639 research outputs found
Design and performance evaluation of a Linux HPC cluster
No full textIn this paper after a short theoretical introduction about modern techniques used inparallel computing, we report a case study related to the design and development of the Caliban Linux High Performance Computing cluster, carried out by the author in the High Performance Computing Laboratory of the University of L’Aquila. Finally we report some performance evaluation tests related to the Caliban cluster performed using HPL (High-Performance Linpack) benchmarks
Speech at the assembly of the People’s Radical Party in Kragujevac
No full textTitle: Speech of Pera Todorović at the assembly of the People’s Radical Party in Kragujevac (1882) Language: Serbian The excerpts used are from Slobodan Jovanović, Bnaõa Muπaнa Oбpeнoeuћa (Belgrade: ГeЦa Кoh, 1926–1927), pp. 155–156. About the author Pera Todorovic [1852, Vodice (near Smederevo, east Serbia) – 1907, Belgrade]: politician and journalist. He was born into a well-off family. He first attended a secondary school in Kragujevac, later resuming his education at the gymnasium in Belg..
Accountability of NGOs in the Italian Legal Framework of International Adoption
No full textThe paper focuses on the accountability of private and public entities with competence
in the international adoption of minor children in the Italian legal framework.
The author detects sources of law, models, and operative rules implemented by
legislation, court rulings, and practitioners, distinguishing two different levels and
relationships.
The first involves the relationship between the Commission for International Adoption
and the NGOs, focusing on the nature of the NGOs (Non-governmental organizations)
which are private bodies with public functions that implement private rights, acting in the
public interest.
The second level involves the contractual relationship between the appointed NGO
and the aspiring parents.
The survey offers a critical perspective on some relevant issues, such as:
- the centrality of trust, in both the public and the private law domain, as a
fundamental element of the model;
- the nature and the contractual obligations of the NGOs who assist the prospective
parents; and
- alternative legal arguments that courts could follow to better protect the rights and
values of the parties involved, or to fill gaps in the rationales already adopted
COMPARING THE MARSHALL PLAN AND THE EUROPEAN NEXT GENERATION UE. Models and Legal Tools of International and Supernational Cooperation to Promote Economic Development
No full textThe article analyzes and compares the European Recovery Plan of 1948,
commonly known as the Marshall Plan, for the reconstruction of Europe after the
Second World War (paragraphs 2, 2.1, 2.2), and the Next Generation EU
(paragraphs 3, 3.1) through the lens and methods of legal comparison and
historical analysis.
As the description of the law cannot ignore the historicization of the object of study,
such comparison is carried out inductively, through the analysis of the legal
mechanisms in their concrete attitudes and the construction of descriptive
schemes of facts, having regard to the legal discipline, but also to the functional
profiles and the context in which the rules are conceived.
Therefore, the author attempts to frame the two different models of international
development cooperation by examining their forms and contents, as well as their
methodological approaches and governance tools. This essay also takes a critical
look at the system of controls called “vincoli esterni”, which can be translated as
external constraints or conditionalities. These controls are particularly relevant as
long as aid, grants and loans are conditional on plans for structural reforms of the
legal system (paragraphs 4, 4.1). The conclusive remarks point out how this system
of conditionalities – which for the state takes the form of a debt to give or not to
give, to do or not to do – can lead to forms of subordination and structural
homologation of the member states. It affects sovereignty, the way how powers
and competences are exercised, policy strategies and the relationship between the
“lender” and the “borrower” are conceived and practiced in concrete
The Public Performance Of Sanctions In Insolvency Cases: The Dark, Humiliating, And Ridiculous Side Of The Law Of Debt In The Italian Experience. A Historical Overview Of Shaming Practices
No full textThis study provides a diachronic comparative overview of how the law of debt has been applied by certain institutions in Italy. Specifically, it offers historical and comparative insights into the public performance of sanctions for insolvency through shaming and customary practices in Roman Imperial Law, in the Middle Ages, and in later periods.
