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Response to Comment on “Combined Forced and Free Convective Flow in a Vertical Porous Channel: The Effects of Viscous Dissipation and PressureWork” by A. Barletta and D. A. Nield, Transport in Porous Media, DOI 10.1007/s11242-008-9320-y, 2009
No full textThis short note is a response to the comment (TIPM936) on our recently published paper cited in the title. All the points raised by the author of the comment are discussed. It is shown that one of the remarks, concerning eigenflow solutions in the limiting case of forced convection, has not a sound physical basis. In fact, it refers to a circumstance, a fluid with a thermal expansion coefficient greater than that of a perfect gas, of marginal or no interest in the framework of convection in porous media
Submanifolds fibered in tori of a complex Hopf manifold
No full textSi usa una formula integrale di K. Yano per classificare le CR sottovarietà compatte minimali genericamente immerse in una varietà di Hopf complessa, fibrate in tori, a connessione normale piatta e con la seconda forma fondamentale di norma costante
Esperienze e criticità della conciliazione e della mediazione delle controversie in materia sanitaria
No full textLo studio evidenzia le principali questioni giuridiche che sorgono nell’ambito dei giudizi di responsabilità medica. In particolare, l’autore sottolinea i problemi connessi all’esistenza di un contenzioso in materia assai rilevante sotto l’aspetto numerico (anche se non necessariamente dal punto di vista dell'entità del risarcimento richiesto) e agli oneri connessi alla loro “gestione” a carico degli operatori sanitari e delle compagnie di assicurazione, anche al di là dell’eventuale esito sfavorevole del giudizio. Vengono, poi, rilevati i possibili vantaggi, ma anche i limiti connessi al ricorso a strumenti di soluzione delle controversie in campo medico alternativi al processo, illustrando le più significative esperienze nell’ambito della conciliazione volontaria e della mediazione finalizzata alla conciliazione.This study analyses the main legal issues arising in the field of the medical liability litigation. In particular, the author outlines the problems related to the existence of a large number of proceedings (even though the damage compensation claims are usually not as relevant) and the burdens connected to their management in charge of the medical operators and of the insurance companies, notwithstanding the possible negative outcome of the litigation. Subsequently the author identifies the possible advantages, as well as the limits connected to the resort to the devices of alternative dispute resolution, describing the most significant experiences in the field of the conciliation and the mediation
Risarcimento del danno imprevedibile o latente e limiti dell'efficacia preclusiva del giudicato
No full textThis article concerns second suits for compensation after final judgments for damages concerning the same triggering event. The author underlines that the res judicata effect does not preclude the admissibility of requests for compensation for unforeseeable or latent damages, not awarded by previous decisions. Should the judges be required to rule on future damages they cannot warrant a compensatory award, unless they may deem that damages will occur after the decision according to a high degree of probability. For this reason, if unforeseeable damages for the judge of the first proceedings arise, the damaged party may file a second suit. Accordingly, the same principle is applicable to latent damages not ascertained by previous judgements, when in the first proceedings was reasonably impossible for the judge to determine their existence
La scelta della Corte costituzionale colombiana di depenalizzare l’aborto entro la ventiquattresima settimana e la sua rilevanza rispetto ai diritti sessuali e riproduttivi delle donne
Get PDFIl presente contributo prende in esame la sentenza emanata dalla Corte costituzionale colombiana C-055 del 2022. Con questa pronuncia la Corte depenalizza parzialmente il reato di aborto previsto dall’art. 122 del Codice Penale della Colombia, il quale veniva originariamente sanzionato con la reclusione da sedici a cinquantaquattro mesi in tutti i casi in cui l’interruzione volontaria della gravidanza fosse avvenuta al di fuori delle eccezioni previste dalla stessa norma. Queste scriminanti, che già rappresentavano una certa apertura verso il riconoscimento dei diritti sessuali e riproduttivi delle donne, erano state inserite all’interno della fattispecie per mezzo del precedente della Corte C-355 del 2006 per diverse ragioni. Il commento affronta l’evoluzione delle decisioni della Corte e i motivi di fondo della parziale decriminalizzazione dell’art. 122 c.p.: dallo sviluppo socio-culturale, rappresentato dalla nascita di diversi movimenti regionali a favore dell’interruzione volontaria della gravidanza; all'esigenza di dotarsi di una normativa coerente a ogni livello, che sia nazionale, regionale o internazionale.This article examines the sentence delivered by Colombia’s Constitutional Court C-055/2022. With this decision, the Court partially decriminalizes the crime of abortion provided by Art. 122 of Colombia’s Criminal Code, which was sanctioned in all circumstances except those indicated in the same provision. These exceptions, which already indicated a certain openness to the recognition of women’s sexual and
reproductive rights, were included through the decision of Court C-355 of 2006. The comment addresses the evolution of the Court’s decisions and the reasons for the partial decriminalization of article 122 of the Criminal Code: from socio-cultural development, as represented by the various regional pro-voluntary abortion movements, to the need for consistent legislation at all levels, whether national, regional, or international
In tema di arbitrato degli investimenti e giurisdizione dello Stato
No full textThis essay analyzes the investor-State arbitration in connection
with concepts of civil procedure law, as deriving from the State sovereignty.
