La produzione di letteratura scientifica in campo biomedico ha fatto registrare in questi ultimi anni un andamento di tipo esponenziale. Naturale conseguenza di una simile proliferazione, è l'esigenza da parte della comunità biomedica dell'accesso intelligente a questa immensa miniera di dati. Una tale richiesta ha un forte impatto sul settore delle tecnologie linguistiche e ne rappresenta una delle ultime sfide. La messa a punto di tecniche avanzate e strumenti affidabili che permettano di ...

UNA RISORSA DIALETTALE IN RETE: ALT-WEB Cosa è ALT-Web? ALT-Web è l'Atlante Lessicale Toscano (ALT) in rete, il primo atlante linguistico interrogabile online nel panorama nazionale italiano e uno dei pochi a livello internazionale. A chi è destinato ALT-Web? ALT-Web si rivolge a un'ampia e variegata utenza che va dagli addetti ai lavori (tipicamente dialettologi, linguisti ed etno-linguisti), agli insegnanti di tutte le scuole di ordine e grado, agli operatori culturali (ad esempio, ...

Tale Focus è promosso da un gruppo di ricerca dell'Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche, impegnato nello studio di soluzioni informatiche che utilizzano la navigazione sul web per la didattica in rete; uno dei nostri recenti obiettivi è mettere a punto un sistema in grado di arricchire le potenzialità di un browser tradizionale con nuove funzionalità. In particolare, esse sono state progettate e realizzate con l'intento di supportare lo studente durante la navigazione di contenuti ...

The use of technology in the classroom suggests that teachers rethink their teaching strategies keeping into account new resources, their potential and changes they induce in contents, objectives and ways of learning and teaching, as well as in the organization of school work. The introduction of computers and in-service teacher training is not enough for this complex process to take place. In fact, permanent actions to support teachers involved in innovation process are desirable. The Teachers ...

The use of network-based technology in long-term patients’ education is not that fresh either in Italy or abroad. In fact many projects have been started for many years now to experiment ICT potential in hospitalized patients’ education. Though such projects contributed to a general interpretation on the ways technology-supported special education is effectively practiced, each of them has focused on specific situations and/or issues and tended to privilege either technological ...

ReMath: Representing Mathematics with Digital Media (IST-4-26751) The ReMath project explores European-level integration of theoretical frameworks regarding mathematics teaching and learning with digital technologies, taking a 'learning through representing' approach and focusing on the didactical functionality of digital media. The work will be based on evidence from experience involving a cyclical process of: * developing six state-of-the-art dynamic digital artefacts for representing ...

During the mid 90s this issue was not highly developed. Existing researches in this field highlighted that it was important to anticipate proof with an argumentation activity that could support students to overcome some difficulties involving the construction of proof. The hypothesis of these researches was that there would usually be a continuity, named "cognitive unity", between these two processes. Nevertheless, the theoretical framework of reference did not provide tools to validate this. ...

Strumento integrato per la creazione, strutturazione, mantenimento di un grande deposito di materiali testuali in lingua italiana, di strumenti / tecnologie per l'estrazione di conoscenza linguistica, per lo sfruttamento a fini linguistici di un grande giacimento di testi. Alla fine degli anni '90 la rivoluzione 'Internet' ha aperto nuove e multidisciplinari prospettive di ricerca ed ha reso possibile la fruizione della più ricca banca dati del mondo, un insieme eterogeneo di dati, in gran ...

The huge and ever growing amount of multimedia products and contents notwithstanding, the vast majority of digitised unstructured information we avail ourselves of for work, study or to meet the practical needs of our daily lives, is still conveyed through texts. Effective access to this information is much more than simply being able to locate and use digitised texts: it requires their quick, intelligent and responsive indexing and selection, in keeping with specific goals and perspectives. The ...

Il crescente sviluppo di documenti digitali che vengono messi a disposizione da parte di biblioteche ed archivi pubblici e privati apre interessanti prospettive per il settore degli studi umanistici noto col nome di "filologia del testo" o, più tecnicamente, "critica testuale". Le facilitazioni nella lettura di documenti antichi, trasformati in immagini digitali, semplifica il lavoro di interpretazione dei testi e rende attuale la possibilità, spesso solo ipotizzata, di vedere collaborare allo ...

Teachers can be key players in the adaptation of European school systems to the knowledge society, provided that they are able to make effective and relevant use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the Internet in their practice. The uteacher project aims to understand and define the professional profile of a teacher who is faced with the issues that the knowledge society poses to schools. This profile is captured in a "Common European Framework" which can be seen as a means ...

The Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche has developed AIR (Apprendere Insieme in Rete - Learning together online), a blended course addressed to expert teachers. The course lasted four months and involved 240 participants from different school levels selected through a questionnaire whose criteria matched the European pioneer teacher profile: it is being delivered in 10 parallel editions, in two Italian regions. In each edition 20/25 participants were organized in a virtual group co-ordinated ...

The role of human resources for developing new knowledge is crucial. Which are the best ways for educating training and employing human resources in the field of science and technology? How is the demand for new employment changing and how these changes affect research training? The Human Resources and Knowledge Society Research Unit of the IRPPS, following the international debate and its institutional role as Italian official delegate within OECD, is carrying out a research on these topics ...

In the literature methods exist which allow to reach consensus on the solution of complex problems within a group of experts/advocates who never meet during the process and do not know the other members of the group. One of these methods is the Delphi method. The Delphi technique has nothing to do with the oracle: it is research method particularly suitable to allow experts, working independently, to act as a whole while dealing with complex problems, increasing the communication inside a group ...

Learning to use the dictionary more easily, being able to study one's native language in an amusing way is possible ... Just by using Addizionario, a multimedia software for the primary school, realized at the Institute for Computational Linguistics, in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science of Turin University. The tool suggests innovative and appealing ways for improving the language and cognitive development of primary school children and novel ways of approaching the ...

