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Proceedings of the LREC 2020 workshop on Resources and Techniques for User and Author Profiling in Abusive Language (ResT-UP 2020)
No full textThis volume documents the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Resources and Techniques for User and Author Profiling in Abusive Language (ResT-UP), held online on 12 May 2020 as part of the LREC 2020 conference (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation).
The workshop aimed at bringing together researchers and scholars working on author profiling and automatic detection of abusive language on the Web, e.g., cyberbullying or hate speech, with a twofold objective: improving the existing LRs, e.g., datasets, corpora, lexicons, and sharing ideas on stylometry techniques and features needed for profile information extraction and classification. ResT-UP targeted Profiling scholars and research groups, experts in Statistic and Stylistic Analysis of texts as well as computational linguists who investigate author profile and personality both in short texts (social media posts, blog texts and email) and in long texts (such as pamphlets, (fake) news and political documents). ReST-UP represented an opportunity to share profiling experiments with the scientific community and to show automatic detection techniques of abusive language on the Web. Despite the cancellation of LREC 2020 due to the COVID-19 international emergency, ResT-UP was organized online on Microsoft Teams on May 12th 2020 and the programme included three oral presentations and featured an invited talk by Paolo Rosso. ResT-UP was attended by about fifty representatives of academic and industrial organisations
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No full textThe CHAPTER deals with the furniture for health care facilities, and contributes to give a new overview on this topic, often neglected by similar publications. The furnishings are identified by a table and a reference code and many examples of hospital projects show how to design different hospitals areas. In this paper the author give also a contribution on lighting performances to be guarantee. Artificial and day-lighting enhance the general comfort of the patients' visitors and the medical staff, and could help patients healing and cure as well
Violence, Chaos and Theophany in Habakkuk 3
No full textDivine violence often causes scandal, since the current image of divinity is one-dimensional, focused on features such as mercy, justice, forgiveness, etc. In reality, the Bible – First and New Testaments – is not afraid to present many faces of God, even those that are scandalous to us. The aim of this paper is to show the role of divine vio- lence in restoring order in the cosmos through the analysis of one of the most complex texts of the First Testament: Abakkuk 3. The restoration of the cosmic order is also the restoration of good and earthly justice. It is evident, however, that the world of the con- temporary reader is different from that of the author and his readers: textual analysis shows the distance that separates them and, at the same time, opens up a space of issues that solicits numerous questions about our way of place ourselves in front of religion and the divine, on our presuppositions and our expectations
An overall sustainable approach to shape the citizenship of tomorrow: the Solar Decathlon Competition
No full textBuildings are responsible for half of the European energy consumption. Afterward dealing with the reduction of CO2 emissions involves sustainable housing, with the aim at minimizing energy needs to reach comfort conditions, and to build a system of production of alternative energy able to feed entirely those needs.
This paper deals with the Solar Decathlon Competition, on the basis of two participations of the University of Roma TRE with housing prototypes focusing on passive behavior, natural materials, reusable components and products.
But the importance of a Solar Decathlon experience, where multidisciplinary students are involved in the design and construction of housing, belongs not only to the building sector, but also engage many others common lifestyles: uniforms employ natural textiles; furniture designed by the team derives from a nesting process in order to reduce material waste; menu tries to reduce at maximum exotic products and meat consumption, that can have an important impact on the environment, for the gas emission in atmosphere.
This approach is deeply encouraged by Solar Decathlon, an international award-winning program that challenges collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive. The winner of the competition is the team that best blends affordability, consumer appeal, and design excellence with optimal energy production and maximum efficiency.
The author guided a team -composed by the Universities of Rome TRE and Sapienza- in the Solar Decathlon 2012 edition and is guiding a new team belonging to the University Rome TRE, bringing students towards an experimental awareness on the entire life cycle of a building, affecting their lives as well.
