This paper introduces the volume, aiming first of all at presenting the historiographical framework in which the collected essays are placed and the common questions around which they revolve, with particular regard to typologies, characteristics, extension of the social and cultural networks that the Italian bishops built around themselves, and to their effects on the integration of the regnum…
‘Who is in and who is out? – these are the first questions that any political community must answer about itself’ (Walzer 1993: 55). We can agree with Michael Walzer on this point, but there is one important question that precedes asking who is in and who is out and that is, why are we in this together in the first place? How did a concrete political community come into being, and why doe…
The short but significant experiment of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy left politically ephemeral albeit culturally surprisingly durable traces in the peninsula. Among them, epigraphy takes centre stage when discussing decrees, laws, and public documents, which are a direct expression of the rulers’ will to gain greater visibility and disseminate their voice. However, epigraphy is also cruc…
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Chapter Sensorized Tools for Haptic Force Feedback in Computer Assisted Surgery, 'Haptics'
During the last few years, large-scale efforts towards realizing high-photonic inte‐ gration densities have put SOAs in the spotlight once again. Hence, the need to de‐ velop a complete framework for SOA-induced signal distortion to accurately evaluate a system’s performance has now become evident
Building information modeling shows its potential in the performance driven design, where multiple design solutions are generated and assessed against certain design goals. This paper proposes a workflow for the air-conditioning system design and simulation on thermal zoning level