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Resilience, Smartness and sustainability. Towards a new paradigm?
2019
The urbanization and the vulnerability of a city make challenging the ability of remaining along a sustainable development path. From a sustainability point of view, the smartness concept has been enlarged up to incorporate the definition of sustainable development with the so-called smart and sustainable cities. Another aspect is gaining importance in this debate: the growing challenges posed by climate change and by environmental issue at large. This issue has forced governments and in particular cities, which represent the main place for the prevention and the implementation of initiatives against negative environmental events, to develop flexible and resilient actions, initiatives and p…
Trace analysis by ion mobility spectrometry: From conventional to smart sample preconcentration methods. A review.
2018
Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) is a rapid and high sensitive technique widely used in security and forensic areas. However, a lack of selectivity is usually observed in the analysis of complex samples due to the scarce resolution of the technique. The literature concerning the use of conventional and novel smart materials in the pretreatment and preconcentration of samples previous to IMS determinations has been critically reviewed. The most relevant strategies to enhance selectivity and sensitivity of IMS determinations have been widely discussed, based in the use of smart materials, as immunosorbents, aptamers, molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), ionic liquids (ILs) and nanomaterial. …
Rotterdam Smart Delta City
2017
Coniugando la pianificazione e l’urban design con una gestione intelligente delle acque, investendo sul capitale umano e associando alla trasformazione dello spazio e del paesaggio urbano l’utilizzo di nuove tecnologie, applicazioni e serious game, Rotterdam interpreta il paradigma della smart and green city come opportunità per rendere la città più attrattiva e resiliente, creando occasioni di sviluppo economico, empowerment sociale e miglioramento ambientale. Il contributo fa parte della sezione Human Smart City dell'Atlante Re-cycle Italy, che raccoglie le riflessioni e gli esiti del PRIN Re-cycle Italy.
L'INNOVAZIONE NEI TERRITORI
2016
Giunti all’ultimo anno della Programmazione di Coesione 2007-2013, il presente contributo mira a fare il punto sullo stato di avanzamento degli interventi regionali e nazionali dedicati alla ricerca, all’innovazione e al trasferimento tecnologico con una chiave di lettura che guardi alle novità previste dalla futura programmazione europea caratterizzata dalla ricerca di una maggiore integrazione nell’uso dei Fondi strutturali. In particolare la strategia per il periodo 2014 – 2020 prevede una attenzione particolare allo sviluppo territoriale (place-based – sollecitata in particolare dalle conclusioni del cosiddetto “Rapporto Barca”)(1), al partenariato sin dalle fasi di pro- gettazione deg…
PROGETTO DI SMART WORKING DURANTE LA PANDEMIA DI COVID-19: SMART CO-WORKING PER LA RETE ASSISTENZIALE FRA PEDIATRI DI LIBERA SCELTA E UN CENTRO DI RI…
2021
Obiettivi La pandemia di COVID-19 ha modificato le strategie assistenziali in modo radicale. Le necessità di distanziamento sociale hanno condizionato l’accesso alle cure ospedaliere, con il rischio che i pazienti cronici, più vulnerabili, venissero gestiti con inadeguata interazione con le famiglie e i pediatri di famiglia (PdF), con gravi ritardi diagnostici e terapeutici. Metodi Un questionario con 10 domande sulla gestione dei pazienti con ipotiroidismo congenito (IC) è stato inviato ai PdF della regione Sicilia (Palermo, Agrigento, Trapani, Enna, Caltanissetta, Siracusa). Risultati Hanno risposto 55 PdF che seguono da 2 a 3 pazienti con IC, con prevalenza più elevata in aree ad alta en…
Usage and Dose Response of a Mobile Acceptance and Commitment Therapy App: Secondary Analysis of the Intervention Arm of a Randomized Controlled Trial
2016
Background: Mobile phone apps offer a promising medium to deliver psychological interventions. A mobile app based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) was developed and studied in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). Objective: To study usage metrics of a mobile ACT intervention and dose-response relationship between usage and improvement in psychological flexibility. Methods: An RCT was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of different lifestyle interventions for overweight people with psychological stress. This paper presents a secondary analysis of the group that received an 8-week mobile ACT intervention. Most of the analyzed 74 participants were female (n=64, 86%). Their me…
Subcomponent Self-Assembly A Quick Way to New Metallogels
2013
Subcomponent self-assembly, introduced by the Nitschke group,[1] is a process which allow complex structures to be generated from simple building blocks (generally aldehydes and amines). In this bottom-up approach, the building blocks spontaneously self-assemble around templates (usually metal ions) leading to a simultaneous covalent (C=N) and dative (N– metal) bonds formation. The method has been successfully used to construct well-defined metal-organic macrocycles, helicates, catenanes, rotaxanes, grids,[2] and cages.[3] Our field of interest lies not in building-up of defined structures but in designing gelator molecules for a formation of supramolecular gels as functional nanomaterials.…
Sharing Drawings with Smartphones in the Classroom – Art-Based Education in Social Sciences
2020
This article identifies the factors that indicate the opportunity of reviewing the methods in teaching economics in order to overcome the traditional teaching-learning scheme that overvalues rote learning and find formulas that facilitate the development of analytical skills. On the other hand, this work points out the importance of developing creative competences. One way to do this is to introduce artistic practices in the classroom, even in non-artistic subjects. In this work an experience of education based on the arts is presented. Thanks to smartphone cameras, students can share and project drawings in the classroom immediately to facilitate group learning. The proposal is to represen…
Elliptic Curve-Based Secure Multidimensional Aggregation for Smart Grid Communications
2017
In smart grid, data aggregation is considered as an essential paradigm in assessing information about current energy usage. To achieve the privacy-preserving goal, several homomorphic-based solutions have been proposed. However, these solutions either consider one-dimensional information or use costly pairing computation in order to ensure source authentication. In fact, smart grid data are likely to be multidimensional (e.g., time, purpose, and so on) for more accurate control. In addition, the aggregation node in smart grid needs to verify data that come from several smart meters in a residential area; hence, the verification must be cost-efficient. In this paper, we propose a scheme that…
Finnish Students’ Engagement in Science Lessons
2015
The decreasing number of students who are engaged in science learning has been recognised as a problem. The pre-conditions of engagement and actual engagement were examined using a novel research method to obtain detailed information on Finnish students’ engagement in different situations and to gain a better understanding of this phenomenon. The study’s participants consisted of 68 students (31 girls, 37 boys) from 9th grade and 67 students (46 girls, 21 boys) from 1st grade in upper secondary school. The research aimed to answer the following question: How does Finnish students’ engagement occur in exact and life science lessons? Participants received smartphones equipped with a smartphon…