University of Pisa

The University of Pisa (Italian Università di Pisa) is one of the most renowned Italian universities. It is located in Pisa, Tuscany. It was formally founded on the September 3, 1343 by an edict of Pope Clement VI, although there had been lectures on law in Pisa since the 11th century. The University has the oldest Botanical garden (Orto botanico di Pisa) founded in 1543. The University of Pisa is part of the Pisa University System, together with the Scuola Normale Superiore and Sant'Anna School. It offers a wide and wo ...

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Nowadays the University of Pisa consists of 11 faculties and 56 departments. These faculties offers a notable amount of courses in their related field of studies: Agriculture Arts Economics Engineering Foreign Languages & Literatures Law Mathematical, Physical & Natural Sciences Medicine & Surgery Pharmac ...

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University of Pisa, University of Pisa - Organization of the University, University of Pisa - Notable alumni

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Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist, orientalist, and Egyptologist. Chapollion is generally credited as the father of Egyptology. Based on crucial groundwork laid by Thomas Young and William Bankes, Champollion translated parts of the Rosetta stone in 1824, showing that the ancient Egyptian was similar to Coptic, and the writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs. He was born at Figeac, Lot, in France, used to live in Grenoble ...

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Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. Born 1939 in Italy, received a PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961. Occupied teaching positions at the University of Bologna and since 1988 at the University of California, Los Angeles. Field of interests range from the Italian Renaissance to Early Modern European History, a leader in microhistory methodologies. He is most famous for his ground-breaking book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller which looked at the li ...

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In computer science, the Actor model, first published in 1973 (Hewitt et al. 1973), is a mathematical model of concurrent computation. The Actor model treats “Actors” as the universal primitives of concurrent digital computation: in response to a message that it receives, an Actor can make local decisions, create more Actors, send more messages, and determine how to respond to the next message received. The Actor model has been used both as a framework within which to develop a theor ...

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• Actor model - Smalltalk
• Actor model - Petri nets
• Actor model - Message Passing Semantics
• Actor model - The unbounded nondeterminism controversy
• Actor model - Direct communication and asynchrony
• Actor model - Actor creation plus addresses in messages means variable topology
• Actor model - Inherently concurrent
• Actor model - No requirement on order of message arrival
• Actor model - Not sequentiality not buffering not synchrony and not fixed topology
• Actor model - Locality
• Actor model - Compositionality
• Actor model - Behaviors
• Actor model - Relationship to mathematical logic
• Actor model - Migration
• Actor model - Security
• Actor model - Synthesizing addresses of Actors
• Actor model - Why is the Actor model important now?
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99942 Apophis (previously better known by its provisional designation 2004 MN4) is a Near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a relatively large probability that it would strike the Earth in 2029. However, additional observations provided improved predictions that eliminated the possibility of an impact on Earth or the Moon in 2029. A future impact on April 13, 2036, is still possible, keeping the asteroid at level 1 on the Torino impact hazard ...

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Clement XII, born as Lorenzo Corsini (Florence, April 7, 1652 – Rome, February 6, 1740), (pope 1730-1740), had been an aristocratic lawyer and financial manager under preceding pontiffs. He is known for building the new façade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano and beginning the Trevi Fountain and the purchase of Cardinal Albani's collection of antiquities for the papal gallery. Under Benedict XIII, the finances of the Papal States had been delivered into the hands of Cardinal Coscia and other members of the ...

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Glasses, spectacles, or eyeglasses are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the human eyes, sometimes for purely aesthetic reasons but normally for vision correction or eye protection. Special glasses are used for viewing three-dimensional images or experiencing virtual reality. Modern glasses are typically supported by pads on the bridge of the nose and by temples placed over the ears. Historical types ...

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The Italian rock star Zucchero Fornaciari first auditioned Andrea while scouting for tenors in 1992; upon hearing the tape, tenor Luciano Pavarotti urged Zucchero to use Andrea instead of himself. In 1994 Andrea performed the winning entry Il mare calmo della sera in the San Remo Festival, which lead to his first Golden Disc. That year he debuted as Macduff in Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth, sang at Pavarotti's benefit concert at Modena, and before the Pope at Christmas. In the 1995 San Remo festival ...

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Andrea Bocelli, Andrea Bocelli - National recognition, Andrea Bocelli - International recognition, Andrea Bocelli - Charitable and other works, Andrea Bocelli - Discography

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Malpighi used the microscope for studies on skin, kidney, and for the first interspecies comparison of the liver. He greatly extended the science of embryology. The use of microscopes enabled him to describe the development of the chick in its egg, and discovered that insects (particularly, the silk worm) do not use lungs to breathe, but small holes in their skin called tracheae. Later he falsely concluded that plants had similar tubules. However, he observed that when a ringlike portion of bark was removed on a trunk a swelling of the tissu ...

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Galileo Galilei - Contributions. Although the popular idea of Galileo inventing the telescope is inaccurate, he was one of the first people to use the telescope to observe the sky, and for a time was one of very few people able to make a telescope good enough for the purpose. Based on sketchy descriptions of telescopes invented in the Netherlands in 1608, Galileo made one with about 8x magnification, and then made improved models up to about 20x. On August 25, 1609, he demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian ...

