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    Motivi letterari nei libri per l’infanzia di Paolo Di Paolo

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    The article, organised in the form of a discussion, aims to analyse the themes and motifs of Paolo Di Paolo’s works that are addressed to young audiences. The author has recently published a large number of volumes directed just at younger readers. When beholding the titles that constitute the author’s bibliography, the reader is struck by Di Paolo’s predisposition to transform literary classics: as much in Giacomo il signor bambino as in the edition of the Divina Commedia, the author’s goal is to try to reach his new readers. Therefore, Di Paolo proves to be a prolific author of the genre; in fact, in his bibliography, volumes of fairy tales with a classic slant, such as La mucca volante, are listed as well.L’articolo contiene un’analisi di temi e di motivi delle opere di Paolo Di Paolo dirette al pubblico più piccolo. L’autore negli ultimi anni ha pubblicato un cospicuo numero di volumi indirizzati, infatti, proprio ai lettori più giovani. Ciò che stupisce scorgendo i titoli che costituiscono la bibliografia dell’autore, è la predisposizione a trasformare i classici della letteratura: tanto in Giacomo il signor bambino quanto nell’edizione della Divina Commedia l’obiettivo è cercare di raggiungere i lettori più giovani. Di Paolo si dimostra, quindi, un autore prolifico del genere, tant’è che nell’elenco non mancano volumi fiabeschi dal taglio classico come La mucca volante. Analizzare le opere giovanili dello scrittore costituisce un fatto inedito

    Pier Paolo Pasolini e la società: il "sogno di una cosa" travolto dalla "nuova preistoria"

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    L’articolo prende in esame – nel centenario della nascita – il “pensiero politico” di Pier Paolo Pasolini. Vengono pertanto scandagliati (soprattutto) i suoi scritti sulla società, ma frequenti sono le incursioni nella letteratura e soprattutto nel cinema di questo autore del tutto originale. Ne emerge lo spessore di concetti spesso usati dal poeta per analizzare e criticare il presente: Nuova Preistoria, nuovo capitalismo, consumismo, edonismo, il Potere, il Palazzo, il Processo, sviluppo e progresso, sacralità in primis. Si evidenzia inoltre come l’occhio e il giudizio di Pasolini siano stati principalmente guidati dalla passione e solo di rimando dalla ragione. Un ruolo non secondario nella sua percezione del reale ha inoltre assunto la sua omosessualità. Nella parte finale dello scritto si analizzano alcuni strumenti tecnici utilizzati dall’autore per svolgere la propria opera di comprensione del presente e della sua conseguente traduzione artistico-critica.The article examines - in the centenary of his birth - the "political thought" of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Therefore, it scrutinizes (above all) his writings on society, but there are frequent incursions into the literature and especially into the cinema of this completely original author. What emerges is the depth of concepts often used by the poet to analyze and criticize the present: New Prehistory, new capitalism, consumerism, hedonism, Power, the Palace, the Process, development and progress, sacredness in primis. It also shows how Pasolini's eye and judgment were mainly guided by passion and only by reason. His homosexuality also played a significant role in his perception of reality. In the final part of the paper we analyze some technical tools used by the author to carry out his work of understanding the present and its consequent artistic-critical translation

    Powertrain Modal Analysis for Defining the Requirements for a Vehicle Drivability Study

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    The powertrain of a car plays a major role in establishing the vehicle’s offered comfort due to vibrations because it is the heaviest single component installed on the chassis; therefore, when oscillating, it transmits considerable forces to the chassis, inducing unwanted vibrations. For this reason, it is important to identify some associated properties with the powertrain suspension system that describe the performance of its rigid body dynamics. In this way, we could place constraints and requirements on these quantities in order to exclude all the configurations that cause intolerable levels of vibrations, and include all the others in the analysis for further evaluation. The definition of these requirements is critical: a poor setting of requirements excludes potentially good powertrain suspension setups and includes those ones with a drivability index that is too poor. In this paper, we identify a set of quantities that show correlation with the vibration performance of the powertrain setup. A method for testing the specificity of the requirements is also shown in order to evaluate which requirements perform best when it comes to filtering engine suspension setups that provide an acceptable level of vibrations

    A Bayesian-based Decision Support Tool for assessing and managing rock fall disasters

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    Recent catastrophic events demonstrate the importance of the post-disaster interventions, where the management of rescue operations and recovery assistance to citizens, the coordination of several organizations and the allocation of proper resources are truly critical issues. Many Civil Defence Systems have developed the knowledge and the experience to understand in “real time” the actual situation of the disaster context (e.g. through GPS tools for continuous monitoring or using ICT infrastructures to communicate with field forces); nevertheless, due to the complexity of the situation and the amount of information to process, specific decision support tools are needed that allow the decision maker to provide prompt responses and effective coordination of all the actors of the Civil Defence System. The paper describes a decision support tool, based on Bayesian Belief Network (BBN), for rescue and recovery operations during a rock fall disaster; the variables in the model allows both the representation of the causal chain of physical phenomenon and the assessment of other context factors affecting the emergency planning and management. The quantification of this advanced Decision Support System (DSS) is based on data gathered from available monitoring system and on experts’ judgements. The paper starts describing the Bayesian-based approach, showing the ability of the model to integrate different data-sets in different steps of the analysis (from the preliminary definition of the hydro-geological phenomenon to the integration of expert’s observation into the model). Finally, a brief case study is presented, referring to a rock fall event in an urban area, where the capability of the BBN to incorporate direct observations and describe a real case of rock fall is shown

    Catalytic hydroformylation of (1S,5S)-(???)- and (1R,5R)-(+)-??-pinene: stereoselective synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of (1S,2R,5S)-, (1S,2S,5S)-, (1R,2R,5R)- and (1R,2S,5R)-10-formylpinane

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    Catalytic hydroformylation of (1S,5S)-(???)- and (1R,5R)-(+)-??-pinene: stereoselective synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of (1S,2R,5S)-, (1S,2S,5S)-, (1R,2R,5R)- and (1R,2S,5R)-10-formylpinan

    Configuration spaces are not homotopy invariant

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    We present a counterexample to the conjecture on the homotopy invariance of configuration spaces. More precisely, we consider the lens spaces L-7,L-1 and L-7,L-2, and prove that their configuration spaces are not homotopy equivalent by showing that their universal coverings have different Massey products. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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