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I dizionari bilingui nel progetto ALON
No full textThe present article explains how bilingual lexicography with Italian is dealt with within the ALON project. As in the project itself, the focus is on German-Italian dictionaries. The first section uses specific examples from the 19th century to explain why their study is very enlightening and necessary in order to complete the history of Italian lexicography. The second section describes the resources already available on dictionaries for other language pairs (Italian-French and Italian-Spanish) and subsequently explains how the ALON project is working in order to catalogue and study the German-Italian dictionaries (and subsequently dictionaries of other language pairs) with the aim of closing the existing research gap
Mitigazione ed adattamento delle città alle crisi ambientali tra approcci modellistici ed esperienze partecipative = Mitigation and adaptation of cities to environmental crises between modeling approaches and participatory experiences
No full textThis contribution critically explores the concept of Urbanocene as a lens to understand the relationship between urbanization and environmental crises, focusing on issues of environmental justice. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach-merging atmospheric modeling with participatory practices-it examines cities as both climate-vulnerable and major emitters. The essay investigates phenomena like air pollution, urban heat islands, and heat waves, emphasizing the need for systemic, context-aware responses. It critiques technocratic solutions and advocates for integrating social inclusion with environmental quality. The goal is to reshape urban policy through justice-driven, co-created strategies for climate sustainability
Edith Stein e Edmund Husserl. Scambi filosofici = Edith Stein and Edmund Husserl. Philosophical Exchanges
No full textThis article reflects on Edith Stein and Edmund Husserl. Philosophical Exchanges by Angela Ales Bello (translated by Antonio Calcagno), highlighting three central and original contributions. First, it reevaluates the philosophical relationship between Husserl and Stein, emphasizing Stein's commitment to Husserl's transcendental turn, contrary to interpretations that portray her as a realist phenomenologist. Second, it outlines a shared perspective of "transcendental realism," where the world's meaning is constituted in relation to the subject without falling into subjectivist idealism. Lastly, the paper underscores Stein's original contributions, particularly her dual anthropology, her phenomenology of the person and sociality, and her integration of phenomenology with Christian metaphysics. Ales Bello's work emerges as a milestone in Husserl and Stein scholarship
Opacità algoritmica e opacità decisionale. Il problema del machine learning nell'urbanocene = Algorithmic opacity and decision opacity. The problem of machine learning in the urbanocene
No full textThe contribution critically analyzes the interaction between smart cities and machine learning in the era of the Urbanocene, highlighting the implications of the increasing datafication of urban living. The adoption of predictive models based on artificial intelligence transforms the city into a complex and automated system characterized by algorithmic and decision-making opacity. Three fundamental issues emerge: the reduction of urban experience to observable and traceable data; the systemic vulnerability of the city heightened by interconnection and computational complexity; and the loss of transparency and accountability in urban governance, delegated to opaque algorithmic decision-making processes. Through a critical reflection inspired by Simondon and Stiegler, a conceptual distinction between smart cities and artificial intelligence is proposed, aiming to preserve the human dimension in urban management
Comparing machine learning and conventional statistical approaches for injury prediction in young professional soccer players
Get PDFFrequent injuries pose a problem in professional soccer that is being tackledwith preventive measures. Consequently, injury prediction and preventionare also increasingly addressed from a statistical perspective. In a pilotstudy, several machine learning algorithms and conventional statistical approacheshave been compared regarding their potential to predict time-lossnon-contact lower-body injuries in professional youth soccer players, usingdata from a prospective cohort study with 56 players of which 22 were injured.The covariates considered here include basic soccer-related as wellas neuromuscular and biomechanical features derived from physical testing.Lasso regularized logistic regression, naive Bayes, linear discriminant analysis,k-nearest neighbors, classification trees, random forests, XGBoost, andsupport vector machines are considered for binary classification and predictionof an injury occurrence. The prediction results from a cross-validatedprocedure are compared regarding multiple quality measures. Post Lassologistic regression with a reduced penalty gives the best results with an accuracyof 0.625, a predictive likelihood of 0.593, and a Brier score of 0.228.The respective sensitivity and specificity are 0.773 and 0.529, with an AUC of0.672. Three features have been identified to be of particular relevance, theconcentric extensor peak torque of the knee, the transversal plane momentof the hip in a single-leg drop landing task, and the sway in postural controlunder static conditions. Moreover, an XGBoost model which primarily uses the two first-mentioned covariates slightly outperforms the Lasso model interms of accuracy (0.661), while for the other performance measures it isdominated by the Lasso
