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Musto, C W, 406149
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/407075Surname: MUSTO. Given Name(s) or Initials: C W. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 406149. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 41200.243141
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XAI.it 2024 : Preface to the Fifth Italian Workshop on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence
No full textAs Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems become integral to daily life, ensuring transparency and interpretability in their decision-making processes is critical. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has underscored users’ right to understand how AI-driven systems make decisions that affect them. However, the pursuit of model performance often compromises explainability, creating a tension between achieving high accuracy and maintaining transparency. Core research questions focus on reconciling the high performance of LLMs and other AI models with interpretability requirements. Emerging research focuses on designing transparent systems, understanding the effects of opaque models on users, developing explanation strategies, and enhancing user control over AI behaviors. The workshop on eXplainable AI (XAI.it) provides a platform for addressing these challenges, fostering collaboration within the XAI community to explore novel solutions and share insights across this evolving multifaceted field
Performatività e significazione evolutiva delle materie plastiche
No full textThe evolving language mirrors societal shifts, with few materials influencing contemporary culture as profoundly as plastic. This material has reshaped daily life and entrenched habits, underscoring civilization as a construct of material existence. Plastic’s interplay with Earth’s ecosystem has defined us as material beings in a reciprocally performative relationship. J. A. Brandon’s 2019 Science Advances study, “Multidecadal increase in plastic particles in coastal ocean sediments”, highlights our era’s growing alignment with the so-called Plastic Age.In German, “Kunststoff” (plastic) suggests its artistic potential, a notion gaining prominence since the 1960s when plastic became central to mass consumption and disposable culture. Its pervasive influence extends beyond human environments to the entire ecosystem, spawning phenomena like artificial “islands”. This shift necessitates a reevaluation of humanity’s future coexistence with plastic. The material’s journey from valued to vilified demandsexploration of its evolving semiotics, especially as we grapple with the natural-artificial symbiosis
Congenital junctional ectopic tachycardia in children and adolescents: a 20 year experience based study
No full textHepatitis C virus infection and B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas: more than a simple association
No full textHarnessing distributional semantics to build context-aware justifications for recommender systems
No full textThis paper introduces a methodology to generate review-based natural language justifications supporting personalized suggestions returned by a recommender system. The hallmark of our strategy lies in the fact that natural language justifications are adapted to the different contextual situations in which the items will be consumed. In particular, our strategy relies on the following intuition: Just like the selection of the most suitable item is influenced by the contexts of usage, a justification that supports a recommendation should vary as well. As an example, depending on whether a person is going out with her friends or her family, a justification that supports a restaurant recommendation should include different concepts and aspects. Accordingly, we designed a pipeline based on distributional semantics models to generate a vector space representation of each context. Such a representation, which relies on a term-context matrix, is used to identify the most suitable review excerpts that discuss aspects that are particularly relevant for a certain context. The methodology was validated by means of two user studies, carried out in two different domains (i.e., movies and restaurants). Moreover, we also analyzed whether and how our justifications impact on the perceived transparency of the recommendation process and allow the user to make more informed choices. As shown by the results, our intuitions were supported by the user studies
Immunohistochemical and molecular analysis of bone remodelling pattern in alveolar socket
