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Neolingua anno 2014
Full text linkCome d'estate si vogliono tappare i buchi di bilancio e ripezzare l'universit
Il coordinamento dei meccanismi di stabilità finanziaria nelle Regioni a Statuto speciale
No full textLa posizione delle Regioni a Statuto speciale rispetto alla funzione statale di coordinamento della finanza pubblica rappresenta una tematica di rilevanza per la riflessione sulla natura stessa dell’autonomia differenziata. Le esigenze unitarie espresse da tale funzione sono state così analizzate nella prospettiva della competenza a fissare regole di convergenza per garantire la stabilità finanziaria, ma secondo modalità rispettose della specialità; in particolare, ci si è concentrati sulla questione del se e del come la separatezza dei regimi finanziari delle Regioni ad autonomia differenziata garantisca modalità di coordinamento (quantitativamente e qualitativamente) diverse da quelle proprie dell’ordinamento regionale ordinario. L’obiettivo delle relazioni raccolte – che trattano il tema tanto nella prospettiva del rapporto tra Regioni speciali e Stato, quanto nell’ottica più specifica delle relazioni tra Provincia autonoma di Trento e suoi enti locali – è quello di verificare in che cosa consista (e in che cosa possa consistere) la specialità delle Regioni ad autonomia differenziata rispetto a un coordinamento finanziario statale “ordinario” sempre più pervasivo, individuando nel principio negoziale una specifica garanzia per i poteri di entrata e di spesa statutariamente previsti
Misure tecnologiche di protezione: cinquanta (e più) sfumature di grigio della Corte di giustizia europea = Technological protection Measures (Fifty and more) Shades of Grey of the European Court of Justice
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to make some critical remarks on decision of January 23, 2014 C-355/12 (Nintendo) of the European Court of Justice, ruling on Article 6 of the Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC, which regulates the legal protection of technological protection measures (TPMs). In the first paragraph, I briefly introduce the subject. In the second paragraph, I summarize the interpretation given and the principles applied by the ECJ. In the third paragraph, I point out some weaknesses of the Court’s wisdom. In the fourth paragraph, I draw a different perspective on the legal protection of TPMs aimed at restricting the application of Art. 6. In the last paragraph, I propose some conclusions
A Hybrid Machine-Crowd Approach to Photo Retrieval Result Diversification
No full textIn this paper we address the issue of optimizing the actual social photo retrieval technology in terms of users’ requirements. Typical users are interested in taking possession of accurately relevant-to-the-query and non-redundant images so they can build a correct exhaustive perception over the query. We propose to tackle this issue by combining two approaches previously considered non-
overlapping: machine image analysis for a pre-filtering of the initial query results followed by crowd-sourcing for a final refinement. In this mechanism, the machine part plays the role of reducing the time and resource consumption allowing better crowd-sourcing results. The machine technique ensures representativeness in images by performing a re-ranking of all images according to the most common image in the initial noisy set; additionally, diversity is ensured by clustering the images and selecting the best ranked images among the most representative in each cluster. Further, the crowd-sourcing part enforces both representativeness and diversity in images, objectives that are, to a certain extent, out of reach by solely the automated machine technique. The mechanism was validated on more than 25,000 photos retrieved from several common social media platforms, proving the efficiency of this approach
The Structure and Growth of World Trade, and the Role of Europe in the Global Economy
No full textThis paper presents a simple stochastic model of proportionate growth to describe international
trade and it applies this set-up to the relationship between export dynamics and economic development. Trade flows are assumed to grow as a geometric Brownian
motion while new trade links follow a preferential attachment mechanism, and these two processes are assumed to be independent. This simple set-up accurately describes many of the empirical features that characterize the structure and growth of the international trade network. Furthermore, it reconciles diverging views of industrial policy in the economic development literature: although export is very concentrated so that large bilateral flows
are rare, countries characterized by a large number of export relations are more likely to capture such “big hits”. The stochastic model provides a simple benchmark against which we can assess countries’ export performance. We then investigate the determinants of deviation
of empirical data from the predictions of the model in terms of the number of “big hits”
Modeling the Transition Towards Renminbi's Full Convertibility: Implications for China's Growth
No full textThere is a widespread consensus that China’s growth paradigm needs a rebalancing away from investment and external demand and towards consumption and domestic
demand. This rebalancing process is supposed to be accompanied by the transition towards Renminbi’s full convertibility. In contrast, it is controversial to what extent this adjustment will accelerate the slowdown of China’s growth, which will likely occur because of other structural factors. We address these issues by means of a two-country two-stage (before and after Renminbi’s full convertibility) model, which reproduces some qualitative features of China’s growth pattern and its relationship with the US. We analyze to what extent altering the Chinese exchange rate policy, as well as other structural and policy variables, may have (short-, medium- and long-term) effects on the evolution of the Chinese economy. The paper shows that by lifting the controls on the capital account and letting the currency float, the Chinese authorities will not only expose the economy to the risks of free capital mobility, but will also renounce to important policy instruments for controlling the dynamics of China’s economy and the allocation of the national resource
Goethe ministro del granducato di Weimar: com'era utile e bello occuparsi dell'Università di Jena alla fine del Settecento
Full text linkChe un giovane poeta possa diventare ministro in un piccolo granducato del tardo Settecento, non sembri un'anomalia ai nostri occhi, ormai abituati a vetuste oligarchie di potere che non arretrano nemmeno di fronte alle condanne penali e alle leggi di natura, promettendo riforme che non faranno mai o che faranno male, tra le quali spiccano quella della scuola e quella dell'università. [...]
