Il metodo Tellington-Touch come tecnica di rilassamento nel cane: valutazione dell'efficacia

Lo scopo della presente ricerca è stato quello di valutare l'efficacia del metodo Tellington-Touch come tecnica di rilassamento nel cane. A tale scopo 15 cani sono stati sottoposti a 3 sessioni: una di manipolazioni casuali, una di manipolazioni T-touch ed una senza manipolazioni (controllo). Il comportamento e la frequenza cardiaca dei cani nelle tre suddette condizioni è stato valutato e comparato tramite analisi statistica. La misurazione della frequenza cardiaca non ha rivelato alcuna differenza significativa nelle sessioni esaminate (77,0±23,7; 81,3±25,4; 78,2±23,6). Per quanto riguarda l’analisi comportamentale, è emerso che la ricerca della persona è stata maggiormente riscontrata durante il T-touch (39,15%) rispetto al controllo (26,24%) e alle manipolazioni casuali (22,59%), mentre gli indici di relax erano più manifestati quando i cani erano manipolati casualmente (34,78%) rispetto che nel T-touch (25,19%) e nella condizione di controllo (15,50%); gli indici di stress invece erano rappresentati in maniera simile nel T-touch (28,38%) e nei tocchi casuali (28,95%), ma maggiori nel controllo (30,11%), così come gli indici di eccitazione, che durante le manipolazioni apparivano minori (14,40% e 17,41%) rispetto al controllo (25,28%). I risultati ottenuti nella presente ricerca suggeriscono che il metodo T-touch è efficace nell’indurre uno stato di rilassamento nel cane, ma la sua efficacia appare correlata all’effetto di generiche manipolazioni gentili piuttosto che a manipolazioni di natura specifica

La dottrina del laicato come dimensione informatrice del rapporto Chiesa-Mondo nel Concilio Vaticano II

SUMMARIUM Hoc studium de doctrina laicorum oppetit quaestionem relationum Ecclesiae et mundi lumini praeceptorum Conci1ii, sumens nucleum investigationis doctrinam laicorum in rebus saeculi. Fundamentale pondus humanae personae laicique ut talis, praeter fidelem, in Concilio Vaticano Il hunc proprium prospectum exigit. In primis paragraphum IIl, «De laicis et de personae humanae dignitate», agit de mutua conexione atque intelligentia duorum thematum etsi se contineat problematibus libertatis religiosae. Thema autem personae humanae,. media Concilii declaratio, in hoc paragrapho non examinatur quamquam adsit rector totius operis valde nexum cum themate laicorum. Alterum est elementum singulare quamvis summa investigatione situm, repraesentatum re pluralismi (socialis religiosique) in quo auctor vult ostendere momentum vi Ecclesiae in mundo profectionis magis quam adventus tantum cogitationis Ecclesiae; et eminent aliquae ulteriores conexiones thematum humanae personae, laicorum et pluralismi, quorum maiores derivationes disseruntur in paragraphis IV et V, de Statu Internationalique communitate; restructuratio primi et magna evolutionis potentia secundi summum exitus sunt plurallsmi et activitatis hominum eam animantium. Eminet in primis in paragrapho IV peculiaris activitas laicorum ordine internationali et munus «creativum» quod in tale contextu possit habere haec activitas, ad Ecclesiam ducem malentem loqui hominibus quam nationibus. Hoc sensu (par. IV) interpretat auctor viam individualem ut primariam ET secundariam institutionalem. Ceterum restructurationi Status explicationes et indications quaerunt, inter eas rationem agendi Concilli in confesionalitatis Stati themate. Denique parag. VI conatur evidentia facere problemata et consequtiones laicorum in rebus saeculi, his conexis cum supra dictis ut coordinentur. Opus experitur facere continuationem conceptuum quae in miscendis et concatenandis thematibus singularibus permittat eminere profundam signüicationem relationum praesentium Ecclesiae et mundi in omnibus suis implicationibus valde praecipuis. ----------------------------------ABSTRACT This present work on the laity deals with the question of Church-World relationship in the light of Conciliar teaching, taking as the medium of investigation, the doctrine concerning the laity in temporal affairs. This particular perspective is derived from the fundamental significance given to the human person and to the layman as such, and not as a member of the faithful, in the II Vatican Council. Paragraph 3, «the layman and the dignity of the human person», in particular, is dedicated to the co-relation of these two subjects and the aspects of compenetration which they offer, though often limited to the problems of religious freedom. The subject of the human person,. which occupies a central position in the Conciliar presentation, is not in fact exhausted nor could it be, in such a paragraph: it is present throughout the whole of this work as a connecting thread linked with that of laity. Another basic element, overlooking and influencing this investigation, is that represented by the phenomenon of «pluralism» (social and religious) considered (par. 2) not so much as the terminal point of the Church's meditation, but as the point of departure for the activity of the Church in the world. A series of further co-relations between the subjects of the human person, the layman and pluralism are singled out, whose major consequences cannot be felt elsewhere than in the subjects dealt with in paragraphs 4 and 5, 1. e. the State and the international Community. For, the new dimension which has been given to the former and the richness of the evolutive protentiality of the latter are no more than the result of pluralism and the activity of the human beings which animate it. Paragraph 5, in particular, represents an effort to lay hold up the peculiar characteristics of the action of the laity at an international level and the «creative » function which this activity could have in this context, in accordance with the guidance of the Church, which chose to speak first to the world of men and afterwards to the Nations. It is in this sense that individual life is considered primary and that of Institutions secondary (par. 4). In addition, further explanations and indications are sought regarding the new dimension given to the Sta te, among which the manner in which the Council dealt with the confessionality of the State, ls included. Finally, in paragraph 6,an effort is made to place in evidence certain problems and consequences of a necessary harmonisation between potestas in temporalibu8 and the function of the laity in temporal affairs, recalling those points previously developed for the co-ordination. Throughout this work an attempt has been made to maintain a conceptual continuity, which, founded in and linked to the individual topics, would favour the emphasis of the profound significance of the actual Church-World relationships in aH its very important implications

