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La maggior parte delle risorse rurali nei territori montani italiani, come boschi, pascoli, malghe, sentieri di montagna, sono state storicamente governate attraverso organizzazioni e istituzioni di risorse collettive che hanno garantito l'equilibrio tra attività produttive e tutela ambientale. Questi sistemi possono essere inquadrati secondo la letteratura sui commons. Sebbene il modello di gestione collettiva delle risorse sia ancora fortemente radicato nella regione alpina, i cambiamenti socioeconomici in corso mettono in discussione il modo in cui le risorse sono concepite, utilizzate e gestite dalle comunità e il concetto stesso di comunità come riferimento per una risorsa collettiva. Pochi studi si sono concentrati sulla trasformazione e l'adattamento dei commons ai cambiamenti in atto, come la progressiva penetrazione dei megatrend economici e demografici globali a livello locale, con l'obiettivo di decodificare la nuova tensione tra i bisogni della comunità e le esigenze della società. Facendo riferimento ai concetti di resilienza e trasformabilità dei sistemi socio-ecologici, questo articolo propone di riflettere sull'impatto delle trasformazioni socioeconomiche in corso nelle regioni rurali di montagna, di cercare nuovi approcci per la concettualizzazione dei commons e di indagare come i commons possano essere trasformati per renderli resilienti e più socialmente inclusivi. Per questo, è stata condotta un'ampia revisione della letteratura assieme ad un lavoro esplorativo sul campo utilizzando un approccio di ricerca basato su casi studio. I risultati dell'articolo sono esplorativi, e da esso vengono derivate alcune ipotesi di lavoro da approfondire in ulteriori studi. Queste ipotesi si riferiscono a pratiche socioeconomiche e culturali così come ad approcci che permetterebbero il reinserimento dei commons nelle economie e nelle società in trasformazione. Most of rural resources in the Italian mountain territories, such as forests, pastures, huts, mountain paths, have historically been governed through collective organizations and institutions that have guaranteed the balance between productive activities and environmental protection. These systems can be framed according to the literature on commons. Although the model of collective resource management is still strongly rooted in the Alpine region, socioeconomic changes underway call into question the way resources are conceived, used and managed by communities and the very concept of community as a reference for a collective resource. Few studies have focused on the transformation and adaptation of commons to the changes taking place, such as the progressive penetration of global economic and demographic megatrends at the local level, with the aim of decoding the new tension between community needs and societal needs. By referring to the concepts of resilience and transformability of social-ecological systems, this paper aims to reflect on the impact of the socioeconomic transformations underway in mountain rural regions, to search for new approaches for the conceptualization of commons and to investigate how commons can be transformed in order to make them resilient and more socially inclusive. For that, an extensive literature review and an exploratory fieldwork using a case study approach have been performed. The paper´s results are exploratory, from which working hypotheses have been derived to be explored in further studies. These hypotheses relate to socio-economic and cultural practices as well as approaches that would enable the re-embedding of the commons in the economy and society undergoing change. La plupart des ressources rurales dans les territoires de montagne italiens, tels que les forêts, les pâturages, les fermes d´alpage, les sentiers de montagne, ont été historiquement régies par des organisations et des institutions collectives qui ont garanti l'équilibre entre les activités productives et la protection de l'environnement. Ces systèmes peuvent être encadrés selon la littérature sur les commons. Bien que le modèle de gestion collective des ressources soit encore fortement ancré dans la région alpine, les changements socio-économiques en cours remettent en question, la façon dont les ressources sont conçues, utilisées et gérées par les communautés, ainsi que le concept même de communauté comme référence pour une ressource collective. Peu d'études ont porté sur la transformation et l'adaptation des commons aux changements en cours, comme l´incursion progressive des mégatendances économiques et démographiques mondiales au niveau local, dans le but de décoder la nouvelle tension entre les besoins des communautés et ceux de la société. En faisant référence aux concepts de résilience et de transformabilité des systèmes socio-écologiques, cet article vise à traiter l'impact des transformations socio-économiques en cours dans les régions rurales de montagne. De nouvelles approches pour la conceptualisation des commons et leur transformation pour les rendre plus résilients et inclusifs sont aussi examinées. Pour cela, une revue approfondie de la littérature et un travail exploratoire sur le terrain avec une approche basée sur une étude de cas ont été réalisés. Les résultats de l'article sont exploratoires, et des hypothèses de travail en ont été tirées pour être explorées dans des études ultérieures. Ces hypothèses concernent les pratiques socio-économiques et culturelles ainsi que les approches qui permettraient de réintégrer les commons dans une économie et une société en mutation.

