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In ambiente storico, progettare con ordine un apparente disordine In an historic environment, design with order an ostensible disorder
2017
Il saggio indaga sul rapporto fra costruito e sua rigenerazione. Troppo spesso siamo portati a ritenere che la contemporaneità risieda solo nei manufatti pensati ex-novo, costruiti ad espressione dei linguaggi appartenenti alla scuola delle archistars; in alternativa, però, con l’uso sapiente di tecnologie differenti è possibile ripensare e rifunzionalizzare i luoghi del già vissuto, rendendo gli interventi reversibili, in un continuo rapporto fra ordine e disordine , dove il primo è metodo e progetto, mentre il secondo è il caos dell’esistente. The essay examines the relationship between the built and its regeneration. We are too often led to believe that contemporaneity lies only in manuf…
Fennel waste-based films suitable for protecting cultivations.
2007
Biodegradable, flexible, and moisture-resistant films were obtained by recycling fennel waste and adding to fennel homogenates the bean protein phaseolin that was modified or not modified by the enzyme transglutaminase. All films were analyzed for their morphology, mechanical properties, water vapor permeability, and susceptibility to biodegradation under soil-like conditions. Our experiments showed that transglutaminase treatment of the phaseolin-containing fennel waste homogenates allowed us to obtain films comparable in their mechanical properties and water vapor permeability to the commercial films Ecoflex and Mater-Bi. Furthermore, biodegradability tests demonstrated that the presence …
Time trends of technology mediated communication with friends among bullied and not bullied children in four Nordic countries between 2001 and 2010
2016
Background Friends are important in childhood and adolescence, especially to bullied children. Technology mediated communication (TMC) could be used both to develop and maintain friendship. The present study examined (1) trends in the use of TMC with friends between 2001 and 2010; (2) possible differences between bullied and not bullied children and (3) differences between children with few close friends and children with several close friends. Methods Data were obtained from three waves of the serial cross-sectional Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children survey conducted in Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden during 2001/2002, 2005/2006 and 2009/2010. The total sample consisted of 65 95…
Vennskap i småbarnsavdelinger som private relasjoner på en offentlig arena
2018
Denne artikkelen belyser sma barns utprovinger av sitt sosiale handlingsrepertoar basert pa mikroetnografiske analyser av videobservasjon fra to norske smabarnsavdelinger. Det tas til orde for a beskrive dette som utprovinger av rollen som aktor i et offentlig liv og samtidig kunne etablere ulike typer mer private relasjoner med klare grenser mot en felles offentlighet utenfor, og det undersokes hvordan barn kan mestre kunsten a bevege seg mellom disse to ulike rollene. Artikkelen peker pa barnehagen som en saerskilt institusjonell kontekst preget av eierlose ting og steder som barna hele tiden ma tilegne seg midlertidig bruksrett over. Dette preger hvordan barnas sosiale utprovinger arter …
A new tool for evaluating and/or selecting analytical methods: Summarizing the information in a hexagon
2019
Abstract A quantitative evaluation tool is proposed, which aims to assess optimal selection or/and testing of analytical methods. Objective criteria related to analytical performance, sustainability, environmental impact and economic cost are evaluated through the definition of penalty points divided into five different blocks, namely, figures of merit, toxicity and safety, residues, carbon footprint and economic cost. For each block, the overall qualification is scaled from 0 to 4 and it is depicted on a regular hexagonal pictogram that allows a user friendly comparison of analytical procedures. The present evaluation tool aims to be a guideline for evaluating and/or selecting analytical p…
Metal-Free and User-Friendly Regioselective Hydroxyfluorination of Olefins
2018
A simple, user-friendly, metal-free protocol for the regioselective anti-Markovnikov hydrofluorination of olefins using readily available and inexpensive reagents has been developed. This new approach displays a broader scope than previously reported methodologies and has been applied to the late-stage fluorination of a complex molecule, giving rise to a fluorosteroid derivative. The stereochemistry of the process has also been studied in some detail.
Smart Technologies for the Environmental Design of Smaller Urban Centres
2020
The present study focuses on welfare measures and specifically on healthcare. The challenge we would like to accept is to provide efficient healthcare to residents in an isolated area without health services, maintaining the same level of healthcare ensured by hospitals. The innovative design, that we want to experience, is closely linked to the use of ICT, information and communication technologies, because these technologies would be able to perform autonomously multiple functions, using remote control. Telemedicine or “virtual health” is a particular branch of ICT that can improve future quality of living in a marginal urban center as a tool to ensure prompt access to expert advice, as w…
WhoSNext: Recommending Twitter Users to Follow Using a Spreading Activation Network Based Approach
2020
The huge number of modern social network users has made the web a fertile ground for the growth and development of a plethora of recommender systems. To date, recommending a new user profile X to a given user U that could be interested in creating a relationship with X has been tackled using techniques based on content analysis, existing friendship relationships and other pieces of information coming from different social networks or websites. In this paper we propose a recommending architecture - called WhoSNext (WSN) - tested on Twitter and which aim is promoting the creation of new relationships among users. As recent researches show, this is an interesting recommendation problem: for a …
Balancing food waste and sustainability goals in online food delivery: Towards a comprehensive conceptual framework
2022
Increasing food waste is a major threat to sustainability and food security. Recognizing the issue, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 mandates reducing global food waste by 50 percent by 2030. This situation has also given impetus to academic research on consumer food waste in both household and out-of-home settings. However, food delivery apps (FDAs) remain under-researched from this perspective. This is a serious gap because operating under a business model that inherently facilitates food over-ordering, FDAs can be a major source of food waste. Understanding the demand-side factors that drive consumers to order more food than required to satiate their hunger can be…
The Importance of Friendship in the Construction of Positive Nations
2013
This chapter is written by two Argentineans, Graciela Tonon and Lia Rodriguez de la Vega, and brings interesting data from their own studies regarding friendship as relational glue for a positive nation. Departing from the results gathered, where friendship emerged as the variable ranked with the highest value for the people interviewed, they define the concept and its typologies and connect it with the idea of a positive nation, with Martin Seligman’s flourishing model, and, finally, with Aristotle’s idea of friendship as community. Alongside the chapter, we can understand, through the testimonies and words of the interviewed, the dynamic perspectives regarding friendship as an instrument …