Percorsi linguistici e filologici in “Cultura neolatina”

L'articolo traccia una storia della filologia romanza attraverso gli studi pubblicati su "Cultura Neolatina" individuando le linee portanti della ricerca e offrendo un dettagliato panorama dello sviluppo della disciplin

L'italiano tra le lingue d'Europa, Atti del Convegno Internazionale, (Firenze-Bologna 3-4.7.2007)

I parte - La politica linguistica dell'Unione Europea attraverso i commenti del Commisario Ue al Multilinguismo, Leonard Orban, e dei funzionari della Commissione e del Dipartimento di Italiano; II parte - Traduzione e Interpretazione nella Ue: esperienze delle istituzioni europee e delle sedi universitarie di formazion

The present situation with regard to foreign language learning and instruction in Italy

Il saggio esamina le politiche educative e culturali italiane per l'insegnamento/apprendimento delle lingue straniere alla luce di quelle europee. Testo disponibile al seguente indirizzo:http://www.efnil.org/conferences/archives/brussels-2005/conference-papers-and-documents-interventions-et/08Brussel2005.EFNIL.Robustelli.pdf/vie

Violence in a comprehensive perspective

The following are the main points we will touch on in this presentation: a)the concept of violence and the meanings we here attach to this term; b)a few considerations on the four documents that have been recently elaborated by some scholars as comments on and/or updates of the Seville Statement on Violence; c)emotional factors and cultural factors on which violence is grounded; d)the role of death in human life and in nature in general in the context of human violence; e)the study of animal abuse as an essential component of human violence in general and as an essential contribution to its understanding

Harmonization of Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) from Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor SeaWiFS) and Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Instrument (MERIS)

This paper describes the combination of terrestrial vegetation observations from two sensors, providing a historical dataset used for an in-depth analysis of the corresponding spatio-temporal patterns. The Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) is an important variable suitable for regional to large-scale monitoring of climate impacts on vegetation. In this work, we create an extensive dataset of FAPAR using a 10-day product at $\sim$1 km resolution from September, 1997, to April, 2012, combining information from two sensors: the NASA/Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) and the European Space Agency (ESA)/Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Instrument (MERIS). The proposed methodology reduces the noise, fills the gaps and corrects for the spurious trends in the data, providing a time-consistent coverage of FAPAR. We develop a fast merging method and evaluate its performance over Europe and the Horn of Africa.JRC.H.7-Climate Risk Managemen

Numerical simulation of nonunitary gravity-induced localization

The localization of a quantum state is numerically exhibited in a nonunitary Newtonian model for gravity. It is shown that an unlocalized state of a ball of mass just above the expected threshold of 10^11 proton masses evolves into a mixed state with vanishing coherences above some localization lengths.Comment: RevTex, 6 figures available on request from the authors To appear in Physica

European Linguistic Monitor (ELM)

The European Linguistic Monitor (ELM) is a project conceived as an online system to collect data and to provide detailed up-to-date information on the linguistic situation and development in the various member state of the European Union. This paper discusses the criteria adopted and the third version of ELM

Aeroelastic stability of two long-span arch structures: A collaborative experience in two wind tunnel facilities

In this paper, a rare example of comparison between sectional and full-aeroelastic model tests is presented. Interestingly, the experiments were conducted in two very different wind tunnel facilities by different research teams. The study concerns two long-span steel arch structures recently built in Milan, Italy, for Expo 2015 World Fair. The structures have only aesthetic purposes and are therefore very flexible and light, which makes them sensitive to wind-induced excitation and prone to aeroelastic instabilities. In particular, in smooth flow an interesting phenomenon of interference between vortex-induced vibration and galloping was observed up to high values of the Scruton number. This aeroelastic instability is very dangerous as large-amplitude vibrations can occur in wind speed ranges where they are not expected, at least for what classical theories for vortex-induced vibration and quasi-steady galloping are concerned. Moreover, the provisions of Eurocode 1 resulted clearly unsuitable and non-conservative to address such a phenomenon. Despite the differences in the facilities and in the models, a good agreement was found between the results obtained in the two laboratories. The major discrepancies were observed in the transitional behavior for intermediate values of the Scruton number, the sectional model showing a more unstable behavior. The tests on the full-aeroelastic model also allowed considering the effect of the angle of wind exposure of the structures, both the in-plane and the out-of-plane vibrations of the arches and the dynamic response to turbulent wind. In particular, a set of tests in smooth flow was performed accounting for the presence of the other arch and of the surrounding buildings. A particular dynamic excitation of the in-plane flexural modes of the structures was observed in well defined ranges of flow speeds when one arch is in the wake of the other. Finally, both experimental campaigns highlighted the need for the installation of tuned mass dampers on the real structures to guarantee their safety. The effectiveness of these devices against the observed galloping-type instability was also verified through wind tunnel tests on the full-aeroelastic model

The RAMI On-line Model Checker (ROMC): A web-based benchmarking facility for canopy reflectance models

The exploitation of global Earth Observation data hinges increasingly on physically-based radiative transfer (RT) models. These models simulate the interactions of solar radiation within a given medium (e.g., clouds, plant canopies) and are used to generate look-up-tables that are embedded into quantitative retrieval algorithms, such as those delivering the operational surface products for MODIS, MISR and MERIS. An assessment of the quality of canopy RT models thus appears essential if accurate and reliable information is to be derived from them. Until recently such an undertaking was a time consuming and labour intensive process that was made even more challenging by the general lack of absolute reference standards. Several years of benchmarking activities in the frame of the RAdiation transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) exercise have now led to the development of the RAMI On-line Model Checker (ROMC). The ROMC is a web-based tool allowing model developers and users to autonomously assess the performance of canopy RT models (http://romc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/). Access to the ROMC is free and enables users to obtain both statistical and graphical indications as to the performance of their canopy RT model. In addition to providing an overall indication of the skill of a given model to correctly match the reference data, the ROMC allows also for interactive comparison/evaluations of different model versions/submissions of a given user. AllROMCgraphs can be downloaded in PostScript format and come with a reference number for easy usage in presentations and publications. It is hoped that the ROMC will prove useful for the RT modeling community as a whole, not only by providing a convenient means to evaluate models outside the triennial phases of RAMI but also to attract participation in future RAMI activities