This paper is the second of a two-part series dealing with the study of the residual stress field induced by cold expansion (CE) in rail-end-bolt holes. In the aeronautical field, cold expansion is a consolidated practice adopted to induce beneficial residual compressive stresses around holes of aluminium parts, with the aim to improve the fatigue strength. However, in the literature few experimental or numerical studies are proposed on the application of this technique to structural steels. In Part I, an in-depth experimental investigation was carried out on railway steel, in particular on rail-end-bolt holes, with the aim to better understand the full non-linear response of the material during the whole process. In this paper, finite element (FE) analyses simulating CE process are presented, and the experimental results of Part I have been used to validate the FE model. The strain-time history acquired during the entire cold expansion process allowed the comparison with FE-predicted strains, both in terms of residual and maximum strains. This approach is not present in literature, neither for aluminium nor for steel. The results, in terms of trend and magnitude, show that strains in both the experiments and the FE simulations are generally consistent, confirming the reliability of the FE model. In addition, a sensitivity study is presented for different levels of cold expansion. The results can be exploited to develop an a priori prediction of the residual stresses near the hole surface, aiming to an improvement of fatigue strength.

The paper gives a short historical survey of ethnomusicological sound archives in Italy and proposes a few remarks on the accessibility of music through them. It also deals with the role that has normally been given to sound archives and with the concept of source, questioning the common idea that the main purpose of a sound archive is the creation and preservation of good historical sources. Moreover, it addresses the concepts of patrimonialisation and intangible heritage, wondering if the heritage of sound archives is really intangible or not. Finally, it discusses the relationship between the activity of local sound archives and the ethnomusicological work, especially focusing on my experience at the Centro per il dialetto romagnolo, in Ravenna. This paper tries to understand whether in contemporary Italy sound archives may have a fruitful role inside local communities by allowing the access to a critical repository of recordings., Philomusica on-line, Vol 16, N° 1 (2017): Making music in the time of YouTube

Da un'analisi di tipo etnografico sulla storia delle presenze in tutte le abitazioni del palazzo dagli anni Quaranta del Novecento al 2015 l'autore desume una serie di caratteri delle dinamiche di divisione sociale dello spazio e di uso del patrimonio edilizio che costituiscono delle peculiarità del contesto della città meridionale, differente da quelle individuate per le città statunitensi o del nord europa di cui spesso si occupa la letteratura. The paper recounts the story of the last 70 years of a building in Napoli’s historic center. Its main sources are interviews and the author’s memories. With storytelling, some broader features of the context also come along in the paper: the diversity of housing forms, including low income households; the widespread fragmentation of property; the presence of institutions that, even when managing a limited housing stock, have protected the right to housing of weak groups with limited access to the market; the penchant of households to settle in; the lack of real estate investments on historic housing; the presence of migrants. All these structuring factors allow to outline a slow but constant transformation of a context, that cannot be understood using mainstream categories like gentrification, polarization or segregation that do not catch the specificity of southern European cities.

Purpose of the paper: This paper aims to demonstrate how a type of cultural heritage such an archival collection can be turned into a non-conventional museum, which would not be based upon the exhibition of objects, but on the transmission of knowledge using the mechanism of storytelling. Methodology : The paper analyses the case of the Historical Archives of the Banco di Napoli, which is part of the Foundation of the same name, and in particular on its museum project called ilCartastorie. Results : The paper allows a model to be made from this experience, with a transferable approach to cultural heritage contexts involving printed material (essentially archives and libraries), by delineating a conceptual and operative framework for the creation of historical museums which primarily use the technique of storytelling. Research limitations: In light of the fact that this is the presentation of a single case study, the limitation of the research lies in the specificity of the subject matter of the research and its condition as a private holder of cultural heritage which is of interest to the public; from this point of view, the principles of transferability may clash with the regulatory and procedural limits found in the public sector, which holds a large part of the cultural heritage found in archives and libraries. Practical implications : From an operational point of view, this paper provides the essential coordinates to be applied to the promotional model, while adapting them to other contexts. Originality of the paper: Traditional archives very rarely and in completely different ways move towards an integrated project of promotion and, when applied, it is usually based on the mechanism of “exposition” of the archival documents and not on the narrative process of the content of those same documents. The originality of this paper lies essentially in the specificity of the subject matter of the research: an archival collection which uses storytelling for the transmission of knowledge.

