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A multi-hazard and multi-risk assessment methodological approach to support Civil Protection planning in wide areas
No full textThe paper presents a study having as objective the development of an operational methodology to
perform a multi-hazard and multi-risk assessment, including cascading hazards, to support Civil
Protection planning in wide areas in Lombardia region. Natural hazards are mainly considered. A
semi-quantitative, deterministic approach is adopted in a complete procedure, despite the
awareness of current methodological and data barriers. The procedure is implemented in a GIS
project, providing a flexible tool. Data are elaborated and represented in minimum cartographic
units defined as hexagonal cells. Multi-hazard levels measure the number of spatial overlays and
interactions among possible hazards in each cell. Due to lack of data and applicable methodol
ogies, the value of vulnerability to multiple and to multi-hazard, is fixed as a conventional
constant equal to 1. Exposure levels measure the presences in each cell of different elements:
population, built environment, mobility systems, strategic and relevant facilities for Civil Pro
tection purposes. The combination of multi-hazard and exposure levels, through a specifically
designed matrix, gives as result the multi-risk levels (high, medium, low) in each cell. The
methodology has been applied in different areas of Lombardia region and the case study of the
Brembana valley is presented in this paper. Being a novel approach, this study sets the basis for
further developments, enabling, due to its structure, enhancements through integrations and
refinements in each phase
La formazione dei docenti del futuro attraverso i sistemi di simulazione d'aula: il progetto simAULA
No full textInteractive building blocks: apprendere in rete
No full textLa classificazione Mo.d.e.m., output dell’omonimo progetto della Regione Campania finalizzato all’analisi delle principali esperienze italiane di insegnamento universitario online, propone quattro tipologie di corsi applicabili ed applicati nel contesto universitario: Repository, Collaborative Learning, Structured Path, Interactive Building Blocks. Il presente contributo descrive il modello di corso universitario online definito Interactive Building Blocks ed il laboratorio “Abilità informatiche e relazionali” che declina tale modello.
In particolare, dopo una breve presentazione della classificazione Mo.d.e.m. e del modello Interactive Building Blocks, si illustreranno dettagliatamente i fondamenti teorici, l’approccio metodologico, la struttura, i compiti, le risorse e le tecnologie del laboratorio “Abilità informatiche e relazionali” che invita gli studenti a simulare la costituzione di un organismo di formazione e a “giocare” il ruolo delle professionalità coinvolte con l’obiettivo di favorire l’acquisizione delle competenze di base nello sviluppo di corsi di formazione in modalità e-learning
An Article About Albertus C. Van Raalte, Author Unknown, Except for Parts Taken from an Article by Anna C. Post
No full textAn article about Albertus C. Van Raalte, author unknown, except for parts taken from an article by Anna C. Post. The author knew first generation persons in the Holland settlement and therefore, the article has some value.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1890s/1012/thumbnail.jp
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Selection of work by Anna Gerber
No full textVarious journals and magazines Anna Gerber has contributed to. Anna Gerber is a graphic designer and writer based in London.
She is the author and designer of All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics (Laurence King, 2004) and co-editor and co-designer
of Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006) with Anja Lutz. She writes regularily for magazines such as Print, Eye, Creative Review, Varoom and Idea Magazine and her work has also been published in shift!, dot dot dot and +rosebud.
She teaches at the London College of Communication on the BA Graphic Design and MA Design Writing Criticism programmes. She has also held workshops and lectures across the U.K. (including Tate Modern and the V&A Museum), as well as in India, the U.S., Australia and Malaysia.
Anna Gerber is currently engaged in research and developing projects relating to sustainability and how it applies to graphic
design as well as exploring contemporary graphic design in India
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