Filosofía de la historia rusa de Nicolai Berdiaev

En la cultura espiritual de Rusia de los siglos XIX y XX, las reflexiones acerca de su identidad ocupan un lugar central. Sin ninguna exageración se puede afirmar que el discurso sobre la peculiaridad de la cultura nacional se convirtió en una temática específica en los campos literario, histórico y filosófico. Ya la simple enumeración de algunos títulos escritos en este periodo permite mostrar la importancia de este tema en la tradición espiritual del país: Las noches rusas de Odoievsky; Rusia y Europa de Danilevsky; El oriente, Rusia y el eslavismo de Leontiev; La tragedia rusa de Bulgakov; La gran Rusia de Struve; Alrededor de la idea rusa de Rózanov; La Rusia enferma de Merezkovsky; El oriente, el occidente y la idea rusa de Karsavin; Las tareas de Rusia de Veidle; El rostro de Rusia de Fedotov; Lo eterno en la filosofía rusa de Visheslavtzev

I controlli sulla finanza locale:dalla regolarità sugli atti alla razionalizzazione delle partecipate.

In questo mio lavoro cerco di analizzare il sistema dei controlli sugli enti locali, che da controllo statico di mera regolarità formale sugli atti, diviene un controllo dinamico teso alla valutazione dell'efficacia, efficienza ed economicità dell'attività amministrativa. L'evoluzione normativa significativa partita negli anni '90 ha infatti seguito questo percorso: una forte attenzione ai controlli di governance, ovvero alla valutazione del processo di programmazione e dei relativi risultati conseguiti, ridimensionando addirittura alcune fattispecie di controllo e il loro assetto; assegnando al controllo un ruolo di parte integrante dell'amministrare. Un controllo che sì, si basa sempre sulla regolarità dell'azione aministrativa e sui suoi atti, ma che deve tendere all'efficacacia e all'efficienza della gestione delle risorse – mediante valutazioni, verifiche, comparazione dei risultati conseguiti – all'interno di un processo che, appunto, deve tendere al massimo con il minimo sforzo, attuando un sistema di controllo «interno ed integrato» all'amministrazione stessa. Tutto ciò alla luce della necessità di raggiungere gli obiettivi derivanti da vincoli comunitari in tema di finanza pubblica, di cui al Patto di stabilità e di crescita, sottoscritto nel 1997, che ha esteso agli enti locali l'applicazione degli impegni presi dal nostro Paese nei confronti dell'Unione Europea. L'evoluzione normativa porta alla riforma del 2012, in cui l'elenco dei controlli interni si annovera e si amplia. Tra questi, il controllo sulle società partecipate che, in quanto tali e gestendo servizi pubblici, si ritiene debba appartenere allo stesso ente locale. Al termine di un estenuante iter procedimentale, è stato cosi pubblicato il decreto legislativo 19 agosto 2016, n. 175, recante “Testo unico in materia di società a partecipazione pubblica”, disciplina organica in materia di società partecipate. Sarà, come sempre, la pratica applicativa ed interpretativa a dimostrare se il legislatore delegato abbia saputo cogliere le esigenze della collettività dettando disposizioni suscettibili di condurre alla realizzazione di quegli intenti di semplificazione, razionalizzazione, incentivazione della concorrenza e risparmio per la spesa pubblica che avevano guidato l'emanazione della legge delega

Information system support in construction industry with semantic web technologies and/or autonomous reasoning agents

Information technology support is hard to find for the early design phases of the architectural design process. Many of the existing issues in such design decision support tools appear to be caused by a mismatch between the ways in which designers think and the ways in which information systems aim to give support. We therefore started an investigation of existing theories of design thinking, compared to the way in which design decision support systems provide information to the designer. We identify two main strategies towards information system support in the early design phase: (1) applications for making design try-outs, and (2) applications as autonomous reasoning agents. We outline preview implementations for both approaches and indicate to what extent these strategies can be used to improve information system support for the architectural designer

OpenAIRE dashboard for repository managers: from repositories for repositories

Poster presented at "12th International Conference on Open Repositories" (OR 2017), Brisbane, Australia, 26-30 June 2017.OpenAIRE is the European Union initiative for an Open Access Infrastructure for Research which supports open scholarly communication and access to the research output of European funded projects and beyond. Thanks to infrastructure services, objects in the graph are harmonized to achieve semantic homogeneity, de-duplicated to avoid ambiguities, and enriched with missing properties and/or relationships. OpenAIRE data sources interested in enhancing or incrementing their content may benefit in a number of ways from this graph. This paper presents the OpenAIRE dashboard for data providers which performs the realization of an institutional repository Literature Broker Service for OpenAIRE data sources. The Service implements a subscription and notification paradigm supporting institutional repositories

Multi-dimensional Ontology Views via Contexts in the ECOIN Semantic Interoperability Framework

This paper describes the coupling of contexts and ontologies for semantic integration in the ECOIN semantic interoperability framework. Ontological terms in ECOIN correspond to multiple related meanings in different contexts. Each ontology includes a context model that describes how a generic ontological term can be modified according to contextual choices to acquire specialized meanings. Although the basic ECOIN concepts have been presented in the past, this paper is the first to show how ECOIN addresses the case of "single-ontology with multiple contexts" with an example of semantic integration using our new prototype implementation

Review on the role of the human Polyomavirus JC in the development of tumors

Almost one fifth of human cancers worldwide are associated with infectious agents, either bacteria or viruses, and this makes the possible association between infections and tumors a relevant research issue. We focused our attention on the human Polyomavirus JC (JCPyV), that is a small, naked DNA virus, belonging to the Polyomaviridae family. It is the recognized etiological agent of the Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML), a fatal demyelinating disease, occurring in immunosuppressed individuals. JCPyV is able to induce cell transformation in vitro when infecting non-permissive cells, that do not support viral replication and JCPyV inoculation into small animal models and non human primates drives to tumor formation. The molecular mechanisms involved in JCPyV oncogenesis have been extensively studied: the main oncogenic viral protein is the large tumor antigen (T-Ag), that is able to bind, among other cellular factors, both Retinoblastoma protein (pRb) and p53 and to dysregulate the cell cycle, but also the early proteins small tumor antigen (t-Ag) and Agnoprotein appear to cooperate in the process of cell transformation. Consequently, it is not surprising that JCPyV genomic sequences and protein expression have been detected in Central Nervous System (CNS) tumors and colon cancer and an association between this virus and several brain and non CNS-tumors has been proposed. However, the significances of these findings are under debate because there is still insufficient evidence of a casual association between JCPyV and solid cancer development. In this paper we summarized and critically analyzed the published literature, in order to describe the current knowledge on the possible role of JCPyV in the development of human tumor

Du paysage à l’ambiance : le paysage multisensoriel. Propositions théoriques pour une action urbaine sensible

International audienceThis paper proposes an articulation of the two research fields that usually deal with the sensorial and sensible issue and its link with the urban: landscape and ambiance. It presents the characteristics that historically separated the two concepts but also and specificaly the relations and complementary approaches they generate lately to offer a new perspective: the 'multisensorial landscape'. The multisensorial landscape is the result of the combination of ambiance and 'traditional' landscape. Its consideration could allow a more global and operational consideration of human sensibility in urban thinking and planning