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Monetazioni coloniali in Asia Minore: tra innovazione e tradizione
No full textThe Roman colonies of Asia Minor, considering their particular formal legal status that
distinguished them from the surrounding environment, might have perhaps developed
original formulas in their coinage, different from those of other cities in the region.
Instead, they seem to have directed their monetary productions according to pragmatic
choices, that is, towards integration with the territorial reality in which they were situated
Recensione a Claudia Antonetti, Stefania De Vido, Temi selinuntini. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2009. Pp. 310. ISBN 9788846721792
No full textL'adozione della moneta a Selinunte: contesti e interazioni
No full textLa monetazione di Selinunte rappresenta un caso esemplare per lo studio dei processi di diffusione della moneta coniata nel periodo arcaico e dei rapporti che tale fenomeno ha con lo sviluppo delle città greca tanto sul piano dello sviluppo economico, sociale e istituzionale interno quanto su quello delle relazioni con il territorio e altre aree del Mediterraneo
PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON THE COMPARISON BETWEEN EMPIRICAL AND PHYSICALLY-BASED RAINFALL THRESHOLDS FOR SHALLOW LANDSLIDES OCCURRENCE
No full textRainfall induced shallow landslides are hazardous
phenomena causing significant damages all over the world.
Rainfall thresholds are the most used tool to predict the
occurrence of such instabilities over large areas. Most of these
thresholds are empirical, basing on past rainfall events
triggered landslides. These present several limitations, due to
the amount and the uncertainty of available data and neglecting
antecedent soil hydrological conditions. Physically-based
thresholds could take into account also for soil hydrological
responses towards rainfalls. Thus, this work aimed to compare
both these typologies of thresholds, reconstructed for a 250 km2
area of northern Italian Apennines prone to shallow
landsliding. Preliminary results of this research show the
significant differences between thresholds reconstructed by
means of different approaches. Empirical threshold estimates a
lower triggering cumulated amount of rainfall than the values
for physically-based thresholds, considering the same duration
of rainfall event. Antecedent pore water pressure conditions
have significant effects on reconstructed threshold, reducing
the amount of rainfall leading to instabilities according to
conditions approaching soil complete saturation. These
preliminary results will be improved in order to create
threshold useful for early warning strategies
Claudia Rankine: An Evening with Claudia Rankine
No full textAn initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. For NEA Big Read: Hampton Roads, that book is Citizen: An American Lyric.
NEA Big Read: Hampton Roads, the President\u27s Lecture Series, and the President\u27s Task Force on Inclusive Excellence invite you to a powerful evening with Claudia Rankine, the book\u27s author, hosted by Tim Seibles, Poet Laureate for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and opening with readings by local youth poets.
Claudia Rankine has written five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric, which was selected for the National Endowment for the Arts\u27 Big Read, and two plays. She also has participated in several video collaborations and edited anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind.
Rankine has received fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations. Citizen won several honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the PEN Open Book Award and the NAACP Image Award. Citizen also was the only poetry book to be a New York Times nonfiction bestseller. She is the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
Portrait of Claudia Lynn Pittman.
No full textHandwritten inscription: Claudia Lynn Pittman, 20 yrs old, Hattiesburg.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joephoto_c/1129/thumbnail.jp
Homonoia - Concorda - Sammanasya
No full textAnalysis of the divine figures of Homónoia in the Greek pantheon, Concordia in the Roman pantheon, and Sammanasya in the Vedic pantheon. Claudia Santi is the author of Homónoia; Andrzej Gillmeister is the author of Concordia; Antonio Salvati is the author of Sammanasya. As regards Homónoia, the origin of this personified abstraction seems to be traced back to the political debate of Athens in the last 5th century. Maybe it was created by Antiphon as opposed to stásis, both in the meaning of ‘psychic conflict’ and ‘internal political dissensions, civil war’
Empirical and Physically Based Thresholds for the Occurrence of Shallow Landslides in a Prone Area of Northern Italian Apennines
No full textRainfall thresholds define the conditions leading to the triggering of shallow landslides
over wide areas. They can be empirical, which exploit past rainfall data and landslide inventories, or
physicallybased, which integrate slope physical–hydrological modeling and stability analyses. In this
work, a comparison between these two types of thresholds was performed, using data acquired in
Oltrepò Pavese (Northern Italian Apennines), to evaluate their reliability. Empirical thresholds were
reconstructed based on rainfalls and landslides triggering events collected from 2000 to 2018. The same
rainfall events were implemented in a physicallybased model of a representative testsite, considering
dierent antecedent pore-water pressures, chosen according to the analysis of hydrological monitoring
data. Thresholds validation was performed, using an external dataset (August 1992–August 1997).
Soil hydrological conditions have a primary role on predisposing or preventing slope failures. In
Oltrepò Pavese area, cold and wet months are the most susceptible periods, due to the permanence of
saturated or close-to-saturation soil conditions. The lower the pore-water pressure is at the beginning
of an event, the higher the amount of rain required to trigger shallow failures is. physicallybased
thresholds provide a better reliability in discriminating the events which could or could not trigger
slope failures than empirical thresholds. The latter provide a significant number of false positives,
due to neglecting the antecedent soil hydrological conditions. These results represent a fundamental
basis for the choice of the best thresholds to be implemented in a reliable earlywarning system
Claudia Emerson, 31st Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textClaudia Emerson was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book Late Wife: Poems (LSU Press, 2005). She is also the author of the poetry collections Pharaoh, Pharaoh, and Pinion: An Elegy; all volumes are published in Dave Smith’s Southern Messenger Poets series. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review and other journals. Emerson is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va
Rileggendo Pierre Carlier: Odisseo tiranno?
No full textThe paper arises from a careful lecture of many works of Pierre Carlier, especially the Homer (Fayard, 1999), where the scholar states that the ideology of the Odyssey announces in some ways the tyrannical ideology. In a close dialogue with the author, I have passed in review the elements of the extraordinary basileia of Odysseus, especially the sphere of justice, and I went through the ending of the Odyssey, which I define a kind of prophecy about the future of Greek history for the presence of new concepts: amnesty, peace and wealth. The role of Odysseus at the end of the poem prefigures that of historical tyrants because it represents the case of a sovereignty reached by personal merit: an emblematic case that had been identified by the political thought of Aristotle
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