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Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo

2022

Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…

Olsen 2018Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaSettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSacco and Blessi 2009). In the current (post-) pandemic context and through the lens of a southern European perspective the purpose of this article is to critically reflect about the role of culture as possible vehicle of urban and community regeneration. In particular we will focus on the activities of the no profit organization «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in ZEN2 one of the last large popular and peripheral neighborhoods built in Palermo at the end of 80s in order to explore and understand how cultural practices work as agent of urban and social transformation capable of addressing emerging issues especially in the pandemic scenario we are experiencing. Thecasestudy has been conducted through analysis of documents participative observations (Honer and Hitzler 2015) and qualitative in-depth interviews with key actors involved in the conception organization and management of the activities carried out by Laboratorio Zen Insieme with representatives of local institutions and non-formal conversations with participants of the workshops heldin the neighborhood. The experience we narrate finds that cultural practices have re-conceptualized their design and functions as strategies of urban and community regeneration and at the same time have contributed to answer to emergent issues in developing proximity and local based strategies facing up to problems inherent civil rights educationalpoverty socio-spatial justice and have changed the image and identity of urban places they inhabit.In this sense the research provides a framework for development of strategies and legitimization for cultural practices and a point of discussionabouttheirrolein urban development.Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic its impacts on the territories yet to be understood are unevenly distributed revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space planning public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by cultural institutions that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of political institutions. Far from the idea of entertainment and divertissement it is in fact increasingly clear how the practices of cultural innovation experimenting with various forms of action and participation can in some cases play a fundamental role in the processes of social cohesion and community building representing an antidote to the worsening of the phenomena of marginalization and socio-spatial inequalities within cities and territories (Colantonio and Dixon 2011
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Scheduling of Real-Time Networks with a Column Generation Approach

2013

We present an algorithm based on column generation for the real-time scheduling problem of allocating periodic tasks to electronic control units in multiple subsystems connected by a global bus. The allocation has to ensure that tasks can be scheduled, and messages between tasks in different subsystems can be transmitted over the global bus and meet their deadlines. Also tasks and messages occurring in a task chain must be scheduled in a way such that the sequence of execution meets their end-to-end deadline. We show that our approach computes the optimal allocation in our model and due to the column generation approach early provides lower bounds on the optimal value.

On columnRate-monotonic schedulingJob shop schedulingComputer scienceDistributed computingOptimal allocationColumn generationReal time networksDeadline-monotonic schedulingScheduling (computing)
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Specialized Applications Used in the Mobile Application Security Implementation Process

2020

In the paper, authors aim to determine the extent to which open source applications can replace specialized security applications for mobile applications. In this respect, open source components are selected at which level the implemented security features are identified, based on which a completeness-determining indicator is calculated. The value of this indicator is then compared to the value obtained for the .NET CF3 framework, with a hierarchy of the components being treated according to this indicator. Based on the same selected components or components derived from them, to which other components have been added, the issue of ensuring their quality is dealt with by calculating the com…

Open sourceHierarchy (mathematics)Computer scienceProcess (engineering)Distributed computingApplication securitymedia_common.quotation_subjectValue (computer science)Quality (business)media_common
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Towards a software-defined Network Operating System for the IoT

2015

The heterogeneity characterizing the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape can be addressed by leveraging network operating systems (NOS)s. Current NOS solutions have been developed for traditional infrastructured networks: they do not take the specific features of fundamental IoT components such as wireless sensor and actuator networks into account. Accordingly, in this paper an innovative integrated network operating system for the IoT which is obtained as the evolution of the Open Network Operating System (ONOS) is proposed. This has been appropriately extended to enhance the recently proposed SDN-WISE platform for supporting SDN in wireless sensor networks and let it interact with standard…

OpenFlowIoTbusiness.industryWireless networkComputer scienceDistributed computingSoftware-defined networking; IoT; Network Operating Systemcomputer.software_genreNetwork operating systemKey distribution in wireless sensor networksOperating systemWirelessSoftware-defined networkingbusinessSoftware-defined networkingcomputerWireless sensor networkHeterogeneous networkNetwork Operating SystemComputer network
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Exploiting state information to support QoS in Software-Defined WSNs

2016

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising paradigm initially proposed for the wired networks which has the potential to change the way in which networks are designed and managed. Recently, its use has been extended to wireless infrastructure-less networks such as ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we take inspiration from our previous work where a scheme that extends the SDN paradigm to WSNs - called SDN-WISE - was proposed. Differently from OpenFlow, SDN-WISE is stateful; accordingly in this paper we investigate how state can be used to support different levels of QoS in WSNs. In fact, state can be used to represent the level of congestion of a node and rules can be…

