The paper summarizes the first stage of the work for development of a virtual archaeological museum carried under the EU Copernicus ArchTerra project. It describes a new implementation of a database with museum information after the CIDOC standard. The system…

Human and social studies on emotions are diversely interested in the reality emotions signify. Within this field, the discourse analysis approach focuses its attention on the linguistic expression of emotions and cannot thus extend its evaluation on psychological or sociological…

The first edition of the CASPUR Summer School for Advanced Computing took place from August 29 to September 9th, 2005, in the ENI meeting center in the beautiful surroundings of Castel Gandolfo’s lake. The school has been invented to further…

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the issue of otherness has been central in the intellectual debate among ethnologists, linguists and philosophers.  Communication can be seen as a form of translation of the Other into the language of the…

Criticism, as intellectual posture in analysing reality, is tightly joined to Modernity, no matter how problematic such a link could often be. As a matter of fact, if criticism has led to modern society through the Enlightenment, its errors or…

The interaction between communication, politics and passion holds reality together, the analysis of which leads to a better knowledge of the foundation of the civil bond. If the concepts individually offer a first approach to the comprehension of this interaction,…

NASA astrobiologist David Morrison coined the term cosmophobia – fear of the cosmos – in response to the plethora of 2012 disaster scenarios that depict Urania, the muse of astronomy, as a wicked destroyer rather than a beautiful inspiration. The…

Nella seconda metà del 2007 il Comune di Milano ha deciso di cofinanziare un progetto della durata di un anno, proposto dal CILEA, denominato “Biblioteca Aperta di Milano” (BAMI) che ha portato nel corso del 2009 alla creazione di una…

The hedgehog and the fox are the well-known characters, dear to Ceserani, with which Berlin designates two different modes of pursuing the paths of knowledge: the first, the one of the hedgehog, is straight and guided by a universal principle,…

We consider, in some different situations, the problem of the reconstruction of the source term in a parabolic problem in a space-time domain $[0, T]Ê\times I \times \overline \Omega$: this source term is assumed of the form $g(t,x) f(t,x,y)$ ($t \in…