112 research outputs found
Patrimoine sportif et évènements majeurs : les cas de Barcelone et de Rio de Janeiro
No full textIl contributo analizza il tema dello sport e focalizza l'attenzione sulle olimpiadi di rio de janeiro e barcellona, andando a confrontare i due sistemi di offerta turistica. L'evento di grandi dimensioni e lo sport risultano fondanti elementi per lo sviluppo dei territori, che però reagiscono in maniera differente
Ovviamente a causa di fenomeni sociale ed economici radicati nei territori stess
Creating a WhatsApp Dataset to Study Pre-teen Cyberbullying
No full textAlthough WhatsApp is used by teenagers as one major channel of cyberbullying, such interactions remain invisible due to the app privacy policies that do not allow ex-post data collection. Indeed, most of the information on these phenomena rely on surveys regarding self-reported data. In order to overcome this limitation, we describe in this paper the activities that led to the creation of a WhatsApp dataset to study cyberbullying among Italian students aged 12-13. We present not only the collected chats with annotations about user role and type of offense, but also the living lab created in a collaboration between researchers and schools to monitor and analyse cyberbullying. Finally, we discuss some open issues, dealing with ethical, operational and epistemic aspects
Le cantigas di Roi Martinz d\u27Ulveira: edizione critica con commento
No full textIl saggio propone l’edizione critica delle quattro cantigas, una de amor e tre de amigo, di Roi Martinz d’Ulveira, trovatore portoghese attivo presumibilmente nell’ultimo quarto del XIII secolo. L’edizione è corredata da un’agile introduzione sull’autore e sulla tradizione manoscritta del suo ridotto canzoniere, dalla traduzione dei componimenti e da un puntuale commento, suddiviso in scheda metrica, cappello introduttivo e note esplicative ai versiThe essay proposes the critical edition of four cantigas, one de amor and three de amigo, by Roi Martinz d’Ulveira, a Portuguese troubadour presumably active in the last quarter of the 13th century. The edition is accompanied by an introduction on the author and the manuscript tradition of his work, the translation of the poems and a detailed commentary, divided into metrical analysis, an introductory presentation and explanatory notes to the verses
La tutela del passeggero nella disciplina Euro-unitaria e nella giurisprudenza della Corte di Giustizia
No full textStarting from the four EU regulations governing the rights of passengers in the various modes of transport in the event of cancellation, long delay and denied boarding, the Author asks whether the numerous rulings of the Court of Justice, which have made it possible to resolve numerous interpretative problems raised by various provisions of the oldest regulation – i.e. EC Regulation No 261/2004 on air transport – have or have not influenced the legislator in the drafting of subsequent regulations. Furthermore, the Author, considering the future prospects of EU regulation on passenger rights also in the light of the EU Commission’s recent proposal to amend the four regulations, wonders whether the time is ripe for uniform regulation in the different modes of transport
The morphology of –ly and the categorial status of ‘adverbs’ in English.
No full textThe author challenges the traditional assumption of derivational morphology which accords adverbial –ly derivational status and gives adverbs lexical category status on a par with nouns, verbs and adjectives.
The author argues that adverbial –ly, unlike its adjectival counterpart, is inflectional and adverbs ending in –ly are rather to be regarded as inflected adjectives while those adverbs not containing –ly are uninflected adjectives; “adverbs cannot be categorially distinct from adjectives” (p. 342-343)
Towards Semi-Autonomous Avatars to Assist Clinicians in Home and Hospital Environments
No full textService robots are garnering increasing interest in the scientific community for their ability to interact with humans and assist them in daily activities. A subset of service robots, termed “avatar robots”, stands out for their capability to be remotely controlled by operators through various interfaces. An essential objective in this context is to develop user-friendly systems that empower users to interact with and manipulate the physical world remotely. In alignment with this trend, IIT-SoftBots and the University of Pisa have developed the Alter-Ego robot, a lightweight two-wheeled humanoid capable of autonomous and immersive teleoperation modes. Equipped with advanced variable stiffness motors, the robot minimizes the risk of causing discomfort or pain to users, making it suitable for a variety of human-robot interaction tasks, including assistive activities. For this reason, we envision a significant potential impact in the field of medical applications, including assistance to patients and clinical staff, enabling the possibility of active physical telepresence in both hospital and home environments. This paper summarizes the results of a study aimed at exploring the usability of the Alter-Ego robot among non-experts. Additionally, it outlines potential scenarios for assessing the robot's use in domestic and healthcare applications by presenting some preliminary scenario tests in both hospital and home environments
Convenience in Funding Upgrading Works
No full textWith reference to upgrading actions on existing building stock, Construction Procurement Guidance, No.7 Whole Life Costs (Office of Government Commerce) states: ‘All procurement must be made solely on the basis of value for money in terms of the optimum combination of global costs and quality to meet the user’s requirements’. Cash-flow analyses allow showing the economic value of investments for alternative technological upgrading works extended all along their service lives. Optimisation of choices is not only a matter of cash-flow analyses—choices should not be made only according to the lowest costs but also considering several aspects that can be brought back to the concept of ‘technical-sustainable value’, which mainly derives from competent functional and environmental assessments of the reference analysis system. The mentioned interrelation should theoretically be adequately considered but this is seldom the case in the common building practice. Cost estimate for an engineered system has to entail much more detailed analyses on costs, energy, sustainability and technologies. Possible technological solutions would be convenient in terms of technological/technical utility, but less convenient in monetary terms for the funding subject. Under the economic point of view, cash outflow means less economic convenience in funding a given technology. All that stated above, nowadays effective data-display global cost-quality indicators are rarely available in literature. The present manuscript introduces to the reader fundamentals of an economic tool proposal designed by the author with the use of synthetically displaying interrelations between cash-flow scenarios and quality-sustainability in upgrading processes on existing buildings. Fundamentals have been tested on a reference case study. Then, fundamentals have been contextualized to the Italian Legislative framework: in Italy, in multi-owner existing residential buildings, expenditure allocation is carried out based on thousandths. The thousandth type to be considered is due to the configuration of the case under review and to balance-sheet expenditure to be allocated to owners. Property thousandths allocated to housing units have been used to allocate expenses for technological/energy upgrading works. The author has tried to find out the amount of a possible bank investment that a user might start at building Time ‘0’ to theoretically clear possible economic losses, trying to highlight technical utility of the technological solution that would be disadvantaged in economic terms. ‘Neutral’ mathematical finance formulas have been used to calculate the theoretical capital to be invested by an owner based on the reference cash-flow scenario. Conclusion will be drawn at the end of the manuscript
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