658 research outputs found
Cusp-transitive 4-manifolds with every cusp section
No full textWe realize every closed flat 3-manifold as a cusp section of a complete,
finite-volume hyperbolic 4-manifold whose symmetry group acts transitively on
the set of cusps. Moreover, for every such 3-manifold, a dense subset of its
flat metrics can be realized as cusp sections of a cusp-transitive 4-manifold.
Finally, we prove that there are a lot of 4-manifolds with pairwise isometric
cusps, for any given cusp type
The more I care, the less I will listen to you: How information, environmental concern and ethical production influence consumersâ attitudes and the purchasing of sustainable products
No full textProviding information to consumers is crucial to foster pro-environmental attitudes and the purchasing of green products. To date few studies explored the interplay between information, pre-existing environmental concern and barriers to the purchase of green products. By analyzing the data from a survey to a large sample of Italian consumers (n = 8001), we advanced 6 hypotheses to explain the main drivers behind consumersâ selection of sustainable products. Attitudes towards green products were the main predictors of green product purchasing and were influenced by consumer's attitudes towards ecolabels, whose marginal effect varied according to the level of individual environmental concern. Our study provides evidence that ecolabels can play a significant role in attitude formation about green products, interacting with environmental concern. Therefore, we suggest future studies about green consumer profiling based on how consumers access and integrate information in decision-making, to improve green marketing campaigns. Product information strategies are crucial to foster pro-environmental attitudes and the purchasing of green products. To date, few studies have explored the interplay between information, existing environmental concern and barriers to the purchase of green products. By analyzing the data from a survey to a large sample of Italian consumers (n = 8001), six hypotheses to explain the main drivers of consumersâ selections of sustainable products were advanced. Attitudes towards the products were the main predictors of green product purchasing and were influenced by consumer's attitudes towards ecolabels, whose marginal effect decreased as the environmental concern increased. This research also demonstrates that a complex interaction between previous environmental knowledge and the use of green labels influence attitudes towards sustainable products, rather than environmental concern per-se, and that ethical aspects of production are important predictors of consumer's attitudes towards sustainable products, despite they have not been traditionally regarded as such. Future studies about green consumer profiling based on how consumers access and integrate information in decision-making are suggested, to improve green marketing campaigns
Jacopo Sadoleto: De Laocoontis statua (1506) (FONTES 5)
No full textWhen the statue of Laocoon and his two sons in the clutch of the serpents was discovered near the Colosseum at the beginning of 1506 the excitement was great, and young Jacopo Sadoleto, later a cardinal, then a devoted humanist, composed a poem on this masterpiece based on classical verse. Sadoleto’s text is not without echoes of Vergil’s famous lines about Laocoon and his fate, and with an astonishingly independent judgment on the quality of the subject. This text has been printed in various modern publications on Sadoleto, respect to the Laocoon, but only the edition by the present author, produced in 1992, offered a critical text based on a comparison of all extant printed versions from the 16th and 17th centuries, along with a brief linguistic commentary. Since no other attempt to recover the original text and no more recent commentary have hitherto appeared, the text and commentary of the 1992 publication are here reprinted in a partly abridged, partly enlarged form in order to provide the interested scholar with a reliable text and some linguistic basics as materials for further interpretation
Plausibility or truth. Archival notes and reflections on the canvas of the ‘Militant and triumphant Church’ ascribed to Jacopo Zucchi
No full textWhile retracing the traditional history of the painting, which was fi rst ascribed to Federico Zuccari and later to
Jacopo Zucchi, the author hereby presents the long and painstaking research that has gradually confi rmed this
second hypothesis. The reader will, therefore, fi nd a synthesis of the history of this painting, which was surely
enough fi rst hosted in St Peter's Basilica, then moved to the Church of St Catherine of Alexandria and fi nally to
the Vatican Sacristy. Based on a number of inconsistencies which emerged during archival research, doubts still persist with regard to
the historicity of this historical-artistic tradition. Despite the fact that scholars are fi rmly inclined to ascribe the
painting to Zucchi, some unpublished documents tend to undermine this assumption, while still implying that the
painting might be by an artist of the Zuccari famil
A Framework Integrating Augmented Reality and Wearable Sensors for the Autonomous Execution of Rehabilitation Exercises
