118 research outputs found
RONCHI-HARTMANN NULL TEST
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to obtain the fine width of the Ronchigram fringes, which will be used as a screen in the Ronchi-Hartmann null test. The optimization is made using statistical conditions of the figure on the optic surface of the test, as it is done in the classic Hartmann test
Lo stabilimento Barilla Bakery di San Nicola di Melfi (1987-2007)
No full textSi tratta di una dettagliata e ampia relazione relativa al funzionamento e alle ragioni del particolare successo industriale dello stabilimento di Melfi che fa capo alla Business Unit Bakery della Barilla di Parma. La ricerca si fonda su documentazione aziendale e su circa 85 interviste in profondità condotte tra lo stabilimento, il terrorio del Vulture circostante l'impianto, e il palazzo uffici di Parma, lungo tutto l'organigramnma della business unit Bakery; l'analisi fonde business history ed etnografia insieme a una lettura sistemica dell'organizzazione e inserisce la storia della fabbrica nella la storia trentennale della diversificazione Bakery attuata dalla nota impresa di pasta
What Mediates the Effect of Family Disruption in the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Prosocial Behavior
No full textAt the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented social distancing rules (including mass school closures) dramatically constrained children’s social lives, jeopardizing human connections that foster prosocial development. This study of 2,516 families of 3–8-year-olds from six countries (China, Sweden, Australia, Italy, the USA, and the United Kingdom) examined whether children’s understanding or feelings about COVID-19 regulations mediated the expected association between COVID-19-related family disruption and children’s prosocial behavior, as indexed by parental ratings. For all six sites, family disruption indirectly predicted reduced prosocial behavior. Negative feelings about COVID-19 regulations mediated this association in all sites except China. Contrariwise, understanding of COVID-19 regulations was not implicated in the link between family disruption and reduced prosocial behavior
Managing Multiple Ecosystem Services for Landscape Conservation: A Green Infrastructure in Lombardy Region
No full textThe spatial assessment of Ecosystem’ Services could inform and support planning process to achieve sustainability as a major challenge for local community. Among others, the definition and implementation of Green Infrastructure based on the delivery of multiple ES is a key element of environmental planning aimed to maintain and restore the natural capital considering the interrelations between social and ecological aspects. The paper proposes a methodology for the spatial identification of the Regional Green Infrastructures in Lombardy Region (north-west of Italy) as a structural layer of landscape planning. Regional Green Infrastructures is designed to incorporate the multifunctional use of natural capital, especially its naturalistic, recreational and landscape vocation. The biophysical models of Habitat Quality were used as a proxy of natural values, the community maps of Recreation Potential with the Heritage properties was used as a proxy of recreation values, and finally a kernel density of positive visual elements has been used as a proxy of landscape values. The outputs were elaborated mainly using InVEST 3.2.0 software, integrated with a weighted overlay analysis tool of ArcGIS 10.3 version. Results were used to frame a preliminary base of landscape values for RGI, and are presented as a possible methodology to define a prescriptive layer of the new Regional Landscape Plan
eCulture: Cultural Content in the Digital Age
No full textDo virtual museums really provide added value to end-users, or do they just contribute to the abundance of images? Does the World Wide Web save endangered cultural heritage, or does it foster a society with less variety? How can information technology help to preserve the diversity of cultures in our fast-changing world? These are the questions that are raised and answered in this book, the result of a long path across the digital heritage landscape.
This book gives a broad overview of eCulture and digital heritage. It is divided into three main sections: main issues and general guidelines; technological fundamentals and the main solutions; and applications and services, including a wide range of case studies.
Starting from the basics the reader will be introduced to virtual museums issues and achievements, cataloguing, digitizing, publishing, and sustainable exploitation of cultural content, all exemplified by real-world case studies and applications. Taking into account more than 15 years of experience and results in digital cultural content research, the author provides a comprehensive view on issues and achievements in digital collections and cultural content.
Written for:
Researchers and professionals in "memory instituions", digital libraries, digital preservation, e-content management; librarians
Negli ultimi decenni numerosi “attori” di rilievo appartenenti sia al mondo dei beni
culturali sia della ICT hanno investito tempo e risorse al fine di creare applicazioni e
progetti pilota quali ad esempio: musei virtuali, gallerie d’arte on-line, ricostruzione
tridimensionale di monumenti e siti archeologici nonché applicazioni didattiche,
servizi per il turismo culturale ed i parchi scientifici. Queste sono solamente alcune
delle promesse che le tecnologie dell’informazione hanno stipulato con il settore
culturale. Quali sono le opportunità ed i rischi connessi all’uso di questi strumenti?
Oggi siamo probabilmente in grado di valutare se questi investimenti sono stati
realmente utili ed hanno realmente incrementato e promosso la conoscenza delle arti,
delle scienze e della storia e se hanno realmente soddisfatto le aspettative degli utenti.
Gli strumenti della ICT aiutano veramente (sono veramente di supporto) per le
istituzioni culturali e per i loro utenti?Le informazioni ed i contenuti disponibili in
rete si rivolgono al medesimo pubblico che visita i musei, intercettano altri potenziali
utenti, sono in concorrenza con la fruizione diretta delle opere? Il mondo dei beni
culturali, i musei ed i loro utenti vogliono veramente utilizzare gli strumenti e le
applicazioni tipiche delle nuove tecnologie?
