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Progetto di Concorso per un nuovo polo scolastico a Novi di Carpi (Modena). Terzo premio
No full textProgetto di Concorso per la progettazione di un Nuovo Polo scolastico a Novi di carpi (MO). Capogruppo Responsabile . Terzo premi
A Knowledge Management strategy to identify an expert in Enterprise
No full textThe aim of this paper is to define a strategy to identify, manage and take
advantage of competences in the enterprise via figures of opportune experts, with consequent advantages for workers and users in terms of problem solving. In such a context, industrial aspects, such as resources localization, research time and accessibility to the organizational hierarchy and the work load, are also considered.
This allows to distinguish three different phases in finding the experts: Initialization, in which a score is assigned to workers on the base of competence levels; Propagation, where the search accuracy is improved using trust and closeness measures; Localization, where updates of scores are made in terms of social and geographical positions of users/enterprises and experts. The three phases allows to identify inside an enterprise the expert, who has the best competence
and is close to the resource, that is in the shortest delay possible
Perspettiva ridotta a perfezione: Glimpses of Daniele Barbaro’s Perspective Theory
No full textThis contribution is intended to identify some textual elements, apparently
secondary in Daniele Barbaro’s treatise on perspective, which either foreshadow
unprecedented developments in the discipline of representation or have
constituted complex critical nodes in the field of perspective. The first of these
is introduced in part V: anamorphosis (though never so called by the author, since
the term was not yet in use), suggesting a quick method to deform any flat image
by means of shadows. Finally, the author mentions two other ‘eccentric’ elements
of interest for the future developments of perspective that originated in Daniele
Barbaro’s text: an optical-projective device first introduced by Giovanni Battista
Vimercato, later developed by Jean François Niceron in his Thaumaturgus
opticus (1646), and the camera obscura
INTRUSION AND PRESENCE OF THE AUTHOR IN SAMUEL BECKETT’S “THE UNNAMABLE” AND B. S. JOHNSON’S “ALBERT ANGELO”
No full textThis article explores the intricate relationship between B.S. Johnson’s novel “Albert Angelo” and Beckett’s “The Unnamable”, both dealing with the issue of the possible presence of the author in his own text. The point of departure for such comparison is Johnson’s incorporation, as an epigraph, of a passage taken from Beckett’s novel. Such passage, intended rather literally by the British author, is employed as a justification not only for the central device at the heart of his novel, but also in support of a larger aesthetic project which will characterise a great part of his oeuvre – which famously stresses the importance of ‘truth’, as opposed to fabulation, and the necessity of the author’s direct presence in his texts. This contribution, in particular, tries to reconstruct the history of Johnson’s involvement with Beckett’s work, demonstrating how Johnson has in fact distorted the master’s message – perhaps intentionally – in order to produce a rather different model of literature, despite moving from very similar premises
Publishing an E-journal on a shoe string: Is it a sustainaible project?.
No full textThe aim of this article is to report on an experiment in publishing an open access journal and learn from it about the larger field of open access publishing. The experiment is the launch of the European Journal of Comparative Economics (EJCE), an on-line refereed and open access journal, founded in 2004 by the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies and LIUC University in Italy. They embarked upon this project in part to respond to the rising concentration in the market for scientific publishing and the resulting use of market power to raise subscription prices and restrict access to scientific output. We had hoped that open access journals could provide some countervailing power and increase competition in the field. Our experience running a poorly endowed journal has shown that entry to the field may be easy, yet that making it a sustainable enterprise is not straightforward.Open-access publishing, online journals, scientific publication
Recensione di Daniele Vecchiato: Versi per dopodomani. Percorsi di lettura nell’opera di Durs Grünbein
No full textDaniele Vecchiato offers a clear excursus on the reception of Durs Grünbein. This is the first study in Italy about this famous contemporary author that was also influenced greatly by Italian culture and literature
On the transition dynamics in endogenous recombinant growth models.
No full textThis paper constitutes a first attempt at studying the transition dynamics of the Tsur and Zemel (2007) continuous time endogenous growth framework in which knowledge evolves according to the Weitzman (1998) recombinant process. For a specific choice of the probability function characterizing the Weitzman recombinant process, we find a suitable transformation for the state and control variables in the dynamical system diverging to asymptotic constant growth, so that an equivalent 'detrended' system converging to a steady state in the long run can be tackled. Since the dynamical system obtained so far turns out to be analytically intractable, we rely on numerical simulation in order to fully describe the transition dynamics for a set of values of the parameters.Knowledge Production, Recombinant Expansion Process, Endogenous Balanced Growth, Turnpike, Transition Dynamics
The limits to growth then and now
No full textIn this paper the indications of the 1972 report of the club of Rome about the relationship between environment and economic growth are reviewed and compared to the ideas debated nowadays on the same topic. The implications of the stages of growth approach and of the economic growth models are considered. Market failure has a central role when the environment is considered. Hence the main problems of policy design and evaluation and their implications for international cooperation, as studied in a burgeoning literature, are presented.
Daniele Barbaro and the Foundation of the Botanical Garden for the University of Padua
No full textWhen in the Renaissance the Venetian authorities decided to establish the Botanical Garden at the University of Padua in order to carry out experimental studies directly on plants, they entrusted Daniele Barbaro with the role of administrative supervisor. This essay, by comparing the Garden as built with documentary information and historical records, advances the hypothesis of a role not exclusively focused on economic aspects but also on considerations of design. Although information is scarce, the author reasonably speculates that Daniele Barbaro, probably assisted by other scholars and botanical experts, may have conceived the Hortus Sphaericus of Padua, an original design that was never completed
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