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Multi-platform solution for data acquisition
Full text linkAnalogue data acquisition is a common task which has application in several fields such as scientific research, industry, food production, safety, and environmental monitoring. It can be carried out either using systems designed ad-hoc for a specific application or by using general-purpose Digital Acquisition Boards (DAQ). Several DAQ solutions are nowadays available on the market, however, most of them are extremely expensive and come as commercial closed products, a factor which prevents users to adapt the system to their specific applications and limits the product compatibility to few operating systems or platforms. This paper describes the design and the preliminary metrological characterisation of a digital data acquisition solution based on the Teensyduino Development Board. The aim of the project is to create a hardware and software infrastructure suitable to be employed on several operating systems and that can be freely modified by the users when required. Teensyduino board is a well-known development platform which is characterised by high computing performance and USB support. Taking advantage of the Teensyduino features, the proposed system is easy to be calibrated and used, and it provides functions and performance comparable to many commercial DAQs, but at a significantly lower cost
Smart Home Technologies for Cognitive Assessment in Healthcare
Full text linkWith the term 'smart home' developers usually refer to a house, or more generally a residential environment, where a set of integrated sensors, devices and technologies provides the occupants with innovative functionalities and utilities which improve both the living comfort and the resource management of the building
Una nota sulla "seconda morte" di "Inferno" I 117
No full textThe article takes into consideration the passage from the proemial canto of the Commedia,
in which, within the triple super-mundane subdivision of Dante’s journey, the infernal
argument is summarized in the image of the “spirits disconsolate” who cry out for the “second
death”. The unresolved ambiguity that characterizes this last expression has given rise,
since the early commentators, to different and apparently irreconcilable interpretations: annihilation
of the soul; spiritual death or hell; eternal damnation deriving from the Last Judgment.
Starting with the Apocalypse (20, 14 and 21, 8), which constitutes the cultural
archetype of the numerous late ancient and medieval treatises on the “second death”, this
article aims to a broader historical contextualization of the Dante passage, reconsidering
those texts that reveal in what different ways the same scriptural image could be perceived
by a medieval reader. From this interdiscursive lens a reading of Inf. I, 117 is developed,
which, put to the test of comparison with other passages in Inferno and unpublished sources,
refers to a humanistic meaning of the “second death” as the oblivion of the fame that follows
bodily death
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