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Domestication of a laptop on a wireless university campus: a case study

2010

<span>This study reports how university students domesticate their personal laptops at the beginning of studies on a wireless campus. The aim was to examine how students integrate the laptop into their personal education experience, what sort of processes were experienced to render the laptop useful and meaningful, and how gender and IT proficiency influenced this process. Qualitative interview data with twenty students (identified and selected by quantitative survey) was analysed using the grounded theory approach during which a multi-aspect domestication process was identified. Results highlight the importance of a structured way of organising laptop initiatives in universities. It …

business.product_categoryProcess (engineering)media_common.quotation_subjectEducational technologySelf-esteemGrounded theoryEducationComputer literacyLaptopPedagogyTechnology integrationMathematics educationSociologyDomesticationbusinessmedia_common
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Sport and Quality of Life

2022

Negli ultimi trent’anni lo sport ha assunto un significato molto rilevante nella vita delle persone e, seppure con notevoli differenze, sia nei paesi a sviluppo economico avanzato, sia in quelli in via di sviluppo. A livello individuale, esso ha costituito un’area di investimento identitario quando ha assunto la forma di sport spettacolo del quale fruire, alimentando la pratica del tifo e il fandom o costituendo il modello di uno stile di vita vincente; ma anche quando ha assunto la forma di pratica del tempo libero attraverso la quale tenersi in forma, facendo crescere, in questo caso, la diffusione di una cultura della salute e del benessere. Si tratta di due modalità di approcciare al co…

but also when he took the form of free time practice through which to keep fit making grow in this case the diffusion of a culture of health and well-being. These are two ways of approaching the consumption of sports by spectators and actorIn the last thirty years sport has taken on a very significant meaning in people's lives and albeit with considerable differences both in advanced economic development countries and in developing countries. On an individual level it constituted an area of identity investment when it assumed the shape of “sport spectacle” to be enjoyed fueling the practice of cheering and fandom or constituting the model of a winning lifestyleand the two ways of use can be strongly related to the perception and assessment of the quality of life. The “semantic universes” which however connote sport and “free time sports” have often appeared polarized. Commercial sport and sports professionalism are intertwined with the institutions of economics politics and culture which above all stress its “spectacularity” in order to capture first and foremost the audience. But also the sport of leisure time is intertwined with the actions of the institutions of economics politics and culture with the difference that these stress above all its “healthy value” aimed at the “healthy and rational” investment of time in an activity which improves the quality of life in the short medium and long period. This polarization between the consumption of sport entertainment - commercial sport - and the consumption of sport as a leisure activity - sport for all - has become increasingly interconnected precisely because of the increased collective identity demand via sport. In other words we have witnessed the spread of shape of sports entertainment that recall the importance of sports for psychophysical well-being for integration and social participation for the reduction of social inequalities ethnic and cultural differences and in which the importance assumed was weakened in the show from agonism from competition from the physical confrontation between two contenders or two teams. A sport in which we act with competitors as well as against competitors. And on the other hand we have gradually witnessed the spectacularization of sports in our free time to the point that the sharing of the results obtained through the declination of a competitive spirit that presents itself as directed no longer against other contenders but against its own performance limits it has become the way in which each person makes part of his or her own life spectacular the one he often considers most authentic. The aim of this work is to describe how the intertwining between the commercial/professional dimension of the sports show and the playful/recreational dimension of sports practice are fueled by a demand and an offer of social identity that characterizes these two “semantic universes”.Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale
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Geophysics and cultural heritage. A living field of research for Italian geophysicists

2015

If one reads the World Heritage List 2002/2003, (http:// whc.unesco.org/archive/WHList02-ENG.pdf), a datum comes out with evidence: 12 countries have 253 World Heritage Sites (WHS) and all the 125 member countries have 586 WHS. Within these 12 countries Italy has 35 WHS corresponding to about 6% of the whole, followed by Spain, 5.8%, France, 4.6%, and the tenth has less than 2% of WHS. Cultural heritage is one of the greatest riches of Italy. Europe, with China, is the land which has the most stratified history in the world, and Italy is likely to still have undiscovered settlements dating from the prehistoric age to the 18th century. Some areas are totally unexplored, others have been only…

case historiesCultural HeritageItalian geophysicistsgeophysics Heritage ItalyExhibitionPrehistoryCultural Heritage; GeophysicsSettore GEO/11 - Geofisica ApplicataHuman settlementCultural heritage managementcultural heritage; geophysics; researchStratigraphy (archaeology)Geophysicdata integrationGeophysical MethodsGeophysics; Cultural Heritage; Italy; data integration; archaeologyresearchgeophysicgeophysicsPlan (archaeology)archaeologyExcavationGeophysicscultural heritageCultural heritageItalyGeology
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Stability and marginal bone loss in implants placed using piezoelectric osteotomy versus conventional drilling: systematic review and meta-analysis.

