124 research outputs found
Experimenting the use of value models as boundary objects in conceptual PSS design
No full textThe paper presents the results of experimental activities aiming at investigating the role of ‘value models’ as ‘boundary objects’ that facilitate cross-functional discussions in the PSS conceptual design phase. The experiment featured 6 separate sessions involving a total of 22 students in the final year of three different Master Programmes. In the sessions participants were asked to redesign an asphalt compactor and to use different types of design decision support for this task, namely value models vs. requirements checklists. The recordings from the experiment were analysed using protocol analysis to compare the behaviour of teams. The results confirm the hypothesis that, compared to traditional requirement checklists, value models emphasizes activities related to the clarification (1) of the problem domain and needs and (2) of the lifecycle aspects of a solution concept. Both results suggest that value models have the ability to facilitate cross-boundary discussion in the early phases of the PSS design process, and to act as boundary objects that provide a common platform for knowledge sharing within the cross-functional team.open access</p
"Par un ennemi qu'on sait digne de soi": la lunga traccia delle coppie antinomiche
No full textThe contribution deals with antinomic couples, actual rivalries, symbolic confrontations; it is part of a discussion among scholars about the subject, in a column edited by the author and Niccolò Scaffa
Una faccenda pirandelliana. Avventure del personaggio
No full textIl saggio è incentrato su tipico problema novecentesco che trova particolare evidenza nell’opera di Pirandello: lo statuto del personaggio, le sue metamorfosi, il rapporto sempre più problematico con l’autore. Il punto di partenza è un motivo ricorrente nell’opera pirandelliana, “l’assedio dei personaggi”, che permette di mettere a fuoco alcune questioni-chiave e soprattutto un procedimento retorico che avrà ampio sviluppo nella letteratura e nell’arte del Novecento: la metalessi. Su questa base, l’analisi procede oltre Pirandello e viene estesa a due casi particolarmente significativi, esempi rispettivamente di metalessi del personaggio e di metalessi dell’autore: Le Vol d’Icare di Raymond Queneau e The French Lieutenant’s Woman di John Fowles.The paper focuses on a main topic in Twentieth Century literature and particularly significant in Pirandello’s work: the status of the literary character and his problematic relationship with the author. The starting point of the analysis is the “besieging character”, a recurring motif in Pirandello’s work that allows to point out some key issues and in particular a rhetorical device widespread in Twentieth Century art and literature: the metalepsis. This argument provides the theoretical ground to go beyond Pirandello and analyze two significant case-studies in which we can observe, respectively, the metalepsis of the character and the metalepsis of the author: Le Vol d’Icare by Raymond Queneau and The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
La Sicilia nell’Italia dialettale di Giulio Bertoni. I tratti fonetici
No full textIn 1916, Bertoni published his essay Italia dialettale in addition to the fundamental studies of Diez, Meyer-Lübke, D’Ovidio and, of course, Ascoli, on which Bertoni builds his geolinguistic reference framework. In that year a series of essays, specifically dedicated to some phonetic aspects of the Sicilian dialect, had already been written by German linguists on one hand and Sicilian folklorists on the other. The only Sicilian linguist at that time was Giacomo De Gregorio whose Saggio di fonetica siciliana (1890) appears among the bibliographic references of Bertoni’s work along with that of Heinrich Schneegans (Laute und Lautentwickelung des sicilianischen Dialects) published in 1888. This contribution discusses Bertoni’s treatment of the information he draws from the two bibliographic sources he quoted, apropos of the phonetic aspects, which more than any other aspects have determined the placement of the Sicilian varieties within the framework of Italian dialects. In particular, it is noted that in the work of 1916 ― particularly appreciated for the considerations made on the principles and methods of geolinguistics as well as for the accurate examination of some dialectal areas ― Bertoni does not go into the merits of some aspects of the internal variation within Sicilian linguistics, even if documented in his bibliographic sources. In particular, he disregards those aspects of tonic vocalism (the treatment of Ĕ and Ŏ) on which Giorgio Piccitto based his classification of the Sicilian varieties in 1951. In other contributions along the way on the question of Sicilian pentavocalism (lastly in his Profilo linguistico dell’Italia 1940), Bertoni expressed, instead, different hypotheses regarding the reasons of the closure of ẹ in i and ọ in u. Also with regard to consonant order, the author of Italia dialettale contemplates some internal variants in Sicily but does not always
