Identifying Functional Profiles of Challenging Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorder with Unsupervised Machine Learning

Machine learning and deep learning methods are becoming increasingly used in the understanding, identification, and improvement of the diagnosis and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder. People with ASD often exemplify challenging behaviors that can put their safety, education, and general quality of life at risk. Challenging behaviors are driven by one of four functions. The combination of common occurrences of challenging behaviors and their respective behavioral functions are unique to the individual and circumstance, and the most successful therapies account for both challenging behaviors and their respective functions. Therefore, it is important that research is done on these concepts to lead to improvements in therapy and outcomes. In this thesis, we apply a cluster analysis to a sample of 1,416 individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The aim is to find groupings of patients based on the relative frequency of each unique challenging behavior and function pair. As the first machine learning study to focus on combining the behavioral functions and challenging behaviors of ASD, we find that there are some patterns to be found based on eight identified clusters. The results of the study could impact the way that treatment and therapy plans are paved for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

NICOLA MESARITE, DESCRIZIONE DELLA CHIESA DEI SANTI APOSTOLI A COSTANTINOPOLI. INTRODUZIONE, TRADUZIONE E COMMENTO.

This work presents a reappraisal of the thirteenth-century Description of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, by Nikolaos Mesarites. A reviewed translation of the text is offered, along with a new commentary of it, to highlight its features against the historical context to which it belongs

Un tempio «che reca il venerando tipo della croce»: note storiografiche e iconologiche sulla chiesa dei SS. Apostoli a Costantinopoli

This contribution focuses on the now lost Constantinopolitan church of the Holy Apostles. In the first section it examines the modern studies concerning its architectural history and their assumptions, in the light of the major ancient sources referring to it (Procopius of Caesarea, Constantine the Rhodian). In the second section it reconsiders the verse Ekphrasis composed by Constantine the Rhodian in the 10th century and offers a detailed commentary of its rhetorical structure, metaphorical imagery and cultural framework of reference

Un tempio «che reca il venerando tipo della croce»: note storiografiche e iconologiche sulla chiesa dei SS. Apostoli a Costantinopoli

This contribution focuses on the now lost Constantinopolitan church of the Holy Apostles. In the first section it examines the modern studies concerning its architectural history and their assumptions, in the light of the major ancient sources referring to it (Procopius of Caesarea, Constantine the Rhodian). In the second section it reconsiders the verse Ekphrasis composed by Constantine the Rhodian in the 10th century and offers a detailed commentary of its rhetorical structure, metaphorical imagery and cultural framework of reference