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Correction of distortions in MR Echo Planar images using a super-resolution T2-Weighted volume
No full textMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used technique to assess brain diseases without the use of ionizing radiations. Brain anatomy can be captured using T1-Weighted (T1W) and T2-Weighted (T2W) acquisitions. In addition to mapping brain anatomy, MRI can be also applied to study the brain functions through a process called the hemodynamic response. Blood releases oxygen to neurons at a greater rate than to inactive neurons: this causes a change of the relative levels of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood, i.e. a change of the contrast between the two level of blood oxygenation that can be detected on the basis of their differential magnetic susceptibility. This acquisition technique is
called functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), and it represents an indirect measure of the neuron activity. Although BOLD-based techniques have been shown to work reliably for a huge range of applications, straight-forward BOLD imaging has some inherent problems (such as macroscopic field inhomogeneity effects that produce spatial distortions in the acquisitions).
The aim of this thesis is to give an overview of the fMRI data analysis focusing on some aspects of the preprocessing pipeline.
In chapter 1 we will introduce the problem of Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) spatial distortions and a new method to correct them, based on non-linear registrations to an intra-subject T2W volume.
In chapter 2 we will show the procedure for the construction of a good reference to apply the EPI-distortions correction method. This method belongs to the super-resolution algorithms and it aims to produce a T2W high resolution reference.
In chapter 3, the previous methods will be combined together to perform the EPI distortion correction method.
Finally, in chapter 4 we will present a bunch of clinical fMRI studies where the correction method was performed.
Our results provide a good evidence of the effectiveness of the combined approach, which gives the advantage of using only standard acquisition protocol to have alle the information required to perform the proposed EPI-distortion correction
I Barison della collezione Enrico Nordio
No full textOne of the aspects not well studied yet is about relationships between architects and painters at the end of
XIXth and beginning XXth centuries. In this particular case the author analyzes friendship between Giuseppe
Barison (1853-1931) and Enrico Nordio (1851-1923). The two friends were very soon in contact for their training
in Karl Emil Haase atelier in Trieste and then in Vienna, Nordio becoming an important architect, Barison
one of the most relevant painter at the time. Nordio collected many Barison’s paintings as well as Giacomo
Zammattio (1855-1927), another important architect between Trieste and Rijeka who was also friend and
collegue of Barison in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts
Phoenix in domo Foscari n. 2
No full textPHOENIX ISSUE N. 2 table of contents
Editors' PREFACE: In memory of Professor Mario Nordio
PAPERS
Giacomo BAGGIO
Il trattato "Vacuità del non-assoluto" di Sengzhao: analisi e traduzione
Testo con tabelle / fonts cinesi.
Flavia CANGIÀ
Performing the "Buraku Culture": Taiko Drums From Factory to Stage
Matteo COMPARETI
Some specimens of Central Asian decorative elements in Ajanta and Bagh paintings
Serena DALLA VALLE
Morocco's Legislative Elections of 2007: the Contradictory Trends in Terms of Transition
Giovanni DE ZORZI
The Art of Music and the Practice of Arts: Notes for a New Approach to the mevlevîye ('Whirling Dervishes')Sufi Brotherhood Tradition
Lara ISKRA
Tre importanti vakifi nella Mostar ottomana del XVI-XVII secolo: storia, mito, architettura
Marco LAURI
Identità nazionale indonesiana nei manifesti letterari (1925-1963)
Matteo LUCCI
La poetica del karumi nell'opera di Matsuo Basho
Lucio T. MELE
Khan as-Sebil vs. Khan al-Inqarata
Luca MILASI
A Meiji Writer's outlook on Chinese Literature: the case of Mori Ogai
Serena OSPAZI
Il Fiqh delle Minoranze islamiche in Europa: il Consiglio Europeo per le Fatwa e le Ricerche
Alex PASSI
Death Charms: Magical Mixtures from the Kaksaputa?
Sofia SUNDSTROM
The Bimaran Casket: A contribution to the discussion regarding its iconography
Elzbieta SWIECICKA
The Turkish Dictionary of Giovanni Molino,
born Yovhannês from Ankara
Vasil S. TOLE
Odyssey and Sirens: A Temptation towards the Mystery of the Iso-polyphonic music regions of Epirus.
A Homeric theme with variations
Massimiliano TRENTIN
The Regierungsberater in Damascus.The expertise of the German Democratic Republic in Syrian state-building: 1965-1972
Müserref YARDIM
Les Communautés Religieuses Turques en Belgique:la Communauté Gülen
BOOK REVIEWS
Mattia GUIDETTI
Bowersock, Glen Warren. Mosaics as History. The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam. Cambridge, MA-London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006, 146 pp.
