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On the statistical characterization of lightning-induced voltages
No full textProtection against lightning-induced voltages is a particularly critical issue, especially for smart grids, due to the presence of electronic-based equipment, as well as control and monitoring devices. Analysis of the severity of the induced voltages is then imperative; on the other hand, the random nature of the lightning phenomenon cannot be disregarded. In this paper, the severity of lightning-induced voltage is analyzed by means of a probabilistic approach which, starting from closed-form solutions, uses a Monte Carlo procedure. Parametric distributions that best fit the distributions of the induced voltages are investigated as well. The results show that the lognormal and the generalized extreme value distributions are the best candidates
An abstraction layer enabling pervasive hardware-reconfigurable systems
No full textField-programmable gate array technologies are creating a new range of challenges for pervasive and ubiquitous systems. Revisiting and extending approaches borrowed from the purely software domain is a fundamental opportunity in this scenario. In particular, this paper addresses code mobility, a well-established approach used to dynamically adapt a distributed system based on the actual application needs, and extends it to a deep code mobility concept, allowing 'logical' hardware components to be migrated across a pervasive infrastructure. The work presents the architecture and the prototype implementation of a reconfigurable computing framework providing full support to deep code mobility through an abstraction layer which exposes a portable view of the underlying reconfigurable hardware. The paper then thoroughly discusses two application scenarios, hardware-accelerated distributed data mining and autonomous online testing, confirming the impact of deep code mobility in real-world pervasive computing contexts. © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Coscience and aestethic taste as cultural products. An educational reading of Rorty
No full textIn the historical moment we are living in individual conscience and the capacity to engage in ethical reasoning are constantly challenged by choices, dilemmas, events that require sound moral judgement.
One of the most relevant challenges is the acknowledgment that aims, scopes, values appear extremely different and sometimes conflicting due to different cultural, economical and social conditions, which would easily lead us towards a relativistic understanding of morality.
Also the growing up of global, multicultural and stratified societies highlights the presence of different aestethic tastes,which are confronted according to very different criteria and this highlights how cultural differences shape also our aestetic vision of reality.
Ethical and aestetic references are confused, evanescent, fluid and therefore require to be at the same time acknowledged, cultivated but also articulated, contextualized, deconstructed and recostructed in order to play an effective role within individual and collective experience.
In his autobiographic writing Trotsky and the Wild Orchids Rorty, pointed out how, in a pragmatist perspective, either individual conscience or aestetic taste are “equally, products of the cultural environment in which we grew up” (Rorty, 1992).
Therefore the capacity to make (or not) and to evaluate ethical and aestetic judgments does not derive from individual innate powers nor from inner transcendental categories universally shared, but rather from the cultural enviroment within which single individuals and communities grow up.
This opens up a number of pedagogical questions:
To what degree the belonging to a determinate cultural enviroment constrains and shapes individual and collective attitudes, capacities, world views?
Is education part of the cultural environment and, in this case, is it only a matter of inculturation or does it have other implications in terms of individual and collective growth?
How can it be possible to work educationally taking into account cultural differences (in terms of attitudes, norms, values) that may be conflicting with other cultural and environmental traditions?.
How can education (according to Rorty’s view of education as a process of “socialization and individualization”) have a significant role in the development of ethical consciences and aestetic sensibilities working across cultural boundaries?
To these questions we try to aswer offering a pedagogical reading of Rorty’s philosophy taking into account his works and the works of other readers who, at an international level, have contributed to the advancement of a multifacted interpretations of Rorty’s work
On Optimal Control of Quasi-Linear Elliptic Equation with Variable p(x)-Laplacian
No full textWe consider an optimal control problem for quasilinear
elliptic equation containing the p-Laplacian with variable
exponent p = p(x). The exponent p(x) are used as the controls
in L^1(Ω). The optimal control problem is to minimize the
discrepancy between a given distribution yd and the
current system state y, by choosing an appropriate
exponent p(x)
Small Claims Analysis Net - SCAN
No full textSCAN will result in:
a) improving the ESCP in terms of legal certainty, language barriers and transparency of proceedings; b) extending the state of knowledge on the implementation of ESCP by gathering feedback from practitioners; c) facilitating harmonized procedures in implementing the regulation by identifying best practises; d) raising citizens’ awareness of the difficulties encountered in the use of ESCP;
e) listing the training needs for judges in order to improve its implementation; f) fostering practical solutions to the analysis of policy and objectives, taking into account the highlighted gaps and flaws behind the planned targets; g) encouraging the Europe-wide knowledge and adoption of ESCP
Art. 23
No full textL'artcilo costituisce un commento all'articolo del Codice dei beni culturali dedicato alle procedure edilizie semplificate
Building to renew. Three resilient projects
No full textThree built projects are presented with the intent of both revealing their conceptual bases as well as sharing their starting points and the ideas stratified and materialised within them. In the undifferentiated urban territory of the sprawling city between Naples and Caserta they oppose and resist urban decay recovering and reactivating those elements that still have meaning in their context. Through their tectonics and monolithic character they oppose the fragmentary and temporary dimension of the surrounding built context. The clarity and evocative character of their forms contrasts the indifference and the anonymity of the innumerable buildings and small houses besieging the context. They promote the primacy of space over speculative exploitation and object dominance as well as the expression of materials and the control of natural light over the homologation and the lack of expressiveness in their context. They seek ways to offer present and future relations to what is around them and contribute to the repair and bringing order to a fragmented and disorderly urban place
Inquinamento ambientale e responsabilità amministrative
No full textL'inquinamento ambientale e le respinsabilità amministrativ