University of Pisa - Article Index

Encyclopedia - University Of Pisa: Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Pisa: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Pisa - Organization Of The University
Nowadays the University of Pisa consists of 11 faculties and 56 departments. These faculties offers a notable amount of courses in their ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jean-françois Champollion: Encyclopedia - Jean-françois Champollion
Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist, orientalist, and Egyptologist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlo Ginzburg: Encyclopedia - Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. Born 1939 in Italy, received a PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actor Model: Encyclopedia - Actor Model
In computer science, the Actor model, first published in 1973 (Hewitt et al. 1973), is a mathematical model of concurrent computation. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 99942 Apophis: Encyclopedia - 99942 Apophis
99942 Apophis (previously better known by its provisional designation 2004 MN4) is a Near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope Clement Xii: Encyclopedia - Pope Clement Xii
Clement XII, born as Lorenzo Corsini (Florence, April 7, 1652 – Rome, February 6, 1740), (pope 1730-1740), had been an aristocratic law...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glasses: Encyclopedia - Glasses
Glasses, spectacles, or eyeglasses are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the human eyes, sometimes for purely aesthetic reasons but ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrea Bocelli: Encyclopedia Ii - Andrea Bocelli - National Recognition
The Italian rock star Zucchero Fornaciari first auditioned Andrea while scouting for tenors in 1992; upon hearing the tape, tenor Luciano...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcello Malpighi: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcello Malpighi - Research
Malpighi used the microscope for studies on skin, kidney, and for the first interspecies comparison of the liver. He greatly extended the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galileo Galilei: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Galilei - Astronomy
Galileo Galilei - Contributions. Although the popular idea of Galileo inventing the telescope is inaccurate, he was one of the first pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actor Model: Encyclopedia Ii - Actor Model - Message Passing Semantics
The Actor model is about the semantics of message passing. Actor model - The unbounded nondeterminism controversy. Arguably, the first ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Colleges And Universities Starting With U: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Colleges And Universities Starting With U - Main Section
Universities beginning with U, excluding the words University, Universidad, Université, etc. [1] UNIK - Center for Technology at Kjelle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Medical Schools: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Medical Schools - South America
List of medical schools - Argentina. Medical School of the University of Buenos Aires List of medical schools - Bolivia. List of m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Oldest Universities In Continuous Operation: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Oldest Universities In Continuous Operation - Caveat
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-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval University: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval University - Origins
With the increasing professionalization of society during the 12th and 13th centuries, a similar demand grew for professional clergy. Pri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pisa: Encyclopedia Ii - Pisa - History
Pisa - Ancient times. Nobody really knows when Pisa was founded. The city lies at the junction of two rivers, Arno and Auser (now disap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King City Ontario: Encyclopedia Ii - King City Ontario - Lifestyle And Culture
King City Ontario - Culture. King City and its rural surroundings are home to numerous horse farms, which are both well-known and highl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrea Cesalpino: Encyclopedia Ii - Andrea Cesalpino - Philosophical Works
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 s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlo Matteucci: Encyclopedia Ii - Carlo Matteucci - Works
Matteucci was the author of four scientific treatises in physics: Lezioni di fisica (2 vols., Pisa, 1841) Lezioni sui fenomeni fisico-ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ocaml: Encyclopedia Ii - Ocaml - Code Examples
Snippets of OCaml code are most easily studied by entering them into the "top-level". This is an interactive OCaml session that prints th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 99942 Apophis: Encyclopedia Ii - 99942 Apophis - Close Approaches
Apophis is expected to come close enough that on April 13, 2029 (Friday the 13th) it will become as bright as magnitude 3.3 (easily visib...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi: Encyclopedia Ii - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi - Career
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi - Education. After receiving a degree in Literature in 1941 from the Scuola Normale of Pisa, one of the country's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pietro Gori: Encyclopedia Ii - Pietro Gori - Time In Milan
He then moved to Milan and worked as a lawyer with Filippo Turati. In January 1891, he supported the views of Errico Malatesta in the Con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlo Buonaparte: Encyclopedia Ii - Carlo Buonaparte - Marriage And Children
He is said to have been in love with a girl of the Forcioli family. His paternal uncle Archdeacon Luciano Buonaparte (January 8, 1718 - O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pisa: Encyclopedia Ii - Pisa - History
Pisa - Ancient times. Pisa's origins are unknown. The city lies at the junction of two rivers, Arno and Auser (now disappeared) in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glasses: Encyclopedia Ii - Glasses - History
Glasses were possibly invented in northern Italy, most likely in the late 1280s. The identity of the original inventor is unknown, althou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wassily Leontief: Encyclopedia Ii - Wassily Leontief - Biography
Wassily Leontief - Early Life. Wassily Leontief, the son of Wassily W. Leontief (professor of Economics) and Eugenia, entered the Unive...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Treatment
