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Progetto della Regolazione di Intersezioni Semaforizzate a Livello Locale: Uno stato dell'arte
No full textLA STRATEGIA DEL CAR SHARING PER UNA MOBILITÀ SOSTENIBILE. IL CASO GENOVA CON LA TIPOLOGIA DI CS «MISTO»
No full textTransportation systems with autonomous vehicles: Modeling issues and research perspectives
No full textWe are on the verge of a new revolution for road
transportation: automated, automatic, and/or connected vehicles
will soon be seen moving people and freight in urban areas and on
motorways as well, likely supporting the spread of both shared and
electric vehicles among travelers. But to turn all the existing stock
of traditional human-driven vehicles, most often privately owned,
will presumably take several years. Meanwhile both technologies
will co-exist and share the same facilities. The evaluation of the
impacts on network performance and user behavior requires
enhancements of the tools of the traffic and transportation theory
already available to modelers and planners. This paper proposes a
general overview of existing methods for traffic analysis and
control and for transportation systems analysis and design to test
whether they can still be applied as such, or with straightforward
enhancements, or new tools are needed
From Smart Apes to Human Brain Boxes. A Uniquely Derived Brain Shape in Late Hominins Clade
No full textModern humans have larger and more globular brains when compared to other primates. Such anatomical features are further reflected in the possession of a moderately asymmetrical brain with the two hemispheres apparently rotated counterclockwise and slid anteroposteriorly on one another, in what is traditionally described as the Yakovlevian torque. Developmental disturbance in human brain asymmetry, or lack thereof, has been linked to several cognitive disorders including schizophrenia and depression. More importantly, the presence of the Yakovlevian torque is often advocated as the exterior manifestation of our unparalleled cognitive abilities. Consequently, studies of brain size and asymmetry in our own lineage indirectly address the question of what, and when, made us humans, trying to trace the emergence of brain asymmetry and expansion of cortical areas back in our Homo antecedents. Here, we tackle this same issue by studying the evolution of human brain size, shape, and asymmetry on a phylogenetic tree including 19 apes and Homo species, inclusive of our fellow ancestors. We found that a significant positive shift in the rate of brain shape evolution pertains to the clade including modern humans, Neanderthals, and Homo heidelbergensis. Although the Yakovlevian torque is well evident in these species and levels of brain asymmetry are correlated to changes in brain shape, further early Homo species possess the torque. Even though a strong allometric component is present in hominoid brain shape variability, this component seems unrelated to asymmetry and to the rate shift we recorded. These results suggest that changes in brain size and asymmetry were not the sole factors behind the fast evolution of brain shape in the most recent Homo species. The emergence of handedness and early manifestations of cultural modernity in the archeological record nicely coincide with the same three species sharing the largest and most rapidly evolving brains among all hominoids. © Copyright © 2020 Melchionna, Profico, Castiglione, Sansalone, Serio, Mondanaro, Di Febbraro, Rook, Pandolfi, Di Vincenzo, Manzi and Raia
Paolo Febbraro (Roma, 1965)
No full textPaolo Febbraro se dedica a la docencia en centros de enseñanza superior. Lo mejor de su actividad poética está representada en la obra en verso y prosa Il Diario di Kaspar Hauser (2003; versión española de Bruno Mesa El Diario de Kaspar Hauser, 2015; versión inglesa de Anthony Molino The Diary of Kaspar Hauser, 2016) y en los volúmenes Il bene materiale (2008) y Fuori per l?inverno (2014). Sus versos han sido traducidos al español, inglés, francés y árabe. Como crítico ha publicado libros sobre Aldo Palazzeschi, Umberto Saba y Primo Levi. Su obra ensayística más relevante es L?idiota. Una storia letteraria (2011), en la que individualiza la figura del extraño en diversas obras maestras de la tradición occidental, de los griegos al siglo XX, pasando por Lucrecio, Maquiavelo, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Diderot, Stendhal, Melville y Dostoyevski. En 2015 se publicó el volumen Leggere Seamus Heaney, en el que se reúnen versos y fragmentos en prosa del autor irlandés. I grandi fatti, aparecido en 2016, recoge cuentos y breves textos en prosa escritos a lo largo de veinte años. Recientemente ha publicado Poesia d?oggi. Un?antologia italiana, obra que culmina, y tal vez agota, su larga actividad de crítico militante
La strategia del car-sharing per una mobilità sostenibile. Il caso di Genova con la tipologia di CS 'misto
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