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Language plays an important role in the development of any state because it evolves in direct contact with people's thinking, history, culture, and worldview. When studying the works of foreign and domestic scientists and classifying the Middle Ages heritage by linguistic features, it can clear...

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The KNOT project is a three-year pilot tasked with investigating ways to integrate the digital cultural heritage (DCH) of Italian universities within the national infrastructure being developed by the Ministry of Culture. To do this, KNOT argues for rethinking the digital objects produced by academi...

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Lauren Benton’s new book, They Called It Peace, offers a comprehensive view of the various forms of violence that European empires deployed overseas from the early modern period to the 19th century. These forms of violence—ranging from household abuses and slavery to deliberate killings and mass ext...

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The paper showcases the digitisation, modelling, and exploration of a key text in the history of Italian theater: the Drammaturgia, compiled by the Roman scholar Leone Allacci (1666) and later expanded and revised by a group of intellectuals from Apostolo Zeno’s circle (1755). The work, containing a...

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Despite the growing interest in publishing linguistic data as Linked Open Data (LOD), the representation of ancient language corpora within the Semantic Web remains challenging. While LOD principles have been successfully applied to linguistic resources such as dictionaries, lexicon, and terminologi...

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The COVerLeSS project (Corpus Online del Verismo tra Letteratura, Storia e Società) explores Italian Verismo within the field of Periodical Studies, drawing on ongoing digitization and preservation initiatives in libraries and cultural institutions across Italy and Europe. The project aims to develo...

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This paper addresses the issue of how intermittent work performances - now increasingly enabled by new technologies - affect remuneration, and how such work contributes to in-work poverty. The analysis takes platform-based work as a model, considering it a prototype of a productive organisation rely...

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Sustainability has become a central theme in contemporary fashion branding, yet the ways in which companies articulate their commitments can vary significantly. This study examines how French ethical fashion brands construct their discourse on sustainability through linguistic choices, focusing on t...

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The genetic algorithm (GA) is inspired by natural selection, emphasizing the survival of the fittest. In GAs, data is encoded as genes, and optimal solutions are achieved through crossover and mutation operations on these genes. This study focuses on a key issue in re-functionalizing buildings, wher...

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The scenario of the Italian museums within the IIIF – International Image Interoperability Framework – environment is quite uneven due to a still early stage in the process of digitizing the collections. Nevertheless, the emphasis on the description and interpretation of historical art collections t...

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This article offers a critical reading of the topophobic representation of enforced disappearance and femicide in Mexico through Sara Ahmed’s affective turn. Focusing on the art installation ¡Visite Ciudad Juárez! by Ambra Polidori and the journalistic report Los desaparecidos by Nolen and Márquez,...

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Ethnic architectural heritage is mainly concentrated in ancient villages. The 3D models of ancient villages are of great significance in the protection of the ethnic architectural heritage in ancient villages. The aim of this study is to integrate multi-source data models to form a 3D model of ancie...

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In the first part, the essay analyses the timing and modalities of digitalisation in the last-mile logistics sector, describing the forms that algorithmic management takes in the management of drivers' and porters' activities. These observations are then applied to the corporate structure...

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Jair Bolsonaro's election and the rise of the far-right in Brazil are not isolated events but a resurgence of a long-standing authoritarian tradition from the 20th century, marked by the Vargas Era (1930-1945) and the Military Dictatorship (1964-1985). Between 2018 and 2022, Brazil experienced...

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This contribution focuses on paintings and poetry, visualizing fashionable design in clothing, such as flowers, foliage and greenery — characterizing pre-Raphaelite poetry and painting. This paper analyses Sandro Botticelli’s Spring (1477–82) and its representation of clothing, flowers and natural p...

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How is talk about what will, could, and should happen in the future shaped by networks of actors engaged in these conversations?  And how do conversations about imagined futures reshape social relations? This essay considers the roots of my current research on “the duality of networks and futures” i...

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The preservation of built heritage represents a cultural and scientific challenge of great significance, particularly as many historical monuments in Morocco have suffered extensive deterioration. Given that the renovation of facade and interior plasters is among the most common tasks in restoration...

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This article explores the interrelation between music, image, and narrative in Werner Herzog’s cinema through the conceptual metaphor of spectrality. Herzog’s films construct an “acoustic vision,” where music does not merely accompany images but unlocks their latent meanings, creating a tension betw...

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