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Autoaggressività nel TS femminile
No full textVengono presentati cinque casi di tentato suicidio, ritenuti più frequenti presso i soggetti femminile per ragioni sociali ed educative.We present five cases of attempted suicide considered to be more frequent among female subjects due social and educational reasons
Experimental demonstration of a smart homes network in Rome
No full textAccording to the European Strategy Energy Technology (SET) Plan, the resident-user engagement into the national energy strategy is pivotal to the project as it is considered to be one of the most important challenges. The Italian Minister of Economic Development and ENEA has entered into a Programme Agreement for the execution of the research and development lines of General Interest for the National Electricity System. In particular, as part of the “Development of an integrated model of the Urban Smart District” a Smart Home network experimentation has been carried out in Centocelle, in the south-eastern outskirt of Rome. This project aims to develop a replicable model able to monitor energy consumption, indoor comfort degree and safety in residential buildings. Then raw data are transmitted to a higher level ICT platform where they are analysed and aggregated to provide the user and the community with a series of constructive and valuable feedback. All this information can shed light on the user’s behaviour patterns and what ought to be improved to increase their energy awareness. The heart of the system is the Energy Box (EB) that allows to control all the devices (sensors and actuators) and to transform each and every home into an active node of a smart network. It lets the user share data and information with the outside world as well as to increase residents’ sense of involvement and belonging to the community, providing them with new forms of interaction. In perspective, the system architecture aims to transform each user from a mere consumer into an active participant in the energy market, able to control demand (demand-side management). Finally, the brand-new home digital infrastructure is paving the way to a series of additional services, such as assisted living and home security
L'OPINIONE DEGLI STUDENTI SU PRINCIPI ETICI ED ECONOMICI ATTINENTI L'ASSISTENZA SANITARIA
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Challenges and opportunities of Blockchain technology in the energy sector
No full textThis article analyzes entrepreneurial start-up initiatives that have developed energy solutions based on Block chain and DLT (Distributed Ledger Technologies) and wide-ranging projects. The most innovative cases summarized by a swot analysis were examined. Finally, a concept of a possible application of Block chain technology is presented to manage the flexibility applied to a microgrid from the DSO point of view
Smart homes and assisted living as an additional service offered to the users
No full textFor several years, ENEA has been conducting a research project funded by the Ministry of Economic Development, within a broader context that envisages the "development of an integrated Smart Urban District model". Among the objectives of the project, there is the development of a replicable Smart Home model capable of stimulating energy savings and, at the same time, offering innovative services that aim to improve the quality of life of end users, in particular fragile users as well as older people. This paper presents the integration on the Smart Home developed architecture of a useful additional assisted living service, namely "MySignals" service, which is able to monitor the vital parameters of home users
A RAMS analysis for a precision scale-up configuration of the ‘Smart Street’ pilot site: An industry 4.0 case study
No full textIn order to develop a scale-up for a ‘Smart Street’ pilot site, we perform a RAMS analysis: the combination of Reliability Analysis and FMECA helps to identify the best configuration to scale up systems without incurring in marginally reliable configurations, allowing refining an Industry 4.0 Case Study
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Comparing the thermal performance of Living Lab monitoring and simulation with different level of input detail
Full text linkDynamic envelope solutions are critical to achieve comfort conditions minimizing the need of active air conditioning systems, emphasizing the potential of thermal adaption of the building occupants.
Dynamic systems are, however, difficult to be implemented in European building energy certification schemes, based on semi-stationary calculation method, standard uses and reference boundary conditions. In the attempt to develop a flexible and dynamic method able to reduce the performance gap between real and expected performance, this paper presents the comparison between measurements and simulations of a Living Lab office operated in thermal free floating, with different strategies for the solar protection and the night ventilative cooling. Simulations were performed using the dynamic platform PREDYCE, which allows for manipulating monitored and simulated data. The first phase was dedicated to the model calibration using the indoor air temperature as relevant indicator against monitored data. The coefficient of variation of the root mean squared error is in the 8-9% range. Building simulations of the calibrated model demonstrated a large variation of the results as a function of the input data, with increase of discomfort hour up to a factor 20 and a reduction of discomfort hours up to 95%
The technology of Copper Age funerary pottery from Central Italy. An integrated study of compositional analyses and manufacturing traces
Full text linkThe paper focuses on ceramic vessels unearthed from Copper Age necropolises located in the area of the modern city of Rome and commonly attributed to the Rinaldone culture. The peculiar vessels’ shapes, mainly associated with the consumption of beverages, their accuracy of manufacture and the very low impact of these ceramic morphologies in the coeval household assemblages lead to the study of such an apparently selected production through a multidisciplinary research. Petrographic analysis, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) integrated with the analysis of manufacturing traces and X-ray investigation suggest the transmission of technological choices, which remained unchanged over almost two millennia
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