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Lo svuotamento delle aree produttive: storie e pratiche di abbandono, trasformazione e adattamento
No full textToday, great emphasis is attached to closure-related topics, as well as to (scarce) resources’ protection and efficient use. This study focuses on underuse, abandonment and post-fordist industrial crisis, both as regards the diffused production network and larger enterprises.
Over the years, the brand Made in Italy and the expanding small enterprises and production districts experienced a significant success– based on decentralization and self-management processes – which is currently undergoing a sharp decline in the Northern industrial areas.
Indeed, the recent financial crisis and the consequent austerity measures (IMU is an example ) hit the SMEs very hard, though Italy’s main concern seems to be due to longstanding processes of a structural nature.
Globalization led to general work reorganization, thus increasing competitiveness between Italy and developing countries. Which is why several businesses delocalisated their production, benefiting from cheaper labour.
Due to the environmental crisis, countervailing measures also had to be taken.
At the same time, the traditional settlement pattern of urban sprawl is not adequately responding to social issues: mobility costs are no longer sustainable (the increase in the cost of petrol highlighted Italians’ dependence on automobiles). The family structure has changed and citizens need more services and public spaces for socializing.
Moreover, closures have changed too. In the 1970s and 1980s things were different. Large enterprises close, and so do individual local businesses. Working places undergoing closure today are, among others: industrial districts, the diffused production network and the new plants opened after the Tremonti Incentive , often unfinished and unsold.
Using relevant case studies, this study (work in progress of the P.h.D thesis) sets out to identify significant ongoing changes in Northern Italy. Some individual adaptation practices allow identifying useful examples of alternative local development, as opposed to the main development pattern, which is rather based on “growth” and necessary redevelopment of disused sites
Archaeometrical analysis of metal objects from Royal Palace G
No full textThe study of metal objects from Royal Palace
G presented in this contribution is part of a
wide multidisciplinary project of archaeometric
analyses, concerning several typologies of
materials dating from the Early Bronze Age IVA
(2400–2300 b.c.). Ten golden objects and one
bronze dagger have been analyzed on site in a
totally non–destructive way in order to determine
their alloy composition, metalworking technique,
and operational processes, which can be usefully
compared with information contained in the
cuneiform texts found in the archives of Royal
Palace G
Analisi di fluorescenza di raggi X
No full textLe misure di fluorescenza di raggi X sono molto utili per eseguire l’analisi elementale di qualsiasi oggetto. La strumentazione portatile
usata consente di eseguire le misure in situ, dove l’oggetto è conservato, ed in maniera totalmente non distruttiva. L’esame autoptico
dimostra che i reperti metallici sono costituiti da parti realizzate con materiali chiaramente diversi, alcuni fortemente corrosi e altri
meglio conservati. Dalla successiva analisi EDXRF è risultato che le parti corrose sono in ferro, mentre le altre possono essere attribuite
ad una lega a base di rame e zinco, corrispondente all’antico oricalco.
The X-ray fluorescence analyses are very useful to carry out the analysis of the elements of any object. The portable instruments offer
the opportunity to exam in a totally non-destructive way the object in the very place where it is preserved. The autoptic exam showed
that the metallic remains consist of pieces made with obviously different materials some of which strongly corroded and other better
preserved. The EDXRF analysis showed that the corroded parts are in iron, whereas the other parts are made with an alloy of copper
and zinc, corresponding to the ancient orichalcum
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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