404 research outputs found
Design and performance evaluation of a Linux HPC cluster
No full textIn this paper after a short theoretical introduction about modern techniques used inparallel computing, we report a case study related to the design and development of the Caliban Linux High Performance Computing cluster, carried out by the author in the High Performance Computing Laboratory of the University of L’Aquila. Finally we report some performance evaluation tests related to the Caliban cluster performed using HPL (High-Performance Linpack) benchmarks
Speech at the assembly of the People’s Radical Party in Kragujevac
No full textTitle: Speech of Pera Todorović at the assembly of the People’s Radical Party in Kragujevac (1882) Language: Serbian The excerpts used are from Slobodan Jovanović, Bnaõa Muπaнa Oбpeнoeuћa (Belgrade: ГeЦa Кoh, 1926–1927), pp. 155–156. About the author Pera Todorovic [1852, Vodice (near Smederevo, east Serbia) – 1907, Belgrade]: politician and journalist. He was born into a well-off family. He first attended a secondary school in Kragujevac, later resuming his education at the gymnasium in Belg..
Accountability of NGOs in the Italian Legal Framework of International Adoption
No full textThe paper focuses on the accountability of private and public entities with competence
in the international adoption of minor children in the Italian legal framework.
The author detects sources of law, models, and operative rules implemented by
legislation, court rulings, and practitioners, distinguishing two different levels and
relationships.
The first involves the relationship between the Commission for International Adoption
and the NGOs, focusing on the nature of the NGOs (Non-governmental organizations)
which are private bodies with public functions that implement private rights, acting in the
public interest.
The second level involves the contractual relationship between the appointed NGO
and the aspiring parents.
The survey offers a critical perspective on some relevant issues, such as:
- the centrality of trust, in both the public and the private law domain, as a
fundamental element of the model;
- the nature and the contractual obligations of the NGOs who assist the prospective
parents; and
- alternative legal arguments that courts could follow to better protect the rights and
values of the parties involved, or to fill gaps in the rationales already adopted
COMPARING THE MARSHALL PLAN AND THE EUROPEAN NEXT GENERATION UE. Models and Legal Tools of International and Supernational Cooperation to Promote Economic Development
No full textThe article analyzes and compares the European Recovery Plan of 1948,
commonly known as the Marshall Plan, for the reconstruction of Europe after the
Second World War (paragraphs 2, 2.1, 2.2), and the Next Generation EU
(paragraphs 3, 3.1) through the lens and methods of legal comparison and
historical analysis.
As the description of the law cannot ignore the historicization of the object of study,
such comparison is carried out inductively, through the analysis of the legal
mechanisms in their concrete attitudes and the construction of descriptive
schemes of facts, having regard to the legal discipline, but also to the functional
profiles and the context in which the rules are conceived.
Therefore, the author attempts to frame the two different models of international
development cooperation by examining their forms and contents, as well as their
methodological approaches and governance tools. This essay also takes a critical
look at the system of controls called “vincoli esterni”, which can be translated as
external constraints or conditionalities. These controls are particularly relevant as
long as aid, grants and loans are conditional on plans for structural reforms of the
legal system (paragraphs 4, 4.1). The conclusive remarks point out how this system
of conditionalities – which for the state takes the form of a debt to give or not to
give, to do or not to do – can lead to forms of subordination and structural
homologation of the member states. It affects sovereignty, the way how powers
and competences are exercised, policy strategies and the relationship between the
“lender” and the “borrower” are conceived and practiced in concrete
The Public Performance Of Sanctions In Insolvency Cases: The Dark, Humiliating, And Ridiculous Side Of The Law Of Debt In The Italian Experience. A Historical Overview Of Shaming Practices
No full textThis study provides a diachronic comparative overview of how the law of debt has been applied by certain institutions in Italy. Specifically, it offers historical and comparative insights into the public performance of sanctions for insolvency through shaming and customary practices in Roman Imperial Law, in the Middle Ages, and in later periods.
The first part of the essay focuses on the Roman bonorum cessio culo nudo super lapidem and on the medieval customary institution called pietra della vergogna (stone of shame), which originates from the Roman model.
The second part of the essay analyzes the social function of the zecca and the pittima Veneziana during the Republic of Venice, and of the practice of lu soldate a castighe (no translation is possible).
The author uses a functionalist approach to apply some arguments and concepts from the current context to this historical analysis of ancient institutions that we would now consider ridiculous.
