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    Tools for Collaborative Annotation: a Comparison among Three Annotation Styles

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    This report, inspired by three different annotation projects involving UNIMI research group, aims at understanding which annotation style performs better depending on goals, context and users. Moreover it derives some indications on the design of annotation systems adequate to goals, context and users

    BANCO : a web architecture supporting unwitting end-user development

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    Today end users are no longer mere consumers of computer tools but increasingly need to be more active producers of information and software artifacts. New techniques for engineering software are needed to support end users in this new role. This paper introduces one of these techniques, namely unwitting end-user development, and explains the BANCO architecture, which has been designed to support unwitting end-user development allowing the creation of systems customized to end-user culture, end-user role, and platform in use, as well as system re-use and evolution. It also supports consistency in interaction styles, particularly in web applications. This reasoning is made concrete through an example that presents a factory-automation prototype built using the BANCO architecture

    Touch DNA Sampling Methods: Efficacy Evaluation and Systematic Review

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    Collection and interpretation of “touch DNA” from crime scenes represent crucial steps during criminal investigations, with clear consequences in courtrooms. Although the main aspects of this type of evidence have been extensively studied, some controversial issues remain. For instance, there is no conclusive evidence indicating which sampling method results in the highest rate of biological material recovery. Thus, this study aimed to describe the actual considerations on touch DNA and to compare three different sampling procedures, which were “single-swab”, “double-swab”, and “other methods” (i.e., cutting out, adhesive tape, FTA® paper scraping), based on the experimental results published in the recent literature. The data analysis performed shows the higher efficiency of the single-swab method in DNA recovery in a wide variety of experimental settings. On the contrary, the double-swab technique and other methods do not seem to improve recovery rates. Despite the apparent discrepancy with previous research, these results underline certain limitations inherent to the sampling procedures investigated. The application of this information to forensic investigations and laboratories could improve operative standard procedures and enhance this almost fundamental investigative tool’s probative value

    Resultados agronômicos e qualitativos da nova cultivar de trigo "BRS Marcante".

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    A cultivar de trigo 'BRS Marcante' foi desenvolvida pela Embrapa, envolvendo um híbrido F1 do cruzamento entre as linhagens PF 980533 e PF 970227 com a cultivar 'BRS Guamirim', realizado em telado, na Embrapa Trigo, no inverno de 2003. As gerações segregantes foram conduzidas pelo método genealógico e a linhagem resultante, nomeada de PF 080310. A cultivar caracteriza-se pela sua ampla capacidade de adaptação às condições de cultivo do sul do Brasil, pelo bom potencial de rendimento de grãos e qualidade industrial da classe Pão. Agronomic and qualitative results of the new wheat cultivar 'BRS Marcante'. The wheat cultivar 'BRS Marcante' was developed by Embrapa, as a result a cross between F1 hybrid between lines PF 980533 and PF 970227 with 'BRS Guamirim' and carried out in a green-house of Embrapa Wheat, on 2003 winter season. The segregate generations were conducted by genealogic method and the genotype resulted was named PF 080310. It has wide adaptation ability to south Brazilian conditions, high grain yield potential and belongs to Bread Class

    I vetri a nucleo friabile del Museo archeologico di Adria: studio chimico, tessiturale e mineralogico

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    Riassunto presentato al XVI giornate nazionali di studio sul vetro dell’AIHV, Comitato nazionale italiano, “Il vetro in età protostorica in Italia”, Adria (RO), 12-13 maggio 2012

    Studio archeometrico di vetri romani dal Museo archeologico di Adria (RO)

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    Riassunto presentato alle XV Giornate Nazionali di Studio sul vetro dell'AIHV -Comitato nazionale italiano "Il vetro in Italia: testimonianze produzioni e commerci in età bassomedievale", Università della Calabria, Cosenza, 9-11 Giugno 2011
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