The author notes that the consent to investment arbitration
enhances the application of the party autonomy principle. As a result,
it may limit the long-established capacity of States with respect to internal
remedies in investment disputes. At the same time, it is highlighted
the risk of inconsistencies with the doctrine of res judicata,
mainly when objected in investment arbitration proceedings on the
basis of host State courts’ decisions. This can lead to possible different
solutions on the same issue by other State courts in case of challenge
of the awards or opposition to their enforcement. The last part of the
study analyses the “European approach” to investor-State arbitration
and the proposals aiming at preventing conflicts of decisions rendered
in investment arbitrations and State court proceedings
Routes to Absolute Instability in Porous Media
No full textThis book addresses the concepts of unstable flow solutions, convective instability and absolute instability, with reference to simple (or toy) mathematical models, which are mathematically simple despite their purely abstract character. Within this paradigm, the book introduces the basic mathematical tools, Fourier transform, normal modes, wavepackets and their dynamics, before reviewing the fundamental ideas behind the mathematical modelling of fluid flow and heat transfer in porous media. The author goes on to discuss the fundamentals of the Rayleigh-Bénard instability and other thermal instabilities of convective flows in porous media, and then analyses various examples of transition from convective to absolute instability in detail, with an emphasis on the formulation, deduction of the dispersion relation and study of the numerical data regarding the threshold of absolute instability. The clear descriptions of the analytical and numerical methods needed to obtain these parametric threshold data enable readers to apply them in different or more general cases. This book is of interest to postgraduates and researchers in mechanical and thermal engineering, civil engineering, geophysics, applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, and energy technology
Un nuovo impulso all’accesso alla giustizia civile tramite la digitalizzazione del processo: tra opportunità e sfide
No full textL’obiettivo del raggiungimento di un elevato livello di digitalizzazione ha assunto oramai carattere primario, nella prospettiva di un sempre maggiore efficientamento dell’amministrazione giudiziaria. Il processo civile telematico e la recente disciplina emergenziale ci consegnano un giudizio civile già caratterizzato da un intenso utilizzo degli strumenti informatici. L’azione del Governo e le iniziative legislative di riforma del processo civile hanno imboccato la strada verso un rinnovato impulso per la digitalizzazione della giustizia civile, attraverso nuove disposizioni che inevitabilmente pongono inedite questioni interpretative, di cui l’A. si propone di compiere un primo approfondimento.The objective of achieving a high level of digitalisation has now become paramount, in the perspective of increasing the efficiency of judicial administration. The rule of the co-callede "telematic civil process" and the recent emergency discipline enacted during the pandemic Covid-19 deliver us a civil proceedings already characterised by an intense use of IT tools. The Government's action and the legislative initiatives for the reform of the civil justice have set out on the road towards a renewed impetus for the digitalisation, through new provisions that inevitably pose unprecedented interpretative questions, of which the Author proposes to make an initial in-depth study
Intercultural Competence: Another Challenge
Get PDFThis paper intends to draw the attention of language teachers and educational authorities to the area of culture teaching in foreign language education at a time when the recently issued Basic Standards of Competencies in Foreign Language have conferred modest attention to this aspect of language education. The paper first describes the notion of Intercultural communicative competence. It then discusses the tensions between this new understanding of the teaching of culture and the prevailing teaching practices, approaches, beliefs and discourses associated with the learning and teaching of culture. Third, it reports on the results of a study which critically analyzed the academic discourses of in-service teachers in Colombia regarding the cultural component of foreign language programs; finally, it proposes ways to start taking new directions
Contributo allo studio dell’accertamento degli status
No full textLo studio riguarda l'applicazione delle regole e delle garanzie fondamentali nei processi aventi ad oggetto status, identificate nelle situazioni giuridiche aventi carattere assoluto, originario e durevole, solitamente poste a tutela delle persone. In ispecie, in considerazione delle peculiarità di tali situazioni giuridiche, l'autore ritiene impossibile "relativizzare" il loro accertamento. Dall'altra parte, l'efficacia di giudicato si produce solo sul presupposto che vengano applicate correttamente le norme sul contraddittorio (ad es. nell'identificazione della legittimazione ad agire e di quella passiva, nonché in relazione all'integrità del contraddittorio), nonché in tema d'intervento obbligatorio del pubblico ministero.The study concerns the application of rules and fundamental guarantees in the proceedings on status, to be identified in inalienable legal positions having the qualities of universality, originality and permanence, usually settled to protect a person. In particular, due to the particularity of such situations the author deems impossible to "relativize" declaratory judgement on them. Since the aforesaid declarations cannot be limited only to the parties of the proceedings. On the other hand, the plea of the res judicata applies only where the guarantees related to the right bo be heard are fulfilled (e.g.. the judicial verification that the plaintiff is entitled to sue and that the defendant is the person to be sued and, sometimes, the jointer of necessary parties), together with the mandatory intervention of public representative of the general interest (pubblico ministero)
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