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Laboratorio di Design | Fucina di Idee
No full textDesign&Territori è un progetto dedicato alla comunità scientifica nazionale, lanciato a Palermo nel 2018 per essere replicato con una cadenza regolare negli Atenei in cui il design svolge un ruolo strategico sul territorio. Palermo non è né il cuore né il senso dell’operazione complessiva; è semmai il punto di partenza, il segno di una Città che ambisce a tornare a essere foriera di modernità e innovazione. Ci sono notevoli risorse culturali in Sicilia, dissipate quotidianamente. Si tratta soprattutto di mettere a sistema i diversi individualismi, spesso geniali ma incapaci di collaborare. D&T segna un cambiamento di rotta, mettendo a sistema una complessa concatenazione di attività autonome: università, aziende, professionisti, imprenditori, studenti..
Design & Territorio | Università e aziende tra ricerca e innovazione
No full textDESIGN & TERRITORIO mette in scena il rapporto virtuoso tra Università e aziende, basato su ricerca, sperimentazione e innovazione. Sei aziende – BNP, Caruso Handmade, Covema, IDEA, Palumbo Marmi, Vivo D’Emilio – investono sul Laboratorio di disegno industriale di Dario Russo (Dipartimento di Architettura | Università di Palermo) per la progettazione di prodotti innovativi e comunicazione integrata. A ogni azienda corrisponde un tema di pro- getto, cui si aggiunge lo studio di oggetti ispirati al percorso arabo-normanno quale simbolo della Città di Palermo (Laboratorio Palermo). Alla mostra, inoltre, è presente la sezione DESIGN4FANS, un progetto fotografico che ritrae alcuni studenti nelle vesti di VIP diventando veri e propri testimonial aziendali. Questi, scelti in funzione di un obiettivo specifico, sono letteralmente messi in scena con pose, look e abbigliamenti progettati ad hoc, in modo da suggerire il personaggio d’un film noto che si collega all’attività dell’azienda. Si determina così una strategia didattico-professionale inedita e (con)vincente: le aziende ottengono ricerca e sperimentazione; gli studenti assumono una preparazione insieme teorica e applicata; l’Università attinge a strumenti tecnici e risorse aziendali, diffondendo cultura e innervando il territorio con il design
SAMBHALA, HEAVEN CAN WAIT How 3D printing will sustain the future
Full text linkL’articolo, dedicato all’attività del gruppo WASP di cui Massimo Moretti è il fondatore, evidenzia come sia possibile conciliare l’avanzamento tecnologico con la creazione di un Paradiso in Terra: una società equa, ecocompatibile, scientificamente evoluta, totalmente open source. Questa non è utopia. È quello che sta accadendo grazie a progetti che rispondono concretamente ai bisogni fondamentali dell’uomo: Cibo, Rifugio, Salute, Energia, Lavoro, Cultura. Il caso WASP è indice di un cambiamento in atto. È un concentrato di tecnologia futuribile applicata in direzione sociale. È anche la dimostrazione lampante di come una visione etica sia praticabile all’interno di una logica aziendale. In più, è la dimostrazione di come la visione etica possa essere motore per sviluppare progetti e macchine tecnologicamente avanzate che si vendono per alimentare il sogno: la costruzione di un Paradiso in Terra.This article is devoted to the activities of the WASP group of which Massimo Moretti is the founder, and emphasizes how it is possible to reconcile technological progress with the creation of a heaven on earth: a society of equals, eco-compatible, scientifically evolved and completely open-source. This is not utopia. It is actually taking place thanks to projects that respond in concrete fashion to the basic needs of Man: food, home, health, energy, work and culture. The case of WASP is a pointer to changes that are occurring. An accumulation of futuristic technology geared towards a social application. It is also a clear demonstration of how an ethical vision is actually practicable within the logic of the business community. Moreover, it is the demonstration of how an ethical vision may become the driving force in developing projects and technologically advanced machines, which are then sold to feed the dream: to build heaven on earth
John Smith. Personalized and posture care chair, on demand
No full textToday the technological development or the continuous acceleration of inventions and innovations has established the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This has given rise to an “in- telligent” factory, which produces objects that are not necessarily serialized but personalized to satisfy individual needs at low costs. From here arises the idea of configuring a customized chair, printed in 3D, medical (postural) and truly within the reach of all. The achievement of this objective involves the orchestration of a series of activities: a product configurator, a sof- tware for the management of physical parameters, thanks to the collaboration of osteopathics physiotherapists; an e-commerce site, for the transition from virtual to real; a 3D printing service network in the area where the work is supposed to be done, with its transport system (km 0); a monitoring of all the printed chairs, which allows their recovery, once their function of use has been exhausted, to recycle them within an eco-sustainable (re)productive system (cradle to cradle)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Kinetic Modeling of Advanced Oxidation Processes Using Microreactors: Challenges and Opportunities for Scale-Up
No full textWith the increasing number of recalcitrant pollutants in wastewater treatment plants, there will be a stringent need for rapid and convenient development of tertiary treatment processes such as advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). Microreactors offer a great opportunity for ultrafast and safe intrinsic kinetic parameters determination, by-products identification, and ecotoxicity assessment. Despite the considerable potential of these devices, they have been mostly used for catalyst screening or pseudo-first order kinetics determination, not allowing for knowledge transfer across scales. This work offers an overview of the adoption of micro- and photo-microreactors for intrinsic kinetics investigations in the field of AOPs to guide future research efforts
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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