137,194 research outputs found
Domenico e Pellegrino Tibaldi. Architettura e Arte a Bologna nel Secondo Cinquecento
No full textIdeazione e responsabilirà scientifica del primo convegno internazionale di studi sulla architettura del tardo Cinquecento a Bologna. F. Ceccarelli e D. Lenzi sono i curatori degli Atti del Convegn
A simplified numerical model for debris flow hazard assessment: DEFLIMO
No full textThe estimation of fan areas subjected to debris flow deposition is approached by using a 1-D routing model linked to a 2-D scheme for prediction of runout areas. Both models originate from simplified representations of the high slopes which characterize debris flow fans located in the north-eastern Italian Alps. Such hypotheses allow to couple a practical employ of the model (end-user oriented) with the physical basis maintenance of the debris phenomenon. Application facilities of the debris flow impact model (DEFLIMO) also come from its integration with the ArcView GIS framework. Example study cases of DEFLIMO for two debris fans (Rio Lenzi and Rio Lazer, Trento Province, Italy) offer reliable mapping of hazard areas, if compared to historical observed events
The Story Map Building and Visualization Tool (SMBVT)
No full text<p>Main investigator and manager: Valentina Bartalesi</p>
<p>Project collaborators: Valentina Bartalesi, Nicolò Pratelli, Emanuele Lenzi</p>
<p>Developers: Emanuele Lenzi, Daniele Metilli (for the previous NBVT)</p>
<p>The Story Map Building and Visualization Tool (SMBVT) is semi-automatic tool to construct and visualise narratives, intended as semantic networks of events related to each other through semantic relations, in form of story maps and timeline. The tool was developed as an extension of a previously developed tool called Narrative Building and Visualisation Tool (NBVT - <a href="http://dlnarratives.eu/tool/index.html">http://dlnarratives.eu/tool/index.html</a>). SMBVT, like NBVT does, obeys an <a href="https://dlnarratives.eu/ontology.html">ontology for narratives</a> we developed.</p>
<p>If you use <code>SMBVT</code> as support to your research consider citing:</p>
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<p>Valentina Bartalesi, Emanuele Lenzi, Nicolò Pratelli, <a href="https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3370/paper18.pdf">A Web Tool to Create and Visualise Semantic Story Maps</a>, Proceedings of Text2Story — Sixth Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts, Dublin, Ireland, April 2, 2023.</p>
<p>Valentina Bartalesi, Gianpaolo Coro, Emanuele Lenzi, Pasquale Pagano & Nicolò Pratelli (2023) <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2023.2168774">From unstructured texts to semantic story maps</a>, International Journal of Digital Earth, 16:1, 234-250, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2023.2168774</p>
<p>Meghini C., Bartalesi V., Metilli D. <a href="http://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw200421">Representing narratives in digital libraries: The narrative ontology</a>. In: Semantic Web, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 241-264, 2021.</p>
<p>Metilli D., Bartalesi V., Meghini C. <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00799-019-00266-3">A Wikidata-based tool for building and visualising narratives</a>. In: International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. Springer, 2019.</p>
<p>Metilli D., Bartalesi V., Meghini C. <a href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-11226-4_13">Populating narratives using Wikidata events: an initial experiment</a>. In: Digital Libraries: Supporting Open Science. 15th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 159 - 166. Manghi P., Candela L., Silvello G. (eds.). (Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 988). Pisa: Springer, 2019.</p>
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Audiovisual sonifications. A design map for multisensory integration in data representation
No full textIn the field of data sonification, the construction of meaning is hampered by
the lack of shared perceptual codes derived from common modes of perception, as it happens for the visual register. In this paper, we re-organize knowledge from previous experimental projects to build the foundations of future work in data representation.
This experimental investigation aims to identify patterns in the translation process from different sensory modalities. To this end, 80 audiovisual sonifications have been collected and analyzed through phenomenological analysis with the goal of recording sensory correspondences. The resulting cross-sensory design map is a visual synthesis of the analysis, and it has a dual function. In the research domain, it proposes testable hypotheses for a systematic approach to data sonification. In the practice, it offers a space that is based on shared conventions that aim to standardize the actions and the choices of both sonification experts and communication designers
Do Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors Have A Role In Improving Cognitive Impairment In Patients With Schizophrenia?
No full textAt present, there are no really efficacious tools available to counteract cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia: even though new atypical antipsychotic drugs represent an advance compared with typical antipsychotic drugs, the results obtained with this class of drugs are actually partial. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) that have been proven to be effective on psychiatric symptoms, behavioural abnormalities and cognitive dysfunction of patients with dementia may be effective on cognitive deficit in patients with schizophrenia, and may also improve their psychopathology and behaviour. In the present paper we review the use of AChEIs in the treatment of schizophrenia. Although these AChEIs have different action mechanisms (donepezil only inhibits acetylcholinesterase; rivastigmine also inhibits butyryl-cholinesterase; galantamine also interacts with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors), they have similar clinical effects. We have observed no or mild effects on cognitive deficits and symptoms in double-blind studies, a dramatic effect on a patient's subjective well-being and ability to cope and subjective judgement of psychiatrists in the case reports and open studies. The question remains as to how we can accurately measure a patient's capacity to feel, to cope and his/her desire to live with other people - aspects very different from intelligence and cognitive function. Further double-blind placebo studies are required to determine the role of AChEIs in the improvement of quality of life for patients affected by schizophreni
On the relationship between monadic and weak monadic second order on arbitrary trees, with application to the mu-calculus
No full textIn 1970 [26], in Weakly definable relations and special automata, Math. Log. and Found. of Set Theory, pp 1-23, Rabin shows that a language is recognizable by a tree automaton with Buchi like infinitary condition if and only if it is definable as the projection of a weakly definable language.
In this paper, we refine this result characterizing such languages as those definable in the monadic Sigma(2) level of the quantifier alternation depth hierarchy of monadic second order logic (MSO).
This new result also contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between the quantifier alternation depth of hierarchy of MSO and the fixpoint alternation depth hierarchy of the mucalculus: it shows that the bisimulation invariant fragment of the monadic Sigma(2) level equals the vmu-level of the mu-calculus hierarchy
Vitamin D in autoimmune liver disease
No full textThe development of autoimmune disease is based on the interaction of genetic susceptibility and environmental causes. Environmental factors include infectious and noninfectious agents, with some of these factors being implicated in several autoimmune diseases. Vitamin D is now believed to play a role in the development (or prevention) of several autoimmune diseases, based on its immunomodulatory properties. As well, the increasing incidence of autoimmune disease as one moves away from the equator, may be due to the lack of sunlight, which is crucial for the maintenance of normal vitamin D levels. A deficiency in vitamin D levels or vitamin D receptors is commonly indicated in autoimmune diseases, with multiple sclerosis (MS) being one of the best-studied and well-known examples. However, the role of vitamin D in other autoimmune diseases is not well defined, including autoimmune liver diseases such as primary biliary cirrhosis, autoimmune hepatitis, and primary sclerosing cholangitis. This review will examine the role of vitamin D as an immunomodulator, followed by a comparison of vitamin D in MS versus autoimmune liver disease. From this comparison, it will become clear that vitamin D likely plays a role in the development of autoimmune liver disease, but this area requires further investigation. (C) 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved
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