148 research outputs found
Emulation is the most sincere form of flattery : retro videogames, rom distribution and copyright
No full textThe Internet has made it possible for amateur game creators to collaborate on projects irrespective of geographical location. The success of projects such as Minecraft, and even CounterStrike, demonstrates that ‘indie’ developers can create entertainment products just as popular and successful as mainstream developers with huge budgets. However, many individuals instead are more interested in the old than the new – reliving past experiences through the playing of old videogames that are no longer commercially sold. Through the creation of emulators, and the ripping of ROM images (data that allows for the playing of an emulated videogame, such as Super Mario Bros. on the Super Nintendo), games with nostalgic value can be easily distributed, played and replayed. In addition, this allows for the preservation of legacy content that may otherwise be consigned to the ‘dustbin of history’. However, irrespective of the effort and ingenuity that goes into the creation of emulation software, and the effort involved in ripping ROM data to make old games playable, are these pursuits entirely legal? The purpose of this paper is to consider the compatibility of such projects with pre-existing norms of intellectual property law, comparing and contrasting the approaches of US and EU IP regimes in their handling of emulators and ROMS. The paper will analyse the issue under pre-existing legislation and with regard to relevant case law, seeking to draw conclusions on whether the existing regimes in copyright law are compatible and satisfactorily balance the right of videogame publishers to seek fair remuneration for their work with the desire by enthusiasts to preserve and relive a form of creative culture
Tiziano Rocco (Motta di Livenza, TV 12/2/1908 – Milano, 02/07/1984)
No full textPoco sappiamo della vita privata di Tiziano Rocco. Ebbe un’infanzia disagiata a causa della Grande Guerra, e la famiglia dovette sfollare da Motta di Livenza (Treviso) a Carpi a seguito dell’occupazione austriaca della pianura veneta dopo la disfatta di Caporetto. La residenza in Emilia creò un solido legame con questa terra in lui e nei suoi genitori, che vi rimasero fino alla loro scomparsa. Studiò al Politecnico di Torino, laureandosi in Ingegneria Mineraria nel 1929. Nel 1931 fu assunto da AGIP, fondata solo 5 anni prima, e fu assegnato alla Sezione geofisica, disciplina che stava compiendo i primi passi come strumento a supporto dell’esplorazione petrolifera. Sostenne il colloquio di assunzione a Roma, al tempo sede dell’Azienda, alla presenza di Guido Bonarelli e dell’allora dirigente della sezione geofisica Arnaldo Belluigi.
Rocco previde le potenzialità della geofisica, ed in particolare della sismica a riflessione, con almeno una decade di anticipo in Europa, in tempi in cui non esisteva collaborazione tecnologica fra aziende, università ed enti di ricerca, e i risultati scientifici e tecnologici filtravano con difficoltà. Dopo un breve periodo di addestramento, Rocco diresse varie squadre di rilievo gravimetrico, magnetico ed elettrico in Italia, ed in particolare nella Sicilia orientale, durante l’estesa campagna del 1934. La sua vita professionale fu sempre improntata al miglioramento tecnologico, arduo agli inizi della carriera a causa delle difficoltà economiche del Paese e delle politiche autarchiche del regime.
AGIP inviò il giovane Rocco negli USA nel 1935 e nel 1936, dove egli acquisì un ricco bagaglio di conoscenze sui nuovi metodi geofisici, e in particolare sulla sismica a riflessione. Tornato in Italia, egli chiese di far arrivare due gruppi sismici americani da impiegare in Val Padana: la prima risposta pare sia stata negativa. Si tenga infatti conto del contesto storico dell’epoca, dopo che la Società delle Nazioni aveva appena approvato le “inique” sanzioni all’Italia a seguito dell’avventura in Etiopia, inaugurando la stagione dell’autarchia.
