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Crescere a Trento. Indagine sui servizi socio-educativi per la prima infanzia
No full textNel primo semestre del 2010, il Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale e il Servizio servizi all’Infanzia, Istruzione e Sport del Comune di Trento - in collaborazione con numerosi altri soggetti – hanno avviato e svolto l’indagine Crescere a Trento, sui servizi socio-educativi per la prima infanzia nel Comune di Trento. La ricerca era orientata a raccogliere dati utili per un’analisi su come le famiglie con bambine e bambini piccoli si organizzano per la loro cura ed educazione, sul bisogno di servizi e interventi per la prima infanzia, sui livelli di soddisfazione per i servizi esistenti, sulle ragioni della non frequenza dei nidi d’infanzia. La rilevazione ha coinvolto un campione probabilistico di famiglie, rappresentativo della popolazione di interesse. Il ricorso a un disegno di ricerca mixed-mode (questionario auto compilato via web, intervista telefonica, intervista faccia-a-faccia) fa di questa indagine anche un interessante esperimento metodologico. Questo quaderno presenta i principali risultati della ricerca e la metodologia adottata per l’indagine
The im/possible burden of sisterhood. Donne, femminilità e femminismi in «Spare Rib. A Women’s Liberation Magazine»
No full textIl mensile inglese «Spare Rib» (1972-1993) rappresentò un esempio, unico nel suo genere, di rivista politica e popolare insieme. In quanto tale, per circa venti anni riuscì a competere sul mercato editoriale con i ‘femminili’ commerciali e, al contempo, costituì uno spazio di auto-rappresentazione di donne e per ledonne, dal quale diffondere le istanze culturalmente rivoluzionarie del Women’s Liberation Movement. Rileggendo criticamente i 239 numeri pubblicati si ricostruisce la storia della rivista e delle teorie e pratiche femministe coeve. Emerge con chiarezza che «Spare Rib» fu un laboratorio sul processo di simbolizzazione della donna: le ricerche condotte attraverso le sue pagine resero evidente la tensione fra la possibilità e l’impossibilità di articolare modi alternativi di pensare e rappresentare le donne, la femminilità e la sisterhood
Lifelog Data Model and Management: Study on Research Challenges
No full textUtilizing a computer to manage an enormous amount of information like lifelogs needs concrete digitized data models on information sources and their connections. For lifelogging, we need to model one’s life in a way that a computer can translate and manage information where many research efforts are still needed to close the gap between real life models and computerized data models. This work studies a fundamental lifelog data modeling method from a digitized information perspective that translates real life events into a composition of digitized and timestamped data streams. It should be noted that a variety of events occurred in one’s real life can’t be fully captured by limited numbers and types of sensors. It is also impractical to ask a user to manually tag entire events and their minute detail relations. Thus we aim to develop the lifelog management system architecture and service structures for people to facilitate mapping a sequence of sensor streams with real life activities. Technically we focus on time series data modeling and management as the first step toward lifelog data fusion and complex event detection
Photo Annotations: Preservation of Contents and Contexts
No full textPhoto is taken as memory of life and lives are the units of history. The value of photo fades away when the content becomes unrecognizable and context is lost over time. In this digital era, it has become easy to build contextual information for each photo with the process of annotating metadata. This paper proposes some aspects and techniques for semi-automatic photo annotation addressing several missing considerations to build a complete context that can survives over time. We also described the necessary metadata that unlocks hundreds of contextual information and proposes a model for photo labeling. The semantic organization and retrieval of photo collection is powered by hierarchical structure of Light-weight Ontology
Copynorms: Norme Sociali e Diritto d’Autore = Copynorms: Social Norms and Copyright
No full textIl presente studio prende le mosse dalla constatazione che la legge non è l’unico strumento capace di regolare il comportamento delle persone. Le condotte individuali, infatti, sono molto più frequentemente influenzate da una serie di regole informali e da regolarità comportamentali – le norme sociali – che con la legge interagiscono continuamente e che sono in grado di determinare una serie di dinamiche di moderazione o di contrasto del controllo esclusivo derivante dalla legge sulla proprietà intellettuale.
L’obiettivo principale di questo elaborato è quello di indagare il ruolo ricoperto dalle norme sociali nel contesto generale della proprietà intellettuale. Particolare attenzione è rivolta nei confronti di quelle regole sociali che distinguono i comportamenti accettabili da quelli non tollerati in materia di copia, distribuzione ed utilizzo delle opere dell’ingegno – le c.d. copynorms – con l’ulteriore obiettivo di analizzare l’effetto che tali norme esplicano nei confronti del contesto particolare del diritto d’autore.