This paper will deal with this overall experience focusing from the science of interior environments to the ecology of the entire planet
Un préambule pour une histoire linguistique du Liban
No full textThe Author of this paper gives a brief overview of the Lebanese linguistic history from the Phoenicians to the present, with a resumé of his research into the neo-Arabisation excursus of Mount Lebanon’s Christian idiom (15th – 17th c.). He then discusses the constant historical nature of these plurilingual aspects calling upon historians, Semitists, epigraphists, philologists, etc. to contribute to the joint research undertaken with R. Contini on the remnants of neo-Aramaic in Lebanese
Unstructured processes of strategic decision-making
No full textThe author aims at developing a better understanding of unstructured strategic decision making processes and the conditions for achieving successful decision outcomes. Specifically he investigates the processes used to make CRE (Corporate Real Estate) decisions. To reveal the fundamental differences between CRE decision-making in practice and the prescriptive ‘best practice’ advocated in the CRE literature, a study of seven leading Italian management consulting firms is undertaken addressing the aspects of content and process of decisions. This research makes its primary contribution by identifying the importance and difficulty of finding the right balance between problem complexity, process richness and cohesion to ensure a decision-making process that is sufficiently rich and yet quick enough to deliver a prompt outcome. While doing so, the study also provides more empirical evidence to some of the most established theories of decision-making, while reinterpreting their mono-dimensional arguments in a multi-dimensional model of successful decision-making
Eco und die Anderen. Umberto Ecos Beitrag zur Übersetzungstheorie,
No full textWhat are the innovative parts of Umberto Eco's translation studies and where are they located in relation to contemporary theory? The first question is easy to answer, it is enough to mention the concept of "negotiation", which is already well known and has been discussed at length elsewhere. The second aspect, on the other hand, has not yet been fully studied and could indeed bring forth some surprises. Although Eco's model, as he himself admits, is not a theory in the strict sense of the word, but instead a series of reflections deriving from his experience as translator and translated author, his model does seek solutions for the aporias that always characterize this activity
Co-designed signals. Designing an open wayfinding system
No full textA wayfinding system is a structured system of signs that has the aim to inform
and orientate users in specific areas. A site becomes accessible to users through
such kind of systems. Wayfinding helps to communicate and make clear functions,
paths and becomes a true interface between a place and the users. Signals can have
a stronger role in terms of visual language in making evidence to a place’s identity.
Enhancing it at the same time. Using Christian Norberg-Schulz words, a user is
able to orientate him self in a site when the experience of that place is for him comprehensible.
Usually a wayfinding system is designed as a closed and forced system,
superimposed to a place’s surfaces or spaces. But there are places that need a specific
design concept to be adaptable to users needs, that change over time. Or to be adaptable
to the place’s needs, that change phisically over time.
Through an experimental project has been possible to set up an open wayfinding
system for a parkland particularly used by free-climbers. A climbing area is a
site where people can exercice their passion in rock free climbing and spend time
outdoor. The site called Falesi di Calusco d’Adda - in the neighbourhood of Milan –
is known for have inspired the background view of Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece
“Gioconda (Mona Lisa)”. The site is visited and used from enthusiastic free climbers,
who use to personalize and naming climbing ways all around the site.
This context inspired a design concept for an open system of signs and typography.
The concept is based on a set of elements and rules to be downloaded through
a web site to implement information and orientation around the site. The specific
web site has the aim to make accesible all the useful instructions and downloadable
documents. The system is based on a set of pictograms and a personalized stencil
font (the Calusco Font), to be reproduced on wood or stone, depending on the users’
needs. The all visual design has been inspired by primitive signs and adapted to the
need to reproduce it on different kind of surfaces using ecologic paint-spray.
All the design has been conceived to be easy to use from everybody, with a low
budget and by making just a restricted numbers of operations. In this way the outdoor
site can be enhanced by the community of users, that is engaged and partecipate
himself to the process. The designer is not anymore just the author of a closed visual
system, but of an open user-oriented process and accept the possibility that the
community uses the elements in a freely way. This responding to an actual trend of
engaging communities in the design and in the application of a designed system.
The aim of this paper is to present this experimental project, describing his design
process and discuss some of the above mentioned topics
A variational approach to the study of the existence of invariant lagrangian graphs
No full textThis paper surveys some recent results by the author and some collaborators, on the existence of invariant Lagrangian graphs for Tonelli Hamiltcmian systems
Effect of Electron Traps on Scintillation of Praseodymium Activated Lu3Al5O12
No full textIn this paper we present the studies performed on a set of Lu3Al5O12:Pr (LuAG:Pr) crystals with praseodymium concentration between 1.5 and 10%, grown by the micro-pulling-down (muPD) technique. The research comprises the measurements of X-ray excited emission spectra and 137Cs gamma-ray pulse height spectra in a range from 78 to 600 K, and thermoluminescence glow curves. Based on experimental data we discuss the dependence of scintillation properties of Lu3Al5O12:Pr on praseodymium content and temperature. The main attention is focused on a distinct increase of scintillation yield with temperature, which we attribute to existence of shallow electron traps and their temperature-dependent contribution to scintillation of LuAG:Pr. An active role of traps is demonstrated by a novel experiment combining X-ray and laser excitation.Radiation, Radionuclides and ReactorsApplied Science
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