A new shrinkage estimator in negative binomial regression model
Get PDFThe ridge estimator has been consistently demonstrated to be an attractive shrinkage method to reduce the effects of multicollinearity. The negative binomial regression model (NBRM) is a well-known model in application when the response variable is a count data with overdispersion. However, it is known that the variance of maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the NBRM coefficients can negatively affected in the presence of multicollinearity. In this paper, the generalized ridge estimator is proposed to overcome the limitation of ridge estimator. Several methods for estimating the shrinkage matrix have been adapted. Our Monte Carlo simulation results suggest that the proposed estimator, regardless the type of estimating method of shrinkage matrix is better than the MLE estimator and ridge estimator, in terms of MSE. In addition, some estimating method of shrinkage matrix can bring significant improvement relative to others
Framing nature in seventeenth-century english pamphlets on Jamaica: A corpus-assisted discourse study
Get PDFIn my paper I shall analyse the English framing of Nature and its resources in a specialised corpus of 17th-century propaganda pamphlets on the occupation and colonization of Jamaica (PonJ), dating from 1655 to 1700 and amounting to 212,000 words. By drawing on Charteris-Black’s definition of frame as a socially shared perspective on something which generates ideologies through its repeated usage (2019, p. 16), I adopt a corpus-assisted methodology in order to identify the most frequent Nature-related words in the corpus and examine their semantic patterns of occurrence through concordance tabs. The quantitative approach is combined with the qualitative one so as to tackle the relationship existing between semantic patterns retrievable from the corpus and aspects of the wider historical and socio-cultural context, including the propaganda purpose of the author and the reception of the target readership. Results show that Nature-related words are principally encoded within a frame of “utility”, “bountifulness” and “domestication” which shape Nature as an ever-lasting resource to be quickly turned into subsistence and export commodities, in line with an anthropocentric worldview. The findings reflect the natural philosophical project of recovering the ‘empire’ of human beings over Nature through colonization. Nature in the Caribbean was represented as a storehouse of new and apparently unlimited natural resources to be studied, (over)used and cultivated. Some deviations from this conceptualization, however, occur and show that by the end of the century, regulations against uncontrolled hunting of local species were put in place with some sense of ‘conservation’ for future generations
Zum Gebrauch von Routineformeln in Bundestagsreden
Get PDFRoutine formulae, such as Bon appétit at the beginning of a meal, I now pronounce you husband and wife, or That's the way it is, constitute an integral component of both written and spoken communication. From a linguistic perspective, these fixed expressions are of particular interest due to their relevance in phraseological analysis. Simultaneously, as they serve as vehicles for performing specific actions, they are also of considerable significance within the field of pragmatics. This paper examines the use of routine formulae in speeches delivered in the German Bundestag. Specifically, it investigates the predominant types of routine formulae employed, as well as their communicative functions and pragmatic effects. In addition, the study explores whether there are notable differences in the usage of such formulae across political parties. The overarching objective of the research is to enhance our understanding of the role and contribution of routine formulae within parliamentary discourse and Bundestag speeches
The Fourth Arena. Rethinking Political Participation in the Digital Age
Get PDFThe digital revolution and the rise of e-participation have led scholars to reconsider established definitions of political participation: their dimensions, modes, and arenas. Drawing on the theoretical framework proposed by Francesco Raniolo in his book 'La partecipazione politica. Fare, pensare, essere', this article examines the academic debate surrounding the various definitions of online participation and its intersections with long-standing disputes over the nature of political participation. Treating the media (and the Internet) as an arena for observing citizens' engagement and participatory acts enables to address the hybrid and expanding repertoire of what will be called Participation at Distance (PaD), which also sees the re-invention of traditional forms of participation. More than other arenas, the media arena constitutes a 'place' capable of hosting old and new, conventional and unconventional, institutional and non-institutional, instrumental and expressive, legal, a-legal, and illegal forms of political participation