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Systemic Development of Service Innovation
2015
This chapter explores the intrinsic characteristics of services and service systems and presents systemic approach to produce service innovations. The chapter consists of elaborating the characteristics of services and the principles of systemic development, discussing service matrixes, service systems, service strategies and business models, and special challenges related to the development of services and service innovations. Services are always produced in service systems consisting of combination of service personnel and information systems. Customers are involved in these systems by interacting with the front end of service organization. The key issue in service development and innovat…
Hierarchical and non-hierarchical clustering methods to study students algebraic thinking in solving an open-ended questionnaire
2017
The problem of taking a data set and separating it into subgroups, where the members of each subgroup are more similar to each other than they are to members outside the subgroup, has been extensively studied in science and mathematics education research. Student responses to written questions and multiple-choice tests have been characterised and studied using several qualitative and/or quantitative analysis methods. However, there are inherent difficulties in the categorisation of student responses in the case of open-ended questionnaires. Very often, researcher bias means that the categories picked out tend to find the groups of students that the researcher is seeking out. In our contribu…
Dwelling and COVID-19
2022
The recent pandemic has made more evident the many unsolved cruxes of the human dwelling on earth that, for decades, have been ignored. The urban condition forcibly metaphysical and the over-compressed domestic one, determined by the lockdown period, provided more obvious connotations to a well-known situation. The SARS– Cov–2 and the COVID–19 viruses are, in chronological order, merely the last signal that the World has released, making more straightforward an extreme situation. Which is the difference with similar phenomena of the recent past? Certainty, a greater virus spread, if compared to other epidemics, and several deaths that keep growing in some areas of the planet, unfortunately,…
Design of the seismic retrofit of a school in accordance to a life cycle thinking approach
2018
The public consciousness of the seismic risk is continuously increasing, although the damage on existing and older buildings due to earthquakes is still high, due to a former structural design not accounting for the latest knowledge achieved in the seismic field. This is particularly true considering the damage recorded in the last earthquakes that hit Central Italy in August and October 2016. The paper deals with the repair actions required in the elementary school of Pievebovigliana (Macerata-Italy) after the aforementioned seismic events. The school is a one-story building characterized by an irregular plan layout; masonry walls with regular blocks are the main supporting structure. An a…
The effects of mental rotation on computational thinking
2019
Abstract Although several investigations of spatial reasoning and mental rotation skills have been conducted in research areas linked to STEM education, to the best of our knowledge, few of these studies have examined the relationship between spatial reasoning and computational thinking. Given this gap in the literature, the present study investigates the role and action of spatial reasoning, and specifically the effects of mental rotation on computational thinking within an embodied and enacted perspective. To achieve this, we carried out a study involving 92 students in five primary-school classes (1st grade - 5th grade). The findings reveal a positive correlation between computational th…
La fuga nelle clausole generali: una minaccia per il diritto e per lo Stato
2022
Italian translation of a German work on a general clauses which marked a stage in the debate on subject
Spazializzazione
2013
Rather than focusing on the countryside and on some particular objects of the rural world, in our contribution we concentrate on a “thinking by new concepts”. Following the example of Deleuze, by opting for a refusal of neutralizing forms of representations, we devised a concept – spaction – in order to show the relationships that should be established nowadays between a rural world and the dynamics of people, spaces and museums.
Dialettica e trasformazione in Th. W. Adorno
2020
La dialettica può svolgere un’effettiva funzione critico-conoscitiva in quanto, pur irretita nelle maglie del pensare identico, di esso è capace di ridisegnare la struttura concettuale, rendendola permeabile a quel che le sue rigide procedure classificatorie tendono inevitabilmente ad opprimere e occultare. Se la dialettica non è logica manifestativa del vero, se anzi rivela una compromissione inevitabile con il sapere illusorio prodotto dal pensiero identificante, del pensiero identificante rappresenta però l’unica chance di trasformazione Dialectics can play an effective critical-cognitive function in that, although caught in the mesh of «identity thinking», it is capable of redesigning t…
Rappresentazioni e territorio nelle dinamiche del turismo: il caso della Lonely Planet Sicily
2018
L’attuale dibattito sul riordino territoriale del Paese rende nuovamente centrale il concetto di territorio che, da sempre, in una prospettiva geografica pone problemi definitori. Esso può essere, infatti, oggetto di produzioni simboliche e (ri)semantizzazioni in grado di ridefinirlo e di creare specifiche modalità di interazione. A questo proposito, il presente lavoro intende proporre una riflessione su alcune dinamiche di produzione e riproduzione simbolica che interessano il concetto di territorio nel turismo, ambito in cui si può osservare una relazione diretta tra rappresentazione del territorio (intesa anche come narrazione) e possibilità d’azione. In particolare, attraverso il caso s…
Corresponsabilità educativa: famiglie e docenti per lo sviluppo della maturità professionale e personale degli adolescenti
2018
La ricerca si inserisce nel variegato panorama di studi e ricerche relativi alla corresponsabilità educativa tra scuola e famiglia per la promozione del processo di maturazione personale e professionale negli adolescenti. Il contributo mostra il percorso di ricerca che ha coinvolto, 336 alunni, 30 genitori e 31 docenti di 15 classi terze di scuole secondarie di primo grado della provincia di Palermo da settembre 2018 a marzo 2019. L’intervento ha previsto la progettazione, la costruzione e la sperimentazione di una serie di attività attraverso le quali gli insegnanti in collaborazione con i genitori hanno potuto sviluppare la capacità di progettazione e di scelta del futuro professionale ne…