478 research outputs found
Comprendere rotte migratorie fuori dall’accademia: metodi, linguaggi, potenzialità, limiti, posta in gioco.
No full textMigration routes today are deeply questioning anthropology not only theoretically, but also, and above all, about its application. Anthropological research focused on the field of migration on one side "naturally" investigates and breaks through the political and public sphere, on the other contemplates social repercussions and forms of information and dissemination. For this reason, the analysis of migration routes often takes the form of intervention using languages, methodologies and communication channels alternative to the scientific publications, increasingly varied and straightforward. More frequently, techniques such as mapping tools, multi-site information and synchronised data platforms, visual documentation, migrant self-productions, etc. are used to document and analyse migration, involving new methods and communicative languages.
Moreover, these works take place within interdisciplinary networks where the research and investigation methods are shared and overlapped with multiple communicative languages and styles. In recent decades, an analytical and communicative approach was built that, although rooted in the anthropological perspective, draws on both languages and unconventional technological tools to investigate and act on the migration routes.
In this AP Forum we would like to engage with this parallel world to public anthropology, questioning us first of all about the ways in which professional skills are expressed in the field and on the reasons that led to move towards these styles and languages that re-articulate and overcome conventional forms of scientific communication. What are the methodological and positioning issues of the multiple action planning to deal anthropologically with the issue of migration routes? While on the one side it opens up to a range of research and intervention possibilities through which innovating the discipline itself, on the other conflicts and compromises are often generated by the application of an anthropological perspective. How this relationship between potentiality and limits articulate on such debated issue as migration routes? What tactics can be put in place to articulate this dialectic relationship? Finally, what is the stake that these consolidated ways of doing ethnography of migration bring into the field of questioning cultural and public anthropology? In particular, we are interested in affinities and discontinuities with respect to the conventional methods of research, asking ourselves if could be a dialogue (or not) and a possible way of collaboration between these different worlds of investigation and analysis
Conversazione con Alessandro Monsutti
No full textIntervista ad Alessandro Monsutti per riportare la sua lunga esperienza come accademico in ambito internazionale e come antropologo e consulente per diverse organizzazioni umanitarie e di sviluppo. Il focus dell'intervista sviluppa il tema della mobilità e della frontiera nell'antropologia applicata ai contesti dei rifugiati, in particolare il caso dell'Afghanistan dagli anni '90 ad oggi, con approccio interdisciplinare e transnazionale
Progetto di Allestimento della mostra per gli ottant'anni della città universitaria della Sapienza università di Roma
No full textIl progetto allestitivo propone, attraverso dispositivi spaziali e video proiezioni, una lettura cronologica delle diverse fasi che hanno contraddistinto la realizzazione delle sedi dello Studium Urbis romano, dalla sua fondazione, alla realizzazione del luogo storico del palazzo della Sapienza (XVI secolo) con la Chiesa di Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza e la Biblioteca Alessandrina di Francesco Borromini (1642-1660) in cui sono presenti i motivi iconografici dell’identità culturale dell’Ateneo, per proseguire fino alla realizzazione della nuova Città universitaria, costruita per riunire in un’unica sede le discipline storiche, artistico-letterarie e scientifiche fino ad allora sparse in più luoghi della città di Roma. L’esposizione si arricchisce di materiale documentario inedito, frutto del contributo di diversi studiosi e del lavoro di riordino dell’Archivio storico della Sapienza e da riprese realizzate dall’istituto Luce - Cinecittà. L'allestimento ha interessato l'atrio del palazzo del Rettorato ed in particolare la galleria del primo piano
Defining User Requirements of a eHealth Mobile App for Elderly: The HomeCare4All Project Case Study
No full textAging population implies an increase in demand for health care ser-vices. This hopefully could be solved by e-health, even if some issues arise about technology acceptance and adoption among the elderly. In this article, the authors illustrate HomeCare4All project as a case study to apply Human Cen-tered Design (HCD) process in the field of digital health services, aiming at de-signing trustworthy mobile applications for elderly people to book healthcare services at home.
