194 research outputs found
Le parole del design. 150 lemmi tecnici liberamente scelti
No full textDa Affordance a Vetro Float, il volume illustra il significato di centocinquanta lemmi scelti perché illustrano tecnologie innovative o lavorazioni artigianali che rischiano di perdersi; perché legati alla gestione ambientale o alla proprietà intellettuale; perché raccontano nuove strumentazioni o attrezzi quasi scomparsi; perché restituiscono una classificazione esaustiva di prodotti diversi o perché fanno riferimento alle nuove frontiere dell’infinitamente piccolo. Più il mondo si complica, si globalizza, si dilata, più è necessario che i linguaggi siano univoci e comprensibili, senza perdere in ricchezza, così - strettamente tecnici o più di scenario - i centocinquanta lemmi contenuti nel volume restituiscono il significato delle parole e le loro connessioni che formano la fitta rete alla base del fare e del comunicare il design. Un sapere puntuale di supporto a nuove immaginazioni, che dalla carta stampata può portare al web con una chiave di ricerca in più. I lemmi sono introdotti da un saggio iniziale di Cecilia Cecchini che fornisce una riflessione sul tema della trasmissione delle conoscenze nel campo del design nell'epoca contemporanea e da uno di Felice Ragazzo relativo ai mutamenti in corso nel campo delle tecnologie e delle conseguenze prodotte in seno al design.The more the world expands and becomes complicated and globalised, the more languages need to be comprehensible and universal, whilst retaining their complexity and linguistic richness. Thus, the 150 terms in this book – which are either strictly technical or more generally associated with the field – restore the meaning of words and their associations, aspects that form the dense network that lies at the heart of communicating and practising design.
They were chosen by the author for various reasons: because they illustrate either innovative technologies or artisan skills that we risk losing forever; because they describe either new instruments or tools that have almost disappeared; because they are associated with environmental management or intellectual property; because they reinstate an exhaustive classification of various different products, or because they refer to the new frontiers of the infinitesimal.
This book provides accurate information that can even lead from the printed page to the Internet, tackled with greater technical awareness, allowing us to choose wisely from the infinite amount of information available online.
Listed in alphabetical order, the terms are preceded by the author’s analysis of how knowledge is imparted in the field of design, particularly focusing on the changes induced by the technological acceleration of recent years. There follows an essay by Felice Ragazzo on the relationship between design, technology and science.
The book was chosen by the 2013 ADI Design Index. As it soon sold out, it was reprinted in 2014 (the cover of the attached PDF is that of the 2014 edition, which is identical to the original edition except for the note announcing its selection by the ADI Design Index)
The impact of EC-92 on developing countries'trade : a dissenting view
No full textMost benefits of the European Community (EC-92) program will probably not come from marginal changes in trade flows. Those changes are important to European policymakers, but are of remote interest to developing countries. The main threats to developing countries are the diversion of investment funds to EC countries and continued external barriers, especially nontariff barriers. The EC expects higher growth and lower prices as a result of EC-92. The net effect on developing countries of the removal of internal trade barriers depends on the country's income and price elasticities with the EC. Current estimates suggest the effect will be small. If new external barriers emerge, or if EC-wide barriers replace national barriers, EC firms may collaborate more with large US or Japanese firms. None of these developments will improve developing countries'trade in manufactures and services. Investment in EC countries may increase to meet the extra demand, growth, or trade diversion resulting from EC-92. This could lead to increased investments in developing countries but given heavy indebtedness in developing countries, is more likely to divert investment funds, thus limiting their future production and growth. Technical standards in EC-92 may also be tougher than national standards in member countries, which could hurt developing country exporters. Is"Fortress Europe"likely? The EC Commission says no, but the Community's record is not good.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Trade and Regional Integration,Trade Policy
A Treebank-based Approach to the Supprema Constructio in Dante’s Latin Works
No full textThis paper aims to apply a corpus-driven approach to Dante Alighieri’s Latin works using UDante, a treebank based on Dante Search and part of the Universal Dependencies project. We present a method based on the notion of barycentre applied to a dependency tree as a way to calculate the “syntactic balance” of a sentence. Its application to Dante’s Latin works shows its potential in analysing the style of an author, and contributes to the interpretation of the supprema constructio mentioned in DVE II vi 7 as a well balanced syntactic pattern modeled on Latin literary writin
