627 research outputs found
Sherry Crawford, Debbie Rotolo, and Marion Sell Oral History Interview
No full textDuring the tenure of Tampa Mayor Sandy Freedman (1986-1995), Sherry Crawford, Debbie Rotolo, and Marion Sell all served as executive aides in the mayor\u27s office. Some of the topics they discuss include the mayor\u27s Model Cities Program, the United Way, Paint Your Heart Out, and downtown development issues. The interview ends with a discussion of various visiting dignitaries including Al Gore, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Simmons, Bill Clinton, and author James Michener
Historical Pollution and the Prominence of Criminal Law Enforcement in Italy
No full textThe chapter is dedicated to the Italian system and focuses on the criminal enforcement of historical pollution, which is presented within the legal regime and critically discussed. Due to the lack of “tailor-made” regulation and of pertinent crimes, in order to tackle cases of historical pollution, case law has often recurred to extensive interpretation mainly of felonies conceived to protect public safety. However, such a choice represents the infringement of fundamental principles and the debasement of legal rules. In this respect, issues concerning causation, mens rea, the extension of the range of responsible parties, and the statute of limitation are discussed. Several snapshots are finally presented on the new legal regime which has introduced several felonies explicitly dedicated to environmental protection. The author opines that, in the absence of consistent case law, it is doubtful whether the new legal tools—although innovative—can guarantee greater effectiveness in respect of criminal enforcement, since the legal provisions do not fit the basic traits of historical pollution
Marriage record of Nardini, Giovanbattista and Rotolo, Francesca
No full textMarriage license for Giovanbattista Nardini and Francesca Rotolo. Philip F. Licata was the Notary Public
Historical Pollution: In Search of a Legal Definition
No full textThe chapter introduces and investigates the concept of “historical pollution” in the context of environmental law. The subject is complex, as the principal consideration in our analysis concerns the role of time in the causation of harmful consequences (both for the environment and human health), notably in view of the prolonged timeframe that separates the conduct (pollution) and the effect (contamination). The phenomenon under scrutiny has significant implications for both the legal and the social fields. Indeed, legal enforcement of putative crimes against the environment is generally ineffective precisely because of this temporal factor, and this also has consequences for social perceptions and the dynamics of victimization. Yet these considerations could also contribute to a definition of historical pollution, as— given the complexity and uncertainties that surround the phenomenon—they suggest ways in which material cases could be used to frame a general understanding of the concept. Attention here is focused on pollution related to industrial activities since such cases are prominent in the field. The proposed definition strives to establish a general framework within which domestic analyses can be located, consistent with the particularities of each legal system. It represents one of the first steps into the unexplored terrain of historical pollution
Profili di responsabilità medica alla 'luce' della medicina narrativa
No full textTraendo spunto da alcuni riferimenti letterari, il lavoro mira a introdurre gli aspetti più significativi della medicina narrativa, quale sviluppo del filone culturale che suggerisce un confronto costruttivo tra medicina e letteratura. In particolare, si delineano le differenze di approccio e i punti di incontro tra la Narrative Based e la Evidence Based Medicine.
In questa prospettiva il saggio si propone di illustrare quale apporto la medicina narrativa possa offrire al dibattito attorno ad alcune questioni centrali in tema di responsabilità medica: l’ossequio ai contenuti delle linee guida e la rilevanza del consenso informato del paziente.
L’approccio narrativo alla pratica medica, da un lato, sembra poter innalzare gli standard qualitativi della prestazione sanitaria, dall’altro, anche favorendo la realizzazione di una piena alleanza terapeutica tra il medico e il paziente, garantisce un freno alla diffusione di pratiche difensivistiche.Inspired by some literary references, the essay aims at outlining the main features of narrative medicine, such as the development of the cultural trend that suggests a constructive dialogue between medicine and literature. Specifically, the author attempts to define the differences in approach and the overlaps between Narrative Based and Evidence Based Medicine.
Under this perspective, the work seeks to illustrate what kind of contribution narrative medicine may offer to the debate concerning some key aspects of the medical liability field, in particular with regards to the contents of medical guidelines and patients’ informed consent.