Local Rule-Based Explanations of Black Box Decision Systems

The recent years have witnessed the rise of accurate but obscure decision systems which hide the logic of their internal decision processes to the users. The lack of explanations for the decisions of black box systems is a key ethical issue, and a limitation to the adoption of machine learning components in socially sensitive and safety-critical contexts. %Therefore, we need explanations that reveals the reasons why a predictor takes a certain decision. In this paper we focus on the problem of black box outcome explanation, i.e., explaining the reasons of the decision taken on a specific instance. We propose LORE, an agnostic method able to provide interpretable and faithful explanations. LORE first leans a local interpretable predictor on a synthetic neighborhood generated by a genetic algorithm. Then it derives from the logic of the local interpretable predictor a meaningful explanation consisting of: a decision rule, which explains the reasons of the decision; and a set of counterfactual rules, suggesting the changes in the instance's features that lead to a different outcome. Wide experiments show that LORE outperforms existing methods and baselines both in the quality of explanations and in the accuracy in mimicking the black box

Attività annuale del Gruppo di Lavoro "Gestione e monitoraggio PON 2007/2013"

La presente relazione tecnica si propone di illustrare l’attività svolta dal Gruppo di Lavoro “Gestione e monitoraggio PON 2007/2013”, dalla data di costituzione (18 marzo 2013) alla data odierna rappresentando le esigenze che hanno portato alla sua costituzione, le criticità riscontrate e il rapporto analitico sulla gestione dei PON 7° PQ, concludendo con una proposta organizzativa per il DIITET, finalizzata al proseguimento delle attività di gestione dei progetti, che possa essere valida sia per la prosecuzione, a compimento, di tutte le fattispecie connesse al settimo Programma Quadro in chiusura, che per successivo Horizon 2020

PENGARUH KRITERIA INTI EKOWISATA TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN BERKUNJUNG: Survei terhadap Wisatawan Individu yang Berkunjung ke Kawasan Taman Hutan Raya Gunung Kunci-Palasari

