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Transatlantic Women Connections and Slave Stories: Strange Music, a Neo-Victorian Novel by Laura Fish
No full textMapping Civic Uses in Abruzzo Region: Opportunities for Sustainable Resource Management
No full textCivic Uses (UC) are perpetual rights vested in members of a community over property belonging to the state domain. They are therefore collective rights attributable to the individual as a member of a collectivity and not as an individual. These rights cover various activities such as grazing, mountain pasture, cutting wood but also the possibility of gathering fronds or grass. The use of these lands was widespread in the past, to this day it is a residual action and kept within much stricter limits and regulations than in the past. At the basis of the regulation of these funds is Law 1766 of 1927, which succeeded in stopping the various movements aimed at the abolition of Civic Uses that began after the Unification of Italy, to date after almost a century we still have not managed to produce a Consolidated Text that can shed light on the possibilities of use of these areas and provide a standard to be applied in all regions in order to have a single key. The aim of this paper is therefore to offer a general overview of the management of these assets in the different Italian regions. The case study considered concerns the Abruzzo region, the structure of the database and the information it contains is reported, emphasizing the importance of mapping all the lands subject to Civic Use, so that we can have a supporting database with the aim of improving the management, surveillance, and survival of these areas
Light and Darkness in Post-Apartheid South African Fiction. Strategies of Self-Reconstruction
No full textIl saggio analizza due romanzi del periodo post-apartheid sudafricano, The Impostor di D. Galgut e Playing in the Light di Zoe Wicomb, entrambi pubblicati nel 2006, mettendo in luce la difficile ricostruzione della memoria del passato nazionale, pubblico e privato
Advanced Planning Tool Mosaic (A-PTM) Decision Support Tool Towards the Sustainable Development Goals
No full textIn this session, it is therefore proposed to institutionalize the technical device “Planning Tools Mosaic” (PTM), developed within the project “Sost.EN. &Re” (Sustainability, resilience, and adaptation for the protection of ecosystems and physical reconstruction in Central Italy). PTM is defined as a homogenous and standardized overall picture of the main contents of municipal urban planning instruments. The proposed mosaicing is based on two technical models: a basic set-up (B-PTM) and an advanced one (A-PTM), able to provide indications about the perspectives of urban evolution of a given territory. The session proposes an experiment on the Abruzzo Region, developing an analysis of the current state of municipal planning in the region itself through a recognition of the availability of documents, the type of tool and the updating period. A first phase of the work concerned the regional survey of the type of urban planning tool in force for each municipal authority, together with the year of approval of the same, in order to obtain an updated overview of the state of municipal planning of the Abruzzo region
Limit Land Take. A Matter of Thresholds?
No full textSoil is a key element for achieving national and international sustainability objectives. However, the legislation in this field is still far from defining the limits of land take, without prejudice to the objective of zero net land consumption to be achieved by 2050. In Italy, the legislation on the subject is very varied. Among this work’s objectives is to identify the weaknesses and strengths on which to focus new policies and tools to control the land take. The definition of land take in the regional laws is often ambiguous, and the methods indicated for containment as well as for monitoring often appear to lack scientific basis. The most important problem the international community raises is the lack of proportionality between the variation of urbanization and that of population. As evidence of this, Agenda 2030 has developed, in the context of reaching the target 11.3 a specific index the “Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate” (LCRPGR) which aims to monitor the relationship between the scale of urban development and demography, to link the growth of urbanized parts to the real demographic dynamics that are found in the territory. The correct identification of threshold values now appears to be a viable solution for achieving the objectives set at the European level. The proposed work represents a first exercise in this direction. The comparison of the LCRPGR index with established indices of scientific literature (both of quality of life and of configurational analysis of urban spaces) could provide useful indications
The Planning Tool Mosaic as a Tool for Sustainable Land Management. Keys Point for a National Regulatory Framework
No full textThe issue of land take has now become part of the objectives of international and European policies. At the international level, the 2030 Agenda aims to strengthen inclusive and sustainable urbanization by 2030. The European Union in the 7th Environmental Action Programme calls for progress towards «zero net land take» by 2050. Even if the proposal for a European Land Use Directive collapsed in 2016, there is still a strong need to standardize the regulatory framework that is currently highly fragmented at all institutional levels. The intervention in this phe-nomenon requires the availability of instruments that, on a sufficiently large scale, take account of multiple factors (environmental, economic, demographic...) and at the same time have a degree of detail and cogency that directly affect the trans-formation of the territory. One possible tool is the PTM (Planning Tool Mosaic). The mosaicking of the municipal plans, based on the use of common definitions and unified legends, allows having a harmonious and unique framework of local planning that, in short, is the one that regulates soil transformations in Italy. Alt-hough some regions have instruments of this nature, the national framework is profoundly varied due to the multiplicity of regulatory sources to which individu-al municipalities belong. The aim of this study is to analyze the regulatory frame-work at the regional level for the development of spatial planning, taking into ac-count both the logical and, where available, the technical components. Their anal-ysis aims to highlight the strengths and weaknesses that characterize the multi-form regional rules and identify the standards to which they should adhere
Algebraic entropy for algebraic maps
Full text linkWe propose an extension of the concept of algebraic entropy, as introduced by Bellon and Viallet for rational maps, to algebraic maps (or correspondences) of a certain kind. The corresponding entropy is an index of the complexity of the map. The definition inherits the basic properties from the definition of entropy for rational maps. We give an example with positive entropy, as well as two examples taken from the theory of Backlund transformations
Multi-orbit cyclic subspace codes and linear sets
Full text linkCyclic subspace codes gained a lot of attention especially because they may
be used in random network coding for correction of errors and erasures. Roth,
Raviv and Tamo in 2018 established a connection between cyclic subspace codes
(with certain parameters) and Sidon spaces. These latter objects were
introduced by Bachoc, Serra and Z\'emor in 2017 in relation with the linear
analogue of Vosper's Theorem. This connection allowed Roth, Raviv and Tamo to
construct large classes of cyclic subspace codes with one or more orbits. In
this paper we will investigate cyclic subspace codes associated to a set of
Sidon spaces, that is cyclic subspace codes with more than one orbit. Moreover,
we will also use the geometry of linear sets to provide some bounds on the
parameters of a cyclic subspace code. Conversely, cyclic subspace codes are
used to construct families of linear sets which extend a class of linear sets
recently introduced by Napolitano, Santonastaso, Polverino and the author. This
yields large classes of linear sets with a special pattern of intersection with
the hyperplanes, defining rank metric and Hamming metric codes with only three
distinct weights.Comment: Title and the organization of the paper have been changed. Accepted
for publication for Finite Fields and Their Application
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