Un terzo obiettivo consta nell’esame approfondito di una delle ipotesi in cui la discrepanza tra il dettato legislativo e quanto considerato socialmente e moralmente accettabile è maggiore: si tratta del file-sharing illegale, cioè lo scambio non autorizzato attraverso la rete internet di materiale protetto da copyright. La legge sul diritto d’autore proibisce tale pratica sociale di copia e distribuzione, mentre le copynorms la sostengono ed autorizzano, rendendo difficile convincere le persone a comportarsi in maniera conforme alla legge. Stante l’inefficacia delle tradizionali strategie deterrenti, sono prospettate alcune possibili soluzioni di tipo adattivo e persuasivo, volte a modificare le attuali copynorms in una direzione maggiormente a sostegno del diritto d’autore. Solo in questo modo pare possibile riallineare il contenuto legislativo con quello normativo e quindi sperare in un contenimento effettivo del fenomeno del file-sharing non autorizzato.
Il perseguimento di tali obiettivi, attraverso la chiave di lettura delle norme sociali e del progresso tecnologico, rende necessario il ricorso ad un approccio interdisciplinare, capace di avvalersi del sapere di scienze quali il diritto, la sociologia, la psicologia comportamentale, l’analisi economica del diritto e l’informatica.
Human behavior is not shaped by law alone. People are often far more influenced by informal rules and behavioral regularities – collectively mentioned as social norms – that interacts with the legal rules in many important ways, supporting, undermining, or substituting for law.
The main purpose of this essay was to investigate the role played by social norms in the general context of intellectual property. The focus was placed on those norms about the copying, distribution and use of expressive works (“copynorms” for short), in order to analyze their effects on copyright law. A further goal was to survey one of the worst cases of copyright law/copynorms divergence, represented by illegal file-sharing, the unauthorized share and distribution of digitally stored expressive works covered by copyright. Copyright law condemn this widespread practice, where copynorms support and authorize it, making difficult persuading people to comply with the law.
Thus far, efforts to change file-sharer’s behavior have focused on using increased enforement and sanctions to deter file-sharers. These deterrence strategies have had limited success, and because of this ineffectiveness this work examines the efficacy of normative strategies, that tries to persuade people that compliance with copyright law is the right thing to do, shaping actual pro-file sharing norms in more copyright-supportive norms, in order to make people more likely to cooperate with copyright owners and on the other hand to comply with copyright law.
The multiple goals of this essay necessitated an interdisciplinary approach, which brought togheter a wide variety of scientific disciplines such as legal science, sociology, behavioral psychology, economic analisys of law and computer science.
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Padova e il paesaggio: scenari futuri per il parco Roncajette e la zona industriale = Padova and the landscape: alternative futures for the Roncajette park and the industrial zone
Get PDFQuesto studio analizza possibili scenari futuri per il Parco Roncajette, per la Zona Industriale di Padova e per il paesaggio della zona orientale della provincia di Padova. E' il prodotto del lavoro condiviso di un gruppo di studenti dell’Università di Harvard - Graduate School of Design, diretto dal Professor Carl Steinitz con Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno e Laura Cipriani.
[ENGLISH ABSTRACT. This study is of the future of the Parco Roncajette, the industrial zone ZIP, and the landscape of the eastern part of the region of Padova. It is the product of collaborative student work at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The class was taught by Professor Carl Steinitz with Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno and Laura Cipriani]
Protocol Independent Multicasting in Wireless Mesh Networks
No full textMulticast in wireless networks received a lot of attention, from ad-hoc networks, to structured multi-hop meshes. However, the support of the standard Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) protocol has been dismissed as non important (or non feasible), given that its straightforward application on wireless networks does not work properly. In this work we analyze the reasons why PIM standard implementations interacts badly with wireless networks and propose simple countermeasures that do not require modifications of the standard, but only small modifications of the implementation. The Dense Mode version of PIM is implemented in ns-3 and results are presented showing the performance of the protocol and its overheads in mesh networks with fixed mesh routers and both fixed and mobile end-user clients
Synthesis of Metamaterial-Enhanced Radiating Devices
No full textThis report presents description of the qTO software package. The application of the software is demonstrated with an example test case provided with the software. An additional test case considering theoretical Transformation Electromagnetics is also reported
Democracy and Difference: The US in Multidisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives Papers from the 21st AISNA Conference
No full textThe volume collects contributions stretching from the Humanities to the Social Sciences and examines the challenging conjugation of two keywords in contemporary societies—democracy and difference. The overall project of this collection is to share knowledges and methodologies across disciplines, languages, and national cultures in order to investigate processes of homogenization and differentiation, and to embrace transnational, intercultural, and interdisciplinary perspectives. By exploring topics that are central to American Studies—including race/ethnicity, sex/gender, nationality, religion, language, landscape, migration, law, status, economy, dispossession, and expansion—and by engaging them both in English and Spanish, the collection aims to both foster cultural dialogue in an interconnected world and reflect the dynamism and instability of American Studies as a discipline that is constantly redrawn and redefined
by a difficult yet fruitful interaction with diverse cultures, locations, and communities.
