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31 Mars: Séminaire du Centre Abélard, Luca Fiorentini: "Sur les lignes idéologiques de la première réception de la Comédie dantesque"
No full textLundi 31 Mars, 18h-20h, première séance du séminaire du Centre Abélard, Paris-Sorbonne (resp. Pasquale Porro) Luca Fiorentini (Univ. Paris-Sorbonne) Sur les lignes idéologiques de la première réception de la Comédie dantesque. Description: L’objectif de cette séance est de présenter certains points de controverse que la Comédie de Dante Alighieri a suscités dès sa première réception, dont témoigne le très grand nombre de gloses et de commentaires qui ont accompagné très tôt la diffusion de ce..
"Prefazione" al volume di Luca Fiorentini, "Viaggio nella narrativa postapocalittica: teorie, credenze, affabulazioni", Aracne, 2015
No full textSi tratta di una prefazione che mira sia a illustrare sinteticamente l'articolazione di questa monografia di ricerca, sia a metterne in luce gli aspetti di originalità e la sua collocazione nello specifico stato dell'arte (anglofono) relativo al genere letterario post-apocalittico. Gli scrittori sui quali Fiorentini ha indagato più in profondità sono Mary Shelley ("The Last Man", 1826), M.P. Shiel ("The Purple Cloud", 1901) e M. John Harrison ("The Committed Men", 1971)
A parametric fire risk assessment method supporting performance based approaches application to health-care facilities in northern italy
Full text linkFire risk assessment has always been a challenging issue. Furthermore, performance based approaches to fire engineering showed that risk based decisions and fire scenarios are a fundamental element of the fire safety strategy assurance. In particular, a correct assessment of the risk allows all the involved stakeholders to identify a specific strategy among a pool of possibilities. Risk assessment is the perfect tool to identify comparable fire protection strategies and to measure fire risk reduction associated to the single specific prevention and protection measures composing each different fire strategies. This approach implies the need to abandon a classic, not even conservative approach, that in many cases linked the total fire load to the fire risk level, despite specific dynamics, layouts, prevention measures and risk management issues during time. During the years, a number of different methodologies have been developed: for specific cases, for industrial or civil buildings, to adopt a method enforced by the local law and regulations acts, etc. Methods have been based on matrices, indexes, check-lists, etc. Present paper illustrates a method developed by the authors taking into account several international recognized methods; even coming back to methodologies developed in early seventies. The Method is named "FLAME" (Fire risk Assessment Method for Enterprises), it goes back to the fire safety fundamentals against a generalized approach to fire safety engineering based on complex and time-consuming methods like CFD that deals only with the ‘consequences' aspect of the fire risk (that is indeed characterized also by frequency estimation) using as reference scheme the "Fire Safety Concept Tree" explained in detail in the NFPA 550 Standard. In order to identify the most appropriate fire safety strategy it is important to identify the associated fire risk that the strategy is intended to mitigate to a certain level. Alternative solutions can be evaluated considering the risk reduction operated by different strategies and by different elements composing the fire strategies themselves and also costs with a modern ALARP approach. A clear advantage is the possibility to get an overview of the whole fire risk as the cumulative risk assessed by the model and not solely related with the consequences evaluation of a limited number of fire scenarios (usually the most obvious ones). Risk level assessment leads to the identification of the fire scenario (or a pool of) that governs and limits the specific situation, declined for both humans and structures (assets) considering that the two vulnerabilities could be linked to different fire risk scenarios. The method has been tested against different buildings occupancies. In the present case results of the FLAME method application to hospitals and health-care facilities are reported. A fire compartment-based risk estimation has been conducted on an overall of about 300 compartments (overall size of about 60000 m 2 ). Coherence has been found among risk estimation by FLAME parametric code and prescriptions of the Italian fire code. There is good agreement when assessing the RSET with the method proposed in FLAME, dealing with the occupants' behaviour and the actual characteristics of occupants in clinics or hospitals and difficulties due to poor mobility or incapacity to understand emergency cues
Edoardo Sanguineti's Laborintus II as a Dantean Palimpsest
No full textChapter one, “Edoardo Sanguineti’s Laborintus II as a Dantean Palimpsest”, by Luca Fiorentini and Eleonora Lima, proposes an analysis of the 1965 musical theatre composition Laborintus II, for which the composer Luciano Berio wrote the music, and the poet Edoardo Sanguineti the libretto. Laborintus II was commissioned by the Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante’s birth. Laborintus II has been defined by Vivienne Hand a “Neo-avantgarde celebration of Dante” (1998) as its peculiar way of engaging with the work of the Medieval poet is a testament to Sanguineti’s and Berio’s long-standing predilection for blurring the lines between tradition and experimentation. In order to understand how Sanguineti remediated Dante through the Neo-Avantgarde, and the Neo-Avantgarde through Dante, this chapter considers two main questions: which Dante Sanguineti brought on stage, meaning which interpretation of his work did he propose in Laborintus II; and, consequently, why Dante, meaning why Sanguineti in Laborintus II made use of Dante’s work to further clarify his own poetics and the one of the Neo-Avantgarde group. This chapter brings together Fiorentini’s and Lima’s broad range of expertise – from Dantean philology and Mediaeval literature, to contemporary literature and intermedial studies – and offers a rich scholarly analysis of Laborintus II as a Dantean palimpsest
FORENSIC ENGINEERING APPLIED TO THE ANALYSIS OF A GAS EXPLOSION IN A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
No full textThe thyssen krupp accident in torino: Investigation methods, accident dynamics and lesson learned
No full textSeismic vulnerability assessment of fuels storage tanks in Italy
No full textSeismic hazard represents one of the possible triggering causes for NaTech accidents in refineries and production plants. The vulnerability of steel storage tanks was evaluated within the framework of a rapid risk assessment. Tanks dataset is composed of 70 refinery items located in various parts of Italy and the seismic calculations are performed in accordance to API 650 Annex E Standard. The paper summarizes the results of the investigation through two normalized parameters related to the masses and to the seismic load. Some trends in the solution are highlighted. The empirical fragility curve obtained from the analysis is compared with similar curves found in the literature and the resulting similarities (and dissimilarities) are critically discussed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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