Tenendo conto delle enormi differenze quantitative, esistenti tra il granducato di Weimar, con una sola università sul suo territorio, e un paese come l'Italia all'inizio del terzo millennio, va detto tuttavia, con una punta di rimpianto, che, seppure non sia auspicabile per noi, oggi, un governo di scienziati e di poeti, di tecnici (?) insomma, avendolo sperimentato nel recente passato, un ministro come Goethe però ce lo auguriamo di cuore, anche per una sola legislatura [...]
Il biodiritto e i suoi confini: definizioni, dialoghi, interazioni
No full textIl volume raccoglie alcuni dei risultati finali del progetto di ricerca “L’impatto delle innovazioni biotecnologiche sui diritti della persona: uno studio interdisciplinare e comparato”, finanziato dal Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca (FIRB 2006). Il volume nasce inoltre dall’opportunità di proporre ed approfondire le linee trasversali esistenti anche tra differenti contributi pubblicati, in momenti diversi, nel sito www.biodiritto.org. La metodologia adottata rispecchia l'approccio interdisciplinare e comparato adottato dal progetto di ricerca, nella sforzo costante di andare oltre i limiti sia della materia giuridica, sia dei singoli ordinamenti nazionali
Social Behavior Analysis of VoIP Users and its application to Malicious Users Detection (Extended Version { V1.0)
No full textIP Telephony has become very popular and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based telephony systems are almost substituting the traditional PSTN systems. Being so widespread and ubiquitous, the protocol’s resilience and security in presence of incorrect, malformed or malicious messages is fundamental for the correct management of a network. This is of particular importance for the session-based applications since they appear to be much more sensitive very sensitive not only to malicious attacks, but also to errors, and even incorrect interpretation of the standard. To have an in-depth knowledge about the net-work behavior is primary requirement to design and tune any attack or anomaly detection system. In the context of VoIP, traffic analysis plays a very significant role due to the fact that SIP based VoIP traffic does not follow any generic model to describe its characteristics like traditional telephony. To this end, we have performed a thorough analysis on SIP traces captured from the VoIP network of our institution. Here, we use social network analysis techniques to capture the relationship behavior of users and to explore distinct behavioral patterns of users inside the VoIP network. Knowledge about the normal behavior of the system and users gained from the traffic analysis is helpful in detecting intrusion and anomalies. In this paper, we also present an anomaly detection architecture where we train an automated machine with the normal behavioral pattern of the users. The machine, thus trained, is capable of identifying malicious users
The Privacy of Minors within Patient-Centered eHealth Systems
No full textE-health has become a central feature in the agenda of many European legislators. Health information technologies open up new legal issues in the transition from a paper-based framework to a digital one. The paper focus on a specific issue emerging in this transition, the treatment of the so-called «supersensitive data» of minors processed within the legal framework of the «Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico» (FSE), a patient-centred ehealth system that has been recently defined and regulated in Italian law. After having outlined the general discipline of this system, the paper shows how the right to control their information (in some cases even against the parents’ right to access these information) recognized to minors by a growing body of sources of law and case law interpretations is challenged in this new scenario and need to be taken in account when designing the rules and the information flows permitted by FSE systems. In conclusion, some recommendations to ensure the proper design and implementation of a FSE system according to the minors’ right to control their information are provided