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Algebras with intermediate growth of the codimensions
2006
AbstractLet F be a field of characteristic zero and let A be an F-algebra. The polynomial identities satisfied by A can be measured through the asymptotic behavior of the sequence of codimensions and the sequence of colengths of A. For finite dimensional algebras we show that the colength sequence of A is polynomially bounded and the codimension sequence cannot have intermediate growth. We then prove that for general nonassociative algebras intermediate growth of the codimensions is allowed. In fact, for any real number 0<β<1, we construct an algebra A whose sequence of codimensions grows like nnβ.
Varieties of Algebras with Superinvolution of Almost Polynomial Growth
2015
Let A be an associative algebra with superinvolution ∗ over a field of characteristic zero and let $c_{n}^{\ast }(A)$ be its sequence of corresponding ∗-codimensions. In case A is finite dimensional, we prove that such sequence is polynomially bounded if and only if the variety generated by A does not contain three explicitly described algebras with superinvolution. As a consequence we find out that no intermediate growth of the ∗-codimensions between polynomial and exponential is allowed.
Harnessing ICT to develop community and identity: a model for academic departments
2006
Universities have been early adopters of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). However, does availability imply use? How is ICT being used by academic departments? This article addresses these questions, and discusses the use of ICT to support research, instruction and service, but more specifically, the use of ICT to enhance a sense of identity and community across all members of a department. The authors' observations of university departments across the Atlantic reveal very limited uses of ICT. A democratic web-based academic departmental community model is proposed to assist in the strengthening of departmental identity and community as well as advancing its mission. Concept…
CULTURAL IDENTITY AND CONSERVATION OF INDIGENOUS AND NATIVE DIVERSITY
2014
The economic development of rural areas has rarely followed that of urban centres, with greater evidence of this in developing countries where the outlying communities have remained considerably more remote from the systems of cultural and economic growth. Even if this has had negative repercussions in terms of social equilibrium within the various countries, from a strictly agronomic point of view it has often resulted in the natural conservation of indigenous and native biodiversity. This has been affected by the natural and daily use of local plant extracts both for nutritional purposes and for a variety of other reasons. The exchange of genetic material between one community and another…
BioCultural Landscapes per la rigenerazione innovativa dei territori di montagna
2017
Simplification of agricultural systems, farmland abandonment, uncontrolled urbanization, together with global scale drivers, determine fast and unpredictable phenomena of hydrogeological instability, biodiversity decline and identity loss. Men should hence promote socio-economic resilience and place identity, using biocultural landscapes as a resource. These landscapes are the outcome of the historical relationship between man and nature, resulting from complex interactions between biodiversity (at all levels, including species richness, ecosystem and biotope diversity) and cultural diversity, including material and immaterial aspects (architectural heritage, traditions, customs, local trad…
Innovative Applications and Experiments for the Protection of Archaeological Sites
2020
Nowadays, the protection in situ, the enhancement and the fruition of archaeological sites are issues that are even more relevant, if we take into account the effects caused, in recent decades, by climate change both on the conservation of the most fragile artefacts and on the well-being of visitors. New questions related to the ‘recover of identity’ are raised by the relationships that the protection interventions establish with the environmental context (external) and with the ancient ruins (internal), imposing an interpretation of the project as a union of landscape, morphological, climatic, technical, use and management aspects, or by requiring a holistic and integrated approach, from a…
Form follows function. Bob Noorda e il sistema di identità visiva per il Touring Club Italiano
2011
Quella che vogliamo raccontare in queste pagine è una microstoria del graphic design in Italia, scritta da un olandese che del suo paese d’origine ha mantenuto molto, in primis la formazione, la cultura del progetto, l’accento e lo stile, e del nostro ha assimilato altrettanto, tutti aspetti che hanno contribuito a fare di lui, Bob Noorda, un progettista ad altissimo livello che ha scritto con la sua lunga e importante carriera professionale, parte della storia della disciplina progettuale. Una microstoria che lega il Touring Club Italiano (TCI) al graphic designer che ne ha ridisegnato il marchio, senza che il parlare di ridisegno possa assumere in alcun modo un’accezione riduttiva per il …
Design e Artigianato in Sicilia. Scambio e contaminazione tra forme diverse della progettualità.
2023
While travelling on the fast tracks of the digital world, our age has long understood the importance of promoting cultural heritage. In this context, the intangible heritage that is made up of the baggage of knowledge related to artisanal know-how represents the foundation of the determination of territorial identities. The School of Design of the University of Palermo was among the first to embrace the idea of using design as a tool to safeguard and evolve the skills of craftsmanship: in the words of Anna Maria Fundarò, founder in 1981 of the Industrial Design Institute of Palermo, the identity of Sicilian design is engraved in the DNA of a discipline whose meaning "is linked to our local …
Raccolta iconografica
2011
Comunicare il design italiano, inteso come prodotto Made in Italy, implica una singolare e duplice attività progettuale, ovvero quella che conduce attraverso le varie fasi sequenziali del design di comunicazione, alla realizzazione di un artefatto comunicativo nel tentativo ultimo di dare un nome, un volto, una voce, un sistema di segni riconoscibili a un artefatto di product design. Un rapporto stretto e biunivoco che si innesta tra i due in una relazione che lega a doppio filo forma e funzione, prima nel prodotto poi nella comunicazione, infine in un tutt’uno indissolubile, in cui il design soltanto, connotato dai suoi tanti nomi, diventa l’unica chiave di lettura dell’oggetto parlante. Q…
Leggere e trasparenti identità
2009
Se la leggerezza e la trasparenza sono divenute caratteristiche ricorrenti nell'ambito dell'architettura, ma anche del design, della moda, dell'arte, è possibile riscontrare un'analoga presenza nel mare magnum delle comunicazioni visive? Si può anche in tale area disciplinare trovare un corrispettivo alleggerimento, non solo della già impalpabile materia adoperata per la composizione degli artefatti, composta da immagini, testi e colori, ma persino delle modalità progettuali che sempre più guardano nei sistemi di identità visiva, a concetti come leggerezza e molteplicità piuttosto che ai loro opposti, rappresentati da pesantezza e unicità? All'interno di questi interrogativi vi è ampio spaz…