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Notte di luce. Il Settecento e la nascita dell'Estetia
2008
Il lavoro presenta le complesse dinamiche attraverso cui nel Settecento avviene la nascita dell’estetica, utilizzando il modello ideologico della “luce che vince le tenebre”. Questo topos, il cui vessillo iconografico è il frontespizio della Metafisica tedesca (1719) di Christian Wolf, pervade tutto il Settecento, il “secolo dei lumi”, da Baumgarten sino al suo ultimo grande interprete, Immanuel Kant e costituisce lievito vitale non solo entro i recinti accademici, ma nell’intero mondo della cultura (si pensi al Flauto magico di Mozart). Tale modello epistemologico si presenta ancora oggi prolifico di suggestioni; pertanto ritornare all’estetica del secolo dei lumi e al suo straordinario la…
Il Sublime in Sicilia
2004
Negli stessi anni in cui in Francia e in Inghilterra il Sublime ascende al rango di categoria estetica, in Sicilia questo concetto trova un sorprendente campo di elaborazione. Tra la fine del Seicento e i primi anni del secolo successivo, soprattutto nell’ambito delle feste barocche, molti autori fanno uso della formula ossimorica “orrore che diletta” per descrivere l’effetto che lo spettacolo delle macchine pirotecniche – esse stesse concretizzazione iconica delle nozioni di “colossale” ed “effimero” – producono sullo spettatore. Il saggio analizza, a partire da una pluralità di fonti coeve, le condizioni entro cui (sia pure episodicamente e in misura del tutto implicita) la Sicilia partec…
Nanoseconds Timing System Based on IEEE 1588 FPGA Implementation
2019
Clock synchronization procedures are mandatory in most physical experiments where event fragments are readout by spatially dislocated sensors and must be glued together to reconstruct key parameters (e.g. energy, interaction vertex etc.) of the process under investigation. These distributed data readout topologies rely on an accurate time information available at the frontend, where raw data are acquired and tagged with a precise timestamp prior to data buffering and central data collecting. This makes the network complexity and latency, between frontend and backend electronics, negligible within upper bounds imposed by the frontend data buffer capability. The proposed research work describ…
Assessing the Performance of the Italian Translations of Modified MEIM, EIS and FESM Scales to Measure Ethnic Identity: A Case Study
2023
Measuring the ethnic identity of linguistic minorities is a research problem which can be tackled departing from a clear operational definition of the construct. This paper will present the performance of the Italian translations of various scales widely used in the relevant literature, which have been modified for the aims of this study and used in research conducted in 2016 in the ArberesheMunicipalities of Piana degli Albanesi and Santa Cristina Gela (Province of Palermo). These scales consist of modifications of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM), Ethnic Identity Scale (EIS) and Familial Ethnic Socialization Measure (FESM). The psychometric properties were analysed for all th…
Genetic and phytochemical difference between some Indian and Italian plants of Whitania somnifera (L.) Dunal
2007
The geographical distribution of Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal is quite wide. However, in Italy. this species is very rare and grows spontaneously only in Sicily and in Sardinia. The PCR-RAPD technique has been utilized in this work to determine the genetic relationship among Sicilian, Sardinian and Indian samples and the HPLC analysis of whitaferin A was used as a marker to evaluate the phytochemical differences. The genetic difference between Indian and Sicilian plants of W. somnifera turned out to be smaller than that between Indian and Sardinian plants of this species. The phytochemical analysis as well showed that the Sardinian specimen strongly differed from the Indian and Sicilian on…
Nuova stazione di Euphorbia serrata in Sicilia
2007
A new record of Euphorbia serrata (Euphorbiaceae) from Sicily. - Euphorbia serrata L. is reported from a new locality in Sicily near Mazara del Vallo (Trapani). Data on the biological cycle and the phytocoenosis in the new Sicilian locality are also reported.
Net satisfaction: a different point of view on the measurement of subjective well-being
2013
Starting from the baffling relationship between satisfaction and importance in the evaluation of subjective well-being, this paper presents a new definition of satisfaction useful to build a composite index of subjective well-being. The index is proven on data from European Quality of Life Survey 2007 and compared with two of the standard literature approaches to measure satisfaction taking into account importance weighting.
Women as main earners in Europe
2014
This paper conducts a cross-sectional empirical research aimed at documenting that couples with women as main earners represent a non-negligible share of the European populations today. We identify the socio-demographic characteristics of couples with women as main earners in comparison to couples with men as main earners and couples with equal-earners. We undertake a comparative and cross-temporal approach using micro-level survey data for 18 European countries from the European Social Survey and two years, 2004 and 2010, covering the period before and during the economic crisis.
Measuring tourism seasonality across European countries
2018
Abstract This paper will propose a general approach for the analysis and measurement of seasonality in tourism, based on an analysis of the pattern of seasonal swing, as a preliminary step for the assessment of seasonal amplitude. The seasonality of tourism demand across European countries will be analyzed and clusters of countries identified, which are based on a similarity of their seasonal pattern. After discussing the limitations of the most frequently used indices employed in the tourism literature, a new index for measuring seasonality in tourism will be suggested in order to measure seasonal amplitude. The latter takes into account the ordinal and cyclical structures of seasonal vari…
Measuring spatial concentration: A transportation problem approach
2019
This paper will propose an index for measuring spatial concentration, which is based on the solution of a particular transportation problem. This approach extends a new index proposed for the measurement of seasonality to the spatial case, and it takes into account the level of the concentration of the phenomenon of interest according to its spatial distribution. Various properties of the proposed index, which make it a desirable measure for spatial concentration, will also be described. An empirical application, using data from selected European countries, will be provided, and the results derived from the proposed index will be compared with those derived from currently used indices. Este…