Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Engagement is a multi-componential construct, difficult to measure in its general form as in the typical development but even more in the atypical development. Currently, there are no instruments in the literature to measure engagement in its different dimensions (behavioural, affective, social and cognitive) for students with intellectual disabilities involved in creative robotics activities. With this aim, we tried to apply a survey system based on the triangulation of three ad hoc tools: an observation grid, analysis of verbal productions and a questionnaire. This triple system of application allowed us to understand whether the creative robotics activity proposed to children with intellectual disabilities aroused their interest and involvement, and to what extent.

The draft genomes of five Naganishia strains were sequenced using MinION and annotated using Funannotate pipeline. Phylogenetic and genomic analyses were performed to provide their genetic relationships, diversity, and potential functional capabilities. This approach will aid in understanding their potential to survive under microgravity and their resilience to extreme environments.

Brevis introductio ad dictamen by Giovanni di Bonandrea was one of the most popular Latin treaties on ars dictaminis in the fourteenth century. Around the middle of the same century even a Florentine translation of Bonandrea’s work was made, probably for a personal use. This book offers a critical edition of this vernacular version, which is contained in manuscript 2323 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, that dates from the first half of the fifteenth century. The text, stylistically modest, linguistically is very interesting, as it testifies to the restricted circulation of the ars dictaminis lexicon in the vernacular. The Introduction attempts to identify the cultural milieus in which the text was written and examines modes of translation and problems of attribution and dating. Great attention is also paid to the Latin tradition of the Brevis introduction ad dictamen , in an attempt to identify the witnesses that most closely match the Latin antigraph used by the translator. The critical text, which updates Francesco Zambrini’s entirely unsatisfactory 1854 edition, is accompanied by a commentary that offers information on the main exegetical, linguistic and stylistic issues, with special emphasis on comparisons with the Latin text. The volume is closed by a glossary of the terms of grammatical, rhetorical and metrical vocabulary found in the translation of the treatise: in many cases they represent the first attestation in Italian.

Brevis introductio ad dictamen by Giovanni di Bonandrea was one of the most popular Latin treaties on ars dictaminis in the fourteenth century. Around the middle of the same century even a Florentine translation of Bonandrea’s work was made, probably for a personal use. This book offers a critical edition of this vernacular version, which is contained in manuscript 2323 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, that dates from the first half of the fifteenth century. The text, stylistically modest, linguistically is very interesting, as it testifies to the restricted circulation of the ars dictaminis lexicon in the vernacular. The Introduction attempts to identify the cultural milieus in which the text was written and examines modes of translation and problems of attribution and dating. Great attention is also paid to the Latin tradition of the Brevis introduction ad dictamen , in an attempt to identify the witnesses that most closely match the Latin antigraph used by the translator. The critical text, which updates Francesco Zambrini’s entirely unsatisfactory 1854 edition, is accompanied by a commentary that offers information on the main exegetical, linguistic and stylistic issues, with special emphasis on comparisons with the Latin text. The volume is closed by a glossary of the terms of grammatical, rhetorical and metrical vocabulary found in the translation of the treatise: in many cases they represent the first attestation in Italian.

Brevis introductio ad dictamen by Giovanni di Bonandrea was one of the most popular Latin treaties on ars dictaminis in the fourteenth century. Around the middle of the same century even a Florentine translation of Bonandrea’s work was made, probably for a personal use. This book offers a critical edition of this vernacular version, which is contained in manuscript 2323 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, that dates from the first half of the fifteenth century. The text, stylistically modest, linguistically is very interesting, as it testifies to the restricted circulation of the ars dictaminis lexicon in the vernacular. The Introduction attempts to identify the cultural milieus in which the text was written and examines modes of translation and problems of attribution and dating. Great attention is also paid to the Latin tradition of the Brevis introduction ad dictamen , in an attempt to identify the witnesses that most closely match the Latin antigraph used by the translator. The critical text, which updates Francesco Zambrini’s entirely unsatisfactory 1854 edition, is accompanied by a commentary that offers information on the main exegetical, linguistic and stylistic issues, with special emphasis on comparisons with the Latin text. The volume is closed by a glossary of the terms of grammatical, rhetorical and metrical vocabulary found in the translation of the treatise: in many cases they represent the first attestation in Italian.

