372 research outputs found
Un Pantheon cittadino. Giovanni Girolamo Agnelli e gli “uomini illustri” ferraresi
No full textCesare Orlandi (1734 - 1779) is known as the editor of the Iconologia by Cesare Ripa. In 1766 he compiles a questionnaire and sends it to all Italian city officials asking key information on each municipality. A question refers to who are, in the opinion of the local officials, the ‘illustrious men’ who have lived or are currently living in the city. The purpose of the questionnaire is to compile an encyclopaedic volume on Italy titled Delle Città d’Italia e sue isole adiacenti.
The city of Ferrara, upon receiving this request, charges a local man of letters, Girolamo Agnelli (1701-1773) to write a response. Agnelli is a member of the Arcade Society, of the ‘Accademia degli Intrepidi’, and the author of the poem Il Limbo. Agnelli’s response, titled Notizia, is yet unpublished and deserves to be studied further. In this paper I outline the basic content of the Notizia and discuss in particular the notable people who are mentioned by Agnelli and form what we could term as the city’s ‘Pantheon’. Agnelli devotes many pages to the Estensi family, the former rulers of Ferrara, who had been forced to flee the city by the Pope in 1598. The author strives to create the perception of an harmonious continuity between the Estensi’s past and the current Papal rule of Ferrara, papering over any possible tension or discontinuity between the old and the new regime. He also plays down any tension between different professional categories of citizens. Agnelli presents the presence of the Pope in the city as a natural outcome of the fact that the Estensi did not have a direct heir. Yet a notable aspect of the Notizia is the discussion of the professional middle class. It emerges from the text that professionals are rooted in the city and dominate the economic and cultural life of Ferrara in the 18th century
Dalla sabbia allo sviluppo immobiliare, passando per Piazza Affari. La biografia imprenditoriale di Giuseppe Cabassi (1929-1992)
No full textIl saggio ricostruisce, sulla base sia di fonti archivistiche che orali e documentarie, la biografia imprenditoriale di Giuseppe Cabassi (1929-1992); partito da una solida base famigliare, al termine del suo lungo percorso – durante il quale aveva concluso una sbalorditiva serie di affari con tutti, dai brasseurs d’affaires degli anni ’80 agli Agnelli (di cui era stato il principale socio privato), e durante il quale la perenne mancanza di liquidi, dilatata anche dai costosi progetti innovativi di cui si innamorava, lo aveva fatto impigliare in non poche grane giudiziarie e finanziarie (da cui uscì indenne) – l’ex proprietario della chiatta Charleston lasciava una conglomerata che, pur ridimensionata, vantava beni immobili per circa 2.000 miliardi di lire e altre attività per 700 miliardi di fatturato (e che in futuro non tanto lontano avrebbe dato la possibilità ad alcuni suoi eredi di partecipare, seppure in forma indiretta, ad uno dei suoi tanti progetti, quello della nuova fiera di Milano)
Fracture toughness of rubber in quasi-static conditions: How to experimentally obtain results intrinsic to the material?
No full textFracture toughness, defined as the energy dissipated to advance a crack by a unit area, is an intrinsic material property, which should not depend on the geometry and dimensions of the specimen used to obtain it. One of the most frequently used test configurations to determine rubber fracture toughness at crack initiation in quasi-static conditions is the single edge notched in tension specimen (SENT). The aim of this work is to quantitatively define the limitations of specimen dimensions needed to obtain an intrinsic value of fracture toughness for a nitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR), and to investigate the possible effects of the test procedure on the results. These show that a minimum width of 10 mm and a minimum height/width ratio of 4.6 are necessary to obtain a fracture toughness independent of specimen dimensions
Abitare il pianeta. Futuro demografico, migrazioni e tensioni etniche. Volume primo. Il mondo Arabo, l'Italia e l'Europa
No full textSviluppi e scenari demografici in mutamento alle soglie del nuovo secolo: valutazione dei movimenti di tendenza a livello mondiale e raffronto tra Europa e paesi in via di sviluppo, con approfondimenti sulle linee di trasformazione dell’intera area etnica araba.- Indice #7- Prefazione, Marcello Pacini #11- Prima parte Futuro demografico e potenziali migratori #13- Transizione demografica, migrazioni internazionali e dinamiche culturali, Marcello Pacini #15- Le nuove migrazioni e i processi di trasformazione mondiale, Aristide R. Zolberg #67- Recenti tendenze e prospettive in tema di evoluzione demografica, Antonio Golini e Corrado Bonifazi #99- Seconda parte Le dinamiche demografiche della sponda sud del Mediterraneo e del Vicino Oriente #127- Una definizione del mondo arabo, Luca Alberti #129- Osservazioni sulla predisposizione del materiale statistico, Gian Carlo Blangiardo #145- Il Nord Africa, Luca Alberti #149- Marocco, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #153- Algeria, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #171-Libia, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #203- La Valle del Nilo, Luca Alberti #223- Egitto, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #225- Sudan, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #245- La