Il bambino e il ‘gladiatore’. Una ricca sepoltura infantile nella Padova di media età imperiale Il contributo ha per oggetto un’inumazione infantile databile alla seconda metà del II secolo d.C., scoperta a Padova nel 2012 nel settore della necropoli urbana meridionale afferente alla strada diretta a Bologna. La presentazione dei dati ha inizio con l’analisi tipo-cronologica dei manufatti. A seguire, si propone una ricostruzione del rituale di seppellimento partendo dai dati tafonomici, dallo scavo della fossa con manomissione di una tomba precedente, alla deposizione della cassa e dei materiali di accompagno. Un occhio di riguardo si riserva all’elemento più singolare del corredo: una statuetta fittile di gladiatore, unicum nel suo genere per tipologia, stato di conservazione e integrità del contesto di ritrovamento. Chiude il contributo una riflessione di carattere economico, suscitata dalla provenienza dei manufatti, con dati che gettano nuova luce sulla rete commerciale della civitas di media età imperiale., This paper concerns an infant burial dated to the second half of the 2nd century AD, discovered in Padua in 2012, in the Southern cemetery of the ancient city, along the road to Bologna. The report starts with the chrono-typological analysis of the grave goods. Afterwards, a reconstruction of the burial practice is suggested, based on taphonomic data, from the excavation of the pit, with tampering of a previous grave, to the deposition of the wooden coffin and the artefacts. An in-depth analysis is focused on the most relevant element among the grave goods: a clay gladiator figurine, unicum as for the typology, the state of preservation and the integrity of the original context. Finally, the paper is closed by some economic considerations, deriving from the origin of the artefacts, with data that could shed new light on the commercial network and the role of Padua in the Mid-Imperial age.

Obiettivo del paper : Presentare una metodologia innovativa di esercizio di foresight che risponda alle esigenze derivanti dai cambiamenti del contesto sociale, tecnologico ed economico. Metodologia : Abbiamo analizzato un excursus storico all’interno della letteratura classica della metodologia e degli ambiti di applicazione di esercizi di foresight, per evincere quali siano i limiti di tale approccio. Abbiamo poi elaborato un metodologia innovativa e applicato la stessa a un caso pratico nel settore della nautica da diporto. Risultati : Attraverso un esercizio di foresight si realizzano schemi di sintesi (le Road Map) che prendono in considerazione le risorse e le strategie degli attori locali e diventano un riferimento per gli operatori economici, gli enti di ricerca e le Istituzioni del territorio. Limiti della ricerca : Non e stato possibile verificare l’adeguatezza degli output dell’esercizio di foresight nel settore della nautica da diporto, in quanto e necessario attendere il termine dei tempi previsionali di sviluppo delle proposte. Si tratta peraltro di limiti connessi alla natura del modello proposto che non e funzionale ad indicare soluzioni, ma a favorire comportamenti di tipo proattivo. Implicazioni pratiche : La metodologia costituisce una guida operativa dettagliata allo svolgimento di un esercizio di foresight e anche alla rappresentazione dei relativi output attraverso lo strumento delle Road Map. Originalita del paper : La metodologia presenta sostanziali differenze dai tradizionali esercizi di foresight tecnologici e dalle realizzazioni piu recenti volte a privilegiare anche aspetti di tipo sociale.

Obiettivo del paper: Obiettivo del paper e analizzare l’impiego della comunicazione online delle agenzie viaggi italiane e di capire, di conseguenza, se gli intermediari turistici per eccellenza utilizzano siti web raramente aggiornati, solo per essere presenti nell’universo digitale o se, al contrario, presentano pagine web che sfruttano, in maniera consapevole, le opportunita offerte oggi da internet. Metodologia: Dopo aver individuato le principali metodologie impiegate dalla letteratura economica per valutare la qualita dei siti web, la seconda parte del lavoro presenta un modello di analisi costruito per studiare l’efficacia della comunicazione online di 400 agenzie viaggi italiane. Il modello utilizzato si basa sulla scomposizione del processo di acquisto del turista in tre fasi: sogno, emozione e ricordo. Risultati : I risultati della ricerca mostrano un generalizzato sotto utilizzo della comunicazione online ed uno scarso interesse verso la costituzione di relazioni stabili e fidelizzate con i propri clienti. Implicazioni pratiche : Il modello elaborato nel paper si presta per essere utilizzato come strumento per valutare l’efficacia della comunicazione web delle agenzie viaggi e puo costituire un aiuto per definire interventi operativi per colmare le criticita dei siti web degli operatori turistici. Limiti : Il principale limite di questo lavoro e rappresentato dalla mancanza di un’analisi dell’effettivo uso dei siti web da parte dei turisti. Originalita del lavoro : L’utilizzo di un database dettagliato di 400 agenzie viaggi e la costruzione di un modello di valutazione dell’efficacia della comunicazione online possono costituire interessanti elementi di originalita.