Nel 1937, dopo alcuni esperimenti con apparecchiature tedesche e la costruzione in proprio di rudimentali unità sismiche, AGIP chiese al Prof. Francesco Vercelli dell’Istituto di Geofisica di Trieste di effettuare una missione a Berlino per verificare lo stato dell’arte degli alleati, e cercare un’alternativa più conveniente di quella dell’americana Western Geophysical (fondata nel 1933 da Henry Salvatori, figlio di un emigrato abruzzese di Tocco da Casauria), già contattata da Rocco. Il Vercelli fu accompagnato a Berlino, nel mese di luglio, proprio da Rocco, e insieme verificarono l’insussistenza di standard tecnici soddisfacenti, che invece essi trovarono negli USA l’anno successivo (1938) in un’altra missione congiunta. In questa occasione, Vercelli e Rocco si interessarono principalmente alle offerte della Western Geophysical e della Seismograph Service Corp.
Al loro ritorno, non senza sforzi, AGIP decise di approvare l’offerta di Western, e nel 1939 arrivarono in Italia due gruppi sismici, insieme al personale addetto alle operazioni di campo: pare che il primo scoppio sia stato eseguito il 10 giugno 1940, proprio nel giorno in cui l’Italia entrò nella seconda guerra mondiale. I risultati delle nuove indagini arrivarono presto: prima del rimpatrio dei tecnici statunitensi nell’autunno 1940, erano state già delineate le strutture di Ripalta, Caviaga, Cortemaggiore e Piadena. Rocco propose i primi pozzi esplorativi in pianura padana a S. Giorgio Piacentino, Caviaga e Ripalta, attività che portarono al primo successo nel 1944, con la scoperta del campo a gas di Caviaga.
Rocco lasciò l’AGIP nel 1943, a causa di problemi legati al tumultuoso periodo dell’armistizio, dell’occupazione tedesca e della fine della guerra, e dal 1945 lavorò con la Società Petrolifera Italiana (SPI) di Fornovo Taro e dal 1948 con la Western Geophysical. Rientrò all’AGIP nel 1951, e divenne Direttore del Servizio Esplorazione. Negli anni 1950-60 collaborò ai successi dell’Azienda in varie regioni italiane (Abruzzo, Basilicata e Sicilia) e Paesi esteri (Iran, Egitto, Nigeria, Tunisia e Libia), oltre che per la definizione di dettaglio delle strutture geologiche in Val Padana. Nel 1968 lasciò AGIP (operando però per altri 5 anni come consulente esterno), e nello stesso anno fu eletto dalla SGI, di cui era membro dal 1940, Presidente per il biennio 1968-1969, dopo aver ricoperto la carica di Vice Presidente sotto la gestione di Roberto Malaroda. Con la sua nomina la Società intendeva aprirsi agli aspetti applicativi delle geoscienze e intensificare i rapporti con le realtà produttive, con l’industria mineraria di Stato in particolare. Rocco, dopo aver avviato la procedura di revisione di Statuto e Regolamento, si dimise però precocemente dopo pochi mesi. Questo il testo della stringata lettera del 20 luglio 1968, indirizzata al Vice Presidente “Preg.mo Prof. Mancini, per motivi dipendenti dalla mia attuale situazione professionale, non mi è possibile attendere alla preparazione del Congresso della S.G.I., previsto per l’estate del 1969. Non potendo per conseguenza adempiere a quanto prescritto da primo comma dell’art. 11 dello Statuto della nostra Società, mi vedo costretto a rassegnare formalmente a Lei le dimissioni da Presidente della S.G.I. Sono desolato per le seccature che Le arreco e, mentre La prego di voler accettare le mie più vive e sentite scuse, Le porgo i migliori saluti”. Il congresso mancato del 1969 avrebbe dovuto tenersi in settembre a Ravenna, avendo come tema applicativo il “Contributo della ricerca petrolifera alle conoscenze geologiche della regione adriatica”. Nonostante i tentativi di vari colleghi di indurlo a ritornare sui suoi passi, Rocco fu irremovibile e non addusse ulteriori spiegazioni. Il Consiglio Direttivo accettò le dimissioni e l’Assemblea straordinaria ne prese atto nelle rispettive sedute tenutesi consecutivamente a Roma presso l’Istituto di Geologia il 28/9/1968. Fiorenzo Mancini assunse quindi la Presidenza con un anno di anticipo rispetto al biennio previsto. Per effetto dell’annullamento del congresso del 1969, quello successivo slittò al 1970 (con sede Firenze), abbandonando la cadenza biennale ad anni dispari tenuta dal dopoguerra sino ad allora.
