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Madeline Neroni and the Moral Design of Barchester Towers
Full text linkThe first half of this paper will trace Neroni\u27s development from the unlikely caricature of a siren to the rounded, believable narrator\u27s accomplice whose position establishes her own credibility. Neroni serves to reinforce and augment the implications of the narrative whenever she holds court with her suitors. As the Circe of Barchester (Kn 37 1), she leads her lovers into revealing those traits that the narrator has already warned us to expect, thereby providing the narrator with further text to comment upon. Trollope needs to reveal certain aspects of his men, not in their inward deliberation, but in startled reactions to a shot gone home. The narrator discloses their areas of potential psychological conflict; Neroni starts the conflict into motion.
My second half will examine Neroni\u27s position as an accomplice to that side of the author that subverts the narrator\u27s more conventional views. Neroni\u27s subversive role is built on the foundations of the narrator\u27s early dependence on her as a clear-seeing, analytical character. Her original position of moral ambiguity sets her up as the logical advocate for the views about which the author himself feels ambivalent. Even as Trollope cajoles the reader into belief in the reliability of Neroni\u27s moral judgments, he is jolting us periodically with her unorthodox moral opinions. In this section, we build on a hypothetical delineation of Neroni\u27s self-concept to show how her unorthodox perspective is both valid and necessary
The violent woman : femininity, narrative, and violence in contemporary American cinema
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Hilary Neroni
A hybrid heuristic algorithm for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows
No full textSeveral issues related to the logistics field can be recognized as applications of the renowned Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows (TSPTW); examples of these issues include, among others, instance planning deliveries, managing internal logistics, bank couriers, material handling, but also production scheduling. In the light of such numerous applications, in this paper a hybrid algorithm based on the Divide-And-Conquer (DAC) technique and the Biased Randomized heuristic Algorithm (BRA) for solving the mentioned problem is presented. The aim is to propose a flexible solution suitable for implementation in many contexts where the TSPTW is relevant, thus improving performance and key indicators. The quality and reliability of the tool are validated on several benchmark problems through a comparison with a different algorithm already proposed in literature. In the light of the simulations carried out, it turned out to be effective and efficient when dealing with problems similar to those that characterize real applications, even in terms of computational time efficiency
A new heuristic algorithm to improve the design of a vertical storage system
Full text linkIn this paper, a new heuristic algorithm to support the design phase of a vertical storage system is presented. The considered vertical storage system is made up of racks accommodating metal containers which are arranged on the two sides of the lift device that feeds them. The proposed heuristic algorithm has been developed combining two well-known problems: Bins Packing Problem (BPP) and Rectangular Nesting Problem (RNP). Given a list of products that must be stored, the dimensions of the warehouse's racks and its load capacity, the developed algorithm allows to obtain the list of products that must be placed in each stock keeping unit and returns the right position and orientation any item should take. The algorithm provides the minimum number of racks with height dimension as low as possible. This aim is due to the common interest of automated vertical storage systems designers or owners in lowering costs, which trend to grow up with racks number and height. Furthermore, the position of the items inside each rack is managed to optimize the volume exploitation and to balance the container distributing the weight inside it. The whole procedure also regards the maximum weight constrain that basically limits the filling of loading units. The robustness of the proposed algorithm has been studied simulating different scenarios, by changing boundary conditions such as the number of items to be stored, their middleweight, their average size and the variance of these physical characteristics. Finally, the algorithm has been applied in a realistic situation to support automated vertical storage system design aimed at holding in stock metal moulds
Sui limiti della giustizia negoziale nel sistema EPPO: Criticità e margini di ampliamento delle procedure semplificate di azione penale
No full textIl presente contributo si focalizza sulle criticità, e possibili margini di ampliamento, dell’utilizzo delle procedure semplificate di azione penale da parte della Procura europea (EPPO). Partendo da una ricognizione comparata sulle prassi adottate dall’Ufficio in quattro Stati membri (Italia, Spagna, Francia e Germania), si evidenziano i profili problematici che potrebbero essere ancora di ostacolo a un maggior ricorso allo strumento negoziale europeo. Alla luce del progressivo aumento dei casi attribuiti alla competenza dell’Ufficio, si offrono dunque spunti argomentativi per un impiego più flessibile dell’istituto dispositivo europeo nel settore della criminalità economica. L’obiettivo è quello di porre le premesse per sfruttare a pieno le potenzialità delle procedure semplificate, mantenendo, al contempo, il giusto equilibrio tra logiche di efficienza e le opposte esigenze che animano la giustizia penale europea
DATI ESTERNI ALLE COMUNICAZIONI E PROCESSO PENALE: QUESTIONI ANCORA APERTE IN TEMA DI DATA RETENTION
