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A RANS approach to the meshless computation of pressure fields from Image Velocimetry
No full textWe propose a 3D meshless method to compute mean pressure fields in turbulent flows from image velocimetry. The method is an extension of the constrained Radial Basis Function (RBF) formulation by Sperotto et al. (2022) to a Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) framework. This is designed to handle both scattered data as in Particle
Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) and data in uniform grids as in correlation-based Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The RANS extension includes the Reynolds stresses into the constrained least square problem. We test the approach on a numerical database featuring a Backward Facing Step (BFS) with a Reynolds number of 6400 (defined with respect to the inlet velocity and step height), obtained via Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS)
Filosofia, sensibilità e arte in Diderot: un rapporto paradossale
No full textL’arte, secondo Diderot, trova il suo modello nella natura, ma nel "Paradosso sull’attore" afferma che il teatro è finzione e che l’arte dev’essere menzogna, affinché il suo effetto sia veritiero e capace di emozionare il pubblico. «Non si va a teatro per veder piangere», infatti, «ma per sentire discorsi che ci strappano le lacrime», sostiene uno dei personaggi messi in scena. Il vero paradosso di questo dialogo é però la tesi più nota e dibattuta, cioè che l’attore insensibile, freddo e capace di controllare le proprie emozioni, sia superiore all’attore passionale, che si lascia trasportare dai sentimenti del proprio personaggio
Corpi e reti: Dalla semiotica degli oggetti alla semiotica generale: un modello di analisi
No full textCosa vuol dire fare ricerca in semiotica degli oggetti? Per me ha voluto principalmente dire elaborare un mo-
dello di analisi degli oggetti. Ho cercato così di rendere il modello adeguato a tale riflessione e, al contempo, ho cercato di rendere tale riflessione adeguata alle esigenze poste dagli oggetti man mano che io, insieme al contribuito di studenti e studentesse che hanno seguito i miei corsi di Semiotica del Disegno Industriale alla Iuav, mettevamo alla prova il modello e, con esso, la teoria greimasiana in esso incorporata.
Non è dunque un caso se non sia solo a firmare questo articolo. Gabriella Sperotto e Sara Poli, con cui intro-
duco qui il modello, sono due studentesse2 che con le loro tesine, qui riproposte, hanno contribuito alla cre-
scita – per lo meno io la vedo così – dell’elaborazione
The International Security Presence in Kosovo and the Protection of Human Rights
No full textOn March 11th, 2000, two children who were playing in the neighborhoods of Mitrovica, Kosovo, got hurt by an “unexploded ordnance”. One of them died in the explosion, the other was severely injured. An inquire clarified that the ordnance was a “bomblet”, a part of a cluster bomb dropped during the 1999 NATO air campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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A Human Rights-Oriented Approach to Military Operations
No full textCounterinsurgency is the dominant aspect of US operations in Afghanistan, and since ISAF—the NATO-led security and assistance force—has assumed growing security responsibility throughout the country, it is also a mission for the Europeans.1 The frame in which military operations are conducted is irregular warfare, a form of conflict which differs from conventional operations in two main aspects. First, it is warfare among and within the people. Second, it is warfare in which insurgents avoid a direct military confrontation, using instead unconventional methods and terrorist tactics.
© Federico Sperotto. All rights reserved.
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Law in Times of War: the Case of Chechnya
No full textIn October 1999 “the second Chechen war” broke out. In December the Russian federal army started an operation to take control of Grozny. During the confrontation between the Federal forces and the Chechen separatists, serious human rights violations occurred. Several cases concerning violations of fundamental rights, in and around the city, have been brought before the European Court of Human Rights against Russia. The lawsuits concerned in particular physical integrity issues. This study provides some insights on the jurisprudence of the European Court on Human Rights in order to ascertain the adequacy of the mechanism of protection provided by the European Convention of 1950 in situations of armed conflict.
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This paper may be freely circulated in electronic or hard copy provided it is not modified in any way, the rights of the author not infringed, and the paper is not quoted or cited without express permission of the author. The editors cannot guarantee a stable URL for any paper posted here, nor will they be responsible for notifying others if the URL is changed or the paper is taken off the site. Electronic copies of this paper may not be posted on any other website without express permission of the author
Editorial: Structural bioinformatics and biophysical approaches for understanding the plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses
No full textEditorial.
PUBLISHED 09 September 2022Raul A. Sperotto, Maria Hrmova, Steffen P. Graether and Luis Fernando S. M. Timmer
Diderot: ironia e umorismo nel Salon 1765
No full textEnlightenment philosophers often used irony in a philosophical manner. But irony is an ambiguous and complex figure of speech that can take on philosophical or anti-philosophical value, depending on the uses made of it. Diderot extensively resorts to irony throughout his works, even in unsuspected places in the Encyclopédie, but can we detect a philosophical use of this figure of speech in works of aesthetics as well? The Salon 1765 is considered here as an emblematic moment of Diderot’s reflection on the visual arts, in which irony is linked to the effort of objectivity of the art critic and to the one of the writer who intends to convey the emotion of the painting to the reader, even when it is negative. Irony therefore seems to perform two main functions: 1) to point out an inappropriate choice of subject (when this demonstrates the sterility of the artist’s ideas or licentious subjects that contradict the moral purpose of the pictorial or sculptural work); 2) to make those who read and cannot see the painting empirically understand its defect of composition, design, colour, rhythm. The irony, which is incorporated in the description, thus gives it a critical and emotional value at the same time, aimed at exercising and educating the readers’ taste
Initial Deliverable on Network and Service Monitoring (Deliverable 5.1, Flamingo NoE)
No full textProject DeliverableMonitoring is at the basis of any informed network and service management decision. However, nowadays networks are becoming progressively more complex, have higher traffic rates and are more frequently exposed to attacks. For these reasons, targeted monitoring solutions should be investigated to fulfil the requirements of the management of the Future Internet. This mindset is core to the research conducted in WP5.This deliverable presents the WP5 contributions in the context of the following Tasks: Architectures and technologies for monitoring (T5.1), Collection and processing of monitoring data (T5.2), and Application domains for monitoring (T5.3). Full list of authors: Anna Sperotto, Rick Hofstede, Ricardo Schmidt, Anthea Mayzaud, Anuj Sehgal, Bjo ̈rn Stelte Christos Tsiaras, Daniel Do ̈nni, Daphne Tuncer, Guilherme Sperb Machado, Jair Santanna, Marinos Charalambides Mario Flores, Mario Golling, Maxim Claeys, Niels Bouten, Nikolay Melnikov, Radhika Garg, Rashid Mijumbi, Sebastian Seeber, Steven Latre
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