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A convergent validity test within the payment card format using simulation techniques
2019
International audience; A convergent validity test is performed between two groups of versions of the payment card format. The first group, the classic payment card (CPC), asks respondents to report their willingness to pay (WTP) as a point from a list of amounts, and then treats each WTP response as an interval. The second group generates WTP data that may contain both single point and interval values. It includes the two-way-payment ladder (TWPL) (respondents have to tick amounts they would definitely pay and cross amounts they would definitely not pay), and point-interval payment card (PIPC) (respondents have to tick their WTP as either a point or an interval). The test is conducted usin…
The role of the happiness philosophy and core self-evaluations in defining job satisfaction as seen by the self and the significant other
2015
Bieżący artykuł bada źródła satysfakcji z pracy. Wieloźródłowe badanie zostało przeprowadzone w dwóch formach: jako kwestionariusz online ( n =642) i jako kwestionariusz papierowy ( n =635). Żeby ujednoznacznić pomiar zmiennej zależnej (zadowolenie z pracy), wykorzystano dwa źródła jej pomiaru: samoocena badanej osoby oraz ocena przez ważną inną osobę. Wyniki pokazują, iż ocena przez bliską osobę może być wartościowym źródłem informacji o samoocenie badanej osoby. Dodat - kowo w ramach hierarchicznej analizy regresji wykazano, iż obie formy filozofii szczęścia: eudaimo - nizm i hedonizm pozwalają na przewidywanie satysfakcji z pracy ponad przewidywanie oparte o pod - stawowe samowartościowa…
Constraining the pass-band of future space-based coronagraphs for observations of solar eruptions in the FeXIV 530.3 nm “green line”
2017
This research has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 647214) and from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. Observations of the solar corona in the FeXIV 530.3 nm “green line” have been very important in the past, and are planned for future coronagraphs on-board forthcoming space missions such as PROBA-3 and Aditya. For these instruments, a very important parameter to be optimized is the spectral width of the band-pass filter to be centred over the “green line”. Focusing on solar eruptions, motions occurring along the line of sight will Doppler shift the line prof…
L’ADULTO COME SPECCHIO. MODALITÀ COMUNICATIVE E APPRENDIMENTO
2021
Numerose ricerche sull’infanzia condotte a partire dal secolo scorso, hanno mostrato come i bambini, fin dai primi mesi di vita, siano attivi e propositivi nella interazione con gli altri esseri umani. In una prospettiva educativa, di promozione dei processi di apprendimento e di sostegno alla costruzione di una immagine di sé positiva e fiduciosa nelle proprie potenzialità, sono di grande importanza le modalità comunicative e relazionali degli adulti significativi. A tali modalità farò riferimento nel mio contributo, soffermandomi sul rispecchiamento verbale e non verbale, nelle sue diverse forme, approfondendone le ragioni teoriche e metodologiche e riflettendo su come possa attuarsi una …
Status of Advanced Virgo
2017
The LIGO and the Virgo collaborations have recently announced the first detections of Gravitational Waves. Due to their weak amplitude, Gravitational Waves are expected to produce a very small effect on free-falling masses, which undergo a displacement of the order of 10-18 m for a Km-scale mutual distance. This discovery showed that interferometric detectors are suitable to reveal such a feeble effect, and therefore represent a new tool for astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology in the understanding of the Universe. To better reconstruct the position of the Gravitational Wave source and increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the events by means of multiple coincidence, a network of detectors…
Limits on point-like sources of ultra-high-energy neutrinos with the Pierre Auger Observatory
2019
With the Surface Detector array (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory we can detect neutrinos with energy between 1017 eV and 1020 eV from point-like sources across the sky, from close to the Southern Celestial Pole up to 60 in declination, with peak sensitivities at declinations around ∼-53 and ∼+55, and an unmatched sensitivity for arrival directions in the Northern hemisphere. A search has been performed for highly-inclined air showers induced by neutrinos of all flavours with no candidate events found in data taken between 1 Jan 2004 and 31 Aug 2018. Upper limits on the neutrino flux from point-like steady sources have been derived as a function of source declination. An unrivaled sensit…
Existence of three solutions for a mixed boundary value system with (p_1,...,p_m)-Laplacian
2014
In this paper we prove the existence of at least three weak solutions for a mixed boundary value system with (p_1,,...,p_m)-Laplacian. The approach is based on variational methods.
Geostatistics for Mapping Leaf Area Index over a Cropland Landscape: Efficiency Sampling Assessment
2010
This paper evaluates the performance of spatial methods to estimate leaf area index (LAI) fields from ground-based measurements at high-spatial resolution over a cropland landscape. Three geostatistical model variants of the kriging technique, the ordinary kriging (OK), the collocated cokriging (CKC) and kriging with an external drift (KED) are used. The study focused on the influence of the spatial sampling protocol, auxiliary information, and spatial resolution in the estimates. The main advantage of these models lies in the possibility of considering the spatial dependence of the data and, in the case of the KED and CKC, the auxiliary information for each location used for prediction pur…
A computational framework for microstructural modelling of polycrystalline materials with damage and failure
2017
In the present thesis, a computational framework for the analysis of the deformation and damage phenomena occurring at the scale of the constituent grains of polycrystalline materials is presented. The research falls within the area of Computational Micro-mechanics that has been attracting remarkable technological interest due to the capability of explaining the link between the micro-structural details of heterogenous materials and their macroscopic response, and the possibility of fine-tuning the macroscopic properties of engineered components through the manipulation of their micro-structure. However, despite the significant developments in the field of materials characterisation and the…
Geometrical and conformational preferences of the 9‐fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl‐amino moiety
2004
Structural parameters, originating from x-ray crystallographic data, have been compiled for 13 derivatives of amino acids, peptides and related compounds, which contain a total of 14 Fmoc-NH- moieties. For these moieties, molecular geometries and conformations--described by the omegao, theta1, theta2 and theta3' torsion angles--were analysed and compared with the corresponding parameters for the Z-NH- and Boc-NH-moieties (290 and 553, respectively). To gain a deeper insight into the conformational features of the Fmoc-NH- moiety, ab initio free molecule calculations were performed for fully relaxed minima. Also the potential energy surface as a function of the torsion angles (theta3', theta…