Brevis introductio ad dictamen by Giovanni di Bonandrea was one of the most popular Latin treaties on ars dictaminis in the fourteenth century. Around the middle of the same century even a Florentine translation of Bonandrea’s work was made, probably for a personal use. This book offers a critical edition of this vernacular version, which is contained in manuscript 2323 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, that dates from the first half of the fifteenth century. The text, stylistically modest, linguistically is very interesting, as it testifies to the restricted circulation of the ars dictaminis lexicon in the vernacular. The Introduction attempts to identify the cultural milieus in which the text was written and examines modes of translation and problems of attribution and dating. Great attention is also paid to the Latin tradition of the Brevis introduction ad dictamen , in an attempt to identify the witnesses that most closely match the Latin antigraph used by the translator. The critical text, which updates Francesco Zambrini’s entirely unsatisfactory 1854 edition, is accompanied by a commentary that offers information on the main exegetical, linguistic and stylistic issues, with special emphasis on comparisons with the Latin text. The volume is closed by a glossary of the terms of grammatical, rhetorical and metrical vocabulary found in the translation of the treatise: in many cases they represent the first attestation in Italian.

Brevis introductio ad dictamen by Giovanni di Bonandrea was one of the most popular Latin treaties on ars dictaminis in the fourteenth century. Around the middle of the same century even a Florentine translation of Bonandrea’s work was made, probably for a personal use. This book offers a critical edition of this vernacular version, which is contained in manuscript 2323 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, that dates from the first half of the fifteenth century. The text, stylistically modest, linguistically is very interesting, as it testifies to the restricted circulation of the ars dictaminis lexicon in the vernacular. The Introduction attempts to identify the cultural milieus in which the text was written and examines modes of translation and problems of attribution and dating. Great attention is also paid to the Latin tradition of the Brevis introduction ad dictamen , in an attempt to identify the witnesses that most closely match the Latin antigraph used by the translator. The critical text, which updates Francesco Zambrini’s entirely unsatisfactory 1854 edition, is accompanied by a commentary that offers information on the main exegetical, linguistic and stylistic issues, with special emphasis on comparisons with the Latin text. The volume is closed by a glossary of the terms of grammatical, rhetorical and metrical vocabulary found in the translation of the treatise: in many cases they represent the first attestation in Italian.

Brevis introductio ad dictamen by Giovanni di Bonandrea was one of the most popular Latin treaties on ars dictaminis in the fourteenth century. Around the middle of the same century even a Florentine translation of Bonandrea’s work was made, probably for a personal use. This book offers a critical edition of this vernacular version, which is contained in manuscript 2323 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, that dates from the first half of the fifteenth century. The text, stylistically modest, linguistically is very interesting, as it testifies to the restricted circulation of the ars dictaminis lexicon in the vernacular. The Introduction attempts to identify the cultural milieus in which the text was written and examines modes of translation and problems of attribution and dating. Great attention is also paid to the Latin tradition of the Brevis introduction ad dictamen , in an attempt to identify the witnesses that most closely match the Latin antigraph used by the translator. The critical text, which updates Francesco Zambrini’s entirely unsatisfactory 1854 edition, is accompanied by a commentary that offers information on the main exegetical, linguistic and stylistic issues, with special emphasis on comparisons with the Latin text. The volume is closed by a glossary of the terms of grammatical, rhetorical and metrical vocabulary found in the translation of the treatise: in many cases they represent the first attestation in Italian.

In this conversation, Mieke Bal retraces the perimeter of her analytically based art practice and her practice-based theoretical work, taking advantage of the operational concept of frame but also of the many actions it generates – such as framing, unframing, de-framing, and re-framing. She considers the act of framing, understood as a first gesture of interpretation, much more useful than the noun itself for our understanding of the effects and meanings of art. Framing as an action can also potentially subvert the traditional, linear, and chronological views of time, bringing into question unilateral thinking. From this perspective, re-framing does not mean doing something again but doing something different – that is, something new – while unframing, instead of a refusal of the act of framing, is to put chaos into an artwork.

