121 research outputs found
Il principio di sussidiarietà: una legge manifesto?
No full textL'articolo vuole evidenziare che il principio di sussidiarietà, nonostante le difficoltà di implementazione, non è espressione del patologico fenomeno delle "leggi manifesto
Economic, environmental, and animal welfare performance on livestock farms: Conceptual model and application to some case studies in Italy
No full textThe aim of this paper is to propose a multi-attribute hierarchical evaluation model for the evaluation of the aggregate sustainability of livestock farms integrating the economic, environmental, and social aspects. This approach uses an aggregation criterion based on the geometric mean to assess a farm's current level of sustainability. Sustainability was measured through the use of indicators including carbon footprint, farm income, and animal welfare. Secondly, based on the relationships between the sustainability aspects, the effects of improvement measures on all the indicators were estimated. This paper presents eight livestock case studies from Italy, analyzed in 2014. The results show intermediate values for the aggregate index of sustainability for most of the farms. The index mainly depends on the estimated values of the sustainability indicators related to the economic and environmental aspects. Lower values of animal welfare sustainability are quantified. The introduction of improvement measures in relation to the preparation of the soil had positive effects, both in terms of emissions and animal welfare. The increase of available space per Livestock Unit (LU) resulted in the greatest positive effect on animal welfare, among all the other actions analyzed
Le parole del design. 150 lemmi tecnici liberamente scelti
No full textDa Affordance a Vetro Float, il volume illustra il significato di centocinquanta lemmi scelti perché illustrano tecnologie innovative o lavorazioni artigianali che rischiano di perdersi; perché legati alla gestione ambientale o alla proprietà intellettuale; perché raccontano nuove strumentazioni o attrezzi quasi scomparsi; perché restituiscono una classificazione esaustiva di prodotti diversi o perché fanno riferimento alle nuove frontiere dell’infinitamente piccolo. Più il mondo si complica, si globalizza, si dilata, più è necessario che i linguaggi siano univoci e comprensibili, senza perdere in ricchezza, così - strettamente tecnici o più di scenario - i centocinquanta lemmi contenuti nel volume restituiscono il significato delle parole e le loro connessioni che formano la fitta rete alla base del fare e del comunicare il design. Un sapere puntuale di supporto a nuove immaginazioni, che dalla carta stampata può portare al web con una chiave di ricerca in più. I lemmi sono introdotti da un saggio iniziale di Cecilia Cecchini che fornisce una riflessione sul tema della trasmissione delle conoscenze nel campo del design nell'epoca contemporanea e da uno di Felice Ragazzo relativo ai mutamenti in corso nel campo delle tecnologie e delle conseguenze prodotte in seno al design.The more the world expands and becomes complicated and globalised, the more languages need to be comprehensible and universal, whilst retaining their complexity and linguistic richness. Thus, the 150 terms in this book – which are either strictly technical or more generally associated with the field – restore the meaning of words and their associations, aspects that form the dense network that lies at the heart of communicating and practising design.
They were chosen by the author for various reasons: because they illustrate either innovative technologies or artisan skills that we risk losing forever; because they describe either new instruments or tools that have almost disappeared; because they are associated with environmental management or intellectual property; because they reinstate an exhaustive classification of various different products, or because they refer to the new frontiers of the infinitesimal.
This book provides accurate information that can even lead from the printed page to the Internet, tackled with greater technical awareness, allowing us to choose wisely from the infinite amount of information available online.
Listed in alphabetical order, the terms are preceded by the author’s analysis of how knowledge is imparted in the field of design, particularly focusing on the changes induced by the technological acceleration of recent years. There follows an essay by Felice Ragazzo on the relationship between design, technology and science.
The book was chosen by the 2013 ADI Design Index. As it soon sold out, it was reprinted in 2014 (the cover of the attached PDF is that of the 2014 edition, which is identical to the original edition except for the note announcing its selection by the ADI Design Index)
The impact of EC-92 on developing countries'trade : a dissenting view
No full textMost benefits of the European Community (EC-92) program will probably not come from marginal changes in trade flows. Those changes are important to European policymakers, but are of remote interest to developing countries. The main threats to developing countries are the diversion of investment funds to EC countries and continued external barriers, especially nontariff barriers. The EC expects higher growth and lower prices as a result of EC-92. The net effect on developing countries of the removal of internal trade barriers depends on the country's income and price elasticities with the EC. Current estimates suggest the effect will be small. If new external barriers emerge, or if EC-wide barriers replace national barriers, EC firms may collaborate more with large US or Japanese firms. None of these developments will improve developing countries'trade in manufactures and services. Investment in EC countries may increase to meet the extra demand, growth, or trade diversion resulting from EC-92. This could lead to increased investments in developing countries but given heavy indebtedness in developing countries, is more likely to divert investment funds, thus limiting their future production and growth. Technical standards in EC-92 may also be tougher than national standards in member countries, which could hurt developing country exporters. Is"Fortress Europe"likely? The EC Commission says no, but the Community's record is not good.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Trade and Regional Integration,Trade Policy
Reimagining the Baroque in Italian Modernism. From the fin-de-siècle to Lucio Fontana
No full textWhile Italian art of the twentieth century is usually associated with either the avant-garde practices of Futurism or the classicism of Fascist visual culture, the Italian modernists' complex engagement with concepts of the ‘Baroque’ has yet to be explored. Through an extensive analysis of paintings, sculptures, publications, collecting practices, and exhibitions, my dissertation addresses this lacuna by investigating how the Baroque was discursively constructed and visually represented in Italian modernist artistic and cultural debates between 1880 and 1945. I study how artists and critics such as Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio De Chirico, Adolfo Wildt, Lucio Fontana, and Roberto Longhi championed or disparaged the Baroque in the context of heated debates over the import of Italy’s rich cultural heritage, its status in modern Europe, and the potential role of avant-garde art as a catalyst for national regeneration. In contrast to previous scholars I argue that the development of modern art in Italy was actively shaped by cultural perceptions about the Baroque. My dissertation therefore sheds new light on the role of style in the cultural politics of Italy, which in turn will transform our understanding of visual culture in modern Italy, and of twentieth-century representations of the Baroque in art, literature, and aesthetics.</p
Sul problema della tutela internazionale dell'ambiente: da Kyoto a Parigi passando per Positano
No full textL'Autore sostiene che la sicurezza ambientale internazionale sia passata da una prospettiva incentrata sulla sovranità dello Stato ad una che si focalizza sull'autonomia soggettiva e sulla sussidiarietà delle istituzioni
Sustainability of Chianina beef production: what is the future of the suckler-to-finish system? Sostenibilità della produzione di carne Chianina: quale futuro per gli allevamenti a ciclo chiuso?
