The effectiveness of motor activity on psychomotor development in school-aged children

In continuity with research on learning through mirror neurons (Rizzolatti G., Sinigaglia C. 2005), with a constructivist conviction (Bellantonio, 2014) it is stated that sports practice, as an instrument that exposes the person to multiple and different motor stimuli and perceptive is an effective medium for psychomotor development. In addition to promoting physical growth and organic development, motor skills also promote the growth of learning. It is no coincidence that psychomotor activity educates and realizes the whole of the person and constitutes an important means of interacting with it through movement. (Lapierre, A., 2001) The research group from Salerno conducted a field research involving a sample of 281 children between 6 and 8 years old, who were given the APCM-2 protocol (Sabbadini, 2005) and who were divided into three categories thanks to a survey completed through questionnaires: children who practice motor activity, children who do not practice motor activity, children who have not returned the questionnaire (group that is supposed to be mixed). It has emerged that participation in a motor activity produces positive effects on the development of the motor pattern and therefore of the person as a whole, achieving homogeneously higher scores on average than the other groups. Therefore, motor activities in school age represent a facilitator in psychomotor development as the stimulation of fundamental motor skills helps children in recreational activities by allowing them to manipulate their environmental conditions and control their own bodies. (Goodway, 2003)

The use of the APCM-2 protocol for a preventive assessment of the motor coordination disorder

The development of motor skills that occurs gradually in a child's body and culminates around 8-9 years, if it occurs correctly, is the element that allows him to explore and take measures to interact with the surrounding reality. (Le Boulche, 1988) Only at this age we can speak of the "ability of space-time coordination", which takes shape and materializes only through the experience of consecutive motor acts with which they represent themselves, programmed in a time scan. (Piaget, 1976) These motor experiences are fundamental, because if the child has difficulty to complete the temporal scan, it would mean that he is the bearer of a movement disorder, albeit minor, called dyspraxia which without the appropriate tools, allowed by the following test could not be diagnosed. (Gargano, 2013) It was conducted A field research through the APCM-2 protocol (Sabbadini, 2018) on a sample of 281 children. Through it, we isolated 34 subjects with specific areas that were found to be deficient, therefore more compromised by suspected dyspraxia. The most important data that emerged was that the dyspractic disorder can be overcome only if identified with a timely evaluation that allows a rehabilitation program applied as quickly as possible. (Risoli, 2016) This is important because this disorder, even if defined as "minor", in the most severe cases is influential on school performance and can sometimes lead to the boy who is affected some difficulties in simple daily motor actions

Il caso Molenbeek-Saint-Jean: tra terroristi e gente comune

Immigrazione e terrorismo, due parole ricorrenti che sembrano dominare la scena mediatica, vengono molto spesso correlati dall’opinione pubblica per via della loro frequente associazione. Prendendo in considerazione il comune di Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Bruxelles, conosciuto per aver ospitato e cresciuto diversi terroristi, si esamina quanto realmente i due fenomeni siano intrecciati. Attraverso ricerche e interviste condotte personalmente sul luogo, si cerca di dare uno sguardo generale sulla vita condotta dai migranti musulmani in Europa e spunti di riflessione sulle politiche d’integrazione vigenti

Studio Antropologico e Analisi Paleonutrizionali sui resti umani eneolitici della Grotta delle Fate di Calomini in Garfagnana (LU)

Sviluppo tesi triennale in Antropologia fisica e Paleonutrizione con uno studio basato sui resti umani eneolitici provenienti dalla Grotta delle Fate di Calomini, Garfagnana (LU). Dopo un'inquadramento storico è stato elencato il materiale preso in esame e successivamente sono stati esposti i vari metodi di studio applicato: studio osteometrico, studio ergonomico, studio paleopatologico e studio paleonutrizionale. In base alle analisi svolte sono risultati con sicurezza almeno 8 individui di sesso femminile e 11 individui di sesso maschile (adulti). In base alla determinazione dell'età alla morte risultano esserci almeno 2 feti, 11 bambini, 5 giovani e 20 adulti. I vari campioni mostrano, nel complesso, un buono stato di saluti caratterizzato da una buona attività fisica, da una suddivisione interna del lavoro, da un basso grado di dimorfismo sessuale e da un'alimentazione ricca di proteine animali e vegetali a discapito di vegetali a foglia larga, frattaglie e prodotti ittici

Domotica per l'ottimizzazione dei consumi energetici

Utilizzo di un sistema domotico e un PLC programmabile per l'ottimizzazione dei consumi energetici ed implementazione di un'interfaccia Web in java per il controllo e la visualizzazione remota dell'utilizzo dell'energia

Diversification, concentration and renewability of the energy supply in the European Union