take into account the information available from his bibliographic sources, and particularly from De Gregorio’s essay. The hypothesis is that Bertoni
neglects some data ― and moreover any related explanations ― offered by De Gregorio concerning variation, both of vocalism and consonantism, because the Sicilian scholar had become unreliable having firmly supported the Emilian origin of the Gallo-Italic varieties of the Island
Extended realities and discrete events simulations : A systematic review to define design trade-offs and directions
No full textExtended Reality (XR) technologies are increasingly popular to support the engagement of different audiences and stakeholders with Discrete Event Simulations (DES) due to their capability to deliver more accessible visual and immersive experiences. XR applications can be developed either using modules integrated into DES software or game engines, providing different sets of opportunities in the environment design. However, there is a lack of development guidelines for such environments, considering visualization, information presentation, interaction, and navigation aspects. The paper presents a systematic review of the use of XR for DES, relating the results to XR design heuristics to identify and discuss major design tradeoffs. Finally, a case study from the mining sector is exemplified to illustrate possible. solutions to balance the trade-offs. © 2024 The Author
The Political Economy of EU Agri-environmental measures: An empirical Assessment at the Regional Level
No full textThe paper deals with the political economy determinants of EU agri-environmental measures (AEMs) applied by 59 regional/country units, during the 2001-2004 period. Five different groups of determinants, spanning from positive and negative externalities to political institutions, are highlighted and tested using an econometric model. The main results suggest that AEMs implementation is mostly affected by the strength of farm lobbies, political institutions and the demand for positive externalities. On the contrary, AEMs do not seem implemented by the willingness to address negative externalities.Agri-environmental Measures, Political Economy, EU Regions, Environmental Economics and Policy,
Estudo de Derivas Ionosféricas em Săo Luis (MA) e Cachoeira Paulista (SP), por Meio de Ionossonda Digital
No full textDodomeira bertoni Bello
No full textDodomeira bertoni Bellò & Baviera sp. n. (Figures 28, 28a, 28b, 28c, 28d, 28e, 28f, 43e, 87, 126) Type locality. Sicily, Palermo, Monreale, Giacalone (Fig. 168). Diagnosis. A small-sized Dodomeira (3.40–3.70 mm) belonging to the pfisteri group with slender body (length/width ratio: 1.70–1.71) and quite cylindrical elytra shape. Within the species group, it is recognisable by elytra elongate with spatulate flattened setae (00°–15°) and protibia with three acute spines on inner edge. Sizes: pronotum (length: 0.75–0.85 mm, width: 0.80–0.90 mm, ratio 0.94), elytra (length: 2.1 7– 2.35 mm, width: 1.27– 1.38 mm, ratio 1.70–1.71). Type series. Holotype female with the following labels: [transparent label] genitalia in DHMF // [white, printed] ♀ // [white, handwritten]"Giacalone, PA [Palermo], 18.XI. [19]’90, leg. Bellò” // [white, printed]”Sotto pietra” // [green, printed] “Collezione Cesare Bellò” // [red, printed] “ Dodomeira bertoni sp. n., Holotype, det. Bellò 2016 ” (CBE). Paratypes. 1 female: "Giacalone, PA [Palermo], sotto pietra, 18.XI. [19] ’90, leg. Bellò” (CBA); 1 female:"Monreale, PA [Palermo], Giacalone, sotto pietra, 18.XI. [19] ’90, leg. Pierotti” (HPI). Types are three (all females). Holotype. Female. Slender body with elongate-cylindrical elytra. Total length: 3.40 mm. Dorsal vestiture with very imbricate, golden-brown scales with metallic sheen. Rostrum covered by golden-brown scales, quite sub-square (length/width ratio 0.85), sub-parallel to the sides. Pterygia barely protruding from the rostrum. Epistome absent. Mesorostrum slightly concave, anteriorly with twelve thin, curved, short and semi-erect setae. Vertex quite wide and convex (vertex width / mesorostrum width: ratio 1.84) with several, elongate, clavate-spatulate, raised setae. Interocular space with visible fovea. Lateral, quite small, convex eyes barely protruding from outline of head. Antenna quite robust and short with recumbent, golden-silvery, widened setae. Antenna with ratio 0.76 (scape length: 0.65 mm, funicle length: 0.85 mm). Scape clubbed, slightly more robust than funicle, curved at the basal third and progressively thickening