170,216 research outputs found
Advancing Science and Society: Unveiling the Societal Readiness Level (SRL) for Holistic Integration of Innovations
No full textThis paper explores the socio-economic sustainability of research activities in European Academies in the present era. There remains a prevalent notion that topics pertaining to gender+, equality, diversity, and inclusion do not align with, or are deemed incompatible with, the realm of hard sciences. The current landscape is ripe for such integration, as evident in industrial research and experimental development. These endeavours increasingly demand a robust transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach that incorporates fields such as sociology, economics, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and numerous related disciplines. This shift represents an innovative and original leap towards fruitful engagement between diverse disciplines in pursuit of scientific progress
Integration of energy commodity prices in US and in Europe
No full textThis paper analyzes the price dynamics of crude oil, natural gas and
electricity and investigates the relationship between them. Given the
regional nature of energy commodity markets the analysis is performed
separately on the US and the Europe market. The aim of the paper
is to measure the level of integration existing within each energy com-
modity market using an ECM framework. To measure the relationship
existing between oil, gas and electricity represents a crucial issue for
risk management, given the role correlation plays in the pricing of
derivative contracts
A simplified analysis for seismic risk assessment of reinforced concrete school buildings
No full textSeismic risk assessment of school buildings is a problem of particular relevance in Italy, where most of
the building heritage was not designed using anti-seismic criteria. The actual seismic risk of these
buildings should account for seismic hazard, structural vulnerability and exposure, which in this case is
particularly significant, it being related to the number of occupants. In the last decades many methods
have been introduced for assessing seismic vulnerability of existing structures, which are essentially
divided into three levels: expeditious and simplified methods (level 0), intermediate methods (level 1)
and rigorous methods (level 2), which differ from each other by the refinement of the applied
methodology of analysis. At national level, in order to provide a contribution to solve this problem, a
specific filling system called “Sistema Nazionale delle Anagrafi dell’Edilizia Scolastica (SNAES)” has
been developed, it consisting of a census of all existing school buildings in terms of consistency,
degradation state and functionality. In this paper, starting from the existing methods and considering the
parameters and the information actually present in the school building files of SNAES, the possibility to
adopt a simplified methodology for assessing the seismic risk of reinforced concrete schools is analyzed
EDI Plan di dipartimento, Project Gender Action Plan e Syllabus inclusivo: azioni pilota per attuare la dimensione di genere+ in accademia
No full textIl contributo esamina gli sforzi dell’Unione Europea a partire dal 2000 per promuovere la parità di genere nel settore scientifico e illustra tre azioni pilota volte a consolidare gli obiettivi richiesti da Horizon Europe riguardo all’integrazione della dimensione di genere+ nella ricerca e nei programmi di insegnamento.
Nel 2000, il gruppo di lavoro su Donne e Scienza dell’European Technology Assessment Network ha evidenziato le discriminazioni contro le donne e i gruppi sottorappresentati, chiedendo un miglioramento che implichi una trasformazione globale della scienza e delle istituzioni. Circa 20 anni dopo, la Dichiarazione di Lubiana sulla Parità di Genere nella Ricerca e Innovazione (2021) si impegna ad affrontare le sfide della transizione digitale
ed ecologica in modo equo e inclusivo. Tuttavia, persistono ancora disuguaglianze, come dimostrano i rapporti di LERU (2019), ERA e She Figures (2021), che rivelano una discrepanza tra le politiche dell’UE e nazionali e la loro attuazione.
L’Università di Genova sta implementando nel suo Piano per la Parità di Genere tre Azioni Pilota Innovative: EDI Plan di Dipartimento, Project Gender Action Plan e Syllabus Inclusivo.
Si tratta di iniziative facilmente implementabili, in quanto basate su un approccio bottom-up in cui gli attori coinvolti hanno il potere decisionale e operativo di agire senza vincoli organizzativi, strutturali o legislativi
High-resolution tandem Fabry-Perot interferometer for Ultra-Violet Brillouin scattering measurements
No full textNeural representations underlying mental imagery as unveiled by representation similarity analysis
No full textIt is commonly acknowledged that visual imagery and perception rely on the same content-dependent brain areas in the high-level visual cortex (HVC). However, the way in which our brain processes and organizes previous acquired knowledge to allow the generation of mental images is still a matter of debate. Here, we performed a representation similarity analysis of three previous fMRI experiments conducted in our laboratory to characterize the neural representation underlying imagery and perception of objects, buildings and faces and to disclose possible dissimilarities in the neural structure of such representations. To this aim, we built representational dissimilarity matrices (RDMs) by computing multivariate distances between the activity patterns associated with each pair of stimuli in the content-dependent areas of the HVC and HC. We found that spatial information is widely coded in the HVC during perception (i.e. RSC, PPA and OPA) and imagery (OPA and PPA). Also, visual information seems to be coded in both preferred and non-preferred regions of the HVC, supporting a distributed view of encoding. Overall, the present results shed light upon the spatial coding of imagined and perceived exemplars in the HVC
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