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    Il monitoraggio dei consumi energetici di una città

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    L’evoluzione delle nostre città verso modelli di Smart City e Smart Land rappresenta per i Comuni una sfida impegnativa, complessa ma anche appassionante per i grandi temi che coinvolge: innovazione, ambiente, energia. La capacità degli Enti locali di immaginare nuovi scenari, organizzare in modo nuovo servizi, spazi ed edifici delle nostre città, riconfigurandone le modalità di fruizione, determina per i cittadini un miglioramento della qualità della vita. Di questi temi si è discusso nel Laboratorio approfondendo aspetti tecnologici e organizzativi, opportunità di accesso a finanziamenti, best practice e modalità innovative di comunicazione attraverso incontri operativi di presentazione delle esperienze e confronto aperto tra amministratori locali, funzionari della PA, esperti del settore ed aziende

    Who is the author of the 1876 Stefano manuscript?

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    For over one hundred years the Stefano manuscript was a private document in the possession of the Baccich family and descendants. It told a story of the 1875 Stefano shipwreck as narrated by the shipwreck survivor and the founding family patriarch Miho Baccich. In these circumstances the question of authorship of the manuscript was immaterial and did not arise as an issue. However, with the publication of the manuscript the author‟s name, or names, need to be formally attributed to it. It turns out that this is not such a clear-cut matter. As we shall see, all informed sources attributed the authorship, and the ownership, of the manuscript to Miho Baccich. But the manuscript itself was written by Canon Stjepan Skurla – a priest from Miho‟s hometown of Dubrovnik. The question then arises: should Skurla also be considered as an author of the manuscript, or, even as the sole author (as some would have it)

    Fashion Culture: Power In Fashion with Stefano Tonchi and Grazia d'Annunzio

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    Stefano Tonchi, global chief creative officer for L’Officiel Group, and Grazia d’Annunzio, former deputy director of Vogue Italia, discuss the power of military uniforms and their influence on high fashion. Tonchi is co-author of the book "Uniform: Order and Disorder.

    Univariate and bivariate symbolic analyses of cardiovascular variability differentiate general anesthesia procedures

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    General anesthesia attenuates autonomic function and baroreflex control. This side effect should be prevented as much as possible because it limits the subject's ability in responding to physiological challenges during surgery (e.g. arterial pressure and ventricular contractility drops). This study is designed to rank two of the most commonly exploited general anesthesia treatments, i.e. intravenous anesthesia (IA) based on a propofol-opioid combination and volatile anesthesia (VA) based on a sevoflurane-opioid combination, according to their ability to maintain autonomic nervous system activity and baroreflex control. Univariate and bivariate symbolic techniques were applied to spontaneous heart period (HP) and systolic arterial pressure (SAP) variability series recorded during IA and VA procedures in 19 and 18 patients undergoing elective intracranial neurosurgery. Traditional linear univariate and bivariate frequency domain markers of the autonomic nervous system state and baroreflex control were evaluated as well. We found that: (i) univariate symbolic analysis of HP series suggests a better preservation of vagal modulation in VA than in IA; (ii) bivariate symbolic markers assessing the degree of HP-SAP association differentiate IA from VA, while baroreflex sensitivity and squared coherence function cannot; (iii) bivariate symbolic analysis indicates a better preservation of the HP-SAP association at slow frequencies in IA than in VA, thus suggesting a more active baroreflex control in IA. We conclude that symbolic indexes can be fruitfully exploited to rank general anesthesia treatments, and their performance appears to be superior to that of more traditional linear markers

    Introduzione [a I cartolari del notaio Stefano di Corrado di Lavagna]

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    Saggio introduttivo all’edizione dei frammenti dei protocolli del notaio Stefano di Corrado di Lavagna nel quale viene fatta l’analisi codicologica dei frammenti e si ricostruisce la biografia del notaio. Vengono inoltre esaminate la tipologia dei documenti, le tecniche redazionali del notaio e l’organizzazione burocratica della Chiesa genovese nella seconda metà del secolo XIII. Introduction essay to the edition of the fragments of the protocols of the notary Stefano di Corrado of Lavagna in which the analysis of the codex fragments and reconstructs the biography of the notary is made by the author. She also examined the types of documents, the technical drafting of the notary and the bureaucratic organization of the Church of Genoa in the second half of the thirteenth century

