Search results for "DESI"

Che cos'è il packaging

2014

Racchiudere e proteggere, descrivere e raccontare, coinvolgere e consigliare. Da semplici imballaggi, le confezioni dei prodotti si sono via via trasformate in oggetti di senso complessi, in grado di rispondere a molteplici esigenze comunicative, di marketing, logistiche e igieniche. Entrano nelle nostre case, riempiono gli spazi domestici, diventano molto spesso oggetti d'uso quotidiano. Ma che ne è del prodotto contenuto? Il volume illustra il modo in cui il pack lo racconta, lo valorizza, lo traduce, proponendosi come un'unità semiotica sempre nuova. rivolto a studenti di design e comunicazione, professionisti del branding, designer ed esperti di marketing, il testo offre una visione com…

Location-Awareness for Failure Management in Cellular Networks: An Integrated Approach

2021

Recent years have seen the proliferation of different techniques for outdoor and, especially, indoor positioning. Still being a field in development, localization is expected to be fully pervasive in the next few years. Although the development of such techniques is driven by the commercialization of location-based services (e.g., navigation), its application to support cellular management is considered to be a key approach for improving its resilience and performance. When different approaches have been defined for integrating location information into the failure management activities, they commonly ignore the increase in the dimensionality of the data as well as their integration into th…

Minor Losses and Best Manifold Position in the Optimal Design of Paired Sloped Drip Laterals

2018

Arranging paired laterals so that two distribution pipes extend in opposite directions from a common manifold contributes to providing more uniform pressure to all laterals in the system, increasing water use and energy efficiency of micro-irrigation. Towards this end, by neglecting emitters’ minor losses, analytical procedures to design paired drip laterals laid on uniform slopes were introduced. More recently, it was shown that for an optimal paired sloped lateral design the best position of the manifold (BMP) equals 24%. In this paper, first the mentioned analytical procedure is extended to the case in which minor losses are considered. Second, by neglecting minor losses, a comparison in…

Longitudinal tests of the theory of planned behaviour : A meta-analysis

2023

In a meta-analysis of longitudinal analyses of the theory of planned behaviour, we tested a series of extended or auxiliary theory-consistent hypotheses: construct stability, theory predictions within and between occasions, consistency over time or stationarity in theory effects and reciprocal effects among constructs. We also tested the effects of moderators on theory effects: measurement lag, health behaviour type (protection, risk) and specific health behaviours (alcohol, dietary and physical activity). A systematic search identified 87 studies eligible for inclusion. Meta-analytic structural equation models supported construct stability and theory effects within and between occasions. O…

Nuove strategie per il bene collettivo: crowdfunding civico al Parco Uditore di Palermo

2015

Il tema del crowdfunding civico riguarda la partecipazione pubblica alla gestione del territorio. In particolare, la possibilità di attuare meccanismi di finanziamento autonomi e autogestiti per la realizzazione di opere pubbliche (seppure di limitata entità) costringe gli amministratori e i tecnici a confrontarsi con l’avvenuta conquista, da parte della cittadinanza, di una parte del potere decisionale. Quanto è opportuno che gli esiti della consultazione pubblica abbiano un canale di finanziamento specifico? Quali garanzie del processo partecipativo sono necessarie perché le richieste dei cittadini siano coerenti con le linee generali della pianificazione locale e sovralocale, e si possan…

Design For Territorial Innovation. Participatory design process and good practices for socio-cultural sustainability

2022

This article studies at length the role of design within territorial socio-cultural transformation. It investigates and describes the industriousness of projects/processes which are particularly effective for social and territorial innovation and are applied above all, to fragile and problematic urban contexts. It focuses on communities and its inhabitants who are often excluded from traditional narrative through some particularly significant projects, with an emphasis on concrete experiences of recent projects in southern Italy. Thus, the article, traverses topics and critical points of a more extensive and profound disciplinary refection, it explores innovative roles of design in the soci…

The PANDA Endcap Disc DIRC

2018

Journal of Instrumentation 13(02), C02002 - C02002 (2018). doi:10.1088/1748-0221/13/02/C02002

Numerical validation of an approximate formulation for the design of TLCD

2013

Esistono bisogni propriamente educativi?

2017

Soffermarsi a riflettere sui limiti della condizione postmoderna è importante per pedagogisti ed educatori, in quanto il postmoderno, anche se per molti aspetti è stato superato a livello di elaborazione teorica, tuttavia nelle prassi della vita quotidiana ha permeato, e continua a permeare, molti atteggiamenti collettivi ed “educativi”, al modo di una irriflessa Weltanschauung: non tanto come posizione consapevolmente assunta, ma più che altro come visione del mondo semplicemente assorbita e, di fatto, intesa e vissuta come l’unica ragionevole e la migliore possibile.

How does university teachers’ pedagogical training meet topical challenges raised by educational research? A case study from Finland

2023

Through a literature review, this study identified research themes related to university pedagogy and examined how these themes appear in the curricula of university pedagogy courses and in the experiences of the participants and trainers of these courses at a Finnish research university. The literature review produced a multidimensional model of the relationships between identified themes, which can be used as an analytical tool for examining pedagogical training. Analysis of the courses revealed a need to broaden the understanding of the course contents and practices and their alignment to global, societal, and labour-market needs. peerReviewed