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The promotion of tourism in Italian regions from a sensorial perspective: a website content analysis
2022
Recent tourism literature has identified the sensory dimension as key to understanding, planning and marketing tourist experiences. This paper aims to understand to what extent Italian regions consider the sensorial perspective in tourist communication, focusing the analysis on their institutional websites. We used the content analysis method considering two different periods to investigate the evolution of Italian tourism promotion. The results show that for all institutional websites, over time, attention engages only some of the five sensorial dimensions. That is, the communication does not appear balanced. Furthermore, the promotional communication in several regions is more oriented to…
CONSORT compliance in randomized surgical trials assessing the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effectiveness of preoperative drug management of patie…
2022
Investigate methodological quality of clinical trials in mandibular third molar surgery and its compliance with the consort statement. An electronic search was performed in five journal websites, chose the five scientific journals with the greatest impact factor in oral and maxillofacial surgery according to the SCImago Journal Rank. The compliance of studies with the CONSORT statement was assessed. Also, the risk of bias of each study was evaluated. Twenty-nine studies were included. The average CONSORT compliance score was 25.50 (79.68%). Most studies were performed in the Americas (n = 14, 48.3%) and Asia (n = 10, 34.5%). Parallel-group (n=15, 51.7%) and split-mouth RCTs (n=11, 38%) were…
Applying the integrated trans-contextual model to mathematics activities in the classroom and homework behavior and attainment
2016
The aim of the present study was to test hypotheses of the trans-contextual model. We predicted relations between perceived autonomy support, autonomous motivation toward mathematics learning activities in an educational context, autonomous motivation toward mathematics homework in an out-of-school context, social-cognitive variables and intentions for future engagement in mathematics homework, and mathematics homework outcomes. Secondary school students completed measures of perceived autonomy support from teachers and autonomous motivation for in-class mathematics activities; measures of autonomous motivation, social-cognitive variables, and intentions for out-of-school mathematics homewo…
Branding4Resilience. Esplorare e co-progettare i territori interni
2022
I territori interni e le aree marginali sono un tema noto per le discipline del progetto e un problema discusso non solo in Italia ma in tutta Europa. Secondo EUROSTAT (2020) circa il 58% della popolazione europea vive e lavora in aree rurali o scarsamente abitate e in aree dalla densità limitata. Squilibri e disparità nelle politiche sono osservabili a livello regionale e spesso mancano approcci sistemici in grado di affrontare il problema della marginalità tenendo insieme approcci strategici e azioni locali. Specialmente in seguito alla pandemia questa situazione si è acuita e i territori interni faticano a rispondere alle grandi sfide attuali, con particolare riferimento al clima. Come c…
An Entropy-Driven Scenario for Future Design Education
2021
In a Domus article published in 1998, John Thackara claimed that design would lead by entropy in the future, and he won- dered how to avoid a similar dystopian scenario. As designers, we are aware of how wicked problems are really hard to face and how complexity has increased in these past decades: trans- disciplinary skills are therefore increasingly required. Further- more, we can only achieve incremental improvements to the situation, because a wicked problem typically has no definitive solution (Rittel, Webber 1973, in Erlhoff, 2008): a new mind- set is therefore required, one that is capable of overcoming our traditional one (Morin, 2015), in order to face and manage the complexity. In…
Don't tell us: the demand for secretive bahaviour
2009
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Minimizing fleet operating costs for a container transportation company
2006
Abstract This paper focuses on a fleet management problem that arises in container trucking industry. From the container transportation company perspective, the present and future operating costs to minimize can be divided in three components: the routing costs, the resource (i.e., driver and truck) assignment costs and the container repositioning costs (i.e., the costs of restoring a given container fleet distribution over the serviced territory, as requested by the shippers that own the containers). This real-world problem has been modeled as an integer programming problem. The proposed solution approach is based on the decomposition of this problem in three simpler sub-problems associate…
Leisure-time physical activity and DNA methylation age : a twin study
2019
Background: Epigenetic clocks may increase our understanding on human aging and how genetic and environmental factors regulate an individual aging process. One of the most promising clocks is Horvath’s DNA methylation (DNAm) age. Age acceleration, i.e., discrepancy between DNAm age and chronological age, tells us whether the person is biologically young or old compared to his/her chronological age. Several environmental and lifestyle factors have been shown to affect life span. We investigated genetic and environmental predictors of DNAm age in young and older monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins with a focus on leisure time physical activity. Results: Quantitative genetic modeling rev…
Oded Ezer, Il mirabolante costruttore di lettere e alfabeti
2008
Tutte le altezze, profondità e larghezze delle cose tangibili e naturali: paesaggi, tramonti, il profumo del fieno, il ronzio delle api, la bellezza che dipende dalle ciglia, ma è erroneamente attribuita agli occhi; tutte le incommensurabili emozioni e tutti i moti dell'animo umano, che paiono senza limiti; cose e pensieri orrendi, terribili e misteriosi, ma anche belli; tutto questo è compreso, contenuto e ordinato in un piccolo guazzabuglio di lettere. Ventisei simboli! Così scriveva nel 1923 Francis Maynell, il tipografo inglese che aveva conquistato il mondo con ventisei soldati di piombo, i quali altri non erano che i caratteri dell'alfabeto necessari alla produzione della Nonesuch Pre…
Una sola moltitudine
2019
Una sola moltitudine, così venne intitolata una raccolta di scritti del portoghese Fernando Pessoa, adoperando una definizione che è un ossimoro e ben si addice a un progetto complesso come One of a type. Attraverso la costruzione di un alfabeto, e quindi con l’unicità di una famiglia di glifi e la molteplicità delle loro forme, viene disegnata l’identità visiva della città di Palermo, contemporanea e profondamente antica, desiderosa di futuro e stratificata nel tempo. Non è più bastevole un solo segno per comunicare l’identità della città e del territorio a cui si riferisce. Può però forse esserlo un sistema complesso come quello definito da un alfabeto, che si presta a essere adoperato, f…