Paesaggio, Appunti

Le esperienze interpretative di progetti di paesaggio, sono scritture che raccontano cartografie immateriali e non convenzionalmente rappresentabili come sono gli spazi di relazione, le forme dell’esistenza, le tante realtà del fenomeno urbano, l’appropriazione di un immaginario collettivo

Il Parco dello Stretto. Spazio pubblico liquido, patrimonio culturale

The article presents a reflection on the establishment of the Messina Strait Park as an opportunity to recognize a unique and organic identity to its landscape, at multiple scales and for very specific cultural, perceptive, emotional and design values.The value of water as “liquid public space” is entrusted with a modern concept of landscape as inseparable from its own sea, underlined by examining some European examples where “special” sea areas are introduced into legal, administrative and urban planning systems, which recognize the value water an identity of “place”.Mineral, fluid space, mobility and transit infrastructure, of human measures and conditions, the Strait is Cultural Heritage because it is imbued with individual and collective identities, with material and intangible values.Bound to the habit of living it and inhabit it, in everyday life as well as in the feelings of belonging, the Park of the Strait in compliance with the Agenda 2030 (Goal 11) addresses, can invent the reference to new ways of reading, interpretation, intervention, interaction between environment and community, between place and the people who live there as a thought and a complex design process.A cultural statement that substantiates the establishment of the Park of the Strait as an emblematic case of landscape heritage, cultural product, regeneration and requalification engine, strategic and innovative, in the unconventional design of its landscape. Il Parco dello Stretto. Spazio Pubblico liquido, patrimonio culturaleL’articolo presenta una riflessione sull’istituzione del Parco dello Stretto di Messina come opportunità per riconoscere al suo paesaggio un’identità unica e organica, a molteplici scale e per valori culturali, percettivi, emozionali e progettuali del tutto specifici.All’acqua come “spazio pubblico liquido” è affidato un concetto moderno di paesaggio come inscindibile dal proprio mare, sottolineato dalla disanima di alcuni esempi europei dove ambiti di mare “speciale” vengono introdotti in ordinamenti giuridici, amministrativi, urbanistici, che riconoscono al valore acqua una identità di “luogo”.Spazio minerale, fluido, infrastruttura di mobilità e transito, di misure e condizioni umane, lo Stretto è Patrimonio Culturale perché imbevuto di identità individuali e collettive, di valori materiali e intangibili.Nella consuetudine di viverlo e abitarlo, nelle ragioni del quotidiano come nei sentimenti di appartenenza, il Parco dello Stretto, in adesione agli indirizzi di Agenda 2030 (Goal 11) può inventare il riferimento a nuove modalità di lettura, interpretazione, intervento, interazione tra ambiente e comunità, tra luogo e le persone che lo abitano come pensiero e  processo di progetto complesso.Una presa d’atto culturale che sostanzia l’istituzione del Parco dello Stretto come caso emblematico di patrimonio paesaggistico, prodotto culturale, motore di rigenerazione e riqualificazione, strategico e innovativo, nel progetto non convenzionale del suo paesaggioL’articolo presenta una riflessione sull’istituzione del Parco dello Stretto di Messina come opportunità per riconoscere al suo paesaggio un’identità unica e organica, a molteplici scale e per valori culturali, percettivi, emozionali e progettuali del tutto specifici.All’acqua come “spazio pubblico liquido” è affidato un concetto moderno di paesaggio come inscindibile dal proprio mare, sottolineato dalla disanima di alcuni esempi europei dove ambiti di mare “speciale” vengono introdotti in ordinamenti giuridici, amministrativi, urbanistici, che riconoscono al valore acqua una identità di “luogo”.Spazio minerale, fluido, infrastruttura di mobilità e transito, di misure e condizioni umane, lo Stretto è patrimonio culturale perché imbevuto di identità individuali e collettive, di valori materiali e intangibili.Nella consuetudine di viverlo e abitarlo, nelle ragioni del quotidiano come nei sentimenti di appartenenza, il Parco dello Stretto, in adesione agli indirizzi di Agenda 2030 (Goal 11) può inventare il riferimento a nuove modalità di lettura, interpretazione, intervento, interazione tra ambiente e comunità, tra luogo e le persone che lo abitano come pensiero e  processo di progetto complesso.Una presa d’atto culturale che sostanzia l’istituzione del Parco dello Stretto come caso emblematico di patrimonio paesaggistico, prodotto culturale, motore di rigenerazione e riqualificazione, strategico e innovativo, nel progetto non convenzionale del suo paesaggio. The Park of the Strait. Liquid Public Space, Cultural HeritageThe article presents a reflection on the establishment of the Messina Strait Park as an opportunity to recognize a unique and organic identity to its landscape, at multiple scales and for very specific cultural, perceptive, emotional and design values.The value of water as “liquid public space” is entrusted with a modern concept of landscape as inseparable from its own sea, underlined by examining some European examples where “special” sea areas are introduced into legal, administrative and urban planning systems, which recognize the value water an identity of “place”.Mineral, fluid space, mobility and transit infrastructure, of human measures and conditions, the Strait is Cultural Heritage because it is imbued with individual and collective identities, with material and intangible values.Bound to the habit of living it and inhabit it, in everyday life as well as in the feelings of belonging, the Park of the Strait in compliance with the Agenda 2030 (Goal 11) addresses, can invent the reference to new ways of reading, interpretation, intervention, interaction between environment and community, between place and the people who live there as a thought and a complex design process.A cultural statement that substantiates the establishment of the Park of the Strait as an emblematic case of landscape heritage, cultural product, regeneration and requalification engine, strategic and innovative, in the unconventional design of its landscape

