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Dinamismi della religiosità e processi educativi
No full textIl saggio, sintetizzando le conclusioni di studi precedenti dell'A. e del gruppo di ricerca di Bologna sul tema della religiosità, ridefinisce il percorso della formazione religiosa nella sua fenomenologia e nel suo dinamismo, anticipando anche dati di una ricerca empirica esplorativa. L'analisi comporta anche una ridefinizione del processo educativo nella sua complessità, ed apre a possibili principi di metodo per la pratica dell'educazione religios
MOWIS: A System for Building Multimedia Ontologies from Web Information Sources
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume 560, 2010, Pages 89-93
1st Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, IIR 2010; Padua; Italy; 27 January 2010 through 28 January 2010; Code 101072
MOWIS: A system for building multimedia ontologies from web information sources (Conference Paper)
Moscato, V. ,
Penta, A. ,
Persia, F. ,
Picariello, A.
University of Naples, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, via Claudio 21, 80125, Naples, Italy
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Abstract
Defining ontologies within the multimedia domain still remains a challenging task, due to the complexity of multimedia data and the related associated knowledge. In this paper, we propose: i) a novel multimedia ontology model that combine both low level descriptors and high level semantic concepts; ii) an automatic construction of ontologies using the Flickrweb services, that provide images, tags, Keywords: and sometimes useful annotation describing both the content of an image and personal interesting information. Eventually, we describe an example of automatic ontology construction in a specific domain
Moscato Cerletti, a rediscovered aromatic cultivar with oenological potential in warm and dry areas
No full textBaron Antonio Mendola was devoted to the study of grapevine, applying ampelography and dabbling in crosses between cultivars in order to select new ones, of which Moscato Cerletti, obtained in 1869, was the most interesting. Grillo, one of the most important white cultivars in Sicily, was ascertained to be an offspring of Catarratto Comune and Zibibbo, the same parents which Mendola claimed he used to obtain Moscato Cerletti. Thus the hypothesis of synonymy between Moscato Cerletti and Grillo or the same parentage for both sets of parents needs to be verified. In the present study, historical documents were consulted and genetic analyses and ampelographic, agronomic and qualitative characterisation carried out to determine the distinctiveness of each cultivars. These were also compared with Catarratto Comune and Zibibbo in order to establish the Moscato Cerletti pedigree. Due to their different SSR profiles, Grillo and Moscato Cerletti were confirmed as two distinct cultivars; they also differed in ripening times and sugar storage ability, as well as in the aromatic grape produced by Moscato Cerletti only. The trio genotype genetic analysis confirmed that Zibibbo is a parent of Moscato Cerletti (justifying the aromatic grape), whilst the SSR profiles did not show Catarratto Comune to be a second parent. Moscato Cerletti was found to have oenological potential in the production of sparkling muscat wines due to its ability to adapt to a changing climate in warm and dry environments and in different winegrowing regions
A Model for Verification and Validation of Law Compliance of Smart Contracts in IoT Environment
No full textThe interest of Industry 4.0 in smart contracts and blockchain technologies is growing up day by day. Smart contracts have enabled new kinds of interactions whereby contractors can even fully automate processes they agree on. This technology is really appealing in Internet of Things (IoT) domain because smart devices generate events for software agents involved in a smart contract execution, making full automation possible. However, smart contracts have to comply with national and international laws and accountability of participant's actions. Soundness of a smart contract has to be verified in terms of law compliance. Here, we propose a model for verification and validation of law compliance of smart contracts in IoT environments. The main goal of this article is to propose a formal model (based on multiagent logic and ontological description of contracts) for validating law compliance of smart contracts and to determine potential responsibilities of failures
Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the Locomotor Capabilities Index in adults with lower-limb amputation undergoing prosthetic training
No full textFranchignoni F, Orlandini D, Ferriero G, Moscato TA. Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the Locomotor Capabilities Index in adults with lower-limb amputation undergoing prosthetic training. