The article aims to shed light on some particular aspects of the activity and the scientific thought of Baccio Baldini, Director of the Laurentian Library and Court physician of the Medici family in Florence. The analysis of his work as a humanist and the recovery of some unpublished documents enable to define the figure of Baldini as a paradigmatic example of the court physicians of modern age...

This paper presents the connection between Kierkegaard as a philosopher and Langer as a psychologist in opening up the possibility of dialogical interactions between philosophy and psychology. The paper demonstrates how both Kierkegaard and Langer transcend the pre-established parlance of the disciplinary paradigmatic analysis and invent new and interdependent multidisciplinary perspectives. Th...

The ubiquity of contemporary terrorism defines the evilness of banality. A typical terrorist profile does not exist; it’s atypical character of this vile phenomenon that chills human rationality. This article briefly unravels the dynamics of terror and its implications. Un-separated terrorism and counter-terrorism destroy the climate for civil transformation. Our counterproductive interventions...

DNA micro-arrays provide thousands of genomic expressions on the same subject. A main issue is then to find the subset of genes whose degeneration is responsible of a certain type of cancer. In this paper, starting from a paradigmatic classification problem of two kinds of Leukaemia, we discuss the use of datamining techniques in such a context. Particular attention is devoted not only to the c...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the recent debate on the notion of grounding. More precisely, we will focus on the notion of complete and immediate formal grounding and we will provide a definition of it through the concepts of derivability and complexity. We will show that this definition allows us a subtle and precise analysis of the concept of grounding in several paradigmatic cases.

Profound changes are taking place in the world economy and in the innovation systems of countries. The main influencing trends could be summarized by the terms globalization, liberalization, dematerialization, and technological revolution. Their joint effects have been the enhanced uncertainty and turbulence felt in the world economic system since the 1973 crisis and the gradual emergence of a ...

Quantum chemistry is a useful tool in modern approaches to drug and material design, but only when the adopted model reflects a correct physical picture. Paradigmatic is the case of cis-diaminodichloroplatinum(II), cis-[Pt(NH3 )2 Cl2 ], for which the correct simulation of the structural and vibrational properties measured experimentally still remains an open question. By using this molecule as ...

The problems that we are dealing with in construction IT were known in the sixties, and are, 30 years later, still not solved. The hypothesis is that the reasons are: (1) the scientific base for construction IT, its paradigmatic framework, is not explicit and (2) that the framework, as implicitly present through research practice, is an incomplete one and that (3) a paradigm shift is needed. In...

Comparable to the dining philosophers in parallel programming we look for a paradigmatic problem for realtime systems. Our experimental system for balancing a ball on a flat board is described and assessed under its animative, curricular, and scientific aspects. Particularly under the curricular aspect the experimental system offers transferable solutions for various subjects in real-time syste...

The Lenz-Ising model has served for almost a century as a basis for understanding ferromagnetism, and has become a paradigmatic model for phase transitions in statistical mechanics. While retaining the Ising energy arguments, we use techniques previously applied to sociophysics to propose a continuum model. Our formulation results in an integro-differential equation that has several advantages ...