Lucia SORBERA
Nadje Sadij Al-Ali: Iraqi Women. Untold Stories from 1948 to Present, Zed Books, London and New York, 2007
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Riccardo ZIPOLI
"Photographing Iran: stereotypes and new visions."
A review of: Iran People Roads Landscapes, Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre (Venice), 28.8-14.10.200
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
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
Uno sguardo all'Est. Lavoro e diritti fondamentali in Russia e negli altri Paesi della Comunità di Stati indipendenti
No full textNel contributo l'autore, dopo aver esaminato i diritti fondamentali del lavoro presenti nelle Costituzioni dei Paesi della Comunità di Stati indipendenti, si sofferma sul diritto del lavoro russo. La trattazione, a carattere diacronico, abbraccia i rami principali del diritto del lavoro: il rapporto individuale, le relazioni collettive, il mercato del lavoro. L'autore rileva una sorprendente continuità nelle linee essenziali del diritto del lavoro russo, pur nel susseguirsi di sistemi socioeconomici completamente diversi. Egli conclude che il diritto del lavoro russo appartiene saldamente alla matrice europea della materia.The contribution of the author starts by examining fundamental labour rights recognised by the Constitutions of the Countries of the Community of Independent States. Then the author focuses upon Russian Labour Law, going through the history of the main branches of the discipline: the individual relationship, industrial relations, the labour market. The article finds a surprising continuity in the essential lines of Russian Labour Law, in spite of the completely different socio-economic systems that were experimented in Russia during the twentieth century. The author concludes that Russian Labour Law clearly belongs to the European matrix of the discipline
Corpo, spazio, architettura. Fenomenologia dell’esperienza spaziale Matteo Vegetti, Fabrizia Bandi (eds.), Editrice Morcelliana, Brescia 2024
No full textThe author reviews "Corpo, spazio, architettura: Fenomenologia dell’esperienza spaziale," edited by Matteo Vegetti and Fabrizia Bandi. The book examines the philosophical underpinnings of spatial experience through a phenomenological lens, engaging with both traditional and contemporary notions of how space, body, and architecture interconnect. The author highlights the text\u27s exploration of how architects and designers might integrate phenomenological insights into their work, transforming space from mere physical dimensions into lived, experienced reality. The review appreciates the book’s thematic organization, which starts with foundational theories from Merleau-Ponty and expands through discussions on virtual spaces and the future of architecture in the digital age. Through this anthology, readers gain a comprehensive view of the architectural implications of phenomenological thought, making it a critical resource for anyone involved in the conceptualization and design of space
St. George and the Dragon or the town planner as a story-teller. In conversation with Bernardo Secchi about Il racconto urbanistico / Der heilige Georg und der Drache, oder: Der Stadtplaner als Geschichtenerzähler. Ein Gespräch mit Bernardo Secchi über Il racconto urbanistico
No full textAt the end of the second edition of his Storia dell’architettura italiana, Manfredo Tafuri declares that “one book assumes a crucial relevance”1 in finding a way out of the endemic crisis of modern architecture in the 1980s: Il racconto urbanistico. The publication of this work by the Italian urban planner 2 Bernardo Secchi in 1984 constitutes a unique event in recent European architecture—an event that still has not been appropriately described or analyzed. Matteo D’Ambros and Roberto Zancan met with the author to discuss the circumstances of the book’s publication. In a world of short memory, revisiting the possible contribution of literary studies to architecture and urban planning promises to shed light on the contemporary understanding of the disciplines. / Manfredo Tafuri schreibt am Ende der zweiten Auflage seiner Storia dell’architettura italiana, dass bei der Suche nach einem Ausweg aus der endemischen Krise der modernen Architektur in den 1980er Jahren „einem Buch entscheidende Bedeutung zukommt“1: Il racconto urbanistico. Die Ver öffentlichung dieses Werks des italienischen Stadtplaners 2 Bernardo Secchi im Jahr 1984 ist ein außergewöhnliches Ereignis in der neueren euro päischen Architektur – ein Ereignis, das noch nicht angemessen gewürdigt beziehungsweise analysiert worden ist. Matteo D’Ambros und Roberto Zancan trafen sich mit dem Autor, um über Aspekte rund um die Veröf fentlichung des Buches zu sprechen. In einer Welt mit kurzem Gedächtnis verspricht die erneute Betrachtung des Beitrags der Literaturwissenschaf ten zum Verständnis von Architektur und Stadt, neues Licht auf das berufliche Selbstverständnis zu werfen
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