Everyday legitimacy and international administration: global governance and local legitimacy in Kosovo

International administrations are a very specific form of statebuilding. This paper examines the limits illustrated by the experience in Kosovo. Here, the international administration faced the same requirements of any legitimate, Liberal government, but without the checks and balances normally associated with Liberal governance. Thus, the international administration was granted full authority and the power thereby associated, but without the legitimacy upon which the Liberal social contract rests. The state-building agenda put forth came to be seen as more exogenous, reinforcing the delegitimization process. This paper will specifically address the influence of the Weberian approach to legitimacy on the statebuilding literature, as well as its limits. It will then propose other possible avenues for statebuilding, more in line with a wider understanding of legitimacy and intervention

Sorveglianza audiologica pediatrica in Italia: raccomandazioni identificate attraverso un’analisi SWOT

Sorveglianza audiologica pediatrica in Italia: raccomandazioni identificate attraverso un’analisi SWO

Presa in carico centrata sulla famiglia: raccomandazioni identificate attraverso un’analisi SWOT

Presa in carico centrata sulla famiglia: raccomandazioni identificate attraverso un’analisi SWO

Using Ontology-Based Data Summarization to Develop Semantics-Aware Recommender Systems

In the current information-centric era, recommender systems are gaining momentum as tools able to assist users in daily decision-making tasks. They may exploit users’ past behavior combined with side/contextual information to suggest them new items or pieces of knowledge they might be interested in. Within the recommendation process, Linked Data have been already proposed as a valuable source of information to enhance the predictive power of recommender systems not only in terms of accuracy but also of diversity and novelty of results. In this direction, one of the main open issues in using Linked Data to feed a recommendation engine is related to feature selection: how to select only the most relevant subset of the original Linked Data thus avoiding both useless processing of data and the so called “curse of dimensionality” problem. In this paper, we show how ontology-based (linked) data summarization can drive the selection of properties/features useful to a recommender system. In particular, we compare a fully automated feature selection method based on ontology-based data summaries with more classical ones, and we evaluate the performance of these methods in terms of accuracy and aggregate diversity of a recommender system exploiting the top-k selected features. We set up an experimental testbed relying on datasets related to different knowledge domains. Results show the feasibility of a feature selection process driven by ontology-based data summaries for Linked Data-enabled recommender systems

Redox Processes affecting the spent fuel source-term

The source term from spent fuel dissolution is subject to considerable uncertainties, both with respect to the presence and extent of oxidative dissolution processes of the spent fuel itself and the coupling with processes associated with the iron canister. Related problems to be examined in this work package are the representativeness and reliability of laboratory data with respect to the impact of unavoidable minor concentrations of oxygen also in inert-gas boxes used, the potential reactivity and its outcome of hydrogen from container corrosion in combination with high burn-up spent fuel, possible galvanic coupling of spent fuel and container material and the retention of redox sensitive radionuclides by relevant minerals, especially by steel container corrosion products. A set of investigations has been conducted with the aim of getting better insight into redox processes determining spent fuel and iron canister corrosion. ITU reports on studies on spent fuel in presence of corroding Fe, on corrosion of spent fuel in presence of H2 and on fuel corrosion studies on thin film model systems. The redox reactivity of doped UO2 in view of effects on the reactivity towards H2O2 has been studied at KTH. The reductive trapping of actinides in container corrosion products during spent fuel corrosion is investigated by INE. Studsvik reports on the redox chemistry at the near field of repository and the influences of iron canister material and hydrogen. Redox conditions near waste packages were studied by NRI.JRC.E.5-Nuclear chemistr

Spent fuel evolution under disposal conditions. Synthesis of the results from the Eu Spent Fuel Stability (SFS) project

vol. 04-09, Technical Report. Wettingen: Nagr