The first part of the essay focuses on the Roman bonorum cessio culo nudo super lapidem and on the medieval customary institution called pietra della vergogna (stone of shame), which originates from the Roman model.
The second part of the essay analyzes the social function of the zecca and the pittima Veneziana during the Republic of Venice, and of the practice of lu soldate a castighe (no translation is possible).
The author uses a functionalist approach to apply some arguments and concepts from the current context to this historical analysis of ancient institutions that we would now consider ridiculous.
The article shows that the customary norms that play a crucial regulatory role in online interactions today can also be applied to the public square in the past. One of these tools is shaming. As is the case in contemporary online settings, in the public square in historic periods, shaming practices were used to enforce the rules of civility in a given community. Such practices can be seen as virtuous when they are intended for use as a tool to pursue positive change in forces entrenched in the culture, and thus to address social wrongs considered outside the reach of the law, or to address human rights abuses
Searching for a common core of family law in Europe
No full textIn this Article the Author, a member of the group of European investigators involved in the searching process for a Common Core of Family Law in Europe, does not want to present the results of
the project, that will be published in a forthcoming volume, but, instead, seeks to distinguish the
FLCCP (Family Law Common Core Project) from similar research experiences, such as the CEFL
(Commission of European Family Law) one.
In order to highlight these differences, in the first part (paragraphs 1,2,3) the paper describes the
goals of the Common Core Project and the methodology it employs, making references to the Cornell’s Studies, the Schlesinger’s factual approach and the Sacco’s formants theory.
In the second part, the analysis pinpoints the peculiarities of functionalism and the way the Common Core method re-interprets it on a large scale as a collaborative effort, because of the synergy
between the work of the national rapporteurs, the answers obtained through the questionnaires
and group sessions and reports (par. 4).
Further, the Article stresses the different goals of CEFL and FLCCP and argues how these differences concerning also their respective goals and methods affect the research’s results and the idea
of what the harmonization of family law (if any and possible) might be the expression of (par. 5).In the last part, the Author maps an alternative route to the harmonization of European family law,
which combines the use of European international private law regulations on family matters, the
concepts of private autonomy and Courts rulings, together with doctrine efforts (par. 6)
Islamic Rites and ceremonies in the Pandemic Emergency between Parallel Legal Orders
No full textThe essay investigates how some religious Islamic rules have been accommodated in front ofthe Covid emergency in some European countries and religious communities, highlighting the different and interconnected dimensions involved in this process of accommodation. The author uses the word country, having regard to the state-territorial legal order; and the word religious community, referring to the Islamic rule of law-religion model, based on a personal law conception. In particular, after some conceptual definition on some peculiar issues involved (para. 1), the analysis goes through some rules on funeral rites and ceremonies (para. 2) and on the sacred pilgrimages (para. 3).
The conclusive remarks (para. 4) underline how the Covid 19’s emergency has given a chance for forms of virtuous reasonable accommodation, looking forward areas of middle ground between parallel legal systems
Caracterización de dos variedades de pera: pera uvilla y pera piña, aplicando deshidratación osmótica.
