482 research outputs found
The sestiere of San Polo : a cross section of Venetian society in the second half of the fifteenth century
No full textThis thesis seeks to add to our understanding of Venetian
society in the latter half of the fifteenth century by
offering a new approach: an in-depth study of one of
Venice's six districts (sestier1). My researches
concentrated on the sestiere of San Polo, which embraced
the Rialto. My intention in narrowing the focus of analysis
is to reveal a cross-section of society. Fundamental to this
inquiry is to discover the identity of this sestiere; to
explore its little known social profile, trades and
solidarities and to sharpen the images of its urban fabric.
At the same time, it is an investigation into the
significance and role of neighbourhood and local loyalties
in Renaissance Venice. The opening chapter discusses the
changing topography of San Polo and its definition over the
following three centuries. Boundaries were blurred; parish
disputes document how and why they were changed. Chapter Two
introduces the three social orders recognised by
contemporaries (patriciate, citizenry and artisans), tracing
the sharpening of hierarchy, the growing cohesion of the
cittadini originarii and the emergence of poorer
neighbourhoods towards the city's margins. Chapter Three
investigates noble and cittadini families in San Polo,
through a number of detailed case studies. A complex and
varied picture emerged, in which family structures and
residential patterns amongst the nobility did not conform to
rigid models. Chapter Four attempts to flesh out a
collective portrait of the "little people", beginning with
Rialto. Chapters Five and Six discuss property; initially
through a massive survey after the Rialto fire (1514);
Quattrocento sources are then used to examine property at
Rialto, domestic housing, building activity and renting. The
final chapter deals with neighbourhood, concluding that the
sestiere was not an effective social unit and that local
loyalties formed part of complex and changing webs of
allegiance
The mechanical power output in water polo game: a case report
No full textIn water polo some authors have assessed the physical requirements of the game by analysing physiological indices or considering the distances covered at various swimming speeds in the match. In this work, the passive drag was measured in “best glide” (Swim) and “head-up” (Wp) position in a water polo player. The active drag was estimated indirectly from the passive drag. The mechanical power required to play a match is calculated on the data of a match model obtained from a video analysis in a series of international water polo matches. The average mechanical power of a water polo match in the Swim model was 150489 J/2400 s= 62.70 W, while in WP model it was 481375 J/2400 s= 200.57 W. The mechanical power required in water polo players could be more than three-fold higher mechanical power required in water polo players could be more than that required for freestyle swimming at the same velocities
Erratum to: The Role of Adipocytokines in Coronary Atherosclerosis (Current Atherosclerosis Reports, (2017), 19, 2, (10), 10.1007/s11883-017-0644-3)
No full textConcerning the paper entitled, “The role of adipocytokine in coronary atherosclerosis” the author to be corrected is Casula Matteo. The correct form is Matteo Casula. Matteo is the first name whereas Casula is the family name
Correction to: Intra-ligamentary autologous conditioned plasma and healing response to treat partial ACL ruptures (Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, (2018), 138, 5, (675-683), 10.1007/s00402-018-2885-1)
No full textWith regards to Berardo Di Matteo, second author. The author's name is incorrectly listed on Pub-Med. The first and last name have been mixed up
Commento all'art. 46 della Costituzione
No full textIl contributo commenta l'art. 46 della Costituzione sulla partecipazione dei lavoratori alla gestione delle imprese, ricostruendo i lavori dell'assemblea costituente, le ragioni che ne hanno impedito l'attuazione e le prospettive di realizzazione per il futuro.The essay comments on Sect. 46 of the Italian Constitution on employee participation in managing companies (codetermination). The author deals with the works of the Constitution Assembly, the reasons which have hindered the implementation of the Constitutional provision, and the perspectives for the future
Commento all'art. 99 della Costituzione
No full textIl contributo commenta l'art. 99 della Costituzione dedicato al CNEL: l'autore ne esamina il percorso di attuazione tramite le leggi del 1957 e del 1986 fino ai più recenti tentativi di abrogazione.The essay comments on Sect. 99 of the Italian Constitution, devoted to the National Council of Economy and Labour. The author examines also the two pieces of legislation through which it was implemented, and the recent attempts to abolish it
«La nostra lingua ha ben denti ed ugne e saette e feroce brevità». Appunti su Vittorio Alfieri epigrammista
