Persone vulnerabili e Giustizia penale

Nel convegno il tema della fairness e giustizia penale è stato scandagliato sotto plurali punti di vista. Innanzitutto dello storico del diritto, nonché, funditus, da parte di studiosi del diritto e procedura penale. Per i temi dei singoli interventi si rinvia alla locandina allegata

Digitally enhanced assessment in virtual learning environments

One of the main challenges in teaching and learning activities is the assessment: it allows teachers and learners to improve the future activities on the basis of the previous ones. It allows a deep analysis and understanding of the whole learning process. This is particularly difficult in virtual learning environments where a general overview is not always available. In the latest years, Learning Analytics are becoming the most popular methods to analyze the data collected in the learning environments in order to support teachers and learners in the complex process of learning. If they are properly integrated in learning activities, indeed, they can supply useful information to adapt the activities on the basis of student’s needs. In this context, the paper presents a solution for the digitally enhanced assessment. Two different Learning Dashboards have been designed in order to represent the most interesting Learning Analytics aiming at providing teachers and learners with easy understandable view of learning data in virtual learning environments

Giudice dell'esecuzione e art. 13 C.e.d.u. (argomenti a sostegno delle conclusioni del p.m. d'udienza disattese da Sez. un, 19 aprile 2012, n. 34472, Ercolano)

La dimensione “interna” del sistema multilivello di protezione dei diritti umani imperniato sulla Convenzione europea dei diritti dell’uomo ha valorizzato negli ultimi anni il ruolo del giudice dell’esecuzione quale garante dei diritti. Questa tendenza pare tutt’altro che superata alla luce della pronuncia Sez. un., 19 aprile 2012, n. 34472, Ercolano, dalla quale ha tratto spunto l’Autrice per elaborare un percorso esegetico alternativo a quello seguito dalla Suprema corte, esponendo le ragioni che avrebbero consentito al giudice di legittimità, conformemente alle conclusioni della Procura generale, di definire il procedimento esecutivo senza prima adire la Corte costituzionale

ZnO/ionic liquid catalyzed biodiesel production from renewable and waste lipids as feedstocks

A new protocol for biodiesel production is proposed, based on a binary ZnO/TBAI (TBAI = tetrabutylammonium iodide) catalytic system. Zinc oxide acts as a heterogeneous, bifunctional Lewis acid/base catalyst, while TBAI plays the role of phase transfer agent. Being composed by the bulk form powders, the whole catalyst system proved to be easy to use, without requiring nano-structuration or tedious and costly preparation or pre-activation procedures. In addition, due to the amphoteric properties of ZnO, the catalyst can simultaneously promote transesterification and esterification processes, thus becoming applicable to common vegetable oils (e.g., soybean, jatropha, linseed, etc.) and animal fats (lard and fish oil), but also to waste lipids such as cooking oils (WCOs), highly acidic lipids from oil industry processing, and lipid fractions of municipal sewage sludge. Reusability of the catalyst system together with kinetic (Ea) and thermodynamic parameters of activation (∆G‡ and ∆H‡) are also studied for transesterification reaction