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Ibis, EarlyView.Artificial breeding structures, such as nestboxes, can potentially influence the population size and conservation status of bird species relying on heavily human‐modified environments such as agroecosystems and urban areas. However, the effectiveness of these interventions may vary, as artificial structures could attract individuals to suboptimal ...
Alejandro Corregidor‐Castro +8 more
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Sensors, 2020 In this retrospective compendium, we attempt to draw a “fil rouge” along fifteen years of our research in the field of optical feedback interferometry aimed at guiding the readers to the verge of new developments in the field.
Massimo Brambilla +5 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates how small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) respond to deglobalization and economic nationalism, using historical evidence from fascist Italy, a period of autarky and restricted international trade. While prior research has focused primarily on larger firms, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs), the strategic ...
Valeria Giacomin, Francesco Romagnoli
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Does moving pictures produce ekstasis? Challenge to Leonardo and Michelangelo
piano b, 2019 What do we feel and understand when we look at Leonardo's Last Supper and Michelangelo's frescoes projected on the screens? The history of the production of films, critofilms, television documentaries, amateur movies on the web, devoted to these ...
Tommaso Casini
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Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
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MICHELANGELO AND CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE [PDF]
Hum, 2010 This paper aims to make comparisons between basic scientific theories and big artificial master-pieces. This noneveryday attempt of connecting seemingly heterogeneous disciplines was a result of thinking that modern science offers us possibility for ...
Ljiljana Rajković
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Playas y espadas de Caravaggio
Revista Científica UISRAEL, 2019 Aquí entramos de lleno en el mundo del arte a través de una figura emblemática: el pintor Michelangelo Merisi, más conocido como Caravaggio, y el sorprendente y maravilloso hallazgo reciente (en el 2014, apenas hace cinco años) de una pintura que ...
Armando Valdés Zamora
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Quaderns d'Italià, 2021 Il saggio si propone di individuare la peculiare prospettiva dell'umanista Benedetto Varchi in relazione all'uso che della Commedia dantesca fa Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Alessandra Tramontana
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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