Resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation

In 2014, the Third International Conference on the resilience of social-ecological systems chose the theme “resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation.” The conference aimed specifically at fostering an encounter between the experiences and thinking focused on the issue of resilience through a social and ecological system perspective, and the experiences focused on the issue of resilience through a development perspective. In this perspectives piece, we reflect on the outcomes of the meeting and document the differences and similarities between the two perspectives as discussed during the conference, and identify bridging questions designed to guide future interactions. After the conference, we read the documents (abstracts, PowerPoints) that were prepared and left in the conference database by the participants (about 600 contributions), and searched the web for associated items, such as videos, blogs, and tweets from the conference participants. All of these documents were assessed through one lens: what do they say about resilience and development? Once the perspectives were established, we examined different themes that were significantly addressed during the conference. Our analysis paves the way for new collective developments on a set of issues: (1) Who declares/assign/cares for the resilience of what, of whom? (2) What are the models of transformations and how do they combine the respective role of agency and structure? (3) What are the combinations of measurement and assessment processes? (4) At what scale should resilience be studied? Social transformations and scientific approaches are coconstructed. For the last decades, development has been conceived as a modernization process supported by scientific rationality and technical expertise. The definition of a new perspective on development goes with a negotiation on a new scientific approach. Resilience is presently at the center of this negotiation on a new science for development.

A new distributed MIKEY mode to secure e-health applications.

Securing e-health applications in the context of Internet of Things (IoT) is challenging. Indeed, resources scarcity in such environment hinders the implementation of existing standard based protocols. Among these protocols, MIKEY (Multimedia Internet KEYing) aims at establishing security credentials between two communicating entities. However, the existing MIKEY modes fail to meet IoT specificities. In particular, the pre-shared key mode is energy efficient, but suffers from severe scalability issues. On the other hand, asymmetric modes such as the public key mode are scalable, but are highly resource consuming. To address this issue, we combine two previously proposed approaches to introduce a new hybrid MIKEY mode. Indeed, relying on a cooperative approach, a set of third parties is used to discharge the constrained nodes from heavy computational operations. Doing so, the pre-shared mode is used in the constrained part of the network, while the public key mode is used in the unconstrained part of the network. Preliminary results show that our proposed mode is energy preserving whereas its security properties are kept safe.

Attività di redazione, monitoraggio e rendicontazione dei progetti del Dipartimento

Report sull’attività svolta dal Dipartimento Energia e Trasporti nell’ambito dell’Accordo di Programma tra il Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico e il CNR/DET sulla “Ricerca e sviluppo per il sistema elettrico nazionale”.

La gestione del portafoglio brevettuale del Dipartimento Energia e Trasporti

Prima della presente riforma del CNR, esisteva all’interno dell’Ente un Ufficio Brevetti, che supportava i propri ricercatori, a livello nazionale, nelle fasi di primo deposito, estensione all’estero, nella stipula di contratti di cessione e di licenza. Dal momento in cui è entrato in vigore il decreto di riordino dell’Ente (D.L. 4 giugno 2003, n. 127) e si sono creati e avviati gli 11 Dipartimenti, l’ufficio brevetti è stato soppresso e il portafoglio brevettuale è stato affidato ai Dipartimenti, ognuno con la propria macro area di competenza.

I progetti del Dipartimento Energia Trasporti nell’ambito del VII Programma Quadro

Descrizione e monitoraggio dei progetti dal 2007 al 2010. Analisi dello stato dell’arte e scenari futuri.

I progetti DET ammessi al finanziamento nell’ambito del Bando Industria 2015. Criticità emerse

Questa relazione tecnica viene redatta per la Giunta dei Direttori che si terrà il giorno 19/01/2010 su richiesta del Direttore, per riassumere lo stato di avanzamento dei progetti ammessi al finanziamento insieme alle criticità emerse in fase di avvio rendicontazione. La relazione si compone di una prima parte con riferimenti normativi e di riepilogo sui progetti totali presentati a livello nazionale, come CNR e come Dipartimento nelle tre Aree Tecnologiche di riferimento: Efficienza Energetica, Mobilità Sostenibile, Made in Italy. Una seconda parte riguarda la rendicontazione, la metodologia applicata e una descrizione delle criticità di due progetti PIACE - MILD. Verranno, inoltre, illustrate in riunione delle schede tecniche (v. all. 1 Ind.)riepilogative dei progetti presentati nelle aree Efficienza Energetica e Mobilità Sostenibile, realizzate in collaborazione della Sig.ra Silvia Presello.

