Il linguaggio Ballerina

Ballerina è un linguaggio open-source, cloud-native, progettato, quindi, con l'intento di alleggerire il carico dello sviluppo e dell'integrazione associato alle applicazioni aziendali. Questo linguaggio semplifica il modo in cui un programma comunica con la rete, che di solito avviene tramite un API (Application Program Interface). Ballerina tenta di creare un sistema integrato, riunendo i concetti, le idee e gli strumenti essenziali di integrazione di un sistema distribuito e offrendo un ambiente concorrente e sicuro per supportare lo sviluppo di API

Person-Centered Practice as Anchor and Beacon: Pandemic Wisdom from the NCAPPS Community

Objective: This article summarizes the individual, systemic, and collective challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, based on 16 videos solicited by the National Center on Advancing Person-Centered Practices and Systems (NCAPPS) and submitted by NCAPPS collaborators during the first six months of the pandemic. Method: Informed by participatory action approaches and content analysis, we describe common themes in a series of 16 videos solicited by NCAPPS from subject matter experts with professional and lived experience of disability and human services systems. Results: The team organized the findings to identify both specific factors within each of the levels and the complex interplay between each of the factors at four levels: (1) individual disabled people and their/our spouses, family, and friends; (2) person-centered strategies; (3) system, services, and providers; and (4) society. Discussion: Practices such as person-centered planning, peer support, and self-direction enable us to respond to and cope with the traumas caused by the pandemic. Systems-level themes reveal clear opportunities for abandoning outdated practices and rebuilding the service system in a more person-centered manner. Commentators argued that a society that strives for collective responsibility and well-being and leaves no one behind will generate the interdependence necessary to weather disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusion: Person-centered practices are both an anchor for weathering the pandemic and a beacon for rebuilding lives, service systems, and communities

Vocalizing the Angels of Mons: Audio Dramas as Propaganda in the Great War of 1914 to 1918 Societies 2014, 4(2), 180-221; doi:10.3390/soc4020180

Sound drama production prior to the onset of the “Radio Age” underwent a pioneering development during the Great War. This was achieved by the making, publication and distribution of short audio dramas acted with sound effects and music in front of early microphones and released in the form of 78 rpm phonograph discs. Entertaining storytelling through dramatic performance was mobilized for the purposes of improving recruitment and disseminating patriotic endorsement recordings. This article focuses on the sound dramatization of the myth of “The Angels of Mons” released by Regal in 1915. The recording is examined as a text for its significance in terms of propaganda, style of audio-drama, and any cultural role it may have played in the media of the First World War. The Regal disc was an example of what was described at the time as “descriptive sketches.” This article explores why a sound phonograph was used to dramatize the myth that angels intervened to assist the British Expeditionary Force to resist the German Army invading France through Belgium in 1914. A number of historians have discussed the First World War as being a theatre for the first modern media war, in which the process of propaganda was modernized. To what extent does “The Angels of Mons” phonograph and the genre of descriptive sketches support this analysis? Does this short sound drama play have any relevance to the cultural phenomena of spiritualism, modernism and patriotic Christianity identified as being important during the Great War period

A review of tertiary-level writing courses in Singapore : pedagogical approaches and practices

While there have been several studies on primary and secondary English education in Singapore, less research has been done on academic writing courses at the tertiary level. This study presents the results of a survey, which aimed to find out the pedagogical approaches and skills prioritized by tertiary-level writing teachers in Singapore. The project was guided by the following questions: (1) What is the dominant approach to teaching writing courses in Singapore? (2) What are the educational backgrounds of writing teachers in Singapore and does this relate to the pedagogical approaches that inform their teaching? (3) What practices do these teachers prioritize in the work they do as teachers and in their learning outcomes? (4) What are the typical assignments, class sizes, and teaching loads for Singaporean writing/communication classes? The results suggest that most teachers of Singaporean writing classes have a background in linguistics and take an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) approach; however, there was also some evidence of a blended approach between EAP and composition studies. The study proposes that, as Singaporean students become more proficient in English, this blended approach may present the best way forward for teaching academic writing in Singapore.Nanyang Technological UniversitySubmitted/Accepted versionThis work was supported by Nanyang Technological University, [Grant M4082339] IRB-2019-04-029-01

Applicazione di una biomassa termofila MBR per il trattamento di diversi substrati: performance, minimizzazione fanghi e recupero dei residui

Al fine di studiare, comprendere e trovare soluzioni per la gestione dei fanghi di depurazione, nella presente tesi di dottorato sono state svolte attività di ricerca bibliografica e sperimentale. Per quanto concerne la parte bibliografica, in primo luogo si sono studiati i fanghi: attraverso questioni ed elaborazioni dati si è analizzata quantità e qualità dei fanghi in uscita dai depuratori e dalle piattaforme conto terzi. Sono stati valutati i destini dei fanghi e in particolare si sono analizzate le normative europee, nazionale e regionali per lo spandimento dei fanghi in agricoltura. Infine, seguendo i dettami della normativa europea sui rifiuti (2008/98/CE) si sono analizzate sia le tecniche di minimizzazione sia le possibili forme di recupero (materia, energia, congiunto). Dal punto di vista sperimentale, si è deciso di studiare una tecnologia presente sul mercato: il processo termofilo MBR. Tale processo è stato studiato attraverso impianti sia alla scala reale sia alla scala pilota. Per quanto concerne i primi, questi sono stati monitorati e per uno è stato seguito anche lavviamento. Il cuore della tesi, tuttavia, sono le sperimentazioni condotte sugli impianti pilota dove sono stati testati rifiuti liquidi, fanghi e la combinazione di entrambi. Per ogni sperimentazione si sono calcolati i rendimenti di rimozione per i diversi parametri con particolare riferimento alla produzione specifica di fanghi e alla riduzione dei solidi. Infine, sono state proposte differenti configurazioni di installazione del termofilo MBR allinterno di un impianto a fanghi attivi per ridurre i fanghi, con riduzioni anche del 70%

Modernism and the irresponsible allusion: Joyce, Eliot and Pound

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A glimpse of Aidan Higgins through his critical work

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The use of a risk assessment tool based on the Sanitation Safety Planning approach for the improvement of O&M procedures of a wastewater treatment plant in Tanzania

The treatment of wastewater and excreta is one of the major challenges in low-income contexts. The urgency of recovery and reuse of nutrients for agriculture come into contrast with the risks for workers, farmers, and communities. This article presents the development of a risk-based methodology adapted from the Sanitation Safety Planning (SSP) and NaWaTech Safety and operation and management (O&M) planning approaches aimed at improving the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) of the Municipality of Iringa, Tanzania, selected as case study. The proposed approach is an innovative tool to identify and quantify the risk connected to hazardous events: the methodology was applied at the WWTP in order to identify and assess the risks related to the malfunctioning or to some exceptional events that could pose health risks to workers and nearby communities. The process permitted to identify the risk connected to the hazardous events in order to propose additional control measures for events having medium, high, or very high risk level. These additional control measures were aimed at improving current O&M procedures of the WWTP by the use of simple enhancements requiring low investments, as a first step toward the safeguard of the health of workers, farmers, and nearby communities