Essays,

Alfieri und die Ristori. Die Venus von Milo. Lord Byron und Leigh Hunt. Die erwartung des jüngsten gerichtes von Cornelius. Die bearbeitung von Shakespeare's sturm durch Dryden und Davenant. Deutsches theater im sechszehnten jahrhundert; L. Das Luzerner neujahrspiel und der Henno des Reuchlin. II. Das theater des Herzogs Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig, zu Wolfen büttel. Rafael und Michelangelo. Friedrich der Grosze und Macaulay. Schiller und Goethe.

Prochiron legum,

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Trofei di Ottaviano Avgvsto innalzati per la vittoria ad Activm e conqvista dell' Egitto : con varj altri ornamenti antichi /

Sculpture known as Trophies of Marius, but commemorating Domitian's Germanic victories, moved from the present Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II to the Capitoline Hill at Michelangelo's direction.

Primo trattato completo di diritto amministrativo italiano,

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Storio della Madre di Dio Maria Vergine Santissima del Monte Berico, del suo santo tempio, e d'altro di Vicenza.

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Le rime di Bartolomeo Cavassico, notaio belunese della prima metà del secolo XVI,

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Luigi Conconi, prospetto biografico-critico /

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L'arte mondiale a Venezia /

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Althusser lector de Gramsci

Este trabajo examina las lecturas de Gramsci realizadas por Althusser, desde sus primeras notas críticas y anotaciones hasta sus escritos sobre la ;crisis del marxismo. Subraya la profunda ambivalencia de las interpretaciones de Althusser. Por una parte, Gramsci es presentado como un precursor, como la única figura dentro de la tradición marxista que intentó pensar la superestructura y en particular lo político. Por otra parte, el corpus gramsciano es criticado como la instancia paradigmática de un concepto de la temporalidad y de la política con el que Althusser disiente. Considerando la crítica althusseriana, identificamos dos fases distintas, comenzando por una crítica al desconocimiento del status específico de la ciencia en general, y en particular de la ciencia de la historia, que caracteriza al período de la segunda mitad de los sesentas, Althusser formuló, hacia el final de los setentas, una crítica del concepto gramsciano de hegemonía que, en su opinión, borra el ;problema de la dominación de clase

Functional source separation applied to induced visual gamma activity

Objective of this work was to explore the performance of a recently introduced source extraction method, FSS (Functional Source Separation), in recovering induced oscillatory change responses from extra-cephalic magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals. Unlike algorithms used to solve the inverse problem, FSS does not make any assumption about the underlying biophysical source model; instead, it makes use of task-related features (functional constraints) to estimate source/s of interest. FSS was compared with blind source separation (BSS) approaches such as Principal and Independent Component Analysis, PCA and ICA, which are not subject to any explicit forward solution or functional constraint, but require source uncorrelatedness (PCA), or independence (ICA). A visual MEG experiment with signals recorded from six subjects viewing a set of static horizontal black/white square-wave grating patterns at different spatial frequencies was analyzed. The beamforming technique Synthetic Aperture Magnetometry (SAM) was applied to localize task-related sources; obtained spatial filters were used to automatically select BSS and FSS components in the spatial area of interest. Source spectral properties were investigated by using Morlet-wavelet time-frequency representations and significant task-induced changes were evaluated by means of a resampling technique; the resulting spectral behaviours in the gamma frequency band of interest (20-70 Hz), as well as the spatial frequency-dependent gamma reactivity, were quantified and compared among methods. Among the tested approaches, only FSS was able to estimate the expected sustained gamma activity enhancement in primary visual cortex, throughout the whole duration of the stimulus presentation for all subjects, and to obtain sources comparable to invasively recorded data.

Carbon nanotube-polycarbonate composites for ultrafast lasers

Carbon nanotube polycarbonate composites with controlled nanotube-bundle size are prepared by dispersion with conjugated polymers followed by blending with polycarbonate. The composite has uniform sub-micrometer nanotube bundles in high concentration, shows strong nonlinear optical absorption, and generates 193 fs pulses when used as passive mode-locker in a fiber laser.