In this paper, an experimental activity carried out at the University of Bologna regarding the development of a ducted-fan miniature aerial vehicle (MAV) is presented. The ducted-fan aerial configuration is potentially interesting in a wide range of applications including, among others, mobile surveillance, video capture, environmental monitoring, relief map survey, etc. In particular, the paper focuses on the design of the nonlinear control law which allows the dynamics of the aircraft to robustly track arbitrary lateral, longitudinal, vertical and heading references, and on the experimental validation obtained by developing a small scale prototype.

Models of stand volume and biomass estimation based on LiDAR data for the main forest types in Calabria (southern Italy). The AlForLab project is part of the Cluster MEA (Materials Energy Environment) addressed to the Calabria Region. Estimating the main dendrometric variables of Calabrian forests using models based on publicly available remote sensed data is one of the main purposes of the project. This paper describes the procedures used to develop several thematic maps (raster and vector) of timber volume and phytomass to be used in planning and management activities at both regional and forest property scale, as well as for felling plans, logging projects etc. We used public LiDAR data at medium-low resolution (1.6 pts m-2), acquired on about 90% of Calabrian territory in the frame of a national remote sensing programme of the Italian Ministry of the Environment. Field data from the second National Forest Inventory (INFC 2005) on 311 sample points were used for model calibration, as well as new field data acquired specifically for AlForLab project on 143 angle count samples. A series of regression models to predict volume and its corresponding aboveground biomass (dry and fresh weight) were developed and digital maps at different spatial resolutions were produced, as well as their estimate uncertainties. These models and their mapping products are also an important part of the new-establishing forest Decision Support System CFOR. The adopted models, though based on the same mathematical equation, have specific coefficients for different species and groups of species, according to a forest type classification system compatible with the fourth level of Corine Land Cover. In this way it is possible to apply the models without accessing more detailed forest type maps. All estimation methods and procedures are consistent with national forest inventory models, and with the other new tools proposed by AlForLab project to estimate timber volume, such as the regional tariffs and the field sampling inventory procedures. R2 adjusted values (for models at the highest typological detail) are between 60% and 85%, whereas uncertainties of timber volume estimate (ESS%) range from 25% (for main forest species) up to 50% (for less spread forest types). All processing steps to produce digital maps were performed on open-source environment (R and QGIS).

Recently, the Society’s perception of forest resources has gone through significant changes. Forest ecosystems play a multifunctional role and host an important portion of the whole biodiversity, particularly in the Mediterranean area. Remote sensing technologies provide a unique way to obtain spatially extensive information on forest ecosystems, but relatively few studies used such information to evaluate forest habitat and biotic diversity. In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of remote sensing to predict forest diversity by linking remotely sensed information with diversity metrics obtained from ground measurements of butterfly diversity. The field work was carried out in Calabria in four different forest types (beech, chestnut, black pine and silver fir forests). The sampling of Lepidoptera was carried out by LED light traps. We positioned 9 traps per forest type, for a total of 36 sites chosen to sample the different stages of forest succession in each forest type. Samples were carried out once a month from May to November 2015. Data from in situ butterfly measurements were compared with above ground forest biomass estimated from airborne LiDAR with NDVI estimated from Landsat 8. Results indicated that the Geometridae/Noctuideae ratio of lepidopteran communities was significantly correlated with the tree biomass, its distribution among tree size classes and the NDVI. The Geometridae/Noctuidae ratio, therefore, represents an index easy to calculate, which can be employed to integrate data acquired from remote sensing in order to obtain continuous spatial estimates of forest naturalness.

