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Remarks on the History of the Navy of the Empire of Nicaea in the Light of the Chronicle of Georgios Akropolites
2016
The Empire of Nicaea was a successor of the Byzantium shattered in 1204. In the newly established state marine traditions of Byzantines, remain alive. The best testimony to this, are the evidence contained in the chronicle of Georgios Akropolites, devoted to activities of the rulers of Nicaea, aimed to build their own naval forces. In this paper I'll also try to answer, where was beating the heart of the Nicean shipbuilding industry and how large was the navy of this state. This is important from point of view of the maritime history, because of the fleet of the Empire of Nicaea, filled the gap created after the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, which was the local naval powe…
Interconceptualizing Europe and Peace : Identity Building Under the European Heritage Label
2019
AbstractThis chapter investigates how peace is used in attempts to build a collective identity for the European Union in the context of the European Heritage Label (EHL), a central instrument in the EU’s cultural heritage policy. The official EHL documents and the websites of the EHL sites are analysed using a conceptual approach that particularly focuses on the interconceptualizations between peace and Europe. The ways peace is discussed can be divided into four thematic categories: treaties, institutions, practices, and symbols related to peace. The chapter concludes that heritage related to peace is mainly discussed in a non-contradictory manner, with little space for dissonance.
Effect of Organic Fertilizers on Avocado Trees (Cvs. Fuerte, Hass, Lamb Hass) in Western Crete, a Cool Subtropical Region
2022
The market for avocado is one of the fastest expanding worldwide, inclduing the Mediterranean basin. Organic farming systems cannot make use of synthetic fertilizers and therefore rely on several cultural techniques to maintain vigorous young trees and for quick shoot development, satisfactory yield, and fruit quality. We studied the effect of three different organic products (Terra Insecta® (Aeiphoria-Sustainable products of Crete, Chania, Greece), Fruit-Fix®, and AMINO-16® (both products manufactured by EVYP, Sindos, Thessaloniki, Greece) on avocado plants in the cool subtropical area of southern Greece. Three experiments were carried out, two of them on young avocado trees, a…
Tres artistas en el exilio: Max Aub, Félix Candela y Josep Renau
2020
Three artists in exile focuses on the historical diaspora provoked by the Spanish civil war (1936- 1939), and how it influenced three prominent figures of the cultural scene of that period: the writer and typographer Max Aub Mohrenwitz (Paris, 1903-Ciudad de Mexico, 1972); the architect Félix Candela Outeriño (Madrid, 1910-Raleigh, US, 1977); and the artist Josep Renau Berenguer (Valencia, 1907-Berlín, 1982). They are the three protagonists of this article, who were simultaneously living in Mexico during the exile and who made notable contributions in the fields of arts and humanities (Max Aub), architecture (Félix Candela), and graphic design and photomontage (Josep Renau). While they were…
The effects of biomass co-gasification and co-firing on the development of combustion dynamics
2018
Abstract Effects of wheat straw co-firing with gas (propane flame) and co-gasification/co-combustion with wood pellets on the development of thermo-chemical conversion of biomass pellets and on heat energy production were experimentally studied and analyzed with the aim to improve the gasification/combustion characteristics and the applicability of wheat straw as an alternative energy source for cleaner heat energy production. The results suggest that the wheat straw co-firing with propane provides an enhanced thermal decomposition of pellets with more complete combustion of volatiles increasing thus the heat output at thermo-chemical conversion of wheat straw and the produced heat energy p…
MAIFINITO
2014
Grandi quantità di edifici mai completati hanno prodotto speciali paesaggi extra-urbani, ma anche in alcuni casi interni a contesti urbani consolidati. Edifici che subiscono una condizione insita nel costruire: un atto che richiede una quantità di tempo – appunto di "costruzione" – dalla concezione alla realizzazione fino all’inizio del loro ciclo di vita, quindi mai immediato. Un edificio incompleto rimane lì dove è stato pensato e costruito, a volte per molti decenni, a differenza di un progetto, che come tanti, può rimanere in un cassetto. Il territorio di osservazione di partenza di questo libro è l’Italia del Sud e la Sicilia degli ultimi 50 anni, dove il fenomeno degli edifici "maifin…
ARCHITETTURA E COSCIENZA TECNOLOGICA : LA COSTRUIBILITÀ DEL PROGETTO - UN DIBATTITO APERTO
2004
Il principio di centralità della tecnologia, nel rapporto tra progetto e costruzione, scaturisce da una lunga trattatistica sul significato della tecnica e del suo rapporto con le arti, i mestierie l’architettura a partire dagli antichi greci e romani. La tecnologia come arte del costruire ha origine classica, Vitruvio è senz’altro il più citato tra gli illustri latini.. Il dibattito umanistico-scientifico assume un ruolo di rilievo nell’Università tedesca alla fine del ‘700 in Germania, dove la tecnologia dell’architettura viene introdotta come disciplina autonoma. Johann Beckmann1 (1739-1811), uno dei padri della tecnologia nascente, la definiva come la disciplina che studia le trasformaz…
TECNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF SUSTAINABILITY: FACTORS OF DECAY AND PREVENTION MEASURES
2006
This is the age of the"global knowledge", of the "local inadequacies", of the specialist enterprises and of the management difficulties. Today is necessary to create new perspectives to limit the rissk both material (structural decay / phisical obsolescence/ security needs/ static disease) and cultural and environmental (funtion degradations - inattentive environmental conditions) and to realize the right living conditions and protection for the development of guidelines for the 21st century construction. This research aims at the creation of new tools for developing a history of building technologies as they relate to their pathologies.
THE "TECHNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS" OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION: FACTORS OF DECAY-INSTRUMENTS OF BUILDING RECOVERY AND PREVENTION MEASURES
2006
This is the age of the “global knowledge”, of the “local inadequacies”, of the specialist enterprises and of the managerial difficulties to limit the risk both material (structural decay/ physical obsolescence / security needs / static disease) and cultural and environmental (function degradations – inattentive environmental conditions) of the discontinuity between the past and the present and to realize the right living conditions and protection of heritage conservation, it is necessary to create new perspectives “to continue to make history consciousness”. The new instruments of the recovery and maintenance of the extant as well as the new strategies of equilibrium and protection for the …
The role of technological culture in the theoretical dichotomy between technique and form/Il ruolo della cultura tecnologica nella dicotomia teorica …
2017
La cultura tecnologica spiega il rapporto tra forma e tecnica basandosi su una dimensione concreta ed esistenziale. «La dimensione esistenziale “verità” si manifesta attraverso la storia, ma il suo significato trascende la situazione storica. Tale concretizzazione dipende in genere dal come siano le cose fatte, ossia dalle forme e dalla tecnologia» (Schulz, 1979). In tal ottica il saggio esplora teorie e prassi della cultura tecnologica sul rapporto tra materia e forma e tra architettura e tecnica, a partire dal concetto di tecnologia: dall’evoluzione storica delle tecniche e dei sistemi costruttivi al valore dell’innovazione, sondando nelle problematiche ideologiche, sociali e materiali ch…