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ITADICT Project and Japanese Language Learning
No full textThis article aims to show how the Nuclear disaster in Fukushima (3 March 2011) affected Japanese Language teaching and learning in Italy, focusing on the ITADICT Project (Marcella Mariotti, project leader, Clemente Beghi, research fellow and Alessandro Mantelli, programmer). The project intends to develop the first Japanese-Italian online database, involving more than 60 students of Japanese language interested in lexicographic research and online learning strategies and tools. A secondary undertaking of ITADICT is its Latin alphabet transliteration of Japanese words into Hepburn style. ITADICT is inspired by EDICT Japanese-English database developed by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group established in 2000 within the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. The Japanese-Italian database is evolving within the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the largest in the country and one of the main teaching centres of Japanese in Europe in terms of the number of students dedicated to it (1800) and number of Japanese language teaching hours (1002h at B.A. level, and 387h at M.A. level). In this paper we will describe how and why the project has been carried out and what the expectations are for its future development.-----Pričujoči članek predstavlja projekt ITADICT (vodja projekta Marcella Mariotti, sodelujoči raziskovalec Clemente Beghi, programer Alessandro Mantelli) in vpliv nuklearne katastrofe v Fukushimi 3. marca 2011 na učenje japonščine v Italiji. Cilj projekta je razvoj prve spletne japonsko-italijanske baze podatkov, pri njem pa sodeluje več kot 60 študentov japonščine, ki jih zanima slovaropisje in učne strategije ter orodja na spletu. Drugi cilj projekta ITADICT je prečrkovanje japonskih besed v latinico, po sistemu Hepburn. Projekt je zastavljen po vzoru japonsko-angleške podatkovne baze EDICT, ki jo je razvila skupina Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (skupina za raziskovanje in razvoj elektronskih slovarjev), ki je bila ustanovljena leta 2000 na Fakulteti za informacijskso tehnologijo na Univerzi Monash. Japonsko-italijanska baza podatkov se razvija na Oddelku za azijske in severno-afriške študije na Univerzi Ca'Foscari v Benetkah, eden od glavnih centrov za učenje japonščine v Evropi in največji v Italiji po številu študentov (1800) in številu učnih ur japonščine (1002 na prvi stopnji in 387 na drugi stopnji študija). Članek predstavlja ozadje in način izpeljave projekta ter načrte za prihodnji razvoj
You can't tell a book by its cover: the effects of age, sex and physical activity on entheseal changes in an Italian contemporary skeletal collection
No full textEntheses and their pathological modifications (enthesopathies) are widely used to infer biomechanical stress differences and to reconstruct specific activities in past human populations. However, the multifactorial etiology of these features makes it necessary to critically review their reliability as skeletal markers of activity.
In this study, we investigate the role of age, sex and life-style on entheseal development and modifications. For this purpose, 484 skeletons representing individuals with known age at death, sex, and profession were analyzed with regard to entheseal modifications. All the skeletons come from the Frassetto collection of Sassari, (Italy, early 20th century). 23 postcranial entheses were studied regarding the development of entheseal robusticity (surface rugosity) and proliferative as well as erosive enthesopathies. The scoring method proposed by Mariotti et al. (2004, 2007) was used for the data collection.
