Le politiche giudiziarie inglesi degli anni 2000: mutamento di paradigma e rafforzamento dell'incisività politica dei giudici

The Ph.D. dissertation analyses the reasons for which political actors (governments, legislatures and political parties) decide consciously to give away a source of power by increasing the political significance of the courts. It focuses on a single case of particular significance: the passage of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 in the United Kingdom. This Act has deeply changed the governance and the organization of the English judicial system, has provided a much clearer separation of powers and a stronger independence of the judiciary from the executive and the legislative. What’s more, this strengthening of the judicial independence has been decided in a period in which the political role of the English judges was evidently increasing. I argue that the reform can be interpreted as a «paradigm shift» (Hall 1993), that has changed the way in which the judicial power is considered. The most diffused conceptions in the sub-system of the English judicial policies are shifted, and a new paradigm has become dominant. The new paradigm includes: (i) stronger separation of powers, (ii) collective (as well as individual) conception of the independence of the judiciary, (iii) reduction of the political accountability of the judges, (iv) formalization of the guarantees of judicial independence, (v) principle-driven (instead of pragmatic) approach to the reforms, and (vi) transformation of a non-codified constitution in a codified one. Judicialization through political decisions represent an important, but not fully explored, field of research. The literature, in particular, has focused on factors unable to explain the English case: the competitiveness of the party system (Ramseyer 1994), the political uncertainty at the time of constitutional design (Ginsburg 2003), the cultural divisions within the polity (Hirschl 2004), federal institutions and division of powers (Shapiro 2002). All these contributes link the decision to enhance the political relevance of the judges to some kind of diffusion of political power. In the contemporary England, characterized by a relative high concentration of power in the government, the reasons for such a reform should be located elsewhere. I argue that the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 can be interpreted as a result of three different kinds of reasons: (i) the social and demographical transformations of the English judiciary, which have made inefficient most of the precedent mechanism of governance, (ii) the role played by the judges in the policy process and (iii) the cognitive and normative influences originated from the European context, as a consequence of the membership of the United Kingdom to the European Union and the Council of Europe. My thesis is that only a full analysis of all these three aspects can explain the decision to reform the judicial system and the content of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. Only the cultural influences come from the European legal complex, above all, can explain the paradigm shift previously described.

La carriera degli attori italiani di prosa dalla scena allo schermo (1909-1916)

Most actors of the Italian silent cinema in the early 1910s have a theatrical training. Some of them are already asserted or famous actors (like Cesare Dondini, Ermete Novelli, Ermete Zacconi, Giovanni Grasso) who are invited “to pose” for the cinema following their reputation, according to a strategy of an aesthetic and cultural legitimacy launched in 1909 by film d'art of the Pathé Consortium. I think it is the proverbial readiness and strength of the stage Italian actors that create a decisive contribution to the rapid development of the national cinema industry, despite its serious structural deficiencies, from the protoindustrialized phase (1909) to the golden age of divismo (starting in 1913), until the first signs of decadence (1919), and the so-called “fall” of the UCI production and distribution system. This is the main topic of the thesis: an investigation on the Italian stage actors engaged in the film industry (“from stage to screen” as the Italian title says, but in a “post-Vardac” approach) through many different sources: periodicals, memories, personal and business letters, and also contracts, found in several archive funds. A specific chapter is dedicated to the artistic career of Febo Mari (1881-1939), real name Alfredo Rodriguez, witch is a time-sample symptomatic of deep ties established between the growing film publishing and the Italian theatrical production system in the 1910s. The Mari debut in cinema and his ascent toward screen “divo” status coincides with the parable that leads from emergence to decadence of divismo in Italy.

