128 research outputs found
Real-time, non-invasive monitoring of IoT 4.0-based indicators for animal management on farms, in relation to different physiological and production stages
No full textThe ongoing digital transformation driven by Industry 4.0 has initiated a paradigm shift in animal husbandry, fostering the integration of cyber-physical systems, sensor technologies, and data analytics within livestock production systems. This dissertation investigates the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled tools within the framework of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF), with the objective of developing and validating non-invasive, real-time monitoring systems capable of capturing physiological, morphological, and metabolic indicators in two distinct yet complementary animal models: honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera) and dairy cattle (Bos taurus).
Leveraging automated three-dimensional (3D) modeling and imaging methodologies, this research elucidates the application of contactless technologies for characterizing animal health and nutritional status across varying physiological states. In Apis mellifera, morphometric analyses performed via 3D scanning revealed statistically significant divergences (p < 0.01) in thoracic width and abdominal volume between forager and nurse bees, reflecting task-specific metabolic allocation and resource utilization within the colony. The classification model achieved an accuracy of 92.5% in caste differentiation, with a 95% confidence interval ranging from 89.3% to 95.1%, thereby demonstrating the feasibility of high-resolution, in vivo phenotyping in apicultural settings.
In dairy cattle, 3D body surface reconstruction techniques were integrated with metabolic biomarker profiling to refine body condition score (BCS) estimation. The automated system exhibited >93% concordance with expert visual assessment and yielded a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.32 on a 5-point BCS scale. Model confidence was estimated at 96% (95% CI: 94.4–97.8%). Furthermore, strong correlations were observed between BCS and serum concentrations of NEFA and BHB (p < 0.001), particularly in multiparous cows during early lactation, highlighting the system’s sensitivity in detecting energy imbalance and metabolic stress.
The empirical findings substantiate the potential of IoT-driven PLF approaches to enhance the precision, efficiency, and ethical sustainability of animal monitoring systems. By enabling continuous, individualized surveillance with minimal disruption, these technologies offer a robust framework for evidence-based decision-making and adaptive management. The research underscores the critical role of digitalization in advancing sustainable livestock production and affirms the necessity of cross-disciplinary integration to address the multifactorial challenges of modern animal agricultureThe ongoing digital transformation driven by Industry 4.0 has initiated a paradigm shift in animal husbandry, fostering the integration of cyber-physical systems, sensor technologies, and data analytics within livestock production systems. This dissertation investigates the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled tools within the framework of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF), with the objective of developing and validating non-invasive, real-time monitoring systems capable of capturing physiological, morphological, and metabolic indicators in two distinct yet complementary animal models: honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera) and dairy cattle (Bos taurus).
Leveraging automated three-dimensional (3D) modeling and imaging methodologies, this research elucidates the application of contactless technologies for characterizing animal health and nutritional status across varying physiological states. In Apis mellifera, morphometric analyses performed via 3D scanning revealed statistically significant divergences (p < 0.01) in thoracic width and abdominal volume between forager and nurse bees, reflecting task-specific metabolic allocation and resource utilization within the colony. The classification model achieved an accuracy of 92.5% in caste differentiation, with a 95% confidence interval ranging from 89.3% to 95.1%, thereby demonstrating the feasibility of high-resolution, in vivo phenotyping in apicultural settings.
In dairy cattle, 3D body surface reconstruction techniques were integrated with metabolic biomarker profiling to refine body condition score (BCS) estimation. The automated system exhibited >93% concordance with expert visual assessment and yielded a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.32 on a 5-point BCS scale. Model confidence was estimated at 96% (95% CI: 94.4–97.8%). Furthermore, strong correlations were observed between BCS and serum concentrations of NEFA and BHB (p < 0.001), particularly in multiparous cows during early lactation, highlighting the system’s sensitivity in detecting energy imbalance and metabolic stress.
