Search results for "REM"

Studio e sviluppo di innovativi sistemi di misura e di comunicazione per le smart grid

Evaluating Gender Differences in Problematic Smartphone Use

2022

Abstract. The Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI) is widely used to measure problematic smartphone use (PSU). Although the SPAI has been translated and validated in different countries, its measurement invariance across gender has received little research attention. This study aimed to examine whether men and women interpreted the Italian version of the SPAI (SPAI-I) similarly and, consequently, whether the observed gender differences in SPAI scores, which have been shown in previous studies, could be due to true differences, rather than to differences in measurement. Six hundred nineteen Italian young adults ( Mage = 22.02 ± 2.63; 55.7% women) took part in the study and completed the SP…

Attitudes : Tendencies and Variations

2018

This chapter presents an overview of religiosity and attitudes to religious diversity in media and other public spaces based on a cross-Scandinavian survey conducted in 2015. Although Scandinavians in general have a weak personal connection to religion, Christianity still holds a privileged position as an expression of cultural identity. Scandinavians express support for equal rights to practice religion, but also doubtfulness towards public expressions of religion. More than one-fourth of respondents discuss news about religion and religious extremism regularly. There is a widespread sentiment that Islam is a threat to the national culture, even though most respondents state that they oppo…

La enseñanza de la sociología con la serie "Treme"

2014

La comunicación se compone de tres partes. En la primera, se comentan las transformaciones recientes del ámbito cinematográfico, con la irrupción de una nueva ola de series televisivas de alta calidad. Estas realizaciones innovadoras, del estilo de las producidas por HBO (como “The Wire” y otras), responden a lo que podemos denominar el nuevo canon de película de 60 horas de duración. Se explica cómo las exigencias de la producción y, sobre todo, de la distribución de estos productos alentaron una vuelta a un cierto “neorrealismo” estético. En la segunda parte de la comunicación se expone y pondera una experiencia de enseñanza de la sociología desarrollada durante los dos últimos cursos en …

LE DISIONIE

2016

Con l'invecchiamento, si possono verificare diverse modificazione dell’omeostasi degli elettroliti e dei liquidi corporei. L’acqua corporea totale è frequentemente ridotta e i pazienti più anziani hanno una sensibilità ridotta ai mediatori ormonali che regolano il bilancio idrico, degli elettroliti e dell'equilibrio minerale. Ne deriva una precarietà della omeostasi del ricambio idrosalino che può facilmente andare incontro a squilibri metabolici conclamati a seguito di malattie di varia natura, interventi chirurgici, e/o di un erroneo o incongruo trattamento dietetico o farmacologico (soprattutto di tipo diuretico o infusionale relativo all'apporto di acqua e di sale). L’invecchiamento si …

Criteria for the evaluation of requirements management tools supporting distributed software product line engineering and management

2015

The development of software product lines (SPL) by geographically distributed teams increases the complexity of requirements management (RM) related tasks, making the support of a RM tool necessary. However, the selection of the most appropriate RM tool can be challenging, therefore the use of a comprehensive criteria list guiding the selection becomes essential. The goal of this research is to determine whether available criteria lists include comprehensive criteria for the evaluation of RM tools to be adopted in distributed SPL requirements management. This research answers the following research questions: (1) Do currently available criteria lists for RM tool evaluation allow the assessm…

Testing the SEDD model in Sicilian basins

2005

Abstract The Sediment Delivery Distributed (SEDD) model combines the universal soil loss equation (USLE) or the revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE) with a sediment delivery ratio to predict basin sediment yield. The model was applied to seven Sicilian basins, ranging in size from 20 to 213 km2 . Each basin has a reservoir located at its outlet. The model was applied to each basin using a raster scheme, and a subroutine of ArcInfo software to identify the hydraulic path linking each hillslope cell to the nearest stream cell, and to calculate both the travel time and the sediment delivery ratio of each cell. A procedure for estimating the β coefficient, which appears in the expressio…

Testing a new sampler for measuring plot soil loss

2016

In order to measure soil loss in equipped plots the estimate of the weight of solid material intercepted at their lower end is required. At the experimental area of Sparacia, Sicily, the runoff produced by an erosive event is collected within storage tanks with a capacity of about 1m3. In this paper, the use of a new sampler is proposed to measure easily the weight of solid material eroded from an experimental plot and collected into a storage tank. The sampler is a cylinder having a closing valve at the bottom. Two different series of runs were carried out both to test the reliability of the sampler and to establish a sampling procedure, respectively. An analysis of various sampling config…

Supporting USLE-MM reliability by analyzing soil loss measurement errors

2017

Sampling the collected suspension in a storage tank is a common procedure to obtain soil loss data. A calibration curve of the tank has to be used to obtain actual concentration values from those measured by sampling. However, literature suggests that using a tank calibration curve was not a common procedure in the past. For the clay soil of the Sparacia (Italy) experimental station, this investigation aimed to establish a link between the relative performances of the USLE-M and USLE-MM models, usable to predict plot soil loss at the event temporal scale, and soil loss measurement errors. Using all available soil loss data, lower soil loss prediction errors were obtained with the USLE-MM (e…

Theoretical advancements on a recently proposed method to measure rainfall energy

2022

Soil erosion induced by rainfall is mainly due to the rainfall impact besides the consequent surface runoff. Rainfall kinetic energy is the most used variable to represent its erosivity. The latter represents the weathering attitude to erode soil and is a fundamental variable of the erosion process. Consequently, precise measurements of rainfall erosivity have to perform to develop a reliable prediction model of the erosive phenomenon. Currently, impact energy can be reliably measured only by disdrometers. These instruments measure the Drop Size Distribution (DSD) which, joined with the raindrop falling velocity, allow to calculate, by integration, the impact kinetic energy. However, disdro…