Plasticity and awareness of bodily distortion

Knowledge of the body is filtered by perceptual information, recalibrated through predominantly innate stored information, and neurally mediated by direct sensory motor information. Despite multiple sources, the immediate prediction, construction, and evaluation of one’s body are distorted. The origins of such distortions are unclear. In this review, we consider three possible sources of awareness that inform body distortion. First, the precision in the body metric may be based on the sight and positioning sense of a particular body segment. This view provides information on the dual nature of body representation, the reliability of a conscious body image, and implicit alterations in the metrics and positional correspondence of body parts. Second, body awareness may reflect an innate organizational experience of unity and continuity in the brain, with no strong isomorphism to body morphology. Third, body awareness may be based on efferent/afferent neural signals, suggesting that major body distortions may result from changes in neural sensorimotor experiences. All these views can be supported empirically, suggesting that body awareness is synthesized from multimodal integration and the temporal constancy of multiple body representations. For each of these views, we briefly discuss abnormalities and therapeutic strategies for correcting the bodily distortions in various clinical disorder

Una "nazione mancata": la questione linguistica occitana nella seconda metà del XIX secolo

Al llarg del segle XIX, en el marc de la recuperació romàntica de l’edat medieval «occitana» i en sintonia amb els moviments de despertament nacional que actuen a tot Europa, un moviment vivaç de renaixement lingüístic i literari es difon en les terres occitanes de França. Tot i això, la falta d’acords entre els seus animadors i especialment entorn de l’ús de la llengua, tindrà unes profundes repercussions en el destí de la llengua d’oc, així com en tot el moviment de renaixement occità.Throughout the XXth century, during the period of the romantic recovery of occitan medieval times and in harmony with the movements of national awakening that operated all over Europe, a lively movement of linguistic and literary renaissance is spreading throughout the occitane areas of France. In spite of this, the lack of consensus among its followers, especially around the use of the language, will come to have deep repercussions in the destiny of the oc language, as well as in all of the occitan renaissance movement

beta-risk: a New Surrogate Risk for Learning from Weakly Labeled Data

International audienceDuring the past few years, the machine learning community has paid attention to developing new methods for learning from weakly labeled data. This field covers different settings like semi-supervised learning, learning with label proportions, multi-instance learning, noise-tolerant learning, etc. This paper presents a generic framework to deal with these weakly labeled scenarios. We introduce the \betarisk as a generalized formulation of the standard empirical risk based on surrogate margin-based loss functions. This risk allows us to express the reliability on the labels and to derive different kinds of learning algorithms. We specifically focus on SVMs and propose a soft margin \betasvm algorithm which behaves better that the state of the art

Produção das amoreiras Tupy, Xavante e Loch Ness em cultivo protegido e convencional no município de Vacaria, RS.

O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar o efeito do cultivo sob tela na produção de três cultivares de amoreira-preta. O experimento foi conduzido na EFCT, da Embrapa Uva e Vinho, em Vacaria, RS, na safra 2013/14, onde foram avaliadas as cultivares Tupy, Loch Ness e Xavante

Indicadores de produtividade de cultivares de amora preta em dois sistemas de cultivo.

O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar a produtividade, peso médio dos frutos e número de frutos para três cultivares de amora preta.Resumo

Nuovi dati archeologici dallo scavo di Classe

Analisi dei materiali ceramici provenienti dallo scavo del porto di Classe (RA), campagne 2001-2003. Un inquadramento topografico \ue8 seguito dall'analisi quantitativa e qualitativa del dato ceramico, da riferire ai secoli V-VII, epoca della massima fioritura del porto. Vengono inoltre presentati i risultati delle analisi minero-geochimiche condotte su un gruppo di lucerne provenienti da scavi precedenti e pi\uf9 recenti. Il quadro delle importazioni a Classe in et\ue0 tardoantica risulta dopo questo studio puntualizzato, e in parte piuttosto differente da quanto finora gi\ue0 noto

Microbioenergy : heat and biogas biomass-fueled generation plant for domestic use. Design, construction and monitoring of microbioenergy prototype

LAUREA MAGISTRALEQuesto elaborato presenta un generatore di calore e biogas su piccola scala, che mira a promuovere l'uso della biomassa come mezzo sostenibile di produzione di energia e di gestione dei rifiuti in aree con elevata disponibilità di rifiuti di biomassa lignea e cellulosica. Il sistema proposto chiamato Microbioenergy® integra due tecnologie complementari di valorizzazione della biomassa, rispettivamente Sistema di Recupero di Calore da Compostaggio (acronimo inglese CHRS) e Digestore Anaerobico (acronimo inglese AD), e include un sistema di alimentazione esterno basato sul processo di fermentazione scura. L’impianto è pensato per la generazione di energia decentralizzata attraverso la valorizzazione della biomassa e promuove l'ecocompatibilità, così come le politiche dell'UE sull'economia circolare. In questo progetto il primo prototipo di Microbioenergy® è stato costruito e testato nell'area rurale di Lozzo Atestino (Padova), in collaborazione con l'associazione italiana TERRE (per la fase di costruzione) e il dipartimento di Scienze e politiche ambientali - Università di Milano (per la fase di progettazione). Alcuni risultati rilevanti, qui riportati, indicano una temperatura massima del sistema di oltre 60 ° C che consente la produzione di acqua calda di temperatura fino a 55 ° C. L'applicazione del prototipo Microbioenergy® come integrazione a una caldaia a pellet mostra un valore stimato del 33% di risparmio sul consumo di pellet per coprire la richiesta di energia, sia per il riscaldamento che per la produzione di acqua calda sanitaria, del caso in esame e un valore stimato del 100% di risparmio sul consumo di gas per cucinare nel caso di studio.This paper presents a small-scale heat and biogas generator, which aim is to promote the use of biomass as mean of sustainable energy production and waste management in areas with high availability of ligneous and cellulosic biomass waste. The proposed system called Microbioenergy® integrates two complementary technologies of biomass valorization, respectively Compost Heat Recovery System (CHRS) and Aerobic Digestion (AD), and includes an external feeding system based on the dark fermentation process. The plant is thought for decentralized energy generation by biomass valorization and promotes greening, as well as EU policies on circular economy. In this project the first on-field Microbioenergy® prototype has been constructed and tested in the rural area of Lozzo Atestino (Padua), in collaboration with the Italian association TERRE (for the construction phase) and the department of Environmental Science and Policy - Università di Milano (for the design phase). The thesis includes a detailed literature research, to explain the two biomass valorization processes, and Microbioenergy® combined solution development, including the design and construction procedures and the simulation and monitoring results. Some relevant results, here reported, indicate a system maximum temperature of over 60°C allowing the production of hot water of temperature up to 55°C. The application of Microbioenergy® prototype as an integration to a pellet boiler shows a 33 % estimated value of savings on pellet consumption to cover the energy request, for both space heating and domestic hot water production, of the case study and a 100% estimated value of savings on gas consumption for cooking in the case study