towards apex. Funicle segments including club, relative lengths as follows: 8.4.3.4.3.3.3.15; all segments with widened setae silvery; and segments 5–7 pearl-shaped. Club at least twice wider than funicle, elongate, fusiform with suture between first and second segment visible. Pronotum clothed with golden-brown scales, quite sub-square (length: 0.75 mm, width: 0.80 mm, ratio: 0.94), sub-conical, with maximum width in the middle, less wide at base of its anterior margin, with short, clavatespatulate, golden flattened setae. Punctation usually covered by scales. Scutellum not visible. Elytra (length: 2.17 mm, width: 1.27 mm, ratio: 1.71) quite vaulted dorsally, cylindrical, covered by goldenbrown scales, with flat suture, wider at the middle. Elytral declivity with quite spatulate and flattened setae (00°– 15°). Punctation of striae, shallow, rather catenulate and impressed. Interstriae flat, with spatulate-clavate, short, golden, flattened setae. Humeri short and rounded. Legs short and robust clothed by golden-brown scales and rather short, widened golden setae. Femora little clubbed. Protibia with three acute spines on inner edge, with evident mucro on inner apical angle. Protibia quite sinuous on inner edge, metatibia and mesotibia straight in side view. Tarsal segment 1 short, conical; segment 2 very short and transverse; segment 3 shallowly bilobed; all segments with thin golden setae. Onychium curved, robust and very short. Claws very short and fused at base. Female genitalia. See Figures: spermatheca (Fig. 87), sternite VIII (Fig. 126). Genitalia were examined in two specimens. Paratype variability. All paratypes are females and differs only in size. Distribution. See Fig. 141. Italian endemic. Known only from the type locality, Giacalone at 700–800 meters a.s.l.. Etymology. This species named after Berton (Rita & Piero), friends of the first author, in appreciation of their important graphic contribution in this and other works. Ecology and Phenology. Collected during a rainy month of November on a slope calcareous looking at the edges or under small stones. Repeated investigations in the spring and summer gave negative results suggesting that D. bertoni are absent during this time. Main soil type. Cambisol (European Soil Data Centre; Panagos et al. 2012). Reproduction. Probably parthenogenetic. Species known from three females. Chorological relationships. Sympatric with Dolichomeira dubia Pierotti & Bellò, 1994.Published as part of Baviera, Cosimo, 2017, A taxonomic monograph of the genus Dodomeira Bellò & Baviera, a new genus of Peritelini from Sicily (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 4334 (1) on pages 85-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4334.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/100986
The ant or the grasshopper? The long-term consequences of Unilateral Divorce Laws on savings of European households
No full textUnilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) allow people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to UDLs for a longer period of time accumulate more savings. This effect holds for both financial and total wealth and is stronger at higher quantiles of the wealth distribution. Consistent with a precautionary motive for savings, we also find that exposure to UDLs increases female labour supply, numeracy, trust in others and dispositional optimism. (C) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V
Karol Bertoni (1876-1967) – the forgotten co-founder of the Polish foreign service
No full textArtykuł poświęcony jest jednemu z twórców polskiej służby dyplomatycznej i konsularnej w okresie II RP, a potem współtwórcy modelu kształcenia dyplomatów – Karolowi Bertoniemu. Autor koncentruje się na mało znanych wątkach z bogatej biografii Bertoniego zamieszczając także cenne ilustracje. Opracowanie oparte jest na materiałach archiwalnych, a wiele wykorzystanych materiałów źródłowych nie było dotychczas badanych. Znaczną część opracowania poświęcono wątkom rodzinnym. Zaangażowanie w dydaktykę, w tym w powstanie z inicjatywy prof. Ludwika Ehrlicha przy Wydziale Prawa Uniwersytetu Jana Kazimierza w 1930 r. Studium Dyplomatycznego jedynie zasygnalizowano, podobnie, jak kształcenie w zakresie dyplomacji i wiedzy konsularnej w Warszawie i Krakowie, odsyłając do literatury. Autor wskazał na obszary wymagające dalszych badań, w tym okres wojny i tuż powojenny, zanim opuścił Polskę.The article is devoted to one of the founders of the Polish diplomatic service during the Second Polish Republic, and then the model of diplomatic education – Karol Bertoni. The author focuses on little-known threads from Bertoni’s rich biography and includes valuable illustrations. A significant part of the source materials used has not been studied so far
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