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Vestire l'etnicità
2012
The article analyzes the relationship between clothing and ethnic identity in the works of Greek writer Lucian of Samosata. We concentrate on importance of clothes in the construction of foreigners’ “diversity” and we explain the symbolic role of the assumption of Greek attire in foreigners’ process of Hellenization. We also examine how Greek clothing represents, for Greek people in Roman context, a mark of ethnic and cultural differentiation.
An improved smoothed particle electromagnetics method in 3D time domain simulations
2011
In this paper, an enhanced variant of the meshless smoothed particle electromagnetics (SPEM) method is performed in order to solve PDEs in time domain describing 3D transient electromagnetic phenomena. The method appears to be very efficient in approximating spatial derivatives in the numerical treatment of Maxwell's curl equations. In many cases, very often, accuracy degradation, due to a lack of particle consistency, severely limits the usefulness of this approach. A numerical corrective strategy, which allows to restore the SPEM consistency, without any modification of the smoothing kernel function and its derivatives, is presented. The method allows to restore the same order of consiste…
Cyber Security and the Internet of Things: Vulnerabilities, Threats, Intruders and Attacks
2015
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are rapidly becoming ubiquitous while IoT services are becoming pervasive. Their success has not gone unnoticed and the number of threats and attacks against IoT devices and services are on the increase as well. Cyber-attacks are not new to IoT, but as IoT will be deeply interwoven in our lives and societies, it is becoming necessary to step up and take cyber defense seriously. Hence, there is a real need to secure IoT, which has consequently resulted in a need to comprehensively understand the threats and attacks on IoT infrastructure. This paper is an attempt to classify threat types, besides analyze and characterize intruders and attacks facing IoT device…
Niewolnik i władca przedmiotów : człowiek wobec rzeczy w prozie realistycznej
2020
Awans „rzeczy”, jaki nastąpił w literaturze doby realizmu, miał wiele przyczyn, między innymi naukowy światopogląd epoki i zainteresowanie materialnymi uwarunkowaniami egzystencji, rozszerzenie tematyki i werystyczną opisowość, obiektywizm i rzeczowość uszczegółowionej narracji. W rozległym kompleksie prozy realistycznej można przykładowo wyróżnić cztery sposoby czy modele funkcjonowania rzeczy: (1) rzecz w znaczeniu elementu boskiego i sensownego ładu świata, zgodnie jeszcze z tradycją metafizyczno-filozoficzną (np. przypadek biedermeierowskiej twórczości Adalberta Stiftera, gdzie „rzecz” jest terminem i pojęciem kluczowym, a pedantyczne katalogowanie przedmiotów swoistą obsesją narracji);…
Domestic and International Tourism in Sicilian Bathing Resorts: Evidences from Official and Ad-hoc Survey Data
2010
Similarly to other social phenomena, tourism demand has recently been affected by social complexity: travellers select destinations on the basis of situational and mixed preference criteria, of which common features are however identifiable. In order to plan tourism policies, decision makers are wondering how the new trends of international tourism materialize at the local level. That’s why in Sicily the debate is still open on the reasons why tourism has not developed as much as expected. In this paper we shall discuss such arguments using both official statistics and data from the sample researches made in 2004 and 2005 in two well-known Sicilian bathing resorts, the Aeolian Islands and C…
The Xícaras from Don Hilarion: the public spaces and private homes in the eighteenth century rural
2012
El inventario post mortem y el libro de cuenta y razón del escribano Hilarión Cardona nos proporcionan una abundante información sobre las formas de vida y las actividades de este singular personaje y de su entorno. A su ascenso económico y social ayudará una estudiada política matrimonial, lo que le permitirá hacerse un hueco destacado entre los miembros de la oligarquía local. Lo nutrido y excepcional de su vestuario, junto con la posesión de novedosos objetos, nada comunes al resto de los inventarios de bienes, nos ofrecen una clara imagen del proceso de trasferencia de las formas de vida entre la ciudad y el medio rural. Hilarión sintetiza la emulación de los hábitos de comportamiento d…
Medical Data Processing and Analysis for Remote Health and Activities Monitoring
2019
Recent developments in sensor technology, wearable computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and wireless communication have given rise to research in ubiquitous healthcare and remote monitoring of human’s health and activities. Health monitoring systems involve processing and analysis of data retrieved from smartphones, smart watches, smart bracelets, as well as various sensors and wearable devices. Such systems enable continuous monitoring of patients psychological and health conditions by sensing and transmitting measurements such as heart rate, electrocardiogram, body temperature, respiratory rate, chest sounds, or blood pressure. Pervasive healthcare, as a relevant application domain in thi…
Lietu internets kā pakalpojums
2018
Darba mērķis ir izstrādāt lietu interneta platformas arhitektūru, kura nodrošina daudzlietotāju atbalstu, ir viegli uzstādāma no galalietotāju skatupunkta, un kuru ir iespējams piedāvāt potenciāliem lietotājiem kā pakalpojumu, parūpējoties par tās uzstādīšanu un uzturēšanu. Darba gaitā ir veikts OpenHAB un Home Assistant lietu interneta platformu funkcionalitāšu apskats, salīdzinājums un to piemērotības izvērtējums daudzlietotāju arhitektūras izveidošanai. Darba rezultātā ir izveidots Home Assistant platformas arhitektūras risinājums, kurš ļauj veikt vienkāršu sākotnējo platformas uzstādīšanu, nodrošina daudzlietotāju atbalstu, izmantojot vairākas platformas instances vienā resursdatorā, un…
A fuzzy decision support tool for demand forecasting
2007
In this paper we present a decision support forecasting system to work with univariate time series based on the generalized exponential smoothing (Holt-Winters) approach. It is conceived as an integrated tool which has been implemented in Visual Basic. For improving the accuracy of the automatic forecasting it uses an optimization-based scheme which unifies the stages of estimation of the parameters and selects the best method using a fuzzy multicriteria approach. The elements of the set of local minima of the non-linear programming problems allow us to build the membership functions of the conflicting objectives. A set of real data is analyzed to show the performance of our forecasting too…
1682 un'annata florida. Andrea Mamingari, Paolo Amato e un'inedita cassetta reliquiaria della Cattedrale di Palermo
2022
The study of an unprecedented reliquary box of the Cathedral of Palermo is an opportunity to reconstruct a happy productive context and expand the catalog of the works of the silversmith Andrea Mamingari