Modellazione multibody di veicoli ferroviari: sviluppo ed implementazione di modelli innovativi per l'analisi del contatto ruota - rotaia

The wheel - rail contact analysis plays a fundamental role in the multibody modeling of railway vehicles. A good contact model must provide an accurate description of the global contact phenomena (contact forces and torques, number and position of the contact points) and of the local contact phenomena (position and shape of the contact patch, stresses and displacements). The model has also to assure high numerical efficiency (in order to be implemented directly online within multibody models) and a good compatibility with commercial multibody software (Simpack Rail, Adams Rail). The wheel - rail contact problem has been discussed by several authors and many models can be found in the literature. The contact models can be subdivided into two different categories: the global models and the local (or differential) models. Currently, as regards the global models, the main approaches to the problem are the so - called rigid contact formulation and the semi – elastic contact description. The rigid approach considers the wheel and the rail as rigid bodies. The contact is imposed by means of constraint equations and the contact points are detected during the dynamic simulation by solving the nonlinear algebraic differential equations associated to the constrained multibody system. Indentation between the bodies is not permitted and the normal contact forces are calculated through the Lagrange multipliers. Finally the Hertz’s and the Kalker’s theories allow to evaluate the shape of the contact patch and the tangential forces respectively. Also the semi - elastic approach considers the wheel and the rail as rigid bodies. However in this case no kinematic constraints are imposed and the indentation between the bodies is permitted. The contact points are detected by means of approximated procedures (based on look - up tables and simplifying hypotheses on the problem geometry). The normal contact forces are calculated as a function of the indentation while, as in the rigid approach, the Hertz’s and the Kalker’s theories allow to evaluate the shape of the contact patch and the tangential forces. Both the described multibody approaches are computationally very efficient but their generality and accuracy turn out to be often insufficient because the physical hypotheses behind these theories are too restrictive and, in many circumstances, unverified. In order to obtain a complete description of the contact phenomena, local (or differential) contact models are needed. In other words wheel and rail have to be considered elastic bodies governed by the Navier’s equations and the contact has to be described by suitable analytical contact conditions. The contact between elastic bodies has been widely studied in literature both in the general case and in the rolling case. Many procedures based on variational inequalities, FEM techniques and convex optimization have been developed. This kind of approach assures high generality and accuracy but still needs very large computational costs and memory consumption. Due to the high computational load and memory consumption, referring to the current state of the art, the integration between multibody and differential modeling is almost absent in literature especially in the railway field. However this integration is very important because only the differential modeling allows an accurate analysis of the contact problem (in terms of contact forces and torques, position and shape of the contact patch, stresses and displacements) while the multibody modeling is the standard in the study of the railway dynamics. In this thesis some innovative wheel – rail contact models developed during the Ph. D. activity will be described. Concerning the global models, two new models belonging to the semi – elastic approach will be presented; the models satisfy the following specifics: 1) the models have to be 3D and to consider all the six relative degrees of freedom between wheel and rail 2) the models have to consider generic railway tracks and generic wheel and rail profiles 3) the models have to assure a general and accurate handling of the multiple contact without simplifying hypotheses on the problem geometry; in particular the models have to evaluate the