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Norme tecniche per le costruzioni (NTC 2018) D. Min. Infrastrutture e Trasporti 17 gennaio 2018
No full textQuesto volume riporta il testo completo del Decreto del Ministro delle
Infrastrutture e Trasporti 17 gennaio 2018, recante “Approvazione delle nuove
Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni” (c.d. “NTC 2018”), che ha sostituito il
precedente Decreto 14 gennaio 2008.
Il testo della norma è stato scrupolosamente revisionato dalla Redazione ed
è accompagnato da puntuali indicazioni concernenti l’ambito di applicazione,
l’entrata in vigore e l’operatività delle NTC 2018 con riguardo ai progetti e lavori già
in corso, distintamente per il settore pubblico e per quello privato.
Viene altresì fornito un commento generale introduttivo che evidenzia tutte
le più rilevanti novità rispetto al testo del 2008.
La consultazione è resa particolarmente rapida e agevole grazie al dettagliato
indice iniziale, agli indici delle tabelle e delle figure ed alle testatine che su
ogni pagina indicano la parte di riferimento.
Si tratta quindi di un volume molto utile per coloro che necessitano di avere
sempre a portata di mano un testo normativo agile ed affidabile per la
consultazione, lo studio e l’applicazione delle NTC 2018
Key Characteristics of an Age-Friendly Neighbourhood
Get PDFEuropean Union’s inhabitants are quickly ageing. Therefore, ageing is an emerging issue, causing different kinds of problems. Among
them, mobility is a remarkably complicated challenge, as it encompasses much more inter-related problems that have profound
physical, mental and social consequences on well-being. Urban planning researchers indicate that a low level of mobility is generally
linked to a low quality of life especially amongst elderly.
Mobility has an important positive effect on old people’s independence and involvement in socio-economic life resulting in profits for
themselves as well as the whole of society. Besides, mobility facilitates senior access to medical and health, educational, cultural,
recreational services and other local welfare services; particularly to establish and foster social relations, and help them to combat
social exclusion. Overall, everyday mobility is necessary for their social well-being, and physical and mental health.
This paper aimed to review and critically analyze the literature on the contribution between key characteristics of the neighbourhood
that improve the outdoor mobility of old adults, quality of life and well-being in a number of countries all around the worlds. It also
aimed to identify gaps in the level of scientific knowledge about this subject
Mobility and Accessibility of the Ageing Society
Get PDFA large body of literature already explores how mobility is associate with the well-being and quality of life in elderly people. However,
many studies so far have been widely discipline specific. This paper aims, thus, to critically review relevant mobility- and accessibility-
related studies that, from different disciplines, focus on the well-being of the older adults. To do so, the Capabilities Approach is
assumed as a theoretical perspective able to convey how individual well-being is differently shaped and experienced by each person.
More specifically, this study intends to consider how to define profiles of ageing mobilities, discussing a methodology for detecting
different elderly populations and neighbourhoods. The relationship between urban mobility and quality of life in fact differs according
to the examined populations and settings, involving features that are peculiar of the elderly. The possibility to define profiles contributes
to develop different “narratives of ageing” that, according to this group of population and their territorial context, allows a more
precise understanding of how varied forms of mobility contribute to a differently defined well-being and quality of life. The expected
outcomes of this study are twofold: (i) to provide a theoretical framework with the complexity of factors in mobility, in order to be
applied in future empirical research studies, as a basis for further analyses with quantitative and qualitative methods; and (ii) to
introduce a methodology for defining profiles of ageing mobilities, considering elements that may be differently inflected according
to the setting taken into exam
The Tourist-Religious Mobility of the “Silver-Haired People”. The Case of Pietrelcina
Get PDFThis study deals with religious tourism as a particular social and cultural activity attaining high levels of interest also in the scientific
context. Within this form of tourism, the segment of “senior travelers” plays an important role considering the increase of the population
aging phenomenon. Although there is not yet a unique and shared definition of senior tourism, it is possible to outline some characteristics
to define this specific form of use of the urban system. The case study of Pietrelcina (BN) in Campania has been considered
