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Epistocracy for Online Deliberative Bioethics
Full text linkThe suggestion that deliberative democratic approaches would suit the management of bioethical policymaking in democratic pluralistic societies has triggered what has been called the “deliberative turn” in health policy and bioethics. Most of the empirical work in this area has focused on the allocation of healthcare resources and priority setting at the local or national level. The variety of the more or less articulated theoretical efforts behind such initiatives is remarkable and has been accompanied, to date, by an overall lack of method specificity. We propose a set of methodological requirements for online deliberative procedures for bioethics. We provide a theoretical motivation for these requirements. In particular, we discuss and adapt an “epistocratic” proposal and argue that, regardless of its merits as a general political theory, a more refined version of its normative claims can generate a useful framework for the design of bioethical forums that combine maximal inclusiveness with informed and reasonable deliberation
Deception in psychology: Moral costs and benefits of unsought self-knowledge
No full textIs it ethically permissible to use deception in psychological experiments? We argue that, provided some requirements are satisfied, it is possible to use deceptive methods without producing significant harm to research participants and without any significant violation of their autonomy. We also argue that methodological deception is at least at the moment the only effective means by which one can acquire morally significant information about certain behavioral tendencies. Individuals in general, and research participants in particular, gain self-knowledge which can help them improve their autonomous decision-making. The community gains collective self-knowledge that, once shared, can play a role in shaping education, informing policies and in general creating a more efficient and just society
TUTELA DEL LAVORO E LIBERTA' D'IMPRESA NEI PROCESSI DI ESTERNALIZZAZIONE
No full textL’elaborato analizza le conseguenze lavoristiche della successione fra imprenditori, muovendo da una ricognizione delle varie tipologie di esternalizzazione con le relative esigenze e principali criticità.
L’indagine si concentra in primo luogo sul trasferimento d’azienda, esaminando la normativa e la giurisprudenza europee per passare poi alla disciplina di diritto interno, alle procedure sindacali e a uno specifico focus sul trasferimento delle aziende in crisi.
Successivamente l’autore si sofferma sull’appalto, prendendone in particolare considerazione gli indici di genuinità, i criteri di distinzione dalla somministrazione illecita di manodopera e la tutela delle maestranze in caso di avvicendamento fra imprese.
Da ultimo, la ricerca approfondisce le c.d. “clausole sociali”, sia di prima che di seconda generazione, valutandone la compatibilità con il diritto eurounitario e con la costituzione nonché riflettendo sui possibili rimedi in caso di loro violazione.The author analyzes the labour consequences of the succession between entrepreneurs, starting from a recognition of the various types of outsourcing with the related needs and main critical issues.
The survey focuses primarily on the transfer of businesses, examining European legislation and case-law and then moving on to internal legislation, trade union procedures and a specific focus on the transfer of companies in crisis.
The author then dwells on the contract, taking into account in particular the indications of authenticity, the criteria of distinction from the illicit administration of labour and the protection of workers in the event of turnover between companies.
Finally, the research deepens the "social clauses", both first and second generation, assessing their compatibility with European law and with the constitution and reflecting on possible remedies in case of their violation
Il ritrovamento della tomba e la identificazone dei resti di Matteo Maria Boiardo nella chiesa di Santa Maria di Scandiano (Reggio Emilia)
No full textIn base alle informazioni documentali e alle prospezioni con il georadar, sotto il pavimento della chiesa di S. Maria di Scandiano (R.E.), sono state localizzate le cripte sepolcrali nelle quali dovevano aver trovato sepoltura il poeta Matteo Maria Boiardo e alcuni membri della sua famiglia, fra cui il padre Giovanni e il nonno Feltrino, oltre forse alla moglie Taddea Gonzaga e ad uno dei figli, Camillo. L’esplorazione delle cripte sepolcrali ha consentito di recuperare resti scheletrici attribuibili complessivamente a non meno di 20 individui tra adulti e infanti, di cui 3 rinvenuti in una camera sepolcrale e i restanti in una tomba attigua. Fra i primi è stato identificato un individuo pienamente compatibile quanto a sesso, età di morte, robustezza corporea e statura con le caratteristiche fisiche del poeta Boiardo. A conferma della sua probabile identità, il profilo genetico di questo individuo, ottenuto dal DNA nucleare estratto dai suoi resti, si è rivelato compatibile secondo un possibile rapporto parentale figlio/padre con quello ottenuto da un reperto rinvenuto nella camera attigua che doveva ospitare il padre e il nonno del poeta. Nei resti di un secondo individuo, di sesso femminile e di età avanzata, con profilo genetico estraneo ai precedenti, potrebbe identificarsi la moglie del Boiardo. Quanto ai resti del terzo individuo, pur non potendo escludere trattarsi di Camillo, figlio del poeta morto in giovane età, non è stato per il momento possibile raccogliere prove che confermino questa ipotesi
Peer-Mediated Distributed Knowledge Mangement
No full textDistributed Knowledge Management is an approach to knowledge management based on the principle that the multiplicity (and heterogeneity) of perspectives within complex organizations is not be viewed as an obstacle to knowledge exploitation, but rather as an opportunity that can foster innovation and creativity. Despite a wide agreement on this principle, most current KM systems are based on the idea that all perspectival aspects of knowledge should be eliminated in favor of an objective and general representation of knowledge. In this paper we propose a peer-to-peer architecture (called KEx), which embodies the principle above in a quite straightforward way: (i) each peer (called a K-peer) provides all the services needed to create and organize ?local? knowledge from an individual?s or a group?s perspective, and (ii) social structures and protocols of meaning negotiation are introduced to achieve semantic coordination among autonomous peers (e.g., when searching documents from other K-peers). A first version of the system, called KEx, is implemented as a knowledge exchange level on top of JXT
