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Implementation of the PaperRank and AuthorRank indices in the Scopus database
No full textWe implement the PaperRank and AuthorRank indices introduced in [Amodio & Brugnano, 2014] in the Scopus database, in order to highlight quantitative and qualitative information that the bare number of citations and/or the h-index of an author are unable to provide. In addition to this, the new indices can be cheaply updated in Scopus, since this has a cost comparable to that of updating the number of citations. Some examples are reported to provide insight in their potentialities, as well as possible extensions
Introduzione a Esercizi di antropologia filosofica
No full textEsercizi di antropologia filosofica è l’effetto di un dibattito tra gli autori, a compimento di un progetto promosso dal Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Ateneo Federico II di Napoli. Al di là da tutte le disamine che si potrebbero avanzare per presentare i cinque saggi che compongono il volume, il vero filo rosso che li tiene insieme è per l’appunto questo: la convinzione che la parola, la parola filosofica pronunciata è sempre, oltre che riorganizzatrice, in qualche misura riformatrice
Parallel solution in time of ODEs: some achievements and perspectives
No full textThe parallel solution of initial value problems for ordinary differential equations (ODE-IVPs) has received much interest from many researchers in the past years. In general, the possibility of using parallel computing in this setting concerns different aspects of the numerical solution of ODEs, depending on the parallel platform to be used and/or the complexity of the problem to be solved. In particular, in this paper we examine possible extensions of a parallel method previously proposed in the mid-nineties [P. Amodio, L. Brugnano, Parallel implementation of block boundary value methods for ODEs, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 78 (1997) 197–211; P. Amodio, L. Brugnano, Parallel ODE solvers based on block BVMs, Adv. Comput. Math. 7 (1997) 5–26], and analyze its connections with subsequent approaches to the parallel solution of ODE-IVPs, in particular the “Parareal” algorithm proposed in [J.L. Lions, Y. Maday, G. Turinici, Résolution d’EDP par un schéma en temps “pararéel”, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 332 (2001) 661–668; Y. Maday, G. Turinici, A parareal in time procedure for the control of partial differential equations, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 335 (2002) 387–392]
Premessa a Underscores. Darwin_Nietzsche_von Uexküll_Heidegger_Portmann_Arendt
No full textProdurre un testo che andasse a rivedere taluni incroci tra il sapere biologico e certi classici filosofici. Si tratta, peraltro, di percorsi noti e che tuttavia a noi sembrava di poter rivisitare non in una mera ricognizione storico-storiografica, ma rimisurando il tutto con i modi della biologia e della filosofia contemporanee. E allora Darwin, Nietzsche, von Uexküll, Heidegger, Portmann, Arendt, “come se”, al di là delle specificità dei discorsi, potessero ibridarsi su di uno sfondo comune che, va da sé, è impuro perché è il nostro e non necessariamente il loro. Non tre testi separati, e nemmeno riuniti artificiosamente col senno di poi: volevamo che i differenti dettati – per quanto diversi nei tempi, nei modi, nei temi, negli autori e negli attori – alla fine si incontrassero e si contaminassero
OPBA (ORGANISMO PREPOSTO AL BENESSERE ANIMALE) - C.E.S.A. "Comitato etico-scientifico per la sperimentazione animale" Università Federico II di Napoli
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Su Vero e Falso in senso gravitazionale, ovvero di virtuosismi virtuali
No full textON TRUTH AND FAKE
IN A GRAVITATIONAL SENSE, OR
ABOUT VIRTUAL VIRTUOSITIES
The discovery of the
existence of
gravitational waves not
only represents the
experimental proof of
Einstein’s theory, but
also an improvement of
the world of Physics.
In fact, gravitational
waves are directly
connected to the
structure of the
radiant objects, it is
just like they gave us
back a “snapshot”, thus
making possible the
construction of new
maps of the Sky, that
will no longer be based
on visible light, Xrays,
or infrared rays,
but exactly on the
particles forming the gravitational waves. So, the President of “Società Italiana di Relatività
Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione (Sigrav)” can affirm: «We may discover new Worlds, identify
wormholes and live the experience of deforming the order of past, present and future as well as the
way we are used to perceiving them». Plurality of Worlds and deformation of Time: in a way, the
Virtuality of physic Reality gets stronger. Hence, S&F_ aims to open a consideration about the
state of the art of the “Virtual” – a notion that from Medieval ontology seems to set up itself as
the litmus paper no longer and not only of “potential” Reality, but of Reality itself. The purpose
of this Dossier will be investigating virtual Semantics in a multidisciplinary key, in order to
verify if the concept of Virtual has effectively ceased to mean the Fake and, by consequence, to
which extent it has become able to designate the Truth
About Life (forget_about_it). Da lontano sembrano mosche
No full textABOUT LIFE (FORGET_ABOUT_IT).
THEY LOOK LIKE FLIES FROM A DISTANCE
Philosophy struggles to determinate
and specify the concept of life in
its various connotations and
meanings. The dichotomy between Zoé
and Bios helps in articulating the
distinction between a notion of
life conceived respectively as
something simply lived, as an
object, and life as something
characterized by a duration, a
biography, to which we may ascribe
a specific and higher value. These
conceptual couples underlie on the
one hand the controversial and
intensively discussed separation
between organic and inorganic world
and on the other hand the
relationship between animal and
human life. In this sense, the
human being has to be considered
not only as a biological organism,
a mere member of a species, but
also as an individual, part of a
larger context. This seems to widen
the horizons of philosophical
research towards a deeper
investigation on the boundaries
between individual and collective,
framed both in biological (organism and species) and in socio‐political and cultural dimension
(individual and society). Although many reductionist attempts have been made in order to explain
specificity of life exclusively through physical, chemical, i.e. non‐living language, hard sciences
tend to accept the challenge of a philosophical and anti‐reductionist thought. Is it possible to
address the peculiarity of life and the living without violating the legal limits of natural
science? How could it be done
Prefazione a R. Spagnuolo Vigorita, Accoglienza Fecondità Trascendenza. Dis-dire il soggetto con Emmanuel Lévinas, Aracne Editrice, Roma 2017
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