OpenFlowbusiness.industryService setComputer scienceWireless networkWireless ad hoc networkComputer Networks and CommunicationsDistributed computingComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKS020206 networking & telecommunications02 engineering and technologySettore ING-INF/01 - ElettronicaKey distribution in wireless sensor networks0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringMobile wireless sensor network020201 artificial intelligence & image processingRadio resource managementbusinessWireless sensor networkComputer network
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An Effort-Accuracy Framework for IIMT

2011

In this chapter, we analyze to what extent INTACMATO meets the requirement of low effort. We take an existing effort-accuracy model, adapt and extend it to INTACMATO and show analytically the savings of effort achieved.

Operations researchComputer scienceDecision strategyDecision makerAttribute level
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GaInNAs/GaAs Bragg-mirror-based structures for novel 1.3μm device applications

2004

We report the use of GaInNAs/GaAs material system for a range of 1.3 μm vertical-cavity devices namely VCSELs, VCSOAs, VECSELs and SESAMs. Using optical pumping, we demonstrate that up to 4 mW of 1290 nm output power can be fibre-coupled from a VCSEL. We also show that tayloring the VCSEL structure allows to produce a monolithic long-wavelength VCSOA with up to 16 dB of gain. We also report the first demonstration of a 1.3 μm VECSEL with more than 0.5 W of CW ouptut power. Finally, annealing effects on the properties of a GaInNAs SBR and modelocking of two Nd:doped solid state lasers using this element are described.

Optical amplifierMaterials sciencePhotoluminescenceVideodisksbusiness.industryDopingSurface emitting lasersCondensed Matter PhysicsDistributed Bragg reflectorLaserSemiconductor laser theoryVertical-cavity surface-emitting laserlaw.inventionInorganic ChemistryOptical pumpingsemiconductor diskOpticslawMaterials ChemistryOptoelectronicsbusinessJournal of Crystal Growth
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Bidirectional laser cavity solitons

2007

Cavity solitons in optical systems have been studied for two decades in a large variety of optical systems. In principle, bidirectional lasers can emit only unidirectionally in steady state, as the two-mode solution (non null steady state in the two possible emission directions) is an unstable solution (winner-takes-all competition prevents the bidirectional cw emission). But for a wide aperture cavity this is not necessarily true as, in different regions of the transverse (with respect to the propagation axis) direction, emission in different propagation directions could occur if the fronts separating these domains are stable. In fact this is exactly what happens when the cavity losses for…

Optical amplifierPhysicsDistributed feedback laserSteady state (electronics)business.industryPhysics::OpticsLaserNull (physics)law.inventionTransverse planeOpticslawOptical cavitybusiness
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Hydrogen and radiation induced effects on performances of Raman fiber-based temperature sensors

2014

International audience; Raman Distributed Temperature Sensors (RDTS) offer exceptional advantages for the monitoring of the envisioned French deep geological repository for nuclear wastes, called Cigéo. Here, we present experimental studies on how the performances of RDTS evolve in harsh environments like those associated with H2 or g-rays. Both of them are shown to strongly affect the temperature measurements made with RDTS. We showed that by adapting the characteristics of the used fiber for the sensing, we could limit its degradation but that additional hardening by system studies will have to be developed before integration of RDTS in Cigéo.

Optical fiberMaterials scienceHydrogenbusiness.industrychemistry.chemical_elementRadiation inducedTemperature measurementlaw.invention[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics]symbols.namesakeRaman spectroscopy distributed temperature sensor optical fibers hydrogen loading radiation nuclear wastechemistrylawsymbolsOptoelectronicsFiberbusinessRaman spectroscopyHardening (computing)SPIE Proceedings
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Raman based distributed fiber optic temperature sensors for structural health monitoring in radiation environment

2015

Raman distributed temperature sensor (RDTS) measurements were performed during γ-radiation on three different classes of standard multimode fibers (pure, Ge-doped and F-doped). The sensor response is affected by the radiation induced attenuation phenomena leading to errors in the temperature measurements. The amplitude of this error strongly depends on the fiber type and the irradiation conditions. These results are promising in view of the integration of these RDTS into the deep geological repository for radioactive waste.

Optical fiberMulti-mode optical fiberMaterials scienceOptical fiberRadiationbusiness.industryAttenuationDistributed sensorRadiationTemperature measurementlaw.inventionsymbols.namesakeOpticsMGylawFiber optic sensorsymbolsOptoelectronicsIrradiationStructural health monitoringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringbusinessRaman spectroscopyRadiation-induced attenuationRaman
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