Wideband-tuneable, nanotube mode-locked, fibre laser

Ultrashort-pulse lasers with spectral tuning capability have widespread applications in fields such as spectroscopy, biomedical research and telecommunications1–3. Mode-locked fibre lasers are convenient and powerful sources of ultrashort pulses4, and the inclusion of a broadband saturable absorber as a passive optical switch inside the laser cavity may offer tuneability over a range of wavelengths5. Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors are widely used in fibre lasers4–6, but their operating range is typically limited to a few tens of nanometres7,8, and their fabrication can be challenging in the 1.3–1.5 mm wavelength region used for optical communications9,10. Single-walled carbon nanotubes are excellent saturable absorbers because of their subpicosecond recovery time, low saturation intensity, polarization insensitivity, and mechanical and environmental robustness11–16. Here, we engineer a nanotube–polycarbonate film with a wide bandwidth (>300 nm) around 1.55 mm, and then use it to demonstrate a 2.4 ps Er31-doped fibre laser that is tuneable from 1,518 to 1,558 nm. In principle, different diameters and chiralities of nanotubes could be combined to enable compact, mode-locked fibre lasers that are tuneable over a much broader range of wavelengths than other systems.

An edge-based matching kernel through discrete-time quantum walks

In this paper, we propose a new edge-based matching kernel for graphs by using discrete-time quantum walks. To this end, we commence by transforming a graph into a directed line graph. The reasons of using the line graph structure are twofold. First, for a graph, its directed line graph is a dual representation and each vertex of the line graph represents a corresponding edge in the original graph. Second, we show that the discrete-time quantum walk can be seen as a walk on the line graph and the state space of the walk is the vertex set of the line graph, i.e., the state space of the walk is the edges of the original graph. As a result, the directed line graph provides an elegant way of developing new edge-based matching kernel based on discrete-time quantum walks. For a pair of graphs, we compute the h-layer depth-based representation for each vertex of their directed line graphs by computing entropic signatures (computed from discrete-time quantum walks on the line graphs) on the family of K-layer expansion subgraphs rooted at the vertex, i.e., we compute the depth-based representations for edges of the original graphs through their directed line graphs. Based on the new representations, we define an edge-based matching method for the pair of graphs by aligning the h-layer depth-based representations computed through the directed line graphs. The new edge-based matching kernel is thus computed by counting the number of matched vertices identified by the matching method on the directed line graphs. Experiments on standard graph datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our new kernel.

Progettazione, realizzazione e caratterizzazione funzionale di sorgenti di plasma atmosferico di non equilibrio per l'idrofobizzazione di fibre tessili

L’attività di tesi ha previsto la progettazione e realizzazione di sorgenti di plasma di non equilibrio a pressione atmosferica e l’individuazione delle condizioni operative ottimali per l’idrofobizzazione di materiali tessili. La prima parte delle attività di tesi hanno riguardato lo studio e l’approfondimento della letteratura scientifica al fine di individuare le sorgenti e i processi plasma assistiti per l’idrofobizzazione dei materiali. Relativamente alle sorgenti di plasma di non-equilibrio a pressione atmosferica, studi di letteratura riportano che sorgenti di tipo APPJ (Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet) consentono di effettuare un trattamento localizzato in un punto, mentre sorgenti DBD (Dielectric Barrier Discharge) risultano idonee a trattamenti di materiali large area. Per quanto riguarda i processi plasma assistiti, sulla base di quanto riportato in letteratura il processo di idrofobizzazione può avvenire principalmente mediante polimerizzazione di gas organici contenenti fluoro, introdotti nella regione di plasma, con la conseguente deposizione di coating fluorurati. Le attività sperimentali condotte durante la tesi hanno avuto l’obbiettivo di valutare la possibilità di rendere idrofobico un filato di fibra tessile naturale mediante l’utilizzo di una sorgente plasma jet operante con miscela di argon e gas organoflorurato. Il filato, messo in moto a diverse velocità, è stato fatto transitare attraverso la piuma di plasma. In particolare, si è passati da una velocità di movimentazione di 1 m/min a una di 10 m/min. I risultati ottenuti hanno evidenziato che maggiore è la velocità di movimentazione del filato attraverso la piuma di plasma, minore è il grado di idrofibizzazione raggiungibile sul filato stesso, in quanto minore è il tempo di esposizione del materiale al plasma. Infine, nell’ultima parte dell’attività di tesi, è stata progettata una sorgente DBD, che caratterizzata da una maggiore area di generazione del plasma rispetto alla sorgente plasma jet, consente di incrementare il tempo di esposizione del filato al plasma a parità di velocità di movimentazione del filato.