number and the position of the contact points and, for each point, the contact forces and torques 4) the models have to be implementable directly online within the multibody models without look - up tables 5) the models have to assure computation times comparable with those of commercial multibody software (Simpack Rail, Adams Rail) and compatible with RT and HIL applications 6) the models have to be compatible with commercial multibody software (Simpack Rail, Adams Rail). The most innovative aspect of the new global contact models regards the detection of the contact points. In particular both the models aim to reduce the algebraic problem dimension by means of suitable analytical techniques. This kind of reduction allows to obtain an high numerical efficiency that makes possible the online implementation of the new procedure and the achievement of performance comparable with those of commercial multibody software. At the same time the analytical approach assures high accuracy and generality. Concerning the local (or differential) contact models, one new model satisfying the following specifics will be presented: 1) the model has to be 3D and to consider all the six relative degrees of freedom between wheel and rail 2) the model has to consider generic railway tracks and generic wheel and rail profiles 3) the model has to assure a general and accurate handling of the multiple contact without simplifying hypotheses on the problem geometry; in particular the model has to able to calculate both the global contact variables (contact forces and torques) and the local contact variables (position and shape of the contact patch, stresses and displacements) 4) the model has to be implementable directly online within the multibody models 5) the model has to assure high numerical efficiency and a reduced memory consumption in order to achieve a good integration between multibody and differential modeling (the base for the local contact models) 6) the model has to be compatible with commercial multibody software (Simpack Rail, Adams Rail). In this case the most innovative aspects of the new local contact model regard the contact modeling (by means of suitable analytical conditions) and the implementation of the numerical algorithms needed to solve the discrete problem arising from the discretization of the original continuum problem. Moreover, during the development of the local model, the achievement of a good compromise between accuracy and efficiency turned out to be very important to obtain a good integration between multibody and differential modeling. At this point the contact models has been inserted within a 3D multibody model of a railway vehicle to obtain a complete model of the wagon. The railway vehicle chosen as benchmark is the Manchester Wagon the physical and geometrical characteristics of which are easily available in the literature. The model of the whole railway vehicle (multibody model and contact model) has been implemented in the Matlab/Simulink environment. The multibody model has been implemented in SimMechanics, a Matlab toolbox specifically designed for multibody dynamics, while, as regards the contact models, the CS – functions have been used; this particular Matlab architecture allows to efficiently connect the Matlab/Simulink and the C/C++ environment. The 3D multibody model of the same vehicle (this time equipped with a standard contact model based on the semi - elastic approach) has been then implemented also in Simpack Rail, a commercial multibody software for railway vehicles widely tested and validated. Finally numerical simulations of the vehicle dynamics have been carried out on many different railway tracks with the aim of evaluating the performances of the whole model. The comparison between the results obtained by the Matlab/ Simulink model and those obtained by the Simpack Rail model has allowed an accurate and reliable validation of the new contact models. In conclusion to this brief introduction to my Ph. D. thesis, we would like to thank Trenitalia and the Regione Toscana for the support provided during all the Ph. D. activity. Moreover we would also like to thank the INTEC GmbH, the society the develops the software Simpack Rail, with which we are currently working together to develop innovative toolboxes specifically designed for the wheel rail contact analysis.

