Chapter Pluralità di argomenti e immagini nel “Repository of Arts” (1809-1829)

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences

Building the Beloved Community: Christian Ethical Reflections on Race, Gender, and Family During COVID-19

Catholic circles are no stranger to using the beloved community as a way to communicate a particular vision of what the world could and should be. Rooted in a Christian social ethics framework, this transformative vision captures how the Gospel story and paschal mystery might be lived out today. This paper examines how Catholic ethicists can adopt the beloved community lens as a way to broach issues of race, gender, and family during the current COVID-19 pandemic. This vision of the beloved community specifically looks at how spiritual resistance, Eucharistic solidarity, and community organizing can approach matters of race, gender, and family together, ideally empowering families to work toward racial and gender justice in the midst of the current crisis and beyond

L’Ipogeo delle Pigne nella Grotta di Manaccora (Peschici, FG). I materiali protoappenninici

L'articolo analizza un settore (il cd. Ipogeo delle Pigne) degli scavi del 2001-2003 alla Grotta di Manaccora nel Gargano. Viene offerta un'analisi del contesto e dei rinvenimenti ceramici (dal punto di vista cronologico e dei contatti transadriatici) e litici

La volgarizzazione del disegno tecnico

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L'evoluzione della distribuzione on-line nel settore moda: i casi di Giglio, Tiziana Fausti e Luisa Via Roma

Questo lavoro si prefigge l’obiettivo di approfondire la distribuzione del comparto fashion ed in particolare i cambiamenti nel settore a causa dell’affermazione di Internet. La strutturazione della tesi è articolata in tre capitoli profondamente connessi l’uno all'altro: la ricerca inizia dalla definizione del concetto di moda sino ad arrivare a trarre delle considerazioni circa l’uso delle nuove tecnologie nella distribuzione dell’abbigliamento. I capitoli di questo lavoro cercheranno di delineare il percorso dell’evoluzione della distribuzione non solo come strategia di marketing, ma anche come sia stata influenzata dai cambiamenti dei consumi e dalle modifiche intervenute nel Sistema Moda: mostrando la rinnovata attenzione posta sulla qualità a discapito della quantità si spiegherà da che cosa tale cambiamento di visione sia stato generato e di quali siano le cause scaturenti, riassumibili nella saturazione dei mercati, nella globalizzazione e nelle modificazioni nei comportamenti dei consumatori. L’intero lavoro è orientato a far comprendere il fondamentale ruolo della fase distributiva nel comparto moda così come è emerso a seguito delle richieste provenienti dal mercato. In conclusione cercheremo di affermare che il negozio è il luogo in cui un semilavorato, ovvero il prodotto che esce dall’industria, si trasforma in prodotto finito solamente dopo essere stato trattato da una macchina che trasforma i bisogni in desideri: la nuova concezione tecnologica del punto vendita

From Archive Documents the Virtual Reconstruction of the Fortress of Pescara

[EN] When the Unity of Italy occurred, the ancient fortress of Pescara, marked by the river with the same name, was demolished to allow the expansion of the Adriatic city. On the mighty sixteenth century building, eastern defense of the Kingdom of Naples, remain only the eighteenth and nineteenth century maps made by the military. A rigorous study conducted by us on the historic center of Pescara has allowed us to carry out extensive archival surveys and punctual inspections. Then different documents emerged and testimonies that encouraged a virtual reconstruction of the disappeared artefact in which the military garrison and the inhabited nucleus were enclosed. The virtual reconstruction of the fortress that is presented here has been elaborated by resorting the nineteenth century maps, carefully analyzed and compared to perform, critically, a translation of the two-dimensional technical figuration in threedimensional processing. A sort of regeneration of the historical image was thus conducted with the intent of recovering a fundamental element of the city, almost completely forgotten.Tunzi, P. (2020). Dai documenti d’archivio la ricostruzione virtuale della Piazzaforte di Pescara. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 479-486. https://doi.org/10.4995/FORTMED2020.2020.11332OCS47948

Optimising the operation of hydronic heating systems in existing buildings for connection to low temperature district heating networks