This volume situates critique at the very heart of American Studies, not only to question and redraw the boundaries of this porous discipline, but also to point the way towards more hospitable configurations of the global world.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Joan Anim-Addo, Goldsmiths, University of
London
Luisa Antoniolli, Università di Trento
Ferdinando Fasce, Università di Genova
Cristina Giorcelli, Università di Roma 3
Donatella Izzo, Università di Napoli l'Orientale
Giorgio Mariani, Università di Roma
Andrea Mariani, Università di Chieti
John MacGowan, University of North Carolina
Stefano Rosso, Università di Bergamo
Pietro Taravacci, Università di Trento
PEER REVIEWERS
Gianfranca Balestra, Università di Siena
Paola Boi, Università di Cagliari
Andrea Carosso, Università di Torino
Daniele Crivellari, Università di Salerno
Jane Danielewicz, University of North Carolina
Anna De Biasio, Università di Bergamo
Vincenzo della Sala, Università di Trento
Sonia di Loreto, Università di Torino
Mina Karavanta, University of Athens
Marco Mariano, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Franco Minganti, Università di Bologna
Elèna Mortara, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Gigliola Nocera, Università di Catania
Andrea Pradi, Università di Trento
Daniela Ciani Sforza, Università Ca' Foscari di
Venezia
Maurizio Vaudagna, Università del Piemonte
Orientale
Elisabetta Vezzosi, Università di Trieste
Paola Zaccaria, Università di Bari
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
GIOVANNA COVI, LISA MARCHI, Introduction. Differencing Democracy, Democratizing Differences
ADA AGRESSI, “What Are We to Do With Becky?”: The Search For Identity in Rolando Hinojosa’s Becky and Her Friends
PIRJO AHOKAS, Chinese American Masculinities and Asian AmericanHumor: Jen’s “Birthmates” and Louie’s “Pangs of Love”
ELENA BALDASSARRI, “Everything’s connected to everything else”: The documerica Photographic Campaign and the Costs of Progress in the 1970s US
VINCENZO BAVARO, Cruising the Gay Bathhouse
NICOLANGELO BECCE, “An accident at sea is better than an act of terrorism”: Deferring Democracy in NCIS
GIOVANNI BERNARDINI, Westernization vs. Americanization after World War II: Still a Debate Issue? An Overview of the Historiography Dispute over Shapes and Times of US Influence over Postwar Germany
SILVIA BETTI, El Spanglish: ¿Un puente entre el mundo hispano y el mundo estadounidense?
NATASHA BONNELAME, What does America mean to us? What do we mean to it? Locating the Other America in Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda or She Who Will Lose Her Name
LEONARDO BUONOMO, Family Hierarchy in the American Sitcom: The Case of Bewitched
ALICE CASARINI, “You Have a Sarcasm Sign? ”Fansubbing and the Egalitarian Decryption of American Comedy
PAOLA CASTELLUCCI, Emily Dickinson’s Self-publishing
ALESSANDRO CLERICUZIO, Laughing the Cold War Away with Auntie Mame
ERMINIO CORTI, La humanización del Otro absoluto: una lectura de El entenado de Juan José Saer
GABRIELE D’OTTAVIO, Debating Americanization and Westernization: The Development of Political Science in Germany After WWII
VALERIO MASSIMO DE ANGELIS, Deferring the Dream: Langston Hughes’s Critique of American Democracy
MARINA DE CHIARA, Letters from Distant Shores: Ana Castillo
ALESSANDRA DE MARCO, Wasting Labour and Materiality: the Financialization of the US Economy in Don DeLillo’s Fiction
CHRISTINA DOKOU, Dim-ocracy/In-Difference: A Portrait of the Yankee Intellectual as a Mirage
DANIELA FARGIONE, Words and/as Waste in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things Auster’s Fantastic and Realistic Journeys
CLAUDIA FIMIANI, “The Party’s Over”: Jazz and Disillusionment in Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s America and the Haruki Murakami’s Westernized Japan
SIMONE FRANCESCATO, “The Futility of Time In Between”: Americans Abroad in Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (!)