Dai Monti di Pietà e le Casse di Risparmio alle Fondazioni Bancarie: evoluzione e profili di riforma.

La tesi può intendersi schematicamente suddivisibile in quattro macrosettori: il primo concerne un excursus storico-giuridico sulla nascita ed evoluzione dei Monti di Pietà, nonché delle Casse di Risparmio; il secondo macrosettore si riferisce peculiarmente alla profonda trasformazione e riorganizzazione delle Banche Pubbliche in Società per Azioni e alla conseguente nascita delle Fondazioni Bancarie, con l'approfondimento delle problematiche attinenti alla loro natura giuridica, e con il richiamo alle sentenze nn. 300 e 301/2003 della Corte Costituzionale; il terzo prende in esame il ruolo delle Fondazioni nella prospettiva della operatività del principio di sussidiarietà orizzontale; infine, nell'ambito del quarto macrosettore ci si è soffermati sulla struttura organizzativa delle Fondazioni, sul loro regime fiscale e sul tema dell'attività d'impresa delle stesse.

Provenienza dei sedimenti arenitici nel bacino di Tracia (eo-oligocene, Turchia nord-occidentale e Grecia nord-orientale)

The Thrace Basin is the largest and thickest Tertiary sedimentary basin of the eastern Balkans region and constitutes an important hydrocarbon province. It is located between the Rhodope-Strandja Massif to the north and west, the Marmara Sea and Biga Peninsula to the south, and the Black Sea to the est. It consists of a complex system of depocenters and uplifts with very articulate paleotopography indicated by abrupt lateral facies variations. Its southeastern margin is widely deformed by the Ganos Fault, a segment of the North Anatolian strike-slip fault system . Most of the Thrace Basin fill ranges from the Eocene to the Late Oligocene. Maximum total thickness, including the Neogene-Quaternary succession, reaches 9.000 meters in a few narrow depocenters. This sedimentary succession consists mainly of basin plain turbiditic deposits with a significant volcaniclastic component which evolves upwards to shelf deposits and continental facies, with deltaic bodies prograding towards the basin center in the Oligocene. This work deals with the provenance of Eocene-Oligocene clastic sediments of the southern and western part of Thrace Basin in Turkey and Greece. Sandstone compositional data (78 gross composition analyses and 40 heavy minerals analyses) were used to understand the change in detrital modes which reflects the provenance and geodinamic evolution of the basin. Samples were collected at six localities, which are from west to est: Gökçeada, Gallipoli and South-Ganos (south of Ganos Fault), Alexandroupolis, Korudağ and North-Ganos (north of Ganos Fault). Petrologic (framework composition and heavy-mineral analyses) and stratigraphic-sedimentologic data, (analysis of sedimentologic facies associations along representative stratigraphic sections, paleocurrents) allowed discrimination of six petrofacies; for each petrofacies the sediment dispersal system was delineated. The Thrace Basin fill is made mainly of lithic arkoses and arkosic litharenites with variable amount of low-grade metamorphic lithics (also ophiolitic), neovolcanic lithics, and carbonate grains (mainly extrabasinal). Picotite is the most widespread heavy mineral in all petrofacies. Petrological data on analyzed successions show a complex sediment dispersal pattern and evolution of the basin, indicating one principal detrital input from a source area located to the south, along both the İzmir-Ankara and Intra-Pontide suture lines, and a possible secondary source area, represented by the Rhodope Massif to the west. A significant portion of the Thrace Basin sediments in the study area were derived from ophiolitic source rocks and from their oceanic cover, whereas epimetamorphic detrital components came from a low-grade crystalline basement. An important penecontemporaneous volcanic component is widespread in late Eocene-Oligocene times, indicating widespread post-collisional (collapse?) volcanism following the closure of the Vardar ocean. Large-scale sediment mass wasting from south to north along the southern margin of the Thrace Basin is indicated (i) in late Eocene time by large olistoliths of ophiolites and penecontemporaneous carbonates, and (ii) in the mid-Oligocene by large volcaniclastic olistoliths. The late Oligocene paleogeographic scenario was characterized by large deltaic bodies prograding northward (Osmancik Formation). This clearly indicates that the southern margin of the basin acted as a major sediment source area throughout its Eocene-Oligocene history. Another major sediment source area is represented by the Rhodope Massif, in particolar the Circum-Rhodopic belt, especially for plutonic and metamorphic rocks. Considering preexisting data on the petrologic composition of Thrace Basin, silicilastic sediments in Greece and Bulgaria (Caracciolo, 2009), a Rhodopian provenance could be considered mostly for areas of the Thrace Basin outside our study area, particularly in the northern-central portions of the basin. In summary, the most important source area for the sediment of Thrace Basin in the study area was represented by the exhumed subduction-accretion complex along the southern margin of the basin (Biga Peninsula and western-central Marmara Sea region). Most measured paleocurrent indicators show an eastward paleoflow but this is most likely the result of gravity flow deflection. This is possible considered a strong control due to the east-west-trending synsedimentary transcurrent faults which cuts the Thrace Basin, generating a series of depocenters and uplifts which deeply influenced sediment dispersal and the areal distribution of paleoenvironments. The Thrace Basin was long interpreted as a forearc basin between a magmatic arc to the north and a subduction-accretion complex to the south, developed in a context of northward subduction. This interpretation was challenged by more recent data emphasizing the lack of a coeval magmatic arc in the north and the interpretation of the chaotic deposit which outcrop south of Ganos Fault as olistoliths and large submarine slumps, derived from the erosion and sedimentary reworking of an older mélange unit located to the south (not as tectonic mélange formed in an accretionary prism). The present study corroborates instead the hypothesis of a post-collisional origin of the Thrace Basin, due to a phase of orogenic collapse, which generated a series of mid-Eocene depocenters all along the İzmir-Ankara suture (following closure of the Vardar-İzmir-Ankara ocean and the ensuing collision); then the slab roll-back of the remnant Pindos ocean played an important role in enhancing subsidence and creating additional accommodation space for sediment deposition.