No full textLa disciplina della data retention costituisce ad oggi uno dei terreni di più delicato bilanciamento tra diritti fondamentali e uso dei mezzi tecnologici a fini repressivi. Sullo sfondo delle ormai note pronunce della Corte di giustizia sul tema, il presente contributo commenta la sentenza n. 36380 del 2019, che vede la Corte di Cassazione riconfermare la compatibilità dell’art. 132 cod. privacy con gli artt. 7, 8 e 52 della Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione Europea. Dopo aver esaminato i profili più problematici dell’attuale disciplina dell’art 132 cod. privacy, si riflette sulla necessità di ripensare la ben nota distinzione tra dati esterni e contenuto delle comunicazioni. In conclusione, l’analisi si sposta sul ruolo del principio di proporzionalità nella complessa materia della data retention
The proposed Regulation to fight online child sexual abuse: an appraisal of privacy, data protection and criminal justice issues
No full textProtecting children online is a priority for the EU legislator. Since July 2021, an interim regulation allows service providers to derogate from confidentiality safeguards in the e-privacy Directive to fight child sexual abuse online. The European Commission aims to repeal this legislation with a proposal of May 2022. This Regulation will require providers to monitor users’ content communication for online child sexual abuse, among other things. Privacy experts worry that confidentiality standards (i.e. end-to-end encryption) will be weakened and that the Regulation will serve as a basis for indiscriminate interception of content communications. However, the implications of the proposal go beyond privacy and data protection and will impact criminal justice rights too. Therefore, this contribution presents a comprehensive analysis of the proposal from a privacy, data protection and criminal justice perspective. It examines the proportionality of the measure and its implications within the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice (AFSJ). Specifically, it looks at purpose limitation issues in data exchanges and the admissibility of such evidence in criminal proceedings. The aim is to show that the EU, while aiming at increasing data circulation in the AFSJ, might not be ready for this challenge from an infrastructural and fundamental rights standpoint
Santa Maria sopra Minerva: Tomb of Diotisalvi Neroni
No full textDetail, left side, showing the head; Before the construction of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, the Minerva was the church of the Florentine nation, and therefore it houses numerous tombs of prelates, nobles and citizens coming from that Tuscan city. Curiously, Diotisalvi Neroni, a refugee who had took part in the plot against Piero de' Medici, was buried here in 1482, and was later joined by other members of the family. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 2/15/2008
Facial recognition in police hands: Assessing the ‘Clearview case’ from a European perspective
No full textSince 2019, over 600 law enforcement agencies across the United States have started using a ground-breaking facial recognition app designed by Clearview AI, a tech start-up which now plans to market its technology in Europe. While the Clearview app is an expression of the wider phenomenon of the repurposing of privately held data in the law enforcement context, its use in criminal proceedings is likely to encroach on individuals’ rights in unprecedented ways. Indeed, the Clearview app goes far beyond traditional facial recognition tools. If these have been historically limited to matching government-stored images, Clearview now combines its technology with a database of over 3 billion images published on the Internet. Against this background, this article will review the use of this new investigative tool in light of the EU legal framework on privacy and data protection. The proposed assessment will proceed as follows. Firstly, it will briefly assess the lawfulness of Clearview AI’s data scraping practices under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Secondly, it will discuss the transfer of scraped data from Clearview AI to EU law enforcement agencies under the regime of the Police Directive 2016/680/EU (the Directive). Finally, it will analyse the compliance of the Clearview app with Article 10 of the Directive, which lays down the criteria for lawful processing of biometric data. More specifically, this last analysis will focus on the strict necessity test, as defined by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the Charter) and the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). Following this assessment, it will be argued that the use of Clearview’s app in criminal proceedings is highly problematic in light of the EU legislative framework for both privacy and data protection
Surveillance Risks in IoT Applied to Smart Cities
Full text linkWith the advent of the IoT, proximity sensor devices are installed in many places in smart cities. Without any regulation or social policy, they could lead to a super-surveillance network managed by multi-agent systems in the future. Such networks may be able to reduce accidents, risks, damage and errors. However, they also pose high risk of surveillance and data breaches, including hacking attacks or malware intrusion. This research project is aimed at investigating the implications of IoT-driven surveillance in smart cities from privacy, data protection and ethical perspectives. The identification of the critical issues related to the extensive deployment of such sensing devices in the urban area
will constitute a starting point for the development of a new regulatory framework for sensor-based surveillance in European Smart Cities. This new regulatory system shall be aimed at providing citizens with effective tools to exercise their rights to privacy and data protection when facing IoT-driven surveillance. Indeed, setting a clear set of rules governing big urban data processing shall be considered crucial to ensure a fair, democratic, human-centric development of smart cities in Europe
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