Rocco morì a Milano, dove risiedeva in zona Porta Ticinese, il 2 Luglio 1984
Designing a user interface for serious games: Observing differences in user response between gamers and non-gamers within the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
No full textAs entertainment games become an established part of our media, public and private sector companies will look to utilise the benefits of games to train, educate and assess their workforce in engaging ways. This may require a generation unfamiliar with games technology to use them for the first time. As designers we need to consider this, to make sure that the User Interfaces (UI) we create are usable and easily understood to those unfamiliar with the medium.
This body of research is a study into the design and testing of a serious game for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (WYFRS).
Do players of video games develop an understanding of the convention, knowledge and skills over time, which could be seen as a distinct language? – A kind of ‘game literacy.’ If so, then a serious game, which may have a mixed skill group, cannot solely rely on the conventions that work in entertainment games. Therefore, can a recognised UI design process from another discipline be used to develop a serious games UI?
To investigate this, Goal-Directed Design is used as a research methodology with a particular focus on the impact learning domain knowledge has on the designer’s ability to create a suitable product for the client. This includes the author undergoing introductory Incident Command training to see the benefits that had on the project.
In response to learning the Fire Service’s domain, a prototype product was developed to help the creation and examination of Incident Commanders for the Fire Service. This was then tested on five Fire Officers, of varying ages, to observe how they used and interacted with software unfamiliar to them. This provided an insight into aspects of UIs gamers and non-gamers have problems with and also to see if there is a technological gap between generations.
This research suggests there may be a technology generation gap but it is not as polarised as either ‘native’ or ‘immigrant’ but more gradual. Goal Directed Design appears to set out a suitable approach for serious games developers to conduct user research
Recoil Proton Telescopes and Parallel Plate Avalanche Counters for the 235U(n,f) cross section measurement relative to H(n,n)H between 10 and 450 MeV neutron energy
No full textAbstract With the aim of measuring the 235U(n,f) cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN over a wide neutron energy range, a detection system consisting of two fission detectors and three detectors for neutron flux determination was realized. The neutron flux detectors are Recoil Proton Telescopes (RPTs), based on scintillators and solid state detectors, conceived to detect recoil protons from the neutron-proton elastic scattering reaction. This system, along with a fission chamber and an array of parallel plate avalanche counters for fission event detection, was installed for the measurement at the n_TOF facility in 2018, at CERN. An overview of the performances of two RPTs — especially developed for this measurement — and of the parallel plate avalanche counters are described in this article. In particular, the characterization in terms of detection efficiency by Monte Carlo simulations and response to neutron beam, the study of the background, dead time correction and characterization of the samples, are reported. The results of the present investigation show that the performances of these detectors are suitable for accurate measurements of fission reaction cross sections in the range from 10 to 450 MeV
Recoil Proton Telescopes and Parallel Plate Avalanche Counters for the U(n,f) cross section measurement relative to H(n,n)H between 10 and 450 MeV neutron energy