Impiego di cellule staminali in terapia veterinaria

Over the past few years, in veterinary medicine there has been an increased interest in understanding the biology of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). This interest comes from their potential clinical use especially in wound repair, tissue engineering and application in therapeutics fields, including regenerative surgery. MSCs can be isolated directly from bone marrow aspirates, adipose tissue, umbilical cord and various foetal tissues. In this study, mesenchymal stem cells were isolated from equine bone marrow, adipose tissue, cord blood, Wharton’s Jelly and, for the first time, amniotic fluid. All these cell lines underwent in vitro differentiation in chondrocytes, osteocytes and adipocytes. After molecular characterization, cells resulted positive for mesenchymal markers such as CD90, CD105, CD44 and negative for CD45, CD14, CD34 and CD73. Adipose tissue and bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells were successfully applied in the treatment of tendinitis in race horses. Furthermore, for the first time in the horse, skin wounds of septicemic foal, were treated applying amniotic stem cells. Finally, results never reported have been obtained in the present study, isolating mesenchymal stem cells from domestic cat foetal fluid and membranes. All cell lines underwent in vitro differentiation and expressed mesenchymal molecular markers.

Città europee e nuove forme di pianificazione. Il caso di Bologna

Il tema centrale di questo lavoro è costituito dalle nuove forme di pianificazione territoriale in uso nelle principali città europee, con particolare riferimento all'esperienza della pianificazione strategica applicata al governo del territorio, e dall'analisi approfondita delle politiche e degli strumenti di pianificazione urbanistica e territoriale della città di Bologna, dal Piano Regolatore Generale del 1985-'89 al nuovo Piano Strutturale Comunale del 2008. Più precisamente, le caratteristiche, potenzialità e criticità del nuovo strumento urbanistico del capoluogo emiliano-romagnolo, vengono esaminati, non solo, in rapporto alle caratteristiche tipiche dei piani strategici europei, ma anche alle forme tradizionali della pianificazione urbanistica (i piani regolatori generali) di cui il piano strutturale dovrebbe superare i limiti, sia in termini di efficacia operativa, sia per quanto riguarda la capacità di costruire condivisione e consenso tra i diversi attori urbani, sull'idea di città di cui è portatore. The main topics of this research are the new tools for urban planning used by the main European cities - with particular reference to strategic planning applied to the territorial management - and the analysis of Bologna policies and instruments for urban and territorial planning, from the Piano Regolatore Generale '85-'89, to the Piano Strutturale Comunale in 2008. More precisely, the Bologna new planning instrument's characteristics, potentialities and criticalities, are not only investigated in relation to the fundamental characteristics of European strategic plans, but also to the traditional instruments of Italian urbanistic planning (Piani Regolatori Generali), of which the new structural plan should exceed the limits, both in terms of effectiveness; and in terms of ability to build agreement and sharing on its urban project, between different urban actors.

