317 research outputs found
Astrarre la pratica: un tuffo nella vita di Leonardo Mosso e Laura Castagno
No full textthe PhD candidate was involved in the "Archivi d'Affetto" project of the Circolo del Design in Turin as author-in-residence in the home of artist Laura Castagno and architect Leonardo Mosso. On 5 April 2023, she presented the result of her residency at the Circolo del Design, namely the essay "Abstracting practice: a journey into the life of Laura Castagno and Leonardo Mosso". The candidate identified as a common denominator in the artistic practice of Laura Castagno (an architect by training) and in the architectural practice of Leonardo Mosso the application of methodologies typical of abstract art, delving into the influence that Klee with his "Theories of Form and Figuration" had on the work of both
Emotional Response to Virtual Reality Exposure across Different Cultures: The Role of the Attribution Process
No full textany studies have shown the ability of media--television, movies, and virtual reality (VR) experiences--to elicit emotions. Nevertheless, it is still unclear how the different factors involved--user related and medium related--play a role in producing an emotional response during a VR experience. We investigate this issue, analyzing the role played by the cultural and technological backgrounds of the users in the emotional responses to VR. Specifically, we use the "core affect" model of emotions developed by Russell (2003) to explore how these factors influence the way in which participants experience virtual worlds. Our sample includes 20 Mexican participants: 8 living in El Tepeyac, a small rural and isolated Mexican village characterized by a very primitive culture, and 12 high civilized inhabitants of Mexico City. The "Green Valley," a noninteractive, relaxing immersive environment showing a mountain landscape around a calm lake, was used to induce relaxation in the two groups during an ambulatory surgical operation. To investigate the effects of VR on the relaxation process, we measured participants' physiological (heart rate) and emotional (VAS-A) responses before, during, and after the operation. The results show that VR significantly modified the core affect (reduced arousal) in all participants but that the final emotional response produced by this change was influenced by the attribution process: the civilized inhabitants of Mexico City, who were able to attribute the reduced arousal to the VR experience, reported a significant reduction in the self-reported level of anxiety, while people from El Tepeyac showed a reduction in their physiological reactions but not in their perceived anxiety
A portable virtual reality system as an alternative medical treatment to reduce pain-related anxiety in ambulatory surgical operations : a randomized controlled study
No full textPain-related anxiety is a common problem for patients who undergo surgical operations. Since drug treatments alone have frequently proved to be inadequate to reduce stress and anxiety in surgical contexts, there is an increasing interest in non invasive complementary and alternative medical therapies (CAM) that reduce pain and tension during pre and post operative phases. Virtual reality can be considered an innovative form of CAM therapy having gained recognition as a means of attenuating pain during medical procedures. The aim of this study is to test the efficacy of a small, portable and immersive virtual reality system to reduce anxiety in a sample of patients who underwent ambulatory surgical operations. Forty-seven patients were randomly divided in three groups: the virtual reality group (VR); the Music group (MU); and the control group (CTR). Psychological and physiological measures were recorded immediately before, after 45 minutes, and after 90 minutes of operation. The results demonstrated that virtual reality is faster than music alone in reducing the patients’ perceived anxiety, suggesting that a very portable and inexpensive virtual reality system can be safe and effective in ameliorating anxiety experienced in ambulatory surgical context
Le Ideologie Socio-politiche ed il Sessimo ambivalente nei giovani: un confronto tra Italia ed USA
No full textStudy of gender differences in VR response following cardiac surgery
No full textCardiac and other invasive surgical procedures cause significant anxiety and stress to patients and their family members. In this study Virtual Reality (VR) was used as a method to reduce stress, anxiety and pain in patients undergoing surgical procedures. This study compared a cohort of patients in the interval prior to and successive to the surgery, differentiating the responses achieved by males and females and comparing the effectiveness. The results are encouraging: they demonstrate the efficacy of VR treatment and the safety of the method and detection of differences in the responses based on gender
The Role of Legitimizing Ideologies as Predictors of Ambivalent Sexism in Young People: Evidence from Italy and the USA
No full textThe studies presented here focus on the relationship between legitimizing ideologies and ambivalent sexism. 544 Italian students (Study 1) and 297 US students (Study 2) completed several scales: social dominance orientation (SDO), system justification (SJ), political orientation, religiosity, and the Glick and Fiske (J Pers Soc Psychol 70(3):491-512, 1996) Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. Zero-order correlations revealed all facets of ideological attitudes to be positively related to each other and correlated with ambivalent sexism. In particular, the SDO was related to both ideology components of SJ and political orientation and to ambivalent sexism (hostile and benevolent). Moderated regressions revealed that SDO has a positive impact on hostile sexism for men only, while SJ has a positive impact on hostile sexism for women only. While the first result was stable across the two studies, the last moderated effect has been detected only in Study 1. We discuss the results with respect to different facets of social ideologies and cultural differences between the two countries. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York