Kawasan Taman Hutan Raya Gunung Kunci–Palasari dikelola oleh Dinas Kehutanan dan Perkebunan Kabupaten Sumedang. Pada tahun 2015 terjadi penurunan jumlah kunjungan wisatawan ke Kawasan Taman Hutan Raya Gunung Kunci–Palasari. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh temuan mengenai kriteria inti ekowisata, keputusan berkunjung wisatawan individu ke Kawasan Taman Hutan Raya Gunung Kunci-Palasari, dan untuk memperoleh temuan mengenai pengaruh kriteria inti ekowisata terhadap keputusan berkunjung wisatawan ke Kawasan Taman Hutan Raya Gunung Kunci-Palasari.Adapun penelitian ini memiliki 2 variabel yang terdiri dari satu variabel bebas dan satu variabel terikat, yaitu kriteria inti ekowisata yang terdiri dari nature based tourism, sustainability 1 (local participation dan local benefits), sustainability 2 (conservation), learning, dan the moral imperative. Sedangkan keputusan berkunjung sebagi variabel terikat terdiri dari product choice, brand choice, dealer choice, purchase timing dan purchase amount. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode explanatory survey dengan jenis penelitian deskriptif dan verifikatif. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa kriteria inti ekowisata memiliki pengaruh yang sangat kuat terhadap keputusan berkunjung. Kata Kunci: Kriteria Inti Ekowisata, Keputusan Berkunjung GunungKunci-Palasari Park Forest managed by the Dinas Kehutanan dan Perkebunan Kabupaten Sumedang. In 2015 the decrease in the number of tourist visits to the area of GunungKunci-Palasari Park Forest.This study aimed to obtain findings on core criteria of ecotourism, the decision to individual travelers visiting GunungKunci-Palasari Park Forest, and to obtain findings regarding the effect of the core criteria of ecotourism to the decision of visiting tourists to the area of GunungKunci-Palasari Park Forest. This study has two variables consisting of one independent variable and one dependent variable, namely the criteria of core ecotourism consisting of nature based tourism, sustainability 1 (local participation and local benefits), sustainability 2 (conservation), learning, and the moral imperative , While discussing the decision as a dependent variable consist of product choice, brand choice, dealer choice, purchase timing and purchase amount. The method used in this research is explanatory survey method with descriptive research and verification. The results of this study indicate that after assumption test sub-variables, sub variable Nature based tourism, sustainability 1 (local participation and local benefits), sustainability 2 (conservation) have a considerable influence on the decision to visit Keyword: Core Criteria of Ecotourism, Visit Decisio

Data Mining for Discrimination Discovery

In the context of civil rights law, discrimination refers to unfair or unequal treatment of people based on membership to a category or a minority, without regard to individual merit. Discrimination in credit, mortgage, insurance, labor market, and education has been investigated by researchers in economics and human sciences. With the advent of automatic decision support systems, such as credit scoring systems, the ease of data collection opens several challenges to data analysts for the fight against discrimination. In this paper, we introduce the problem of discovering discrimination through data mining in a dataset of historical decision records, taken by humans or by automatic systems. We formalize the processes of direct and indirect discrimination discovery by modelling protected-by-law groups and contexts where discrimination occurs in a classification rule based syntax. Basically, classification rules extracted from the dataset allow for unveiling contexts of unlawful discrimination, where the degree of burden over protected-bylaw groups is formalized by an extension of the lift measure of a classification rule. In direct discrimination, the extracted rules can be directly mined in search of discriminatory contexts. In indirect discrimination, the mining process needs some background knowledge as a further input, e.g., census data, that combined with the extracted rules might allow for unveiling contexts of discriminatory decisions. A strategy adopted for combining extracted classification rules with background knowledge is called an inference model. In this paper, we propose two inference models and provide automatic procedures for their implementation. An empirical assessment of our results is provided on the German credit dataset and on the PKDD Discovery Challenge 1999 financial dataset

Las prácticas de crianza de los hijos y el repertorio conductual del niño: comparando niños distinguidos por el comportamiento

