Tempo e spazio in Sardegna. Indagini etnolinguistiche e di linguistica cognitiva sulla percezione e l'espressione deittica dei domini spaziali e temporali.

Lessico e partonomia del corpo umano nelle varietà romanze di Sicilia. Nomenclature e sviluppi semantici

Il presente lavoro si concentra sul lessico del corpo umano e delle sue parti nelle varietà di siciliano, intersecando diverse discipline quali la tipologia semantica e lessicale, l'etnolinguistica, la sociolinguistica e la linguistica cognitiva. Nella prima parte il lessico corporeo del siciliano viene trattato in prospettiva onomasiologica, analizzandone l'organizzazione in un sistema partonomico e indagandone aspetti conservativi e innovativi. La seconda parte analizza il lessico corporeo ...

Quantitative environmental economics : modeling marketable permits in discrete and continuous time

Environmental policy instruments, such as marketable permits, exist to help monitor and regulate environmental practices of organizations, i.e. companies and institutions (see [60], [77] and discussion in Chapter 2). Market-based instruments are already employed for the implementation of environmental policies on European scale (European Emission Trading Scheme - EU ETS) and on global scale (Kyoto protocol). In an effort to bridge the gap between the theoretical emission permit price and obse...

Cathodic protection and hydrogen embrittlement

The main topic of the research activity carried out at the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the University of Bergamo during this 3-year PhD Program was the study of hydrogen embrittlement in high strength low alloy steels under cathodic protection. The project of this PhD Thesis is entitled “Cathodic Protection and Hydrogen Embrittlement”, and the entire research activity was financed by APCE Service Srl (Associazione per la Protezione dalle Corrosioni Elettrolitiche). The ...

Intercultura a scuola. Dall'epica classica alle nuove narrazioni familiari

Investigation on the dynamic performances of piezoelectric multilayer actuators

The role of UNESCO in the global governance of education

The multiple processes of globalization of the 1990s have drastically changed the context in which governance of education takes place, altering the relationship between sovereignty and territoriality in the education policy development, and transforming education policy spaces, content, and the governance processes, actors and structures. Over the past decades, scholars have tried to explore new frameworks through which to examine the current complex field of power relations in education, an...

Vite di celluloide. Il genere biografico al cinema. Origini, storia ed evoluzioni

A Distributed Intelligent Maintenance System based on Artificial Immune Approach and Multi-Agent Systems