Paesaggio Europa.Linee guida per l'attuazione della Convenzione europea del paesaggio

Traduzione italiana e commento critico delle linee guida per lʼattuazione della Convenzione Europea del Paesaggio, Cm/Rec (2008) 3 Iniziativa promossa a cura della Società Scientifica Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio (IASLA): gruppo di lavoro 2020-2021: Daniela Colafranceschi e Gabriele Paolinelli (coordinamento), Fabio Di Carlo, Ludovica Marinaro, Maria Livia Olivetti, Emma Salizzoni

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass

Impacts of the Tropical Pacific/Indian Oceans on the Seasonal Cycle of the West African Monsoon

The current consensus is that drought has developed in the Sahel during the second half of the twentieth century as a result of remote effects of oceanic anomalies amplified by local land–atmosphere interactions. This paper focuses on the impacts of oceanic anomalies upon West African climate and specifically aims to identify those from SST anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Oceans during spring and summer seasons, when they were significant. Idealized sensitivity experiments are performed with four atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs). The prescribed SST patterns used in the AGCMs are based on the leading mode of covariability between SST anomalies over the Pacific/Indian Oceans and summer rainfall over West Africa. The results show that such oceanic anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Ocean lead to a northward shift of an anomalous dry belt from the Gulf of Guinea to the Sahel as the season advances. In the Sahel, the magnitude of rainfall anomalies is comparable to that obtained by other authors using SST anomalies confined to the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean. The mechanism connecting the Pacific/Indian SST anomalies with West African rainfall has a strong seasonal cycle. In spring (May and June), anomalous subsidence develops over both the Maritime Continent and the equatorial Atlantic in response to the enhanced equatorial heating. Precipitation increases over continental West Africa in association with stronger zonal convergence of moisture. In addition, precipitation decreases over the Gulf of Guinea. During the monsoon peak (July and August), the SST anomalies move westward over the equatorial Pacific and the two regions where subsidence occurred earlier in the seasons merge over West Africa. The monsoon weakens and rainfall decreases over the Sahel, especially in August.Peer reviewe

Severe early onset preeclampsia: short and long term clinical, psychosocial and biochemical aspects

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific disorder commonly defined as de novo hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks gestational age. It occurs in approximately 3-5% of pregnancies and it is still a major cause of both foetal and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide1. As extensive research has not yet elucidated the aetiology of preeclampsia, there are no rational preventive or therapeutic interventions available. The only rational treatment is delivery, which benefits the mother but is not in the interest of the foetus, if remote from term. Early onset preeclampsia (<32 weeks’ gestational age) occurs in less than 1% of pregnancies. It is, however often associated with maternal morbidity as the risk of progression to severe maternal disease is inversely related with gestational age at onset2. Resulting prematurity is therefore the main cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in patients with severe preeclampsia3. Although the discussion is ongoing, perinatal survival is suggested to be increased in patients with preterm preeclampsia by expectant, non-interventional management. This temporising treatment option to lengthen pregnancy includes the use of antihypertensive medication to control hypertension, magnesium sulphate to prevent eclampsia and corticosteroids to enhance foetal lung maturity4. With optimal maternal haemodynamic status and reassuring foetal condition this results on average in an extension of 2 weeks. Prolongation of these pregnancies is a great challenge for clinicians to balance between potential maternal risks on one the eve hand and possible foetal benefits on the other. Clinical controversies regarding prolongation of preterm preeclamptic pregnancies still exist – also taking into account that preeclampsia is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the Netherlands5 - a debate which is even more pronounced in very preterm pregnancies with questionable foetal viability6-9. Do maternal risks of prolongation of these very early pregnancies outweigh the chances of neonatal survival? Counselling of women with very early onset preeclampsia not only comprises of knowledge of the outcome of those particular pregnancies, but also knowledge of outcomes of future pregnancies of these women is of major clinical importance. This thesis opens with a review of the literature on identifiable risk factors of preeclampsia

Search for heavy resonances decaying to two Higgs bosons in final states containing four b quarks

A search is presented for narrow heavy resonances X decaying into pairs of Higgs bosons (H) in proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at root s = 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb(-1). The search considers HH resonances with masses between 1 and 3 TeV, having final states of two b quark pairs. Each Higgs boson is produced with large momentum, and the hadronization products of the pair of b quarks can usually be reconstructed as single large jets. The background from multijet and t (t) over bar events is significantly reduced by applying requirements related to the flavor of the jet, its mass, and its substructure. The signal would be identified as a peak on top of the dijet invariant mass spectrum of the remaining background events. No evidence is observed for such a signal. Upper limits obtained at 95 confidence level for the product of the production cross section and branching fraction sigma(gg -> X) B(X -> HH -> b (b) over barb (b) over bar) range from 10 to 1.5 fb for the mass of X from 1.15 to 2.0 TeV, significantly extending previous searches. For a warped extra dimension theory with amass scale Lambda(R) = 1 TeV, the data exclude radion scalar masses between 1.15 and 1.55 TeV