In this article, we provide the first commented edition and translation of an important fragment from Vladimir Zabugin’s posthumous work “The History Christian Renaissance in Italy” (Milan, 1924). Zabugin was a Russian historian, philologist thinker, who lived worked Italy quarter 20th century. He made contribution to history ideas with his concept “Christian Renaissance”, abolishing postulated...

Many interesting mathematical properties, especially concerning real analysis, are known to be true in the iterated perfect set (Sacks) model, while they are false under the continuum hypothesis. However, the proofs that these facts are indeed true in this model are usually very technical and involve heavy forcing machinery. In this manuscript we extract a combinatorial principle, an axiom simi...

The implementation of AmI applications is a task of tremendous complexity requiring the seamless integration of heterogeneous systems in an open and flexible way while providing the means for adaptivity and context-awareness. Ubiquitous devices have to cooperate to realize smart environments, multimodal user interfaces have to adapt to the available modalities for interaction and context inform...

Geographical Information Systems are nowadays considered as one of the most challenging and promising areas that might beneficiate from research advances in conceptual and semantic modeling. It has been largely recognised that the integration of semantic and conceptual models within Geographical Information Systems will help to develop innovative solutions for the benefits of urban and environm...

Humanbeings arrive at truth in fourways: Faith, authority, revelation, andobservation. All other animals rely only upon authority, by observing adults, and observation, by, for example, tasting fruit or experiencing the changing of the seasons. Very few species other than Man, although they, too, may experience territorialism, practice genocide or wage organized war. This is perhaps a commentar...

We also continue to publish work from many different disciplines and, particularly welcome, see that many of our articles represent collaborations between authors coming from different disciplines. Such broad representation and collaboration is the lifeblood of a transdiscipline. It is all too easy for a journal to gravitate towards a particular perspective on research. It is heartening to see ...

The use of intentional concepts, the notion of "goal" in particular, has been prominent in recent approaches to requirement engineering (RE). Goal-oriented frameworks and methods for requirements engineering (GORE) have been keynote topics in requirements engineering, conceptual modelling, and more generally in software engineering. What are the conceptual modelling foundations in these approac...

Life Sciences applications typically involve large volumes of data of various kinds and a multiplicity of software tools for managing, analysing and interpreting them. There are many challenging problems in the processing of life sciences data that require effective support by novel theories, methods and technologies. Conceptual modelling is the key for developing high-performance information s...

Many interesting mathematical properties, especially concerning real analysis, are known to be true in the iterated perfect set (Sacks) model, while they are false under the continuum hypothesis. However, the proofs that these facts are indeed true in this model are usually very technical and involve heavy forcing machinery. In this manuscript we extract a combinatorial principle, an axiom simi...