This contribution addresses some studies of Ottoman banners produced in the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century State of the Church. The banners discussed were part of a larger European phenomenon of spoils taken during the wars with the Ottoman Empire and th...

The thematic volume ‘Determiners and quantifiers: Functions, variation, and change’ explores the interface between morphosyntax and semantics-pragmatics in the domain of referential and quantificational nominal expressions. We present case studies from Romance and Germa...

Abstract The thermal performance of latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) systems considerably depends on thermal conductivity of adopted phase change materials (PCMs). To increase the low thermal conductivity of these materials, pure PCMs can be loaded with metal ...

Abstract The seasonal energy performance of a cooling system based on an innovative variable-geometry ejector (VGE) is numerically investigated by using TRNSYS. The VGE-based system is mainly driven by solar energy, collected through solar thermal collectors, and is cou...

We present the results and the main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. The task featured two subtasks. Subtask SI is about Span Identification: given a plain-text document, spot the specific text fragments containing...

The acoustic studies of the Italian Opera theatres have been improved their accuracy by the development of a new generation technology. An acoustic survey has been undertaken inside the Galli theatre of Rimini in order to show the acoustic parameters as required by the ...

The use of contextualised word embeddings allowed for a relevant performance increase for almost all Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Recently some new models especially developed for Italian became available to scholars. This work aims at evaluating the ...

It has been customary to trace back to the early shipments sent by the Spanish conquistadors most of the Mesoamerican artefacts held in ancient European collections. Early 21st-century scholarship, however, has demonstrated that Dominican friars such as Domingo de Betan...

Il capitolo si concentra sulla questione della traduzione come veicolo di condivisione di approcci cosmopoliti europei durante il Settecento. Propone come esempi la traduzione a opera di migranti ugonotti, dunque la traduzione di idee dell’Illuminismo radicale, prima di...

In modern times, the author has acquired a role and a connotation that deeply influence our perception of the ways in which texts were produced and circulated in different historical contexts. Authorship of mediaeval texts worked differently, and this peculiarity is eve...