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Physics & Medicine: Toward a Future of Integration: Trento, November 6th – 8th, 2014
No full textThe relationship between physics and medicine has ancient roots that sink to the dawn of medicine
with the use of physical techniques, like heat and light, to diagnose and treat diseases. In the 17th century, with the advent of the experimental method, the mechanistic description of nature was soon extended to living creatures. Physics contributed both to the establishment of new medical disciplines such as biomechanics, electrophysiology and ophthalmology and supported many
other clinical practices and medical researches through the development of a huge number of physicsbased
devices for clinical measurement, diagnosis and treatment. However, medical physics, as we
usually understand the term, emerged as a distinct discipline in the 20th century in response to the growing use of ionizing radiation in both diagnosis and treatment. The urgent need to associate to the team of health professionals dealing with ionizing radiation a physicist with the central role of warrantor of the safe and effective use of radiation became soon evident and led to a new health-care profession: medical physics.
The actual Conference “Physics & Medicine. Toward a future of integration” has been organized by
the University of Trento, the Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari of Trento and the Associazione
Italiana di Fisica Medica. The goals of the meeting are:
to review the current status of main topics of medical physics and give a vision of coming developments;
to consider the profession and the role of the medical physicist projected in the new organizational
models of health services; to analyze patterns of training and retraining of medical physicists as well as the basic training programs for future physicians; to discuss the contribution of research in physics as applied to medicine as an engine for innovation in health care
Rights on the move : rainbow families in Europe : proceedings of the conference : Trento, 16-17 October 2014
No full textThese proceedings are the outcome of an international two-day conference that was held at the University of Trento on 16-17 October 2015.
The focus is on the freedom of movement in the European Union, on reproductive rights for LGBTI persons, new legal challenges in the field of gender identity and intersexuality, family issues in private international law, sexual orientation and non-discrimination. - The book and its sections are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). For commercial re-use,
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La via legislativa all’Open Access: prospettive comparate = The legislative road to Open Access: comparative perspectives
No full textThe aim of this paper is to offer a first overview of the new Italian law on Open Access (OA) to scientific articles (art. 4 l. 112/20013). The analysis is based on some comparative remarks and policy considerations. The main argument is that formal law can be an outstanding instrument to implement the OA principle. However, the ultimate success of OA depends on a radical change of the norms of science, as well as on economic, organizational and educational investments
The "Egg of Columbus" for Making the World’s Toughest Fibres
No full textIn this letter we present the "Egg of Columbus" for making fibres with unprecedented toughness: a slider, in the simplest form just a knot, is introduced as frictional element to dissipate additional energy and thus demonstrating the existence of a previously "hidden" toughness. The proof of concept is experimentally realized making the world’s toughest fibre, increasing the toughness modulus of a commercial Endumax macroscopic fibre from 44 J/g up to 1070 J/g (and of a zylon microfiber from 20 J/g up to 1400 J/g). The ideal upperbound toughness is expected for graphene, with a theoretical value of 10^5 J/g. This new concept, able of maximizing (one fold increment) the structural robustness, could explain the mysterious abundance of knot formations, in spite of their incremental energy cost and topological difficulty, in biological evolved structures, such as DNA strands and proteins
EventMask
No full textEvents emerged in the last years as a driving concept
to efficiently index and retrieve media. Several approaches have been proposed to analyse the relationship between events and related media, to enable event discovery, event-based tagging, or event-based media retrieval. Notwithstanding the outstanding work done by several researchers in this area, a major still unsolved problem is how to understand the inherent link between visual concepts and events, and in particular, which are the key elements that allow a human being to perceive from a media collection what is the underlying event. In this demo, we address this problem in an original way by exploiting human knowledge using a game with a hidden purpose. Users are engaged in a competition, where they can alternatively try to mask a photo collection to prevent other users to recognize the related event or they can see a photo partially masked and try to guess the event connected. A set of rules and an adequate score system force players to focus on real important details, thus allowing the detection of most event-related salient parts of the media.