No full textNegli ultimi decenni, la zootecnia intensiva è stata accusata di contribuire in maniera significativa alle emissioni di gas serra e al peggioramento delle condizioni degli animali, con ripercussioni sotto il profilo etico ed ambientale. L’allevamento bovino di razza Chianina appartenente alla filiera IGP del “Vitellone Bianco dell’Appennino Centrale” rappresenta uno dei principali esempi di allevamento estensivo per la produzione di carne del centro-Italia, ma contemporaneamente presenta diversi profili di criticità legati soprattutto alla scarsa produttività della razza.
L’obiettivo dello studio è quello di valutare la sostenibilità “globale” di un campione di 6 allevamenti chianini umbri a ciclo chiuso. A tal fine è stato utilizzato un approccio multi-criteriale, aggregando i dati con la media geometrica, di tre diversi indicatori di sostenibilità: Carbon Footprint (dimensione ambientale), di redditività (economica) e di benessere animale (sociale).
La raccolta dati, realizzata nel 2022 attraverso la somministrazione di un questionario, ha incluso aspetti tecnici, economici e sociali della gestione zootecnica, integrati con dati secondari provenienti dal Consorzio IGP, dall’Associazione Nazionale Allevatori Bovini Italiani da Carne (ANABIC) e dall’Associazione Regionale Allevatori Umbria (ARAU).
La valutazione della sostenibilità economica è stata realizzata attraverso l’analisi del valore aggiunto al fine di aumentare la comparabilità dei risultati. Quella ambientale attraverso la metodologia Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) “from cradle to farm gate”, in accordo alle norme UNI EN ISO 14040 e 14044 del 2006. Quella sociale misurando il grado di benessere animale basandoci sul sistema Classyfarm, che prevede la classificazione degli allevamenti in base a punteggi di rischio. I tre indici rilevati per le rispettive dimensioni di sostenibilità sono stati aggregati in un macro-indice di sostenibilità globale. Le aziende sono poi state ordinate in un ranking di performance crescente.
Sulla base dei risultati ottenuti per ogni indicatore di sostenibilità sono stati messi in evidenza eventuali criticità e sono state ipotizzate possibili azioni per migliorare la competitività degli allevamenti
A Treebank-based Approach to the Supprema Constructio in Dante’s Latin Works
No full textThis paper aims to apply a corpus-driven approach to Dante Alighieri’s Latin works using UDante, a treebank based on Dante Search and part of the Universal Dependencies project. We present a method based on the notion of barycentre applied to a dependency tree as a way to calculate the “syntactic balance” of a sentence. Its application to Dante’s Latin works shows its potential in analysing the style of an author, and contributes to the interpretation of the supprema constructio mentioned in DVE II vi 7 as a well balanced syntactic pattern modeled on Latin literary writin
Towards a visual graph-based story outline authoring
No full textIn this paper we present an authoring tool for collaborative visual creation of story outlines. A visual graph-based approach was adopted in order to allow story outlining of a wide range of types and genres of stories, while offering a story representation paradigm suitable for multi-author collaboration and for the integration and organisation of external sources of documentation of the story. Such a paradigm of story representation is also effective for an easy and semiautomatic rapid creation of story prototypes which can be obtained by mean of a specifically developed templating engine
Overview of the EvaLatin 2022 Evaluation Campaign
No full textThis paper describes the organization and the results of the second edition of EvaLatin, the campaign for the evaluation of Natural Language Processing tools for Latin. The three shared tasks proposed in EvaLatin 2022, i. e. Lemmatization, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Features Identification, are aimed to foster research in the field of language technologies for Classical languages. The shared dataset consists of texts mainly taken from the LASLA corpus. More specifically, the training set includes only prose texts of the Classical period, whereas the test set is organized in three sub-tasks: a Classical sub-task on a prose text of an author not included in the training data, a Cross-genre sub-task on poetic and scientific texts, and a Cross-time sub-task on a text of the 15th century. The results obtained
by the participants for each task and sub-task are presented and discussed
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