No full textVittorio Alfieri è uno dei maggiori epigrammisti del Settecento italiano: la sua produzione, composta nell’arco di un ventennio, comprende più di 210 epigrammi, raccolti dall’autore sia nella Parte prima e Seconda delle "Rime" sia nel "Misogallo". Il saggio ripercorre cronologicamente le tappe di questa produzione, esaminandone l’evoluzione sotto il profilo tematico e metrico ed esaminando le riflessioni teoriche sull’epigramma rintracciabili nella “Vita” e in altre opere di Alfieri.Vittorio Alfieri is one of the foremost writers of epigrams in 18th-century Italy: his production, composed over a twenty-year period, includes more than 210 epigrams, collected by the author both in the first and second part of the “Rime” and in the “Misogallo”. This essay retraces chronologically the stages of this production, examining its evolution from a thematic and metrical point of view and examining the theoretical reflections on epigrams that can be found in the ‘Vita’ and in other works by Alfieri
The exposition to urban habitat is not enough to cause developmental instability in the common wall lizards ( Podarcis muralis )
No full textDeveloping trustworthy biomarkers is of primary importance in monitoring impacts of environmental stressors on biological systems. Recently, fluctuating asymmetry in morphological traits of the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) has been proposed as useful tools for assessing environmental disturbance in urban habitats. However, the experimental design used in previous studies lacked both site replication (only one urban area was sampled) and independent assessment of the physiological conditions of lizards. Hence, we replicated the analysis involving three large cities in Northern Italy and measured lizards’ health conditions as assessed by blood sampling analyses. We found a weak statistical association between fluctuating asymmetry and urban habitat. No significant differences occurred for white blood cell concentration and heterophils-to-lymphocytes ratio, whereas parasite load was significantly lower in urban than natural populations. Finally, somewhat of the variability in fluctuating asymmetry correlated with one or more latent variables not directly observed, but still not related to the habitat. Contrary to previous studies, we concluded that fluctuating asymmetry cannot be regarded as a reliable measure of urban environmental stresses. Despite this, fluctuating asymmetry in the morphology of common wall lizards has a real potential for working as biomarkers, but we need to clarify first the developmental mechanisms, the true effectors of the stress, their interactions and their effects on individual fitness in order to solve the inconsistencies occurring among different studies
L'Italia settentrionale. Le contaminazioni del Gotico
No full textL’articolo ripercorre, sulla base di un disegno geografico e cronologico, i caratteri e le vicende dell’arte gotica nell’Italia settentrionale, partendo dal Piemonte, dove il gotico si diffonde precocemente in ambito architettonico (basti pensare al Sant’Andrea di Vercelli, eretto nel 1219-27), per poi investire anche il campo della pittura, con esiti che trapassano anche in area lombarda. Qui gli orientamenti gotici, introdotti dai cantieri cistercensi, assumono in ambito architettonico caratteri peculiari che si riverberano per tutto il XIV secolo sia nel campo dell’edilizia religiosa, sia in quello dell’architettura civile e fortiificata, che trova nei castelli viscontei la sua espressione più compiuta. La costruzione e la decorazione scultorea di queste fabbriche è monopolizzata per tutto il Trecento dai così detti “maestri campionasi”, tra i quali emergono, in ambito scultoreo, personalità di assoluto rilievo, come Ugo e Giovanni da Campione, Matteo da Campione e Bonino da Campione, la cui attività, segnata da forti influssi toscani, oltrepassa l’area lombarda, per investire anche centri come Verona e Padova. Influssi toscani trovano riscontro anche in pittura, specie a partire dall’età di Azzone Visconti, ma vengono comunque interpretati in termini originali. La stessa originalità che si evidenzia nella produzione artistica dei domini scaligeri, dove operano artisti come Tommaso da Modena e Altichiero da Zevio
A new family of surfaces with pg=q=2 and K2=6 whose Albanese map has degree 4
No full textWe construct a new family of minimal surfaces of general type with pg = q = 2 and K2 = 6,
whose Albanese map is a quadruple cover of an abelian surface with polarization of type
(1, 3). We also show that this family provides an irreducible component of the moduli space
of surfaces with pg = q = 2 and K2 = 6. Finally, we prove that such a component is generically
smooth of dimension 4 and that it contains the two-dimensional family of product–quotient
examples previously constructed by the first author. The main tools we use are the Fourier–Mukai
transform and the Schr ̈odinger representation of the finite Heisenberg group H3
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