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Cinema e paesaggio nel Terje Vigen di Victor Sjöström
2021
Secondo la tradizione i film svedesi sono percepiti come essenziali e minimalisti, algidi e scarni, coerentemente con le latitudini del paese scandinavo. Durante l’età d’oro del cinema svedese (1917-1924) emerge in essi un’inedita caratteristica: la capacità di trasferire efficacemente nelle immagini i dilemmi esistenziali dell’essere umano sfruttando la potenza evocativa del paesaggio. In tale direzione, il contributo intende analizzare il ruolo del paesaggio svedese nell’opera che apre l’età d’oro, il film Terje Vigen di Victor Sjöström. Traditionally, Swedish films are recognized as serious and frozen, in line with the latitudes of Scandinavian Peninsula. The Golden age of Swedish Cinema…
Conformational substates of ferricytochrome c revealed by combined optical absorption and electronic circular dichroism spectroscopy at cryogenic tem…
2010
We have investigated the heterogeneity of the Fe(III)–Met80 linkage of horse heart ferricytochrome c by probing the 695 nm charge transfer band with absorption and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectroscopy. In order to verify the connection between conformational substates of the Fe(III)–Met80 linkage and the 695 nm band spectral heterogeneity, we have performed experiments as a function of pH (neutral and acidic) and temperature (room and 20 K). At room temperature, the ECD spectrum is blue shifted with respect to the absorption one; the shift is more pronounced at acidic pH and is compatible with the presence of sub-bands. ECD measurements at 20 K highlighted the heterogeneous natu…
Past and Future: The Urban Landscape and the Virtuous Management of Resource Flows for a Sustainable Environment
2022
A circular process in the case of resource flows can best be expressed according to a plan that takes into account the geographical proximity and synergy between citizens and industries. The study hypothesizes the possibility of anticipating part of the recycling processes in residential urban areas. This streamlines the work phases and consumers become an active part of the process. Circular management of resource flows is an operational problem that emerges with greater severity in an urban landscape, due to the constraints generated by road networks and the need to protect basic values. It often happens that the degradation generated by the irresolute nature of the technical environmenta…
Policies can help to apply successful strategies to control soil and water losses. The case of chipped pruned branches (CPB) in Mediterranean citrus …
2018
[EN] There is a need to devise management strategies that control soil and water losses in agriculture land to allow the design of proper policies to achieve sustainability. It is the responsibility of scientists to work with other actors to co-construct strategies that will lead to sustainable land-use policies. Using chipped pruned branches (CPB) as mulch can be a viable option because they represent local (in situ) organic material that can restore soil nutrient and organic matter. This research assesses: i) the perception of farmers towards different types of management strategies and CPB's costs; ii) the biomass yield of citrus branches and the impact of CPB on soil properties; iii) ho…
Città e campagna: contaminazioni
2013
Il saggio affronta il questione del rapporto tra la città e campagna sia dal punto concettuale che operativo. La questione è quindi analizzata a partire da fonti letterarie e artistiche, oltre che considerando progetti di architettura. In apertura viene definita la differenza tra campagna e natura, nozioni spesso non chiaramente distinte. A partire dalla notazione del carattere eminente artificiale dell'intervento agricolo, il saggio considera anche le assonanze tra architettura e agricoltura. Nella seconda parte si affronta il tema del rapporto fisico effettivo della città e della campagna. Vengono pertanto chiamate in causa le diverse forme, spesso molte diverse tra loro, attraverso le qu…
Changes in soil fauna 10 years after forest harvestings: Comparison between clear felling and green-tree retention methods
2009
Abstract We studied the responses of soil decomposer animals to clear felling and alternative, green-tree retention harvesting methods (GRT) in Norway spruce forests in Finland. The study plots which were sampled for immediate treatment effects (up to three years) were resampled after 10 years. We hypothesized that responses of decomposers still depends on the level of GTR. The treatments, in addition to untreated controls (100% retained), were: (1) selection felling (70% dispersed tree retention), (2) and (3) gap felling with and without site preparation, respectively (three small gaps were felled in a 1-ha area and 50% of the stand volume was retained), (4) retention felling (10% of the s…
Short-term responses of soil macroarthropod community to clear felling and alternative forest regeneration methods
2003
Abstract We studied the influence of clear felling and new alternative forest regeneration methods on soil macroarthropods during the first 3 years after the harvesting. We focused on changes in the abundances of functional groups, and community structure at the levels of species (Coleoptera) or higher taxa. The experiment was carried out in central Finland in spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) stands on 1 ha study plots. The following five treatments were used in addition to the untreated controls: (1) selection felling (70% of the stand volume retained), (2) gap felling (0.1–0.2 ha gaps felled), (3) gap felling with site preparation, (4) retention felling (small groups of trees retained on …
Effects of climate and land-use change on species abundance in a Central European bird community.
2007
Although it is known that changes in land use and climate have an impact on ecological communities, it is unclear which of these factors is currently most important. We sought to determine the influence of land-use and climate alteration on changes in the abundance of Central European birds. We examined the impact of these factors by contrasting abundance changes of birds of different breeding habitat, latitudinal distribution, and migratory behavior. We examined data from the semiquantitative Breeding Bird Atlas of Lake Constance, which borders Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Changes in the regional abundance of the 159 coexisting bird species from 1980-1981 to 2000-2002 were influenced…
The Urban Landscape and the Real Estate Market. Structures and Fragments of the Axiological Tessitura in a Wide Urban Area of Palermo
2016
The proposed study deals with the urban landscape of Palermo and its possible representation from the perspective of the real estate market analysis. Real estate is one of the most significant types of capital asset and the wide range of its possible utilizations makes complex the interpretation of the market phenomena. The multi-layered reality of such a large city (represented through the sample of 500 properties) needs to be articulated into a significant set of sub-markets in order to outline the complexity and to map the distribution of homogeneous groups of properties within the whole city area. The comparison between quality and price within each cluster allows us to elicit the degre…
CREATIVE TOOLS FOR THE FORMATION OF PUBLIC SIGNS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT OF THE BALTIC STATES
2014
<p>In public space there is the information, that is always designed with a specific purpose. For example, signposts are placed to provide direction guidance and to highlight some of the most important objects. Public signs function as the visiting cards of some institution or enterprise, creating indirectly a definite image of these institutions or some ethnic or social groups, while graffiti is written to create and maintain a public image and to express emotions or attitudes towards some person, a group of people, events or processes. To achieve the expected objective the authors of signs often use the eye-catching texts that differ from linguistic and para-linguistic means, such a…