The paper highlights the key findings of the research activities conducted under the MAPS-LED project, in examining how the place acquires a specific connotation in designing “tailored policy” for innovation and knowledge spill-overs. The contribution of the Project, in the current debate on the innovation policy, concerns the explanation of how territorial strategies can be part of regional innovation strategies for Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3). The MAPS-LED spatial oriented approach to US cluster highlighted the relevance of the urban dimension in concentrating knowledge resources and linking them to economic activities. The research focused on the occurrence of “innovation spaces” in the places characterized by the presence of Cluster, in order to identify specific urban areas (target areas) in which analyzing the interaction of cluster with the urban fabric, to make evident the emerging factor of a new demand of innovation-oriented physical transformation. Through the lens of the general framework of the Project, innovation spaces have been surveyed using on-line questionnaires distributed in different public and private innovation centers. The findings provide interesting insights on the role played by innovation spaces in the urban and the economic environment. Networking activities, services provided and the support of local place-based policies turn out to be key elements in spreading innovation in specific places and handler of the urban transformation demand. The quantitative approach to spatialize innovation joint with the qualitative approach through interviews led to connect Place, Knowledge and Innovation as main categories of output indicators to set the entrepreneurial discovery process as evidence-based and horizontal policy.

Il tema della riduzione, riutilizzo e riciclo dei rifiuti solidi urbani rappresenta uno degli ambiti di ricerca piu importanti e cruciali nell’ambito del contenimento dell’impatto delle attivita antropiche sull’ambiente, in particolare nell’ottica dell’Economia Circolare. Il paper intende illustrare la situazione attuale in tema di rifiuti, evidenziando la loro grande potenzialita come materia prima per la produzione di prodotti e componenti per l’edilizia, e riportando alcuni esempi e casi studio di applicazioni.

Size and cost reduction are among the main issues of electric motor design and fabrication. This paper proposes an original layout for an axial flux permanent-magnet motor with printed circuit board (PCB) winding. In contrast to other axial flux motors of the same type, which are generally made with a three-phase fractional slot winding, the proposed motor has a two-phase wave winding printed on either side of the PCB. This configuration allows increasing the number of pole pairs and the supply frequency so to reduce the stator and rotor core widths. The winding is also characterized by a large copper percentage on the board, which improves the torque density of the motor. The results of the mathematical analysis, of the numerical simulation and of the experiments are compared. A method for the computation of the phase inductances is also proposed and validated. The main dimensions of the magnets are optimized via the finite-element method. The experimental comparison shows the advantages of the proposed motor in comparison to the traditional shaded pole motor for household applications.