The empirical findings substantiate the potential of IoT-driven PLF approaches to enhance the precision, efficiency, and ethical sustainability of animal monitoring systems. By enabling continuous, individualized surveillance with minimal disruption, these technologies offer a robust framework for evidence-based decision-making and adaptive management. The research underscores the critical role of digitalization in advancing sustainable livestock production and affirms the necessity of cross-disciplinary integration to address the multifactorial challenges of modern animal agriculture
Universalität als Werthaftigkeit. Das „Scheitern“ des Fichtebuchs von Emil Lask
No full textThe author analyzes Emil Lask’s Fichtes Idealismus und
die Geschichte (1902), remarking its failure in the attempt of founding an integrative
relationship between value and real individuality, and of reconciling the transcendence of
validity with the individual foundation of value. The possibility of conceiving an integrative
dimension between value and reality supposes the rejection of any valuable universalism
and the acknowledgement of all the relativizing consequences deriving from the fact that
value emerges only within the historical individuality. Anyway, the author believes that an
universality of value, understood as valuableness, that is the common capacity to attribute
value which is typical of the historical subjects, is still conceivable
Begriff und Wirklichkeit. Emil Lask und die Frage des Emanantismus
No full textThe essay shows how the anti-emanationism represents a central element in Emil Lask’s thought. The author focuses especially on Lask’s methodological and social-juridical reflections, referring broadly to Lask’s correspondence. Lask’s concept of knowledge is viewed as a concept constantly suspended between the rejection of emanationism and the necessity of integrating the analytical logic
La storia è il risultato della storiografia?
No full textStarting from the last book of Fulvio Tessitore (A partire da Dilthey. Trittico anti-hegeliano: Weber, Meinecke, Rosenzweig, Roma, 2013) the author discusses the central points of Tessitorian interpretation of historicism. In particular the author argues the idea of historicism intended as a complete and radical negation of any form of ontology. The author is convinced that the historicistical anti-ontologism is equivalent to the affirmation of the historical reality in its autonomy from any absolute and its constitutive connection with human action
La genesi della Kulturphilosophie
No full textThe author reconstructs the process of the genesis of the modern philosophy of culture, analysing the positions of Vico, Rousseau, Kant, Herder. The author focuses on the two essential theoretical components of this process, which are the cultural critique and the “Copernican” principle
Max Weber e il dibattito attuale sulle migrazioni
No full textMax Weber and the Current Debate on Migration. Drawing on Max Weber’s famous Antrittsvorlesung (1895), the author develops an ideal type framework to categorize various perspectives on the migration issue. Based on two contrasting attitudes – the axiological-differential and the universal-relativistic – the author critically examines the positions of Thilo Sarrazin, Bassam Tibi, and Aladdin El-Mafaalani
Il concetto di cultura fra epocalità e autotrasparenza. Note per una Kulturphilosophie storica
No full textThe concept of culture between epochality and self-trasparency. Some remarks for a historical Kulturphilosophie. The author dwells on Ralf Konersmann’s positions on the philosophy of culture. He emphasizes the epochal structure of the concept of culture and connects it to the defective structure of modern culture. The author rejects any teleological construction of the origins of the philosophy of culture and reflects on the concept of self-transparency of culture, interpreting it as a specific way in which culture gives itself in the modern era
Intuizione e interesse nella conoscenza storica. Il "primo" Croce e Windelband
No full textIntuition and interest in the historical knowledge. The “early” Croce and Windelband. The author makes a comparison between Benedetto Croce’s academic writing of 1893, La storia ridotta sotto il concetto generale dell’arte, and Wilhelm
Windelband’s Rektoratsrede of 1894, Geschichte und Naturwissenschaft. By means of this comparison, which is focused on the concepts of intuition and interest, the author can reconstruct the dense network of sources of the theory of the history outlined by the young Croce and by Windelband: from Lazarus to Simmel, from Köstlin to Labriola
Cultura e storia. La Geschichtsphilosophie di Wilhelm Windelband
No full textCulture and History. Wilhelm Windelband’s Geschichtsphilosophie. The author proposes a critical review of Wilhelm Windelband’s philosophy of history, which he interprets in its circular relationship with the philosophy of culture. The author thematises the problematic elements of the Neo-Kantian philosophy of history by examining Windelband’s reflections on the concept of historical events, on the idea of humanity, on historical memory and on historical development as “Ausgleichung” (normalization) of cultural differences
Political Sovereignty and Its Enemies
No full textThe aim of the essay is to discuss the concept and the value of political sovereignty and those to describe its enemies. According to the theorists of the modern state, two concurring aspects identify political sovereignty: a process of institutionalization of political power; a popular decision to recognize political sovereign. A similar concept of political sovereignty is challenged by other forms of power, which the Author defines the “economical sovereignty” and the “sovereignty of the bios.” After analyzing the characteristics of these different forms of individual power, the Author reveals the common fate of economical sovereignty and the sovereignty of the bios. A community of individuals founded on the economical sovereignty and sovereignty of the bios erases political sovereignty and supports the dominion of téchne(techno-science) over politics (Technocracy)
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