185 research outputs found
Skin Colors Test II. Un’esperienza didattica ed estetica nella scuola media Skin Colors Test II. A teaching experience and aesthetic experience in middle school
No full textThe article aims to report and analyze the teaching experience and the research carried out by artist and art teacher Giovanni Perillo throughout middle schools in the province of Bari, Italy. In some cases, the research was carried out with his classes, in other cases, with the help of colleagues. Perillo has designed a research path called Migration aesthetics, playing with skin color and aesthetical preferences of students. The work, which has an artistic and aesthetical characterization, presents interesting implications from a pedagogical and educational point of view and from the point of view of the maieutics approach with which it was carried out. Through the research, hidden stereotypes and prejudices which hardly ever surface in pre-teens emerged, putting them in front of a healthy displacement
Explicit and Implicit Biases in Students’ Skin Colours Aesthetic Preferences
No full textSeveral tools have been employed to detect the emergence and development of racial stereotypes and prejudices among little children and adolescents. In our study, we confront some of these tools, and present the results of the Skin Colours Test. In its specificity, the Skin Colours Test proposes a change in the object of investigation (appreciation of the homogeneity or heterogeneity of colours) and aims to detect explicit and implicit stereotypes and prejudices of boys and girls regarding aesthetic choices (even neutral choices) concerning skin colours. Sample: one group of 129 (64 F) students (M = 12.31), almost all of Italian descent, and another group of 129 (62 F) students (M = 12.36), less than 30% of different descents. Method: three pictures, each made up of 16 skin colours, were shown and students were asked to vote on their aesthetic preference between homogeneity or heterogeneity of skin colours and to give reasons for these choices. Main results: the motivations for some choices that preferred skin colour heterogeneity (neutral choice) over homogeneity, brought out stereotypes and biases. In addition, we consider the contextual specificities that the Skin Colours Test detects as crucial in order to detect specific educational needs and structure targeted educational interventions
Appunti di Diritto dell'Arbitrato
No full textParte Generale: Introduzione (G. Iudica). – La conciliazione ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) (M. Cicogna). – Le materie arbitrali (M. Curatola). – Clausola arbitrale (o compromissoria) e compromesso (L. Marvsi). – Arbitrato rituale e irrituale (M. Curatola). – Norme processuali e scelta della sede dell’arbitrato (Francesco Perillo). – Arbitrato di diritto e arbitrato d’equità (Giovanni Iudica). – Arbitrato amministrato ed arbitrato ad hoc (Stefano Azzali). – Gli arbitri: composizione del collegio, qualificazione, rapporto con le parti e le istituzioni (Anna Riberti). – Indipendenza, imparzialità, neutralità dell’arbitro. Ricusazione (S. Maroni). – Il processo arbitrale: questioni preliminari, atti introduttivi, istruttoria (F. Perillo). – Il lodo (S. Maroni). – L’impugnazione dei lodi arbitrali (M. Curatola). – Il riconoscimento e l’esecuzione dei lodi stranieri. La Convenzione di New York (M. Magillo). – Parte Speciale: L’arbitrato societario (A. Riberti). – L’arbitrato in materia di investimenti. Convenzione di Washington. ICSID (M. Magillo)
A Numerical/Experimental Study on the Impact and CAI Behaviour of Glass Reinforced Compsite Plates
No full textThis paper focuses on the development of an advance numerical model specifically for simulating low velocity impact events and related stiffness reduction on composite structures. The model is suitable for low cost thick composite structures like wind turbine blade and maritime vessels. The model consist of a combination of inter and intra laminar models. The intra-laminar model present a combination of Puck and Hashin failure theories for the evaluation of the fibre and matrix failure. The inter-laminar damage is instead simulated by Cohesive Zone Method based on energy approach. Basic material properties, easily measurable according to standardized tests, are required. The model has been used to simulate impact and compression after impact tests. Experimental tests have been carried out on thick E-Glass/Epoxy composite commonly used in the wind turbine industry. The clustering effect as well as the consequence of the impact energy have been experimentally tested. The accuracy of numerical model has been verified against experimental data showing a very good accuracy of the model
A Case Study for the Deactivation and Regeneration of a V2O5-WO3/TiO2 Catalyst in a Tail-End SCR Unit of a Municipal Waste Incineration Plant
No full textIn this work, we set out to investigate the deactivation of a commercial V2O5-WO3/TiO2 monolith catalyst that operated for a total of 18,000 h in a selective catalytic reduction unit treating the exhaust gases of a municipal waste incinerator in a tail end configuration. Extensive physical and chemical characterization analyses were performed comparing results for fresh and aged catalyst samples. The nature of poisoning species was determined with regards to their impact on the DeNOx catalytic activity which was experimentally evaluated through catalytic tests in the temperature range 90–500 °C at a gas hourly space velocity of 100,000 h−1 (NO = NH3 = 400 ppmv, 6% O2). Two simple regeneration strategies were also investigated: thermal treatment under static air at 400–450 °C and water washing at room temperature. The effectiveness of each treatment was determined on the basis of its ability to remove specific poisoning compounds and to restore the original performance of the virgin catalyst
Naive Observers and Art Experts Rate Irregular Stochastic Pictures More Dynamic and Beautiful
No full textSeveral artists, neuroscientists, and art psychologists have investigated the existence of a relationship between perceived motion and beauty in figurative and abstract paintings. In our study, we created stimulus pictures by combining the same matrices, consisting of modular stochastic polygons, to obtain regular (translational symmetry) and irregular (non-symmetry) combinations. Some of these combinations consisted of many small matrices, making it difficult to read the 'shapes' of stochastic polygons. Our sample consisted of both art experts and non-art experts. We hypothesised that irregu-lar combinations, with fewer and greater numbers of the same matrices, would have stimulated more perception of motion, complexity and beauty than regular compositions. Results showed that stochas-tic irregular combinations are generally dynamic, more complex, and more aesthetically pleasing than stochastic regular compositions. Perhaps the greater dynamism of irregular combinations influ-ences beauty evaluation for compositions with stochastic matrices. Research has shown that specific artistic competence influences the assessment of irregular or asymmetrical stimuli as beautiful. Our study, on the other hand, shows that irregular stochastic combinations are more beautiful for both art experts and non-experts
Indagini batteriologiche e anatomo-istopatologiche su tartarughe piaggiate nella penisola salentina
No full textIndagini batteriologice e anatomo-istopatologiche su tartarughe marine spiaggiate nella penisola salentina (Puglia)
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