The study about how tyre-derived particles can potentially worsen the water quality and how traffic pollution markers can affect the environment is crucial for environmental management. Road emissions are known to contribute to pollution in various environments, and benzothiazoles and their derivates can be used to trace pollutant inputs related to surface runoff in the aquatic system. A total of eight benzothiazoles were determined in highway stormwater runoff and road dust collected from February to August 2022 near Venice (Casale sul Sile, Veneto Region, Italy). A new analytical method was validated, by using an UHPLC system coupled to a mass spectrometer (triple quadrupole). The target compounds were determined in both dissolved phase and suspended particulate matter of runoff, and the road dust samples were divided into seven fractions depending on particle diameters to understand the fraction partitioning. The results indicate that 2-SO3H-BTH was the most concentrated benzothiazole in all the analysed substrates, suggesting tyre debris as the main source because it is usually used in the vulcanization process. 2-SO3H-BTH reached a mean concentration of 115 ± 59 µg L⁻¹, 4 ± 3 µg L⁻¹, and 411 ± 441 µg Kg⁻¹ for dissolved phase, suspended particulate matter, and road dust, respectively, while 2-OH-BTH and BTH showed values about an order of magnitude lower. The size distribution of most BTHs suggests that they are distributed in the finest fraction of road dust. An exception was given by 2-SCNMeS-BTH being present only in particles with a diameter > 1 mm.

Deciphering the localisation of solid and dissolved impurities on the micron-scale in glacial ice remains a challenge, but is critical to understand the integrity of ice core records and internal deformation. Here we report on the state-of-the-art in microstructural impurity research by highlighting recent progress in bringing together cryo-Raman spectroscopy and laser ablation induct-ively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). We show the potential of both methods and discuss possibilities to improve inter-method approaches aiming for a more holistic understanding of the evolution of impurity localisation throughout the ice column, including post-depositional processes. In this framework, we elaborate on future research priorities such as LA-ICP-MS imaging on firn samples and integrating a large cryo-cell with imaging capabilities.

This study reintroduces critique. It begins by defining the difference between criticism and critique, and goes on to propose an ampler, dynamic view of critique as a movement of geographical and intellectual displacements. Against the background of a wide-ranging archive, discussion illuminates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories through which theory operates. Italian Theory, in particular, acts as the fulcrum of a more inclusive and less combative notion of critique. This ‘living thought’ cuts across the translation of European thought into Anglo-American theory and carries with it lingering modernist motifs linked to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. While connecting to the ‘post-critique’ debate, the study focuses on recovering the ethical underpinnings of critique. It demonstrates that before being a specific method or disciplinary practice, critique is a stance including indocility receptiveness, openness to transformation awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality, and wonder. The book is structured around fundamental keywords in the lexicon of literary studies: critic, theory, language, tradition, text, method, and poststructuralism. It argues that literary critical practice is allied with the movement of thought outside cruel dynamics of humanization (the struggle for recognition, the gaze of the other), and reflects on the role of reading in the important task of imagining others.

Recently, Conte et al. generalized the longest-common prefix (LCP) array from strings to Wheeler DFAs, and they showed that it can be used to efficiently determine matching statistics on a Wheeler DFA [DCC 2023]. However, storing the LCP array requires \( O(n \log n) \) bits, n being the number of states, while the compact representation of Wheeler DFAs often requires much less space. In particular, the BOSS representation of a de Bruijn graph only requires a linear number of bits, if the size of alphabet is constant. In this paper, we propose a sampling technique that allows to access an entry of the LCP array in logarithmic time by only storing a linear number of bits. We use our technique to provide a space-time trade-off to compute matching statistics on a Wheeler DFA. In addition, we show that by augmenting the BOSS representation of a k-th order de Bruijn graph with a linear number of bits we can navigate the underlying variable-order de Bruijn graph in time logarithmic in k, thus improving a previous bound by Boucher et al. which was linear in k [DCC 2015].

