This volume is a tribute to Maria Teresa Prat and to her long and outstanding career at the University of Turin. In the course of her intense activity as a scholar of English language and linguistics in Italy, she has participated in the birth and development of the discipline – Lingua Inglese – both in terms of scientific production and institutional debate. Her remarkable contribution to some major research areas of English language and linguistics – education and curriculum design, English grammar, lexis and corpus linguistics – are worthy of recognition and appreciation by Italian academia...
Several technologies are emerging that provide new ways to capture, store, present and use knowledge. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive introduction to five of the most important of these technologies: Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Based Engineering, Knowledge Webs, Ontologies and Semantic Webs. For each of these, answers are given to a number of key questions (What is it? How does it operate? How is a system developed? What can it be used for? What tools are available? What are the main issues?). The book is aimed at students, researchers and practitioners interested in Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, Design Engineering and Web Technologies.
The keywords in this collective work include community of learning, inquiry or work, virtual environments and identity. This volume presents the results of a biennial Italian research project (PRIN 2005-07) which was coordinated nationally from the University of Padova, with Bianca M. Varisco as principal investigator. The research involved five units with local coordinators (Padova – B.M. Varisco, Bari – M.B. Ligorio, Roma Sapienza – D. Cesareni, Milano Cattolica Sacro Cuore – C. Galimberti, Macerata – P.G. Rossi) and also the Universities of Trieste, Milano Bicocca, Valle d’Aosta, Bologna, Udine, and Cassino...
This Volume is a collection of scientific contributions dealing with a wide experimental/theoretical research developed during the years 2000-2005, in the former industrial area of Bagnoli (Naples, Italy). The results of 15 full-scale tests (both static and dynamic) on real RC structures seismically upgraded by means of different, innovative and advanced, techniques are presented and discussed, together with the comparison with relevant theoretical/numerical studies. The following upgrading techniques have been considered: 1. Base isolation; 2. Buckling restrained braces; 3. Composite materials; 4. Eccentric braces; 5. Shape memory alloy braces; 6. Steel and aluminium shear panels. The activity has beeen developed by four Institutions: - University of Naples “Federico II” (coordination)...