735 research outputs found
Erratum: Lack of immunity against rubella among Italian young adults. [BMC Infect Dis., 17, (2017) (199)] Doi: 10.1186/s12879-017-2295-y
No full textAfter publication of this article [1], the authors noted that the given names and family names of all authors had been inverted, and are therefore incorrect in the original article. In the original article, the author names appear as the following: Gallone Maria Serena, Gallone Maria Filomena, Larocca Angela Maria Vittoria, Germinario Cinzia and Tafuri Silvio. However, this is incorrect, and the author names should appear as per the below: Maria Serena Gallone, Maria Filomena Gallone, Angela Maria Vittoria Larocca, Cinzia Germinario, Silvio Tafuri. The author names have been corrected in the author list and the citation for this Erratum
Does teacher certification in mathematics improve high school special education students' performance on the High School Proficiency Assessment?: a preliminary investigation
No full textThis prelimary investigation examined the impact of teacher mathematics certification on high school special education students’ scores on the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) in an urban public school setting. The sample included 76 eleventh grade students classified as special education under IDEA. The student sample represented 70% of males and 30% of females from culturally and economically diverse backgrounds. Five teachers federally classified as highly qualified were included. Out of the teacher sample, four held state certifications in mathematics and one was not certified. Research questions and hypotheses were examined using inferential statistical tests (2-sample t-tests) and effect sizes. Results indicated that special education students who were taught by HQTs certified in mathematics scored significantly better on the Mathematics section of the HSPA than special education students who were taught by HQTs non-certified mathematics teachers. Effect sizes indicated small practical and meaningful differences. Results are outlined and directions for future research are discussed.Psy.DIncludes bibliographical referencesby Maria Angela Staropol
Values in Computing (Dagstuhl Seminar 19291)
No full textValues are deeply held principles guiding decisions of individuals, groups and organizations. Computing technologies are inevitably affected by values: through their design, values become embodied and enacted. However, some values are easier to quantify and articulate than others; for example, the financial value of a software product is easier to measure than its `fairness'. As a result, less measurable values are often dismissed in decision making processes as lacking evidence.
This is particularly problematic since research shows that less measurable values tend to be more strongly associated with sustainable practices than easier to quantify ones; it also indicates that the systems we design are likely to be inadequate for tackling long-term complex societal problems such as environmental change and health-related challenges that so often computing technologies are asked to address.
This seminar aims to examine the complex relations between values, computing technologies and society. It does so by bringing together practitioners and researchers from several areas within and beyond computer science, including human computer interaction, software engineering, computer ethics, moral philosophy, philosophy of technology, data science and critical data studies. The outcomes include concrete cases examined through diverse disciplinary perspectives and guidelines for values in computing research, development and education, which are expressed in this report
Gli avvenimenti storici come rivelazione L’incipit della Legatio ad Caium di filone di Alessandria
Full text linkIn the incipit of Legatio ad Caium of Philo of Alexandria anthropological and theological concepts are expressed which do not appear immediately relevant to the story: the narration of dramatic historical circumstances which the author personally lived through. The analysis of the specific contents reveals the connection betwen fundamental religious and cultural themes which are reoccurring themes in the various works of Philo. The introduction does not place ideology a priori but his considerations are evidence of a method of judgement of historical events
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
The Mid-adriatic Metropolitan Area in Marche Region. An Integrated Territorial Project that Includes Inland Areas and Cities in a Metropolitan Context to Relaunch Local Competitive Systems
No full textAbstracti) Context and purpose of the research.This paper describes a part of the applied research carried out by the Urban Planning Area of SIMAU Department of Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona Municipality.ii) The scope of this paper is to demonstrate the short-sightedness of the decision, at a national level, of identifying 15 Metropolitan Areas according to dimensional rather than function and relational parameters, that trigger integrated metropolitan development.iii) methodology: this paper starts from the Marche region experience, which is one of the regions not included in the 15 regions with urban areas classified as metropolitan areas pursuant to Regional Law no. 56/2014 (because it does not have cities with more than 250,000 inhabitants in the territory), to request that the criteria used to identify metropolitan areas in Italy be revised. The Region has started the creation of the territorial partnership called the Mid-Adriatic Metropolitan Area (Area Metropolitana Medio-Adriatica – AMMA). This experience of a new method for the management of the territory was implemented by the Research project, by identifying functional connective systems that confirm its unitary structure and the current and future potential, for the widespread systematic development of the Metropolitan Area as a whole.iv) Principal results and major conclusions.This experience, is today in Italy, an extraordinary case study generated from of local participatory development (Community-Led Local Development – CLLD); a integrated, bottom-up process with the involvement of local communities.The results of the applied research, conducted in the Middle-Adriatic Territory, made it possible to identify critical and original aspects in the organisation of the “variable geometry” system of relationships between Municipalities, in terms of participation in complex projects and the introduction of specific Territorial Protocols of Understanding, to Identify de facto cities with respect to the de jure and developmental cities of the FUAs in Marche region. The entire Area Vasta (Associated Local Health Districts) indeed behaves, like a large city, with a unique urban structure and strong functional interconnected relationships
The Role of Lawyers in European ADR
Full text linkThis paper deals with the scarce diffusion of the ADR practice in Europe. Regarding the arbitration, the reason lies in the high costs of this procedure, while respect to the other out-of-Court procedures, like mediation, there is a large mistrust among lawyers, due to lack of training to cooperation and dialogue.