A Wheeler automaton is a finite state automaton whose states admit a total Wheeler order, reflecting the co-lexicographic order of the strings labeling source-to-node paths). A Wheeler language is a regular language admitting an accepting Wheeler automaton. Wheeler languages admit efficient and elegant solutions to hard problems such as automata compression and regular expression matching, therefore deciding whether a regular language is Wheeler is relevant in applications requiring efficient solutions to those problems. In this paper, we show that it is possible to decide whether a DFA with n states and m transitions recognizes a Wheeler language in O(mn) time. This is a significant improvement over the running time \(O(n^{13} + m\log n)\) of the previous polynomial-time algorithm (Alanko et al. Information and Computation 2021). A proof-of-concept implementation of this algorithm is available in a public repository. We complement this upper bound with a conditional matching lower bound stating that, unless the strong exponential time hypothesis (SETH) fails, the problem cannot be solved in strongly subquadratic time. The same problem is known to be PSPACE-complete when the input is an NFA (D’Agostino et al. Theoretical Computer Science 2023). Together with that result, our paper essentially closes the algorithmic problem of Wheeler language recognition.

Tumor recognition by T cells is essential for antitumor immunity. A comprehensive characterization of T cell diversity may be key to understanding the success of immunomodulatory drugs and failure of PD-1 blockade in tumors such as multiple myeloma (MM). Here, we use single-cell RNA and T cell receptor sequencing to characterize bone marrow T cells from healthy adults (n = 4) and patients with precursor (n = 8) and full-blown MM (n = 10). Large T cell clones from patients with MM expressed multiple immune checkpoints, suggesting a potentially dysfunctional phenotype. Dual targeting of PD-1 + LAG3 or PD-1 + TIGIT partially restored their function in mice with MM. We identify phenotypic hallmarks of large intratumoral T cell clones, and demonstrate that the CD27⁻ and CD27⁺ T cell ratio, measured by flow cytometry, may serve as a surrogate of clonal T cell expansions and an independent prognostic factor in 543 patients with MM treated with lenalidomide-based treatment combinations.

Understanding sea level during the peak of the Last Interglacial (125,000 yrs ago) is important for assessing future ice-sheet dynamics in response to climate change. The coasts and continental shelves of northeastern Australia (Queensland) preserve an extensive Last Interglacial record in the facies of coastal strandplains onland and fossil reefs offshore. However, there is a discrepancy, amounting to tens of meters, in the elevation of sea-level indicators between offshore and onshore sites. Here, we assess the influence of geophysical processes that may have changed the elevation of these sea-level indicators. We modeled sea-level change due to dynamic topography, glacial isostatic adjustment, and isostatic adjustment due to coral reef loading. We find that these processes caused relative sea-level changes on the order of, respectively, 10 m, 5 m, and 0.3 m. Of these geophysical processes, the dynamic topography predictions most closely match the tilting observed between onshore and offshore sea-level markers.

Complex models of computer systems are often difficult to study with numerical or analytical approaches because of the state space explosion problem. The class of product-form models is one of the most significant tools for overcoming this problem, and in many applications, this tool is the only way to perform a quantitative analysis. In this paper, we study the duality between two different product-form models. The first consists of a queuing network with finite capacity waiting rooms governed by the skip-over policy. The second is a recently presented product-form model in which a job fetching policy is applied. To investigate the relationships between these two models, we first extend the fetching queuing model to allow for finite capacity warehouses and for a Repetitive Service Blocking with Random Destination (RS-RD) discipline. Subsequently, we represent their distinctive features in terms of Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets which precisely specify their semantics in a modular manner and provide clear and intuitive interpretations of these policies. With these two preliminary results, we prove that it is possible to structurally transform a model of one class into one of the other and vice versa, thus choosing the representation that is computationally more convenient to compute the performance measures of interest.