Pietro Piovani was the first to formulate the general project of a Critical Edition of Vico's Works in 1972, in the second number of "Bollettino del Centro di studi vichiani". His aim was to start up in a new approach to Vico's opus, focused on a remarkable multidisciplinary strain, and to get away from the ecdotical Tradition by Croce and Nicolini, combining philological and philosophical Method. Benedetto Croce started in 1904, with the first redaction of the Bibliografia vichiana, the ...

The activities of the ISPF Milan Section center on two great projects: they are dedicated to the edition and the appreciation of the works by two of the most representative authors in the Italian philosophy and science from Renaissance to Enlightenment. Girolamo Cardano is one of the most important and questioned figure in the European Renaissance. He was engaged in a great project aimed at reforming the encyclopaedia of learning and he made a very remarkable contribution to the scientific and ...

In the last decade, the common consideration on the role of the national governments in the processes of globalization and its role in the implementation of decentralization's policies has produced the development of new methodological approaches that overcome the hierarchical conception of the State, founded upon the principle of the authority. This new approach, given the multiplication of the actors and the levels of negotiation -international, national and local- implicates a new model of ...

Internet continuously poses the delicate problem of how and to what extent two equally fundamental rights of citizens can be reconciled: the protection of minors from harmful content on the one hand and the freedom of speech on the other. The fact that this is often transformed into an authentic dilemma is demonstrated from the recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals (June 29, 2004), in which in order to grant the freedom of speech the Court had to indirectly defend the pushers of ...

A working prototype was built that enables a blind person to perceive a painting through touch and hearing, exploiting the phenomenon of synesthesia. Seeing a painting presents for the blind person two problems: form and color. A painting is a 2D representation of a 3D object, which engages the perceiving subject in cognitively reconstructing the full 3D objects. This may be solved through some kind of appropriate tactual experience. Color, however, cannot be tactually perceived: it is a purely ...

Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Salvatore Piro Non-destructive ground surface geophysical prospecting methods are increasingly used for the investigation of archaeological sites, where a detailed physical and geometrical reconstruction of hidden ambients is required prior to any excavation work. However, due to the often limited dimensions and depth of the archaeological structures, it can be rather difficult to individuate their position and extension because of the generally low values of ...

The ULEARN Project aims to contribute to the dissemination of school innovation, reinforcing the role of pioneer teachers in their institutions. Herein "pioneer teachers" are defined as those who are keen to use ICT in their classroom and professional activities and already have some experience; these are teachers who can be seen as the early adopters of ICT innovation in education. They play a key role in the diffusion of innovation since the majority of teachers learn about new ideas from ...

This research is being carried out in the field of autonomous collective robotics. The primary goal of the research is investigating principles to automatically design the controllers of autonomous robots that have to coordinate in order to accomplish common tasks. In the long term this research will lead to applications in areas such as open field and marine monitoring, people rescuing, stock automatic transport, traffic control, material routing. The research is also investigating principles ...

"Learning from children" is a dictionary of the Italian language in which definitions of words come from children. Words (nearly 1,000) have been selected by children themselves. Each word can feature more than one definition coming from different children and each definition may come with examples of use to help understand the meaning. But with so many dictionaries, do we really need one written by children? Who is interested in consulting it? Though it may often appear inaccurate and even ...

The istituto Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD) has recently started a survey, technical evaluation, analysis and cataloguing of Open Source educational software. An Open Source educational software is characterized by the free access to its souorce codes and can therefore be modified by all those who wish and can do it. In this way teachers have an opportunity to afford functional and personalized technological tools. Most available Open educational software packages run under Linux operative system ...

The economic growth of the last two centuries, which allowed to widely increase per capita goods and services, primarily derived from the changes in the energy system taking place between the 18th and 19th century. These changes are often described as an energy transition. This expression refers to: 1. the utilization of new energy carriers; 2. the exploitation of these carriers by means of machines. During the 18th century, all over the world, those energy sources were still exploited in use ...

The reconstruction of the exchange network between East and West, in particular between the Aegean, Crete and Cyprus on the one hand and Italy on the other, during the 2nd millennium BC, long before Greek colonisation is one of the ICEVO most qualifying projects. This activity, carried out in the framework of an international collaboration, employs archaeological, archaeometric and computer methodologies focusing on strategic raw materials (metals) and precious goods (ivory) as well as on ...

Si conclude il progetto di raccogliere per la prima volta in un corpus unico i saggi scientifici e filosofici pubblicati da G. W. Leibniz durante la sua vita, con la loro pubblicazione da parte della casa editrice internazionale Olms (A. Lamarra, R. Palaia (ed.), G. W. Leibniz, Essais scientifiques et philosophiques. Les articles publiés dans les journaux savants. Avec une préface de Heinrich Schepers, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim/New York, 3 voll.). Come è noto, il filosofo diede alle ...

The Hurrians represented one of the most important civilisations in the Ancient Near East between the III and II millennia BC. Their culture has passed down to us almost exclusively in the form of written documents. Thousands of cuneiform clay tablets, discovered in various sites in Mesopotamia, Egypt and Anatolia, tell us of the history, literature, religious beliefs and judicial and economic principles of this people, whose rich culture embraced a wide horizon, from north-eastern Iraq as far ...

Over the past few years, the research undertaken has been focused on configuring a system capable of merging complex and heterogeneous data produced by using different acquisition methods specific to each particular phase of the fact-finding approach to the building within a custom-designed ICT environment. The product carried out consists of a software package called ARKIS (Architecture Recovery Knowledge Information System) developed in AVENUE and based on the ArcView engine (ESRI). Its ...