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Chapter Representations of labour mobility from China to Italy by worker writ…
Within the many typologies of mobility between China and Italy, labour mobility is the one that is numerically most important, constituting over 80% of Chinese citizens living in Italy. In terms of cultural productivity, however, it is the one that is least represented.
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Chapter Renewal of urban ecological transportation network based on inclusivi…
In recent years, as a means of maximizing ecological and sustainable urban life, the network of pedestrian and bicycle lanes has expanded dramatically in importance as a metric of livable cities. It connects people to the main transportation, hotspots for entertainment, cultural centers, parks, and open areas in the city
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Chapter Renaturalization interventions within a regional forest complex locat…
The spontaneous vegetation of the Alimini district (south Italy) is represented by plant communities that vary in relation to geology and distance from the coastline: garrigue, scrub, scrub forest and Holm Oak forest, reforestation of Pinus halepensis and Pinus pinea.
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Chapter Remote Sensing Studies of Urban Canopies: 3D Radiative Transfer Modeling
Need for better understanding and more accurate estimation of radiative fluxes in urban environments, specifically urban surface albedo and exitance, motivates development of new remote sensing and three‐dimensional (3D) radiative transfer (RT) modeling methods.
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Chapter Releasing the Prisoners of Hope: Dante’s Purgatorio Breaks the Chai…
Beginning with a tribute to the late Chris 'Zithulele' Mann, a poet and activist who was deeply immersed in Dante, this chapter comments on some of the patterns that emerge from the creative contributions of the Dantessa students.
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Chapter Relationship between shoreline evolution and sediment wear
Many factors can influence the shoreline retreat, such as: the maritime climate, anthropogenic actions like the construction of ports, dams, etc. To overcome this problem, it is necessary to understand the influence of each of the factors involved in beach erosion
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Chapter Regeneration of historic centers in Mediterranean cities: the case st…
The following contribution wants to tell an experience of design research, aimed at the regeneration of a portion of the waterfront of the city of Livorno, which is now fragmented and in a state of decay. The area, located within the historic Venice District near the Fortezza Vecchia and the port, is strongly characterised by the presence of the fish market building, which stands out for it…
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Chapter Re-fashioning Industrial Revolution. Fibres, fashion and technical in…
The early years of the British Industrial Revolution were dominated by mechanical innovations in cotton spinning. They emerged at a time when raw cotton prices were unprecedentedly high and the supply of all-cotton fabrics from India, the world’s principal producer of cotton textiles, had contracted dramatically.
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Chapter Reducing inconsistency in AHP by combining Delphi and Nudge theory an…
A big issue of the AHP regards the inconsistency of the pairwise comparison matrices and here we propose a new method to reduce the inconsistency. As a solution we exploit the Nudge theory (Thaler and Sunstein, 2008) and from the second round of the Delphi survey, we calculate and circulate a Nudge to “gentle push” the experts towards more consistent evaluations
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Breast Cancer and Breast Reconstruction
This book has been contrived to gather recent data on a common health problem. As breast cancer imposes a heavy burden for society due to its psychological, social and economic consequences, every step to broaden our understanding is a worthy task. The aim of this book is to provide some insights on this subject through the information given on new perspectives in genetics and diagnosis, expose…
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