6,726 research outputs found
Poster. Digital visualisation based on the Storyboard of R. Abravanel by Martina Melilli,” Piera Rossetto (scientific supervision), Verena Resch (Graphic design)
No full textUnder the supervision of Piera Rossetto (PI of the research project Europe's InVisible Jewish Migrants, funded by the Austrian Science Fund), Verena Resch, graphic designer, transformed the original artwork Storyboard of Rachele Abravanel by Martina Melilli into a digital product. Melilli’s storyboard, realised on a physical support, with printed pictures and post-it for comments and explanations, had a limited possiblity of circulation. Resch’s challenge was to take the hand-made creation and transform it into something able to cross physical borders.The poster represents, in Rossetto's project framework, a way to engage with the digital turn in doing memory research (Garde-Hansen et al. 2009; Drozdzewski and Birdsall 2019) as well as with the exponential growth of digital projects in the context of the history of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries in contemporary times
Maps, mappings and cartographic imaginings
No full textSpecial Issue 2021 on MAPS, MAPPINGS AND CARTOGRAPHIC IMAGININGS
edited by Tania Rossetto and Farah Polato
Special Issue of From the European South concerning maps, mappings and cartographic imaginings of colonial and postcolonial issues, with a peculiar focus on border crossings, migration crises, everyday multiculturalism and so-called ‘commonplace diversity’
[Rossetto (1929), funerary sculpture]
No full textFrom Berresford: Rossetto (1929), Carlo Cerati, Cimitero Borgo Angeli, Mantua.Husband and wife dressed in shrouds.Title from Berresford
QFD: an interactive algorithm for the prioritization of product's technical characteristics
No full textThe paper is concerned with the problem of the ``prioritization' ' of technical design characteristic s of a product. An interactive algorithm has been developed with the aim to better support the engineering design process by means of quality function deployment (QFD). The algorithm tries to soften customer approach to QFD in those situations in which customers are not able to give a ``significant' ' evaluation of the relative importance of their requirements . The method allows determining a ranking order of design characteristic s without the artificia l conversion of symbols contained in the relationshi p matrix, and without the use of explici t information concerning the relative degree of importance of customer requirements. A simple numerical applicatio n is also provide
Arsenic and Boron Hydrogeochemistry behaviour during Managed Aquifer Recharge Operations.
No full textThe Cornia Valley aquifer system (Tuscany, Italy) is the main source for irrigation, industrial purposes, and for potable water supply for the zone and the Elba island. Sixty years of its overexploitation caused a remarkable potentiometric drawdown accompanied with a wide seawater intrusion and a severe degradation of the quality of the groundwater (Rossetto et al., 2018; 2019).
In the early 2000s, extensive research regarding anomalous high concentrations of Boron in the Cornia Valley was carried out. These studied the hydrochemistry of the area, determining also anomalous high concentrations of Arsenic (Pennisi et al., 2009). In addition, one of the biggest schemes treating Arsenic for drinking water started operating with other two plants for Boron (Comune di Suvereto, 2013). Furthermore, in 2015 the LIFE REWAT project was started in order to set a strategy to recover and improve the availability of water in the area through a series of technical and social interventions (Rossetto et al., 2018).
Within LIFE REWAT, Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) was identified as a solution to counterbalance the stressed hydrologic system. Thus, a pilot MAR scheme infiltrating harvested rainwater from the Cornia River was implemented. It is provided by a hi-tech high-frequency automated and remotely controlled system for operating the plant and monitoring water quantity and quality. This system is supported by the data gathered from different sensors installed in the area, recording into a database. Additionally, discrete groundwater sampling takes place monthly (Rossetto et al., 2018; 2019).
The database contains recordings from two consecutive hydrological years. The first year measurements and samplings were done under natural recharge conditions, while during the second year the MAR scheme was under operation. This initial data provides insights on concentration variations of Boron and Arsenic after one-year operation of the MAR scheme. However, the main processes involved still need to be understood. Therefore, long-term and short-term dedicated field experiments are designed to analyse the induced variations. This work presents a model based hydrogeochemical approach for the behaviour analysis of these elements under MAR operations to determine the transiency of these concentration changes
Firing up map thinking: Music video meta-maps
No full textIn this chapter I propose three music videos as case studies, considering them distinct
‘meta-maps’. I draw this idea from a seminal work by Stoichita (1996; but see also the
concept of ‘metapicture’ in Mitchell, 1994), who wrote about the motif of ‘paintings within
paintings’—including the more specific motif of maps within paintings—in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century European art. Interestingly, Stoichita viewed this motif as an exercise
of intertextuality (or, we could say, of intermediality): an auto-reflection on different modes
of representation (or media) that produces self-aware images. These ‘meta-paintings’ are
considered by Stoichita as theoretical objects, works on and with the image, as well as
interpretive acts. Inspired by this intermedial possibility, in what follows I perform three
interpretive acts considering music videos as theoretical objects with the potential to provoke
meditations about cartography. None of the videos present to the audience performing
artists; rather, we could say that they present performing maps, which take the stage
and are broadcast while showing different configurations and modes of their existence. These three interpretive acts of music videos’ cartographic morphings engender
three layers of map thinking: a representational (from technical to deconstructive) one, a
post-representational (or emergent and practice-based) one and finally a speculative (phenomenological
and object-oriented) one
Digital Storyboard
