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The geo-hydrologic event in the Peloritan – Ionian area of 2009: debris-flow susceptibility assessment by means of forward logistic regression
2012
On the 1st of October 2009, the area centred on the village of Giampilieri (Messina), on the Ionian side of the Peloritan belt, suffered thousands of landslides activated in the time lapse of about five hours, which caused 36 victims, more than 100 injured and more than 0.5M€ of damage to structures. This unprecedented phenomenon was triggered by an exceptional meteorological event, recorded at the foothills with 250mm of rain in just 8 hours; this amount of rainfall was cumulated to two previous events (16/IX: 75mm; 23/IX: 190mm) for a total amount of more than 500mm in less than two weeks. Due to the peculiar triggering conditions a huge number of debris flows involved the shallow weather…
Radon Anomalies at Volcano Etna: Identification methods and correlation with geodynamic events
2006
Las grandes Exposiciones en Europa: 1992-2002. Efectos duraderos sobre la ciudad y apropiación por parte de la ciudadanía.
2012
This paper studies the influence of great contemporary Expositions on the transformation of cities and of territories, developing some aspects we consider relevant of these events: their growing relevance in urban contemporary politics and the urban and architectural project as creator of the regeneration of abandoned or obsolete areas. Against the short duration of these events, the positive and negative effects, like the definition of new urban and territorial domains, the modernization of infrastructures and services, the impulse of private stakeholders toward building lands and the consolidation of City-Brand in tourism nets among others, have a much longer duration, and depend on the u…
Urban Events as Cosmopolitan Accelerators and Post-Pandemic Cities: Reflections on Manifesta 12 in Palermo
2021
International events are important opportunities to generate (global) open spaces and networks, and are one of the greatest accelerators of cosmopolitan networks. The global Covid- 19 crisis asks us to rethink the mobility of people and the interconnections between and within cities, where networks and connections are the most powerful accelerators of what we may call the cosmopolitan dimension of urban life. How can we rethink Cosmopolitan Habitat in light of the pandemic? What kinds of international event will we be able to promote from an intra- and post-pandemic perspective? This contribution analyses the experiences of Manifesta 12 in Palermo. The event is explored as a field of experi…
An Active Learning Approach for Classifying Explosion Quakes
2022
In this work, an Active Learning approach for improving the classification of passed seismo-volcanic events is proposed. Here we study the specific case of Explosion Quakes from Stromboli Volcano versus other seismo-volcanic events, recorded as seismograms, and the use of Random Forest as a Classification method. In conformity with the active learning paradigm, the approach recalls the human intervention for the annotation of uncertain data. The uncertainty is established by the event probabilities, predicted by a trained random forest classifier. The human intervention consists of editing and relabelling the data into these main three classes: Explosion Quakes, Non-Explosion Quakes or Non-…
Transient behaviour of a “mixed” overhead-cable EHV line under lightning events
2009
Recently, in many countries have been undergone or are planning links with AC extra-high voltage (EHV) underground cables. Cable lines offer the possibility of a reduced environment impact and for this reason they are often the only alternative for the reinforcement or the expansion of power system accepted by public opinion. The coexistence of overhead and cable line in the so called ¿mixed¿ lines, however, raises several questions regarding their behaviour both in steady state and in transient. The purpose of this work is to investigate the transient behaviour of a mixed overhead-cable EHV line under lightning events, describing the effects of the following overvoltages on the system. The…
Rateless Codes Performance Analysis in Correlated Channel Model for GEO Free Space Optics Downlinks
2012
An Evaluation of HCI and CMC in Information Systems within Highly Crowded Large Events
2013
Pervasive systems are composed of a large variety of networked smart devices that supposedly enrich the environment they are deployed in. The access to services provided by a pervasive system should be as natural and “unconscious” as possible. In a large number of cases, the available interaction modality seems to be more oriented towards showing off technological wonders rather than to the actual usability of the interface. In this paper we evaluate and compare two different versions of an information provision system deployed in two editions of a large fair. In particular, we will focus on the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Mediated-Communication (CMC) points of view. The a…
Il Progetto DIGIT.IISG e le attività culturali dell'Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici
2020
In this article I present the Digit.IISG project, that is aimed to convert in a digital form all materials inherent to cultural events which happened in the Italian Institute for german studies since its foundation (1932).
Semantica dello spazio, del movimento e della maniera
2020
Il volume riunisce una serie di lavori condotti all'interno dei più aggiornati approcci teorici sulla semantica dello spazio del movimento e della maniera. Oltre a focalizzare e a porre in una nuova luce le questioni tradizionali relative al verbo, il volume esplora la possibilità che a veicolare la semantica spaziale o quella della maniera siano anche strutture nominali.