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Debris flows in Val Parma and Val Baganza (northern Apennines) During the October 2014 alluvial event in Parma Province (Italy)
No full textDuring the October 2014 alluvial event in Parma province, which also caused the city of Parma to be partially flooded, several debris flows affected the upper Val Parma and Val Baganza (northern Apennines, Italy) causing severe and widespread damages to check-dams, roads and other infrastructures. The meteorological event reached intensities as high as 80 mm/hour, which is well above the thresholds presented in literature for the alpine area. The result was the occurrence of tens of debris flow along the Mt. Cervellino - Mt. Vitello relief, which were triggered in zones of failure of slope debris coverage along the streams, remobilized and scoured debris along the track and destroyed several check dams and damaged roads that were overflown by debris. Since debris flows in the northern Apennines are considered quite rare events, their hazard is generally underestimated or overlooked. The event in the Parma province, at the opposite, warns against this potentially destructive events that, in a changing meteorological framework, might result much more frequent and widespread than expected also in the northern Apennines
Due disegni di Michelangelo Anselmi
No full textThe author presents two drawings on the art market coming from Parma: the flexi ble, fluid style, which expresses the density and fullness of the forms while imbuing
them with a subtle game of light and shade, is that of the most Correggesco of the
Parma School painters: Michelangelo Anselmi (Lucca, 1491-Parma, news until 8
August 1554
L'Aesopus Moralisatus Stampato in Parma da Andrea Portilia nel 1481
No full textThis booklet was printed to commemorate a ceremony celebrating, as far as I can tell, the presence in Parma's Biblioteca Palatina of the unique exemplar of a book of Aesopus Moralisatus printed by Andrea Portilia in Parma in 1481. The sections of this pamphlet are: Cronaca della Cerimonia, Testo della Comunicazione del Dott. Ciavarella, and Appendice Bibliografica. This last bibliographical section includes a rich gathering of fable manuscripts and editions in two different collections, that of the Biblioteca Palatina itself and also that of Prof. Ettore Ponzi. There are two photoreproductions within the booklet: a copy of the incipit page of the book in question (16) and a copy of Barlow's frontispiece for an Amsterdam edition of 1714 (32). The dotted line for indicating which of the 300 this copy is remains blank. The traditional candidate (e.g., for Hervieux) for the author of this collection is Walter of England. My Italian reaches just far enough to know that Doctor Ciavarella's communication deals with the question of the authorship of the collection.Language note: ItalianOne (unnumbered) of 300 copiesLinda Jenning
Per un nuovo corpus dei decreta decurionum delle città romane d'Italia e delle province occidentali
No full textThe author sets out a work in progress : a new critical edition of the decreta decurionum in Italy and in the western provinces during the four centuries of the imperial era. A new collection of the evidence was needed : the previous work of Sherk (1970) is incomplete and out of date. The new corpus includes about a hundred of inscriptions (35 p. c. more than Sherk) : for every text an historical and juridical commentary is given, photographs and an index of Latin and Greek lemmas in context.These inscriptions are reliable pieces of first-hand evidence upon the administration of Roman cities. In some cases they inform us of proceedings and competences we did not know at all or only in a very general way.Parma Aniello. Per un nuovo corpus dei decreta decurionum delle città romane d'Italia e delle province occidentali. In: Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz, 14, 2003. pp. 167-171
Life and Action in Ethics and in Politics
No full textThe symposium on Michael Thompson's "Life and Action, is organized according to the threefold
partition of the book. As for part one, Paolo Costa focuses on
the logical and metaphysical understanding of “life-form” and
relates it to similar approaches in philosophical anthropology. As
for part two, Constantine Sandis examines the role of simple past
and progressive tenses in the naïve theory of action and contrasts
it with alternative contemporary approaches in action theory.
Matteo Bianchin questions Thompson’s rejection of folk
psychological accounts by focusing on phenomenal intentionality
and action planning. As for part three, Arto Laitinen considers
Thompson’s understanding of practices as a source of goodness
in the light of the Hegelian distinction between Moralität und
Sittlichkeit. Italo Testa discusses Thompson’s anti-individualist
account of dispositions and social practices, and assesses its
relevance for social philosophy and social ontology. Ingrid
Salvatore interrogates Thompson’s understanding of Rawls’s
“Two concepts of Rule” and rule-like practices
Smelling intentions. Can human chemosignals influence the perception of action intentions?
