The remains of the Mayan civilization describe (among other things) many observations of various astronomical phenomena observed by the Maya. The modern Celestial Mechanics allows us to calculate with great accuracy when astronomical phenomena occurred and were visible in the…

Object of interest and philosophical speculation, sometimes examined as in contrast to the perception and knowledge, Imaginary has generated, in the history of thought, conflicting theories that have defined it, alternately, positive enhancer of knowledge or element disturbing element of…

The paper presents the new automatic personalized news-recommendation service provided by the CILEA Supercomputing Portal. The service, by enhancing the user-centered style of the Portal and facilitating supercomputing knowledge delivery, represents a further contribution to the promotion of the supercomputing…

The scope of the study is an analysis of Schachnovelle (The Royal Game) by Stefan Zweig, focusing on the opposition between two topics: (1) cultural x\borders and conflicts and (2) intellectual cosmopolitism. The analysis is based on a semiotic approach,…

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…

The users of high performance computing platforms meet difficulties due either to the poor knowledge of the oper-ating system, either to the oddities of hardware and software configurations. Although CILEA team tries to cus-tomize its hardware and software interfaces in…

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…

In un contesto di lavoro cooperativo è fondamentale riuscire a fornire nuovi modi di confezionare contenuti di qualità entro strumenti idonei e conoscenze specifiche. Il progetto “Biblioteche nelle Scuole” ha posto come centrale questa esigenza formativa, adattandola al percorso di…

Scopo della presente ricerca è di applicare educativamente l'analisi funzionale del problern solving, secondo la quale anche un'abilítá cognitiva complessa puó essere insegnata, Insegnando I'algoritmo che la desenve: a partiré dalla descrizione algoritimica del comportamento di soluzione di problemi logici…