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Doni funesti. Miti di scambi pericolosi nella letteratura latina
2018
«I doni sono come gli ami» avverte Marziale. «Catturano anche gli dèi» afferma Ovidio. «Sono l’inganno in cui di solito incappano i re» osserva Seneca. La forza calamitante del dono, la sua natura seducente e pericolosa, emerge con chiarezza dall’analisi del sapere mitico romano e delle sue riscritture letterarie. I Romani, del resto, conoscevano bene il potere attrattivo dei doni, la loro capacità di condizionare i comportamenti e le dinamiche di relazione. Erifile è soggiogata dalla collana di Armonia, Mida è accecato dalla sua fame d’oro, Creusa è ingannata dai doni nuziali; Didone brucia con sé quelli dell’amato, Semele e Fetonte ne saranno bruciati. Il dono promesso è un rischio, il do…
Economic Adaptation to Risky Environment in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of the "Accrues" of the Doubs in Chaussin (Jura, France) from c. 1370 to c…
2017
Located along the meanders of the Doubs, the people of Chaussin had to deal with the particular impact of the river on their environment. Due to the impact of the Little Ice Age on water levels in the area, the Doubs sometimes had special floods, which frequently changed its course from the end of the fourteenth century. As a result, some lands were absorbed, and others emerged, which were called the “accrues.” From 1377 the first observation of lost lands appears in the accounts of the castellan, in a petition from landowners who did not want to pay taxes on these fields. More than twenty years later, in the first decade of the fifteenth century, the duke of Burgundy, facing the same situa…
Flood Frequency Analysis for Sicily, Italy
2006
In this paper a regional flood frequency analysis based on the two-component extreme value TCEV distribution is developed using flood data recorded in Sicily. The hierarchical approach, characterized by three investigation levels for estimating the parameters of the theoretical distribution, is discussed first. The highest level of homogeneity hypothesis with regard to the skewness coefficient was verified by using a Monte Carlo technique and taking account of the separation effect proposed by Matalas et al. in 1975. This analysis also showed 1 the inability of the generalized extreme value model to reproduce the empirical cumulative distribution function CDF of the skewness coefficients, a…
Estimation of flood design hydrographs using bivariate analysis (copula) and distributed hydrological modelling
2014
Abstract. In this paper a procedure to derive Flood Design Hydrographs (FDH) using a bivariate representation of rainfall forcing (rainfall duration and intensity) using copulas, which describe and model the correlation between these two variables independently of the marginal laws involved, coupled with a distributed rainfall-runoff model is presented. Rainfall-runoff modelling for estimating the hydrological response at the outlet of a watershed used a conceptual fully distributed procedure based on the soil conservation service – curve number method as excess rainfall model and a distributed unit hydrograph with climatic dependencies for the flow routing. Travel time computation, based o…
Municipal Climate Change Adaptation GOVERNANCE in Latvia: ApproachING Cross-sectorial and Multi–instrumental understanding
2021
Climate change adaptation being one of today’s main challenges on global agenda do affect people worldwide, but even though most decisions regarding climate change governance are made at the international or national level, the implementation of these decisions in most cases takes place at the local level. Municipal climate change adaptation research project in Latvia was carried out with special emphases on main stakeholder understanding, preparedness and communication factors using several complementary research methods – case study research in Salacgriva coastal municipality, sociological surveys with both Salacgriva town households / inhabitants (home visits / questionnaires) and also n…
Analysis of Hydrological and Landslide Hazards at Castellammare Del Golfo (Northern Sicily)
2014
Catastrophic floods or mass movements occur all too often owing to small streams overflowing their banks or to slope instabilities whose evolution has a more or less tragic impact on people and property; these events are the consequence of a poor understanding of the dynamics of geomorphological processes and of the laws governing them. This paper is focused on the case study of Castellammare del Golfo, a town in the province of Trapani. The study analysed the geological risk due to the geomorphology of the area and to the urban sprawl that it has experienced in the past decades. Geomorphological processes have a strategic role to play in spatial planning and management instruments and in t…
Flood proofing measures cost-efficiency analysis for hydraulic risk mitigation in an urbanized riverine area.
2020
<div> <div> <div> <p><strong>Flood proofing measures cost-efficiency analysis for hydraulic risk mitigation in an urbanized riverine area</strong></p> <p>Ugo Ventimiglia <sup>2</sup>, Angela Candela <sup>1,</sup> Giuseppe Tito Aronica <sup>2</sup></p> <p><sup>1 </sup>Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy</p> <p><sup>2 </sup>Department of Engineerin…
Par likteņa deevibam, trim Laimiņam: Terbatā 23. maijā 1893. g.
1893
Manuskripts rokrakstā
Lettische Mythologie
1881
Manuskripts rokrakstā
Latviešu mitoloģija vizuālā un verbālā tekstā (1880-1945)
2019
Promocijas darbs sniedz ieskatu latviešu mitoloģijas vizualizācijas vēsturē, analizējot faktorus, kas ietekmējuši vizuālos priekšstatus par mitoloģiskiem tēliem un motīviem. Pētījums ir saistīts ar teksta uzbūves struktūras semantikas jautājumiem, un folkloras teksts ar tajā iekļauto mitoloģisko tēmu tiek skatīts kā dekontekstualizēta verbālā teksta vienība, kas vizuālās mākslas kontekstā ieguvusi jaunu simbolisko nozīmi. Darbā analizēti 19. gadsimta beigu un 20. gadsimta pirmās puses tēlotājas un lietišķi dekoratīvās mākslas paraugi ar mitoloģiskā žanra iezīmēm (J. Rozentāla, Ā. Alkšņa, A. Cīruļa, E. Brastiņa, H. Vīkas, J. Bīnes u. c. autoru darbi), kā arī grāmatu grafika ilustrētos tautas…