Educating generation next: screen media use, digital competencies and tertiary education

Investigates the use of screen media and digital competencies of higher education students in light of the growing focus on new media and e-learning in Australian universities. Abstract The authors argue that there is a need to resist the commonplace utopian and dystopian discourses surrounding new media technological innovation, and approach the issue of its potential roles and limitations in higher education settings with due care. The article analyses survey data collected from first-year university students to consider what screen media they currently make use of, how frequently these media are interacted with, and in what settings and for what purposes they are used. The article considers what implications the digital practices and competencies of young adults have for pedagogical programs that aim to engage them in virtual environments

Profili funzionali e valorazione imprenditoriale in tema di "demanio marittimo"

Il demanio marittimo può essere definito come un complesso di beni, esi¬stenti in natura o fatti con il lavoro dell’uomo, destinati a soddisfare gli in¬teressi pubblici attinenti alla navigazione e volti a consentire la percezione delle molteplici utilità che la collettività e i singoli traggono dal mare2. I beni demaniali marittimi devono essere ricompresi nel più ampio ge¬nere dei beni che costituiscono il demanio pubblico, enumerati in modo tassativo dalla legge e sottoposti ad una disciplina giuridica particolare. Per effetto della sottoscrizione da parte della Pubblica Amministrazione e del privato degli allegati accordi/convenzione, il porto di Napoli ha proget¬tato e realizzato nel rispetto della legge 413/98 ed in un arco temporale che va dal novembre 2000 al dicembre 2004 gli adeguamenti funzionali del¬le banchine/moli e calate: Bausan, Pollena, Flavio Gioia ed Immacolatella Vecchia, recentemente inaugurati dal Ministro protempore dei Trasporti e delle Infrastrutture. È di tutta evidenza che l’intesa pubblico-privato che il legislatore ha inteso individuare con l’emanazione di norme finalizzate alla semplificazione degli iter procedurali (vedi legge 241/’90) ed alla in¬tegrazione del modello codicistico (ex art.36 e seguenti del Codice della Navigazione con la legge di riforma dei porti n°84/’94) per quanto attiene alla normativa innovativa che regola le concessioni di banchine/moli e calate nell’interdipendenza tra gli art. 16 e 18 della più volte richiamata legge 84/’94, pur nell’imbarazzante carenza del regolamento ex art.18 a tutt’oggi non emanato, ha rappresentato il contributo al momento più ef¬ficace e dinamico perché i porti italiani, nel rispetto delle loro peculiari di¬versità e concorrenze, facciano sistema nel confrontarsi sulle esperienze realizzate per fronteggiare le nuove sfide dell’agguerrita concorrenza in¬ternazionale del trasporto marittimo. Così, in un futuro prossimo le Au¬torità Portuali che amministrano i porti, d’intesa con il Governo Centrale, si vedranno impegnate in un processo di ristrutturazione e di ulteriore ammodernamento delle infrastrutture portuali, per adeguarle alle muta¬te caratteristiche tecnologiche ed ambientali delle navi

Collecting and Analyzing Failure Data of Bluetooth Personal Area Networks

This work presents a failure data analysis campaign on Bluetooth Personal Area Networks (PANs) conducted on two kind of heterogeneous testbeds (working for more than one year). The obtained results reveal how failures distribution are characterized and suggest how to improve the dependability of Bluetooth PANs. Specically, we dene the failure model and we then identify the most effective recovery actions and masking strategies that can be adopted for each failure. We then integrate the discovered recovery actions and masking strategies in our testbeds, improving the availability and the reliability of 3.64% (up to 36.6%) and 202% (referred to the Mean Time To Failure), respectively

The Case for Genitive Case in Bulgarian

In this paper, we argue, differently from both traditional and modern analyses, that Bulgarian possessive clitics are underlyingly either dative or genitive despite the morphological merger between these two Cases in the language. To this effect, we advance several arguments from possessor constructions, nominalizations, argument extraction, distribution of clitics in contexts involvong dative and genitive cases. The conclusions reached in the paper may have important consequences not only for a better understanding of case relations and their structural properties but also for the study of case syncretism (the genitive-dative merger) in the history of Bulgarian as a Balkan language

Who is he now? The unearthly David Bowie

The question that has led and organised this special edition on David Bowie draws provocative attention to the way his career has been narrated by the constant transformation and recasting of his star image. By asking who is he now? the edition recognises that Bowie is a chameleon figure, one who reinvents himself in and across the media and art platforms that he is found in. This process of renewal means that Bowie constantly kills himself, an artistic suicide that allows for dramatic event moments to populate his music, and for a rebirth to emerge at the same time or shortly after he expires. Bowie has killed Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, Halloween Jack, Aladdin Sane, and the Thin White Duke to name but a few of his alter-egos. In this environment of death and resurrection, Bowie becomes a heightened, exaggerated enigma, a figure who constantly seems to be artificial or constructed and yet whose work asks us to look for his real self behind the mask &ndash; to ask the question, is this now the real Bowie that faces us? Of course, the answer is always no because Bowie is a contradictory constellation of images, stories and sounds whose star image rests on remaining an enigma, and like all stars in our midst, exists as a representation. Nonetheless, with Bowie - with this hyper- schizophrenic, confessional artist &ndash; the fan desire to get to know him, to immerse oneself in his worlds, fantasises, and projections - is particularly acute. With the unexpected release of The Next Day ((Iso/Columbia) on the 8th March 2013, the day of his 66th birthday, Bowie was resurrected again. The album and subsequent music videos drew explicitly on the question of who Bowie was and had been, creating a media frenzy around his past work, fan nostalgia for previous Bowie incarnations, and a pleasurable negotiation with his new output. In this special edition, edited by life-long Bowie fans, with contributions from die-hard Bowie aficionados, we seek to find him in the fragments and remains of what once was, and in the new enchantments of his latest work.</span

Three phenomena discriminating between “raising” and “matching” relative clauses

The article discusses three phenomena (relative clause extraposition, stacking and weak island sensitivity) which are incompatible with bona fide “raising” relatives, like the amount relatives studied by Carlson (1977), but not with ordinary restrictive relatives. They thus appear to provide clear evidence that a “matching” derivation of relative clauses is needed in addition to the “raising” one

Integrated Support for Handoff Management and Context-Awareness in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

The overwhelming success of mobile devices and wireless communications is stressing the need for the development of mobility-aware services. Device mobility requires services adapting their behavior to sudden context changes and being aware of handoffs, which introduce unpredictable delays and intermittent discontinuities. Heterogeneity of wireless technologies (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G) complicates the situation, since a different treatment of context-awareness and handoffs is required for each solution. This paper presents a middleware architecture designed to ease mobility-aware service development. The architecture hides technology-specific mechanisms and offers a set of facilities for context awareness and handoff management. The architecture prototype works with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, which today represent two of the most widespread wireless technologies. In addition, the paper discusses motivations and design details in the challenging context of mobile multimedia streaming applications