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Do university students know how they perform?
The aim of the research is to study the capacity for self-evaluation of University studentsundergoing tests involving mathematics, linguistic and formal reasoning. Subjects wereasked to estimate the number of correct answers and subsequently to compare theirperformance with that of their peers. We divided the subjects into three groups on the basisof performance: poor, middle and top performers. The results demonstrate that all thesubjects in all tests showed good awareness of their level of actual performance. Analyzingcomparative assessments, the results reported in literature by Kruger and Dunning wereconfirmed: poor performers tend to significantly overestimate their own performance whilst top performers tend to underestimate it. This can be interpreted as a demonstration thatthe accuracy of comparative self-evaluations depends on a number of variables: cognitiveand metacognitive factors and aspects associated with self-representation. Our conclusion is that cognitive and metacognitive processes work as âsubmergedâ in highly subjectiverepresentations, allowing dynamics related to safeguarding the image one has of oneself toplay a role
Characterization of the Hamamatsu R11265-103-M64 multi-anode photomultiplier tube
The aim of this paper is to fully characterize the new multi-anode
photomultiplier tube R11265-103-M64, produced by Hamamatsu. Its high effective
active area (77%), its pixel size, the low dark signal rate and the capability
to detect single photon signals make this tube suitable for an application in
high energy physics, such as for RICH detectors. Four tubes and two different
bias voltage dividers have been tested. The results of a standard
characterization of the gain and the anode uniformity, the dark signal rate,
the cross-talk and the device behaviour as a function of temperature have been
studied. The behaviour of the tube is studied in a longitudinal magnetic field
up to 100 Gauss. Shields made of a high permeability material are also
investigated. The deterioration of the device performance due to long time
operation at intense light exposure is studied. A quantitative analysis of the
variation of the gain and the dark signals rate due to the aging is described.Comment: 22 page
Reflecting a⌠âBitâ. What relationship between metacognition and ICT?
Abstract
Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in educational environments has become widespread in latest years. Since research underlined the important role played by metacognition and self-regulation abilities in fostering learning outcomes, the relationship between these aspects appears to be particularly worthy of investigation. In this review, we present 14 studies that have deepened the relationship between ICT, metacognitive skills and learning outcomes by identifying two main categories. Some articles investigated the effects of ICT environments combined with metacognitive aspects of learning outcomes, while others investigated the reciprocal relationship between ICT and metacognition. In general, from our review, the interaction between ICT and metacognition in producing better learning outcomes appears well established and the results highlight a bi-directional relationship between metacognition and ICT, but also allow to draw attention to gaps requiring further research
An operator expansion for integrable quantum field theories
A large class of quantum field theories on 1+1 dimensional Minkowski space,
namely, certain integrable models, has recently been constructed rigorously by
Lechner. However, the construction is very abstract and the concrete form of
local observables in these models remains largely unknown. Aiming for more
insight into their structure, we establish a series expansion for observables,
similar but not identical to the well-known form factor expansion. This
expansion will be the basis for a characterization and explicit construction of
local observables, to be discussed elsewhere. Here, we establish the expansion
independent of the localization aspect, and analyze its behavior under
space-time symmetries. We also clarify relations with deformation methods in
quantum field theory, specifically, with the warped convolution in the sense of
Buchholz and Summers.Comment: minor corrections and clarifications, as published in J. Phys A; 24
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Parental Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Friend or Foe? A Moderation Analysis of the Association between Maternal Anxiety and Childrenâs Stress in Italian Dyads
There is evidence that parental psychological disorders in stressful situations increase the risk of disturbance in child development. This has been investigated in disasters but not in pandemics, which are sensibly different from other types of traumatic events. We investigated the relationship between mothersâ anxiety and their childrenâs (self-reported) stress and the boundary conditions of this association during the first full COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mothers might have increased their protective attitudes to secure and support their children; we tested whether the relationship between mothersâ anxiety and childrenâs stress was weaker (buffer effect) or stronger (over-protection effect) when perceived parental support was high. We measured mothersâ anxiety, childrenâs perceived parental support, and childrenâs stress in a sample of 414 8- to 11-year-old primary school children (229 females, Mage = 9.44) and 395 mothers (Mage = 42.84). Results supported the over-protection scenario and provided the first evidence for the âhelicopter-parent effectâ during the COVID-19 pandemic: mothersâ anxiety was positively associated with childrenâs stress only when perceived support was high. Our finding highlights the importance of educating parents (for example, via emotional training) to prevent the worst consequences of adverse events in children and promote their mental health
InfoFaunaFVG: a novel progressive web application for wildlife surveillance
The Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences (DI4A) at the University of Udine, in collaboration with Friuli Venezia Giulia regional authorities, within northeastern Italy, set up a wildlife monitoring and surveillance regional network, named InfoFaunaFVG. Here we describe the development and application of this data repository system based on a novel progressive web application, and report the data gathered in the first two and a half years of its use. InfoFaunaFVG is made of a Web Database and an integrated WebGIS system. In particular, the following open source softwares are used: Apache HTTP Server, Oracle MySQL, Symfony, Apache Tomcat, GeoServer, OpenLayers. The web app can be accessed from any web browser or by installing the progressive web application in the desktop or mobile devices. In short, operating from November 2019, InfoFaunaFVG currently (April 2022) contains a total of 40,175 records, from 300 different users, from 16 institutions. Among all species recorded, mammals were 40% (16,018) of the total, whereas avian species represented 59% (23,741), and others (reptiles and amphibians) 1% (416), respectively. Two hundred twenty-six different species (175 avian and 51 mammals) were recorded. Details about causes of death and live animal rescue were reported. To date, InfoFaunaFVG has proven to be a successful wildlife data repository system providing high quality consistent, accurate and traceable data. These had a considerable impact on regional wildlife governance. In the authorsâ knowledge, InfoFaunaFVG is the first example described in literature of such a progressive web application, coordinated on an institutional level, and not based on voluntary-citizen observations. InfoFaunaFVG has the potential to become the largest wildlife monitoring and surveillance data repository system on a national level
Sport identification, moral perceptions and collective action: A study with young football players
We conducted a cross-sectional study investigating whether sport identification predicts different forms of collective action intentions aimed to redress the unfavourable condition faced by disadvantaged individuals. In doing so, moral perceptions (moral convictions, moral violation and moral obligation) were tested as mediators. Participants were young football players from the grassroots of a professional Italian club (N = 111). Results revealed that sport identification was indirectly associated with greater willingness to engage in both normative and non-normative solidarity-based collective action via stronger moral obligation perceptions; moral convictions mediated the relationship between sport identification and normative collective action, while no mediation effects emerged for moral violation. We discuss findings in relation to collective action and sport research
Preliminary non-invasive study of Roman glasses from Jesolo (Venice), Italy
Archaeological excavations at âLe Mureâ site (Jesolo, VE, Italy) have followed each other since the sixties, when the first evidence of an Early Medieval church (6thâ7th century AD) was found under the ruins of a Medieval Cathedral (11thâ12th AD). The last few years of investigations by CaâFoscari University have led to the collection of large amounts of glass fragments, including many tesserae, dating between the 4th and the 12th centuries AD. A selection of glass fragments and mosaic tesserae taken from the excavations performed in 2013â14 at this site were studied by means of reflectance spectroscopy in order to identify their chromophore ions, in particular Cu0, Cu2+, Co2+, Fe2+ and Fe3+, which were detected in both transparent and opaque samples. In addition, the use of high resolution close-up images allowed for the attribution of surface characteristics to specific manufacturing techniques, while glass chemistry was studied in order to group them into known compositional classes. This study, carried out by non-invasive analytical techniques
that allowed for the acquisition of preliminary data, will prove useful in driving further methodologies involving other non-invasive and micro-invasive analysis in order to obtain archaeometric information that can be related to concurrent archaeological results
Risalire il fiume. Cuoldi Ciastiel ad Andrazza e la tarda romanitĂ nell'alta valle del Tagliamento
L'articolo discute due contesti archeologici indagati dall'UniversitĂ Ca' Foscari: un castrum tardo romano e una necropoli di epoca altomedievale (VII secolo), ubicati nell'alta valle del Tagliamento (UD). Gli scavi sono stati eseguiti nel quadro di un progetto generale sulla transizione antichitĂ -medioevo in una vallata alpina. I risultati consentono di ricostruire, a grandi linee, le dinamiche del popolamento in un momento cruciale per la storia della valle e indicano nel VI secolo un momento di forte cesura
Asymmetric Dark Matter and Dark Radiation
Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) models invoke a particle-antiparticle asymmetry,
similar to the one observed in the Baryon sector, to account for the Dark
Matter (DM) abundance. Both asymmetries are usually generated by the same
mechanism and generally related, thus predicting DM masses around 5 GeV in
order to obtain the correct density. The main challenge for successful models
is to ensure efficient annihilation of the thermally produced symmetric
component of such a light DM candidate without violating constraints from
collider or direct searches. A common way to overcome this involves a light
mediator, into which DM can efficiently annihilate and which subsequently
decays into Standard Model particles. Here we explore the scenario where the
light mediator decays instead into lighter degrees of freedom in the dark
sector that act as radiation in the early Universe. While this assumption makes
indirect DM searches challenging, it leads to signals of extra radiation at BBN
and CMB. Under certain conditions, precise measurements of the number of
relativistic species, such as those expected from the Planck satellite, can
provide information on the structure of the dark sector. We also discuss the
constraints of the interactions between DM and Dark Radiation from their
imprint in the matter power spectrum.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figures, to be published in JCAP, minor changes to match
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