a complete theory, not only of the just price, but more generally of exchange, in which ethical considerations become decisive in determining transaction prices.Just price; juste prix; medieval economics; pensée économique médiévale; Thomas Aquinas; Thomas d'Aquin; ethics; éthique
Negotiating Authority and Epistemic Humility: Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae I, 65-74 as a Propaedeutic Training in the Reverential Reading of Patristic Texts
No full textAquinas’ treatment of the Creation narrative (Genesis 1:1-2:4) within QQ 65-74 of the prima pars of his Summa Theologiae (ST) has long been and remains neglected, virtually unread, within the community of the readers of Aquinas. This neglect is born of a mistaken expectation of this section of the ST as a quest for theological or philosophical truth. Those reading his parallel treatments of the same material have deemed ST I, 65-74 insufficiently robust, shallow, even embarrassing for those who see him as a theological touchstone. But the readers of Aquinas in general and of the ST in particular have not asked why Aquinas elected to engage in this apparently simplistic treatment of a Scriptural passage which addressed issues that were foundational to his philosophical and theological project. Drawing upon Aquinas’ historical context and through comparison with his other treatments of the same biblical material this thesis argues that within these QQ Aquinas deliberately shaped his use of patristic sources to create both a primer on the use of these patristic sources for his students and, in so doing, also made a necessary appeal to all his readers that they embrace Augustine’s epistemic humility. Read through this lens, ST I, 65-74 provides important insights into Aquinas’ use of ideas and authoritative texts and once more gives voice to his still relevant call for epistemic humility
Compensatory growth in rainbow trout after starvation period and occurrences in fatty acid composition
No full textThe swap graph of the finite soluble groups
No full textFor a d-generated finite group G we consider the graph Δd(G) (swap graph) in which the vertices are the ordered generating d-tuples and in which two vertices (x1, ⋯ , xd) and (y1, ⋯ , yd) are adjacent if and only if they differ only by one entry. It was conjectured by Tennant and Turner that Δd(G) is a connected graph. We prove that this conjecture is true if G is a finite soluble group
Studio sui caratteri idrogeologici, idrogeochimici e quantitativi della principale sorgente del massiccio del M.te Pollino: sorgente del Mercure (Basilicata, Italia Meridionale).
No full textLidar and radar measurements of the melting layer: Observations of dark and bright band phenomena
No full textMulti-wavelength lidar measurements in the melting layer revealing the presence of dark and bright bands have been performed by the University of BASILicata Raman lidar system (BASIL) during a stratiform rain event. Simultaneously radar measurements have been also performed from the same site by the University of Hamburg cloud radar MIRA 36 (35.5 GHz), the University of Hamburg dual-polarization micro rain radar (24.15 GHz) and the University of Manchester UHF wind profiler (1.29 GHz). Measurements from BASIL and the radars are illustrated and discussed in this paper for a specific case study on 23 July 2007 during the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS). Simulations of the lidar dark and bright band based on the application of concentric/eccentric sphere Lorentz-Mie codes and a melting layer model are also provided. Lidar and radar measurements and model results are also compared with measurements from a disdrometer on ground and a two-dimensional cloud (2DC) probe on-board the ATR42 SAFIRE. Measurements and model results are found to confirm and support the conceptual microphysical/scattering model elaborated by Sassen et al. (2005).TelecommunicationsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Computational models of the recovery process in robot-assisted training
No full textThis chapter reviews the state of the art of computational models for neuromotor recovery, with a focus on state-space models that describe the development of functional behaviors through exercise and on the relation between neuromotor recovery and motor learning. We first review models of the dynamics of sensorimotor adaptation and motor skill learning. We then elaborate on similarities and differences with neuromotor recovery. We finally discuss how these models can be used to achieve a better understanding of the role of robots to promote recovery and to develop personalized forms of treatment
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