No full textWith the aim of measuring the U(n,f) cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERNover a wide neutron energy range, a detection system consisting of two fission detectors and threedetectors for neutron flux determination was realized. The neutron flux detectors are RecoilProton Telescopes (RPTs), based on scintillators and solid state detectors, conceived to detectrecoil protons from the neutron-proton elastic scattering reaction. This system, along with afission chamber and an array of parallel plate avalanche counters for fission event detection, wasinstalled for the measurement at the n_TOF facility in 2018, at CERN.An overview of the performances of two RPTs — especially developed for this measurement — and of theparallel plate avalanche counters are described in this article. In particular, the characterizationin terms of detection efficiency by Monte Carlo simulations and response to neutron beam, the studyof the background, dead time correction and characterization of the samples, are reported. Theresults of the present investigation show that the performances of these detectors are suitable foraccurate measurements of fission reaction cross sections in the range from 10 to 450 MeV.With the aim of measuring the U(n,f) cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN over a wide neutron energy range, a detection system consisting of two fission detectors and three detectors for neutron flux determination was realized. The neutron flux detectors are Recoil Proton Telescopes (RPT), based on scintillators and solid state detectors, conceived to detect recoil protons from the neutron-proton elastic scattering reaction. This system, along with a fission chamber and an array of parallel plate avalanche counters for fission event detection, was installed for the measurement at the n_TOF facility in 2018, at CERN. An overview of the performances of two RPTs - especially developed for this measurement - and of the parallel plate avalanche counters are described in this article. In particular, the characterization in terms of detection efficiency by Monte Carlo simulations and response to neutron beam, the study of the background, dead time correction and characterization of the samples, are reported. The results of the present investigation show that the performances of these detectors are suitable for accurate measurements of fission reaction cross sections in the range from 10 to 450~MeV
Some remarks on word order and information structure in romance and greek
No full textThis paper is a preliminary comparative study of the relation between word order and information structure in three Null Subject Languages ((NSLs) Spanish, Italian and Greek). The aim is twofold: first I seek to examine the differences and the similarities among these languages in this domain of their syntax. Secon, I investigate the possible derivations of the various patterns and attempt to localize the differences among these languages in different underlying syntactic structures
Use of a low-cost, commercially available gaming console (Nintendo-WII) foe rehabilitation of patients with multiple sclerosis: results of a pilot study
No full textLos cónsules de extranjeros en la Edad Moderna y a principios de la Edad Contemporánea
No full textIl volume raccoglie diciannove saggi ad opera dei maggiori esperti, fra professori specialisti del settore e giovani ricercatori, che si occupano dell’istituzione consolare europea secondo i più recenti ed innovativi approcci storiografici. Ripercorrendo gli aspetti più insoliti e peculiari della figura del console degli stranieri, e illustrando casi inediti di particolare interesse, emerge uno scenario sorprendente capace di far luce sulle significative trasformazioni che l’ufficio consolare subì tra XVII, XVIII e XIX secolo.
Le prassi, le norme, le rappresentazioni simboliche, i processi di istituzionalizzazione che interessarono i consoli degli stranieri sono l’elemento tematico che accomuna questi scritti. Ma sono soprattutto le difformità, piccole e grandi, al pari delle analogie, per lo più inattese, che emergono dall’analisi dei casi studiati a mettere in risalto la ricchezza di un tema d’indagine che per essere compreso a fondo dev’essere affrontato da molteplici punti di vista e in un quadro comparativo, sia metodologico, sia spaziale. Grazie al ricorso a documentazione originale proveniente dagli archivi di tutta Europa, si approfondisce così il processo con il quale lo Stato di età moderna e degli inizi dell’età contemporanea portò a compimento una significativa riforma dell’istituto inserendolo a pieno nel proprio ordinamento giuridico-amministrativo, mentre l’incidenza delle nuove relazioni internazionali e l’affermazione del principio di reciprocità modellavano quegli antichi rappresentanti delle «nazioni» mercantili in un gruppo di funzionari fedeli e ad elevata professionalizzazione.