Results indicate age as the main factor influencing entheseal modifications. Sex-related patterns are also evident. However, physical activity only plays a minor role in the expression of the observed features, and it appears that robusticity lateralization and modifications of specific attachment sites are more informative about life-style. Overall, our results indicate that caution is warranted when using skeletal markers as indicators of biomechanical effects in bio-cultural reconstructions
Dall’allestimento al percorso storico archeologico del monastero di Cairate al progetto del nuovo Polo Museale del Medioevo nel Seprio
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Estimation of adult age-at-death from entheseal robusticity: A test using an identified Italian skeletal collection
No full textObjectives: The present study tests the effectiveness of entheseal robusticity (ER) as a potential predictor of adult age-at-death by applying multiple regression models to a large contemporary identified skeletal sample. Materials and Methods: ER was recorded for 23 bilateral postcranial entheses on 481 adult individuals (271 females and 210 males) from the Frassetto identified skeletal collection of Sassari (Italy), following the method of Mariotti et al. 2007. ER scores were used as predictors in multiple regression analyses with age as the dependent variable; the performance of the resulting models was tested through standard error of estimate, the correlation coefficient between predicted and documented age, and the percentage of correctly classified individuals. Results: ER show a higher correlation with age in females, resulting in more accurate estimates when compared with those obtained for males. Age-at-death is overestimated for male individuals under 45 years old and underestimated for older individuals. Regression models including a reduced set of ER sites result in better estimates compared with those using the complete set of variables. Discussion: Results suggest the potential usefulness of ER for the estimation of age, especially for female skeletal remains. If used with caution, ER may be a valid complement to existing methods for the reconstruction of the biological profile of skeletal remains of archaeological and forensic interest
WebRISC-V: A RISC-V Educational Simulator featuring RV64IM, Pipeline and Web-Based UI
No full textWebRISC-V is a web-based education-oriented RISC-V pipeline simulation environment, which aims at aiding students learning and easing instructors teaching experience. This simulator permits the execution of RISC-V user-provided source code on a five stage pipeline, making it easy to trace the instruction flow while displaying the data of registers, memory and the internal state of the pipeline elements. Here we introduce WebRISC-V and why it is useful as a didactic tool, present its latest feature updates and briefly compare the simulator against the other available RISC-V educational tools
Musculoskeletal stress markers (MSM): methodological reflections
No full textThe aim of bioarchaeological studies of human remains is to investigate ancient human societies from a biocultural point of view. In particular, the so-called “musculoskeletal stress markers” (MSM; Hawkey and Merbs, 1995), i.e. the degree of development of entheses and enthesopathies, have been used to reconstruct past activities. However, this research field is affected by three main problems: the ambiguity of the terminology used; the lack of standardized scoring methods shared
by all researchers, preventing the reproducibility and comparability of the observations; and the interpretation of the results. In fact, osseous traits generally have a multifactorial etiology, and the effects of age, sex, individual factors, pathologies, physical activity, etc., generally overlap. The aim of this presentation is to discuss these problems. The standardized scoring methods for entheses and enthesopathies developed by our research group will be presented (Mariotti et al. 2004, 2007). The results of our research concerning the interpretative possibilities of MSM will also be shown. For this study, we analysed the skeletons of approximately 500 adult individuals of both sexes from modern identified (sex, age, occupation) collections (Frassetto collections, early XX c., Italy). The study of these collections allowed the evaluation of the relationship between the MSM and the age, sex and occupation of the individuals
La biodiversità e i suoi hotspot in Italia e altrove
No full textThe author summarizes the essential characters and the importance of biodiversity, providing
quantitative data on plant diversity, the richness and the value of the Italian flora. He also
highlights the European strategies for biodiversity conservation and the essential role of seed
banks for ex situ conservation of wild plants, with special reference to the species protected by
international regulations and Crop Wild Relatives (CWR)
WebRISC-V: a Web-Based Education-Oriented RISC-V Pipeline Simulation Environment
No full textWebRISC-V is a web-based server-side RISC-V assembly language Pipelined Datapath simulation environment,
which aims at easing students learning and instructors teaching experience.
RISC-V is an open-source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that is highly flexible, modular, extensible and royalty free.
Because of these reasons, there is an exploding interest both in the industry and academia for the RISC-V.
Here, we present the main features of this simulator and how it can be used for a simple exercise in the classroom.
This web-based simulator permits the execution of RISC-V user-provided source code
on a five-stage pipeline, while displaying the data of registers, memory and the internal state of the pipeline elements.
One of the main advantages of WebRISC-V is the immediate availability in the web browser, thanks to its implementation
as a server-side script in PHP
WebRISC-V: A 32/64-bit RISC-V pipeline simulation tool
No full textWebRISC-V is a web-based education-oriented tool, which permits the investigation of the pipelined execution of assembly programs according to the RV32IM and RV64IM specifications (32-bit or 64-bit RISC-V processor). The tool permits to evaluate and understand slow-downs in the execution due to pipeline stalls and further investigate the internal state of the pipeline architectural blocks (e.g., registers, memory, multiplexers, ALU). The pipeline concept is illustrated in the vast majority of university courses in Computer Architecture, since it is the well established standard for implementing high-performance processors. However, the impact of pipelined execution is often underestimated or even unknown, whilst it represents a very important source for the speed-up of programs. Several similar tools exist and are publicly available, but WebRISC-V is currently the first one that can be executed directly in a web-browser while displaying the cycle-by-cycle detailed pipeline execution for a RISC-V processor. This paper describes WebRISC-V, compares it against other similar available tools and presents its features. An example of usage for investigating the pipeline with the support of an automatically generated pipeline diagram is provided
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