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Large language models (LLMs), especially those based on the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) architecture, have becomewidely popularand have beenappliedinvarious fields due to their ability to provide written responses to a diverse range of queries swiftly and accurately. LLMs have demonstrated a transformative and potentially revolutionary capacity in multiple medical subfields, including radiology.1 A promising utilisation of these models is to streamline free-text radiology reports into concise or structured formats, 2,3 thereby enhancing accessibility and organisation of extensive information, potentially facilitating communication among medical professionals. Furthermore, incorporating automated radiological structured reporting systems could enhance clinical procedures, standardising language across institutions, promoting effective communication among healthcare experts, and improving the efficiency of data extraction for research purposes. The present authors share their preliminary results with three LLMs evaluating their accuracy in extracting emergency data recognition within a human-generated emergency radiology report.

While automated vehicle (AV) research has grown steadily in recent years, the impact of automated lane changing behavior on transportation systems remains a largely understudied topic. The present work aims to explore the effects of automated lane changing behavior on urban network efficiency as the penetration rate of AVs increases. To the best of the authors knowledge, this represents the first attempt to do so by isolating the effects of the lane changing behavior; this was obtained by considering AVs with automated lateral control, yet retaining the same longitudinal control characteristics of conventional vehicles (CV). An urban road network located in Hannover, Germany, was modeled with the microsimulation software SUMO, and several scenarios were analyzed, starting from a baseline with only CVs and then progressively increasing the AV penetration rate with 10% increments. Results highlight a modest, but statistically significant, decrease in system performance, with travel times increasing, and average speed and network capacity decreasing, as penetration rates increase. This was likely caused by a more prudent behavior of AVs, which accepted larger gaps than CVs when performing lane changing maneuvers., Comment: Accepted article version of paper presented at the 2023 8th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS)

The aim of this article is to discuss the objection of vicious circularity concerning the relation between the Phenomenology of Spiritand the Science of Logic. My argument is articulated in three stages: (i) in the first place, I will provide a historical reconstruction of the debate and I will try to neutralize the objection of vicious circularity; (ii) in the second place, I will examine the latest positions of the Hegel-Forschungabout the issue of a possibly reciprocal presupposition between the PhG and the SL; (iii) in the third place, I will analyze the meaning of a virtuous circularity, by showing its inner relation to a dynamic conception of systematicity.

Evolutionary dynamics and the current environmental, social and economic emergencies envisage new urban visions requiring designers to shift the reference time’s horizon towards long-period scenarios. The contribution refers to this context with the aim to investigate future inhabiting presenting the results of a design experience of urban regeneration led in Milan for RELIVE 2019 competition. The project draws inspiration from last century’s utopian cities visions and is developed based on an Amplified Requirements Framework projected towards long-term scenarios. The design proposal integrates traditional tools and technologies with the new possibilities offered by Key Enabling Technologies prefiguring a replicable model for a resilient, inclusive and low-environmental impact city., Le dinamiche evolutive e le emergenze ambientali, sociali ed economiche in atto prospettano nuovi immaginari urbani, richiedendo ai progettisti di spostare l’orizzonte temporale di riferimento verso scenari di lungo periodo. Il contributo si inserisce in tale contesto con lo scopo di indagare il tema dell’abitare futuribile, presentando i risultati di un’esperienza progettuale di rigenerazione urbana sviluppata a Milano in occasione del concorso RELIVE 2019. Il progetto trae spunto dalle visioni delle città utopiche del secolo scorso e si sviluppa a partire dalla costruzione di un quadro esigenziale amplificato proiettato verso scenari a lungo termine. La proposta progettuale integra strumenti e tecniche tradizionali con le nuove potenzialità offerte dalle tecnologie abilitanti, prefigurando un modello replicabile di città resiliente, inclusiva e a ridotto impatto ambientale.

Evolutionary dynamics and the current environmental, social and economic emergencies envisage new urban visions requiring designers to shift the reference time’s horizon towards long-period scenarios. The contribution refers to this context with the aim to investigate future inhabiting presenting the results of a design experience of urban regeneration led in Milan for RELIVE 2019 competition. The project draws inspiration from last century’s utopian cities visions and is developed based on an Amplified Requirements Framework projected towards long-term scenarios. The design proposal integrates traditional tools and technologies with the new possibilities offered by Key Enabling Technologies prefiguring a replicable model for a resilient, inclusive and low-environmental impact city., Le dinamiche evolutive e le emergenze ambientali, sociali ed economiche in atto prospettano nuovi immaginari urbani, richiedendo ai progettisti di spostare l’orizzonte temporale di riferimento verso scenari di lungo periodo. Il contributo si inserisce in tale contesto con lo scopo di indagare il tema dell’abitare futuribile, presentando i risultati di un’esperienza progettuale di rigenerazione urbana sviluppata a Milano in occasione del concorso RELIVE 2019. Il progetto trae spunto dalle visioni delle città utopiche del secolo scorso e si sviluppa a partire dalla costruzione di un quadro esigenziale amplificato proiettato verso scenari a lungo termine. La proposta progettuale integra strumenti e tecniche tradizionali con le nuove potenzialità offerte dalle tecnologie abilitanti, prefigurando un modello replicabile di città resiliente, inclusiva e a ridotto impatto ambientale.

The use of neural networks to predict airport passenger activity choices inside the terminal is presented in this paper. Three network architectures are proposed: Feedforward Neural Networks (FNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, and a combination of the two. Inputs to these models are both static (passenger and trip characteristics) and dynamic (real-time passenger tracking). A real-world case study exemplifies the application of these models, using anonymous WiFi traces collected at Bologna Airport to train the networks. The performance of the models were evaluated according to the misclassification rate of passenger activity choices. In the LSTM approach, two different multi-step forecasting strategies are tested. According to our findings, the direct LSTM approach provides better results than the FNN, especially when the prediction horizon is relatively short (20 minutes or less)., Comment: Post-print of paper presented at the 2019 6th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS)

The subject of my dissertation is the problematic status of 'ontology' in Hegel's Science of logic. The main questions that motivate my work are the following: What is the subject of ontology? How can ontology approach its own subject? What kind of presuppositions are implicit when we characterize a philosophical project as 'ontological'?. The aim of my dissertation is to show the reasons why Hegel's speculative philosophy is today absolutely relevant to disclose the presuppositions that are inherent to the ontological questions, and to gain an answer that both challenges the place of ontology in the modern project of a self-grounding philosophy and at the same time paves the way to the possibility of a new self-critical study of being qua being thought. The course of my argument is divided into four sections: Introduction, Part One (chapters 1-3), Part Two (chapters 4-7), Conclusion. The Introduction sketches three leading questions (Why is the definition of 'metaphysics' so controversial? What is the meaning of doing metaphysics? Are there legitimate reasons to distinguish between 'metaphysics' and 'ontology'?) and proposes some criteria for the examination of the status quaestionis concerning Hegel's answer to these questions. The first part of my work is devoted to the motivation and the formulation of the ontological problem. Chapter 1 outlines Hegel's peculiar conception of a presupposition-free thinking, by bringing out the tight connection between presuppositionlessness and the concept of radical skepticism. More specifically, the point of my analysis here is to evaluate the critical function which, on Hegel's view, Pyrrhonian or Greek skepticism exerts on Kant's own concept of critical philosophy. Chapter 2 puts under investigation the motivation that leads the individual subject to commit herself or himself to the project of speculative thinking. On this regard, I discuss Houlgate's claim that the free act by which the subject decides to philosophize const