274 research outputs found
Posizionamenti transfemministi. Saperi situati e pratiche spaziali nel movimento Non Una di Meno
The aim of this paper is to analyse, through the toolbox of gender geography, the methodology of positionality and situated knowledge. The article examines some spatial practices of the transfeminist movement Non Una di Meno that involve us both as researchers and activists. The different forms of territorialisation and ways of âdoing withâ the space of the movement, are here presented through the specific cases of the demonstrations organised during the Covid-19 pandemic on the 25th of November 2020 and 8th March 2021. This enables us to present the methodology of positionality, and to analyse how feminist spatial practices can be the object of research and vice versa
Enhancing allocentric spatial recall in pre-schoolers through navigational training programme
Unlike for other abilities, children do not receive systematic spatial orientation training at school, even though navigational training during adulthood improves spatial skills. We investigated whether navigational training programme (NTP) improved spatial orientation skills in pre-schoolers. We administered 12-week NTP to seventeen 4- to 5-year-old children (training group, TG). The TG children and 17 age-matched children (control group, CG) who underwent standard didactics were tested twice before (T0) and after (T1) the NTP using tasks that tap into landmark, route and survey representations. We determined that the TG participants significantly improved their performances in the most demanding navigational task, which is the task that taps into survey representation. This improvement was significantly higher than that observed in the CG, suggesting that NTP fostered the acquisition of survey representation. Such representation is typically achieved by age seven. This finding suggests that NTP improves performance on higher-level navigational tasks in pre-schooler
Social Withdrawal and Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Social isolation may be considered as a risk factor for health. It may contribute to the development of a mental health disease. In this chapter, social withdrawal is defined as voluntary isolation prolonged in time that involves the cessation of any form of social relationship and contact with people and the outside. Clinical psychology, psycho-educational interventions, and social neuroscience research ï»żtries to understand what happens when social isolation is experienced. Therefore an interdisciplinary perspective can help to better understand this phenomenon. ï»żThe deepening of these aspects can help to create new forms of theoretical perspective and of a clinical and psycho-educational intervention to better ï»żarrange for this new type of maladaptive condition
Top-1 CORSMAL Challenge 2020 Submission: Filling Mass Estimation Using Multi-modal Observations of Human-robot Handovers
Human-robot object handover is a key skill for the future of human-robot
collaboration. CORSMAL 2020 Challenge focuses on the perception part of this
problem: the robot needs to estimate the filling mass of a container held by a
human. Although there are powerful methods in image processing and audio
processing individually, answering such a problem requires processing data from
multiple sensors together. The appearance of the container, the sound of the
filling, and the depth data provide essential information. We propose a
multi-modal method to predict three key indicators of the filling mass: filling
type, filling level, and container capacity. These indicators are then combined
to estimate the filling mass of a container. Our method obtained Top-1 overall
performance among all submissions to CORSMAL 2020 Challenge on both public and
private subsets while showing no evidence of overfitting. Our source code is
publicly available: https://github.com/v-iashin/CORSMALComment: Code: https://github.com/v-iashin/CORSMAL Docker:
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Between Community Spaces. Squares of Minor Centers of Calabria
The theme of open âcommunity spacesâ in recent years
has to the development of important interdisciplinary
issues.
Nevertheless, the reading of smaller towns, in
urbanistic, historical-anthropological and geographical
terms appears less extended, considering the
declination of public spaces as "squares." Starting from
this declension we would like to introduce the first
results of a research. The research had the aim of
(re)interpreting the particular characteristics of these
areas in specific areas such as small towns, using the
region of Calabria for the case of analytic application.
These communities have diverse and stratified living
cultures, altered by settlement processes that have
triggered two different types of urban contexts. The
former often lead either to urban areas in depopulated
decay or, in contrast, in places of memories: empty
containers of relationships, sterile and crystallized
museum objects, reduced to scenarios on which passing
groups of visitors move necessarily from those realities.
The latter often encircle primitive nuclei, asphyxiating
them, or characterizing the so-called "dual" or
"satellites" towns, completely detached from the
original urban center in which all public functions are
decentralized.
The applied methodology is based on the reading of the
historical-functional evolution of squares by the
identification of codified compositional criteria.
Through this research we seek to verify how urban
planning, in synergy with other disciplines, can define
processes of regeneration aimed at restoring the
meaning of "center", and thus of an urban-community
reference center
The emergency plan for the use and management of the territory
The issue of emergency planning in areas exposed to natural hazards cannot yet be considered as a focus within the scientific literature, probably because it has been judged as âtoo operativeâ for the interest of academic research. The topic of land use planning, spatial planning, and urban planning in risky areas, conversely, has gained attention in recent years. Nevertheless, the examples of good practices that involve ordinary master plans embedding mitigation concerns are still limited.