Treatment of depression varies broadly, and is different for each individual. Various types and combinations of treatments may have to be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bonaventura Cavalieri: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonaventura Cavalieri - Life
Born in Milan, Cavalieri studied theology in the monastery of San Gerolamo in Milan and geometry at the University of Pisa. He published ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - The Role Of Anxiety In Depression
Clinical depression - Anxiety. The different types of Depression and Anxiety are classified separately by the DSM-IV-TR, with the excep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Signs And Symptoms
According to the DSM-IV-TR criteria for diagnosing a major depressive disorder (see also: DSM cautionary statement) one of the following ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Types Of Depression
Clinical depression - Major Depression. Major Depression, or, more properly, 'Major Depressive Disorder' (MDD) is characterized by a se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King City Ontario: Encyclopedia Ii - King City Ontario - Communications And Media
Given its proximity to Toronto, King City has exposure to a broad variety of media. National and Toronto-area daily newspapers offer deli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ocaml: Encyclopedia Ii - Ocaml - Applications
OCaml is a general-purpose programming language, but some of its more popular applications include: OCaml - Computer science. Theorem ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ocaml: Encyclopedia Ii - Ocaml - Features
OCaml features: a static type system, type inference, parametric polymorphism, tail recursion, pattern matching, first class lexical clos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ocaml: Encyclopedia Ii - Ocaml - Philosophy
ML-derived languages are most well known for their static type systems and type-inferring compilers. OCaml unifies functional, imperative...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ocaml: Encyclopedia Ii - Ocaml - Derived Languages
OCaml - MetaOCaml. MetaOCaml [3] is a multi-stage programming extension of Ocaml enabling incremental compiling of new machine code dur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pietro Gori: Encyclopedia Ii - Pietro Gori - Time In Pisa
In 1886 he enrolled in the University of Pisa. He soon joined the Anarchist movement there, quickly becoming one of its most influential ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pietro Gori: Encyclopedia Ii - Pietro Gori - Second Exile
In 1898, riots broke-out throughout Italy because of a sudden increase in the price of bread. The Government responded with an iron fist;...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pietro Gori: Encyclopedia Ii - Pietro Gori - First Exile
The Italian government of Francesco Crispi passed three anti-anarchist laws limiting civil rights in July 1894. Afterwards, the bourgeois...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcello Malpighi: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcello Malpighi - Years In Rome
1691 Pope Innocent XII invited him to Rome as Papal physician, He taught medicine in the Papal Medical School and wrote a long treatise a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcello Malpighi: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcello Malpighi - Academic Career
In 1656 Malpighi received a chair of medical practice in the university, three years after he had applied for it, and later the same year...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King City Ontario: Encyclopedia Ii - King City Ontario - Ecology
The provincially-significant King-Vaughan Wetland Complex consists of 23 individual wetlands (83% swamp, 17% marsh). It is composed of cl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King City Ontario: Encyclopedia Ii - King City Ontario - Geography
Located at 43°56′N 79°31′W, King City is characterized by rolling hills and clustered temperate forests. Although few in number wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Books
Clinical depression - Books by psychologists/psychiatrists. Beck, A. T., Rush, A. J., Shaw, B. F., Emery, G. (1987). Cognitive therapy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King City Ontario: Encyclopedia Ii - King City Ontario - Politics
King City does not have its own municipal government; it is represented municipally on King Township council by two councillors, in Wards...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King City Ontario: Encyclopedia Ii - King City Ontario - Demographics
(Note: Statistics used are for King Township; data for King City proper is unavailable) Originally settled by United Empire Loyalists in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King City Ontario: Encyclopedia Ii - King City Ontario - Transport
King City has weekday GO train service on the Bradford line. Commuters from King Township and parts of the City of Vaughan board the trai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King City Ontario: Encyclopedia Ii - King City Ontario - Economy And Business
As a small town, King City doesn't have an infrastructure sufficient to support a diversified business community. The primary business se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Relapse
Relapse is more likely if treatment has not resulted in the full remission of symptoms.4 In fact, current guidelines for antidepressant u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval University: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval University - Characteristics
Medieval universities did not have a campus. Classes were taught wherever space was available such as churches and homes, a university wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actor Model: Encyclopedia Ii - Actor Model - History
The Actor model was first published in (Hewitt et al. 1973). The Actor model differs from previous models of computation in that the Acto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 99942 Apophis: Encyclopedia Ii - 99942 Apophis - Possible Impact Effects
It must be stressed that the odds of impact are now known to be very low. Hence, the possible effects of an impact are largely irrelevant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actor Model: Encyclopedia Ii - Actor Model - Fundamental Concepts
The Actor model adopts the philosophy that everything is an Actor. This is similar to the everything is an object philosophy used by some...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actor Model: Encyclopedia Ii - Actor Model - Formal Systems
Over the years, several different formal systems have been developed to permit reasoning about systems in the Actor model. These include:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actor Model: Encyclopedia Ii - Actor Model - Why Is The Actor Model Important Now?
