Mid-level Landscape of Marche's Ridge. Settlements, Agricultural Enterprises and Management of the Territory

The work aims at elaborating an investigative methodology which can highlight the transformation of territorial structures and the social-economic dynamics that influence management of the territory and landscape in order to provide operative instructions for an integrated elaboration of instruments for urban planning and economic programming. The investigation has taken into consideration, using GIS instrument, the evolution of the landscape, of the road network, of the settlements and of the socio-economic system in the period that goes from the early decades of the 19th century to the present period. The territory for analysis is situated along the "internal Marche ridge" of the Apennines, in the province of Ancona (Marche region).ecotonal context, settlements, sparse building, agricultural and natural landscape, Agribusiness, R14,

Determinants of farm diversification and interaction with the CAP. An application to FADN of Marche region (Italy)

This work analyzes farm diversification activities in an Italian region (Marche). The study examines 387 farms from Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) over a six-year period (2000-2005), applying Discrete Choice Models to identify their business. Recognizing the driving forces of such diversification strategy can be useful to better design those agricultural policies explicitly aimed at promoting agricultural multifunctionality as well as social and environmental sustainability. The linkage between diversification choices and CAP payments is thus also investigated.Farm diversification, Discrete Choice Models, Multifunctionality, Agricultural and Food Policy, Farm Management,

Spin transfer nano-oscillators

The use of spin transfer nano-oscillators (STNOs) to generate microwave signal in nanoscale devices have aroused tremendous and continuous research interest in recent years. Their key features are frequency tunability, nanoscale size, broad working temperature, and easy integration with standard silicon technology. In this feature article, we give an overview of recent developments and breakthroughs in the materials, geometry design and properties of STNOs. We focus in more depth on our latest advances in STNOs with perpendicular anisotropy showing a way to improve the output power of STNO towards the {\mu}W range. Challenges and perspectives of the STNOs that might be productive topics for future research were also briefly discussed.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, nanoscale 201

La ciudadanía en los cuadernos de clase

La investigación pretende focalizar en la formación del ciudadano, dando cuenta de los procesos que efectivamente tienen lugar en la enseñanza, y cuyas dimensiones trascienden lo delimitado por la regulación normativa o por algunas orientaciones recientes derivadas de ciertas teorías o corrientes pedagógicas, psicológicas o didácticas. En relación con la comprensión de estas prácticas, el proyecto apunta a investigar cómo los docentes leen el currículo social. Para ello se estudia el contenido de los cuadernos de clase de los alumnos y se consideran los modos de pensar y formas de actuar implicados en los procesos a través de los cuales los docentes significan la formación para la ciudadanía en la Argentina.La investigación pretende focalizar en la formación del ciudadano, dando cuenta de los procesos que efectivamente tienen lugar en la enseñanza, y cuyas dimensiones trascienden lo delimitado por la regulación normativa o por algunas orientaciones recientes derivadas de ciertas teorías o corrientes pedagógicas, psicológicas o didácticas. En relación con la comprensión de estas prácticas, el proyecto apunta a investigar cómo los docentes leen el currículo social. Para ello se estudia el contenido de los cuadernos de clase de los alumnos y se consideran los modos de pensar y formas de actuar implicados en los procesos a través de los cuales los docentes significan la formación para la ciudadanía en la Argentina.This research focuses on citizen education, reporting processes that actually happen in teaching and learning, whose scope goes beyond that of normative regulation or some recent directions derived from certain pedagogical, psychological or didactical theories or trends. The project’s aim is to investigate how teachers interpret the social curriculum. To that end we studied the content of the pupils’ class notebooks in order to analyse the ways of thinking and performing implied in the process through which teachers apply citizen education in Argentina

Random matrix theory: Dyson Brownian motion

The theory of random matrices was introduced by John Wishart (1898–1956) in 1928. The theory was then developed within the field of nuclear physics from 1955 by Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995) and later by Freeman John Dyson, who were both concerned with the statistical description of heavy atoms and their electromagnetic properties. In this snapshot, we show how mathematical properties can have unexpected links to physical phenomenena. In particular, we show that the eigenvalues of some particular random matrices can mimic the electrostatic repulsion of the particles in a gas