No full textDespite the resolution of pathology at admission, many hospitalized patients are discharged in a worse functional state, particularly in terms of walking capabilities, due to hospitalization inactivity. Early interventions to maintain the functional state through exercise such as passive mobilization, executed during hospitalization, have been proven to be effective in preventing physical and cognitive decline. Unfortunately, many patients can be excluded from such treatments due to the high number of people hospitalized and the limited availability of healthcare personnel. This paper presents a framework that allows the patient to autonomously perform the exercises without the assistance of qualified personnel. Such a framework exploits the advantages of an Augmented Reality (AR) device in which the patient can visualize real-time instructions on the exercises and directions on their execution. The monitoring of the patient’s movements during exercise is accomplished by means of dedicated wearable sensors fixed to the patient’s limb. The system was tested in preliminary experiments on healthy people
Functional and lexical prepositions across Germanic and Romance
No full textIn this chapter, lexical and functional prepositions (see van Riemsdijk 1990 and the papers in Cinque and Rizzi 2010) are compared in Germanic and Romance, in the light of a broad cartographic/nanosyntactic approach, in which all prepositional items have a complex internal structure. Such an approach offers a powerful tool not only for better describing and analyzing the complex (micro-)comparative data, but also for tracing the grammaticalization paths leading to the formation of new (lexical) Ps, which eventually could further functionalize into case marking items. The lexical and syntactic properties of both types of prepositions are considered, highlighting their differences and similarities. When considering functional prepositions, the English to and the Italian a ‘to, at’ will be considered
Il generale si candida. Élite militare e competizione elettorale nell'Italia liberale
No full textConsidering the military as an élite among the others that ruled the Italian liberal state, the author proposes an analysis of some election campaigns in which high-ranking army officers were involved as candidates. The social networks and the personal strategies implemented by the officers are shown through their private and family archives, in particular the one related to count Luigi Majnoni d’Intignano, a Lombard aristocrat who ran for a seat twice, and under very different conditions. In the end, the research allows a deep rethinking about the role and the representation of the relationship between Italian military élite and politics before the Great War
Francisco de Assis na Legenda Áurea de Jacopo de Varazze
No full textO objetivo deste artigo é propor uma análise da presença de São Francisco de Assis na Legenda Áurea e os recursos intelectuais de seu autor, Jacopo de Varazze, quase sempre utilizados com o fim de evangelizar e responder às novas necessidades espirituais dos séculos XII e XIII, nos sermões dos dominicanos. Para tanto será discutido o contexto histórico desse período como grande responsável, não apenas pela formação do clérigo Jacopo de Varazze e sua obra, mas também pelo surgimento das ordens mendicantes e seus idealizadores. The purpose of this article is to propose an analysis about the presence of Saint Francis of Assisi in the Golden Legend and the intelectual prowess of its author, Jacopo de Varazze, often used in order to evangelize and meet the spiritual needs of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, in the sermons of the domicians. To do so will discuss the historical context of this period as largely responsible, not only for the formation of Jacopo de Varazze and his work, but also by the emergence of the mendicant orders and their creators
Jacopo Sansovino a ca’ Tiepolo
No full textUsing unpublished documents of the Venetian State Archive, the author tries to reconstruct the history of the
former Tiepolo palace in the ward of San Felice as well as a precise chronology of the restoration works conducted
by Jacopo Sansovino in 1560 for Alvise Tiepolo, Procurator of Saint Mark’s. It appears that the architect
not only consolidated the foundations, but also divided the palace in two independent houses using a doubleramp
interior staircase according to a typical 16th century and remade the windows of the lower piano nobile
Quando crolla un’istituzione. Il corpo ufficiali della monarchia borbonica attraverso e oltre il 1860
No full textThe essay deals with one of the most controversial moments of contemporary Italian history: the downfall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1860, and the partial co-optation of its élites by the new Italian nation-state. The issue is addressed through the prism of the Neapolitan military institution. Overcoming the traditional representation of the Neapolitan officer corps, the author outlines the social, professional and ideological features of the men who fought Garibaldi during the crucial year 1860. The analysis of a huge prosopographic database allowed to retrace the choices and the strategies carried out by the Neapolitan officers during and after the collapse of their institution. In the end, the author proposes a fresh interpretation of the engagement of the Neapolitan officers in the subsequent Italian history
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