Ne esce il ritratto di una figura plastica, difficilmente inquadrabile in un profilo giuridico predefinito, affascinante nelle sue implicazioni politiche, sociali ed economiche con la società di riferimento
Evidence for Early Mesozoic diversification of Hypsimetopidae Nicholls, 1943 (Isopoda), with the description of a new genus from Andhra Pradesh and notes on threats to Indian cave environments
No full textDatafiles and scripts for https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruac052
Evidence for Early Mesozoic diversification of Hypsimetopidae Nicholls, 1943 (Isopoda), with the description of a new genus from Andhra Pradesh and notes on threats to Indian cave environments
George D. F. Wilson1,2 and Shabuddin Shaik 3
1 Saugatuck Natural History Laboratory, Saugatuck, MI, USA; [email protected]
3 Department of Life Science, Central University of Karnataka, Kadaganchi, 585 367, India; [email protected]
2 Corresponding author: George D. F. Wilson, P. O. Box 714, Saugatuck, Michigan 49453, USA. e-mail: [email protected]
File List:
Phreatoi20220525.nex
Mesquite data file that contains all data from the DELTA taxonomic database that were used for data presentation, organization, analysis, as well as trees resulting from all analyses. For Mesquite version 3.70; Maddison WP, Maddison DR. 2021. Mesquite: a modular system for evolutionary analysis. Version 3.6 University of British Columbia & Oregon State University., http://www.mesquiteproject.org/
The DELTA database is still being edited and changed so it is not included here
For DELTA, see website https://www.delta-intkey.com/
publications:
Dallwitz MJ. 1980. A general system for coding taxonomic descriptions. TAXON 29: 41-46.
Dallwitz MJ, Paine TA, Zurcher EJ. 2000. User's guide to the DELTA system: a general system for processing taxonomic descriptions. CSIRO: Canberra.
Phreatoi20220525.tnt - the TNT data file generated by Mesquite
Analyses were performed using TNT-64bit, version 1.5, Goloboff PA, Catalano SA. 2016. TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics. Cladistics 32: 221-238.
Note: TNT counts zero as a number so the first tree, taxon or k paramter is 0, the second is 1, the third is 2 and so on
TNT Scripts were written or modified for this project by George D. F. Wilson. They were run using the console in Ubuntu 20.04 but should work using the console version of TNT in other operating systems available from http://www.lillo.org.ar/phylogeny/tnt/. I recommend using the console because it allows you do to multiple analysis with one script.
Each script has a banner that explains what is being done. If this fails to appear the first time, enter n and restart the script
These are easily modified in a text editor to change the analysis
-- tnt.run : standard run of tnt.
-- tnt-jacK.run : symmetric jackknife analysis with concavity parameter, select file, concavity and prob parameter
-- piwe_rangeK.run : A range of concavity parameters are selected at the beginning and run sequentially
-- setk_trans.run : Modified from setk.run by Salvador Arias, Instituto Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina
-- aquickie_bt1000.run : Modified from the standard script distributed with TNT with more iterations of jackknifing
If you are new to using TNT, see the information available on http://www.lillo.org.ar/phylogeny/tnt/ as well as these articles:
Goloboff PA. 1993. Estimating character weights during tree search. Cladistics 9: 83-91.
Goloboff PA. 1997. Self-Weighted Optimization: Tree Searches and Character State Reconstructions under Implied Transformation Costs. Cladistics 13: 225-245.
Goloboff PA, Carpenter JM, Arias JS, Esquivel DRM. 2008. Weighting against homoplasy improves phylogenetic analysis of morphological data sets. Cladistics 24: 758-773.
Goloboff PA, Catalano SA. 2016. TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics. Cladistics 32: 221-238.
Goloboff PA, Farris JS. 2001. Methods for Quick Consensus Estimation. Cladistics 17: S26-S34.
Goloboff PA, Farris JS, Källersjö M, Oxelman B, Ramírez MJ, Szumik CA. 2003. Improvements to resampling measures of group support. Cladistics 19: 324-332.