This thesis presents a new method developed to adapt existing hydronic systems in buildings to take advantage of low temperature district heating (LTDH). The work carried out was performed by extensive use of buildings’ energy modelling, validated through recorded data. Two different case studies were investigated and the dynamic heat demand profiles, simulated for each building, were used to evaluate plate radiators connected to single and double string heating loops. The method considered an optimisation procedure, based on supply and return temperatures, to obtain the required logarithmic mean temperature difference (LMTD). The results of the analysis are presented as the average reduction of LMTD over the heating season compared to the base case design conditions. The developed strategy was applied to a Danish single family house from the 1930s. Firstly it was hypothesised a heating system based on double string loop. Two scenarios were investigated based on the assumption of a likely cost reduction in the end users energy bills of 1% per each 1◦C reduction of return and average supply and return temperatures. The results showed possible discounts of 14% and 16% respectively, due to more efficient operation of the radiators. For the case of single loop system, the investigated scenario assumed a cost reduction in the end users energy bill of 1% per each 1◦C lower reduction of average supply and return temperature. Although low return temperatures could not be achieved, the implementation of the method illustrates how to efficiently operate these systems and for the given scenario a possible discount of 5% was quantified. The method was also applied to a UK small scale district heating (DH) network. The analysis began by assessing the buildings of the Estate having double string plate radiator systems. Assuming a likely cost reduction in the end users energy bills of 1% per each 1◦C reduction of return temperature, the optimisation led to obtain a possible discount in the end users energy bills of 14% with a possible yearly average return temperature of 41◦C, compared to the present 55◦C. Moreover, few improvements in the operation of the heat network were proposed. It was assumed to operate the buildings with underfloor heating systems (UFH) with average supply and return temperatures of 40/30◦C, whereas the ones with plate radiators with the optimised temperatures of 81/41◦C. The results shown that an overall average return temperature of 35.6◦C can be achieved operating the heat network as suggested. This corresponds to a decrease in the average return temperature of 18.6◦C compared to the present condition and to a reduction of 10% in the distribution heat losses. Finally, the lower average return temperature achievable would guarantee a better condensation of the flue gases, improving the overall efficiency of the biomass boiler. This was quantified as a possible reduction of fuel consumption of 9% compared to present conditions

"Skin is anything but skin deep" : contemporary transsexual and transgendered body narratives

An investigation of late twentieth-century transsexual and transgendered narratives, this thesis considers the role of embodiment in the development of trans identities. Because transsexuals and transgendered people do not adhere to the hegemonic sex/gender binary, they allow a critical view of subjectivity as they challenge essentializing accounts of identity, insisting instead that the self can continually change and unfold throughout one's lifespan. A comparison is made between written, autobiographical accounts of transsexual and transgendered subjectivities and photographic ones, in an attempt to understand how different media articulate trans struggles with the body. Through an analysis of Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw and Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues , two autobiographical texts, the first chapter examines the relationship between embodiment, gender identity and sexual desire. In exploring a textual mode of self-representation, the chapter attempts to understand how language impedes an articulation of trans bodies and sexual desires but also offers the potential for these emerging identities to be named. In the second chapter, two photographic works are analyzed--Loren Cameron's Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits and Del LaGrace Volcano's Sublime Mutations . These texts are used to consider how photography differs from writing in its presentation of trans embodiment, specifically because photography is credited with revealing the "real" and is capable of showing bodies that cannot be named. The potential for bodies to be transformed via sex-reassignment surgery and other types of body modifications is also discussed in relation to the forging of trans identities

Primary Coronary Embolism as an Unusual Manifestation of Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis in a Patient with Gastric Cancer

Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) is a rare clinical condition characterized by the presence of sterile vegetations on valvular leaflets Gross and Friedberg (1936). The most frequent cause of NBTE is antiphospholipid syndrome Hughson and et al. (1993); malignancy, through an intrinsic condition of hypercoagulability, is the second most common cause Thomas (2001). Systemic thromboembolic complications are frequently associated with this condition, but coronary embolism is not common. We report the case of a patient with NBTE secondary to gastric adenocarcinoma with clinical symptoms of coronary and systemic emboli

Optimal operation of a multi vector district energy system in the UK

The large price drop in solar PV and electrical batteries offer new opportunities for optimizing district energy plants, but requires a more complex daily operation of these plants. Solar PV production used locally by a ground source heat pump (GSHP) with a minimal use of the national grid is one opportunity. Even if, for the benefit of the GSHP, the share of electricity for boosting the temperatures of district heating water goes up when lowering forward temperatures in the network down to as low as 45 °C, the overall operational income is improved