Detecting Arguments in CJEU Decisions on Fiscal State Aid

The successful application of argument mining in the legal domain can dramatically impact many disciplines related to law. For this purpose, we present Demosthenes, a novel corpus for argument mining in legal documents, composed of 40 decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union on matters of fiscal state aid. The annotation specifies three hierarchical levels of information: the argumentative elements, their types, and their argument schemes. In our experimental evaluation, we address 4 different classification tasks, combining advanced language models and traditional classifiers

Il magmatismo plio-quaternario sardo: correlazioni con l'evoluzione geodinamica della Sardegna

Dottorato di ricerca in scienze della terra 11. ciclo. Cotutore Ciriaco Giampaolo. Tutore Annibale MottanaConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7, Rome; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale - P.za Cavalleggeri, 1, Florence / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal

The birth of a volcano: A nonlinear convective model for rock melting at the asthenosphere—Lithosphere boundary

The investigation of the physical processes determining the melting of the lithospheric rocks is of crucial importance for understanding the volcanic dynamics and its related consequences. Rock melting begins when a sufficiently high temperature is experienced by the rock solidus. The heat transfer from the asthenosphere to the lithosphere can be assumed as the main mechanism accountable for the partial melting of rocks, and initiating magma generation. The heat transfer to the lithosphere is considered to be governed mainly by the convective motion inside the asthenosphere. In order to mathematically describe this process, a generalization of a nonlinear convective 1D model, possibly representing a useful though simplified model for the birth of a volcano, and already analyzed from an analytical viewpoint (Godano et al., 2022), is investigated; here, we solve numerically some physically meaningful initial and boundary value problems, and discuss the results

Spatial and temporal distribution of vertical ground movements at Mt. Vesuvius in the period 1973-2009

Since the early ’70s vertical ground movements at Mount Vesuvius area have been investigated and monitored by the Osservatorio Vesuviano (Isti-tuto Nazionale di Geofisica Vulcanologia - Osservatorio Vesuviano since 2001). This monitoring began with the installation of a high-precision leveling line in the region at medium-high elevations on the volcano. The deformation pattern and expected strain field assessment methods in the volcanic structure induced by inner sources has demanded in subsequent years the expansion of the leveling network up to cover the whole volcanic area, enclosing part of leveling lines of other institutions. As a result of this expansion, the Mt. Vesuvius Area Leveling Network (VALN) has today reached a length of about 270 km and consists of 359 benchmarks. It is configured in 21 circuits and is connected, westward, to the Campi Flegrei leveling network and, northward, to the Campania Plain leveling network. The data collected have been carefully re-analyzed for random and systematic errors and for error propagation along the leveling lines to identify the areas affected by significant ground movements. For each survey, the data were rigorously adjusted and vertical ground movements were evaluated by differentiating the heights calculated by the various measurements conducted by the Osservatorio Vesuviano from 1973 to 2009