Scopo del volume è fornire una visione d’insieme di un settore di rilievo nel
panorama del digitale. Partendo dalle nozioni di base, il lettore sarà introdotto alle
tematiche relative ai musei virtuali e a conseguimenti, catalogazioni, digitalizzazioni,
pubblicazioni e sfruttamento sostenibile di contenuti culturali, il tutto esemplificato
attraverso casi pratici e applicazioni. Partendo da oltre 15 anni di esperienza e di
risultati nella ricerca di contenuti digitale culturali, l’autore offre una visione globale
sulle questioni e le realizzazioni delle collezioni digitali e dei contenuti culturali
Ecosystem Services for Spatial planning. Innovative approaches and challenges for practical application
No full textThe book investigated the relationship between Ecosystem services (ES) and Spatial planning questioning possible ways of integrating the two concepts and approaches. The implementation of ES in Planning requires a precise method of obtaining significant evidence to aid the decision-making process because the provision of ES depends on the importance this is given in Spatial planning.
In recent years, knowledge on ES mainstream approaches to Spatial planning has increased through research and includes existing mindsets and technical procedures. Many of these proposals often remain limited to specific aspects of Spatial planning or, in many cases, focused on only a few components of an existing tool. These modalities, are surely essential in improving the knowledge system but without impacting the planning process, only acting as tools used in the planning process. The integration of ES demands operational frameworks in the Planning process that today is still in its infancy and has precluded its full inclusion.
The book acted within this framework, investigating the reasons behind this gap and advancing proposals to bridge ES into the planning process to support decision makers. The work provided a proposal for ensuring the inclusion of ES in Planning process using the incremental measures of limiting, mitigating and compensating soil sealing and land take process promoting operational strategies in applying it. The proposal is supported by a practical application to demonstrate the results, the limits, the opportunities and further new developments.
The book introduced the main notions of the book as a starting point for further discussion, as a common basis for all the next considerations. It is dedicated to presenting important issues that must be considered when dealing with ES in terms of methodology, approaches and practical experiences. The issues explored concern the scale, the assessment methods, and the management of Ecosystem Services. Each topic is investigated al-ways considering the Planning perspective, hence having as a framework that of Planning and territorial governance. This part ended presenting experiences on assessment and mapping ES with two modalities: the first collected the practical case study elaborated by the book author in order to test and verify directly opportunities, criticisms and possible improvements in ES assessment/mapping for Planning support; the second presented such innovative aspects that affect the integration of ES in Planning.
The last chapters are the operative proposal called “RES – Restart from Ecosystem Services”. In this part, all the contents learnt in the previous phases converged to try to solve such critical aspects and to improve others (e.g. the scale issues, the methods for ES assessment, and the tools for ES integration) by defining a methodology (step by step) of adopting Ecosystem services for Planning support. The steps of the methodology are explained in a theoretical section and an operative application in order to give more essence to all the processes and to validate RES.
As a conclusion, the book provided critical reflection on the actual behaviour of the topics in ES and Planning focusing on the social recognition of ES based essentially on their proper acknowledgement and increased awareness
Hus et le mouvement hussite, de la condamnation de l'hérésie à sa réévaluation slave au milieu du XIXe siècle
No full textLaura Ronchi De Michelis, Hus and the Hussite movement from the condemnation of heresy to its Slavic re-evaluation in the middle of the nineteenth century.
The author points out that until the middle of the nineteenth century, Russian culture remembered only the name of the Czech reformer. Chronicles mention the condemnation of Hus as heretic and in the liturgy of Orthodox Church Hus was anathemized like the reformers of the sixteenth century: Luther and Calvin. In the middle of the nineteenth century, a particular interest was manifested towards Hus, as a Slav - within the general context of the exaltation of the part played by the Slav element in European history. At that time, Hus no longer appears as a heretic, but as a martyr of Orthodoxy who sacrified himself for his Slav brothers.Laura Ronchi De Michelis, Hus et le mouvement hussite de la condamnation de l'hérésie à sa réévaluation slave au milieu du XIXe siècle.
L'auteur remarque que la culture russe, jusqu'au milieu du XIXe siècle, n'avait conservé que la mémoire du nom du réformateur tchèque. Les chroniques mentionnaient la condamnation de Hus comme hérétique et dans la liturgie de l'Eglise orthodoxe, Hus était frappé d'anathèmes avec les réformateurs du XVIe siècle, Luther et Calvin. Au milieu du XIXe siècle, dans la culture russe un intérêt particulier est manifesté à Jean Hus en tant que Slave, dans le contexte général de la découverte et de l'exaltation du rôle de l'élément slave dans l'histoire européenne. A ce moment-là, Hus ne fait plus figure d'hérétique, mais de martyr de l'orthodoxie qui s'est sacrifié pour la liberté de ses frères slaves.Ronchi de Michelis Laura. Hus et le mouvement hussite, de la condamnation de l'hérésie à sa réévaluation slave au milieu du XIXe siècle. In: Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, vol. 29, n°3-4, Juillet-Décembre 1988. Le christianisme russe entre millénarisme d'hier et soif spirituelle d'aujourd'hui. pp. 323-335
Multivariate nonparametric methods in two-way balanced designs: performances and limitations in small samples
No full textInvestigations of multivariate population are pretty common in applied researches, and the two-way crossed factorial design is a common design used at the exploratory phase in industrial applications. When assumptions such as multivariate normality and covariance homogeneity are violated, the conventional wisdom is to resort to nonparametric tests for hypotheses testing. In this paper we compare the performances, and in particular the power, of some nonparametric and semi-parametric methods that have been developed in recent years. Specifically, we examined resampling methods and robust versions of classical multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) tests. In a simulation study, we generate data sets with different configurations of factor's effect, number of replicates, number of response variables under null hypothesis, and number of response variables under alternative hypothesis. The objective is to elicit practical advice and guides to practitioners regarding the sensitivity of the tests in the various configurations, the tradeoff between power and type I error, the strategic impact of increasing number of response variables, and the favourable performance of one test when the alternative is sparse. A real case study from an industrial engineering experiment in thermoformed packaging production is used to compare and illustrate the application of the various methods
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