Towards a visual graph-based story outline authoring
No full textIn this paper we present an authoring tool for collaborative visual creation of story outlines. A visual graph-based approach was adopted in order to allow story outlining of a wide range of types and genres of stories, while offering a story representation paradigm suitable for multi-author collaboration and for the integration and organisation of external sources of documentation of the story. Such a paradigm of story representation is also effective for an easy and semiautomatic rapid creation of story prototypes which can be obtained by mean of a specifically developed templating engine
Overview of the EvaLatin 2022 Evaluation Campaign
No full textThis paper describes the organization and the results of the second edition of EvaLatin, the campaign for the evaluation of Natural Language Processing tools for Latin. The three shared tasks proposed in EvaLatin 2022, i. e. Lemmatization, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Features Identification, are aimed to foster research in the field of language technologies for Classical languages. The shared dataset consists of texts mainly taken from the LASLA corpus. More specifically, the training set includes only prose texts of the Classical period, whereas the test set is organized in three sub-tasks: a Classical sub-task on a prose text of an author not included in the training data, a Cross-genre sub-task on poetic and scientific texts, and a Cross-time sub-task on a text of the 15th century. The results obtained
by the participants for each task and sub-task are presented and discussed
'Baroquemania: a counter-rationalist history of Italian art'. Review of: Laura Moure Cecchini, Baroquemania: Italian Visual Culture and The Construction of National Identity, 1898-1954, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021, 288 pp., 93 col. Plates, £ 80, ISBN 9781526153173.
No full textThis review discussed the emergence of the Baroque in Italian visual arts as analysed in the book Baroquemania by Laura Moure Cecchini. In this book, the author shows how the baroque is a key element of the history of post-unification Italy which has been often neglected by the relevant scholarship on the matter. By reinscribing the Baroque within the Italian national paradigm, the book contributes to rewrite an important chapter of the history of Italian art in order to question its own foundational premises of an entirely rational strive to become a modern nation-state. In this way, Baroquemania represent an important addition to the existing scholarship on the relationship between the arts and the construction of national identity
Overview of the EvaLatin 2022 Evaluation Campaign
No full textThis paper describes the organization and the results of the second edition of EvaLatin, the campaign for the evaluation of Natural Language Processing tools for Latin. The three shared tasks proposed in EvaLatin 2022, i. e. Lemmatization, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Features Identification, are aimed to foster research in the field of language technologies for Classical languages. The shared dataset consists of texts mainly taken from the LASLA corpus. More specifically, the training set includes only prose texts of the Classical period, whereas the test set is organized in three sub-tasks: a Classical sub-task on a prose text of an author not included in the training data, a Cross-genre sub-task on poetic and scientific texts, and a Cross-time sub-task on a text of the 15th century. The results obtained
by the participants for each task and sub-task are presented and discussed
Investigating community evolutions in TikTok dangerous and non-dangerous challenges
No full textIn just few years, TikTok has become a major player in the social media environment, especially with regard to teenagers. One of the key factors of this success is the idea of challenges, that is, video competitions/emulations on a certain topic, which a user can launch and other ones can join. Most of the challenges are fun and harmless. However, there are also users who launch challenges that are dangerous, or at least suitable only for an adult audience (and TikTok is the most popular social network for teenagers). This article focuses primarily on this kind of challenge. In particular, it investigates an aspect not yet studied in the literature, which is the different characteristics and evolutionary dynamics of the communities of users participating in non-dangerous and dangerous challenges. Its final goal is the identification of evolutionary patterns that distinguish the communities of users participating in the two types of challenges. The knowledge of these patterns could be a first step in implementing an approach to the early detection of dangerous challenges in TikTok. © The Author(s) 2022
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