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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Sicilian"”.
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IL SICILIAN JOURNAL DI LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK (1812-1814)
… attraverso l analisi delle pagine del suo Sicilian Journal, il diario ancora inedito che scrisse negli anni di permanenza in Sicilia (1812-1814), attualmente conservato, insieme ad altri numerosissimi documenti dello stesso, relativi non solo a quegli anni (7000 circa) ma a tutta la sua …
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Insular adaptations in the appendicular skeleton of Sicilian and Maltese dwarf elephants
This thesis investigates the evolution of Pleistocene insular proboscideans from the centralwestern Mediterranean (Palaeoloxodon species from Sicily, Malta, Favignana) and a mammoth (Mammuthus lamarmorai) from Sardinia, with a particular emphasis on the anatomy of the limbs. Differences in the …
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From Dago to White: The Story of Sicilian Ethnic Evolution in New Orleans Amidst the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1905
<p>The story of the Sicilian immigrants’ experiences in Louisiana is a tale of racial and ethnic evolution in the face of physical threats. With the end of the Civil War, many emancipated slaves migrated to other parts of the country, which left Louisiana planters in need of laborers. Planters …
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A Small Slow and Street Approach to Research. Seeking justice in the risk landscapes of Gela, a Sicilian petrochemical town.
… results of an empirical case study in Gela, a Sicilian town converted into one of the main Italian petrochemical poles in the 1960s by a multinational oil company. The author analyses Gela’s risk landscapes through the perceptions of citizens and their initiatives to tackle environmental …
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Sicilians In Detroit: How Do They Speak?
… the linguistic analysis of the varieties of the Sicilian dialect spoken in the city of Detroit, Michigan. The city has witnessed, starting from the early 19th century, a steady process of immigration and settlement involving speakers mainly arriving from the two Sicilian coastal towns of …
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From positive energy district to territorial acupuncture. a multidisciplinary analysis between inland and metropolitan area in mediterrean climate: the sicilian case study
La crisi climatica, una delle sfide più pressanti del nostro secolo, rende indispensabile una revisione profonda dei modelli energetici urbani e territoriali. La crescente urgenza di decarbonizzazione, unita agli impegni globali per la riduzione delle emissioni di gas serra, ha stimolato lo …
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Physiological and production evaluation of different populations of sicilian wheat landraces [Valutazione fisiologica e produttiva di diverse popolazioni di varietà locali di frumento Siciliano]
La crescente considerazione per l’agricoltura sostenibile e la sicurezza alimentare sottolinea l’importanza delle varietà autoctone che sono tipi di grano tradizionali che non sono stati geneticamente modificati nei tempi moderni. Questi grani, noti per le loro radici storiche, le caratteristiche …
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The (Im)possibility of Detective Fiction in Sicily: Sciascia, Camilleri and Piazzese
… thesis examines the detective fiction of the Sicilian writers Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), Andrea Camilleri (1925-) and Santo Piazzese (1941-). All of the works discussed are detective novels set the south-western part of Sicily. The authors chosen for analysis use a traditional, formulaic …
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Eleanor of Provence: Virago
… on England through the king, and her role in the Sicilian business, King Henry’s quests to obtain the Sicilian crown for his youngest son, Prince Edmund.
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Le figure femminili all'ombra di Cosa Nostra: la rappresentazione della donna mafiosa siciliana sulla stampa italiana del secondo dopoguerra
This thesis investigates the representation of Sicilian mafia women on the Italian press after the second postwar, in particular by examining three Italian newspapers, Il Corriere della Sera, L’Ora and Il Giornale di Sicilia. The focus is on the 1963 – 1983 twenty-year period, after which there has …
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Uscire dalla casa paterna: An inquiry into the life, literature and times of Maria Messina
The writings of Maria Messina, a Sicilian woman writer at the turn of the century, embody a conflictual feminism issuing from conflicts that silenced and immobilized women in the past and created dilemmas for them in their struggle for emancipation. This dissertation looks at origins of gender …
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TERRONI AND POLENTONI: WHERE DOES THE TRUTH LIE? AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ETHNICITY IN PALERMO (SICILY), ITALY.
… to deconstruct stereotypes that misrepresent Sicilian society. Palermo and its residents are shaped through relationships of unequal power between the centre and the periphery. Sicily’s integration into the European Union, paradoxically, appears to resolve several ongoing issues of national …
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Mass-transport deposits on Mediterranean continental margins
… the late Quaternary on the SW-Adriatic and SE-Sicilian margins. These mass movements and their consequences contributed to shape the continental slopes and fill the basins with characteristic signatures. Geomorphological, seismo-stratigraphic, sedimentological and biostratigraphic data provide …
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Judging the Rational and the Dead: Ann Radcliffe and Feminist Theology
… The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), A Sicilian Romance (1790), and The Romance of the Forest (1791), show a progression of feminist theology informed by the late eighteenth-century British religious movement of Rational Dissent. The thesis attempts to complicate and extend Radcliffe …
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The Villa and Agricultural Economy of Late Roman Sicily: An Archaeobotanical Perspective
… in helping to create a broader understanding of Sicilian villas as centers for production during the Late Roman period (400-476 CE). The heart of the investigation requires a multivariate approach that compares findings from Gerace with aspects of written and archaeological record and provides …
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Micrometeorological approaches to measure and model surface energy fluxes of irrigated citrus orchards in a semi-arid environment
… of the most relevant crop of the agricultural Sicilian context. The study was conceived as a long monitoring program of micrometeorological features of the study orange orchard at different spatial scales (plant, orchard, farm). Different micrometeorological methods, mainly based on Surface …
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Employer search and employee quality
Recent research on labor markets has focused on the ability of the firm to influence the productivity of its employees. While most of this research has concentrated on the structure of the compensation package the employer can offer its employees, there has also been interest in the employer's …
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Si' come dice lo Filosofo: Translating Philosophy in the Early Italian Lyric
… the progression of this engagement from its Sicilian beginnings to the poetry of Guido Guinizzelli that is informed by the university culture of Bologna and posit that this early lyric form of vernacular humanism has profound implications for Dante's poetic identity as well as the development …
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Geochronology of terraced coastal deposits in Calabria and eastern Sicily: tectonic implications
… as the Terreforti Hills , at the front of the Sicilian fold and thrust system, were analyzed. The obtained OSL ages were consistent with the normal evolutionary model of a terraced sequence, moving from the highest to the lowest elevations and the new data allowed us to determine a mean uplift …
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