La musica oltre... la terapia. Uno strumento educativo per l'inclusione

Music is an integral part of every person’s life. Scientific research has shown the effectiveness ofmusic in medical-rehabilitation contexts to the extent that it is considered, for some categoriesof people (disabled, socio-cultural, elderly), for the exclusive use of the psychotherapeutic field.The purpose of this review is to demonstrate the importance that music has also in the educationaland didactic field to “exploit” its peculiarities, “beyond” the therapeutic component toinclude the many different contexts of life. Among these, the “digital environments” make musicthe protagonist of a “world 2.0”, within which, starting from the strengths of the differentiatedMethod of Maria Montessori, it is possible to create a union between pedagogy and musicaleducation.The last section deals with deafness and music as a specimen, highlighting how theoretical andempirical research on this topic has dealt with it from a threefold perspective: on the one hand,music as rehabilitation therapy for deaf people; on the other, music’s contribution in the overalleducation of the deaf; finally, music as entertainment and its enjoyment as an expression ofquality free time for deaf people

Sex-related morbidity and mortality in non-adult individuals from the Early Medieval site of Valdaro (Italy): the contribution of dental enamel peptide analysis

In this work, osteological and paleopathological analyses are combined with liquid-chromatography mass spectrometry to study life and death of 30 non-adult individuals from an Early Medieval Italian funerary context (Valdaro, 7th-8th cent. AD). We estimated individual sex by exploiting sexual differences in enamel-bounded peptides. Enamel proteins were extracted through an acid etching of the whole tooth crowns for 4 samples\ud and through a partial digestion of small enamel chunks for the remaining 26 samples. Both protocols were informative on the sex of the individuals through the identification of amelogenin isoforms (AMELX and AMELY). In addition, low-mineralized tooth germs were analysed and they provided reliable information on the infants’ sex. We observed the presence of 13 males and 17 females among the non-adults of Valdaro, not significantly different from a random sample with an equal frequency of males and females. Cribra cranii and endocranial lesion occurrence showed an association with sex, with higher frequencies in male individuals

The On-Site Analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be one of the largest ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray observatories. The On-Site Analysis will be the first CTA scientific analysis of data acquired from the array of telescopes, in both northern and southern sites. The On-Site Analysis will have two pipelines: the Level-A pipeline (also known as Real-Time Analysis, RTA) and the level-B one. The RTA performs data quality monitoring and must be able to issue automated alerts on variable and transient astrophysical sources within 30 seconds from the last acquired Cherenkov event that contributes to the alert, with a sensitivity not worse than the one achieved by the final pipeline by more than a factor of 3. The Level-B Analysis has a better sensitivity (not be worse than the final one by a factor of 2) and the results should be available within 10 hours from the acquisition of the data: for this reason this analysis could be performed at the end of an observation or next morning. The latency (in particular for the RTA) and the sensitivity requirements are challenging because of the large data rate, a few GByte/s. The remote connection to the CTA candidate site with a rather limited network bandwidth makes the issue of the exported data size extremely critical and prevents any kind of processing in real-time of the data outside the site of the telescopes. For these reasons the analysis will be performed on-site with infrastructures co-located with the telescopes, with limited electrical power availability and with a reduced possibility of human intervention. This means, for example, that the on-site hardware infrastructure should have low-power consumption. A substantial effort towards the optimization of high-throughput computing service is envisioned to provide hardware and software solutions with high-throughput, low-power consumption at a low-cost.Comment: In Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1508.0589

A prototype for the real-time analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be one of the biggest ground-based very-high-energy (VHE) γ- ray observatory. CTA will achieve a factor of 10 improvement in sensitivity from some tens of GeV to beyond 100 TeV with respect to existing telescopes. The CTA observatory will be capable of issuing alerts on variable and transient sources to maximize the scientific return. To capture these phenomena during their evolution and for effective communication to the astrophysical community, speed is crucial. This requires a system with a reliable automated trigger that can issue alerts immediately upon detection of γ-ray flares. This will be accomplished by means of a Real-Time Analysis (RTA) pipeline, a key system of the CTA observatory. The latency and sensitivity requirements of the alarm system impose a challenge because of the anticipated large data rate, between 0.5 and 8 GB/s. As a consequence, substantial efforts toward the optimization of highthroughput computing service are envisioned. For these reasons our working group has started the development of a prototype of the Real-Time Analysis pipeline. The main goals of this prototype are to test: (i) a set of frameworks and design patterns useful for the inter-process communication between software processes running on memory; (ii) the sustainability of the foreseen CTA data rate in terms of data throughput with different hardware (e.g. accelerators) and software configurations, (iii) the reuse of nonreal- time algorithms or how much we need to simplify algorithms to be compliant with CTA requirements, (iv) interface issues between the different CTA systems. In this work we focus on goals (i) and (ii)

The Real-Time Analysis of Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory must be capable of issuing fast alerts on variable and transient sources to maximize the scientific return. This will be accomplished by means of a Real-Time Analysis (RTA) pipeline, a key system of the CTA observatory. The latency and sensitivity requirements of the alarm system impose a challenge because of the large foreseen data flow rate, between 0.5 and 8 GB/s. As a consequence, substantial efforts toward the optimization of this high-throughput computing service are envisaged, with the additional constraint that the RTA should be performed on-site (as part of the auxiliary infrastructure of the telescopes). In this work, the functional design of the RTA pipeline is presented

The importance of the body in writing

The human being needs the simultaneous collaboration of both body and mind in order to reach a balanced situation, but this requires a conscious and controlled commitment. The learning of reading, writing, and counting are complex learning processes that require strong commitment in the whole. In this study writing, in particular, is taken into account. When this is accomplished, the students are strongly motivated and gratified as they realize that a simple movement that accompanies an object (e.g. pencil) can produce a sign that acquires value and meaning. However, this path is not easy: other forms of expression beyond the body can help, for instance: music. During the learning of writing, if we incorporate these two constants, movement and music, the goal will be achieved more easily, perhaps it will be fun too! In the first part, a brief theoretical excursion to the child's approach to pregraphism, a bibliographic research on the international updated scientific research database on the subject, followed in the second part by an experimental research conducted at the Kindergarten and Primary School of an Italian Comprehensive Institute, reporting the results obtained with relative statistical analysis of the data

Music Beyond...Therapy. An Educational Tool for Inclusion

Music is an integral part of every person’slife. Scientific research hasshown the effectiveness of music in medical-rehabilitation contexts to the extent that it is considered, for some categories of people (disabled,socio-cultural, elderly), forthe exclusive use of the psychotherapeutic field. The purpose of this review is to demonstrate the importance that music has also in the educa- tional and didactic field to “exploit” its peculiarities, “beyond” the therapeutic component to include the many different contexts of life. Among these,the “digital environments” make music the protagonist of a “world 2.0”, within which, starting from the strengths of the differentiated Method of Maria Montessori, it is possible to create a union between pedagogy and musical education. The last section deals with deafness and music as a specimen, highlighting how theoretical and empirical research on thistopic has dealt with it from a threefold perspective: on the one hand, music asrehabilitation therapy for deaf people; on the other, music’s contribution in the overall education of the deaf; finally, music as entertainment and its enjoyment as an expression of quality free time for deaf people