No full textFollowing tooth extraction, the alveolar bone remodelling process starts. Bundle bone and buccal wall resorption occur early with horizontal and vertical bone crest reduction [1]. The use of bone substitutes has been proposed to limit bone resorption, thus allowing further dental rehabilitation [2]. Aim of this project was to characterize by a molecular and morphological approach the physiological remodelling of post-extractive alveolar socket and to compare it with the bone remodelling occurring after alveolar bone reconstruction with an alloplastic material. Thirty-six patients needing tooth extraction were enrolled and equally divided into three groups: A) baseline, B) spontaneous healing, C) biomaterial. In each group, 2 biopsies per site were harvested during tooth extraction (group A) or 4-6 months after tooth extraction (groups B and C). In group B, patients recovered spontaneously, while in group C the alveolar socket was filled with a magnesium-enriched hydroxyapatite. One biopsy was processed for immunohistochemistry to localise TNF-α, IL-6, RANK, RANKL and OPG. The second biopsy underwent a Real-Time PCR analysis for the same biomarkers in order to evaluate gene expression. In groups B and C, a third biopsy was retrieved and processed for ground section aiming to assess tissue composition. Differences between the three groups were investigated using Kruskal Wallis test (p<0,05) followed by post-hoc tests. All samples showed a normal structure without inflammatory infiltrate. At immunohistochemical analysis, all biomarkers except for OPG had increased. Significant differences were found between the three groups for TNF-α (p< 0,05), IL-6 (p<0,001), RANK (p< 0,01) and RANKL (p<0,001), between groups A and C for IL-6 (p≤ 0,001), RANK (p≤ 0,01), RANKL (p≤ 0,001) and between B and C for IL-6 (p≤ 0,01). Gene expression did not show statistical differences. Crumbles of biomaterial surrounded by regenerated bone were evident. A higher percentage of mineral component was obtained in group B than in C. The biomarkers selected in the current study were involved in the alveolar remodelling and the biomaterial used for socket preservation did not influence the process
PostDigital Bodies
No full textPOSTDIGITAL BODIES
Mostra/ Workshop (20.10.2021)
Officina Vanvitelli - Complesso Monumentale del Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta
Coordinamento Scientifico: Patrizia Ranzo, Chiara Scarpitti.
Gruppo di ricerca: C. Leone, M. Musto, P. Ranzo, C. Scarpitti, R. Veneziano.
Hanno collaborato alla ricerca: M. Carlomagno (credits: support to workshop), F. Galdi (credits: Spark AR Interfaces and Grasshopper modeling), G. Pontillo (credits: support to Stratasys), G. Scalera (credits: graphic design manifesto).
Internal Partnership: Riot Studio, The Spark Hub.
Foreign Partnership: College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University Shanghai, China.
Saluti Istituzionali di:
- Luigi Maffei, ProRettore Innovazione Informatica e Tecnologica dell’Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
- Lucia Altucci, Delegata per la Ricerca e Coordinatrice della Sezione Qualità della Ricerca dell'Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
- Ornella Zerlenga, Direttrice del Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale
- Patrizia Ranzo, Presidente CdL in Design per l’Innovazione e Cordinatore Scientifico del Progetto “PostDigital M.P.” Programma V:alere
- Francesca Valsecchi, Associate Professor Ecology and Cultures Innovation Lab Fablab “Tongji University Shanghai”
- Chiara Scarpitti, Responsabile Scientifico del Progetto “PostDigital Manufacturing Processes. Body Hacking” Programma V:alere.
Breve Abstract:
La mostra PostDigital Bodies illustra i risultati della ricerca “Post Digital Manufacturing Processes. Body Hacking for Productive Systems”, finanziata nell’ambito del Programma V:alere 2020.
A partire da uno scenario postdigitale e dall’analisi critica di 50 casi studio, al confine tra design, moda e tecnologia, la ricerca ha sperimentato una serie di tecnologie avanzate in rapporto dicotomico tra fisico e digitale, corpo interno e corpo esterno, design speculativo e design funzionale. Il percorso espositivo si articola in due sale, esplorabili attraverso una serie di esperienze interattive. L’interazione è definita dall’ascolto di otto video lectures tratte da dialoghi con ospiti internazionali, dal coinvolgimento in processi critici aperti, dalla costruzione di infografiche, dalla partecipazione a indagini materiche e digitali. Attraverso l’ibridazione tra tecnologie e software - come la stampa 3D, le Brain Computer Interfaces, l’augmented reality, i dati parametrici e le reti GAN di intelligenza artificiale - PostDigital Bodies si pone come obiettivo la sperimentazione di processi postdigitali e la promozione di una cultura transdisciplinare del design, tesa a nuove prospet- tive e pratiche dell’industria contemporanea
More on spontaneous regression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia: two new cases and potential role of lamivudine in a further patient with advanced disease and hepatitis B virus infection
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