Pausilypon, the imperial villa near Naples, with a description of the submerged foreshore and with observations on the tomb of Virgil and on other Roman antiquities on Posilipo,

Mode of access: Internet.

Virgil and Isaiah, a study of the Pollio,

Mode of access: Internet.

Historiae Augustae scriptores VI : Aelius Spartianus, Vulc. Gallicanus, Julius Capitolinus, Trebell Pollio, Aelius Lampridius, Flavius Vopiscus /

Mode of access: Internet.

Historiae Augustae scriptores sex. Ael. Spartianus. Iul. Capitolinus. Ael. Lampridius. Vulc. Gallicanus. Trevell. Pollio. Flav. Vopiscus.

Contiene: "Sex historiae Augustae scriptorum vita et scripta / ex Gerardus Joannes Vossius"

Über den Sprachgebrauch des Asinius Pollio in den bei Cicero ad Familiares X, 31-33 erhaltenen Briefen mit Berücksichtigung der bei Quintilian, Seneca etc. Überlieferten Fragmente aus dessen Reden und Geschichtsbüchern /

Mode of access: Internet.

Lives of Caius Asinius Pollio, Marcus Terentius Varro, and Cneius Cornelius Gallus : with notes and illustrations /

Mode of access: Internet.

Buscando que los estudiantes construyan demostraciones

El rol del aprendizaje significativo mediante la utilización de nuevas estrategias de enseñanza. Este aprendizaje involucra un proceso en el que lo que aprendemos es el producto de la información nueva, interpretada a la luz de lo que ya sabemos. Para que haya aprendizaje significativo, es necesario que el alumno pueda relacionar el material de aprendizaje con la estructura de conocimientos de que ya dispone. De esta forma, junto con la motivación favorable para la comprensión, y, los esfuerzos que requiere, una condición esencial del aprendizaje de conceptos será que estos se relacionen con los conocimientos previos de los alumnos. El nuevo conocimiento, que queremos que el alumno aprenda en esta oportunidad, surgirá de un adecuado desarrollo del razonamiento deductivo y manejo de los conocimientos previos. Entendiendo por razonamiento deductivo al proceso de razonamiento en que, para obtener una conclusión lógicamente necesaria a partir de ciertas premisas, los pasos están encadenados siguiendo ciertas reglas lógicas y son justificados rigurosamente. Las justificaciones están basadas en los axiomas y definiciones de la teoría respectiva, en teoremas demostrados con anterioridad y en las premisas o hipótesis del problema o teorema. El docente debe ayudar al estudiante a desarrollar y usar el poder del razonamiento deductivo comprometiéndolo permanentemente a pensar, analizar y deducir conjeturas en clase, además debe crear y seleccionar tareas apropiadas que puedan involucrar la generalización, la organización de datos para validar o refutar una conjetura. Un grupo de bachillerato del último año desarrolló la demostración de un teorema de convergencia de series, con los resultados de un 46% que la realizó exitosamente, versus un 36% que no lo logró. Los alumnos que lograron hacer la demostración, no eran los más estudiosos pero tenían una buena capacidad de razonamiento. En cambio los que generalmente preparan las evaluaciones y que se apoyan mucho en la memoria, no lograron un buen desempeño.

Roman public libraries

This thesis aims to investigate the development and functions of public libraries in Rome and the Roman world. After a preface with maps of libraries in Rome, Section I discusses the precursors for public library provision in the private book collections of Republican Rome, and their transfer into the public domain with the first public libraries of Asinius Pollio and Augustus. Section II contains three 'case studies' of public libraries' different roles. The Augustan library programme is used in Ch.II.l to examine the role of imperial public libraries in literary life and the connections between Rome's libraries and those of Alexandria. Chapter II.2 concentrates on the libraries of Trajan's Forum to explore the intersection of imperial public libraries and monumental public architecture. This chapter responds to an important recent article by arguing for the continued identification of the Forum's libraries with twin brick buildings at its northern end, and suggests a series of correspondences between these libraries and its other monumental components. The conclusions of this chapter are important when considering the public libraries of the wider empire, several of which seem to have been inspired by the Trajanic libraries. Chapter II.3 considers imperial public libraries and leisure by looking at the evidence for libraries within bath-house complexes, concluding that their presence there is consistent with the archaeological and epigraphic evidence and fits in well with what we know of the intellectual and cultural life of these structures. Section III examines various aspects of the practical function of Roman public libraries: their contents (books and archives), division into Latin and Greek sections, provisions for shelving and cataloguing, staff, usership, architectural form, decoration, and housing of works of art. The picture that emerges is of carefully designed and functional buildings intended to sustain public, monumental, and practical functions. Section IV uses a variety of texts to examine the way in which libraries were viewed and used. Ch. IV. 1 discusses the evidence for use of libraries by scholars and authors such as Gellius, Galen, Josephus, and Apuleius. Ch. IV.2 examines parallels between library collections and compendious encyclopaedic elements within Roman literature and considers how library collections came to be canon-forming institutions and vehicles for the expression of imperial approval or disapproval towards authors. The channels through which this imperial influence flowed are investigated in Ch. IV.3, which looks at the directors and staff of the public libraries of Rome. The final section (V) of the thesis concerns public libraries outside the city of Rome. Provincial libraries provide a useful case study in 'Romanisation': they reveal a range of influences and are shown to embody local, personal, and metropolitan imperial identities. There follows a brief conclusion, and a bibliography. There are also five appendices of numismatic and epigraphic material discussed in the text. This material has not been adequately or completely gathered elsewhere and is intended to assist the reader; where appropriate it includes illustrations, transcriptions, and translations.

