Search results for " voc"
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U-MedSearch: A Meta Search Engine of Medical Content for Different Users and Learning Needs
2015
More and more people use Internet to look for medical information for understanding and learning but different users, such as experts (e.g., physicians) and consumers (e.g., patients), have different needs and bring different levels of reading ability and prior knowledge. Generic and specific search engines and specialized health sites either do not exploit the whole web or overload users with information of different nature. On the contrary, it is important for a user to immediately find the information on the topic being explored that has the 'right' amount of information and level of complexity. This paper presents a meta search engine of medical information on the web, U-MedSearch, that…
Finding the best web medical content for different learner categories
2015
In the age of Internet where any kind of information can be easily found online, it is becoming increasingly evident that more and more people use the World Wide Web to seek health and medical information for understanding and learning. Different users have diverse needs, even when searching for the same topic. This is certainly true in healthcare, where a patient, a physician or a health executive might look for information on the same topic but have different necessities and bring different levels of reading ability and prior knowledge together with a different vocabulary. Generic search engines (like Google, Bing or Yahoo) work on the whole web but make generic searches often overloading…
Quanta in Sound, the Sound of Quanta: A Voice-Informed Quantum Theoretical Perspective on Sound
2022
Humans have a privileged, embodied way to explore the world of sounds, through vocal imitation. The Quantum Vocal Theory of Sounds (QVTS) starts from the assumption that any sound can be expressed and described as the evolution of a superposition of vocal states, i.e., phonation, turbulence, and supraglottal myoelastic vibrations. The postulates of quantum mechanics, with the notions of observable, measurement, and time evolution of state, provide a model that can be used for sound processing, in both directions of analysis and synthesis. QVTS can give a quantum-theoretic explanation to some auditory streaming phenomena, eventually leading to practical solutions of relevant sound-processing…
Effect of Vibration on the Quality of Strawberry Fruits Caused by Simulated Transport
2016
Mechanical damage of agricultural products is one of the main problems in the harvest and postharvest chain due to the large economic loss that the shelf life reduction could generate. Measurements of change in the chemical components of highly perishable products and microbial growth under different static and dynamic loads is the first step in the development of intelligent logistic units that could help in predicting the residual shelf life in order to minimize losses along the supply chain. In our research, the effects of vibration along the supply chain of a case study were analyzed on strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) and woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) in terms of microbiological…
Inferring Business Rules from Natural Language Expressions
2014
This paper proposes a mapping technique for automatically translating rules expressed in a format based on natural language, i.e. Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) standard, into production rules that can be executed by a computer (i.e. Rule engine). The proposed approach achieves a twofold purpose: on the one hand non IT skilled people (i.e. Domain expert) can effectively focus on business rules definition by using statements in natural language, and on the other hand the IT staff will have to manage business rules in a format ready to be executed by a rule engine. The main goal is to overcome some weaknesses in the software development process that could produce i…
A Methodology for Graphical Modeling of Business Rules
2011
This work proposes a novel methodology based on the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) standard capable of graphically modeling business rules. A set of new representation patterns allows business analysts to map processes described through BPMN into conditions and actions of business rules. Our approach exploits Domain Specific Language techniques in order to make the methodology independent from the programming language supported by the specific rule engine. Moreover, this work proposes a web graphical editor, instantiated on a specific sample scenario, where the selected rule engine is Drools, one of the most used open source products. The developed editor allows business analysts…
L’Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS)
2019
L’ALS (Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia) si realizza nell’ambito dell’attività di ricerca del Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani e del Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche dell’Università di Palermo. Il suo obiettivo è quello di documentare, tra il secondo e il terzo millennio, il repertorio linguistico dei siciliani, dallo stadio più arcaico del dialetto ai livelli più spinti di italianizzazione. Rappresentando un punto di incontro tra dialettologia tradizionale e sociolinguistica, L’ALS si articola in due sezioni: etnodialettale e sociovariazionale. La sua attività complessiva (prospettiva geo-etnolinguistica e prospettiva geo-sociolinguistica) si riflette nelle oltre 50 p…
Vocabolario-atlante delle pratiche venatorie in Sicilia: i nomi dello schioppo
2020
Nell’ambito dell’attività dell’Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia è attualmente in cantiere il modulo venatorio del Vocabolario-atlante della cultura dialettale siciliana in ragione della disponibilità di un vastissimo corpus di inchieste effettuate prevalentemente da G. Ruffino, a partire dagli anni Settanta, e condotte mediante un questionario di 312 quesiti distribuiti nelle seguenti sezioni: 1) La selvaggina; 2) Il cacciatore; 3) Il cane; 4) Il furetto; 5) Gli arnesi (il fucile, cartucce e piombini, trappole, tagliole, richiami); 6) Il terreno; 7) La battuta di caccia. L’attenzione in prospettiva geolinguistica a un ambito come quello venatorio permette di accostarsi a un settore della c…
Postille al VSES, tra integrazioni e approfondimenti
2018
Nel redigere la Prefazione al VSES (2014), fornendo le linee-guida dell’impostazione dell’opera a completamento e integrazione del suo VES (1986), Alberto Vàrvaro affermava: “Gli aggiornamenti sono ridotti all’essenziale, la completezza è rimasta un miraggio” (XV). Nonostante questa giustificazione preventiva, che si potrebbe riproporre a esergo di qualunque opera pretenda il marchio dell’esaustività, le oltre 4000 voci delle 600 famiglie lessicali studiate nel VSES ci consegnano uno straordinario modello di trattazione della storia delle parole, grazie alla fusione della prospettiva filologica con quella storico-linguistica che si staglia sullo sfondo di una speciale attenzione alla dimens…
Il discorso dipinto. Scrittura, voce e livelli di significazione in Platone.
2011
A partire dalla critica alla scrittura del Fedro, vengono individuate le dimensioni semantiche del discorso e le loro connessioni con la realtà noetica.