299 research outputs found
Paolo Rosati, “ArchaeoloGIS” a QGIS plugin for archaeological spatial analysis
No full textArchaeoloGIS is a QGIS plugin for very basic archaeological spatial analysis. It was inspired by the accurate studies in geography, methodology and digital humanities made by the author during the years of his participation in the ERC project PAThs. The Archaeological Atlas of the Coptic Literature (https://atlas.paths-erc.eu). The first steps were taken from the studies of the road network named MOvEIT (https://paths-erc.eu/moveit/, Bogdani 2023). The coding phase started in the winter of 2021 and the validation on the practical applications presented below were carried out during the spring of the next year. The plugin is GPL-3.0 licensed and can be freely installed from the official repository (https://github.com/archeorosati/archaeoloGIS). It is developed as a QGIS Processing Toolbox script, it is still in beta version and suggestions and questions from the community are welcomed. At present, it consists of a unique script named Tabula Peutingeriana after the famous imperial Roman map, able to output points at a regular, fixed distance of a Roman mile along a path or network of paths. It can be used to position virtual milestones along an already provided road network, eventually help- ing to find the location of original ones, by counting the Roman miles from a given starting point
Prevalence of chronic venous pathology in healthcare workers and the role of upright standing
No full textBackground: Chronic venous disease (CVD) affects around 25% of adult population in developed countries and it often represent a health problem for different kind of workers, in particular for who spend much of the working time in upright standing.
Methods: The study was carried out on a population of 173 nonmedical workers of a midsize hospital in Italy (91 nurse, 31 support staff workers and 51 employees). The study protocol was taken from a previous study of our group and included a clinical examination and a questionnaire.
Results: From the analysis of data it emerged a particular importance ofupright standing as major risk factor for CVD. The prevalence of venous pathology seems to be greater among nurses and auxiliaries than the administrative staff and, as expected, it was significantly higher among female workers than in males.
Conclusions: The results obtained show that the clinical-diagnostic protocol described can be used by doctors far screening venous pathology at workplaces.
(Cite this article as: Rosati MV, Sacco C, Mastrantonio A, Giammichele G, Buomprisco G, Ricci P, et al. Prevalence of chronic venous pathology in healthcare workers and the role of upright standing. Int Angiol 2019;38:201-10. DOI: 10.23736/S0392-9590.19.04040-9
The Monkey Selfie and the concept of authorship: an EU perspective
No full textThe question whether a macaque named Naruto could be regarded as the author of protectable works (self-portrait photographs, ie selfies) has captured popular attention, and been the subject of litigation in the US. Further to the 2016 decision of the US District Court for the Northern District of California that rejected that a monkey could have standing and the subsequent appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the case was settled out of court in 2017.This short contribution discusses whether, generally speaking, copyright can vest in works by non-human authors. It does so from the perspective of international and EU laws, addressing issues such as originality, as well as the concept of ‘authorship’ in relevant legislative texts.It concludes that, while there remain ambiguities regarding who can qualify as an author, arguments can be advanced against consideration of works by non-human authors as protectable by copyright. However, the article also highlights how this issue is likely to resurface with reinvigorated force (and relevance) in light of technological advancement, notably in the context of artificial intelligence
Square-wave jerks and square-wave oscillations: treatment with valproic acid
No full textExperimental studies in monkeys have demonstrated that injection of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) agonists into the superior colliculus restricts saccadic eye movements, while injection of GABA antagonists leads to square-wave jerks (SWJ). To investigate the role of GABA in saccadic interruptions of fixation, we treated five patients who had SWJ and square- wave oscillations (SWO) with valproic acid (VPA) (2000 mg/d), which has been shown to increase brain GABA levels. VPA effectively reduced the SWJ/SWO in three patients, abolished them in one patient, but was ineffective in the fifth, who had a localized lesion in the cerebellar vermis. VPA effects may have been due to the restoration of the GABAergic tonic inhibitory action from the substantia nigra pars reticulata to the superior colliculus
Il contributo della lettura ad una "pedagogia della comprensione". Contribution of reading activities to "a pedagogy of comprehension"
No full textThe numerous initiatives on reading practices darw attention to the educational value it holds, a significance that Comenio and Campanella had already grasped. Reading is a cognitive and emotional act through which the reader explores reality, acquires new knowledge, becomes aware of other thoughts and experiences, and open up to emotions and experiences of which they become a part through pages and texts, capable of bridging between people. In this perspective, one can identify in reading the premises for a pedagogy of understanding that, even as it unites author and reader in ideas and experiences, still generates different perspectives on the world and life
Engineering Design Guidance for Detached Breakwaters as Shoreline Stabilization Structures
No full textThis report summarizes and presents design knowledge for both the functional and structural design of detached breakwaters for shoreline stabilization. Functional design of break:waters in the United States relies on a significant amount of engineering judgement, data from a few existing breakwater projects for comparison, and an understanding of basic coastal processes. The design process is an iterative one. Design guidance used to predict beach response to breakwaters is also presented in Dally and Pope (1986), Pope and Dean (1986), Rosati (1990), and Engineer Manual 1110-2- 1617. Guidance on the use of low-crested rubble-mound breakwaters for wetland development purposes is limited, and has been mostly based on experience from a few prototype sites. Ongoing research at WES under the Wetlands Research Program is further investigating and evaluating the use of breakwaters for these purposes.KWP-collectio
Digital Paratext. Editorialization and the very death of the author
No full textInternational audienceAs shown by different scholars, the idea of “author” is not absolute or necessary. On the contrary, it came to life as an answer to the very practical needs of an emerging print technology in search of an economic model of its own. In this context, and according to the criticism of the notion of “author” made during the 1960–70s (in particular by Barthes and Foucault), it would only be natural to consider the idea of the author being dead as a global claim accepted by all scholars. Yet this is not the case, because, as Rose suggests, the idea of “author” and the derived notion of copyright are still too important in our culture to be abandoned. But why such an attachment to the idea of “author”? The hypothesis on which this chapter is based is that the theory of the death of the author—developed in texts such as What is an Author? by Michel Foucault and The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes—did not provide the conditions for a shift towards a world without authors because of its inherent lack of concrete editorial practices different from the existing ones. In recent years, the birth and diffusion of the Web have allowed the concrete development of a different way of interpreting the authorial function, thanks to new editorial practices—which will be named “editorialization devices” in this chapter. Thus, what was inconceivable for Rose in 1993 is possible today because of the emergence of digital technology—and in particular, the Web
Digital Paratext : Editorialization and the Very Death of the Author
No full textCollection : Advances in human and social aspects of technologyAs shown by different scholars, the idea of “author” is not absolute or necessary. On the contrary, it came to life as an answer to the very practical needs of an emerging print technology in search of an economic model of its own. In this context, and according to the criticism of the notion of “author” made during the 1960–70s (in particular by Barthes and Foucault), it would only be natural to consider the idea of the author being dead as a global claim accepted by all scholars. Yet this is not the case, because, as Rose suggests, the idea of “author” and the derived notion of copyright are still too important in our culture to be abandoned. But why such an attachment to the idea of “author”? The hypothesis on which this chapter is based is that the theory of the death of the author—developed in texts such as What is an Author? by Michel Foucault and The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes—did not provide the conditions for a shift towards a world without authors because of its inherent lack of concrete editorial practices different from the existing ones. In recent years, the birth and diffusion of the Web have allowed the concrete development of a different way of interpreting the authorial function, thanks to new editorial practices—which will be named “editorialization devices” in this chapter. Thus, what was inconceivable for Rose in 1993 is possible today because of the emergence of digital technology—and in particular, the Web
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