No full textConsidering that agents are constantly embedded in social contexts and that social interactions require the ability to aptly make inferences on or judge the intentions of others through multiple sources of information, we set out to investigate whether and how odor stimuli could modulate the accuracy and the response times of the judgments discriminating the agent’s motor intentions based on the presentation of temporally occluded videos, showing an agent (arm only) performing reach-to-grasp movements in individual (natural speed vs. fast speed) and social (cooperative vs. competitive) conditions. In Experiment 1, we assessed whether and how action intention judgements changed based on the exposure to a common odor or no odor. In Experiment 2, we compared how the common odor influenced the classification of cooperative and competitive action intentions with respect to a human chemosignal, masked with the same common odor. In Experiment 3, we contrasted whether and how human chemosignals collected in either cooperative or competitive situations could bias the detection of action intentions. Experiment 1 showed that the common odor had a facilitatory effect in detecting action intentions in blocks that presented a greater difficulty in the classification, suggesting a modulation of attentional resources. Surprisingly, in Experiment 2 and in Experiment 3 the cooperative human chemosignal enhanced the classification of competitive action intentions, suggesting that a response to a threating stimulus that might be due to the social distance between the recipient and the donor, i.e. being a stranger. These findings suggest that both common odors and human chemosignals influence the classification of action intention irrespective of the awareness of the olfactory signal. Such effects are interpreted in the context of the hierarchy of information conveyed via human chemosignals
Interni udinesi della prima metà del sec. XV attraverso gli 'inventaria bonorum' del notaio Matteo Clapiceo
No full textAttraverso lo studio di circa una quarantina di inventari bonorum stesi dal notaio udinese Matteo Clapiceo fra il 1423 e il 1439, la tesi cerca di ricostruire gli interni abitativi di alcune dimore di Udine, classificate in ragione della categoria sociale di appartenenza
Competitive (but not cooperative) body odors bias the discrimination of action intentions towards cooperation
No full textOdors help us to interpret the environment, including the nature of social interactions. But, whether and how they influence the ability to discriminate the intentional states embedded in actions is unclear. In two experiments, we asked two independent groups of participants to discriminate motor intentions from videos showing one agent performing a reach-to-grasp movement with another agent with a cooperative or a competitive intent, and the same movement performed alone at either natural- or fast-speed, as controls. Task-irrelevant odor primes preceded each video presentation. Experiment 1 (N = 19) included masked cooperative and competitive body odors (human sweat collected while the donors were engaged in cooperative and competitive activities), whereas Experiment 2 (N = 20) included a common odor (cedarwood oil) and no odor (clean air) as primes. In an odorprimed, two-alternative forced choice task, participants discriminated the intention underlying the observed action. The results indicated that the odor exposure modulated the discrimination speed across different intentions, but only when the action intentions were hard to discriminate (cooperative vs. individual natural-speed, and competitive vs. individual fast-speed). Contrary to our hypothesis, a direct odor-action intention compatibility effect was not found. Instead, we propose a negative arousal compatibility-like effect to explain our results. Discrimination of high arousing action intentions (i.e., competitive) took longer when primed by high arousing odors (common odor and competitive body odor) than by low arousing odors (cooperative body odor and no odor). Discrimination of low arousing action intentions (i.e., cooperative) took longer when primed by low arousing odors than by high arousing odors. All in all, competitive (but not cooperative) body odors bias the discrimination of action intentions towards cooperation
Interni udinesi della prima metà del sec. XV attraverso gli 'inventaria bonorum' del notaio Matteo Clapiceo
No full textAttraverso lo studio di circa una quarantina di inventari bonorum stesi dal notaio udinese Matteo Clapiceo fra il 1423 e il 1439, la tesi cerca di ricostruire gli interni abitativi di alcune dimore di Udine, classificate in ragione della categoria sociale di appartenenza
A Library for the Simulation of Smart Energy Systems: The Case of the Campus of the University of Parma
No full textSmart energy systems are complex systems (i.e. composed of windmills, PV panels, solar collectors, heat pumps, CHP systems, etc) in which synergies rise through the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) based management and control of the whole system. In the development of efficient smart energy systems, a fundamental step is the optimization of total energy conversion, transmission and utilization processes within the whole system. To this extent, mathematical models can represent very useful tools for the simulation of the behavior of the system. In this paper, a library for the dynamic simulation of smart energy systems is presented. The library is implemented in Matlab®/Simulink® and each component (i.e. the energy conversion and distribution systems and the end-users) is developed through a modular approach. Therefore, the modules are designed by considering a standardized input/output and causality structure. Finally, the capabilities of this approach are evaluated through the application to the district heating and cooling network of the Campus of the University of Parma. The case study is based on a branch which feeds twelve buildings with a total heating volume of about 150 000 m3 and peak thermal power demand of about 8 MW. Results reported in the paper demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach and the capability in term of system optimization
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