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The Actor model is about the semantics of message passing. Actor model - The unbounded nondeterminism controversy. Arguably, the first concurrent programs were interrupt handlers. During the course of its normal operation, a computer needed to be able to receive information from outside (characters from a keyboard, packets from a network, etc.). So when the information arrived execution of the computer was "interrupted" and special code called an interrupt handler was called to put the information in a b ...

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Actor model, Actor model - History, Actor model - Fundamental concepts, Actor model - Formal systems, Actor model - Applications, Actor model - Models prior to the Actor model, Actor model - Lambda calculus, Actor model - Simula, Actor model - Smalltalk, Actor model - Petri nets, Actor model - Message Passing Semantics, Actor model - The unbounded nondeterminism controversy, Actor model - Direct communication and asynchrony, Actor model - Actor creation plus addresses in messages means variable topology, Actor model - Inherently concurrent, Actor model - No requirement on order of message arrival, Actor model - Not sequentiality not buffering not synchrony and not fixed topology, Actor model - Locality, Actor model - Compositionality, Actor model - Behaviors, Actor model - Relationship to mathematical logic, Actor model - Migration, Actor model - Security, Actor model - Synthesizing addresses of Actors, Actor model - Why is the Actor model important now?, Actor model - Actor researchers

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Universities beginning with U, excluding the words University, Universidad, Université, etc. [1] UNIK - Center for Technology at Kjeller, University of Oslo UNITEC Institute of Technology Ube College Ulsan University Uludag Umeå Institute of Technology Umeå University Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Union College Union In ...

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List of medical schools - Argentina. Medical School of the University of Buenos Aires List of medical schools - Bolivia. List of medical schools - Brazil. Currently, Brazil has 113 medical schools, distributed throughout the majority of the states of the federation, with about 67% of schools in the Southern and Southeastern states. A total of almost 10,800 new places are offered each year. An estimated 64,000 undergraduate students are currently enrolled, and 10,000 new physicians graduate each year. < ...

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The actual date a University started to function is often rather hazy and differs a good deal from legend, or from the date its ancestor-institution was founded. For example, it is generally admitted today that Oxford's foundation can't be precisely dated, but must lie somewhere in the mid-to-late 12th century. Likewise, hair-splitting is pointless: the notion that a college could be empowered to give the bachelor's degree is a modern American one; by European terms, Harvard College had already adopted the powers (if not the style) of ...

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List of oldest universities in continuous operation, List of oldest universities in continuous operation - List, List of oldest universities in continuous operation - Oldest Universities by Country or Region post-1500, List of oldest universities in continuous operation - Caveat

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With the increasing professionalization of society during the 12th and 13th centuries, a similar demand grew for professional clergy. Prior to the 12th century, the intellectual life of Europe had been relegated to monasteries, which were mostly concerned with the study of the liturgy and prayer; very few monasteries could boast true intellectuals. Following the Gregorian Reform's emphasis on canon law and the study of the sacraments, bishops formed cathedral schools to train the clergy in canon law, but also in the more secular aspects of c ...

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Medieval university, Medieval university - Origins, Medieval university - Characteristics, Medieval university - List of medieval universities

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Pisa - Ancient times. Nobody really knows when Pisa was founded. The city lies at the junction of two rivers, Arno and Auser (now disappeared) in the Tyrrhenian Sea forming a laguna area. The Pelasgi, the Greeks, the Etruscans and the Ligurians have variously been proposed as founders of the city. Archeological remains from the 5th century BC confirm the existence of a city at the sea, trading with Greeks and Gauls. The presence of an Etruscan necropolis was discovered during excavations in the Arena Garibaldi ...

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Pisa, Pisa - History, Pisa - Ancient times, Pisa - High Middles Ages, Pisa - 11th century, Pisa - 12th century, Pisa - 13th century, Pisa - Decline, Pisa - Landmarks, Pisa - Notable people associated with Pisa, Pisa - Sources

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King City Ontario - Culture. King City and its rural surroundings are home to numerous horse farms, which are both well-known and highly-regarded. (Note: the following information belongs elsewhere.) Also, King City has been a location for at least four movies: The Forest Rangers (1963) had some scenes filmed at Mary Lake Shrine. To Die For (1995) had a number of scenes filmed at King City Secondary School. Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story (1996, TV) ...

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All of Cesalpino's writings show the man of genius and the profound thinker. His style, it is true, is often heavy, yet in spite of the scholastic form in which his works are cast, passages of great beauty often occur. Modern botanists and physiologists who are not acquainted with the writings of Aristotle find Cesalpino's books obscure; their failure to comprehend them has frequently misled them in their judgment of his achievement. No comprehensive summing up of the results of Cesalpino's investigations, founded on a critical study ...

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Matteucci was the author of four scientific treatises in physics: Lezioni di fisica (2 vols., Pisa, 1841) Lezioni sui fenomeni fisico-chimici dei corpi viventi (Pisa, 1844) Manuale di telegrafia elettrica (Pisa, 1850) Cours spécial sur l'induction, le magnétisme de rotation, etc. (Paris, 1854). Trattato dei fenomeni elettrofisiologici degli animali (1844) Cor ...

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Carlo Matteucci, Carlo Matteucci - Works, Carlo Matteucci - Bibliography, Carlo Matteucci - Source

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