On the 40th anniversary of the publication of Moore's Law, hardware development is furthering both local and nonlocal massive concurrency...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actor Model: Encyclopedia Ii - Actor Model - Models Prior To The Actor Model
The Actor model built on previous models of computation. Actor model - Lambda calculus. The lambda calculus of Alonzo Church can be vie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 99942 Apophis: Encyclopedia Ii - 99942 Apophis - Discovery
Apophis was discovered on June 19, 2004, by Roy A. Tucker, David J. Tholen, and Fabrizio Bernardi of the NASA-funded University of Hawaii...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 99942 Apophis: Encyclopedia Ii - 99942 Apophis - Basic Data
Apophis belongs to a group called the "Aten asteroids", asteroids with an orbital semi-major axis less than one astronomical unit. This p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glasses: Encyclopedia Ii - Glasses - Sunglasses
Main article: Sunglasses Sunglasses may be made with either prescription or non-prescription (i.e. plano) lenses that are darkened to pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glasses: Encyclopedia Ii - Glasses - Safety Glasses
Safety glasses are usually made with shatter-resistant plastic lenses to protect the eye from flying debris. Although safety lenses may b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glasses: Encyclopedia Ii - Glasses - Special Glasses
The illusion of three dimensions on a two dimensional surface can be created by providing each eye with different visual information. Cla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glasses: Encyclopedia Ii - Glasses - Variation In Glasses
Glasses can be very simple. Magnifying lenses for reading that are used to treat mild hypermetropia and presbyopia can be bought off the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 99942 Apophis: Encyclopedia Ii - 99942 Apophis - Naming
When first discovered, the object received the provisional designation 2004 MN4 (sometimes written 2004 MN4), and news and scientific art...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glasses: Encyclopedia Ii - Glasses - Glasses As A Fashion Accessory
Glasses are often regarded as unattractive, and many people prefer to wear contact lenses for that reason. Contact lenses also provide mu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galileo Galilei: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Galilei - Galileo's Family & Early Careers
Galileo was born in Europe Pisa, in the Tuscan region of Italy, the son of Vincenzo Galilei, a mathematician and musician born in Florenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galileo Galilei: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Galilei - Experimental Science
In the pantheon of the scientific revolution, Galileo takes a high position because of his pioneering use of quantitative experiments wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Medical Schools: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Medical Schools - Middle East
List of medical schools - Israel. The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa ([12]) The Joyce and Irving Goldma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Medical Schools: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Medical Schools - Caribbean
List of medical schools - Antigua. American University of Antigua (School of Medicine) List of medical schools - Cayman Islands. S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Medical Schools: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Medical Schools - Asia
List of medical schools - Cambodia. International University (IU) - http://www.iu.edu.kh/ List of medical schools - China. Nanjing ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Medical Schools: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Medical Schools - Africa
List of medical schools - Angola. List of medical schools - Egypt. Kasr El-Aini Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University www.cu.edu.eg- ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pisa: Encyclopedia Ii - Pisa - Landmarks
By far the best known sight in Pisa is the famous leaning tower which is but one of many architecturally and artistically important struc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval University: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval University - List Of Medieval Universities
List of medieval universities (founded before 1600), in order of foundation. Note that many of these institutions were schools prior to t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Medical Schools: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Medical Schools - Central America
List of medical schools - Costa Rica. List of medical schools - Guatemala. List of medical schools - San Salvador. ... See also:L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Medical Schools: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Medical Schools - North America
List of medical schools - Canada. McGill School of medicine University of Toronto Memorial University of Newfoundland Ottawa University...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galileo Galilei: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Galilei - Mathematics
While Galileo's application of mathematics to experimental physics was innovative, his mathematical methods were the standard ones of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galileo Galilei: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Galilei - Physics
Galileo's theoretical and experimental work on the motions of bodies, along with the largely independent work of Kepler and René Descart...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galileo Galilei: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Galilei - Technology
Galileo made a few contributions to what we now call technology as distinct from pure physics, and suggested others. This is not the same...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galileo Galilei: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Galilei - Church Controversy
Psalms 93 and 104, and Ecclesiastes 1:5 speak of the motion of celestial bodies and the suspended position of the earth. Galileo defended...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Medical Schools: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Medical Schools - Europe
List of medical schools - Austria. Medical University of Graz http://www.meduni-graz.at/ Innsbruck Medical University http://www.i-med...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrea Cesalpino: Encyclopedia Ii - Andrea Cesalpino - Botanical Works
His most important publication was "De plantis libri XVI" (Florence, 1583). This last work has made Cesalpino immortal; the date of its p...   » Read the article