The dialogue in Italian in the sixteenth century

In this study I propose to make what will merely be a beginning in the investigation of a subject of considerable importance in the history of Renaissance literature in Italy. By "the Dialogue" I mean that peculiar literary form which consists in the setting down of a real or imaginary conversation between two or more persons - exclusive of dramatic dialogue deliberately written for acting purposes. This form certainly has always enjoyed some popularity among the world's writers, from earliest literature down to such modern authors as Walter Savage Landor with his Imaginary Conversations, but nowhere at any time has it flourished so vigorously and so prolifically as it did in Italy in the sixteenth century. Curiously enough, it appears to be in that century only that it was cultivated to such an extent in Italian. A number of earlier dialogues were written in Italy, but written usually in Latin. A few dialogues were written in Italian later than that century, among the most important being those of Galileo Galilei and those of Leopardi (the Operette Morali). But within the limits of the sixteenth century were published dialogues by many of the most noted writers of the times, as well as many more by authors who nowadays are almost or entirely forgotten. It is with this great spate of dialogues that I wish to deal.Besides this limitation of time, I must impose yet another limitation on my subject: I shall deal only with the dialogue in prose. This is a minor restriction, verse dialogues being rare, but one in which I am upheld by no less an authority than Tasso, who, in his study of the art of dialogue, recommends prose as the only fit medium for this form (although he himself wrote a few dialogues in verse). And if we consider that dialogue should be a reproduction of conversation, this recommendation is logical.First of all, then, I present a brief discussion of the causes and extent and variety of the prose dialogue in Italian in the sixteenth century; then a list of the writers of dialogues, their works, and, so far as possible, some indication of their significance

Business IT strategy in action : case study of #PUPRU

Predicted key business IT trends through to 2020 acknowledge there will be increased adoption of disruptive technologies that will impact within business contexts (Gartner (1), 2015). These include moves to small-screen marketing, rising value of big data intelligence and increased use of social systems. However, IT penetration and literacy gaps between advanced and emerging economies, as well as social and organisational issues associated with technological implementation of business strategy, provide challenges to adoption of these trends. Strategy As Practice (SAP) presents a potential solution. It is concerned with the practice of strategising, including both the formulation of strategy and implementation that delivers strategic renewal and change. Through the “doing of strategy”, organisations not only gain an insight into strategic management from a theoretical level, but also can focus on micro-level social activities, process and practices that characterise both organisational strategy and strategising. In this paper, the Pop-Up Research Unit (#PUPRU), a newly-established mobile research centre in the Salford Business School (SBS) will be discussed. It aims to adopt a SAP approach to inform business strategy. Three disruptive technologies - Beacon, Raspberry Pi and 3D printer - available as part of #PUPRU will be examined. Future experiments in various business scenarios and live projects evaluating how these digital disrupters can be employed will also be considered

Tracking Hydroplasticization by DSC: Movement of Water Domains Bound to Poly(Meth)Acrylates during Latex Film Formation

The film formation step of latexes constitutes one of the challenges of these environmentally friendly waterborne polymers, as the high glass transition (TG) polymers needed to produce hard films to be used as coatings will not produce coherent films at low temperature. This issue has been dealt by the use of temporary plasticizers added with the objective to reduce the TG of the polymers during film formation, while being released to the atmosphere afterwards. The main problem of these temporary plasticizers is their volatile organic nature, which is not recommended for the environment. Therefore, different strategies have been proposed to overcome their massive use. One of them is the use of hydroplasticization, as water, abundant in latexes, can effectively act as plasticizer for certain types of polymers. In this work, the effect of three different grafted hydroplasticizers has been checked in a (meth)acrylate copolymer, concluding that itaconic acid showed the best performance as seen by its low minimum film-formation temperature, just slightly modified water resistance and better mechanical properties of the films containing itaconic acid. Furthermore, film formation monitoring has been carried out by Differential Scanning Calorimety (DSC), showing that itaconic acid is able to retain more strongly the water molecules during the water losing process, improving its hydroplasticization capacity.This research was funded by the Industrial Liaison Program of POLYMAT and by the Basque Government “Grupos Consolidados del Sistema Universitario Vasco”, grant number IT999-16

