The design of educational spaces dedicated to school is a rather recent topic in Italy,since until the end of the nineteenth century and the unification of the country,1children were educated exclusively in private or ecclesiastical environments; andonly later, the school education was recognized for its significant role in theteaching and learning processes (Pennisi 2012). The evolution of the…
Of course, languages are not in contact. We could say that speakers of languages are, but even this would be misleading, as we would bestow an undue role to in-dividuals in their capacity as speakers, and at the same time forget that words and patterns spread when they are heard, rather than when they are uttered. As Thomason (2001: p. 2) puts it, “in the simplest definition, language contact…
The effects of neurodegenerative diseases on speech are well known. Phonation, articulation, prosody and fluency are speech characteristics strongly affected by Parkinson’s Disease (PD) [1]. On the other hand, it is also well known that neuroacustical stimulation based on binaural beats may modify the brain activity measured in the cortex by…
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This two-volume handbook covers methods as well as applications. This first volume focuses on real-time control theory, data assimilation, real-time visualization, high-dimensional state spaces a…
Sure, paleontologist and historians can make a virtue out of necessity (see, e.g.,Muir,1991; Zemon Davis,2010:5–6; Peltonen,2012; Bassi,2016), but the com-monsensical assumption is that immediate observation and interrogation of phenom-ena in their entirety are preferable—time travel would be more effective.1However,the recourse to traces is getting more frequent not only for studying the h…
This open access book gathers the contributions from the Design! OPEN International Conference, held in Parma, Italy in May 2022. The conference explored the multidisciplinary aspects of design starting from its dimensions: objects (design as focused on the object, on its functional and symbolic dimension, and at the same time on the object as a tool for representing cultures), processes (the d…
Richly detailed and timely study on conservation, development and sustainability in Tanzania. Provides valuable insights into the successes and failures of the management and governance of wildlife, forestry and coastal resources. Responding to the urgent need to examine the outcome of interventions in governing natural resources, this book analyses different types of sustainability partnership…