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Villa Garzoni and its garden are an extraordinary example of 18th-century Tuscan taste and culture. They are located on the slope of a hill at the mouth of the Pescia di Collodi stream in the Pescia plain (northern Tuscany). The garden presents scenographic and surprise effects that are part of a single decorative ensemble of great stylistic coherence. The steeply sloping terrain influenced the planimetric organisation, which develops along a central axis of symmetry, with an arrangement of terraces. In this paper the results of a diagnostic campaign performed on the materials of the villa and garden are reported. Stones, mortars and plasters were identified and analysed according to a well-established chemical and minero petrographic approach. Local and imported stones, raw materials and technologies used for the preparation of mortars and plasters, materials used for decoration were identified. To plan the best restoration approach their state of conservation was assess.

The aim of this paper is to present the doctoral project underway at the University of Turin, which aims to offer a study of best practices for the dissemination of Greek epigraphy in context, using selected groups of Athenian public inscriptions as case studies. In the first part, the state of the art in the dissemination of epigraphy is noted, with some problematic considerations underlying this reflection. The second part presents an illustrative proposal for a dissemination methodology applied to one of the case studies adopted in the project, namely the decree in honour of the comic poet Philippides of Kephale (IG II3 1 877).

In the comment to Giuseppe Carlo Marino’s essay about globalization and crisis of the “historical thought”, Carmelo Albanese covers the essential issues of the analysis proposed by Marino about the relationship among social economic dynamics, time commodification, new information technologies assertion. In this comment, Albanese gives a personal view of the political and cultural consequences and the linked effects about the modalities of redefinition of the historiographic debate in the 21st century.

The Saadian sugar refinery of Chichaoua (XVI century), located southwest of Marrakech, is a large rammed earth building of relevant architectonic value, abandoned with the fall of Saadian dynasty. A structural study was undertaken to characterize the materials, to understand the construction techniques and to identify the structural criticities and the surface decay. In particular, carrying out physical and mineralogical analysis on earth samples, the use of two types of material was found, a first one with only soil earth and a second one with added lime. Mechanical tests, carried out by sclerometer and in laboratory, highlighted that the lime added earth exhibits great strength, exceeding the values known for that kind of building material. This conclusion throw light on the sophisticated building culture of the Saadian period in Morocco, as the El Bedi palace in Marrakech testifies too. The study of crack patterns shows the most common mechanisms of damage and consequently appropriate consolidation strategies.

The article offers information on the use of maps as a tool for confessional affirmation, focusing on the creation of "Vallées vaudoises" between the 17th and 19th centuries.

The complex material flow occurring during the weld of dissimilar AA2024 to Ti6Al4V butt and lap joints was highlighted through a dedicated numerical model able to take into account the effects of the different materials as well as the phase transformation of the used titanium alloy.

The Piwnik and Plata pressure-time bonding criterion was applied to Friction Stir Welding, Linear Friction Welding, Porthole Extrusion and Roll Bonding. A neural network was set up, trained and used to predict the bonding occurrence starting from the main field variable distributions calculated through specific numerical models developed for each process. The analysis of the results permitted to predict the occurrence of solid bonding and to highlight differences and analogies between the processes in order to obtain sound solid welds.

Résumé: Une tension s'opère entre les différents protagonistes auprès d'un enfant en hospitalisation à domicile (HAD). Tous ces acteurs éprouvent un changement d'identité tout au long de ce processus. Des négociations constantes s'imposent pour que chacun trouve et assume sa place. Ce travail essaie d'éclairer ce risque de confusion identitaire, et de décrire comment il se négocie, s'équilibre, tant du côté des soignants que du côté des parents, tout au long de la prise en charge, grâce à la coordination de tous les acteurs par l'équipe de l'HAD pédiatrique. A tension arises between the different protagonists in the care of a child hospitalized at home (HAH). All these actors experience a change of identity throughout this process. Constant negotiations are necessary for each person to find and assume their place. This study attempts to shed light on this risk of identity confusion and to describe how it is negotiated and balanced, both on the part of the caregivers and the parents, throughout the care process, thanks to the coordination of all the players by the pediatric HAH team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]