Partecipazione DET al PON Ricerca e Competitività 2007- 2013

Quadro normativo di riferimento, monitoraggio, presentazione della documentazione dei progetti del Dipartimento. Stato dell’arte dei progetti approvati.

Oggetti artistici di metallo : esposizioni retrospettive e contemporanee di industrie artistiche : esposizione del 1886 /

Includes index.

Measured Time: Imposing a Temporal Metric toClassificatory Structures

Describes three units of time helpful for understanding and evaluating classificatory structures: long time (versions and states of classification schemes), short time (the act of indexing as repeated ritual or form), and micro-time (where stages of the interpretation process of indexing are separated out and inventoried). Concludes with a short discussion of how time and the impermanence of classification also conjures up an artistic conceptualization of indexing, and briefly uses that to question the seemingly dominant understanding of classification practice as outcome of scientific management and assembly line thought.

Combination of product quality management and exports: The case of Colombian fruits companies

Quality management provides to companies a framework to improve quality in overall systems, reduction of costs, reallocation of resources efficiently, correct planning of strategies, prevent or correct errors in the right time and increase the performance of companies. In this text, we discuss the different theories in this field, their obligatory or non-obligatory compliance, the importance of quality management for exporting companies and a case study of a Colombian firm that its main objective is to manage quality. In conclusion, we find out that there is different types of quality management systems such as Juran’s trilogy, Deming 14 points, Six sigma, HACCP, and so on; also that companies have to manage suppliers and that quality has a positive influence on exports volume; in the case of Colombian small and medium enterprises, it can be mentioned that the majority has implemented tools regarding quality management but is not enough.

Computer-based monitoring platform for renewable energy systems: Four experimental application cases using NI LabVIEW

Sustainability and responsible environmental behaviour constitute a vital premise in the development of the humankind. In fact, during last decades, the global energetic scenario is evolving towards a scheme with increasing relevance of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) like photovoltaic, wind, biomass and hydrogen. Furthermore, hydrogen is an energy carrier which constitutes a mean for long-term energy storage. The integration of hydrogen with local RES contributes to distributed power generation and early introduction of hydrogen economy. Intermittent nature of many of RES, for instance solar and wind sources, impose the development of a management and control strategy to overcome this drawback. This strategy is responsible of providing a reliable, stable and efficient operation of the system. To implement such strategy, a monitoring system is required.The present paper aims to contribute to experimentally validate LabVIEW as valuable tool to develop monitoring platforms in the field of RES-based facilities. To this aim, a set of real systems successfully monitored is exposed.

The Cult of 'Maria Regina' in Early Medieval Rome

This paper examines the importance of the cult of Mary to religious practice in early medieval Rome, with a particular focus on the manifestations of devotion to Mary in the decoration of churches such as S. Maria Antiqua and San Clemente.

Blending adaptive governance and institutional theory to explore urban resilience and sustainability strategies in the Rome Metropolitan Area, Italy

Adaptive governance is an emerging theory in natural resource management. This paper addresses a gap in the literature by exploring the potential of adaptive governance for delivering resilience and sustainability in the urban context. We explore emerging challenges to transitioning to urban resilience and sustainability: bringing together multiple scales and institutions; facilitating a social-ecological-systems approach and; embedding social and environmental equity into visions of urban sustainability and resilience. Current approaches to adaptive governance could be helpful for addressing these first two challenges but not in addressing the third. Therefore, this paper proposes strengthening the institutional foundations of adaptive governance by engaging with institutional theory. We explore this through empirical research in the Rome Metropolitan Area, Italy. We argue that explicitly engaging with these themes could lead to a more substantive urban transition strategy and contribute to adaptive governance theory.

Memorie istoriche intorno alla vita della beata Elisabetta Picenardi nobile vergine cremonese e terziaria dell'insigne Ordine de' servi di Maria /

Cavagna 10582: Bound with thirteen other Italian and Latin works, most from the 19th century; binder's title: "Opuscoli"; former shelf-mark Cavagna 10585.