La tutela cautelare del diritto d'autore

La ricerca è dedicata all’individuazione e all’analisi delle misure cautelari poste a presidio del diritto d���autore. La materia della proprietà intellettuale è fra quelle nelle quali il tempo occorrente per far valere il diritto in via ordinaria comporta un pregiudizio irreparabile. Scopo dell’indagine è dunque quello di evidenziare come l’esperienza del contenzioso in materia di diritto d���autore abbia dato linfa sempre crescente al procedimento cautelare. In quest’ottica si deve considerare che la tendenziale stabilità delle misure cautelari anticipatorie rappresenta un primo passo, sia pure ancora insufficiente, verso uno svolgimento del processo connotato da celerità e speditezza, tale da garantire un’effettiva tutela giurisdizionale. La tutela cautelare diventa, dunque, la pietra milare per dare attuazione al principio di matrice chiovendiana per cui la durata del processo non deve andare a danno della parte che ha ragione, precludendo e vanificando l’attuazione del diritto. Nel corso dell’indagine si d�� conto di come il legislatore non abbia individuato quali siano i provvedimenti anticipatori dotati di stabilità e abbia lasciato questo compito all’interprete. Il presente lavoro si impone anche di offrire qualche riflessione per individuare, nell’ambito della tutela cautelare del diritto d���autore, quali siano i provvedimenti cautelari idonei ad anticipare gli effetti della sentenza di merito.

Il teatro sugli scaffali. Genesi e storia di una biblioteca specialistica (1931-2009)

la ricerca ha avuto per oggetto la ricostruzione della storia e del patrimonio della biblioteca privata specializzata di San Genesio fondata nel 1931 presso la Casa "Lyda Borelli" per artisti drammatici di Bologna. La biblioteca si presenta oggi come uno dei centri di documentazione teatrale più antichi e significativi del panorama italiano: oltre 10.000 monografie, per la maggior parte concernenti testi e studi specialistici, un fondo antico (pre 1831) di oltre 2.000 volumi, una ricca collezione di periodici sul mondo dello spettacolo in collezione completa, una raccolta di copioni teatrali manoscritti e dattiloscritti di oltre 1.000 unità. La biblioteca, inoltre, comprende l'archivio storico della Casa che conserva la documentazione riguardante la vita dell'Istituto dalla sua nascita, nel 1917, numerosi fondi aggregati appartenuti a rilevanti personaggi dello spettacolo e un patrimonio fotografico unico in Italia. La tesi sintetizza i due principali filoni di ricerca seguiti durante il percorso dottorale. Il primo è quello della ricognizione delle fonti archivistiche, sia interne sia esterne all'istituto, al fine di dettagliare la lunga storia della biblioteca San Genesio, mai oggetto di altra ricostruzione complessiva. Questo obiettivo è stato raggiunto mediante la consultazione dell'intero patrimonio documentario conservato presso l'Archivio storico di Casa "Lyda Borelli" e di numerosi fondi archivistici, concernenti attori e personaggi in rapporto con la Casa, presenti in altri istituti pubblici e privati. I documenti interni alla Casa sono stati intrecciati con altri con cui sono speculari, conservati in altre istituzioni. La seconda parte della ricerca si è concentrata sull'analisi del fondo librario antico. La ricchezza della collezione, costituita da oltre trecento testi teatrali pubblicati nel XVI e XVII secolo, ha offerto un ampio campione d'indagine per ricostruire l'evoluzione dell'editoria specializzata nei primi secoli della stampa tipografica. A tal fine è stato redatto un catalogo, in cui la descrizione bibliografica è accompagnata dall'analitica registrazione degli elementi paratestuali presenti, quali dediche, avvisi ai lettori, indici, errata corrige, marginalia, note di possesso ed ex libris, elementi oggetto di forte interesse nei più accreditati e moderni studi bibliologici e di storia del libro sia italiani sia stranieri. A completamento del catalogo sono stati compilati numerosi indici al fine di moltiplicare le chiavi d'accesso e di lettura del fondo (per autori secondari, luoghi di stampa, editori e tipografi, marche tipografiche e possessori), dotando il catalogo di un apparato fotografico dei frontespizi. Questi elementi aggiuntivi rendono l'elaborato un repertorio unico per le edizioni teatrali e una fonte importante per gli studiosi della stampa in antico regime tipografico.