Utilizzando un approccio socio-antropologico, in questo articolo indaghiamo l'eredità del sistema socialista e la trasformazione post socialista nelle montagne di Romania. La nostra analisi si focalizza sulle comunità contadine, che vivono e lavorano nelle terre alte. Dopo un periodo di adattamento alle politiche agricole e industriali socialiste, al giorno d'oggi diverse comunità montane si trovano a fronteggiare ondate crescenti di turismo urbano: con lo scopo di investigare il ruolo potenziale di queste dinamiche rispetto alla resilienza delle comunità in questione abbiamo raccolto dati qualitativi, durante l'estate del 2015, attraverso un lavoro etnografico e un insieme di interviste in profondità, condotte con accademici rumeni, imprenditori del turismo e residenti nel villaggio montano di Fundata. Abbiamo dunque analizzato questo importante, ma nel contempo ambivalente, driver di cambiamento, rispetto all'interconnesso mutamento socio-demografico locale. Laddove i Carpazi hanno drammaticamente perso abitanti dopo gli anni '90 e la rimanente popolazione è andata invecchiando, il turismo rurale porta invece oggi nuovi residenti e abitanti temporanei, spesso proprio soggetti giovani e urbani. Insieme alla realizzazione di infrastrutture per l'accoglienza, il turismo va trasformando così il paesaggio fisico e culturale di molti villaggi montani, costituendo una risorsa per l'innovazione territoriale e, nel contempo, un rischio per la sopravvivenza delle tradizioni locali. Cet article examine l'héritage du système socialiste et son influence sur les transformations des Carpates roumaines post-socialistes, à partir de la littérature sociologique sur les nouveaux habitants des Alpes et des recherches anthropologiques sur le ruralisme en Roumanie. Après une période d'adaptation aux politiques socialistes agricoles et industrielles, plusieurs communautés rurales des Carpates font face aujourd'hui à l'arrivée par vagues de migrants d'agrément et de touristes urbains : afin d'étudier l'impact de ces dynamiques sur la résilience des habitants de la montagne, nous avons recueilli en 2015 des données qualitatives à travers des entretiens ethnographiques approfondis avec des universitaires roumains, de entrepreneurs touristiques, des résidents et des immigrants du village de montagne de Fundata (Transylvanie). Nous reconnaissons aux migrations d'agrément et au tourisme rural des rôles importants, mais aussi ambivalents, facteurs de changement, et en relation avec les variations socio-démographiques locales. Considérant que la population a considérablement diminué dans les Carpates après les années 90 et que la population restante est âgée, le tourisme rural a apporté de nouveaux habitants permanents et temporaires (souvent jeunes) et des ressources économiques significatives. Avec ses infrastructures d'hébergement, le tourisme a transformé le paysage physique et culturel de plusieurs villages de montagne. Les migrants de loisirs et les touristes – comme cultural brokers et détenteurs des ressources économique - représentent en même temps une menace et une opportunité pour les territoires post-socialistes, face à une crise socio-économique et démographique durable. Comme nous en discutons à la fin de cet article, et en gardant à l'esprit les transformations en cours dans les régions alpines, il semble tout de même que l'on ne peut ignorer l'apport de ces acteurs urbains (et la connexion urbaine-rurale renouvelée) dans la revitalisation des zones de montagne. This article investigates the legacy of state socialism and the post-socialist transformation inside the Romanian Carpathians by reviewing sociological literature on new inhabitants of the Alps and anthropological literature on ruralism in Romania. Today, after a period spent adapting to socialist agricultural and industrial policies, several rural communities of the Carpathians are facing growing waves of amenity migrants and urban tourists. In 2015, in order to investigate the potential role of these dynamics relative to the resilience of mountain dwellers, we collected qualitative data by means of in-depth ethnographic interviews with Romanian academics, tourist entrepreneurs, residents of and immigrants to the mountain village of Fundata in Transylvania. We recognise amenity migration and rural tourism as important but also ambivalent and as driving change with respect to the interrelated socio-demographic local change. Whereas the Carpathians have been losing population dramatically since the 1990s, and the remaining population has aged, rural tourism has brought new permanent and temporary inhabitants (often young people) and significant economic resources. Together with accommodation infrastructure, tourism has transformed several mountain villages’ physical and cultural landscape. As cultural brokers and economic resource bearers, amenity migrants and tourists represent both a threat to and an opportunity for post-socialist territories, which are facing long-term socio-economic and demographic crises. As we will discuss in the conclusions of the paper, also with regard to ongoing transformations in the Alpine regions, it seems clear that one cannot ignore the relevance of these urban actors (nor of the renewed urban-rural connection) to the revitalisation of mountain areas.

Social street: citizenship and civic engagement This work is focused on the concept of Social Innovation (SI), defining it as a practice of alter-native territorial development. In this sense, the SI stands out in particular for the importance that gives to the local dimension as a source of shared identities. Taking the Social Street Fondazza in Bologna as a case study, this paper aims to show how SI projects activate civic engagement practices, capable of shaping a participatory citizenship on the boundaries between the private and public spheres producing new interpretive schemes able to redefine the society at the local level.

Lo scritto, sottoposto a valutazione, rappresenta la versione ampliata e rivista di un intervento dal titolo ‘Riflessioni contemporanee su Europa ed islām’ svolto il 1° dicembre 2015 all’Università degli Studi di Torino, quale parte del ciclo di incontri “Le relazioni familiari nel diritto interculturale. Diritto interculturale tra ordinamenti statali e religioni. Tecniche di adattamento dei diritti religiosi”; è destinato alla pubblicazione negli atti del ciclo di incontri “Le relazioni familiari nel diritto interculturale. Diritto interculturale tra ordinamenti statali e religioni”, nel volume Relazioni familiari nel diritto interculturale, a cura di I. Zuanazzi, Libellula University Press, Tricase, 2017. Alla data dell’intervento l’A. era Ricercatore Incoming presso il Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza dell’Università degli Studi di Torino e anche Teaching Fellow presso la School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Tassonomie di appartenenza alla Ummah - 3. Modelli di innesto dell’islām in Europa - 4. Atteggiamenti culturalizzati, assimilati, cosmopoliti e in protesta - 5. Approcci geopoliticizzati e transnazionali - 6. Orientamenti esternalizzati, dualizzati e islamizzati - 7. Considerazioni conclusive. Decoding European islām. Intercultural law and sharīʿah-compliant relations. ABSTRACT: Since the beginning of the XXI century, Islām became a key-topic in the national and international discourse. In the contemporary pluralist and fluid scenario, the public visibility of Euro-Islām increases also as expression of Muslim communities’ demands and pressing needs. In light of recent tragic events and the exponentially growing European Muslim community, developing appropriate tools for effective and fruitful dialogue is thus of pivotal importance. Adopting a pluralist perspective, the paper investigates the multi-folded accommodation, adaptation and mutual adjustment techniques enacted amongst different legal cultures, orders and systems. Specifically, attention is paid to the reciprocally (non) adjustments of Islamic/Muslim laws to European domestic legal systems, and the implications of the interaction between sharīʿah-compliant relations and intercultural law. The proposed analysis aims to decode the various forms of sharīʿah-compliant modus vivendi enacted by European Muslims by shedding light upon the peculiarities of European Islām and the polychrome taxonomies of belonging to al-Ummah Islamiyyah. Relying upon field-collected data, the transplantation models of Islām in national legal systems are disentangled, whilst the discussion reveals new prototypes of state and social co-existence, constantly developed and reinvented at the crossroads amongst states, religions and traditions., Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2016: 12 dicembre