The final result is a saliency map that, differently from the typical concept of saliency, highlights the visual concepts that are considered fundamental to perceive the nature of an event
Sovranità e autonomia finanziaria negli ordinamenti composti. La norma costituzionale come limite e garanzia per le dimensioni della spesa pubblica territoriale
No full textTra le norme fondamentali degli ordinamenti statali composti – dal co. 4 dell’art. 119 Cost. italiana, che tratta di finanziamento integrale delle funzioni attribuite agli enti territoriali, alle soluzioni variamente sperimentate nel panorama comparato – sono spesso rinvenibili “principi di connessione” tra un volume quantitativamente adeguato di risorse e le competenze affidate ai diversi livelli di governo. Allo stesso modo, a tutela dell’interesse unitario alla stabilità finanziaria, la disciplina costituzionale prevede diffusamente regole di responsabilizzazione e di equilibrio che, complementari ai profili invece di garanzia delle dimensioni della spesa pubblica, impongono limitazioni e razionalizzazioni nell’esercizio dei poteri finanziari territoriali. La sovranità e l’autonomia di entrata e di spesa sono quindi state analizzate dalla specifica prospettiva dell’impatto sulle relazioni finanziarie tra livelli di governo delle norme costituzionali rivolte a regolare le dimensioni, sia quantitative che qualitative, della spesa pubblica territoriale; ciò riconducendo la discrezionalità allocativa nei paradigmi del coordinamento e della negozialità nelle relazioni istituzionali, per enucleare le categorie specificamente giuridiche di un tema complesso, tra politica, economia e diritto
Provenance in Open Data Entity-centric Aggregation
No full textRecently an increasing number of open data catalogs appear on the Web. These catalogs contain data that represents real world entities and their attributes. Entities can be imported from several catalogs to build web services; hence there is a need to trace the source of each entity and attribute value in a way that handles also the possible conflicts between attribute values coming from overlapping sources. For open data, source tracing requires capturing both the provenance of the attribute values and the identity links between entities. We present here a new entity-centric source tracing model that extends an incremental import process and implements a conflict avoidance strategy
Insediamenti e paesaggio nella pianificazione urbanistica provinciale del Trentino
No full textLa ricerca intende approfondire l'evoluzione del rapporto tra insediamenti e paesaggio in Trentino dal secondo dopoguerra ad oggi, attraverso la lettura critica dei principali strumenti di governo del territorio a scala provinciale: i tre PUP - Piani Urbanistici Provinciali, approvati rispettivamente nel 1967, 1987 e 2007. Nell'arco temporale analizzato, infatti, l'approccio della pianificazione urbanistica provinciale al tema è profondamente cambiato, riflettendo le evoluzioni del contesto socio-economico, le trasformazioni territoriali, l'alternarsi di diversi paradigmi di sviluppo, il rinnovarsi della cultura urbanistica, degli strumenti di pianificazione e di tutela ambientale e paesistica.
La pubblicazione riporta gli esiti di uno studio commissionato all'autore nel 2012 nell'ambito del progetto di ricerca “Trentino: dalle trasformazioni ai nuovi paesaggi”, promosso dal Servizio Urbanistica e Tutela del Paesaggio della Provincia di Trento
In difesa della Costituzione: come, quando e perché Jacob Grimm fu licenziato dall'Università di Gottinga e mandato in esilio dal re di Hannover
Full text linkSalito al trono, il re [Ernst August I] aveva fatto un colpo di stato, eliminando tutte le libertà costituzionali, per riproporre lo stato assolutistico, codificato dal Congresso di Vienna (1815) in un documento che, seppur chiamato costituzione, non riconosceva di fatto alcun diritto politico ai cittadini.
La lettera dei "7 di Gottinga", come poi furono definiti i professori protestatari, è un esempio mirabile di coraggio civile dell'élite colta di una nazione, la quale si assume la responsabilità di mettere il proprio sapere e la propria intelligenza critica a servizio della nazione, ben sapendo di rischiare un licenziamento e perdere di conseguenza l'unica fonte di reddito entrando in conflitto con la più alta autorità dello stato
Multi-device Activity Logging
No full textIn this paper we are presenting i-Log, a system which is able to collect user’s personal information, generate streams of data from smartphone’s integrated sensors and attached wearable devices. We decided to focus our attention on these general purpose devices as we believe they can generate truthful readings because of their easy integration with our day-life activities, while invasive dedicated logging devices can alter our normal routines. The system consists of a Mobile Application that collects sensor data from the smartphone and from additional external wearable devices through a Bluetooth connection. We designed it to be user friendly, transparent, unobtrusive and able to provide smart sensing strategies in order to preserve battery life. Moreover, i-Log has a back-end server that accepts streams of data from the application and stores them into a persistent storage system that can be queried for further real time analysis