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Chapter Москва на рубеже истории. О “топонимической встряске” и не только
(2023)
Moscow at the turn of history. About the “toponymic upheaval” and not only. The article digs into the urban (and political) geography of Moscow and how this is perceived in Italy in the aftermath of the collapse of the ...
Chapter Multi-Robot Federated Edge Learning Framework for Efficient Coordination and Information Management in Smart Construction
(2023)
Smart construction involves a growing array of devices that generate extensive data, capable of enhancing construction efficiency and productivity. Nonetheless, the handling of this diverse and abundant information, along ...
Chapter Extracting Information from Construction Safety Requirements Using Large Language Model
(2023)
The construction industry has long been recognized for its complex safety regulations, which are essential to ensure the well-being of on-site employees. However, navigating these regulations and ensuring compliance can ...
Chapter Positive and Negative Error. A Debate in the Illuminati Order
(2023)
That error could be of interest to Freemasons and Illuminati as a topic becomes evident when one sees it in the context of concepts such as prejudice, ignorance, and gullibility. The perfection of the human being was ...
Chapter Lalage Bown: The Enduring Legacy. A Personal Reflection
(2023)
This personal reflection of Lalage Bown focuses upon her professional contributions internationally to the field of progressive adult and continuing education, and her remarkable personality and charisma. Although the ...
Chapter Intermittenze virtuose. Le istituzioni per i beni archeologici, artistici, archivistici e librari
(2024)
The University of Florence has always maintained very close relationships with the city's cultural institutions: libraries, museums, archives, research institutes. These relationships have been particularly significant ...
Chapter «Учиться у Горького»: “отступничество” японского пролетарского писателя Токунага Сунао
(2023)
“Learn from Gorky”: “conversion” of Japanese proletarian wrier Tokunaga Sunao. In the proletarian literary movement that flourished in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, the main goal of proletarian literature was considered ...
Chapter Cognitive Dynamics for Construction Management Learning Tasks in Mixed Reality Environments
(2023)
Technologies to communicate construction project information (engineering designs, schedules) have evolved into a wider range of innovative ecosystems for engineering practices (e.g., cloud-based 3D representations and ...
Chapter Improving Sense-Making for Construction Planning Tasks Using Visual and Haptic Stimuli in Virtual Reality Environments
(2023)
Design documents, drawings, and specifications are visual representations that are fundamental and prevalent in today’s construction engineering practice. Construction specialties (e.g., structural, mechanical) rely on ...
Chapter Enhancing Disaster Resilience Studies: Leveraging Linked Data and Natural Language Processing for Consistent Open-Ended Interviews
(2023)
Researchers have long focused on disaster resilience to mitigate calamity disruption. Disaster resilience is a complex and multi-faceted concept that is challenging to measure. Quantitative methods have traditionally been ...
Chapter Odio y venganza en La persistencia de Griselda Gambaro
(2023)
Griselda Gambaro's La Persistencia is one of the Argentine author's most difficult works. In it, she reconstructs a historical event, the school massacre in Beslan, North Ossetia, in 2004, which claimed more than three ...
Chapter FCM-Enabled Approach for Investigating Interdependencies of BIM Performance Factors in the Sustainable Built Environment
(2023)
In pursuit of a sustainable built environment, BIM plays a crucial role in the project's performance and has egressed as a powerful technology in the construction industry, impacting the outcome and the project delivery ...
Chapter Desinenze di vocativo come formanti antroponimici. I nomi propri maschili in -e e -o nelle lingue slave
(2023)
The study tests the hypothesis according to which the Slavic anthroponyms in -e and -o underwent evolution from vocative endings to hypocoristic derivative suffixes and then to anthroponymic formants. According to the ...
Chapter Adapting BIM-Based AR Positioning Techniques to the Construction Site
(2023)
While Building Information Modelling (BIM) can support the management and visualisation of construction projects, Augmented Reality (AR) holds great promise to enhance interaction with these complex models. The accurate ...
Chapter A Systematic Review of Digital Twin as a Predictive Maintenance Approach for Existing Buildings in the UK
(2023)
Digital Twin (DT) developments and applications in the Architectural Engineering Construction (AEC) Industry are emerging. However, insufficient publications synthesised the existing literature on DT of existing buildings, ...
