235 research outputs found

    Canone epico e forme del riuso nella 'Geste Francor'

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    Nel presente articolo si analizza il complesso sistema di rimandi, allusioni e prelievi testuali provenienti dall’epica oitanica all’interno della Geste Francor. I risultati dell’indagine permettono di comprendere finalità e modalità del riuso di specifiche chansons de geste da parte dell’anonimo autore del ciclo e di tracciare i confini del suo ideale canone epico di riferimento.This contribution explores the whole of references (from allusions to literal quotations) drawn from Old French epics which flowed into the Franco-Italian cycle known as Geste Francor. The outcome of the research illustrates the meaning and the manner of reuse of significant chansons de geste by the anonymous author and establishes the ideal boundaries of his epic canon

    Modern Catholic Space

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    Recensione del convegno internazionale "Modern Catholic Space", dicembre 2012, organizzato da Robert Proctor (Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow) e Raymond Quek (Bond University

    A complete fos approach for indoor crowdsourced mapping. Case study on Sapienza University of Rome faculties

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    Indoor mapping is an essential process in several applications such as the visualization of space and its utilization, security and resource planning, emergency planning and location-based alerts and, last but not least, indoor navigation. In this work, a completely free and open-source (FOS) approach to map indoor environments, and to navigate through them, is presented. Our tests were carried out within Sapienza University of Rome public buildings; in detail, Letters and Philosophy faculty and Engineering faculty indoor environments were mapped. To reach this goal, only open source software such as Quantum GIS (QGIS) and open-source platforms like Open Street Map (OSM) and its indoor viewer, Open Level Up (OLU) were adopted. A database of indoor environments of the two faculties, completely compatible with OLU, was created through QGIS. In this way, a public territorial information system of classrooms, offices and laboratories is accessible to everyone who can, hence, add or modify the information, following the principle of crowdsourcing and of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). The developed procedure is now standard and its outputs accepted by the OSM community. Hence, the long-term developments of this project are the proposal for the volunteered and cooperative indoor mapping and design of strategic buildings and infrastructures (hospitals, schools, public offices, shopping centers, stations, airports etc.), starting from the available information (indoor layouts) and knowledge acquired through experience of people who normally work inside them and/or visit them frequently. In this context it is possible to state that the development of VGI for internal maps for strategic buildings, infrastructures and denied GNSS environments, not only supports and improves internal and external navigation without interruption, but can also have a significant positive impact on security and emergency management

    D2MA: a distributed access protocol for wireless ATM networks

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    The main purpose of this paper is to assess the feasibility of the distributed control approach in the definition of a wireless ATM MAC protocol. A novel protocol, named D2MA, is presented. D2MA is based on a double distribution of the access procedure and queueing capabilities. All the reservation and scheduling functions are performed by the mobile stations independently, whereas only passive operations are required to the base station. An accurate analytical model of D2MA has been developed. This model examines a single radio cell with a population m of mobile stations acting as traffic sources. Each station is equipped with a finite buffer of B cell size. A comparison with simulation results shows the accuracy of the analytical approach
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