Abstract The boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates in the Hispaniola region is the northwestern termination of the North American plate subduction evolving from westward subduction in the Lesser Antilles to southward subduction in the Greater Antilles...

In this chapter, the Heritage Chain is applied to a specific case of heritage preservation and management in China: the “Horse and Chariot” museum . The case highlights the ability of the “Heritage Chain” to grasp a single case of heritage management with a holistic vie...

Wilson, J.B. (corresponding author, bastow@bastow.ac.nz): Botany Department, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. Chiarucci, A. (alessandro.chiarucci@unisi.it): BIOCONNET, Biodiversity and Conservation Network, Department of Environmental Science ‘G. ...

The aim of this paper is to deeply rethink and better understand the different approaches to ‘value-based’ politics – and social subroupings’ reactions to it – in the post-Soviet area through the lens of the Ukrainian scene, by analysing both the political and cultural ...

English edition of the Italian volume: I Maya: Storia e Tesori di un'antica civiltà

The successful use of Computed Tomography (CT) as an efficient and powerful non-destructive tool for the study of archaeological artefacts has been reported by several authors (Rossi et al. 1999a, b; Rossi and Casali 2001; Applbaum and Applbaum 2005). The 3D reconstruct...

L'articolo si occupa di studiare le personalità di committenti tardoantichi, attivi soprattutto nell'Oriente mediterraneo, che appartenevano a quel settore del mondo del lavoro che si riferiva al vario mondo della banca, cioè di tutti coloro che operavano con la ricchez...

本文旨在对标准汉语中否定情态词的使用机制进行语义解释。基于情态补充法(modal suppletion )与否定移位策略(negation placement)的概念 (de Haan 1997)，笔者阐释到： （i） 在否定形式中，情态词显示其最典型的意义 (prominent meaning)； （ii） 该典型意义表现语义来源的取向(Hsieh 2005)，来源的取向有三种情况：(situation oriented)。情况取向的情态词可以用来代替说话者取向的，并且在一些例子中，也可以取代主语取向的情态标记； （iii） 有些情...

International audience; We combined biostratigraphical analyses, archaeological surveys, and Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) models to provide new insights into the relative sea-level evolution in the northeastern Aegean Sea (eastern Mediterranean). In this area, cha...

The fall of the Fascist regime and the creation of the FPRY did not end the pre-existing ethnic strains between the Slovenian-Croatian and Italian populations, nor did it temper the geopolitical ambitions of Yugoslavia and Italy over the Adriatic coast. Furthermore, the...