Competenze linguistiche e discipline specialistiche: possibili interazioni nell’ambito della mediazione linguistica

L'articolo descrive il poster presentato al XII Congresso Internazionale AItLA il cui intento era esplicitare le modalità di organizzazione dei corsi di Lingua Inglese (C. Pennarola) e di Lingua Tedesca (A. Bandini) della facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. In considerazione del ruolo veicolare attribuito alle competenze linguistiche nell’ambito delle Scienze Politiche e senza perdere di vista sia il contesto formativo dei corsi di studio nei quali sono inseriti gli insegnamenti, che gli interessi culturali dagli studenti ad essi iscritti, i corsi si propongono come obiettivo formativo comune lo sviluppo di una competenza sia linguistica che metalinguistica e comunicativa, specifica dell’ambito politico-istituzionale. Essi propongono materiali didattici autentici relativi all’ambito politico, che interagiscono con i contenuti disciplinari delle materie fondamentali dei Corsi di Laurea, contestualizzando in tal modo l’apprendimento linguistico nel percorso formativo nel quale è inserito

Total Energy Expenditure and Body Composition of Children with Developmental Disabilities

Background Obesity prevalence is increased in children with developmental disabilities, specifically in children with spina bifida and Down syndrome. Energy expenditure, a critical aspect of weight management, has been extensively studied in the typically developing population, but not adequately studied in children with developmental disabilities. Objective Determine energy expenditure, fat-free mass and body fat percentile and the impact of these findings on recommended caloric intake in children with spina bifida and Down syndrome. Methods/Measures This pilot study included 36 children, 18 with spina bifida, 9 with Down syndrome and 9 typically developing children. Half of the children with spina bifida were non-ambulatory. Doubly labeled water was used to measure energy expenditure and body composition. Descriptive statistics described the sample and MANOVA and ANOVA methods were used to evaluate differences between groups. Results Energy expenditure was significantly less for children with spina bifida who primarily used a wheelchair (p = .001) and children with Down syndrome (p = .041) when compared to children without a disability when adjusted for fat-free mass. However, no significant difference was detected in children with spina bifida who ambulated without assistance (p = .072). Conclusions Children with spina bifida and Down syndrome have a significantly decreased energy expenditure which directly impacts recommended caloric intake. No significant difference was detected for children with spina bifida who ambulated, although the small sample size of this pilot study may have limited these findings. Validating these results in a larger study is integral to supporting successful weight management of these children

La coltura della Reseda Biondella. Un primato nell'area di Mutina?

The Ex Cassa di Risparmio site is a reclaimed channel - first Imperial age - located in the center of the city of Modena and it is unique in Emilia Romagna for the archaeobotanical information provided on urban area. The study of seeds/fruits remains produced a framework which can be considered representative for reconstructing the vegetal environment of Mutina at the moment of maximum splendor of the Roman empire and of the city; some species appeared particularly worthy of insights, such as weld - Reseda luteola L., grass species that produces a very stable yellow pigment used since ancient times for dyeing fabrics like wool, linen and silk. The abundance of seeds found in the drained canal suggests agricultural practices implemented in peri-urban area of the city and presumably related to the economy of this prosperous Roman colony. Agriculture should have been a strong element of its economy in addition to ceramic production, sheep farming and the textile industry

Aspects of Iwasawa theory over function fields

We consider Z N p-extensions F of a global function field F and study various aspects of Iwasawa theory with emphasis on the two main themes already (and still) developed in the number fields case as well. When dealing with the Selmer group of an abelian variety A defined over F, we provide all the ingredients to formulate an Iwasawa Main Conjecture relating the Fitting ideal and the p-adic L-function associated to A and F. We do the same, with characteristic ideals and p-adic L-functions, in the case of class groups (using known results on characteristic ideals and Stickelberger elements for Zdp-extensions). The final section provides more details for the cyclotomic ZNp-extension arising from the torsion of the Carlitz module: in particular, we relate cyclotomic units with Bernoulli-Carlitz numbers by a Coates-Wiles homomorphism

A stochastic cellular automaton model for traffic flow with multiple metastable states

A new stochastic cellular automaton (CA) model of traffic flow, which includes slow-to-start effects and a driver's perspective, is proposed by extending the Burgers CA and the Nagel-Schreckenberg CA model. The flow-density relation of this model shows multiple metastable branches near the transition density from free to congested traffic, which form a wide scattering area in the fundamental diagram. The stability of these branches and their velocity distributions are explicitly studied by numerical simulations.Comment: 11 pages, 20 figures, submitted for publicatio

The geography of taste: analyzing cell-phone mobility and social events

This paper deals with the analysis of crowd mobility during special events. We analyze nearly 1 million cell-phone traces and associate their destinations with social events. We show that the origins of people attending an event are strongly correlated to the type of event, with implications in city management, since the knowledge of additive flows can be a critical information on which to take decisions about events management and congestion mitigation

Characterising Probabilistic Processes Logically

In this paper we work on (bi)simulation semantics of processes that exhibit both nondeterministic and probabilistic behaviour. We propose a probabilistic extension of the modal mu-calculus and show how to derive characteristic formulae for various simulation-like preorders over finite-state processes without divergence. In addition, we show that even without the fixpoint operators this probabilistic mu-calculus can be used to characterise these behavioural relations in the sense that two states are equivalent if and only if they satisfy the same set of formulae.Comment: 18 page

A guided tour of asynchronous cellular automata

Research on asynchronous cellular automata has received a great amount of attention these last years and has turned to a thriving field. We survey the recent research that has been carried out on this topic and present a wide state of the art where computing and modelling issues are both represented.Comment: To appear in the Journal of Cellular Automat

Programa de prevenção e controle da anemia infecciosa eqüina no Pantanal Sul-Mato-Grossense.

A Anemia Infecciosa Eqüina (AIE), conhecida mundialmente como febre-do-pântano, é causada por um retrovírus pertencente à subfamília dos lentivírus, que infecta membros da família Equidae. Os estudos iniciais dessa doença foram realizados na França, no século XIX, e, atualmente, apresenta distribuição mundial. A AIE é uma infecção persistente, resultando em episódios periódicos de febre, anemia, hemorragias, redução no número de glóbulos brancos e plaquetas com supressão transitória da resposta imunológica. Sinais clínicos como perda de peso, depressão , desorientação, andar em círculos e febre tem sido observados. Muitos animais não apresentam qualquer sinal clínico (portadores assintomáticos) associado à AIE. O aproveitamento de potros negativos, oriundos de éguas positivas para AIE, é possível, visto que os potros raramente apresentam-se infectados ao nascimento. O desmame dos potros deve ser realizado aos seis meses de idade. Antes dessa idade, a maioria dos potros apresenta resultados positivos ao exame de AIE (IDGA), provavelmente por causa dos anticorpos presentes no colostro, os quais permanecem circulantes no sangue. O desmame não deve ser realizado mais tarde, uma vez qua a atratividade dos potros com relação aos vetores tende a aumentar com a idade, juntamente com o risco de transmissão (Silva et al., 2001).bitstream/item/81125/1/DOC68.pd