Film and Tourism. An Information System for Disclosing the Cinematographic Attractiveness of Destinations (Giulia Lavarone pp.289-291)

The Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padova investigated the topic of film-induced tourism in a year-long project, concluded in April 2015, titled Strumenti innovativi per la promozione turistica: film-induced tourism (Novel Tools to Promote Tourism: Film-induced Tourism). The project was financed by the Veneto Region through ESF funds. It brought together the expertise of film scholars, computer scientists and destination management experts, in partnership with public bodies (Provincia di Padova) and ICT companies. The goal of the project was to develop an information system that fosters film-induced tourism combining data about a geographical area and the movies produced in it. The system is designed as a platform to store and convey rich contents, able to address the needs of the tourist but also of stakeholders as DMOs and film commissions. The system was planned as a model for the destinations which could take advantage of a significant cinematographic background, yet are unlikely to spontaneously produce considerable film-induced tourism phenomena. The province of Padova has been used as a case study

The CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

The CMS detector at the CERN LHC features a silicon pixel detector as its innermost subdetector. The original CMS pixel detector has been replaced with an upgraded pixel system (CMS Phase-1 pixel detector) in the extended year-end technical stop of the LHC in 2016/2017. The upgraded CMS pixel detector is designed to cope with the higher instantaneous luminosities that have been achieved by the LHC after the upgrades to the accelerator during the first long shutdown in 2013–2014. Compared to the original pixel detector, the upgraded detector has a better tracking performance and lower mass with four barrel layers and three endcap disks on each side to provide hit coverage up to an absolute value of pseudorapidity of 2.5. This paper describes the design and construction of the CMS Phase-1 pixel detector as well as its performance from commissioning to early operation in collision data-taking.Peer reviewe

Alignment of the CMS tracker with LHC and cosmic ray data

© CERN 2014 for the benefit of the CMS collaboration, published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License by IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation and DOI.The central component of the CMS detector is the largest silicon tracker ever built. The precise alignment of this complex device is a formidable challenge, and only achievable with a significant extension of the technologies routinely used for tracking detectors in the past. This article describes the full-scale alignment procedure as it is used during LHC operations. Among the specific features of the method are the simultaneous determination of up to 200 000 alignment parameters with tracks, the measurement of individual sensor curvature parameters, the control of systematic misalignment effects, and the implementation of the whole procedure in a multi-processor environment for high execution speed. Overall, the achieved statistical accuracy on the module alignment is found to be significantly better than 10μm

A multi-element psychosocial intervention for early psychosis (GET UP PIANO TRIAL) conducted in a catchment area of 10 million inhabitants: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial

Multi-element interventions for first-episode psychosis (FEP) are promising, but have mostly been conducted in non-epidemiologically representative samples, thereby raising the risk of underestimating the complexities involved in treating FEP in 'real-world' services

Film and Tourism: an Information System for Disclosing the Cinematographic Attractiveness of Destinations

The Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padova investigated the topic of film-induced tourism in a year-long project, concluded in April 2015, titled Strumenti innovativi per la promozione turistica: film-induced tourism (Novel Tools to Promote Tourism: Film-induced Tourism). The project was financed by the Veneto Region through ESF funds. It brought together the expertise of film scholars, computer scientists and destination management experts, in partnership with public bodies (Provincia di Padova) and ICT companies. The goal of the project was to develop an information system that fosters film-induced tourism combining data about a geographical area and the movies produced in it. The system is designed as a platform to store and convey rich contents, able to address the needs of the tourist but also of stakeholders as DMOs and film commissions. The system was planned as a model for the destinations which could take advantage of a significant cinematographic background, yet are unlikely to spontaneously produce considerable film-induced tourism phenomena. The province of Padova has been used as a case study.   Il Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali dell’Università di Padova ha da poco concluso un progetto di ricerca intitolato Strumenti innovativi per la promozione turistica: film-induced tourism, finanziato dalla Regione Veneto con fondi europei FSE, che ha visto coinvolti studiosi di cinema, di informatica ed esperti di destination management, in partenariato con enti pubblici (Provincia di Padova) e aziende private del ramo ICT. L’obiettivo del progetto è stato lo sviluppo di un sistema informatico che combini i dati relativi ad un territorio e i film ivi realizzati, con lo scopo di promuovere il film-induced tourism. Il sistema è disegnato come una piattaforma in grado di memorizzare, elaborare e rendere fruibili contenuti multimediali e di ricco carattere informativo, capaci di intercettare sia le necessità del turista che quelle di stakeholders quali DMO e film commission. Il sistema si propone come modello per le realtà che godono di una tradizione cinematografica ricca ma non sufficiente a far nascere fenomeni spontanei di “cineturismo”. La provincia di Padova è stata usata come caso di studio

