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A Low-Cost Monitoring Platform and Visual Interface to Analyse Thermal Comfort in Smart Building Applications Using a Citizen–Scientist Strategy
No full textSmart building issues are critical for current energy and comfort managing aspects in built environments. Nevertheless, the diffusion of smart monitoring solutions via user-friendly graphical interfaces is still an ongoing issue subject to the need to diffuse a smart building culture and a low-cost series of solutions. This paper proposes a new low-cost IoT sensor network, exploiting Raspberry Pi and Arduino platforms, for collecting real-time data and evaluating specific thermal comfort indicators (PMV and PPD). The overall architecture was accordingly designed, including the hardware setup, the back-end and the Android user interface. Eventually, three distinct prototyping platforms were deployed for initial testing of the general system, and we analysed the obtained results for different building typologies and seasonal periods, based on collected data and users’ preferences. This work is part of a large educational and citizen science activity
[Teresina Spence Avignone, Angel of Judgement (c. 1889), funerary sculpture]
No full textFrom Berresford: Teresina Spence Avignone, Angel of Judgement (c. 1889), Cesare Fantacchiotti, Cimitero Evangelico agli Allori, Florence.Seated angel.Title from Berresford
il caso tolosano del Maestro del Decreto di Avignone (Avignone, BM, Ms. 659)
No full textUIDB/00749/2020
UIDP/00749/2020I manoscritti presentati in questo contributo, ms. lat. 362 e ms. lat. 16905, conservati nella Bibliothèque nationale de France, sono stati finora trascurati dagli storici dell’arte. L’analisi stilistica dell’apparato illustrativo e decorativo di questi codici, condotta in questo studio, ha permesso di attribuirli all’anonimo miniatore detto Maestro del Decreto di Avignone (dal più importante manoscritto da lui miniato, Avignone, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 659). Questo miniatore, formatosi verosimilmente a Tolosa, attivo tra il 1320 e il 1350, ha molto probabilmente lavorato per i Domenicani della città.publishersversionpublishe
Libri e letteratura ad Avignone al tempi di Niccolò da Prato
No full textSi offre un'ampia panoramica sulla produzione letteraria ad Avignone nei tempi del giovane Petrarca
Centralised or decentralised banking supervision? Evidence from European banks
No full textThis paper analyses the impact of the Banking Union on European bank credit risk. Specifically, we investigate the effect that the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism has had on the credit risk of the banks it supervises in comparison to financial institutions that are still supervised by National Supervisory Authorities. We analyse a sample of 746 European banks over the period 2011–2018, by means of a difference-in-differences methodology. We provide empirical evidence that Single Supervisory Mechanism supervised banks reduced credit risk exposure compared to banks supervised by National Supervisory Authorities, suggesting that the Banking Union has successfully reduced the riskiness of the European banking sector. Our results passed a battery of robustness tests that support the reliability of our analysis. Our contribution sheds light on the benefits of centralised versus decentralised supervision, on the effectiveness of the current supervisory system in Europe, and on its impact on European bank risk
Libri e letteratura ad Avignone ai tempi di Niccolò da Prato
No full textIl contributo offre un ampio panorama sulla produzione letteraria e la circolazione di manoscritti ad Avignone ai tempi dell'arrivo della curia romana (sec. XIV): un ambiente facondo nel quale si sarebbe formato Francesco Petrarc
Un’iscrizione araba in caratteri cufici, probabile testimonianza della risistemazione trecentesca del Capitolo nella Cattedrale di Avignone
No full textStudio dell'iscrizione araba in scrittura cufica, riprodotta su un foglio di un manoscritto miscellaneo della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. L'iscrizione faceva parte della decorazione architettonica del Capitolo della Cattedrale di Avignone
INTERNATIONAL LIQUIDITY, NEGATIVE INTEREST RATE POLICY AND BANKING SUPERVISION: EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL EXPERIMENT
No full textChapter 2: Given the importance Swap lines played during the coronavirus-induced crisis, this paper analyses the impact of temporary U.S. dollar liquidity arrangements (swap lines) on international reserves (IR). Specifically, I investigate the effect that the Federal Reserve (FED) swap lines have had on the accumulation of IR of those countries involved compared to those countries that do not have any type of liquidity arrangements with the FED. By analysing a sample of 47 countries over the period 2002-2018 and a difference-in-differences methodology, I find that, overall, there is no difference in the accumulation process of IR between those countries that were involved in the global financial crisis (GFC) swap lines and those that were not. However, on close inspection, by analysing the emerging market economies (EME) sub-sample, I find empirical evidences that these countries - involved in swap lines by FED, when these GFC arrangements expired - started to accumulate reserves to a greater extent to the other considered EME. Furthermore, when I investigate whether these divergences are due to ultra-easy monetary policies or turbulence periods, I find this greater accumulation to be a phenomenon clearly wanted by the countries involved. This result suggests that swap lines involved countries that do not believe in the benevolence of Fed operations, and being more exposed to dollar shocks than other EME, they need a higher stockpile of IR. My contribution could suggest that EME will continue to follow their precautionary patterns, also after the last coronavirus swap lines.Chapter 1: This paper analyses the impact of the Banking Union on European bank credit risk. Specifically, we investigate the effect that the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism has had on the credit risk of the banks it supervises in comparison to financial institutions that are still supervised by National Supervisory Authorities. We analyse a sample of 746 European banks over the period 2011-2018, by means of a difference-in-differences methodology. We provide empirical evidence that Single Supervisory Mechanism supervised banks reduced credit risk exposure compared to banks supervised by National Supervisory Authorities, suggesting that the Banking Union has successfully reduced the riskiness of the European banking sector. Our results passed a battery of robustness tests that support the reliability of our analysis. Our contribution sheds light on the benefits of centralised versus decentralised supervision, on the effectiveness of the current supervisory system in Europe, and on its impact on European bank risk.Chapter 3: This paper investigates to what extent the introduction of negative monetary policy rates altered competitive conditions in the euro area banking sector. Specifically, it analyses the effect that negative policy rates had on euro area banks’ market power in comparison to banks that have not been subject to negative rates. The analysis, considering a sample of 4,223 banks over the period 2011–2018 and relying on a difference-in-differences methodology, finds that negative monetary policy rates led to an increase in euro area banks’ market power. Furthermore, it shows that, during the negative interest rate policy period, increased market power hindered the transmission of monetary policy and discouraged banks from taking excessive risks
Muscarinic receptor modulation of GABA-mediated giant depolarizing potentials in the neonatal rat hippocampus
No full text1. The whole-cell patch clamp technique was used to study the role of muscarinic receptors in regulating the frequency of giant depolarizing potentials (GDPs) in CA3 hippocampal neurones in slices from postnatal (P) P1-P8 rats.
2. Atropine (1 mu M) reduced the frequency of GDPs by 64.2 +/- 2.9%. The acetylcholinesterase inhibitor edrophonium (20 mu M) increased the frequency of GDPs in a developmentally regulated way. This effect was antagonized by the M1 muscarinic receptor antagonist pirenzepine.
3. In the presence of edrophonium, tetanic stimulation of cholinergic fibres induced either an enhancement of GDP frequency (179 +/- 79%) or a membrane depolarization (27 +/- 16 mV) associated with an increase in synaptic noise. These effects were presented by atropine.
4. Application of carbachol (3 mu M) produced an increase in GDP frequency that at P5-P6 was associated with a membrane depolarization and an increase in synaptic noise. These effects were prevented by atropine, pirenzepine (3 mu M) and bicuculline (10 mu M).
5. In the presence of pirenzepine, carbachol reduced GDP frequency by 50 +/- 4%. Conversely, in the presence of methoctramine (3 mu M), carbachol enhanced GDP frequency by 117 +/- 4%.
6. It is concluded that endogenous acetylcholine, through the activation of M1 receptors, enhances the release of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), in a developmentally regulated way. On the other hand, carbachol exerts both an up- and downregulation of GABA release through the activation of M1 and M2 receptors, respectively
Matthew Avignone Interview
No full textBio: Matthew Avignone is a Korean-American photographer born in 1987. In 2011, he obtained his B.A. in photography from Columbia College, Chicago. He has been exhibited at the Aperture Foundation, the Pingyao Photography Festival (China), and the Camden Image Gallery (London), among others. His first artist book, An Unfinished Body (2011), is part of the collections of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and the International Center for Photography. In October 2014, after working for five years on documenting his own family, he released his self-published book, Stranger Than Family. The story of this project, along with his photographs, have been featured in the New York Times Lens Blog in July 2015. His work has also been published in The Fader, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wire (UK), and Slanted (Germany). He is currently working as a freelance photographer in Chicago.
Visit his website for his work and much more: http://matthewavignone.co
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