Self-assembled Containers based on Extended-Tetrathiafulvalene

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Оценка возможностей ракеты-носителя для вывода средств отвода космических объектов с околоземной орбиты

Розглянуто основні джерела утворення космічного сміття на космічних орбітах та шляхи й методи мінімізації забруднення навколоземного простру. Показано, що основними шляхами боротьби з космічним сміттям є запобігання появі нового й видалення вже існуючого. Визначені методи та засоби уводу космічних апаратів з робочих орбіт за закінченням терміну активного існування й відомі способи й системи активного видалення великих фрагментів космічного сміття. Як основний принцип видалення великих об’єктів з навколоземного космічного простору, розглядається кероване їх зведення в щільні шари атмосфери шляхом використання спеціального космічного апарата - космічного сміттєзбирача, до складу якого входить двигунна установка. Виконана оцінка можливостей ракет-носіїв, які можуть бути застосовані для виведення цих сміттєзбирачів на задані орбіти.The main sources of space debris in space orbit, ways and means to minimize the near-Earth space pollution. It is shown that the main ways to combat space Muso-set is to prevent the emergence of a new and deleting already-established th. Define methods and means of O spacecraft from working orbits of the expiration of the term of active existence, the known methods and B tem of active removal of space debris larger. As wasps basic principles remove large objects from near-Earth space, is considered to manage their erection in the dense layers of the atmosphere through the use of a special spacecraft - cosmic-ray clean sweep, which includes the propulsion system. You are a full assessment of the capabilities of carrier rockets, which can be applied to us, the withdrawal of these garbage trucks into the desired orbit.Рассмотрены основные источники образования космического мусора на космических орбитах, пути и методы минимизации загрязнения околоземного пространства. Показано, что основными путями борьбы с космическим мусором является предотвращение появления нового и удаления уже существующего. Определены методы и средства вывода космических аппаратов с рабочих орбит за истечением срока активного существования, известные способы и системы активного удаления крупных фрагментов космического мусора. Как основной принцип удаления крупных объектов из околоземного космического пространства, рассматривается управляемое их возведения в плотные слои атмосферы путем использования специального космического аппарата - космического мусоросборщика, в состав которого входит двигательная установка. Выполнена оценка возможностей ракет-носителей, которые могут быть применены для вывода этих мусоросборщиков на заданные орбиты

Tetrathiafulvalene-based architectures : from recognition properties to self-assembly

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Deep convolutional neural networks for Bearings failure predictionand temperature correlation

Rolling elements bearings (REBs) is one of the most sensitive components and the common failure unit in mechanical equipment. Bearings failure prognostics, which aims to achieve an effective way to handle the increasing requirements for higher reliability and in the same time reduce unnecessary costs, has been an area of extensive research. The accurate prediction of bearings Remaining Useful Life (RUL) is indispensable for safe and lifetime-optimized operations. To monitor this vital component and planning repair work, a new intelligent method based on Wavelet Packet Decomposition (WPD) and deep learning networks is proposed in this paper. Firstly, features extraction from WPD used as input data. Secondly, these selected features are fed into deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to construct the Health Indicator (HI). This study focuses on analysing the relationships such as correlations between the HI and temperature. We develop a solution for the Connectiomics contest dataset of bearings under different operating conditions and severity of defects. The performance of the proposed method is verified by four bearing data sets collected from experimental setup called “PRONOSTIA”. The results show that the health indicator obtains fairly high monotonicity and correlation values and it is beneficial to bearing life prediction. In addition, it is experimentally demonstrated that the proposed method is able to achieve better performance than a traditional neural network based method