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LONG-TERM STRUCTURAL DEFICIENCIES IN A MAT FOUNDATION ON CLAY SOIL
2013
A 3-story building with a mat foundation consisting of a slab on a grid of grade beams performed poorly on clay soil. Cracking of the slab became rogressively worse as a result of the incorrect esign and fluctuations in the groundwater pressure under the foundation. The cyclic presence and absence of water rusted the steel reinforcement, and the sulfates in the clay soil caused formation of ettringite in the concrete. Plastic hinges formed in the slab and settlements occurred, causing damage to the beams. The situation is still in progress and may lead to the collapse of the structure under normal service conditions. The geotechnical and structural investigations performed to survey and ass…
Gianni Rodari and Tamara Lisitsian: Western Communist Parties as Vehicles of Cultural Encounter
2013
Abstract. The case of Gianni Rodari, an Italian communist children's writer whose books were received by the Soviet public with exceptional favour, proves how relations with western communist parties happened to be instrumental in opening up the Soviet cultural system to the world. Rodari became, in fact, well-known in the Soviet Union before attaining fame in his homeland; from the Sixties on, however, things became to change, and from this point on, it may be argued, children from different sides of the iron curtain were brought up reading the same books. Rodari's works were the expression of the point of view of a western communist – in many cases, more western than communist – and they …
Babij Jar: lo sterminio taciuto e l’arte dell’eufemismo
2020
Confrontando le poesie dedicate al massacro di Babij Jar (lo sterminio metodico di tutta la popolazione ebraica rimasta a Kiev dopo la conquista nazista) da Il’ja Erenburg ed Evgenij Evtušenko dovremmo con ogni probabilità considerare superiore quella del primo. La sua qualità poetica deriva in gran parte dall’uso dell’allusione, del non detto, che apre spazi semantici superiori; questa caratteristica deriva però probabilmente da un caso di necessità: Erenburg, che scriveva nel 1945, cercava evidentemente una strada per far penetrare alla stampa una commemorazione delle vittime di Babij Jar in un periodo in cui, in Unione Sovietica, era impossibile farlo in modo più esplicito – nella prima …
Le dossier de M. Helvius Anthus. Ou comment une mauvaise édition initiale entraîne la création d’ un « monstre » social
2021
An inscription discovered in Baetica and wrongly read by the publishers, was understood only late. The first reading, erroneous, gave rise to an impossible social situation of the Roman point of view : a slave would have had his statue on the forum of Lucurgentum ! More recent works allowed to correct this initial error and to restore the text, a testimony of the essay of upward social mobility of an emancipated slave, an evergete offering among others a statue of the god Ianus Pater.
From the Morlack to the Slav: Images of South Slavic People between Exoticism and Illyrism in Italian Literature and Opera during the 19th Century
2012
Alberto Fortis’ “Viaggio in Dalmazia” (Padua, 1774) described for the first time the Morlacks (Cr. “Vlasi”) of the inner Dalmatia as the true model of a primitive group, whose characteristics became a source of inspiration until 1830s for some Italian writers and ballet composers devoted to exoticism. Contemporaneously, Homer’s paradigm, introduced by Melchiorre Cesarotti in the foreword to the Italian version of the poems of Ossian (1763), as quoted by Fortis, was in turn transformed by the composer and doctor of Split Giulio Bajamonti. Even though published in Italian, Bajamonti’s “Morlacchismo d’Omero” (Venice, 1797) must be considered as the first contribution to the romantic Croatian l…
Recensione a Philip de Slane, Libellus de descriptione Hibernie. Natura, meraviglie e magie dell’Irlanda medievale, a cura di G.P. Maggioni, Firenze,…
2020
Recensione a Philip de Slane, Libellus de descriptione Hibernie. Natura, meraviglie e magie dell’Irlanda medievale: Philip de Slane, autore del Libellus de descriptione Hibernie, è stato uno dei principali esponenti del clero irlandese durante i primi decenni del sec. XIV, all’interno delle delicate e complesse vicende politiche che, in quel torno di tempo, caratterizzarono i rapporti fra l’Inghilterra e la Scozia, fra l’Irlanda e il papato avignonese ...
Searches for B0 decays to combinations of charmless isoscalar mesons
2004
We search for B meson decays into two-body combinations of eta, eta', omega, and phi mesons from 89 million B B-bar pairs collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at SLAC. We find the branching fraction BF(B0 -> eta omega) = (4.0^{+1.3}_{-1.2} +- 0.4) x 10^-6 with a significance of 4.3 sigma. For all the other decay modes we set the following 90% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions, in units of 10^-6 : BF(B0 -> eta eta)<2.8, BF(B0 -> eta eta')<4.6, BF(B0 -> eta' eta')<10, BF(B0 -> eta'omega)<2.8, BF(B0 -> eta phi)<1.0, BF(B0 -> eta' phi)<4.5, BF(B0 -> phi phi)<1.5.
"Non solo lei, Stirlitz, soffre di nostalgia": La nostalgia dell'est dell'agente infiltrato e la nostalgia dell'ovest del lettore nel romanzo di spio…
2016
In Iulian Semenov's 1969 Seventteen Moments of Spring the hero's (a Soviet undercover agent in Nazi Germany) nostalgia for the motherland is so strongly underscored thtat it becomes ridiculous. Such a stress on nostalgia was, as it appears, necessary in order to compensate the envy the reader would fatally feel for the comfort of his "European" life among the enemy. The double agent became, in fact, an allegory of the "double life" of the soviet citizen in the Seventies, regardless of the fact that the novel was sponsored by the KGB. Or was this an intentional projection of Iurii Andropov's self-constructed image?
Programm des städtischen Realgymnasiums zu Riga, 1864
1864
Inhalt: 1. Die Königinhofer Handschrift / vom Gymnasial-Lehrer C. Haller -- 2. Schulnachrichten / vom Director
Agente 007: Oltre la cortina di ferro. Note per una storia del racconto di spionaggio sovietico.
2013
Nel discorso ufficiale sovietico la letteratura di massa è considerata un fenomeno unicamente occidentale, mentre si nega fermamente la sua stessa possibilità nella società priva di classi. La tendenza prevalente nella storiografia odierna accetta, infondo, questa lettura, postulando la non esistenza di una letteratura di massa separata nel periodo sovietico. Una serie di romanzi di spionaggio di epoca stalinista, però, costituiscono un argomento contro una simile interpretazione. La contraddizione può essere spiegata attraverso un'analisi della ricezione sovietica di James Bond. Sebbene per tutto il periodo sovietico i romanzi di Ian Fleming non siano mai stati tradotti, e i film di Terenc…