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Rethinking Augmented Wine Recognition
No full textOverlaying rendered virtual annotations on top of the camera view of the real world requires intensive use of computer vision paradigms for object recognition and tracking. This involves computationally intensive tasks and the availability of large-scale databases of ref-erence images. In some domains, a lack of reference images may be particularly disruptive. For example, with wine bottles, labels may not be available because (a) periodically changed by the winery, and (b) specific bottles may belong to the long tail, making label retrieval difficult or even impossible. In the following, we present Augmented Wine Recognition (AWR), a system that does not require any reference image optimized to perform an augmented reading of wine labels
Il corpo dimenticato: Carmelo Bene
No full textIl saggio partecipa di un’opera collettiva che raccoglie gli atti di un convegno ...
Carmelo Bene è forse il più grande attore del teatro contemporaneo e certamente il più competente teorico nonché magistrale interprete delle condizioni e ambizioni dell’arte attoriale. Nel corso della sua vita scenica più delle opere prodotte contano i processi e i risultati delle “operazioni” portate avanti sul testo, sulla scena e infine sul corpo stesso del performer. Il saggio ricapitola attraverso il suo esempio e eccezione l’applicazione e il perfezionamento della “via negativa” (condivisa da tutti i maggiori teatranti del ‘900) che è la regola di ogni efficace proposta scenica: via che nel caso di Bene va dalla negazione della identità alla apoteosi della sparizione: il “corpo dimenticato” si rivela così come l’obiettivo più alto di una evasione dalla presenza all’Assenza per la quale Carmelo Bene si dota e si inventa una “macchina attoriale” che lo assorbe e lo sostituisce
Pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma: Diagnosis and treatment
No full textThe terms pheochromocytoma (PHEO) and paraganglioma (PGL) refer to a broad spectrum of clinical conditions that have as their common denominator the origin from a pathological (neoplastic) proliferation of neural crest cells. Clinical presentation and evolution of the disease is extremely variable in relation to several factors, such as the secretive functional characteristics of the cells involved, the primitive site of neoplastic proliferation and the tendency to form remote metastases, the presence of a genetic predisposition that may affect the expression of particular phenotypes. PHEO/PGL is sometimes a complex diagnostic and therapeutic challenge, but the main difficulty is probably the fact that it is a rare condition that is met on very few occasions by most physicians and therefore may remain unrecognized. A good knowledge of the polymorphic expressions of this disease should result in clinical suspicion, which can be confirmed or excluded reliably in most cases. Similarly, the therapeutic management of PHEO/PGL is well established in the overwhelming majority of cases, provided it is entrusted to experienced medical staff
Le public estmort. Vive le Public! Sur al poétique e la politique du mauvais spectateur
No full textLandscapes and services in peri-urban areas and choice of housing location: An application of discrete choice experiments
No full textThe recent decades have witnessed a significant increase in the population in peri-urban areas which led to a progressive transformation of peri-urban landscapes, and the reduced ability of agriculture to provide ecosystem services. In order to understand the complex relationships established in peri-urban areas between reference urban centre, urban services (US) and ecosystem services (ES), with particular attention to the landscape, a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) was carried out in the transitional peri-urban areas of six municipalities located near the city of Perugia (Italy). The two main goals of this study are analysing the effect of the presence of US and ES on the demand for housing, and exploring the implications in terms of peri-urban land use policy. The results highlight that the availability of some ES can have a significant impact on choice of housing location
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Urban farming opportunities: a comparative analysis between Italy and Argentina
No full textThis paper presents a preliminary comparison between Urban Agriculture (UA) in Roma and Buenos Aires. UA has been investigated as both social and an economic driving force to understand farming opportunities in both cities. To achieve this goal Business Model Canvas (BMC) was adopted as a research framework. Using the business model helps to move beyond the description of potential benefits and add explanations of how values are captured at the operational level. A classification based on BCM elements was used to outline some diversity in Italian and Argentinean UA. The paper aims to highlight how urban farming has to adjust to urban conditions by stepping into appropriate business models in order to be sustainable and profitable, and how Business Model Canvas is useful to analyze their organization and performances both economically and socially. The analysis demonstrates that UA is differently adjusted to specific social and environmental urban conditions, and that BMC is useful for analyzing urban farming. More specifically it shows that heterogeneous local food farms and the integration of local and organic food production in social farming business models are more frequent within Italian case studies. Local food farms and integration of local and agroecology food production in family farming business models are instead more frequent within Argentinian case studies
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