 
Hydrological Effectiveness of an Extensive Green Roof in Mediterranean Climate
In urban water management, green roofs provide a sustainable solution for flood risk mitigation. Numerous studies have investigated green roof hydrologic effectiveness and the parameters that influence their operation; many have been conducted on the pilot scale, whereas only some of these have been executed on full-scale rooftop installations. Several models have been developed, but only a few have investigated the influence of green roof physical parameters on performance. From this broader context, this paper presents the results of a monitoring analysis of an extensive green roof located at the University of Calabria, Italy, in the Mediterranean climate region. To obtain this goal, the subsurface runoff coefficient, peak flow reduction, peak flow lag-time, and time to the start of runoff were evaluated at an event scale by considering a set of data collected between October 2015 and September 2016 consisting of 62 storm events. The mean value of subsurface runoff was 32.0% when considering the whole dataset, and 50.4% for 35 rainfall events (principally major than 8.0 mm); these results indicate the good hydraulic performance of this specific green roof in a Mediterranean climate, which is in agreement with other studies. A modeling approach was used to evaluate the influence of the substrate depth on green roof retention. The soil hydraulics features were first measured using a simplified evaporation method, and then modeled using HYDRUS-1D software (PC-Progress s.r.o., Prague, Czech Republic) by considering different values of soil depth (6 cm, 9 cm, 12 cm, and 15 cm) for six months under Mediterranean climate conditions. The results showed how the specific soil substrate was able to achieve a runoff volume reduction ranging from 22% to 24% by increasing the soil depth
Under her eye: immaginari e pratiche spaziali transfemministe a Palermo
Lâarticolo analizza la performance organizzata da Non Una Di Meno-Palermo nella giornata contro la violenza maschile sulle donne e di genere 2020. Nel corso del presidio, lo spazio urbano Ăš stato risignificato da unââAncellaâ, riferimento al romanzo e alla serie The handmaidâs tale (Atwood, 1985). Utilizzata piĂč volte dai movimenti transfemministi per rappresentare il controllo e il disciplinamento del corpo femminile, la rappresentazione dellâAncella assume ulteriori significati nel contesto della pandemia del Covid-19.
Il contributo indaga la performance analizzandone da una parte gli aspetti spaziali, in relazione alle altre forme di spazializzazione del movimento; dallâaltra gli immaginari (trans)femministi mobilitati, tra seduzioni del pop e risignificazioni. Lâobiettivo Ăš comprendere quali sono i significati e le alleanze che il movimento sta costruendo attraverso questo tipo di immaginari e pratiche spaziali, individuando le specificitĂ del caso palermitano.This article analyses the performance organised by Non Una Di Meno-Palermo for the 2020 International Day for the elimination of Violence against Women and gender-based. During the demonstration, the urban space has been re-signified by a âHandmaidâ, with regard to the novel and the TV-series The handmaidâs tale (Atwood, 1985). Used many times by the transfemminist movements to represent womenâs body control and discipline, the Handmaid representation takes on further meanings in the Covid-19 pandemic framework. This paper examines the performance by analysing on the one hand its spatial aspects, in connection with other forms of movementsâ spatialisation; on the other hand, the mobilised (trans)feminist imaginaries, between pop seduction and resignifications. The aim is to understand which are the meanings and the alliances the movement is building through this kind of spatial imaginaries and practices, by identifying the specificities in the Palermo case
Robotic surface exploration with vision and tactile sensing for cracks detection and characterisation
This paper presents a novel algorithm for crack localisation and detection
based on visual and tactile analysis via fibre-optics. A finger-shaped sensor
based on fibre-optics is employed for the data acquisition to collect data for
the analysis and the experiments. To detect the possible locations of cracks a
camera is used to scan an environment while running an object detection
algorithm. Once the crack is detected, a fully-connected graph is created from
a skeletonised version of the crack. A minimum spanning tree is then employed
for calculating the shortest path to explore the crack which is then used to
develop the motion planner for the robotic manipulator. The motion planner
divides the crack into multiple nodes which are then explored individually.
Then, the manipulator starts the exploration and performs the tactile data
classification to confirm if there is indeed a crack in that location or just a
false positive from the vision algorithm. If a crack is detected, also the
length, width, orientation and number of branches are calculated. This is
repeated until all the nodes of the crack are explored.
In order to validate the complete algorithm, various experiments are
performed: comparison of exploration of cracks through full scan and motion
planning algorithm, implementation of frequency-based features for crack
classification and geometry analysis using a combination of vision and tactile
data. From the results of the experiments, it is shown that the proposed
algorithm is able to detect cracks and improve the results obtained from vision
to correctly classify cracks and their geometry with minimal cost thanks to the
motion planning algorithm.Comment: 12 page
Maml1 acts cooperatively with Gli proteins to regulate Sonic hedgheog signaling pathway
Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling is essential for proliferation of cerebellar granule cell progenitors (GCPs) and its misregulation is linked to various disorders, including cerebellar cancer medulloblastoma. The effects of Shh pathway are mediated by the Gli family of transcription factors, which controls the expression of a number of target genes, including Gli1. Here, we identify Mastermind-like 1 (Maml1) as a novel regulator of the Shh signaling since it interacts with Gli proteins, working as a potent transcriptional coactivator. Notably, Maml1 silencing results in a significant reduction of Gli target genes expression, with a negative impact on cell growth of NIH3T3 and Patched1â/â mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), bearing a constitutively active Shh signaling. Remarkably, Shh pathway activity results severely compromised both in MEFs and GCPs deriving from Maml1â/â mice with an impairment of GCPs proliferation and cerebellum development. Therefore Maml1â/â phenotype mimics aspects of Shh pathway deficiency, suggesting an intrinsic requirement for Maml1 in cerebellum development. The present study shows a new role for Maml1 as a component of Shh signaling, which plays a crucial role in both development and tumorigenesis
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