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2004;85:743-8. Objective To assess the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of both the standard and revised Locomotor Capabilities Index (LCI) in people with lower-limb amputation who undergo prosthetic training. Design Reliability and validity study. Setting Two freestanding rehabilitation centers. Participants Fifty inpatients with a recent unilateral lower-limb amputation. Interventions Not applicable. Main outcome measures The standard LCI and a new version with a 5-level ordinal scale (LCI-5) were tested for internal consistency, test-retest reliability, ceiling effect, and effect size. The construct validity of both versions was analyzed by correlation with the Rivermead Mobility Index, a timed walking test, and the FIM instrument. Results The Cronbach α of both LCI versions was .95. The item-to-total correlations (Spearman ρ) ranged from .50 to .87 (P<.0001 for all). The percent agreement and κ values for the item scores ranged, respectively, from 78.4% to 100% and .58 to 1.00 in the LCI, and from 75.7% to 97.3% and .54 to .96 in the LCI-5. The intraclass correlation coefficient (model 2,1) for the total scores was .98 for both versions; the Bland-Altman plot revealed no systematic trend for either version. Both the LCI and LCI-5 correlated with all criterion measures (ρ range, .61-.76), with the LCI-5 showing a larger effect size during the rehabilitation period and a lower ceiling effect. Patients with transtibial amputation were more independent in performing activities than were those with transfemoral amputation; their locomotor capability negatively correlated with age. Conclusions Both the LCI and LCI-5 captured the global locomotor ability of people with lower-limb amputation during prosthetic training. The new LCI-5 presents similar and sometimes better psychometric properties than the standard LCI
Context Awareness in Pervasive Information Management
No full textContext has been defined as the knowledge that can be used to characterize the situation of any entity that is relevant for the (pervasive) system under consideration: given a target application scenario, a context-aware system supports users and devices by providing selective access to the set of data and operations (e.g., interesting services and information, environmental data, close-by people, points of interest etc.) which is relevant in each specific context. More than that, the relative importance of a piece of information to the same user in different contexts or, reciprocally, to different users in the same context may vary enormously; thus the system can personalize information even further by ranking the provided data on the basis of (contextual) user preferences. This chapter presents an introduction to context-aware information management, first providing a literature review and then introducing the main steps needed to design a context-aware system. Context-related problems particularly relevant within pervasive data management are then discussed. We briefly analyze techniques to efficiently associate contexts with information chunks, the evolution issues which arise when the context representation changes over time, the discovery and application of contextual user preferences, and, last but certainly not least, how context awareness can be enforced in the middleware of a pervasive system
An agent-based approach for recommending cultural tours
No full textIn the Cultural Heritage domain, the introduction of intelligent systems for planning of cultural visit was very appealing. Indeed when people decide to visit museums or archaeological sites, they usually would like to organize and schedule their time in order to fulfill some requirements and to match, as far as possible, their preferences and needs. In this work, we propose a novel methodology integrating recommendation facilities with agent-based planning techniques in order to implement a planner of routes within cultural sites as museums. In particular, the introduced methodology exploits from one hand a user-centered recommendation strategy to suggest the most suitable cultural items with respect to user's preferences and, from the other one, it leverages multi-agents planning methods to generate the related routes consisting of the sequence of steps necessary to reach precise cultural goals depending on the context, by means of a state space exploration. We present a case of study for the proposed methodology and we describe some experimental results on system efficiency
Consumer preferences for the Mediterranean Diet: Results of an empirical analysis
No full textThe Mediterranean Diet is a very healthy diet for the human organism. The study focuses on consumer behavior toward products that are part of the Mediterranean Diet. The purpose of this research is to give an insight into food awareness, to improve consumer health, by highlighting the food pyramid and lifestyles related to the Mediterranean Diet, and to understand cultural customs and habits regarding food. The empirical analysis was carried out through a survey of a sample of consumers. The questionnaire, administered online, included general cultural questions on the Mediterranean Diet, food groups, individual lifestyles, and eating habits of the con-sumers interviewed. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet model, concentrated in the territories proper of the Mediterranean, leads to an agri-food model that favors the development of local agri-food products, with the consequent increase in demand for products proper to Mediterranean agriculture. This situation potentially makes it possible to expand the supply of agri-food businesses that produce products of the Mediterranean diet and thus determine a positive effect of increased income and employment in the area. The results show that this dietary regime is widely followed and can be an opportunity for Mediterranean agro-food enterprises to expand the offer and produce healthier products aimed at that segment of consumers that follow this diet to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases or to prevent and cure metabolic diseases (such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes) and to prevent obesity
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