A novel approach to controlled query evaluation in DL-Lite

In Controlled Query Evaluation (CQE) confidential data are protected through a declarative policy and a (optimal) censor, which guarantees that answers to queries are maximized without disclosing secrets. In this paper we consider CQE over Description Logic ontologies and study query answering over all optimal censors. We establish data complexity of the problem for ontologies specified in DL-LiteR and for variants of the censor language, which is the language used by the censor to enforce the policy. In our investigation we also analyze the relationship between CQE and the problem of Consistent Query Answering

Semi-underground house models as new concepts for urban sustainable environment

Abstract The underground and semi-underground construction is a building type whose traces are lost in the past: from Cappadocia to Jordan, man has left us countless testimonials of dug cities that, today, respond more adequately to the climatic problems. It is surprising to see how a building type, which has its roots in the remote past is today able to satisfy the needs of energy saving and of architectural forms which are continuously evolving. The peculiarity of this type is the capacity to relate to the ground morphology by inserting in a "non- violent way" but adapting to the pre-existent conformity. Therefore, in a local mountainous context like Basilicata, land in southern Italy, whose building tradition is the semi-underground construction, a project experience such as that proposed in this paper can be the cue for a revitalization of the urban contest

Sustainability in Civil Engineering: Integrated Mix of Some Non-Invasive Sensing Techniques for Conservation and Restoration of Historical Buildings and Frescoes

AbstractSanta Maria of the Palomba Sanctuary was built in XVth century on a pre-existing medieval crypt, situated in a splendid landscape, on the south facing ravine on which stands the city of Matera, integrating in a wonderful way the underground and sub divo building; in the ages shortly following a notable cycle of frescoes was painted renewing the decorative state of the underground church.Over many years, the building fell into decay, the structures and frescoes were flooded and damaged; so that from 1980 important restoration works were carried out, constructing ventilation canals under the floor of the hypogeic church, incorporating heating pipes, connected to solar thermal panels in such a way to secure the optimum thermohygrometric conditions for conservation. After almost thirty years, before working on the restoration of the frescoes it was necessary to completely and objectively characterize the existing physical conditions

Towards more sustainable patterns of urban development

DETR, 1998, wrote in Planning for Sustainable Development. Towards Better Practice: “New settlements will enjoy a high quality of urban and landscape design. As well as integrated open space, there should be habitat areas, and environmental gains such as energy efficiency measures introduced in layouts and individual buildings”; but this claim is remained largely dissatisfied. There is a great interest (and large investments in research) for the smart city, which seeks to optimize the existing cities, while people go on to design urban developments with building typologies set ninety years ago by Modern Movement or little more. Urban Planning compares existing cities’ models and asseverates that densification has positive role for sustainability, but do not turns enough to account passive typologies for heating and cooling, which can turn down near to zero power-consumption, and at the same time can raise urban environment quality. Famous settlements too, as Malmö or Vauban in Freiburg, has been built with building typologies conventional, after all; German passive Haus have generally two, three or four building fronts and in reality, are simply hyper-insulated traditional buildings, furnished with mechanical controlled ventilation. For an urban extension of Potenza, we have used for the urban planning the sustainability assessment categories of ITACA’s Protocol, derivative from GBTool of GBC, people normally use to assess ex-post sustainability of projects and of realized buildings. The result is a settlement in which pedestrian, cycle and public transport’s network is fully integrated with adjacent urban areas; effective landscaping connects public and private green and kitchen-gardens/orchards are everywhere; buildings are made with new semi-underground typologies, nZEB and made with local, re-cyclable materials; rain water is collected, in-loco fito-depurated and reused; in-loco renewable energies (sun, earth, wind) satisfies remaining necessitie

The circular design for a school in conditioned Quercus cerris hardwood glulam

[EN] The Design for Sustainability of building processes and products is closely connected to Design for Adaptability, to Design for Disassembling and Design for Recycling, in a global perspective of Circular Economy that has at his centre the enhancement of renewable resources in specific environmental contexts, economic, social and cultural. This contribution is part of a research aimed at validating experiences already made in the direction of pre-competitive development, also with the purpose of patenting process and products, with a Cerro Lucano supply chain that could constitute an important environmental protection factor, for social equity and economic development. In a series of previous researches, the application of this new material was hypothesized both in the field of conservation and refurbishment of building heritage, and for new ways of designing new buildings, even of considerable height. In this contribution it refers to its application to the design of a new nZEB school complex in Rionero in Vulture (Potenza), according to the principles of circular design.Thanks to prof. Felice C. Ponzo, Director and Scientific Manager of the Materials and Structures Test Laboratory (SisLab, SI-Unibas), for having allowed its use to perform the necessary tests on the model developed, and for the help provided in studying the structural aspects and the assessment of seismic vulnerability. Thanks also goes to PhD. Eng. Antonio Di Cesare, Researcher at SisLab, for the consultancy he gave on the design and calculation of the building’s earthquake-resistant system.Marino, FPR.; Lembo, F.; Di Lucchio, C. (2021). The circular design for a school in conditioned Quercus cerris hardwood glulam. VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability. 6(1):72-91. https://doi.org/10.4995/vitruvio-ijats.2021.15403OJS729161Arnette, A.N., Brewer, B.L., & Choal, T. 2014. 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Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia). Legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean

Grotta Romanelli, located on the Adriatic coast of southern Apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The site, discovered in 1874, was re-evaluated only in 1900, when P. E. Stasi realised that it contained the first evidence of the Palaeolithic in Italy. Starting in 1914, G. A. Blanc led a pioneering excavation campaign, for the first-time using scientific methods applied to systematic palaeontological and stratigraphical studies. Blanc proposed a stratigraphic framework for the cave. Different dating methods (C-14 and U/Th) were used to temporally constrain the deposits. The extensive studies of the cave and its contents were mostly published in journals with limited distribution and access, until the end of the 1970s, when the site became forgotten. In 2015, with the permission of the authorities, a new excavation campaign began, led by a team from Sapienza University of Rome in collaboration with IGAG CNR and other research institutions. The research team had to deal with the consequences of more than 40 years of inactivity in the field and the combined effect of erosion and legal, as well as illegal, excavations. In this paper, we provide a database of all the information published during the first 70 years of excavations and highlight the outstanding problems and contradictions between the chronological and geomorphological evidence, the features of the faunal assemblages and the limestone artefacts

Colostrum from cows immunized with a veterinary vaccine against bovine rotavirus displays enhanced in vitro anti-human rotavirus activity

Human rotaviruses represent a major cause of severe diarrheal disease in infants and young children. The limited impact of oral vaccines on global estimates of rotavirus mortality and the suboptimal use of oral rehydration justify the need for alternative prophylactic and therapeutic strategies, especially for immunocompromised hosts. The protective effects of colostrum\u2014the first milk produced during the initial 24 to 48 h after parturition\u2014are well documented in the literature. In particular, the ingestion of hyperimmune bovine colostrum has been proposed as an alternative preventive approach against human rotavirus gastroenteritis. Although the immunization of pregnant cows with human rotavirus boosts the release of specific immunoglobulin G in bovine colostrum, it raises regulatory and safety issues. In this study, we demonstrated that the conventional bovine rotavirus vaccine is sufficient to enhance the anti-human rotavirus protective efficacy of bovine colostrum, thus providing a conservative approach to produce hyperimmune bovine colostrum, making it exploitable as a functional food