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GIBELLINA: VANGUARD OF A COSMOPOLITAN CITY
2021
Gibellina is a city formed by orogenesis. It was reborn after a dramatic earthquake and shook the sediment off urban theory, becoming a city open to the world and to the worlds of contemporary culture; of architecture, art, theatre. To understand its revolutionary force, we must immerse ourselves in the context of 1968, when an earthquake hit the Belice Valley with a violence capable of damaging fourteen cities and razing four of them—including Gibellina— to the ground. The earthquake marked a sharp break in the historical continuity of the small, rural centre of Sicily. The original site of the town was abandoned and another city was built from scratch for the surviving inhabitants. The ci…
The Bossons glacier protects Europe's summit from erosion
2013
13 pages; International audience; The contrasting efficiency of erosion beneath cold glacier ice, beneath temperate glacier ice, and on ice-free mountain slopes is one of the key parameters in the development of relief during glacial periods. Detrital geochronology has been applied to the subglacial streams of the north face of the Mont-Blanc massif in order to estimate the efficiency of erosional processes there. Lithologically this area is composed of granite intruded at ~303 Ma within an older polymetamorphic complex. We use macroscopic features (on ~10,000 clasts) and U-Pb dating of zircon (~500 grains) to establish the provenance of the sediment transported by the glacier and its subgl…
GraphQL un OData tehnoloģiju salīdzinājums lietotņu programmēšanas saskarņu izstrādē
2020
Autors maģistra darbā salīdzina lietojumprogrammu saskarņu (application programming interface, API) izstrādes tehnoloģijas OData un GraphQL, kas abas piedāvā lietotājiem lielāku elastību vaicājumu sastādīšanā salīdzinājumā ar izplatīto REST pieeju. Abas tehnoloģijas tiek gan aprakstītas no teorijas viedokļa, gan pārbaudītas praktiski, izstrādājot programmas-klientus un realizējot abu tehnoloģiju API kopīgam datu modelim aizmurugsistēmā. Iegūtie salīdzināšanas rezultāti tiek apkopoti un analizēti, pieminot katras tehnoloģijas galvenās priekšrocības un trūkumus, un aspektus, kas būtu jāapsver, lemjot par tehnoloģijas pielietošanu programmizstrādes projektā.
Effect of epicentral direction on seismic response of asymmetric buildings
1984
The paper deals with the influence of the epicentral direction on the displacement and stress response of multistorey asymmetric buildings to earthquake horizontal ground motion. A method is given for computing for each plane frame of the complex structure a particular direction of the bidirectional stationary random input for which the horizontal floor displacement of the given frame is maximized. It is shown that this direction can be considered conservative for the corresponding non-stationary process.
Lower secondary school pupils’ written descriptions of their experiences with bullying and the tendency to seek help
2021
The purpose of this study was to examine lower secondary school students’ (n = 223) descriptions of bullying and their experiences with the phenomenon. Students at three schools in Norway completed a survey containing open-ended questions. We employed a mixed-methods analytical approach in which responses were coded thematically and then quantified. Findings indicate that students viewed bullying in a manner consistent with prevalent definitions in the literature. However, they were often unsure whether social conflicts they had experienced would be considered bullying. School was clearly featured as the primary arena for bullying, although bullying in free-time activities and on social med…
In-soil radon anomalies as precursors of earthquakes: A case study in the SE slope of Mt. Etna in a period of quite stable weather conditions
2012
In-soil radon concentrations as well as climatic parameters (temperature, atmospheric pressure and relative humidity) were collected in St. Venerina (Eastern Sicily - Italy) from March 19th to May 22nd 2009, close to an active fault system called Timpe Fault System (TFS), which is strictly linked to the geodynamics of Mt. Etna. During the monitoring period no drastic climatic variations were observed and, on the other hand, important seismic events were recorded close to the monitoring site. A seismic swarm composed of 5 earthquakes was observed in the Milo area on March 25th (M-max = 2.7) at just 5.1 km from the site, and on May 13th an earthquake of 3.6 magnitude was recorded in the terri…
The Nymphaeum of the Tritons at Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey) from excavations to 3D-virtual reconstruction: an example of integrated methods in the…
2011
The Nymphaeum of the Tritons at Hierapolis of Phrygia is a monumental fountain of the Roman period with an imposing marble façade. Within the activities of the Italian Archaeological Mission the Nymphaeum is currently being studied by a team from the University of Messina with the goal of understanding its original layout and its history. The starting point of the study is the wealth of data provided by stratigraphic excavation of the building, particularly by the extensive archaeological deposits formed by the blocks of the façade collapsed into the pool of the fountain following an earthquake in the 7th century AD. The need to process a large amount of data required the creation of a comp…
Il terremoto del 1542 in Val di Noto: i casi di Lentini e Siracusa, dalla gestione dell'emergenza al rinnovamento urbano
2012
All’interno del più generale quadro delle distruzioni e ricostruzioni di interi centri urbani o significative parti degli stessi conseguente al terremoto che nel 1542 colpì violentemente il Val di Noto, questo contributo analizza due casi studio di particolare interesse e chiaramente esemplificativi delle problematiche in campo, nonché delle strategie e modalità di intervento e dei processi di rinnovamento attivati dall’evento distruttivo. Nel caso di Lentini, le vicende conseguenti al terremoto agevolano la formulazione di un progetto di ricostruzione dell’intera città in altro sito che avrebbe soddisfatto anche esigenze di natura difensiva. Le opposizioni incontrate a livello locale fanno…
An Overview of Public Concerns During the Recovery Period after a Major Earthquake: Nepal Twitter Analysis
2016
In responding to disasters, Twitter is extensively used, both for information exchange and mapping the crisis, among citizens, and in relation to national and international humanitarian responders. This paper reports Twitter analysis aimed at identifying the most pressing issues that arose in the short term recovery phase starting about a week after the Nepal earthquake, including the heretofore neglected topic of mismatch between international relief and local cultures. Based on Twitter data collected between April 30th and May 6th 2015. 1,074,864 raw messages apparently related to the Nepal earthquake were retrieved, filtered and analyzed. This exploratory adapts established frameworks fo…
“Another Munich We Just Cannot Afford”: Historical Metonymy In Politics
2016
The appeasement of Hitler and the Munich Agreement is a rhetorical comparison used commonly in international relations to defend politico-military action. On the basis of conceptual history and rhetorics, we examine cases of political speech in this paradigm. Firstly, we discuss time and conceptualize experience into first and second order experiences. Secondly, the roles of metaphor, metonymy and analogy in relation to thought and action are examined. We then contextualise Munich 1938, and present three cases demonstrating the political usage of this metonymy since WWII. These range from the Suez Crises to the Gulf War and on-going War on Terror. These cases show that “Munich” can be used …