The paper offers a broad literature review about food planning, a new field of inquiry getting popular among urban scholars in Italy after Milan Expo 2015. It provides a set of definition of food planning, from the international debate, and explores the complex relation between food system and the city. It then focuses on food urban policies providing examples of policy implementation, both in Italy and abroad, and features main actors already involved or to be involved

Nowadays, mHealth applications have been evolving in the form of pervasive solutions for supporting healthy life-style and wellness self-management. In such a direction, the Italian project “Smart Health 2.0” realized innovative technological infrastructures, on which different mHealth applications and services were developed, aimed at remotely supporting individuals in diseases prevention and improving their welfare and life styles. In this paper, the ontology-based approach proposed in the project to represent, share, and reason on the knowledge characterizing a subject within mHealth applications is presented. The proposed approach uses a hybrid strategy integrating ontology models and deductive rules built on the top of them. In order to better describe the proposed approach, a case of application has been presented with respect to an mHealth application designed for managing diet according to given daily caloric needs.

Resilience is the new black. Overworked as the previous fashionable adjectives for XXI century cities, now more than ever self-labeling smarter or greener according to the available market levers, we should try to frame this term also outside the functionalistic rhetoric. In the first part of the paper, we highlight the main current resilience translations into facts, narrated and dragged up in the theoretical frames of the disciplines more or less related to the urban dimension. In the second part, risks connected to the perverse use of the resilience metaphor are stressed. Cities - and citizens - may be honoured for being adaptable to changes, but this could have been done in order to preserve the current state of equilibrium among powers and stakeholders of the actual urban governance

Il paper indaga sul ruolo che le piccole e medie citta (pmc) possono svolgere nell’economia della conoscenza e, in particolare, nella creativity-led economy. Dopo aver definito le peculiarita di questo modello di sviluppo, se ne individuano le economie di agglomerazione rilevanti, con particolare attenzione a quelle urbane. L’esame conduce a formulare un insieme di ipotesi sulle logiche localizzative delle attivita tipiche della creativity-led economy e sul possibile ruolo delle pmc. Tali ipotesi vengono sottoposte a verifica econometrica, con riferimento al caso italiano. I risultati mostrano che le pmc possono svolgere un ruolo anche strutturante, purche inserite in contesti regionali industrializzati.

Monitoring the coefficient of variation (CV) is an effective approach to monitor a process when both the process mean and the standard deviation are not constant but, nevertheless, proportional. Until now, few contributions have investigated the monitoring of the CV for short production runs. This paper proposes an adaptive Shewhart control chart implementing a variable sample size (VSS) strategy in order to monitor the coefficient of variation in a short production run context. Formulas for the truncated average run length are derived. Moreover, a comparison is performed with a Fixed Sampling Rate Shewhart chart for the CV in order to evaluate the performance of each chart in a short run context. An example illustrates the use of this chart on real data.

