168 research outputs found
What remains of Yugoslavia? From the geopolitical space of Yugoslavia to the virtual space of the Web Yugosphere
No full textThe article works from the double hypothesis that: (1) a Yugoslav socio-cultural space still exists in spite of the dissolution of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; (2) the communities ‘occupying’ this space can be considered, in some measure, ‘diasporic’, if the ‘Yugoslav diaspora’ is defined by not only the geographic displacement of people but also by the loosening of the connections between the members of an ex-nation who still consider themselves a national community. The ‘space’ mapped in the essay is the so-called ‘virtual space’ of the Web, including all websites that reconnect to the ‘cultural languages’ of the ‘past-country’. The author observes how these ‘different Yugoslavias’ are ‘staged’ and linked together on the Web, and verifies how some far-flung communities rally around the ‘virtual re-foundation’ and ‘virtual representations’ of Yugoslavia. The corpus is constituted mainly of ‘yugonostalgic’ websites that are subjected to a content analysis. The 191 websites of the corpus and the hyper-textual map of their edges are analysed using semantic features together with other tools of categorization
New Constraints on PT evolution of metamorphic rocks from single inclusion piezobarometry
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Preemption-aware planning on Big-Data systems
No full textRecent developments in Big Data frameworks are moving towards reservation based approaches as a mean to manage the increasingly complex mix of computations, whereas preemption techniques are employed to meet strict jobs deadlines. Within this work we propose and evaluate a new planning algorithm in the context of reservation based scheduling. Our approach is able to achieve high cluster utilization while minimizing the need for preemption that causes system overheads and planning mispredictions
Come cambia il rito del matrimonio in Italia. Una ricerca qualitativa intergenerazionale
No full textQuesto studio esplora la trasformazione del matrimonio di fronte ai processi di individualizzazione e ne analizza i significati e le forme assunte nella post-modernità. A questo scopo, è stata condotta una ricerca qualitativa esplorativa sulle somiglianze e differenze delle pratiche e dei significati associati al rito matrimoniale, confrontando tre generazioni. Lo studio è stato condotto in Italia su un campione di 48 coppie, appartenenti a tre coorti generazionali (sotto i 35 anni, 50-60 anni, oltre i 70). Le differenze generazionali riflettono un’evoluzione continua dei valori e delle pratiche matrimoniali, confermando che, sebbene i significati e le modalità del matrimonio cambino, esso rimane un evento cruciale nella vita sociale italiana.This study explores the transformation of marriage in the face of individualization processes and examines the meanings and forms it has assumed in post-modernity. To this end, exploratory qualitative research was conducted on the similarities and differences in practices and meanings associated with the marriage rite, comparing three generations. The study was conducted in Italy on a sample of 48 couples belonging to three cohorts (under 35, 50-60 years, and over 70). The generational differences reflect a continuous evolution of marriage values and practices, confirming that, although the meanings and modalities of marriage change, it remains a crucial event in Italian social life
Diamond thermoelastic properties and implications for determining the pressure of formation of diamond-inclusion systems
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C’è qualcosa di nuovo oggi nel...sociale
No full textIn questo testo si considera una peculiare declinazione del concetto di generatività sociale, che deriva dall’approccio specifico di osservazione e comprensione dei fenomeni sociali proprio della sociologia relazionale. Tale teoria ha innanzitutto recuperato l’inestricabile rapporto tra i termini generatività e generazione: essi «derivano entrambi da gènus e contengono la medesima radice gèn che indica esplicitamente il riferimento a una dimensione attiva, una tensione verso e un’eccedenza
MPower: towards an adaptive power management system for mobile devices
No full textDue to their wide distribution and their growth in functionalities, mobile devices are the interaction point between users and the surrounding environment. Nevertheless, their resources are limited and variable over time, both in terms of performance and power. Especially when dealing with power consumption, mobile devices cannot disregard the environment conditions and the user habits.
To manage at the best one of the most important mobile device resource, battery lifetime, we are proposing MPower, an adaptive power management system for Android based mobile devices. The ultimate goal of this research is to automatically generate and select user-specific power profiles, to best optimize the device power consumption given the device features, the environmental conditions and the user needs. MPower is a project currently under development and this paper aims at presenting the overall vision of the research, focusing on the data collection phase, which is a central activity to fulfill the proposed objectives
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