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Hypothèse de Muséalisation en plein air pour le Quartier hellénistique-romain à Agrigente / Ipotesi di musealizzazione outdoor per il Quartiere ellen…

2014

The contribution presents the results of the activities carried out as a Expert in Museography for the APER project, which included the elaboration of a Musealisation hypothesis for the Domus IA-IB of the Hellenistic-Roman quarter located in Agrigento, i.e. the definition of intervention lines to be applied in an outdoor context to help the general public understand the archaeological site concerned to. The selected museographic strategies correspond to true forms of museal memorisation, aimed at knowing how to transmit the interpretation of an ancient context and its significance to a non-specialist public. In the conclusive phase, it has developed an executive project for two museographic…

Muséaliser l’archéologie : quelques interventions innovantes pour la présentation des ruines / Musealizzare l’archeologia: alcuni interventi innovati…

2014

Intervention on archaeological sites requires a multicriteria approach, which does not lend itself to providing solutions of a general nature so much as solutions linked to the individual case at hand and to the comparison of the interventions involved in the creation of a museum-like context for them. Nevertheless, one should not lose sight of the general aspect of the problem and underestimate a series of considerations regarding what to conserve and why in favour of how to conserve, an aspect which has been extensively tested and which today offers a large range of appropriate solutions and techniques. It is a question of communication, solutions to which must be provided both through to…

Cultural differences in nature park management and visitor experiences in a French-Hungarian comparison

2016

Cross-cultural investigations in management prevail over those on for-profit organizations, while intercultural studies on protected natural areas is a relatively untapped field of research. This thesis proposes cross-cultural models (adapted from the existing model of Hofstede, along with marketing and management concepts) for the analysis of the park management and visitor experiences at (protected) European natural parks. Among the various methods used, the most relevant were the semi-directed interviews with actors of the park management and the visitor survey, while document analysis and observations also completed our findings. Using our analysis of the park management, stakeholders, …

Ipotesi di riqualificazione per un alloggio duplex del quartiere Cappuccinelli a Trapani

2021

L’edilizia residenziale pubblica può costituire un ambito privilegiato d’intervento per conseguire gli obiettivi di efficienza energetica e impatto ambientale connessi alla strategia di riqualificazione a lungo termine del patrimonio edilizio nazionale. In particolare, il recente Decreto “Rilancio” e gli strumenti fiscali finalizzati a favorire il recupero e l’efficienza energetica degli edifici esistenti pon- gono in una condizione particolarmente vantaggiosa gli interventi sull’edilizia residenziale. L’ar- ticolo illustra i primi risultati di uno studio – che si innesta in una ricerca più ampia finalizzata a dimostrare i benefici derivabili dall’uso della vegetazione per migliorare le con…

European fitness landscape for children and adolescents: updated reference values, fitness maps and country rankings based on nearly 8 million test r…

2023

Objectives (1) To develop reference values for health-related fitness in European children and adolescents aged 6–18 years that are the foundation for the web-based, open-access and multilanguage fitness platform (FitBack); (2) to provide comparisons across European countries. Methods This study builds on a previous large fitness reference study in European youth by (1) widening the age demographic, (2) identifying the most recent and representative country-level data and (3) including national data from existing fitness surveillance and monitoring systems. We used the Assessing Levels of PHysical Activity and fitness at population level (ALPHA) test battery as it comprises tests with the h…

The vegetation for mitigating the microclimate and designing livable and healthy public spaces in Palermo City Centre

2018

Urban morphology and increasing building density play a key role in the overall heat and energy balance of our cities. The urban environment and CO2 emissions resulting from human activities cause a local increase of temperature, a phenomenon known as Urban Heat Island (UHI). This is also due to the reduction of vegetation in urban areas. The benefits that green spaces have in urban planning have been widely acknowledged. In particular, in temperate and hot contexts, plants help to reduce the extreme summer temperatures, improving people’s outdoor and indoor thermal comfort and, at the same time, reducing the buildings’ energy demand for cooling. The way plants affect urban climates is gene…

Profiles and seasonal distribution of airborne fungi in indoor and outdoor environments at a French hospital

2009

International audience; A one-year prospective survey of fungal air contamination was conducted in outdoor air and inside two haematological units of a French hospital. Air was sampled with a portable Air System Impactor. During this period of survey, the mean viable fungal load was 122.1 cfu/m(3) in outdoor air samples, and 4.1 and 3.9 cfu/m(3) in samples from adult and pediatric haematology units, respectively. In outdoor samples, Cladosporium was the dominant genus (55%) while in the clinical units, Penicillium sp. (23 to 25%), Aspergillus sp. (15 to 23%) and Bjerkandera adusta (11 to 13%) were the most frequently recovered airborne fungi. The outdoor fungal load was far higher in autumn…

INQUINAMENTO E ATTIVITA’ FISICA ALL’APERTO

2011

Convenience Behavior and Being Overweight in Adults: Development and Validation of the Convenience Behavior Questionnaire

2019

The etiology of overweight and obesity is a mixture of genetic determinants, environmental factors, and health behaviors. Especially intra- and interpersonal inactive behaviors, here termed convenience, seems to play an important role. The objective was to develop and validate the Convenience Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ) to assess convenience-related items and their association with overweight and obesity in a large population. A sample of 1233 subjects aged 18–82 years from six population groups took part in a self-administered questionnaire. Test-retest reliability was estimated and the independent association between convenience-related items and overweight and obesity was investigated. …

Public and Private Economic Feasibility of Green Areas as a Passive Energy Measure: A Case Study in the Mediterranean City of Trapani in Southern Ita…

2022

Green infrastructure in urban environments provides a wide range of ecological, social, aesthetic, and health co-benefits. Urban plant covers in particular contribute to improved outdoor environmental conditions that, in turn, influence the energy behavior of buildings and their indoor thermo-hygrometric comfort performance. Within this context, this study illustrates a methodology aimed at verifying the economic feasibility of alternative types of green areas for public and private stakeholders, which are analyzed as passive energy measures. Therefore, our methodology integrates approaches from different disciplines and consists of a microclimatic analysis of different vegetation scenarios…