No full textOsmotic dehydration is based on the immersion of a solid food in an aqueous solution with a solutes high concentration. From this, the submerged food gains sugars and eliminates water. The research project focused on the two pear varieties characterization: pineapple and uvilla, it using osmotic dehydration to improve and preserve their sensory and nutritional. The project aim is to teach producer associations, such as PACAT, to take advantage their raw materials by awarding post-harvest treatments while it is prolonged the useful life their products. As a result, the best identified treatments were 1 3 2 agave pear pineapple whith agave honey at 60 °Bx with the 65,16 % of eliminated water and 1 11 pear pineapple with cane honey at 65 °Bx with 4,63 % of acceptability, according to the sensory analysis averages. In relation to the physical-chemical analysis, it was analyzed the moisture content, which they were got results 4,92 and 3,83 porcent (%), respectibely, these values comply with the established in the standard 2996:2015 Carrot, zapallo, uvilla dehydrated products, which establishes, what the humidity limit percentage in fruits are 12 porcent %. On the other hand, it was made microbiological analyzes, such as Salmonella, Escherichia Coli, Nohos and Yeasts; which these treatments keep their characteristics within the permitted parameters, which the aforementioned regulations indicate (absent, 5 × 102 UFC/g, , 1,0 × 103 UFC/g, respectively). Also, they were analyzed the nutritional characteristics, such as iron, potassium, vitamin C and vitamin A. Finally, in order to avoid the product absorbs moisture, it was used covered biological covers, as packaging and a label for the finished product. In short, with the osmotic dehydration technique, the final product maintains its nutritional characteristics and, in addition, can maintain its preservation for longer, avoiding its deterioration.La deshidratación osmótica se fundamenta en la inmersión de un alimento sólido en una solución acuosa con alta concentración de solutos. A partir de ello el alimento sumergido gana azúcares y elimina agua. El proyecto de investigación se centró en la caracterización de dos variedades de pera: piña y uvilla utilizando deshidratación osmótica para el mejoramiento y preservación de las características sensoriales y nutricionales de estas. El objetivo del proyecto es enseñar a asociaciones productoras como lo es PACAT a aprovechar sus materias primas otorgando un tratamiento postcosecha mientras se prolonga la vida útil de sus productos. Durante la ósmosis se utilizaron tres tipos de edulcorantes naturales, miel de caña, azúcar de coco y miel de agave, cada uno a concentraciones de 65, 60 y 55 (°Bx). Se midieron parámetros como pH y sólidos solubles (°Bx). De la misma manera, se aplicó el secado en deshidratadora controlando los tiempos, con ello se logró obtener datos de la humedad perdida para identificar el mejor tratamiento, obteniendo así una fruta con menor contenido de humedad en su interior. Adicionalmente, se determinó el mejor tratamiento aplicando un diseño de bloques completamente al azar con un arreglo factorial 2x3x3, con dos réplicas y un análisis sensorial. Como resultado, los mejores tratamientos identificados fueron 1 3 2 pera piña miel de agave a 60 °Bx con el 65,16 % (m/v) de agua eliminada y 1 1 1 pera piña con miel de caña a 65 °Bx con el 4,63 % de aceptabilidad, de acuerdo, a los promedios del análisis sensorial. Con respecto a los análisis físico químicos, se analizó el contenido de humedad en el cual se obtuvieron resultados de 4,92 y 3,83 por ciento (%) respectivamente, dichos valores cumplen con lo establecido en la norma 2996:2015 Productos Deshidratados. Zanahoria, Zapallo, Uvilla; la cual establece que el porcentaje límite de humedad en frutas es de 12 por ciento (%). Por otro lado, se realizaron análisis microbiológicos, tales como, Salmonella, Escherichia Coli, Mohos y Levaduras; de los cuáles estos tratamientos mantienen sus características dentro de los parámetros permitidos qué la normativa mencionada anteriormente lo indica (ausente, 5 × 102 UFC/g, 1,0 × 103 UFC/g, respectivamente). También se analizó las características nutritivas, tales como, hierro, potasio, vitamina C y vitamina A. Finalmente, con el fin de evitar que el producto absorba humedad, se utilizó fundas biológicas recubiertas como empaque y una etiqueta para el producto terminado. En definitiva, con la técnica de deshidratación osmótica, el producto final, mantiene sus características nutricionales y además de ello, puede mantener su conservación por más tiempo, evitando su deterioro
Un experimento muy muy sano
No full textEl video muestra un experimento práctico que aborda el concepto de movimiento circular, la fuerza centrípeta y la relación entre el peso y la tensión en el movimiento circular. Para realizar el experimento la necesidad práctica de una pera, una uva, un trozo de cuerda y un bolígrafoEnsino Médio::Físic
Un experimento muy muy sano
No full textEnsino Médio::FísicaEl video muestra un experimento práctico que aborda el concepto de movimiento circular, la fuerza centrípeta y la relación entre el peso y la tensión en el movimiento circular. Para realizar el experimento la necesidad práctica de una pera, una uva, un trozo de cuerda y un bolígraf
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