as a meaningful example of international religious pole connected to San Pio cult. In this regard, the study is aimed to explore the
possibilities of defining territorial strategies for the promotion of territorial resources. The main objective of this study is to overcome
the sectorial approach, based on the “mono-pole supply” (the organization of tourist flows “exclusively oriented”, centralized in the
most popular destination), suggesting a systemic-territorial supply reconfiguration aimed at improving the accessibility to older slow
tourism. The study, thus, proposes a reconfiguration of the territorial organization in order to prefigure a systemic territorial-supply
aimed at improving particularly accessibility referred to older slow tourism. Slow tourism as innovative form of territorial use could
improve the relationship between tourism and territory that was the original sense of pilgrimage
Digital Rocks. An integrated approach to rock art recording: the case study of Ossimo-Pat (Valle Camonica), monolith 23
Get PDFThis paper addresses the different methods of recording prehistoric rock art, with specific focus on the northern Italian area (Valle Camonica, UNESCO Site n. 94), and presents a new integrated way of recording and tracing engravings. This method combines different sources of data, both traditional, as an ‘enhanced’ way of rubbing, and technological. The active use of Structure from Motion photogrammetry and the subsequent mesh manipulation, as well as the implementation of digital macrophotography with artificial oblique lighting, are among the methods used for the recognition of the correct features of the carvings, while the tracing of the engraved figures, executed in vector graphics, is structured on layers. Combining the benefits of the digitally enhanced visibility of the figures with the precision and versatility of digital vector drawing, this method produces state of the art tracings of rock art, for a better comprehension of the symbols carved on the stone. All steps of this method are demonstratedusing, as a selected case study, the unpublished monolith n. 23 from the Copper Age Sanctuary of Ossimo, Pat (BS) in Valle Camonica, Northern Italy
Accessibilità e disseminazione dei dati nell’esperienza dell’ISMA
Get PDFThe article describes research carried out by the Istituto di Studi sul MediterraneoAntico (ISMA). The CNR-ISMA is involved in many excavations for which permits are granted by the Archaeological Superintendency and in several open access publishing projects. In relation to these research projects, the article discusses the position of the researcher of a public institution regarding access and dissemination of data
Extended Higgs sector at the LHC
Get PDFWe present an extension of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with a Y = 0 SU(2) triplet superfield and a Standard Model gauge singlet superfield. We present some of the relevant features of the model, dubbed TNMSSM, together with the most important results for the simulations of the decay of the 125 GeV Higgs in a pseudoscalar pair at the LHC and the pair production of light charged Higgs bosons at the LHC
Top physics with the ATLAS detector at LHC
Get PDFThe recent results on top quark production measurements in protonproton collisions at 13 TeV, obtained with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider are presented. Total single top quark cross-section measurements and total and differential top quark pair (tt) cross-section are reported. The results are compared to the latest QCD theoretical calculations
Angular analysis of the B0d → K∗μμ at CMS and ATLAS
Get PDFNew Physics (NP) beyond the Standard Model (SM) can be revealed by analysing processes which are expected to occur with very low probability in the SM; among these, the flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) decay B0d → K∗0μ+μ− is particularly promising. Recent results from the LHCb Collaboration show that the expected values of the parameter P5 differ by more than three standard deviations from the measurements in a well-defined interval of the dimuon invariant mass. The results of angular analyses performed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC are here presented and compared with other experiments and several theoretical predictions
Search for B meson decays to four baryons at BaBar
Get PDFB mesons are the lightest mesons which can decay to various final states containing baryons. The measurement and comparison of exclusive branching fractions of baryonic B decays, as well as studies on the dynamic of the decay, may allow better understanding of baryon production in B decays and, more generally, hadron fragmentation into baryons. We present here a search for the decay of a B meson in four baryons: B0 → ppp¯p¯, not yet observed. The data set consists of about 470 million BB¯ pairs collected with the BaBar detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory