Evropská tradice a počátek novodobé mozaiky v Čechách a na Moravě by Zuzana Křenková, Vladisalva Říhová

“…The study offers a new view of the domestic situation, casting light for the first time for a Czech reader on many facts concerning the development of European (particularly Italian and Austrian) mosaic art in the second half of the 19th century. …”
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Les études de Sergio Cigada, jalons incontournables de la critique flaubertienne by Liana Nissim

“…Sergio Cigada (1933-2010) was certainly one of the greatest Italian specialists of Flaubert. In this study we will review all of Cigada’s writings (since 1956) devoted to Flaubert’s works, by highlighting for each one the pioneering criticism and proposing a rereading of his most significant studies: « Uno scritto autobiografico di Flaubert : Quidquid volueris » (1956), Un decennio di critica flaubertiana (1945-1955) (1957) and Genesi e struttura tematica di Emma Bovary (1960), a magnificent book which even today presents among the most enlightening pages of the genesis of the character Emma and her psychological make-up. …”
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Les implications du travestissement dans I Capuleti e i Montecchi de Vincenzo Bellini by Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

“…According to baroque Italian operatic conventions, the part of the lover should have been performed by a castrato so that his voice could merge perfectly with that of the soprano heroine. …”
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Motorway architecture by Verdiana Peron

“…This will be possible through the establishment of new public policies which acknowledge them within the 20th-century cultural heritage. In this field, the Italian motorway service chain was a unique experience in Europe. …”
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Translations of the foreign authors in the Vilnius Pierists publishing house by Irena Jackevičienė

“…Translations from French comprised the greatest portion of translations at 61%, from Latin 31%, from Italian 6%, and from English 2%. The translations helped overcome the cultural backwardness of the country more effectively than original literature and supplied the market with desirable books. …”
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Failure evidences of reduced span bridges in case of extreme rainfalls - The case of Livorno by Mario Lucio Puppio, Sara Novelli, Mauro Sassu

“…In particular, the recent case of Livorno is analysed. The Italian territory has about 460.000 small bridges, mostly designed without the support of technical codes or a proper interaction between the hydraulic and structural aspects. …”
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Le monastère face aux laïques au haut Moyen Âge : lieux de culte secondaires et accueil aux limites de l’espace monastique dans le contexte italien  by Eleonora Destefanis

“…Just at the edge of this space – the claustrum or a much bigger territory, perceived however as monasterium in every aspect – we can find specific complexes for social (and sometimes medical) services, in certain cases provided with secondary churches, distinct from the abbatial one.The paper studies, through some Early Middle Ages Italian cases and referring to written as well as archaeological sources, the topographical and functional choices connected to these structures. …”
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Confrontation Naming and Reading Abilities at Primary School: A Longitudinal Study by Chiara Luoni, Umberto Balottin, Laura Rosana, Enrico Savelli, Silvia Salini, Cristiano Termine

“…., the Boston Naming Test (BNT)) in a nonclinical sample of Italian primary school children was conducted (n=126), testing them at the end of each school year, to assess nonverbal intelligence, confrontation naming, and reading abilities. …”
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The Materialist Foundations of Politics: A Critique of the Book State and Civil Society by Hamid Malekzadeh, Ahmad Khaleghi damghani

“…It is with this premise that I try to write about some of the prison notes of the Italian thinker and political activist Antonio Gramsci. …”
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Reduced Representation Libraries from DNA Pools Analysed with Next Generation Semiconductor Based-Sequencing to Identify SNPs in Extreme and Divergent Pigs for Back Fat Thickness by Samuele Bovo, Francesca Bertolini, Giuseppina Schiavo, Gianluca Mazzoni, Stefania Dall’Olio, Luca Fontanesi

“…DNA samples from two groups of Italian Large White pigs with divergent estimating breeding value (EBV) for BFT were separately pooled and sequenced, after preparation of reduced representation libraries (RRLs), on the Ion Torrent technology. …”
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The Safeguard of Audio Collections: A Computer Science Based Approach to Quality Control—The Case of the Sound Archive of the Arena di Verona by Federica Bressan, Antonio Rodà, Sergio Canazza, Federico Fontana, Roberta Bertani

“…This paper presents the methodology and the results of the Italian project REVIVAL, aimed at the development of a hardware/software platform to support the active preservation of the audio collection of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, one of the finest in Europe for the operatic genre, with a special attention on protocols and tools for quality control. …”
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Failure evidences of reduced span bridges in case of extreme rainfalls The case of Livorno by Marco Lucio Puppio, Sara Novelli, Mauro Sassu

“…In particular, the recent case of Livorno is analysed. The Italian territory has about 460.000 small bridges, mostly designed without the support of technical codes or a proper interaction between the hydraulic and structural aspects. …”
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Survey of Dermatophytes in Stray Cats with and without Skin Lesions in Northern Italy by Daniela Proverbio, Roberta Perego, Eva Spada, Giada Bagnagatti de Giorgi, Alessandra Della Pepa, Elisabetta Ferro

“…Our estimated prevalence of dermatophytes in stray cats was much lower than other Italian studies on the same population.…”
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Antioxidant Properties and Fatty Acid Profile of Cretan Extra Virgin Bioolive Oils: A Pilot Study by Dariusz Nowak, Michał Gośliński, Cezary Popławski

“…These ones were compared with commercial Spanish, Italian, and Greek extra virgin olive oils. Obtained results showed that sample Cretan 1 had about 15% higher antioxidant capacity and about 60% higher total polyphenol content than commercial counterparts. …”
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Bernard Huet « A. Rossi ou l’exaltation de la raison » by Julien Correia

“…This text by Bernard Huet (1932-2001) was published in Italian and English in 1984 in a book presenting recent projects by the Milanese architect Aldo Rossi (1931-1997). …”
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Agroecology in Brazil and Italy: Comparative Analysis of the Historical Formation Process of Agroecology by Andre Augusto Michelato Ghizelini, Gaio Cesare Pacini

“…Furthermore, 8.31% of Italian farms are organic, while in Brazil, the figure is only 1.28%. …”
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Parents who interfere with their children’s career choices: a path analysis model investigating risk and protective factors for students’ burnout and depression by Giacomo Angelini, I. Buonomo, C. Fiorilli

“…Participants were 134 Italian high school students (Mage = 18.14 years, SD = 0.651; 75.4% females). …”
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Efficacy of Herbicides When Spray Solution Application Is Delayed by Peter M. Eure, David L. Jordan, Loren R. Fisher, Alan C. York

“…In separate experiments, control of broadleaf signalgrass by clethodim, common ragweed by glyphosate and lactofen, entireleaf morningglory by lactofen, Italian rye grass by glyphosate and paraquat, and Palmer amaranth by atrazine, dicamba, glufosinate, glyphosate, imazethapyr, lactofen, and 2,4-D was affected more by increase in weed size due to delayed application than the time between solution preparation and application.…”
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Linguistics and marketing: The effect of foreign languages in advertising messages by Juan Miguel Alcántara-Pilar, Iván Manuel Sánchez-Duarte, María Bermúdez-Martínez, María Eugenia Rodríguez-López

“…Utilizing a between-subjects experimental design, we selected five languages as independent variables: Italian, Turkish, Russian, English, and French. An audio-only advertising message for a fictional company was created and translated into these languages. …”
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Deepening the Relationship Between the Need for Epistemic Certainty and People’s Compliance with Social Power: The Moderating Role of Work Unit Tightness by Daniela Di Santo, Alessio Tesi, Antonio Aiello, Antonio Pierro

“…Using a convenience sampling method, we enrolled 290 employees from pre-existing work units in Italian organizations in a cross-sectional study. …”
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