Penisola Araba, Luca Alberti #263- Arabia Saudita, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #265- Yemen del Nord, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #281- Yemen del Sud, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #297- Oman, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #313- Emirati Arabi Uniti, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #327- Qatar, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #341- Bahrain, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #355- Kuwait, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #369- Il Vicino Oriente, Luca Alberti #383- Siria, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #389- Libano, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #407- Giordania, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #427- Iraq, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #443- Turchia, Luca Alberti e Gian Carlo Blangiardo #463- L’evoluzione demografica sulla sponda meridionale del Mediterraneo: osservazioni complessive, Gian Carlo Blangiardo e Luigi Di Comite #481- La transizione demografica nel mondo arabo: un contributo alla discussione, Chedli Trifa #507- Terza parte L’Europa mediterranea: problemi e politiche di fronte alla transizione demografica #523- Il caso francese: l’immigrazione straniera nella Francia contemporanea, Georges Tapinos #525- L’Italia in un contesto di trasformazione demografica e le politiche possibili, Gian Carlo Blangiardo #54
sj-pdf-1-tmj-10.1177_03008916241248007 – Supplemental material for PROACT 2.0: A new open-source tool to improve patient-doctor communication in clinical trials
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-tmj-10.1177_03008916241248007 for PROACT 2.0: A new open-source tool to improve patient-doctor communication in clinical trials by Luca Agnelli, Andrea Villa, Fouziah Butt, Matteo Duca, Alessandro Guidi, Marcello Carapezza, Michele Addante, Gaetano Lenoci, Paul O’Regan, Laura Russo, Sara Cresta, Alessandra Castano, Elisabella Ebrahem, Sara Alfieri, Akshita Patil, Louise Carter, Caroline Dive, Filippo Guglielmo De Braud and Silvia Damian in Tumori Journal</p
Fracture characterization of ductile polymer cellular model structures manufactured by FDM
No full textThis work addresses specific fundamental and methodological issues regarding the applicability of Fracture Mechanics (FM) testing schemes to polymer open-celled cellular solids with controlled architecture, exhibiting an elastic–plastic response and with pronounced structural heterogeneity at the cell-scale. Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) model structures were manufactured by Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), and their mode-I fracture response investigated. Structures with different porosity degrees (from ≈ 20% to ≈ 70%) were examined, and initiation fracture toughness (J-integral) data determined. Different modes of mechanical
macro-confinement experienced by the circular cross-section beam-like structural element were noticed, able to drive a transition from true cellular to solid containing isolated pores
Effect of solid olive mill waste on the CO2 sequestration in prunings, fruit and soil in an olive (Olea europaea) grove
No full textLong Term Amendment with Fresh and Composted Solid Olive Mill Waste on Olive Grove Affects Carbon Sequestration by Prunings, Fruits, and Soil
No full textThe soil amendment with organic wastes represents a way to increase the soil fertility and the organic carbon (C) stored in the agro-ecosystems. Among the organic waste materials produced by agricultural and industrial activities, olive mill wastes derived from the olive oil extraction process may represent a suitable soil amendment. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of fresh (SOMW) or composted mixture of SOMW and shredded olive tree prunings (C-SOMW+P) on the vegetative and productive activities of olive trees, on the C stored in the tree non-permanent structures (prunings and fruits) and in the soil. The plots treated with SOMW or C-SOMW+P showed higher vegetative and productive activities than the untreated plots, and this was attributed to the higher total N and availability of P and K supplied by the amendments. Consequently, treatments increased the C sequestered in the tree non-permanent structures than in the control trees. However, no significant different effect between SOMW and C-SOMW+P treatments was found for the C stored in prunings and fruits, whereas it was evident a stronger influence of C-SOMW+P than SOMW on soil C sequestration. Indeed, about 50% the C supplied by the treatment with C-SOMW+P was sequestered in the olive grove system, with more than 90% of the sequestered C stored into the soil. The low amount of C sequestered in the soil following the addition of SOMW was attributed to its richness of moisture and easily degradable compounds that triggered the mineralization processes controlled by the soil microbial community. Although the 8 years of amendment produced a higher fruit yields than the control, no difference occurred between the characteristics and the oil content of the olive fruits. Only the total phenol content for the oil obtained from the SOMW-treated plots was significantly higher. The other considered fruit characteristics did not show significant differences
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