Thus, the paper explains how the narrative approach to medical practice could raise the quality standards of the health care service by means of driving toward a full therapeutic alliance between physicians and patients. Among the positive aspects of such a trend, the author highlights how the narrative method put a brake on the spread of medical practitioners’ defensive practices
From Defeasible Logic to Counterfactual Reasoning
No full textCounterfactual reasoning has been the subject of extensive study in philosophy, logics, and AI. The connection between counterfactual reasoning and theory revision is well-known since Ramsey's intuition, according to which "to find out whether the counterfactual `if A were true, then B would be true' is satisfied in a state S, change the state S minimally to include A, and test whether B is satisfied in the resulting state". In this paper we study how to model this idea in Defeasible Logic for devising logics for counterfactual reasoning and suitable selection function models
Text-mining historical sources to trace technological change: The case of mass production
No full textThis paper explores the use of large-scale and longitudinal textual analysis of historical sources to trace technological change over periods longer than 100 years. The notion of technical change has been central to research efforts in Economics of Innovation, Science Policy and Innovation Studies, and Science and Technology Studies. Research efforts in these areas have focused on different aspects of technological change: these ranging from examining the determinants of technological trajectories on the basis of quantitative analysis of technological artifacts, to investigating the socio-technical factors shaping technological evolution on the basis of qualitative historical case studies. Building upon recent advances in text-mining techniques, this paper examines to what extent technological and social aspects can be jointly explored with the analysis of historical textual sources. To do so, the paper explores how these techniques can be used to trace technical change, to explore controversies relating to the acceptance of technologies, and to map the diffusion of technologies across socio-technical systems using the case of mass production
Inference to the Stable Explanations
No full textThe process of explaining a piece of evidence by constructing a set of assumptions that are a good explanation for that evidence is ubiquitous in real-life (e.g. in legal systems). In this paper, we introduce, discuss, and formalise the notion of stable explanations in a non-monotonic setting. We show how, while applying it to the process of (1) computing a set of literals able to (2) derive a conclusion (3) from a set of defeasible rules, we obtain a restricted version of the notion of abduction. This is both interesting and useful: when an explanation for a given conclusion is stable, it can, in fact, be used to infer the same conclusion independently of other pieces of evidence that are found afterwards
Deontic meta-rules
No full textThe use of meta-rules in logic, i.e., rules whose content includes other rules, has recently gained attention in the setting of non-monotonic reasoning: a first logical formalisation and efficient algorithms to compute the (meta)-extensions of such theories were proposed in Olivieri et al. (2021, Computing defeasible meta-logic. In JELIA 2021, LNCS, vol. 12678, pp. 69-84. Springer.). This work extends such a logical framework by considering the deontic aspect. The resulting logic will not just be able to model policies but also tackle well-known aspects that occur in numerous legal systems. The use of Defeasible Logic to model meta-rules in the application area we just alluded to has been investigated. Within this line of research, the study mentioned above was not focusing on the general computational properties of meta-rules.This study fills this gap with two major contributions. First, we introduce and formalise two variants of Defeasible Deontic Logic (DDL) with meta-rules to represent (i) defeasible meta-theories with deontic modalities and (ii) two different types of conflicts among rules: Simple Conflict DDL and Cautious Conflict DDL. Second, we advance efficient algorithms to compute the extensions for both variants
Dal mantello terrestre ai vulcani. Uno sguardo al vulcanismo degli ultimi 2 Ma nel Mediterraneo.
No full textGli esperimenti ad alta pressione e temperatura (petrologia sperimentale) sono il mezzo più efficace di cui si dispone per la conoscenza dell’interno della Terra, dalla crosta al nucleo. Gli apparati necessari alla riproduzione delle temperature (comprese tra i 1000 e gli oltre 3500 °C) e pressioni variabili dai 10 kbar agli oltre 3 Mbar (corrispondenti a profondità comprese tra 30 e 5000 km), sono particolarmente sofisticati e sono accoppiati a raffinati metodi di analisi dei prodotti sperimentali (durante e dopo gli esperimenti). A questo tipo di studi si deve la conoscenza dell’ interno della Terra, soprattutto della Terra Inaccessibile (mantello inferiore e nucleo), avendo permesso di caratterizzare le importanti modifiche nella struttura dei minerali che costituiscono il mantello, ma anche lo stato fisico del nucleo esterno liquido, la sua T di solidificazione e lo stato cristallino del Fe nel nucleo interno. Relativamente alla formazione del nucleo si fa riferimento al magma ocean primordiale ed alle komatiiti.
Vengono poi brevemente discussi i meccanismi di fusione parziale del mantello superiore, la genesi dei basalti ed il legame con la geodinamica globale, con esempi direttamente attinenti il vulcanismo recente peri-Siciliano, un sistema condensato che sembra racchiudere in sé molti dei motivi principali enucleati precedentemente
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