Goloboff PA, Farris JS, Nixon KC. 2008. TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis. Cladistics 24: 774-786.Access citing publication at https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruac05
A new genus from Northeastern Andhra Predesh: evidence for early Mesozoic diversification of Phreatoicidea (Isopoda, Crustacea) in Gondwana. Datafiles and Analysis scripts
No full textDatafiles and scripts for the unpublished manuscript:
Speonastes gen. nov. from Northeastern Andhra Predesh: evidence for early Mesozoic diversification of Phreatoicidea (Isopoda, Crustacea) in Gondwana
George D. F. Wilson1,2 and Shabuddin Shaik 3
1 Saugatuck Natural History Laboratory, Saugatuck, MI, USA; [email protected]
3 Department of Life Science, Central University of Karnataka, Kadaganchi, 585 367, India; [email protected]
2 Corresponding author: George D. F. Wilson, P. O. Box 714, Saugatuck, Michigan 49453, USA. e-mail: [email protected]
File List:
Phreatoi20220525.nex
Mesquite data file that contains all data from the DELTA taxonomic database that were used for data presentation, organization, analysis, as well as trees resulting from all analyses. For Mesquite version 3.70; Maddison WP, Maddison DR. 2021. Mesquite: a modular system for evolutionary analysis. Version 3.6 University of British Columbia & Oregon State University., http://www.mesquiteproject.org/
The DELTA database is still being edited and changed so it is not included here
For DELTA, see website https://www.delta-intkey.com/
publications:
Dallwitz MJ. 1980. A general system for coding taxonomic descriptions. TAXON 29: 41-46.
Dallwitz MJ, Paine TA, Zurcher EJ. 2000. User's guide to the DELTA system: a general system for processing taxonomic descriptions. CSIRO: Canberra.
Phreatoi20220525.tnt - the TNT data file generated by Mesquite
Analyses were performed using TNT-64bit, version 1.5, Goloboff PA, Catalano SA. 2016. TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics. Cladistics 32: 221-238.
Note: TNT counts zero as a number so the first tree, taxon or k paramter is 0, the second is 1, the third is 2 and so on
TNT Scripts were written or modified for this project by George D. F. Wilson. They were run using the console in Ubuntu 20.04 but should work using the console version of TNT in other operating systems available from http://www.lillo.org.ar/phylogeny/tnt/. I recommend using the console because it allows you do to multiple analysis with one script.
Each script has a banner that explains what is being done. If this fails to appear the first time, enter n and restart the script
These are easily modified in a text editor to change the analysis
-- tnt.run : standard run of tnt.
-- tnt-jacK.run : symmetric jackknife analysis with concavity parameter, select file, concavity and prob parameter
-- piwe_rangeK.run : A range of concavity parameters are selected at the beginning and run sequentially
-- setk_trans.run : Modified from setk.run by Salvador Arias, Instituto Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina
-- aquickie_bt1000.run : Modified from the standard script distributed with TNT with more iterations of jackknifing
If you are new to using TNT, see the information available on http://www.lillo.org.ar/phylogeny/tnt/ as well as these articles:
Goloboff PA. 1993. Estimating character weights during tree search. Cladistics 9: 83-91.
Goloboff PA. 1997. Self-Weighted Optimization: Tree Searches and Character State Reconstructions under Implied Transformation Costs. Cladistics 13: 225-245.
Goloboff PA, Carpenter JM, Arias JS, Esquivel DRM. 2008. Weighting against homoplasy improves phylogenetic analysis of morphological data sets. Cladistics 24: 758-773.
Goloboff PA, Catalano SA. 2016. TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics. Cladistics 32: 221-238.
Goloboff PA, Farris JS. 2001. Methods for Quick Consensus Estimation. Cladistics 17: S26-S34.
Goloboff PA, Farris JS, Källersjö M, Oxelman B, Ramírez MJ, Szumik CA. 2003. Improvements to resampling measures of group support. Cladistics 19: 324-332.
Goloboff PA, Farris JS, Nixon KC. 2008. TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis. Cladistics 24: 774-786.Paper submitte
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