Energy security assessment quantifies the energy supply to a population and the likelihood, or risk, of an energy disruption or shortage and represents an important aspect of national security, economic stability and prosperity. The quantification of the state of energy supply is context-dependent and involves multiple perspectives: infrastructural, technological, environmental, market, social and geopolitical. Among all the different and relevant aspects involved, diversity and dependence of the energy fuel mix are two of the main energy security dimensions. The present paper investigates the diversification of the energy supply in Europe, by analysing import dependence, market concentration and renewable energy resource deployment in the European Union over the last decade. The analysis utilises a set of indicators aimed at measuring the fuel mix diversity, market concentration, geopolitical stability, renewable energy share and stochasticity - both at single country and at aggregated European levels. Results show a stable evolution of the diversity of the fuel mix and a relatively low market concentration of the period examined. However, the import dependency reduces the energy security by approximately 30% due to the high proportion of imports from a limited number of countries. Moreover, an increasing trend in renewable electricity production share is evident over the last decade, albeit with differences between member states, as a result of the decarbonisation policies implemented by the European Union

Linguaggi artistici per una pedagogia della corporeità

La modalità più efficace per completare le conoscenze che si acquisiscono man mano è apprendere dalle acquisite e così sollecitare le abilità creative e metacognitive. Lo strumento per trasmettere le conoscenze e sviluppare più profondamente le peculiari capacità è il linguaggio artistico. Infatti, ponendosi prospettiva semiomotoriabas, 2001 dove possiamo osservare gli atti motoritrinsechi al movimento della struttura, gli elementi propri movimento danzarli ai comunicarli giovani, per concedere loro di comprendersi, entrare in contatto con le proprie emozioni e dar loro corpo.

About how educational dance course may be crucial in school age children’s psycho-motor development

Numerous studies have shown that children- aged between 5 to12 are able to develop artistic-sporting motor skills, which can be attributed in particular to general coordination and balance. They may be indicators of psychomotor development (Le Boulch, 1992). The possible use of motor test batteries in educational contexts (Vayer, 1992) allows to obtain fundamental information on the level of children initial motor maturation as well as to acquire objective data on circumstances relevant to the possible identification of evolutionary levels through a standardized process for measurement and analysis (Meinel, 1984) guiding the planning of individualized didactic activities. Among the numerous batteries present on an international scale, the Oseretzky-Guilmain test could be considered among evaluation tools for the possible detection of the psychomotor age, referring in particular to three categories such as: “balancing” on one leg; “staying” with your eyes closed on your toes and “jumping” on one leg. The Salerno research group conducted a field research involving a sample of 320 children, aged 6 -8, whose one only half practicing sport (dance), who were given Oseretzky-tests Guilmain. It has been shown that children accustomed to sport- dance in our study case – pass the above tests far much easier than those ones not doing any physical exercises. Furthermore, their chronological age matches undoubtedly their psycho-motor one (Oseretzkj 1931– 36). It follows that it would be useful for the school to point to a constant reference to sporting activities from the earliest years of schooling

Forecast electricity demand in commercial building with machine learning models to enable demand response programs

Electricity load forecasting is an important part of power system dispatching. Accurately forecasting electricity load have great impact on a number of departments in power systems. Compared to electricity load simulation (white-box model), electricity load forecasting (black-box model) does not require expertise in building construction. The development cycle of the electricity load forecasting model is much shorter than the design cycle of the electricity load simulation. Recent developments in machine learning have lead to the creation of models with strong fitting and accuracy to deal with nonlinear characteristics. Based on the real load dataset, this paper evaluates and compares the two mainstream short-term load forecasting techniques. Before the experiment, this paper first enumerates the common methods of short-term load forecasting and explains the principles of Long Short-term Memory Networks (LSTMs) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) used in this paper. Secondly, based on the characteristics of the electricity load dataset, data pre-processing and feature selection takes place. This paper describes the results of a controlled experiment to study the importance of feature selection. The LSTMs model and SVM model are applied to one-hour ahead load forecasting and one-day ahead peak and valley load forecasting. The predictive accuracy of these models are calculated based on the error between the actual and predicted loads, and the runtime of the model is recorded. The results show that the LSTMs model have a higher prediction accuracy when the load data is sufficient. However, the overall performance of the SVM model is better when the load data used to train the model is insufficient and the time cost is prioritized

“L’intelligenza non siede solo nei banchi!” Il gioco senso-motorio nella prospettiva Embodied Centred e i Bisogni Educativi Speciali

The educational need of the contemporary school context is etiologically differentiated, multiformand special. This requires planning didactic interventions for each and every one, whichconsider the difficulties and recognize the excellence of the individual. It is not possible to thinkof a multiplied and shattered didactic on individual students, much less would be a unique andhomologous didactic that does not recognize the differences (Gomez Paloma et alii, 2015).It is necessary to identify teaching tools that are transversal to the differences, which everyonecan reach, guaranteeing anyone the achievement of bio-psycho-social well-being (WHO, 2002).Psycho-pedagogical studies and neurosciences affirm that the body and emotions perform animplementation function of learning, influencing “[...] the cognitive, the thought, the decisions,the motivations, the spirit of initiative and autonomy” (Oliverio, 2009). Furthermore, collaborationin a tutoring relationship is an incredible learning oppurtunity, useful to all those involved,even for endangered students (Ianes, 2005).In a continuity between school level that takes on the characteristics of circularity, in other wordsallows to return to the body in and for learning, the aims of this paper is to combine togetherthe potential of Embodied Centered games and the Tutoring benefits, as strategies bearing thesame founding values