Recently a EU Directive has pushed towards mediation in civil and commercial lawsuits, where cross-border cases are particularly complex due to different national laws and practical matters like costs or language. National legislators have used this occasion to introduce a general discipline of mediation, applicable to domestic disputes as well. So most lawyers are called to abandon their adversarial approach in order to prepare for a cooperative negotiation.
The author examines the numerous aspects on which a lawyer can play his role in every step of a mediation proceeding, and bring the client to an amicable satisfactory settlement
Il concetto di sviluppo e la metafora della crescita
No full textThis article is focused upon the metaphor of growth, which underlies a specific idea of development.
The author explains how, since a sociological classic such as "Social Change and History" by Robert Nisbet, the idea of development as growth has continued to be used notwithstanding the critiques addressed to this metaphor, the establishment of the paradigm of decrease, and the birth of a proper decrease movement.
At the same time, the author maintains that this surviving idea of development as growth has been reconfigured through the use of adjectives that have actually modified the real sense of the metaphor, and that have as much as possible shortened the distance towards the perspective of a “different development”.
Will the zero growth trends maintained by the theorists of a “different development” lead to the disappearance of the growth metaphor on the wake of the idea of a “happy degrowth”
Approaches to legal ontologies : theories, domains, methodologies
No full textLegal ontologies have proved crucial for representing, processing and retrieving legal information, and will acquire an increasing significance in the emerging framework of the Semantic Web. Despite the many research projects in the field, a collective reflection on the theoretical foundations of legal ontology engineering was still missing. This book bridges the gap, by exploring current methodologies and theoretical approaches to legal ontologies. It gathers 16 papers, each of them presenting issues and solutions for ontology engineering related to a particular approach to, or aspect of, the law: comparative law, case-based reasoning, multilingualism, complex- systems, sociolegal analysis, legal theory, social ontology, ontology learning, computational ontology, service ontology, cognitive science, document modelling, large legal databases, scientific, linguistic and legal-technology perspectives. The book will thus interest researchers in legal informatics, artificial intelligence and law, legal theory, legal philosophy, legal sociology, comparative law, as well as developers of applications based on the intelligent management of legal information, in both e-commerce and e-government (e-administration, e-justice, e-democracy).Foreword; Pompeu Casanovas, Giovanni Sartor.- Preface; Barry Smith.- 1 Introduction. Theory and Methodology in Legal Ontology Engi-neering: Experiences and Future Directions; Pompeu Casanovas, Giovanni Sartor, Maria Angela Biasiotti, Meritxell Fernández-Barrera.- 2 The Legal Theory Perspective: Doctrinal Conceptual Systems vs. Computational Ontologies; Meritxell Fernández-Barrera, Giovanni Sartor.- 3 Empirically Grounded Development of Legal Ontologies: a Socio-Legal Perspective; Pompeu Casanovas, Núria Casellas, Joan-Josep Vallbé.- 4 A Cognitive Science Perspective on Legal Ontologies; Joost Breuker, Rinke Hoekstra.- 5 Social Ontology and Documentality; Maurizio Ferraris.- 6 The Case-Based Reasoning Approach: Ontologies for Analogical Legal Argument; Kevin D. Ashley.- 7 A Complex-System Approach: Legal Knowledge, Ontology, In-formation and Networks; Pierre Mazzega, Danièle Bourcier, Paul Bourgine, Nadia Nadah, Romain Boulet.- 8 The Multi-layered Legal Information Perspective; Guido Boella, Piercarlo Rossi.- 9 Legal Ontologies: the Linguistic Perspective; Maria Angela Biasiotti, Daniela Tiscornia.- 10 A Legal Document Ontology: the Missing Layer in Legal Docu-ment Modelling; Monica Palmirani, Luca Cervone, Fabio Vitali.- 11 From Thesaurus towards Ontologies in Large Legal Databases; Ángel Sancho Ferrer, Carlos Fernández Hernández, José Manuel Mateo Rivero.- 12 The Computational Ontology Perspective: Design Patterns for Web Ontologies; Aldo Gangemi, Valentina Presutti, Eva Blomqvist.- 13 A Learning Approach for Knowledge Acquisition in the Legal Domain; Enrico Francesconi.- 14 Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science: the Legal Perspective; Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino, Meritxell Fernández-Barrera.- 15 Legal Multimedia Ontologies and Semantic Annotation for Search and Retrieval; Jorge González-Conejero.- Index
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