Valutazione dell'efficacia delle procedure di Pushover convenzionali, modali ed adattive applicate a telai piani in c.a. regolari ed irregolari in elevazione.

The research performed during the PhD and presented in this thesis, allowed to make judgments on pushover analysis method about its application in evaluating the correct structural seismic response. In this sense, the extensive critical review of existing pushover procedures (illustrated in chapter 1) outlined their major issues related to assumptions and to hypothesis made in the application of the method. Therefore, with the purpose of evaluate the effectiveness of pushover procedures, a wide numerical investigation have been performed. In particular the attention has been focused on the structural irregularity on elevation, on the choice of the load vector and on its updating criteria. In the study eight pushover procedures have been considered, of which four are conventional type, one is multi-modal, and three are adaptive. The evaluation of their effectiveness in the identification of the correct dynamic structural response, has been done by performing several dynamic and static non-linear analysis on eight RC frames, characterized by different proprieties in terms of regularity in elevation. The comparisons of static and dynamic results have then permitted to evaluate the examined pushover procedures and to identify the expected margin of error by using each of them. Both on base shear-top displacement curves and on considered storey parameters, the best agreement with the dynamic response has been noticed on Multi-Modal Pushover procedure. Therefore the attention has been focused on Displacement-based Adative Pushover, coming to define for it an improvement strategy, and on modal combination rules, advancing an innovative method based on a quadratic combination of the modal shapes (QMC). This latter has been implemented in a conventional pushover procedure, whose results have been compared with those obtained by other multi-modal procedures. The development of research on pushover analysis is very important because the objective is to come to the definition of a simple, effective and reliable analysis method, indispensable tool in the seismic evaluation of new or existing structures.

The facility manager architect : the social responsability as an added value.

From the very first steps to execute a building, it is essential to analyze its life cycle. Similarly, we should consider the life cycle when projecting an urban intervention. Professionals of the Facility Management take part in construction projects, developing and managing DBFMO projects (Design, Build, Finance, Maintenance & Operate). Whatever the nature of the promoter is – private or public – promoters are leaders in projects of responsible management of spaces, whether these are work spaces, leisure spaces or residential spaces. They know and identify with the company and its performance, its values and its needs. These professionals give sustainable solutions in the life cycle of buildings (offices and housing), new ways to work and initiatives of innovations linked to current social changes: technology, social networks, and new habits. Concepts where innovation is essential should consider responsible values. Social, economic and sustainable aspects have to associate with the management performed by a Facilities Manager when considering the three groups of stakeholders with which it is linked: economic (shareholders), contractual (users), non-contractual (neighborhoods, organizations, etc.). Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, at the beginning of his book "The Ten Books on Architecture" describes and argues how the distribution in buildings must always adapt to their inhabitants. Let us build cities and buildings with responsible criteria, bearing in mind all its users and the needs of each one of them. Not to mention the need to adapt to future requirements with minimum cost and maximum profitability. These needs, under responsible management, are competencies developed by a Facilities Manager in his day to day. He cares and takes over the entire life cycle of buildings and their surroundings. This work is part of the PhD project whose main aim is to study the added value to the architectural profession when social responsibility criteria are applied in his/her role as Facility Manager.

16 alpha-substituted analogs of the antiprogestin RU486 induce a unique conformation in the human progesterone receptor resulting in mixed agonist activity.

Previously, we have shown that agonists and antagonists interact with distinct, though overlapping regions within the human progesterone receptor (hPR) resulting in the formation of structurally different complexes. Thus, a link was established between the structure of a ligand-receptor complex and biological activity. In this study, we have utilized a series of in vitro assays with which to study hPR pharmacology and have identified a third class of hPR ligands that induce a receptor conformation which is distinct from that induced by agonists or antagonists. Importantly, when assayed on PR-responsive target genes these compounds were shown to exhibit partial agonist activity; an activity that was influenced by cell context. Thus, as has been shown previously for estrogen receptor, the overall structure of the ligand-receptor complex is influenced by the nature of the ligand. It appears, therefore, that the observed differences in the activity of some PR and estrogen receptor ligands reflect the ability of the cellular transcription machinery to discriminate between the structurally different complexes that result following ligand interaction. These data support the increasingly favored hypothesis that different ligands can interact with different regions within the hormone binding domains of steroid hormone receptors resulting in different biologies.

I dieci libri dell'architettvra /

Includes errata, V1r, V3v.

Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve, corrigez et traduits nouvellement en françois, avec des notes & des figures.

234-237 repeated in paging.