2021

Background The main objective of this systematic review was to compare primary and secondary implant stability between placement with piezoelectric osteotomy and conventional drilling, comparing marginal bone losses as a secondary objective. Material and Methods An electronic search was conducted using PubMed (MEDLINE), Scopus, and Cochrane Library (Wiley) databases, besides a manual search. Results A total of 153 articles were retrieved, 39 from Pubmed, 44 from Scopus, and 70 from the Cochrane Library. After removing duplicates, 112 articles (1 from the manual search) were screened, and 9 were finally selected for qualitative and statistical analyses. Conclusions Piezoelectric surgery is a…

caveolin-1medicine.medical_treatmentameloblastic carcinomareal-time polymerase chain reactioneducationMEDLINEDentistryReviewImplant stabilityCochrane LibraryOsteotomyOsseointegrationameloblastomaOsseointegrationMedicineHumansPiezosurgeryDental implantGeneral DentistryImplant site preparationUNESCO:CIENCIAS MÉDICASPiezoelectric surgeryDental Implantsbusiness.industryMarginal bone lossDental implantsDental Implantation EndosseousImplant stability quotientOsteotomyOtorhinolaryngologyPiezoelectric surgeryimmunohistochemistrySurgeryImplantbusinessImplantologyConventional drillMedicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal
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Cooperation Formats of China and Europe: Synergies and Divergences

2017

Abstract This contribution articulates the synergies and divergences of the various formats of cooperation between China and the European countries. The EU and China have a strong interest in each other’s flagship initiatives, namely the Investment Plan for Europe, and the One Belt, One Road Initiative (Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road). The authors argue that there are certain synergies between these initiatives. Furthermore, the new initiative EU-China Connectivity Platform is aimed to explore these synergies. The authors explore the recent developments in the EU-China investments, trade cooperation and the challenges of the ever-growing CEEC-China partnership i…

ceec economic integration050210 logistics & transportationHistorySociology and Political Sciencebusiness.industrybilateral investment agreement05 social sciencesInvestment planInternational tradeInvestment (macroeconomics)JZ2-6530JPolitical scienceGeneral partnershiptrade and investment0502 economics and businessPolitical Science and International RelationsSilk Road Economic BeltInternational relations050207 economicseuChinabusinessPolitical scienceBaltic Journal of European Studies
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L'intégration multisensorielle comme stratégie pour compenser la réduction en sodium et matière grasse dans les aliments

2015

In recent years;health authorities worldwide advise for a reduction of salt and fat in daily food consumption. However;foods with reduced salt and fat content are often not appreciated by consumers;Therefore;the formulation of low-salt-fat foods that maintain acceptability is a major concern in food research. In this thesis;the multi-sensory integration and release kinetics of flavor compounds were explored as strategies to compensate for salt and fat reduction in cheese products (model cheeses and real cheeses). The objective was to better understand the mechanisms leading to aroma and salt release during mastication and to evaluate how the matrix composition and structure influence salt a…

cheese[SDV.AEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutritionrelease kineticfatmultisensory integrationsaltperceptionin vitro chewingflavor compounds[SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition
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Computer Simulations of Undercooled Fluids and Glasses

2007

An introduction to the Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation of chemically realistic models for undercooled fluids and glasses is given, emphasizing silicatic materials such as molten silicon dioxide and its mixtures with sodium oxide and aluminium oxide, and comparing the simulation results to experimental data whenever possible.

chemistry.chemical_compoundMolecular dynamicsMolten siliconMaterials sciencechemistrySodium oxideMonte Carlo methodAluminium oxideThermodynamicsVerlet integration
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Junk food’ o healthy food? Il cibo, la cultura, i costi sociali: una questione non solo americana

2020

Abstract Il contributo si interroga sul rapporto tra cibo e città, tra pianificazione e consumi alimentari e tra junk food e salute, riflettendo su come il cibo, patrimonio culturale comune, abbia profonde relazione con la qualità della vita delle persone, con ampi settori economici, con il paesaggio urbano e sociale, con la pianificazione: il cibo, anche per essere snodo culturale e simbolico, è un ambito intermedio da cui partire in termini etici e collaborativi. Emblematico è il caso americano, il Paese propulsore del fast food, per i caratteri del sistema economico e per la natura del territorio della Confederazione e di alcune grandi città, come Los Angeles e New York City.

cibo salute paesaggio urbanoeconomicsocial exclusion/integrationeducationalSettore ICAR/21 - Urbanistica
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Multisensory integration as a strategy to compensate for sodium and fat reduction in food

2012

Multisensory integration as a strategy to compensate for sodium and fat reduction in food. Forum Jeunes chercheurs

cinétique de libérationrelease kineticmastication in vitro[ SDV.AEN ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutritionmultisensory integrationdigestive oral and skin physiologyeducationfromageperceptionin vitro chewinghumanitiescheese[SDV.AEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutritionselfatarômesmatière grassesaltintégration multisensorielle[SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutritionflavor compoundshealth care economics and organizations
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Social integration in sports clubs: individual and organisational factors in a European context

2019

Sports clubs are often perceived as important mediums for social integration, but the empirical evidence to support this claim is limited. This article sets out to identify individual and organisational characteristics that are conducive to social integration of members and volunteers. Drawing on survey data from 13,000 members and volunteers in ten European countries, an exploratory factor analysis identified three dimensions of social integration. They match the overall conceptual distinction between socio-cultural and socio-affective integration and the sub-division of socio-affective integration into ‘interaction’ and ‘identification’. Multilevel regression analyses examined the relevan…

club membersSociology and Political Sciencebusiness.industry300 Social sciences sociology & anthropology05 social sciencesPhysical Therapy Sports Therapy and RehabilitationContext (language use)790 Sports games & entertainment030229 sport sciencesPublic relationsSocial integrationPeer reviewsocio-cultural integrationsports clubs03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineSocial integration0502 economics and businessOrthopedics and Sports MedicineSociologybusinessEmpirical evidencehuman activities050212 sport leisure & tourismsocio-affective integrationEuropean Journal for Sport and Society
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