Emplacement and rejuvenation of a granitic batholith: the Valle Mosso plutob (Sesia Magmatic System)
No full textThe Lower Permian Valle Mosso pluton (VMP) is a granitic body intruded at upper crustal levels in the rocks of the pre-Alpine basement of the Ivrea-Verbano and Serie dei Laghi units, respectively. The VMP has been recognized as an integral part of a magmatic system termed Sesia magmatic System (Quick et al., 2009), which during the Lower Permian developed through the continental crust up to the surface and caused explosive rhyolitic volcanism that eventually led to the formation of a > 15 km diameter rhyolitic caldera. Fieldwork helped in constraining the VMP internal geometry, with the distinction of several laccolithshaped intrusive units noticeable for their modal abundances and textural features. Equigranular coarsegrained granite constitutes the bulk of the intrusion, together with subordinate volumes of porphyric granite and numerous small fine-grained two-micas intrusive bodies. A small body (roughly 0.5 by 1 km) of porphyry occurs within the porphyric granite and presents irregular to gradational contacts to its host rock. Major and trace-element and isotopic composition of this porphyry is equal to that of the surrounding granite. However, porphyry matrix and phenocrysts present microtextural features that indicate resorption and undercooling. These features (sieve textures of plagioclase, quartz and biotite resorption) paired with indications from Ti-in- Qz geothermometer on porphyry samples (Wark & Watson, 2006) are descriptive of temperature fluctuations within a crystal mush. Field evidence indicate that the Valle Mosso pluton experienced numerous episodes of mafic melt injections during different stages of its incremental growth. These mafic melts produced significant effects on the thermal budget of the granitic intrusion, rejuvenating and possibly mobilizing batches of the VMP. Based on similar whole-rock composition and reabsorption texture observed in coeval granite porphyry and volcanic products of the Sesia Caldera, a possible link between rejuvenated granitic melts and eruptive products has been postulated. The VMP may provide an insight into the storage and remobilization process that drive the eruption of large amount of melts in caldera-forming volcanic systems
L'éducation physique de la jeunesse / par A. Mosso,... ; traduit de l'italien par J. B. Bahar ; et précédé d'une préface du commandant V. Legros
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Impact of climate change on wave energy resource in the mediterranean coast of morocco
No full textThe increasing demand for energy and the impacts generated by CO2 emissions make it necessary to harness all possible renewable sources of energy, like wave power. Nevertheless, climate change may generate significant variations in the amount of wave energy available in a certain area. The aim of this paper is to study potential changes in the wave energy resource in the Mediterranean coast of Morocco due to climate change. To do this, wave datasets obtained by four institutes during the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment in the Mediterranean Region (Med-CORDEX) project are used. The future conditions correspond to the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios from the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The results show that projected future wave power is very similar to that of the present considering the whole area, although at some specific points there are slight changes that are more evident for the RCP8.5 scenario. Another remarkable result of this study is the significant increase of the temporal variability of wave power in future scenarios, in particular for RCP8.5. This will be detrimental for the deployment of wave energy converters in this area since their energy output will be more unevenly distributed over time, thus decreasing their efficiency
Virtual Reality on Mobile Phones to Reduce Anxiety in Outpatient Surgery
No full textWhen undergo ambulatory surgical operations, the majority of patients experience high level of anxiety. Different experimental studies have shown that distraction techniques are effective in reducing pain and related anxiety. Since Virtual reality (VR) has been demonstrated a good distraction technique, it has been repeatedly used in hospital contexts for reducing pain in burned patients, but it has never been used during surgical operations. With the present randomized controlled study we intended to verify the effectiveness of VR in reducing anxiety in patients undergoing ambulatory operations under local or regional anaesthesia. In particular, we measured the degree to which anxiety associated with surgical intervention was reduced by distracting patients with immersive VR provided through a cell phone connected to an HMD compared to a no-distraction control condition. A significant reduction of anxiety was obtained after 45 minutes of operation in the VR group, but not in the control group and, after 90 minutes, the reduction was larger in the experimental group than in other one. In conclusion, this study presents an innovative promising technique to reduce anxiety during surgical interventions, even if more studies are necessary to investigate its effectiveness in other kinds of operations and in larger numbers of patients
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