The article shows that the customary norms that play a crucial regulatory role in online interactions today can also be applied to the public square in the past. One of these tools is shaming. As is the case in contemporary online settings, in the public square in historic periods, shaming practices were used to enforce the rules of civility in a given community. Such practices can be seen as virtuous when they are intended for use as a tool to pursue positive change in forces entrenched in the culture, and thus to address social wrongs considered outside the reach of the law, or to address human rights abuses
Searching for a common core of family law in Europe
No full textIn this Article the Author, a member of the group of European investigators involved in the searching process for a Common Core of Family Law in Europe, does not want to present the results of
the project, that will be published in a forthcoming volume, but, instead, seeks to distinguish the
FLCCP (Family Law Common Core Project) from similar research experiences, such as the CEFL
(Commission of European Family Law) one.
In order to highlight these differences, in the first part (paragraphs 1,2,3) the paper describes the
goals of the Common Core Project and the methodology it employs, making references to the Cornell’s Studies, the Schlesinger’s factual approach and the Sacco’s formants theory.
In the second part, the analysis pinpoints the peculiarities of functionalism and the way the Common Core method re-interprets it on a large scale as a collaborative effort, because of the synergy
between the work of the national rapporteurs, the answers obtained through the questionnaires
and group sessions and reports (par. 4).
Further, the Article stresses the different goals of CEFL and FLCCP and argues how these differences concerning also their respective goals and methods affect the research’s results and the idea
of what the harmonization of family law (if any and possible) might be the expression of (par. 5).In the last part, the Author maps an alternative route to the harmonization of European family law,
which combines the use of European international private law regulations on family matters, the
concepts of private autonomy and Courts rulings, together with doctrine efforts (par. 6)
Islamic Rites and ceremonies in the Pandemic Emergency between Parallel Legal Orders
No full textThe essay investigates how some religious Islamic rules have been accommodated in front ofthe Covid emergency in some European countries and religious communities, highlighting the different and interconnected dimensions involved in this process of accommodation. The author uses the word country, having regard to the state-territorial legal order; and the word religious community, referring to the Islamic rule of law-religion model, based on a personal law conception. In particular, after some conceptual definition on some peculiar issues involved (para. 1), the analysis goes through some rules on funeral rites and ceremonies (para. 2) and on the sacred pilgrimages (para. 3).
The conclusive remarks (para. 4) underline how the Covid 19’s emergency has given a chance for forms of virtuous reasonable accommodation, looking forward areas of middle ground between parallel legal systems
Evolução do perfil sensorial de textura de pera Rocha durante o período de armazenamento
No full textIX Simpósio Ibérico de Maturação e Pós Colheita. Sessão Pós colheita de maçã e peraA textura é uma das principais características de qualidade da pera ‘Rocha’. Esta característica multidimensional tem uma complexidade mecânica e sensorial que não pode ser reduzida à simples avaliação da dureza. Este estudo teve por objetivo descrever o perfil sensorial da textura de pera ‘Rocha’ e as suas alterações durante o amadurecimento e ao longo do período de armazenamento. Frutos de pera ‘Rocha’ foram armazenados em quatro regimes distintos e analisados após 3, 5 e 7 meses de armazenamento a -0,5 ºC, em dois momentos após a retirada das câmaras. Foi efetuada a análise do perfil de textura sensorialmente com um painel treinado de 11 provadores de acordo com a norma ISO 11036:1994. O perfil de textura da pera ‘Rocha’ após 3 meses de armazenamento apresenta elevada dureza, fracturabilidade, coesividade, gomosidade e mastigabilidade, uma suculência intermédia, e reduzida adesividade e elasticidade. Com o amadurecimento da pera diminuiu a dureza, a fracturabilidade, a coesividade, a gomosidade e a mastigabilidade e aumentou a suculência e a adesividade. As variações do perfil sensorial de textura durante o amadurecimento pós-armazenamento foram equivalentes em frutos armazenados no ar ou em atmosfera controlada com 3 kPa de O2, mas distintos em peras tratadas com 1-metilciclopropeno (1-MCP). Frutos tratados apresentaram, nos diferentes períodos de armazenamento, valores de dureza, fracturabilidade, gomosidade e mastigabilidade superiores, enquanto a adesividade e coesividade foram inferiores aos dos frutos não-tratados. No período pós-armazenamento, frutos tratados com 1-MCP apresentaram dureza e fracturabilidade superior mas a mastigabilidade foi o atributo mais afetado pelo tratamento. Em períodos de armazenamento mais prolongados esta distinção é ainda mais notória pelos elevados níveis de mastigabilidade registados nos frutos tratadosinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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