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Smart Assistance for Students and People Living in a Campus

2019

Being part of one of the fastest growing area in Artificial Intelligence (AI), virtual assistants are nowadays part of everyone's life being integrated in almost every smart device. Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana are just few examples of the most famous ones. Beyond these off-the-shelf solutions, different technologies which allow to create custom assistants are available. IBM Watson, for instance, is one of the most widely-adopted question-answering framework both because of its simplicity and accessibility through public APIs. In this work, we present a virtual assistant that exploits the Watson technology to support students and staff of a smart campus at the University of Pa…

Assimilation and Contrast in Spontaneous Comparisons: Heterogeneous Effects of Standard Extremity in Facial Evaluations

2020

Judgments we make about others often depend on the standards we use as comparisons. Investigations into the outcomes of these comparisons and potential moderators have often been limited to single dimensions and preselected standards. The current work instead uses multiple evaluative facial dimensions and a multitude of comparisons. A series of 4 experiments ('N' = 665) attempted to detect contrast from extreme (Study 1) and assimilation to moderate standards in within (Studies 2 and 3) and between-subjects designs (Study 4). Results showed inconsistent evidence for both comparison effects and significant heterogeneity across the evaluative dimensions that were sampled. An additional 5 stud…

Umowa o ponoszenie opłat za pobyt w domu pomocy społecznej w orzecznictwie sądów administracyjnych

2016

Agreement on the charges for staying at a nursing home in the case law of administrative courtsThis paper is devoted to the issue of concluding an agreement on the charges for staying at a nursing home in the case law of administrative courts. The debated issue is based on a very extensive case law and against this background the most important problems are discussed. The first problem concerns the sources and forms of participation in the cost of maintaining a person in a social welfare home. In the case law of administrative courts a prevailing view is that law is the source. Other opinion says that the source is an administrative decision. The second opinion cannot be accepted. The views…

Brain Controlled Architecture for Human-Human Interaction Mediated by a Humanoid Robot

2017

This paper presents an Assistive social robots architecture designed for social interaction with humans, mediated by a humanoid robot. The architecture has been designed for being used by people with severe paralysis and the architecture has been tested by a user affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a locked-in state. The system allows the patient to communicate with the stakeholders using a Brain Controlled Interface, based on Evoked Response Potentials (ERP), to express needing, feelings or writing phases. Stakeholders visualize messages sent by the patient on a GUI and use a tele operated humanoid robot as an avatar of them to extend their physical presence to interact with…

The Right to Legal Assistance in Criminal Proceedings

2021

La prestación de maternidad en los supuestos de gestación subrogada

2018

Surrogate pregnancy, as a technique of assisted reproduction prohibited by Spanish law, raises a number of legal questions than, in certain cases, trascend of the Civil Law. Specifically, it has been discussed about de possibility that de person or persons consigner in the gestation contract substitution have access to the provision for maternity benefit. Recently, the Spanish Supreme Court has responded to this issue in the sense of recognizing the right to the provision for maternity benefit to the father or mother ?in fact?, efecttively, develop own parental powers.

The ingreso mínimo vital and the right to social assistance of the european social charter

2021

En este artículo se analiza el Ingreso Mínimo Vital (IMV) desde la perspectiva de los derechos humanos y, en concreto, desde los estándares exigidos por el derecho a la asistencia social reconocido en la Carta Social Europea. El objetivo es valorar si el IMV cumple o no con las exigencias del derecho a la asistencia social tal y como ha sido reconocido en el artículo 13 de la Carta Social Europea, de acuerdo con la doctrina consolidada del Comité Europeo de Derechos Sociales del Consejo de Europa. El análisis de la regulación del IMV teniendo en cuenta las implicaciones de este derecho permite concluir que, a pesar de los importantes avances realizados, algunas mejoras son todavía necesaria…

Artt. 2464-2466 c.c.

2016

Il Commento agli artt. 2464-2466 c.c. contiene un’analisi della disciplina dei conferimenti nella s.r.l. e dei principali problemi teorici e pratici che questa disciplina presenta. Particolare attenzione è dedicata alla previsione sui c.d. conferimenti garantiti da polizza di assicurazione o fideiussione bancaria: con riferimento ai quali vengono esaminate natura giuridica, attuabilità pratica e convenienza attuativa.

A statistical design of experiments for optimizing the MALDI-TOF-MS sample preparation of polymers. An application in the assessment of the thermo-me…

2011

[EN] The sample preparation procedure for MALDI-TOF MS of polymers is addressed in this study by the application of a statistical Design of Experiments (DoE). Industrial poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) was chosen as model polymer. Different experimental settings (levels) for matrixes, analyte/matrix proportions and concentrations of cationization agent were considered. The quality parameters used for the analysis were signal-to-noise ratio and resolution. A closer inspection of the statistical results provided the study not only with the best combination of factors for the MALDI sample preparation, but also with a better understanding of the influence of the different factors, individua…

Concentration of glutathione and expression of glutathione peroxidases 1 and 4 in fresh sperm provide a forecast of the outcome of cryopreservation o…

2004

Oxidative stress imbalance potentially leads to damage of the structure of the cell and macromolecules such as plasma membrane components, proteins, and DNA. The plasma membrane of the sperm cell, which has high levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids, renders it particularly sensitive to free radical–mediated attacks. The freezing and subsequent thawing of sperm is a physically stressful process carried out during routine procedures in assisted reproduction techniques, which results in a highly variable and unpredictable reduction in the number of motile sperm cells. Subsequently, oxidative status can positively or negatively affect the motility, viability, and fertilizing capacity of thawed…