SABRINA FUSARI, “The Pearly Gates Have Opened and Shut”: Alitalia’s Privatization in the US American Press
SERENA FUSCO, “Cowardice Is What You Make of It”: Threat and Collaborative Happiness in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker
GINEVRA GERACI, A Map of the New World. Unsystematic Charts and Travelling Atlases in Paule Marshall’s and Toni Morrison’s Caribbean
SERENA GUARRACINO, Representative Democracy and the Struggle for Representation: Caribbean and US Performances of Difference in Caryl Phillips’ Dancing in the Dark
FIORENZO IULIANO, The End of the World Novel. Strategies of Lust and Surveillance in Bret E. Ellis’s The Rules of Attraction
RICHARD KIDDER, The Reactor in the Garden, or Working Nature Over
GIUSEPPE LOMBARDO, Democracy and Difference in Jerre Mangione's Mount Allegro
STEFANO LUCONI, How Wide Is the Italian-American “Circle of the ‘We’”?
MARCO MANGANI, “Speaking with the hands and eyes”: Ella Fitzgerald’s Art of Signifying
LISA MARCHI, Mapping Democracy and Dissent in Arab-American Poetry
ELISABETTA MARINO, Teaching Difference in Democratic America: Maria Mazziotti Gillan as a Poet and Editor
MENA MITRANO, Photography and Dissent: Susan Sontag
MARINA MORBIDUCCI, From How to Write (1931) to Brain Versioning 1.0 (2008), and Back: Transmutations at Work
KIM NALLEY, Losing Its Grease: Black Cultural Politics and the Globalization of Jazz
PAOLA ANNA NARDI, “This neighborhood was kind of like home”: American cities in Irish-American fiction
VIRGINIA PIGNAGNOLI, New Voices and the Difference They (May) Make: David Shields’s Reality Hunger and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes
FRANCESCO PONTUALE, House of Leaves, House of Leaves, house of leaves: Sameness, Differences, and Old Paradigms
SIMONA PORRO, The ‘Waste’ of the American Dream in E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel
FLORIANA PUGLISI, Against the Grain: Reconfiguration of Democratic America in Rosmarie Waldrop’s Work
UMBERTO ROSSI, Waste Lands: Trash and the American Mindscape in Science-Fiction Narratives
CARLA SASSI, Glocalising Democracy: The Quest for Truth and Justice in Lockerbie 103 by Des Dillon
CRISTINA SCATAMACCHIA, Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson and the City of New Orleans
CINZIA SCHIAVINI, Writing the Crisis in Contemporary American Non-Fiction Narrative
PAOLO SIMONETTI, Why Are Comics No Longer Comic? Graphic Narratives in Contemporary America
LORENA CARBONARA AND ANNARITA TARONNA, In search of new sea(e)scapes: the metaphors of the Mediterranean from mythological to contemporary narratives
CRISTINA TINELLI, From “The Mysteries of the Hyphen” to the Mysteries of Italy: the Poetry of Sandra M. Gilbert
FLUTUR TROSHANI, ‘Poiesis of Sounds in the Wind’: A Glimpse into Trans-Aesthetic Innovation/Renovation
MIRELLA VALLONE, Borders, Crossroads, Bridges: Negotiating Boundaries
NICOLETTA VALLORANI, Democracy on the Rocks: Outlawing Law in Touristic Dystopias, from Vonnegut’s Caribbean islands to Self’s Holiday Resorts
GIORGIO RIMONDI, “Tempo della musica e tempo dell’immagine”: A Contribution to Jazz Photography Studies
SOSTENE MASSIMO ZANGARI, The Rotting Pot: the Aesthetic of Junk in Garibaldi Lapolla’s The Grand Gennar
Transfer of Immoveable Property in Europe: From Contract to Registration
No full textThe volume contains, for the most part, the papers presented at the International Conference on Transfer of Immoveable Property held at the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Trento at the end of March 2009. It could be considered as a by-product of the research activities conducted by the group on Transfer of Immoveable Property in European Law, which investigate on this specific topic within the international research on the "Common Core of European Private Law" run by Professors Ugo Mattei and Mauro Bussani