Organizzare e gestire le destinazioni turistiche del futuro: l’Osservatorio turistico come strumento di programmazione regionale

Dal secondo dopoguerra in poi il turismo internazionale è cresciuto costantemente diventando uno dei settori trainanti dell’economia mondiale. Questa crescita ha assunto proporzioni esponenziali grazie a tre importanti “rivoluzioni”: l’avvento e il diffondersi dell’utilizzo di internet e delle ICT applicate al turismo; l’abbattimento di barriere geo-politiche; la forte riduzione dei costi di trasporto con l’affermarsi dei voli “low-cost”. Nel 2014 si sono registrati un miliardo centotrentotto milioni di arrivi internazionali (Graf. 2.1) e secondo gli esperti dell’UNWTO – l’Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite che si occupa di turismo – in base all’analisi delle serie storiche, la tendenza alla crescita del fenomeno turistico continuerà anche nei prossimi decenni, tant’è che si prevedono per il 2030 un miliardo e ottocento milioni di arrivi internazionali. Potranno, certo, registrarsi battute d’arresto, ma queste saranno circoscritte nel tempo e a determinate aree del pianeta e dovute per lo più a situazioni di tensione internazionale (focolai di guerra, attentati, crisi geo-politiche), a fenomeni naturali (alluvioni, terremoti, etc.) o a crisi economiche congiunturali. La crescita dei flussi turistici quindi proseguirà, anche se in base alle situazioni di contesto più o meno favorevoli tali flussi potranno cambiare direzione e privilegiare alcune destinazioni piuttosto che altre. L’Europa – che attualmente è la prima macro destinazione al mondo con più della metà del turismo internazionale – crescerà anch’essa, ma in proporzioni meno rilevanti rispetto alle ‘nuove destinazioni’ (Oceania, sud est asiatico, etc.). In tale contesto è rilevante interrogarsi su quali destinazioni intercetteranno questa ulteriore crescita del turismo internazionale e come ciò possa avvenire in termini di sostenibilità economica, sociale ed ambientale del fenomeno turistico

Track Reconstruction with Cosmic Ray Data at the Tracker Integration Facility

The subsystems of the CMS silicon strip tracker were integrated and commissioned at the Tracker Integration Facility (TIF) in the period from November 2006 to July 2007. As part of the commissioning, large samples of cosmic ray data were recorded under various running conditions in the absence of a magnetic field. Cosmic rays detected by scintillation counters were used to trigger the readout of up to 15\,\% of the final silicon strip detector, and over 4.7~million events were recorded. This document describes the cosmic track reconstruction and presents results on the performance of track and hit reconstruction as from dedicated analyses

A multi-element psychosocial intervention for early psychosis (GET UP PIANO TRIAL) conducted in a catchment area of 10 million inhabitants: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial

Multi-element interventions for first-episode psychosis (FEP) are promising, but have mostly been conducted in non-epidemiologically representative samples, thereby raising the risk of underestimating the complexities involved in treating FEP in 'real-world' services