Chapter Identifying and Developing Prerequisites for Takt Planning in a BIM-Based Construction Process
(2023)
The construction industry is undergoing a significant shift in how design and production are conducted. Building Information Modeling (BIM) has emerged as a key tool for coordinating information from all involved disciplines ...
Chapter Investigation of the Acceptance of Virtual Reality for Planning Decisions in Early Design Phases
(2023)
In recent years, with the increasing digitization of the construction industry, the potential benefits provided by the adoption of Virtual Reality (VR) have been shown especially in interdisciplinary networking among ...
Chapter Lo studium nel XIV e nel XV secolo
(2024)
The contribution overturns the narrative of the origins of the Florentine studium as a substantial 'failure'. Its events did not represent a particular case: as in other European cities of the late Middle Ages, the university ...
Chapter L’Ateneo durante il regime fascista
(2024)
In 1931, none of the Florentine academics refused to take the oath of allegiance to Fascism, as very few did throughout Italy. Yet, just six years earlier, the signatories of the so-called Croce manifesto from the University ...
Chapter Zero-Knowledge Proof for Trusted Construction Management: A Preliminary Study of Adaptive Blockchain BIM Identity Authentication
(2023)
Blockchain technology emphasizes trust and collaboration through distributed networks and is deemed to contribute to building information modeling (BIM) based construction collaboration and management. However, the open ...
Chapter Enhancing the Realism of Virtual Construction Safety Training: Integration of Real-Time Location Systems for Real-World Hazard Simulations
(2023)
In numerous studies, virtual training for construction safety has been proposed as a promising approach. However, creating realistic training scenarios requires significant resources, encompassing various elements such as ...
Chapter Adult Learning and Education for Poverty Alleviation in Africa. Challenges and Opportunities for Women
(2023)
This chapter examines the contributions of Adult Learning and Education (ALE) towards empowerment and poverty reduction amongst women in Africa. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasise the need for countries of ...
Chapter A Value Stream Mapping Approach to the Identification of Lean Management Opportunities for Off-Site Construction Production: A Case of Reinforced Concrete Slabs
(2023)
Off-site construction (OSC), including prefabrication and Modular-integrated Construction (MiC), is gaining popularity as a school of sustainable construction methods that can improve productivity, quality, and waste ...
Chapter Driving Simulator for Road Safety Design: A Comparison Between Virtual Reality Tests and In-Field Tests
(2023)
Virtual reality simulations conducted by driving simulators represent a methodology to assess both the quality of road design and road safety in a safe, controlled, and replicable environment. Nowadays, there are numerous ...
Chapter Concorrenza e/o alternanza di ‘vocativo: nominativo’ nei termini volgari in serbo(croato), polacco e bulgaro. Un’analisi qualitativa
(2023)
In those Slavic languages where the vocative inflectional case endings are used inconsistently, a statistically increased occurrence of vocative’s endings can be observed with nouns having a diminutive or hypocoristic ...
Chapter Performing the «miasma» of Indian Partition. Terror and romance in Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line
(2023)
Originally performed at London Hampstead Theatre on 3 December 2013, Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line dramatizes the Partition of India in two distinct nation-states after the Independence in a lush production that ...
Chapter Evaluation of Immersive VR Experiences for Safety Training of Construction Workers: A Semi-Qualitative Approach Proposal
(2023)
The diffusion of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and advanced visualization technologies in the increasingly digitalised construction sector is fostering the development and implementation of disruptive approaches for ...
Chapter Automated Extraction of Bridge Gradient from Drawings Using Deep Learning
(2023)
Digital methods such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) can be leveraged, to improve the efficiency of maintenance planning of bridges. However, this requires digital building models, which are rarely available. ...
Chapter Combining Large-Scale 3D Metrology and Mixed Reality for Assembly Quality Control in Modular Construction
(2023)
The quality control (QC) of assembled modules is an essential process when constructing modular buildings such as hotels and hospitals. Defects that go undetected during module assembly may result in lost productivity in ...
Chapter “Errori popolari:” How a Medical Notion Became an Aesthetic One
(2023)
The notion and the linguistic coinage of “errore popolare” is not as old as it is commonly believed, but comes from the history of medicine when in the late 16th Century, the Sorbonne’s professors labelled as “erreur ...