This paper focuses on the early analytic steps of the HCD process and describes the context of use and the definition of user needs through the use of social re-search techniques and technological studies.
The authors, in fact, show the findings of a state of the art analysis carried out about healthcare services and platforms; then they report the results of a empiri-cal survey, conducted through a questionnaire administered to end users.
Thanks to these studies, the authors can choose the device that suits best to the user needs and they can define the relevant requirements, which will guide the further steps of design process
Amiota zaliskoi Jones & Grimaldi 2022, sp. nov.
No full textAmiota zaliskoi, sp. nov. Figures 18E–F, 19J–K, 28, 85C DIAGNOSIS: Small to medium-sized fly (ThL 0.98–1.38 mm); dark brown, glossy; facial marking small, width 0.3× length; subepandrial sclerite cantilevered, compartmentalizing surstyli; outer paraphyses laterally flattened, with short subapical dorsal hook and pair of large, symmetrical, dorsomedial spines; inner paraphysis composed of 4 asymmetrical spines, including large, prominent one with preapical tooth, extending over complex. DESCRIPTION: Small to medium-sized fly (ThL 0.98–1.38 mm), almost black, slightly glossy, grading lighter ventrally; legs yellow. Frons black, shiny ventrally, especially ventrolateral corners. Cheek small (EL/CW 9.6–13.75), yellow to brown. Facial marking small, width 0.3× length. Palp brown. Arista: Medium, plumose; longest branch D3; A.R. 0.38.; 4 long dorsal, 2 long ventral branches; D4 pointed laterad, V1 mediad; arista trunk with long microtrichia along entire length. Male genitalia: Epandrium fused at midline, this margin faintly grading into surrounding membrane. Cercus long, pendulous, nearly diamond-shaped; dorsal margins grading into surrounding membrane. Surstylus rounded; 11 prensisetae, apices blunt, closely arranged, comblike; distinctive paddle-shaped process, curving dorsomedially, extending beyond prensisetae; distal end of process with rough, textured cuticle; row of setulae along process, curving medially in semicircular pattern to midregion of surstylus. Subepandrial sclerite distinctive; cantilevered, distal corners curving downward slightly; central membrane forming septum, surrounding surstylus. Outer paraphysis long, laterally flattened, distal end rounded; very small preapical dorsal apical hook, arising on mesal surface; 2 large, heavily sclerotized, perpendicular spines present, proximal to preapical dorsal hook, with sensilla between; 4–5 sensilla in row between large spine and inner paraphysis. Inner paraphysis composed of 4 asymmetrical spines; prominent spine, large, with preapical tooth, extending over complex. Aedeagal apodeme slightly longer than wide; distal end only slightly flared, lobes distinct; distal notch very small, shallow. Hypandrium simple, of relatively uniform thickness, anterior end narrowed. Ejaculatory apodeme not studied. Head and thorax measurements: (n = 5; Am 29, 32, 529, 638, 1168) FL/ FW 0.77 (0.70–0.85), EL/EW 1.29 (1.17–1.40), EL/ CW 11.2 (9.6–13.75), FML/FMW 0.27 (0.24–0.30), PR /RR 0.58 (0.45–0.77), ThL 1.25 (0.98–1.38 mm). TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype: male: NEW YORK: Tompkins Co., Texas Hollow, [42.386486, -76.773090], VII/26/83, D. Grimaldi and L.L Pechuman, flying about head, Am 32, [specimen glued to paper point, dissected]. Deposited in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Paratypes: NEW YORK: Tompkins Co., Texas Hollow, VII/26/83, D. Grimaldi and L.L Pechuman, flying about head, 3♂ (Am 21, 29*, 30*, AMNH). OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Canada: Ontario: Algonquin Provincial Park, Swan Lake Station, Scott Lake Survey, 1995-05-29 through 1995-06-16, leg. S.A. Marshall, A transect bracket. Pans on debarked snag, 1♂ (Am 576, DEBU). Lambton Co., Port Franks, 1996-08-02, leg. J. Skevington, 1♂ (Am 638*, DEBU). Quebec: Old