    Impact of uncertainty in rainfall estimation on the identification of rainfall thresholds for debris flow occurrence

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    Estimation of rainfall intensity–duration thresholds, used for the identification of debris flow/landslide triggering rainfall events, has been traditionally based on raingauge observations. The main drawback of using information from gauges is that the measurement stations are usually located far away from the debris flow initiation areas. In complex terrain where debris flows take place, the spatial variability of rainfall can be very high and this translates in large uncertainty of raingauge-based estimates of debris flow triggering rainfall. This work focuses on the assessment of the impact of rainfall estimation uncertainty on identification and use of rainfall thresholds for debris flow occurrence. The Upper Adige River basin, Northern Italy, is the area of study. A detailed database of more than 400 identified debris flow initiation points during the period 2000–2010 and a raingauge network of 100 stations comprise the database used for this work. The methodology examines the intensity–duration thresholds derived from a set of raingauges that are assumed to be located at debris flow initiation points (DFRs) and an equivalent set of raingauges assumed to have the role of the closest (to debris flow) available measurement (MRs). A set of reference rainfall thresholds is used to identify the rainfall events at DFRs that “triggered” debris flows (i.e. exceed the threshold). For these same events, the corresponding rainfall thresholds are derived from MR observations. Comparison between the rainfall thresholds derived from DFRs and MRs revealed that uncertainty in rainfall estimation has a major impact on estimated intensity–duration thresholds. Specifically, the results showed that thresholds estimated from MR observations are consistently underestimated. Evaluation of the estimated thresholds for warning procedures showed that while detection is high, the main issue is the high false alarm ratio, which limits the overall accuracy of the procedure. Overall performance on debris flow prediction was shown to be good for low rainfall thresholds and poor for high rainfall thresholds examined. Lastly, it was found that filtering out rainfall events with duration b12 h may improve bias in estimated thresholds and performance for high rainfall thresholds

    From Lausanne to Luxembourg: the CJEU’s Seraing Judgment and the Boundaries of Sports Arbitration Under EU Law

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    In this expert analysis, Professor Stefano Bastianon dissects the CJEU’s landmark Seraing ruling (Case C-600/23), which reshapes the contours of sports arbitration under EU law. With particular focus on judicial review and EU public policy, the author explores how the Court balances the autonomy of arbitral mechanisms like CAS with the imperative of effective judicial protection — a judgment that could have far-reaching implications for the future of dispute resolution in sport

    Recensione di Robert G. La France, Bachiacca: artist of the Medici court, Firenze, Olschki, 2008

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    ABSTRACT ITALIANO Francesco Ubertini detto il Bachiacca ebbe scarsa fortuna critica ma questo volume di Robert G. La France colma una lacuna grave nella critica d’arte con una solida monografia in lingua inglese che prende in esame tutte le opere e i documenti di questo pittore. Stefano Colonna giudica positivamente il libro, pubblicato da Leo Olschki, limitandosi a sottolineare che alcune opere, inserite come autografe dall’autore, presentino differenti qualità. ENGLISH ABSTRACT Francesco Ubertini called Bachiacca has had little critical fortune, but this book by Robert G. La France fills a serious lacuna in art criticism with a solid English monograph that examines all the existing works and documents. Stefano Colonna welcomes the book published by Leo Olschki and simply points out that some of the works included by the author as autograph have a different quality

    The role of theragnostics in oncology: an interview with Stefano Buono

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    Stefano Buono* speaks to Commissioning Editor, Sebastian Dennis-Beron: Stefano Buono is the Chief Executive Officer, a member of the board of directors, and a founder of Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA). He has been responsible for overseeing AAA operations, including the development and commercialization of the current portfolio of diagnostic and therapeutic molecular nuclear medicine products, and listing AAA on Nasdaq (stock symbol: AAAP). Prior to founding the company in 2002, he worked as a physicist at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Research and Development, or CRS4, in Italy. During his 6-year tenure with CRS4, he headed a team of engineers working on different international research projects in the field of energy production and nuclear waste transmutation. Before working at CRS4, and alongside his appointment at CRS4, he worked with Physics Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia at The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world’s largest research laboratory for particle physics, in Geneva, Switzerland. He actively participated in the development of CERN’s Adiabatic Resonance Crossing (ARC) method. He is the author of numerous scientific papers. He received his Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Turin, in Italy, in 1991. </jats:p
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