Chapter Predictive Safety Monitoring for Lifting Operations with Vision-Based Crane-Worker Conflict Prediction
(2023)
Construction industry has reported among the highest accident and fatality rates over the past decade. In particular, crane lifting is a notably hazardous operation on construction sites, causing fatal accidents like workers ...
Chapter The Value of Extended Reality Techniques to Improve Remote Collaborative Maintenance Operations: A User Study
(2023)
In the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector, data extracted from building information modelling (BIM) can be used to create a digital twin (DT). The algorithms of a BIM-based DT can facilitate the retrieval ...
Chapter Real-Time Geometry Assessment Using Laser Line Scanner During Laser Powder Directed Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing of SS316L Component with Sharp Feature
(2023)
Directed energy deposition (DED) is a major metal additive manufacturing (AM) technology that is increasingly used in many industries due to its ability to manufacture complex components of arbitrary shapes and sizes. ...
Chapter E-Procurement in the Australian Construction Industry: Benefits, Barriers, and Adoption
(2023)
A clear benefit of e-procurement technology in the construction sector is its capacity for in reducing waste and costs. Despite its successful adoption in other major industries, the take-up of e-procurement in the ...
Chapter Errors of Interpretation: Vincenzo Maggi and Sperone Speroni, Readers of Francesco Robortello
(2023)
This paper considers errors of interpretation in textual criticism in Renaissance Italy. It focuses on the reading of Francesco Robortello’s In Aristotelis poeticam explicationes, published in Florence by Lorenzo Torrentino ...
Chapter Vladivostok as a Meeting Point between West and East at the Beginning of the 20th Century (Around Years of Siberian Investigation)
(2023)
Vladivostok is likened to the Bosphorus. The remoteness of the Far East made it difficult for the European part of the Russian Empire to recognise Vladivostok geographically. Therefore, through analogy to the Mediterranean, ...
Chapter Рецепция русской литературы Серебряного века в Китае
(2023)
Reception of Russian Literature of the Silver Age in China. In the late 20th century, there emerged a significant cultural fervor for the Russian literature of the Silver Age within Chinese academic circles, primarily ...
Chapter The Existential byt’ in the Translations of I.A. Bunin’s The Gentleman from San Francisco into English and Japanese
(2023)
This article deals with the translations of a Bunin’s story The Gentleman from San Francisco into Japanese and English. Japanese translations of the phrase with the existential verb byt’ reflect a different understanding ...
Chapter Going Beyond Energy Consumption: Digital Twins for Achieving Socio-Ecological Sustainability in the Built Environment
(2023)
Digital twins have attracted much of the attention from the researchers and policy makers as a potent industry-agnostic concept to support ambitious decarbonization goals. Consequently, much of the latest research has ...
Chapter Development of an Automated Workflow in the Field of Fire Prevention Using Building Information Modeling
(2023)
The research focuses on an approach for the development of an automated workflow in the field of fire prevention for the validation of BIM models regarding “Subjected Activities” (according to Italian law - Presidential ...
Chapter La famiglia di parole da base [bog] ‘dio’ nelle lingue slave (con particolare riguardo alle esclamazioni)
(2023)
The Common Slavic *bogŭ ‘god’ displays an astonishingly rich derivation across Slavic languages, both numerically and semantically, with lexemes including almost all parts of speech: inflected (nouns, adjectives, verbs, ...
Chapter Changing Conceptions of Literacy: Pluriversal Literacies
(2023)
«We are being stunted by a form of critical illiteracy», state Tierney, Smith and Kan, and «our global scholarship is facing a crisis of similar proportion to that of climate change […] because we are insufficiently ‘reading ...
Chapter Carbon Tracking in the Building Sector: A ‘CABBAGE’ Framework
(2023)
The great challenge of global climate change urges world economies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainable development, where the building sector plays a vital role. Carbon tracking technology is one of ...
Chapter Deep Learning-Based Pose Estimation for Identifying Potential Fall Hazards of Construction Worker
(2023)
Fall from height (FFH) is one of the major causes of injury and fatalities in construction industry. Deep learning-based computer vision for safety monitoring has gained attention due to its relatively lower initial cost ...