KEx: a Peer-to-Peer solution for Distributed Knowledge
No full textDistributed Knowledge Management is an approach to Knowledge Management based on the principle that the multiplicity (and heterogeneity) of perspectives within complex organizations should not be viewed as an obstacle to knowledge exploitation, but rather as an opportunity that can foster innovation and creativity. Despite a wide agreement on this principle, most current KM systems are based on the idea that all perspectival aspects of knowledge should be eliminated in favor of an objective and general representation of knowledge. In this paper we propose a peer-to-peer architecture (called KEx), which embodies the principle above in a quite straightforward way: (i) each peer (called a K-peer) provides all the services needed to create and organize ?local? knowledge from an individual?s or a group?s perspective, and (ii) social structures and protocols of meaning negotiation are defined to achieve semantic coordination among autonomous peers (e.g., when searching documents from other K-peers
Il ritrovamento della tomba e la identificazione dei resti di Matteo Maria Boiardo nella chiesa di Santa Maria di Scandiano (Reggio Emilia)
No full textAccording to the documentary information and to the prospectings performed by means of the georadar,
beneath the floor of the Church of Santa Maria of Scandiano (RE), it has been possible to
locate the sepulchral crypts where the poet Matteo Maria Boiardo and other members of his family,
such as his father Giovanni, his grandfather Feltrino and maybe his wife Taddea Gonzaga and one
of his sons, Camillo, must have been buried. The exploration of these sepulchral crypts has led to
the recovery of the skeletal remains belonging altogether to at least 20 persons (adults and children).
Among them, 3 have been discovered into a sepulchral room and the rest into an adjacent tomb.
Among the first ones, a person, with the same sex, age of death, sturdiness, height and physical
characteristics of the poet Boiardo, has been identified. As confirmation of this probable identity, the
genetic profile of this man, got from the nuclear dna sample taken from his body, has come out to be
compatible with a possible father/child relationship, this result has been compared to the one gotten
from the find found into the adjacent room where the poet’s father and grandfather had to be buried.
The body of a second person, of female sex and well on in years, with a genetic profile different from
the previous ones, could be identified with Boiardo’s wife. For what regards the body of the third man,
besides it is not possible to exclude that it belongs to Camillo, the poet’s son dead when he was very
young, it has not been possible yet, to get enough proofs able to confirm this theor
A Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Distributed Knowledge Management.
Full text linkMost of the knowledge management systems of complex organizations are based on technological architectures that are in contradiction with the social processes of knowledge creation. In particular, centralized architectures are adopted to manage a process that is intrinsically distributed. In this paper, assuming a Distributed approach to Knowledge Management (DKM), is proposed that technological and social architectures must be reciprocally consistent. Moreover, in the domain of Knowledge Management, technological architectures should be designed in order to support the interplay between two qualitatively different processes: the autonomous management of knowledge of individuals and groups - here called Knowledge Nodes (KNs) -, and the coordination required in order to exchange knowledge among them. Finally a peer to peer architecture to support knowledge exchange across distributed and autonomous KNs is presented
Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles: New Parameters for Automotive Design
No full textAs the influence of vehicle emissions on our environment has become better understood, the UK government has recently placed urgent emphasis on the implementation of low carbon
technologies in the automotive industry through: the UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy. The overall objective is to offer big incentives to consumers and support for the development of infrastructure and engineering solutions. This scheme however does not consider how the development of functional and experiential user value might drive consumer demand, contributing to the adoption of low carbon vehicles (LCVs) in the mass market.
With the emergence of the North East of England as the UK’s first specialised region for the development of ultra-low carbon vehicles (ULCVs), ONE North East, as a development agency for the region's economic and business development, and Northumbria University Ideas-lab have supported a project to facilitate innovation through the collaboration of technology, research and development (R&D) and business. The High Value Low Carbon (HVLC) project aims to envisage
new user value made possible by the integration of low carbon vehicle platforms with new process and network technologies. The HVLC consortium represents vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers as well as technology based companies and through an ongoing process of design concept generation the project offers a hub for innovation led enterprise.
Whilst new technological developments in areas such as power generation, nano materials, hydrogen fuel cells, printed electronics and networked communications will all impact on future automotive design, the mass adoption of low carbon technologies represents a paradigm shift for the motorist. This paper aims to describe how the mapping of new parameters will lead to new transport scenarios that will create the space for new collaborative research on user experiences supported by innovative technologies and related services
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Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441-1494)
No full textMatteo Maria Boiardo – contemporary of Sir Thomas Malory and forerunner of Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Cervantes, Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis – is best known as the author of the Orlando Innamorato [Orlando in Love], a poem in ottava rima organically merging Carolingian epic and Arthurian romance. He was also a lyric and pastoral poet, playwright, and translator of classical texts into the Italian vernacular. Matteo was active in Italy during the years of 1463 throughout 1494, the year of his death
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