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INTERDISCIPLINARITY, ETHICS AND TERRITORIAL PLANNING
No full textRepresenting a phenomenon of social aggregation, the settlements of the rock civilization of Fasano and Monopoli in Brindisi, Italy and their recovery, is one of the objectives pursued by the technical-scientific committee of the San Domenico Foundation, which involves experts at national and international level. This paper, presented at the 8th International Conference, intends to highlight how art, as a testimony of these settlements in the area of this rock civilization, is not attributable only to beauty, but also to ethics, and as such, is synonymous with identity. This leads to concepts and meanings deriving from interdisciplinarity, sustainability, planning, territorial development, as well as the need to train a specialized and multi-faceted professional figure who is qualified to operate in the field of the protection and valorisation of the past, in order to be able to competently pass it on through to the future
VIRUS, ART AND FAITH: HOW TO RESPOND TO COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019)
No full text“We are not living an epoch of change so much as an epochal change”, to quote Pope Francis. And in this new world full of new challenges, difficult to understand, the pandemic has prevented us from having direct and indirect contact, from sharing, from alterity. And in art, a well-known introspective tool for exploring the soul and the body, what are the responses and reactions in considering the present dramatic and lasting pandemic moment? And can faith offer a new perspective in a world where the main social projects have proved inadequate? That is to say the same faith from which the need to develop research, in all its forms and levels, starting with scientific research, as a service and as a way to invest in “construction”
Design Between Art, Technologies and Science
No full textDesign, understood as the planning and realizing of a project for a complex, material or conceptual object, has acquired diversified meanings over the years. Among them, designer objects, expressed by the civilization that created them, bear witness to the close relationship existing between goods and works of art. Consequently, design, as an expression of creativity, is a point of convergence for beauty of form, technology and functionality and thus, for art and science
TestGraphia, Document Analysis-Based Diagnosis of Dysgraphia
No full textDysgraphia is a disease related to handwriting and affects the size and distance of the characters and orthography. Patients with dysgraphia may have difficulties in motor skills and can hardly write down what they think. Dysgraphia symptoms are not rare but often are temporary. There are no specific causes known that can lead to dysgraphia, and then it is impossible to prevent it. For these reasons, it is crucial to find out dysgraphia; traditional methods are based on specific paper forms and rules to diagnose a suspect of dysgraphia. In this paper, we present a document analysis-based diagnosis process to support doctors to formulate a diagnosis. The medical examination can be completed in a short time. This system allows also large screening activities reducing any effort and permits a remote doctor-patient relationship: while it is being developed as a web-application, and due to its ease of use, it could be used at home, eventually revealing early symptoms
Improving the healthcare effectiveness: The possible role of EHR, IoMT and Blockchain
Full text linkNew types of patient health records aim to help physicians shift from a medical practice, often based on their personal experience, towards one of evidence based medicine, thus improving the communication among patients and care providers and increasing the availability of personal medical information. These new records, allowing patients and care providers to share medical data and clinical information, and access them whenever they need, can be considered enabling Ambient Assisted Living technologies. Furthermore, new personal disease monitoring tools support specialists in their tasks, as an example allowing acquisition, transmission and analysis of medical images. The growing interest around these new technologies poses serious questions regarding data integrity and transaction security. The huge amount of sensitive data stored in these new records surely attracts the interest of malicious hackers, therefore it is necessary to guarantee the integrity and the maximum security of servers and transactions. Blockchain technology can be an important turning point in the development of personal health records. This paper discusses some issues regarding the management and protection of health data exchanged through new medical or diagnostic devices
Artificial intelligence and IoT for water saving in agriculture: A systematic review
Full text linkSmart irrigation and fertigation offer three key benefits: sustainability through water conservation, increased productivity via targeted fertigation that activates only when necessary, and enhanced efficiency through remote control and high-precision sensors. This document presents a comprehensive review of the most significant innovations in this field over the past five years. The main components analyzed include sensors for monitoring and data acquisition, protocols and Internet of Things architectures for network management, and Artificial Intelligence models for decision-making and predictions. This study followed the PRISMA 2020 protocol and made use of data from Scopus and Web of Science. A total of 130 articles were identified as relevant and examined in detail. Alongside summarizing the collected articles, the review also includes an analysis of proposed future developments to inspire new research and drive innovation in this domain
Analytical-diagnostic and computing technologies for the attribution, authentication and economic evaluation of art works
No full textThis study, addresses the specific subject relating to the formulation of the economic value of art works in connection with their attribution and authentication. Through this process, which also includes regulatory issues, it follows that the current problem in the field of forgery and, in general inauthentic works, is precisely that of ascertaining, by means of scientific methods, whether a work of art is authentic or not.With this aim in mind, the following research project has been proposed and aims to develop the right methodological path to use to achieve this aim. It includes a cognitive phase involving aesthetic, stylistic, iconographic, and historical analysis and concludes with a technical-experimental phase in which diagnostic-analytical and computer technologies are employed.On completion of the research, combined the diagnostic and analytical results, as well as the development of software allowing the style of a particular artist to be identified, will provide a valuable contribution to the various and complex issues relating to the attribution and authentication of art works
Integrating building information modeling and augmented reality to improve investigation of historical buildings
No full textThis paper describes an experimental system to support investigation of historical buildings using Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Augmented Reality (AR). The system requires the use of an off-line software to build the BIM representation and defines a method to integrate diagnostic data into BIM. The system offers access to such information during site investigation using AR glasses supported by marker and marker-less technologies. The main innovation is the possibility to contextualize through AR not only existing BIM properties but also results from non-invasive tools. User evaluations show how the use of the system may enhance the perception of engineers during the investigation process
Crop planting layout optimization in sustainable agriculture: A constraint programming approach
Full text linkIn sustainable agriculture, intercropping systems represent a valuable approach. These systems involve placing mutually beneficial plant types in close proximity to each other, with the goal of exploiting biodiversity to reduce pesticide and water usage, as well as improve soil nutrient utilization. Despite its potential, the optimization of intercropping systems has received limited attention in previous studies. One of the first steps in the design of an intercropping system is the solution of the crop planting layout problem, which involves meeting crop demand while maximizing positive interactions between adjacent plants. We perform a complexity analysis of this problem and solve it through constraint programming, an artificial intelligence technique, which relies on automated reasoning, constraint propagation and search heuristics. To this aim, we present two constraint programming models based on integer variables and interval variables, respectively. Through a computational study on real-life instances, we examine the impact of different modelling approaches on the difficulty of solving the crop planting layout problem with standard constraint programming solvers. This research work has also provided the groundwork for a sowing robotic arm (under development), aiming to automate intercropping systems and assist farm workers
3D visualization and virtual reality for cultural heritage diagnostic
No full textOver the last years a lot of new technologies for Cultural Heritage Diagnostic have been developed in these years. In particular laser scanner surveys integrated with digital photogrammetry and also multi-spectral surveys have begun to become very useful and inalienable tools for not invasive diagnosis. Inside SIDART Project (Integrated System for Cultural Heritage Diagnostic) we developed software for visualize and elaborate triangulated surfaces coming from high resolution laser scanner survey. In this paper we wanted to present the most innovative aspect of our study, consisting in the possibility to visualize and to work in default mode or in immersive Stereoscopy (3D mode). In this way the operator can perceive the third dimension and the "virtual investigation" of the object become more realistic. This let to take consideration in more simple, natural and correct way and also reduce the possibility to make evaluation mistakes due to the false prospective of the classic visualization
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