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Questioni di margine

2021

Un ragionamento sul progetto nella città storica è l’occasione per riflettere sulla ricomposizione della forma urbana in ragione di quanto preesiste, del ruolo e della rappresentatività degli spazi aperti, della definizione dei “confini” in vista della sistemazione dei suoi margini. In particolare, il saggio affronta il tema del margine (in termini epistemologici e progettuali) che rimanda a quell’elemento fisico e concettuale che è il confine, lo spazio che una volta era la parte dove città finiva e cominciava la campagna, il limite che segnava l’esaurirsi di un fenomeno e l’inizio di una condizione differente, adesso diventato indefinito, impreciso e incomprensibile. In questa visione, al…

A.P.E.R.: Un progetto di ricerca per l’area mediterranea.

2013

Il Mediterraneo è un'area di contaminazione, come un affresco di mille sfumature e colori. L'importazione di molti elementi provenienti da tutto il mondo ha fatto in modo che il Mediterraneo si evolvesse nella sua dimensione attuale, dove le diverse componenti sono diventate gradualmente elementi costitutivi della vita dei suoi abitanti in vari settori, dal paesaggio, all'architettura, all'arte, alla cucina. Luogo sovrano in cui persiste la consapevolezza che le differenze rappresentano una ricchezza, è stato, è e sarà centro di incontri e conflitti, di fusione e separazione, di convivenza armoniosa e continua diffidenza. E' impensabile volere cancellare le tradizioni di ogni popolo, e non …

Interazioni metropolitane

2020

Difficile presentare la ricerca di Giovanni Battista Cocco e Adriano Dessi escludendo quanto è accaduto negli ultimi mesi in seguito alla pandemia. Se si dovesse procedere nella riflessione senza tenere conto della diffusione del virus SARS-Cov-2 e della infezione Covid-19, ne scaturirebbe un quadro distorto e forse si apprezzerebbe solo in parte il lavoro dei due ricercatori che, osservando una specifica condizione metropolitana, ne palesano le peculiarità e, utilizzando il progetto di architettura come strumento di indagine, le potenzialità. Perché richiamare la pandemia se il volume è stato concluso poco prima che la sciagura si propagasse? Perché le conseguenze del virus hanno messo in …

Exploring the Background: Puzzles, Afterthoughts, and Replies

2017

In this paper I review the comments, and reply to the objections, put forward in the commentaries to my essay “Pre-conventions. A fragment of the Background”, published in issues n. 30 and 33 of Revus – Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law. My remarks fall under the following headings: 1. The social dimension of pre-conventions; 2. Pre-conventions and ordinary habits and dispositions; 3. Whether my examples are mistaken; 4. Reasons and causes; 5. Normative facts; 6. Whether abstract entities can be causes; 7. Are pre-conventions conditions of Lewis-conventions? 8. What can pre-conventions do for legal theory? 9. Whether I discharged my argumentative burdens. Raziskovanje …

Safer chemicals using less animals: kick-off of the European ONTOX project

2021

The 3Rs concept, calling for replacement, reduction and refinement of animal experimentation, is receiving increasing attention around the world, and has found its way to legislation, in particular in the European Union. This is aligned by continuing high-level efforts of the European Commission to support development and implementation of 3Rs methods. In this respect, the European project called "ONTOX: ontology-driven and artificial intelligence-based repeated dose toxicity testing of chemicals for next generation risk assessment" was recently initiated with the goal to provide a functional and sustainable solution for advancing human risk assessment of chemicals without the use of animal…

Discovery potential of xenon-based neutrinoless double beta decay experiments in light of small angular scale CMB observations

2013

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) has probed an expanded angular range of the CMB temperature power spectrum. Their recent analysis of the latest cosmological data prefers nonzero neutrino masses, with Sigma m(nu) = (0.32 +/- 0.11) eV. This result, if con firmed by the upcoming Planck data, has deep implications on the discovery of the nature of neutrinos. In particular, the values of the effective neutrino mass m(beta beta) involved in neutrinoless double beta decay (beta beta 0 nu) are severely constrained for both the direct and inverse hierarchy, making a discovery much more likely. In this paper, we focus in xenon-based beta beta 0 nu experiments, on the double grounds of their good perfo…

The stereographic coordinate system

2003

Bias correction of dynamically downscaled precipitation to compute soil water deficit for explaining year-to-year variation of tree growth over north…

2017

This paper documents the accuracy of a post-correction method applied to precipitation regionalized by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Regional Climate Model (RCM) for improving simulated rainfall and feeding impact studies. The WRF simulation covers Burgundy (northeastern France) at a 8-km resolution and over a 20-year long period (1989–2008). Previous results show a strong deficiency of the WRF model for simulating precipitation, especially when convective processes are involved. In order to reduce such biases, a Quantile Mapping (QM) method is applied to WRF-simulated precipitation using the mesoscale atmospheric analyses system SAFRAN («Système d'Analyse Fournissant des Rense…

An original way to evaluate daily rainfall variability simulated by a regional climate model: the case of South African austral summer rainfall

2014

We discuss the value of a clustering approach as a tool for evaluating daily rainfall output from climate models. Ascendant hierarchical clustering is used to evaluate how well South African recurrent daily rainfall patterns are simulated during the austral summer (December to February 1970–1971 to 1998–1999). A set of 35-km regional climate simulations, run with the WRF model and driven by the ERA40 reanalysis, is chosen as a case study. Six recurrent patterns are identified and compared to the observed clusters obtained by applying the same methodology to 5352 daily rain gauge records. Two of the WRF clusters describe either a persistent and widespread dryness (65% of the days) or pattern…

The Southern Annular Mode seen through weather regimes

2012

This article investigates the prominent features of the Southern Hemisphere (south of 20°S) atmospheric circulation when extracted using EOF analysis and a k-means clustering algorithm. The focus is on the southern annular mode (SAM), the nature of its recent trend, and the zonal symmetry of associated spatial patterns. The study uses the NCEP–Department of Energy Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project II Reanalysis (NCEP-2) (period 1979–2009) to obtain robust patterns over the recent years and the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project (period 1871–2008) to document decadal changes. Also presented is a comparison of these signals against a station-based reconstruction of the SAM index an…