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Exploiting Data Analytics and Deep Learning Systems to Support Pavement Maintenance Decisions
2021
Road networks are critical infrastructures within any region and it is imperative to maintain their conditions for safe and effective movement of goods and services. Road Management, therefore, plays a key role to ensure consistent efficient operation. However, significant resources are required to perform necessary maintenance activities to achieve and maintain high levels of service. Pavement maintenance can typically be very expensive and decisions are needed concerning planning and prioritizing interventions. Data are key towards enabling adequate maintenance planning but in many instances, there is limited available information especially in small or under-resourced urban road authorit…
Recovery and refurbishment of the buildings of the former Gulì textile factory in Palermo
2019
The industrial activity of Palermo, despite having lived a rather short prosperous period, has left traces that are well recognizable and identifiable with architectural artefacts of considerable importance for design quality and size. The Gulì factory, designed by the architect Pietro Scibilia, a pupil of Ernesto Basile, is a piece of history incorporated into the urban fabric. In fact, the designer is a key player in the quality of the Palermo building production of the last century and the Gulì factory is an interesting complex both from the architectural point of view and its urban location, very close to the historical center and significant cultural interest poles. The architectural s…
Recovery and refurbishment of the buildings of the former Gulì textile factory in Palermo
2019
L’industria palermitana, pur avendo vissuto un periodo fiorente piuttosto breve, ha lasciato tracce ben riconoscibili e identificabili con manufatti architettonici di grande importanza per qualità di progetto e dimensioni. La fabbrica Gulì è molto interessante sia dal punto di vista architettonico sia per la sua localizzazione urbanistica molto prossima al centro storico e a poli di rilevante interesse culturale. L’impianto architettonico, abbandonato e privato della sua funzione originaria, mantiene una forte memoria storica e collettiva e possiede interessanti potenzialità non solo per la sua configurazione volumetrica ma soprattutto per i caratteri tipologici che la connotano. Lo studio …
A Self determination theory based exercise intervention in a group of adult exercisers : a contextual evaluation
2010
ABSTRACT Karoline Kaminski. 2010. A Self-Determination Theory Based Exercise Intervention in a Group of Adult Exercisers; a Contextual Evaluation. University of Jyväskylä. Department of Sport Sciences, Master’s thesis in Sport and Exercise Psychology, 71 pages. According to the Self-determination theory, when the social context is autonomy supportive, people are motivated to internalize the regulation of important activities, and whereas when the context is controlling, self-determined motivation is undermined. Exercise is one of those important activities which when internalized would result in persistent engagement leading people to positive psychological and physiological outcomes (impro…
Analysis and description of an open source janitor project
2006
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2006 - Høgskolen i Agder, Grimstad The objective of this study is to describe the inside and impact of the Linux Kernel Janitor Project. To describe and discuss how such janitor activity can be useful for others is also an objective. The Linux Kernel Janitor Project is a project defined to perform maintenance of the Linux kernel source, often taking on tasks that nobody else will be doing. The patches produced by the janitors have been analysed and some of the effects and properties of the work the project has carried out are described. Analysis show that janitor activity reduces the amount of code while still keeping the same functio…
Space of seclusion and life: the monastery of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria in Palermo between conservation, use, maintenance and enhancement
2022
Il complesso di Santa Caterina d’Alessandria di Palermo costituisce uno spazio abitato da più di 700 anni, come monastero di clausura femminile domenicano prima e oggi come spazio per la contemplazione della bellezza e della vita collettiva. Nel saggio si propone di istituire una squadra permanente per monitorare lo stato di conservazione del monumento e operare per la sua periodica e continua sua manutenzione. Solo così sarà possibile meglio conservare, fruire, valorizzare e vivere questo straordinario stratificato esempio di spiritualità, storia, architettura e cultura. The complex of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria in Palermo has been inhabited for more than 700 years, first as a Dominican …
Why bother maintaining languages? : A discussion based on diminishing Chinese dialects in Malaysia
2020
Language maintenance and language shift are vital subfields in sociolinguistics. In Malaysia, past studies have observed a shift from Chinese dialects to Mandarin Chinese in the language use of many young generation Chinese, which has led to the endangerment of some dialects. This situation draws attention to the role and survival of Chinese dialects in Malaysian society, and thereby creates a need to discuss the reasons for maintaining them. However, this is not merely a question of continuing to speak Chinese dialects. More deeply, we need to have conversations about who we are, where our ancestors originated from, and how we can make Chinese dialects more worthwhile for maintenance. This…
E-maintenance platform: a business process modelling approach
2014
Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) se utilizan cada vez más en la sociedad y en los negocios. Las TIC se han convertido en un elemento clave para el desarrollo empresarial y la mejora de las actividades en todos los departamentos de una organización. Análogamente, la creciente importancia de los Sistemas de Gestión de Mantenimiento asistido por Ordenador (CMMS), Mantenimiento Basado en la Condición (CBM), y la aplicación de dispositivos remotos y funciones como el e-mantenimiento, han abierto grandes posibilidades para la optimización del mantenimiento. Estas técnicas han dado lugar a la aparición de retos tecnológicos, tales como la interoperabilidad entre diferentes…
Legitimacy Maintenance After a Corporate Social Irresponsibility Scandal: Lessons From The Parmalat Case
2014
From the organizations’ perspective, maintaining legitimacy in such contexts has been considered relatively unproblematic (Patriotta, 2011; Scherer et al., 2013) as it entails following adaptive strategies and conforming substantially (or even merely symbolically) to the dominant institutional logics (Suchman, 1995; Elsbach, 1994; Scherer et al., 2013). 3 Nonetheless, whilst the implementation of a adaptive strategy to maintain the corporation with its main audiences is a necessary phase, it cannot be considered sufficient to assure the maintenance of audience support. Audiences evaluate competitive advantage and other sources of reassurance that supporting the company is worthwhile from a …
A Multi-Criteria Group Decision To Support The Maintenance Service: A Case Study
2015
The present paper wants to propose a methodology to support a group of decision makers into the choice of actions, to implement on a multi-component system, regarding the maintenance service. The choice has to be made on the basis of several criteria, namely the total maintenance cost, the system unavailability and by considering the maintenance actions feasibility. In particular, with the aim to select the maintenance service that represents for the group the best comprise among the criteria to satisfy, the proposed methodology consists of two multi-criteria decisions methods to apply in two successive phases. The first one regards the application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to…