A identificação de práticas parentais contingentes aos comportamentos dos filhos é importante para subsidiar intervenções. Este estudo teve como objetivo comparar práticas educativas parentais e comportamentos de crianças de um grupo de crianças considerado clínico/com problema de comportamento (n = 27), com um grupo de crianças não clínico/sem problema de comportamento (n = 26). O critério de inclusão das crianças nos grupos clínico e não clínico foi obtido a partir do CBCL, e os dados da interação pais-filhos foram colhidos por meio do Roteiro de Entrevista de Habilidades Sociais Educativas Parentais (RE-HSE-P), que avalia práticas positivas e negativas de educação, contexto, problemas de comportamento e habilidades sociais infantis. Procedeu-se às análises qualitativa e quantitativa (Teste Mann Whitney) de forma a comparar os grupos. Os resultados apontam que os comportamentos que diferenciam os grupos clínico e não clínico são, sobretudo, os relacionados às práticas educativas positivas e às habilidades sociais infantis.Identifying parental practices contingent to the behavior of children is important to support interventions. This study compares parental disciplinary practices with the behavior of children in a clinical group with behavioral problems (n = 27) and of a group of children without behavioral problems (n = 26). The criterion to assign children in the clinical and non-clinical groups was obtained from the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Information concerning parents-children interaction was obtained through the application of the Parental Educative Social Skills Interview Script (RE-HSE-P), which evaluates positive and negative educational practices, context, behavioral problems and children's social skills. Qualitative and quantitative analyses (Mann Whitney's test) were used in the groups' comparison. The results indicate that behaviors that differentiate between the clinical and non-clinical groups are mainly those related to positive educational practices and children's social skills.La identificación de las habilidades sociales es importante para las intervenciones de apoyo educativo a los padres. El objetivo es comparar las prácticas de crianza y el comportamiento de niños de un grupo de niños considerados clínicos con problemas de comportamiento (n = 27), con un grupo de niños no clínicos o sin problemas de comportamiento (n = 26). El criterio para la inclusión de los niños en clínicos o no clínicos se obtuvo a partir del CBCL, y los datos de la interacción padre-hijo fueron recogidos mediante el Guión de Entrevista de Habilidades Sociales para Educación de los Padres (RE-HSE-P), que evalúa las prácticas educación positiva y negativa, el contexto, los problemas de comportamiento y habilidades sociales para los niños. Se efectuó análisis cualitativo y cuantitativo (Mann Whitney) para comparar los grupos. Los resultados indican que las conductas que diferencian a los grupos son principalmente los relacionados con las prácticas educativas positivas y habilidades sociales para los niños

A representação visual dos géneros: uma análise a partir das revistas de segmento masculino

Este e-working paper integra o debate acerca da diversidade de identidades de género a partir da análise das diferentes formas de representação visual dos corpos veiculadas em algumas das revistas de segmento masculino a circular em Portugal (Maxmen, FHM, Men’s Health e GQ). O trabalho começa por apresentar alguns dados indicativos do surgimento e evolução das vendas das revistas de segmento masculino em Portugal, bem como do perfil dos seus leitores. Posteriormente e a partir das imagens que integram estas publicações desenha-se, então, uma reflexão acerca das diferentes concepções de género associadas às revistas. This e-Working Paper incorporates a debate on the diversity of gender identities through the analysis of different ways of visually representing the body carried in some of the male magazines circulating in Portugal (Maxmen, FHM, Men’s Health and GQ). The work begins by presenting some data regarding the emergence and market evolution of male magazines in Portugal, as well as the reader’s profile. Therefore, through the diversity of images that integrate these publications, there will be a discussion on the different conceptions of gender

A triple-GEM telescope for the TOTEM experiment

The TOTEM experiment at LHC has chosen the triple Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology for its T2 telescope which will provide charged track reconstruction in the rapidity range 5.3<|eta|<6.5 and a fully inclusive trigger for diffractive events. GEMs are gas-filled detectors that have the advantageous decoupling of the charge amplification structure from the charge collection and readout structure. Furthermore, they combine good spatial resolution with very high rate capability and a good resistance to radiation. Results from a detailed T2 GEM simulation and from laboratory tests on a final design detector performed at CERN are presented.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of 10th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors (IPRD06), Siena, Italy, October 1-5 200