International audience; The paper illustrates the results of the archaeological investigations carried out on the still-standing structures of the church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in the Umm as-Surab village, in northern Jordan. The building, still relatively well preserved, is considered by the scientific literature as one of the most interesting in the southern Hawrān because of some technical and structural features, among them the high tower built on the prothesis. The analysis of the material remains made possible to identify a building sequence divided into five periods and to investigate the dynamics of the constructive process. We also focused our attention on the identification of the main building techniques (walls, doors, arches and pilasters), which will be part of a broader Chrono-typological Atlas of the Hawrān region. With these new data, we have further reflected on the building typologies of the tower and the church, so trying to contribute to the current debate.; Il contributo di seguito presentato illustra i risultati delle indagini archeologiche effettuate sugli elevati della chiesa dei Santi Sergio e Bacco nel villaggio di Umm as-Surab, Giordania settentrionale. L’edificio, ancora relativamente ben conservato, è considerato dalla letteratura specialistica come una tra le chiese più interessanti del sud Hawrān per alcune caratteristiche tecnico-strutturali, tra cui l’alta torre costruita sulla prothesis. L’ analisi dei resti materiali ci ha permesso di individuare una sequenza edilizia suddivisa in cinque periodi e di approfondire le dinamiche di cantiere. Ci siamo inoltre concentrati sull’individuazione delle principali tecniche costruttive (murature, aperture, archi e pilastri), che faranno parte di un più ampio Atlante Cronotipologico della regione dello Hawrān. Con questi nuovi dati abbiamo ulteriormente riflettuto sulle tipologie edilizie della torre e della chiesa, cercando di contribuire al dibattito corrente

The computational investigation of protein folding is one of the most relevant challenges in bioinformatics. In this field, simplified lattice models for proteins like the classical HP model have been proposed, and different lattice types can be employed. A promising approach to find ground state conformations relies on Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), a popular biology-inspired heuristics: several variants have been implemented so far, on square lattices in 2D and 3D.In this paper we propose a general scheme of ACO for HP on both square and triangular lattices in 2D and 3D, including also a novel initialization procedure for the pheromone matrix according to some pre-computed suboptimal conformations. The algorithm behavior, considering the influence of the optional parts and the required parameter tuning, is investigated for the first time with experiments that systematically span different lattice types. The test outcomes are useful in understanding how to operate on the algorithm parameters.The presented results are used to sketch out general guidelines for the practical employment of ACO in conformational studies, depending on the chosen sequences and lattice types.

On-the-fly adaptation is where adaptation activities are not explicitly represented at design time but are discovered and managed at run time considering all aspect of the execution environments. In this paper we present a comprehensive framework for the on-the-fly adaptation of highly dynamic service-based systems. The framework relies on advanced context-aware adaptation techniques that allow for i incremental handling of complex adaptation problems by interleaving problem solving and solution execution, ii reduction in the complexity of each adaptation problem by minimizing the search space according to the specific execution context, and iii reuse of adaptation solutions by learning from past executions. We evaluate the applicability of the proposed approach on a real world scenario based on the operation of the Bremen sea port.

The term smart city holds different meanings, and in the literature various definitions can be found such as digital city or open city, thus making reference to a possible evolution toward a kind of high-tech urban milieu where social participation and inclusion are the main features. The paper is bound to explore the link between ICT diffusion and smart growth, putting in evidence how high-tech information technology is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for a true smart development. By means of first-hand quantitative as well as qualitative data deriving from the research project “Regional ICT Infrastructures and development of High Intensity Knowledge Actvity and Services (HIKAS)”, conducted in Piedmont region in 2010-12, and a number of territorial WI-Fi case-studies, an analysis is offered about the diffusion and quality of infrastructures and related services effectively adopted by citizens, enterprises and public administrations, in order to verify to what extent ICT can really induce high intensity knowledge activities and services able to promote social participation and cooperation. The theme of governance and participation is also dealt under comparative terms, in order to demonstrate that a legislative model, like the so-called digital agenda, is necessary, as it has been the case for the project Hacia una ciudad inteligente bound at developing Mexico City into a digital and knowledge city.

A new vision-based obstacle avoidance technique for indoor navigation of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is presented in this paper. The vehicle trajectory is modified according to the obstacles detected through the Depth Map of the surrounding environment, which is computed online using the Optical Flow provided by a single onboard omnidirectional camera. An existing closed-form solution for the absolute-scale velocity estimation based on visual correspondences and inertial measurements is generalized and here employed for the Depth Map estimation. Moreover, a dynamic region-of-interest for image features extraction and a self-limitation control for the navigation velocity are proposed to improve safety in view of the estimated vehicle velocity. The proposed solutions are validated by means of simulations.