Chelsea, 1959-09-29, leg. J. R. Vockeroth, 1♂ (Am 1437*, CNC); 1150′, 1966-07-05, leg. D.D. Monroe, 1♂ (Am 1258*, CNC); 1150′, 1966-07-08, leg. D.D. Monroe, 1♂ (Am 1259*, CNC); 1150′, 1966-08-09, leg. D.D. Monroe, 1♂ (Am 1261*, CNC); Old Chelsea, King Mt., 1969-08-13, leg. B. V. Peterson, 1♂ (Am 1582*, CNC); Old Cheslea, Summit King Mtn., 1965-06-20, leg. D.M. Wood, 2♂ (Am 1462*, 1541*, CNC); Summit King Mt. Old Chelsea, 1980- 06-23, leg. K.N. Barber, 1♂ (Am 529*, DEBU). USA: New York: Monroe Co., Rochester, Highland Pk., 43.132600, -77.602784, 2018-09-17, leg. John Jaenike, 1♂ (Am 1168*, AMNH). North Carolina: Wayah Bald, 5300′, 1957-07-14, leg. J.G. Chillcott, “ Paratype,” [never published], 1♂ (Am 1375*, CNC). ETYMOLOGY: Named for Edward Zalisko (1958–), outstanding teacher and professor of biology at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois. In appreciation for introducing the first author to phylogenies and evolution while he was an undergraduate at Blackburn. Zalisko once said in class, “I am the world’s authority on something that absolutely nobody cares about!” a sentiment now understood by the first author. DISTRIBUTION: Amiota zaliskoi is found in the Great Lakes region, but one record as far south as North Carolina is known. COMMENTS: This species exhibits the characteristic behavior of attraction to the eyes and face common in many Amiota.Published as part of Jones, Lance E. & Grimaldi, David A., 2022, Revision Of The Nearctic Species Of The Genus Amiota Loew (Diptera: Drosophilidae), pp. 1-181 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (458) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.458.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/740002
Designing and Testing HomeCare4All: A eHealth Mobile App for Elderly
No full textAging population implies an increase in demand for health care services. This hopefully could be solved by
e-health, even if some issues arise about technology acceptance and adoption among the elderly. In this
article, the authors illustrate HomeCare4All project as a case study to apply Human Centered Design
(HCD) process in the field of digital health services, aiming at design trustworthy mobile applications for
elderly people to book healthcare services at home. Starting from the results achieved from the early step
of design, this paper describes the following steps of the creation of a design solution by identifying use
cases, defining information architecture and prototyping an app mockup. The prototypes are then evaluated
through a double usability test sessions with users, implementing an iterative design process. In conclusion
authors advance suggestions for designing trustworthy mobile interactions for elderly people or people
unaccustomed to technology, showing the importance of involving end users in the various stages of the
design process
Recensione a Marco Grimaldi, Filologia dantesca. Un'introduzione, Roma, Carocci, 2021
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Of Lords and Stars Spenser's Paradoxical Praise of Essex in the Prothalamion
No full textAbstract: The essay argues that glittering tribute to Essex in the Prothalamion is ambivalent and paradoxical. The author focuses on the Ovidian and Virgilian intertexts of the praise and brings to light Spenser???s hidden references to Lucifer and Phaethon, mythical emblems of pride. For the ge- neric and stylistic inconsistencies, explicit notes of personal and political concern, and the moral seriousness that run through the poem, the Prothalamion is not a mere nuptial song and does not mark Spenser???s return to courtly poetry. On the contrary, under its epithalamic façade the poem hides a reflection and meditation on the vainglory of this world. Spenser???s last poem, like Four Hymns, is a poem of exit that marks the crisis of the Tudor poetics of praise and patronage, as well as Spenser???s own project of paidea
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