No full textUnder the supervision of Piera Rossetto (PI of the research project Europe's InVisible Jewish Migrants, funded by the Austrian Science Fund), Verena Resch, graphic designer, transformed the original artwork Storyboard of Rachele Abravanel by Martina Melilli into a digital product. Melilli’s storyboard, realised on a physical support, with printed pictures and post-it for comments and explanations, had a limited possiblity of circulation. Resch’s challenge was to take the hand-made creation and transform it into something able to cross physical borders.The poster represents, in Rossetto's project framework, a way to engage with the digital turn in doing memory research (Garde-Hansen et al. 2009; Drozdzewski and Birdsall 2019) as well as with the exponential growth of digital projects in the context of the history of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries in contemporary times.Funded by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) grant n. T 1024-G2
R32 Partial Condensation Inside A Brazed Plate Heat Exchanger
No full textIt is well known that when a superheated gas reaches a cold surface, the condensation starts immediately only if the wall temperature is lower than the dew temperature of the refrigerant; in this case, the heat transfer phenomenon can be also affected by the superheating temperature. This paper presents the experimental measurements of the heat transfer coefficient carried out during partial condensation of superheated R32 refrigerant in a commercial brazed plate heat exchanger prototype. The present work aims at highlighting the effects of the superheating during the partial condensation of R32 by imposing 5, 10, 15, and 25 K of vapour superheating at the inlet of the brazed plate heat exchanger prototype. The experimental measurements were carried out by varying the specific mass velocity between 15 and 40 kg m-2 s-1 and the outlet vapour quality between 0.0 and 0.65. The experimental data were collected at around 36.5 °C saturation temperature (saturation pressure of 2.27 MPa). The present data is used to validate a new step-by-step model for the calculation of the heat transfer coefficient, which accounts for the different superheating inlet temperatures
“Mapping Roots, Charting Routes. Jewish Migrations from North Africa and the Middle East to Milan (1940s-1970s)”, Digital Visualization by Piera Rossetto (Original idea & scientific data elaboration), Sara Radice (User experience & interface design) and Fabio Sturaro (Software design & development)
No full textDigital visualisation of Jewish Migrations from North Africa and the Middle East to Milan (1940s-1970s)
The digital visualisation Mapping Roots, Charting Routes concerns the specific case of Jewish migrations from the Middle East and North Africa to Milan (Italy). It is based on 108 interviews conducted by the CDEC Foundation – Edoth Project (2011-2019) with Jews from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Libya and Syria, who settled in the city between the 1940s and 1970s. The corpus includes 48 women and 60 men.
Mapping Roots, Charting Routes can be navigated by setting different filters: gender, home community, identity documents, year of settlement in Milan, place and cause of departure. The general map highlights the settlement trip to Milan from the country of origin. By clicking on the individual trajectory, dashed lines display the intermediate trips and an individual portrait opens.
Along with the anonymized personal data of the traveller, the individual portrait includes the countries of origin of the family members, the identity documents they possessed, the languages spoken in the family circle along with the professional activity and the cause of departure. In a future development of the project, more information will be added in this section.
The map is accompanied by a series of graphs and charts which elaborate the information in an aggregated form: according to the home community, that is the country of origin. For instance, the graphs display the correlation between the personal identity claimed by the interviewee with the identity documents possessed by her/his family.
Through this sample of interviews, the digital visualisation Mapping Roots, Charting Routes attempts to depict the overall complexity of the migratory phenomenon while paying attention to the peculiarity of each journey. It is an attempt to hold the ‘whole’ and the ‘fragment’ in the effort to come closer to the sense people make—and made—of their journey as individuals but also as part of a larger collective.
In a way, this is what digital humanities are about: keeping the human experience at the core while experimenting with computer assisted technologies to elaborate, visualize and connect the data of and about that very human experience.
For data protection reasons, the dataset is not made available to public.
Digital Visualization by Piera Rossetto (Original idea & scientific data elaboration), Sara Radice (User experience & interface design) and Fabio Sturaro (Software design & development
On the quaternary structure of taipoxin and textilotoxin: The advantage of being multiple
No full textMany presynaptic neurotoxins endowed with a phospholipase A2 activity are produced by a variety of snake species (Harris, 1991; Kini, 1997). These toxins have evolved from PLA2 enzymes mainly implicated in digestive functions (Davidson and Dennis, 1990). The evolutionary transition from a hydrolytic enzyme to a toxin has been achieved without significant modifications to the stable multi-disulfide-bridged protein PLA2 scaffold, apart from the loss of the so-called “pancreatic loop” (Alape-Girón et al., 1999; Kini, 1997). Rather, subsequent mutations have generated the ability of some of these toxins to bind and act at the presynaptic membrane of motoneurons end plates (Fletcher and Jiang, 1995). This evolution has been driven by a very strong selection pressure, as prey immobilisation greatly improves the extent of feeding and therefore the fitness of the toxin-producing species. The acquisition of neurospecific binding properties by mutation and selection is at the basis of the transformation of a generic PLA2 enzyme into a presynaptic neurotoxin as it concentrates their phospholipid hydrolytic activity within selected portions of the plasma membrane, whose alteration results in loss of neurotransmission (Kini and Evans, 1989; Fletcher and Jiang, 1995; Kini, 2003). The ensuing change of membrane structure and the increased permeability to Ca2+ causes a sustained blockade of the transmission of the nerve impulse to the muscle ( [Rigoni et al., 2005] and [Rigoni et al., 2007]; Rossetto and Montecucco, 2008)
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