A critical overview of local energy communities: State-of-the-art, real-life applications & challenges and tackling the academia-industry gap

The transition from a centralized to a decentralized energy network has grown significantly. As a result, bidirectional energy platforms for consumers and producers have been established. In support, technological advancement in distribution networks is carried out, encouraging local consumers to participate in energy production, leading to the emergence of LECs, empowering them to captivate, generate and share renewable energy. A comprehensive review of LECs is presented in this paper, addressing their operational characteristics, control strategies, market interactions, regulatory frameworks, and real-world implementation challenges. Moreover, the paper provides the technical challenges related to grid integration, economic, and regulatory policies associated with peer-to-peer interaction are some of the hindrances in deploying a successful LEC strategy. The paper identifies a critical gap between the academic and real-world environment that can be bridged through realistic assumptions, adaptive control strategies, and measurements of cyber threats. Additionally, pilot projects are assessed to understand the feasibility and impact of LECs in real-world environments. This study proposes the requirements for establishing advanced network and monitoring technology, dynamic pricing strategy, and revised regulatory policies for the successful implementation of the LEC strategy

The creaky voice in disease: "{ { Maronna mia ’u teng’ ’mpizz’ ’e lengua } } [DGmaLc01N, F#72]"

short introduction to the creaky voice in diseas

Le scienziate nei movimenti antinucleari e ambientalisti durante la guerra fredda

During the Cold War, women scientists (mostly physicists, biologists, radioecologists) had a crucial role in promoting national and inter/transnational forms of activism against nuclear war and nuclear facilities. Through their research, they highlighted the health effects nuclear testing, explosions and power plants had on people’s health and the natural environment. They used their studies to inform citizens, and mobilized around antinuclear, pacifist and, increasingly, environmental movements. By doing so, they also carried out a strong feminist critique of the “neutrality” of science, linking their pacifist and environmental activism to the challenge of gender forms of discrimination in scientific institutions. The chapter will provide examples from specific national cases, while at the same time highlighting the inter/transnational forms of activism, collaboration and exchange carried out by women scientists

High order nonstandard finite-difference methods

Nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) methods have been considered to overcome some issues of standard methods, particularly when the numerical solution must preserve important properties of the exact solution. These issues increase for high order methods. In this paper we first derive a general procedure to obtain unconditionally positive second order NSFD methods. Furthermore, by suitably adding some parameters αi within these schemes, we show that it is still possible to get positivity, and also to preserve other qualitative properties of the exact solution. In fact, for each particular problem we can get optimal values of αi that guarantee positivity, elementary stability and the minimization of the local truncation error, being possible to achieve also third order nonstandard schemes, which are not present in the literature. As an example of use, we employ the developed theory to derive positive and elementary stable NSFD methods of order one, two and three for a predator-prey model, showing their advantages over other nonstandard methods from the literature

Two Families of W-Methods: Analysis and Application on Battery Models

This paper focuses on the efficient numerical solution of stiff initial value problems arising from the spatial discretization of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). In particular, this work shows an efficient implementation of two families of linearly implicit numerical methods recently introduced in the scientific literature: the TASE-W methods and the singly TASE-Runge-Kutta methods. These methods are derived exploiting the so-called TASE (Time-Accurate and highly Stable Explicit) operators, and are particular cases of W-methods. We deeply analyze the properties of consistency, stability, and computational cost of TASE-W and singly TASE-Runge-Kutta methods, employing them for the solution of a system of two coupled PDEs for the description of the charge/discharge processes in electric batteries

tavola rotonda: partecipazione

transessualismo e storia del diritto sul tem

Inclusive School: A Task (Still and Always) Ahead of Us

It is widely recognized that since the 1970s, Italy has had one of the most advanced legal frameworks supporting the inclusion of individuals with disabilities within the school system. In this paper, I undertake a philosophical-educational reflection to explore some of the traditions that may have contributed to shaping the cultural background of Italy’s commitment to inclusive education. Adopting a distinction drawn by Rorty (1998), my approach does not aim to provide a historical reconstruction—i.e., a description of the theories that have directly influenced the scholarly debate on special education and inclusion. Rather, it constitutes a form of Geistesgeschichte in Rorty’s specific sense of “canon-formation.” In this endeavor, I take my point of departure from the birth of the Italian Republic. While Italy does not have a tradition of constitutional patriotism in the strictest sense, the Italian Constitution—rooted in explicitly antifascist values—has served as the normative reference point for subsequent legislation on inclusive education (Arconzo, 2020). Moreover, it has provided a framework of ideals and principles, replacing the concept of the ethical State with an emphasis on the individual and the intermediate bodies of society. I will begin by examining the notion of the ethical State as it was articulated in his latest (and, indeed, extreme) reflection by Giovanni Gentile, the most eminent and influential educational philosopher of early 20th-century Italy. In a dramatic and, to a large extent, testamentary book published in 1943, Gentile introduced the idea of the “transcendental society” or “society in interiore homine.” I argue that, even setting aside his Fascist allegiances, the most problematic aspect of Gentile’s thought—particularly from the perspective of a philosophy of inclusion—is precisely this central notion in his late philosophy. In contrast with it, I will introduce what has been termed the “pedagogy of dissent” (Zangrilli, 1973), associated with the figures of Aldo Capitini, Don Lorenzo Milani, and Danilo Dolci. Although, to the best of my knowledge, none of these thinkers directly contributed to the discourse on inclusive education concerning individuals with disabilities, their theories and educational practices offer a significant Italian trajectory for conceptualizing inclusion. In particular, Capitini—a former student of Gentile—reverses his teacher’s philosophy from within, introducing the idea of “openness” as a meta-value of antifascism and, arguably, of any inclusive endeavor. Similarly, Danilo Dolci and Don Milani offer compelling perspectives on inclusion (broadly understood) as a fundamental task of democratic society. Finally, I will briefly touch on the anti-institutionalization theories of Franco Basaglia—a psychiatrist with a strong philosophical background—as yet another significant influence on the Italian approach to inclusion. As stated earlier, my aim is not to provide a historical reconstruction but rather to outline a preliminary map of the Italian contribution to conceiving inclusion as the central axis of what Dewey termed creative democracy—a phrase that also inspires the title of this paper. This reference to Dewey is not merely an external addition to my argument but rather a natural extension of it, given the significant influence of his philosophical and educational work on the reconstruction of Italian educational discourse after World War II