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Earthquake preparation and warning: science, methods and technologies
No full textThe paper aims at giving suggestions for a deterministic approach to earthquake warning based on combined ground and space observations of earthquake precursors and related theoretical modeling. On the occasion of a destructive earthquake often a strong debate arises between administrators, engineers, specialists in applied geophysics and seismology, technicians of local and civil services, and authorities that need to take adequate measures for assistance and protection of the population and reconstruction of houses and infrastructures. But on the same occasion also a question about a possible prediction of the event and prevention damage arises in the people and scientists, which of course, can not receive any exhaustive answer. Under the emotional stress of people involved in the disaster, often there are also misleading overlapping proposals and procedures, misdirections and not constructive solutions. A possible contribution to earthquake warning and prediction may be given by observations and physical modeling of earthquake precursors aim at seeing in perspective the phenomenon earthquake within the framework of a unified theory able to explain the causes of its genesis, and the dynamics, rheology, and microphysics of its preparation, occurrence, post-seismic relaxation, and inter-seismic phases. Unfortunately, up to now what is lacking is the demonstration of a causal relationship (with explained physical processes and looking for a correlation) between data gathered simultaneously and continuously by space observations and ground-based measurements. In doing this, modern and/or new methods and technologies have to be adopted to try to solve the problem. Coordinated space and ground-based observations imply available test sites on the Earth surface to correlate ground data, collected by appropriate networks of instruments, with space ones detected on board of Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellites. Moreover, a new strong theoretical scientific effort is necessary to try to understand the physics of earthquake(s). Within this framework a few projects and experiments have been carried out on the subject by our team and accompanied by specific theoretical interpretations. They are reported in the paper. As an introduction and justification to these studies the paper also clarifies some basic concepts, critical and methodological aspects concerning deterministic and statistic approaches, and their use in earthquake prediction and warning
The "Psychiatric Information System AMDP-based": a proposal for a computerized Clinical record
No full textPsychiatric Information System AMDP-based (PISA-system): un sistema di gestione automatica della cartella clinica psichiatrica
No full textIllusory Figures: From Logic to Phenomenology
No full textGestalt and cognitive-Bayesian approaches considered incompleteness as a necessary and sufficient factor for illusory figure formation. In this work, the role of incompleteness has been explored in terms of its inner logic and through an accurate phenomenal analysis of counterexamples and limiting or critical conditions. They demonstrated a bunch of logical issues and paradoxes, and, more importantly, that incompleteness is neither sufficient nor necessary to induce illusory figures. These issues are strongly reduced and possibly solved when the incompleteness is replaced by more simple concepts concerning interacting boundaries, grouping and surface filling-in processes during figure-ground segregation
Psychiatric Information System AMDP-based (PISA system) Versione 1.01, 1992. Manuale d'uso + floppy disk di istallazione
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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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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