994 research outputs found
Power-flow and mechanical efficiency computation in two-degrees-of-freedom planetary gear units: new compact formulas
L\u2019 Etna: un percorso attraverso l\u2019immaginario, la consapevolezza del rischio e la gestione del territorio\u201d,
anche in, Annali della Facolt\ue0 di Economia, Catania, anno L, 2004
Applicazioni GIS all’archeologia urbana: il caso di Ravenna
Over the past few decades Geographical Information Systems in archaeological practice and above all in urban archaeology have become a standard tool for understanding the development of late antique towns. This paper analyses the city of Ravenna as a case-study, illustrating some standard and innovative GIS applications in a city characterised by non-systematic archaeological research. GIS helped us to systematize archaeological investigations and to guide city planning. New important excavations, in Piazza Kennedy, with the discovery of the 5th c. church of S. Agnese, and other smaller trenches in the city centre, add a fundamental collection of archaeological data. The creation of new chronological evaluation maps highlighted empty research zones in the old city, where urban archaeology should focus new excavations and archaeological evaluation projects
Performance evaluation of different centrifugal pendulum morphologies through multibody dynamics simulation
A dynamic model of a Cardan joint to evaluate the effect of elasticity and manufacturing errors
Dancing to Metallica and Dora: Case Study of a 19-Month-Old
Rhythmic movement to music, whether deliberate (e.g., dancing) or inadvertent (e.g., foot-tapping), is ubiquitous. Although parents commonly report that infants move rhythmically to music, especially to familiar music in familiar environments, there has been little systematic study of this behavior. As a preliminary exploration of infants' movement to music in their home environment, we studied V, an infant who began moving rhythmically to music at 6 months of age. Our primary goal was to generate testable hypotheses about movement to music in infancy. Across nine sessions, beginning when V was almost 19 months of age and ending 8 weeks later, she was video-recorded by her mother during the presentation of 60-s excerpts from two familiar and two unfamiliar songs presented at three tempos—the original song tempo as well as faster and slower versions. V exhibited a number of repeated dance movements such as head-bobbing, arm-pumping, torso twists, and bouncing. She danced most to Metallica's Now that We're Dead, a recording that her father played daily in V's presence, often dancing with her while it played. Its high pulse clarity, in conjunction with familiarity, may have increased V's propensity to dance, as reflected in lesser dancing to familiar music with low pulse clarity and to unfamiliar music with high pulse clarity. V moved faster to faster music but only for unfamiliar music, perhaps because arousal drove her movement to familiar music. Her movement to music was positively correlated with smiling, highlighting the pleasurable nature of the experience. Rhythmic movement to music may have enhanced her pleasure, and the joy of listening may have promoted her movement. On the basis of behavior observed in this case study, we propose a scaled-up study to obtain definitive evidence about the effects of song familiarity and specific musical features on infant rhythmic movement, the developmental trajectory of dance skills, and the typical range of variation in such skills
Territory and memory: The Landing of the Allies in Sicily in 1943
The concept of memory (memorial site) has gained crucial importance in recent years for the identification of places
(areas) and in the affirmation of local identities. The memorial sites are areas where usually tragic events have occurred
and resulted in a cultural change. In these places there are still signs of these historical events and/or tangible and
intangible indications created by the society such as: monuments, obelisks, marble inscriptions, others. Sicily represents
an ideal area for studying memorial sites; not only because of the number of dominations in the past centuries, but also
for the significance of all places where the mafia has taken its root. These elements have caused several changes in the
culture and in the landscape.
Sicily is the land where \u201cOperation Husky\u201d began, in the summer of 1943. This agreement between the Americans and
the British aimed at occupying Sicily, Italy after World War II. Seventy years after this operation the territory is still
marked by testimonies of those tragic events. The bombing devastated buildings, which we can still acknowledge for
their cultural significance. These memorial areas represent a strong testimony of the past. There are cemeteries,
protecting bodies many of which are unknown; there are bunkers and other military garrisons well preserved throughout
the territory. These signs must be rediscovered, to be replicated because of the contemporary geopolitical situation.
As a result, in this paper we propose to identify the area of eastern Sicily suitable for a tourist itinerary in the cultural
memory of the war of 1943. The idea is to encourage tourism that gives rise to real emotions and thoughts
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