Chapter Testing ChatGPT-Aided SPARQL Generation for Semantic Construction Information Retrieval
(2023)
Recently there has been a strong interest in using semantic technologies to improve information management in the construction domain. Ontologies provide a formalized domain knowledge representation that provides a structured ...
Chapter Тема війни і миру в сучасній українській поезії
(2023)
The Perception of War and Peace in Modern Ukrainian Poetry. Ukrainians are going through a very difficult, traumatic, catastrophic experience. Contemporary Ukrainian poetry about the war, for instance, is closely connected ...
Chapter A Blockchain-Based Secure Submission Management Framework for Design and Construction Phases
(2023)
AEC projects generate numerous versions of BIM models during the design and construction phases. This process is complicated by the sheer number of domains in large projects and the interlinkage of BIM deliverables (for ...
Chapter Developing Adult Educators as Professionals and Adult Education as a Profession: Experiences of DVV International throughout the World and within Several Decades
(2023)
In its first part, the article will concentrate on the period when Lalage and DVV International worked almost in parallel in a number of countries with partners in Africa from the 1960s onwards. Both were involved in the ...
Chapter Modelling and Managing Built Heritage Knowledge: An Ontology-Based Approach for Multi-Layered Archaeologies and Historical Production Process Representation
(2023)
Classical and industrial archaeologies are a complex cultural field where singularity and uniqueness are expressed through past memory evidence and identity recognition. In order to obtain these values acknowledgement, it ...
Chapter Transitioning from 2D to VR in Design Review – Resistance to Engagement
(2023)
Although immersive virtual reality (VR) has been shown to facilitate collaborative understanding of a design, many users remain resistant to its use. Moreover, there is currently a lack of real-world studies investigating ...
Chapter Investigating the Ability of Immersive Virtual Environments to Facilitate Occupant Thermal State Data Collection Involving Face Masks
(2023)
This study examines the capability of an immersive virtual environment (IVE–based) experimental protocol to support occupant thermal state (sensation, acceptability, and comfort) data collection when participants wear face ...
Chapter Evaluating the Comprehension of Construction Schedules of an Artificial Intelligence
(2023)
Construction schedules are an important tool to communicate with the project stakeholders and are critical for the project management team to plan, coordinate, and manage construction projects. Each construction project ...
Chapter Assessing Impacts of Immersive Virtual Reality-Based Design Reviews on Learners’ Self-Efficacy
(2023)
An effective design review is critical to identifying changes and/or errors at the early stage of construction projects and reduce the project costs. Traditionally, design reviews are conducted by reviewing the project by ...
Chapter Multi-Aspectual Knowledge Elicitation for Procurement Optimization in a Warehouse Company
(2023)
Efficient optimization of business processes required a profound understanding of expertise provided by domain specialists. However, extracting such insights can indeed be a laborious and time-consuming endeavour. This ...
Chapter Від femme fatale до femme vital: сліди віденської сецесії в українському модернізмі
(2023)
The femme fatale as a code of Viennese modernism. The article examines the image of the femme fatale as one of the key transnational images of European modernism. Special emphasis is placed on the Viennese ssecession ...
Chapter Global Partnership Building through Adult Education: The African Experiment
(2023)
Against the background of colonial and missionary interventions, Africa’s adult education, influenced by home, work, and religious traditions, soon changed in character and content, frame and forms. Since 1945, global ...
Chapter Deep Learning Based Pose Estimation of Scaffold Fall Accident Safety Monitoring
(2023)
According to the Ministry of Manpower, falling and slipping accidents are one of the most common accidents in addition, falls from heights (FFH), including accidents during scaffolding work, are still a major cause of death ...
Chapter Scheduling Optimization of Electric Ready Mixed Concrete Vehicles Using an Improved Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
(2023)
Decarbonizing the construction sector has become an imperative global agenda, with electric machinery playing a pivotal role in realizing this objective. This research concentrates on devising an operational scheduling ...
Chapter Advocacy, Adult Learning and the Pursuit of Social Justice
(2023)
The chapter highlights the centrality of advocacy work for adult learners, particularly from marginalised and excluded communities, as a key feature of the work of Lalage Bown and its scope nationally and internationally. ...
Chapter Semantic Web Based Integration Between BIM Cost and Geometric Domains
(2023)
In the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management (AEC/FM) industry methodologies are needed to ensure the interoperability of data and effective management of information from different sources. ...