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Project background Some 90% of flowering plant species profit from animal pollination for their reproduction. Pollination systems are under increasing threat from human activities, including fragmentation of habitats, changes in land use and modernisation of agricultural practices, such as increased use of pesticides and herbicides. Europe’s natural populations of the rare plant burningbush (Dictamnus albus) are declining because a scarcity of pollination services. Moreover, suitable habitats (woodland fringes and clearings) for the plant are also becoming rare because of land-use changes as result of the abandonment of traditional agro-forestry activities. Wild pollinators are facing a widespread decline, brought about by limatic changes, soil use changes, habitat fragmentation and pollution, which together lead to a scarcity of floral resources and nesting sites. Project objectives The main objectives of this LIFE Biodiversity project are to ensure the survival of an isolated population of burning-bush plants and to restore the community of Dictamnus albus natural pollinators in a Bologna province regional park. Wood management will be carried out, halting forest closure through selective shrub clearings in two sites of 16 ha each. The population of insect pollinators will be increased by providing nesting and egg-laying sites, reintroducing new colonies of the main pollinators and reinforcing populations of other nectariferous plant species in the area. Expected results • The actual population of Dictamnus albus is expected to be reinforced, as result of increased natural maternal fertility and reproductive effort (more flowering individuals, higher seed production, more seedlings); • The overall diversity and abundance of pollinators in the project area will be increased, with benefits not only for the target species, but also for the entire ecosystem; • The general public will be informed about the project primarily by means of information panels, activities for children and workshops that will take place at the Botanical Garden of Bologna and at seminars across Europe. These dissemination activities should increase awareness about the importance of plantpollinator interactions for plant conservation and ecosystem health; • Compensation agreements with landowners are foreseen, and particular attention will be given to public and stakeholder awareness to promote pollinator- friendly practices.

Premio vinto con il progetto Seed: Taggalo

Applicazione di Tecnologie abilitanti nel settore Moda per realizzazione prodotti manifatturieri ad alto valore aggiunto. Lavorazioni high-tech:Studio di nuove soluzioni tecnologiche finalizzate alla lavorazioni ed ai trattamenti superficiali mediante laser.

Continual learning of deep neural networks is a key requirement for scaling them up to more complex applicative scenarios and for achieving real lifelong learning of these architectures. Previous approaches to the problem have considered either the progressive increase in the size of the networks, or have tried to regularize the network behavior to equalize it with respect to previously observed tasks. In the latter case, it is essential to understand what type of information best represents this past behavior. Common techniques include regularizing the past outputs, gradients, or individual weights. In this work, we propose a new, relatively simple and efficient method to perform continual learning by regularizing instead the network internal embeddings. To make the approach scalable, we also propose a dynamic sampling strategy to reduce the memory footprint of the required external storage. We show that our method performs favorably with respect to state-of-the-art approaches in the literature, while requiring significantly less space in memory and computational time. In addition, inspired inspired by to recent works, we evaluate the impact of selecting a more flexible model for the activation functions inside the network, evaluating the impact of catastrophic forgetting on the activation functions themselves.

I.S.I.S. Nautico-Galvani Trieste

Il volume intende fare un bilancio critico sullo stato dell'arte dei percorsi che la sociologia relazionale ha intrapreso dal 2005 al 2011 in ambito italiano e internazionale. I saggi proposti, scritti da autori che si confrontano da tempo e con perizia con i temi trattati, presentano in ottica comparativa un percorso di ricerca meditato e coerente sui principali temi di sociologia della cultura oggi dibattutti.

Il toolkit - co-finanziato dal Programma REC - Diritti, Uguaglianza e Cittadinanza dell’Unione Europea (2021-2026) - intende fornire orientamenti teorici e pratici per supportare le famiglie nella prevenzione, nel contrasto e nella risposta ai modelli di discriminazione intersezionale, peer/cyberviolence tra adolescenti, un fenomeno complesso e strutturale con molteplici forme e gravi conseguenze. Anche altri soggetti, come educatori o associazioni, potrebbero trarre vantaggio dallo strumento per promuovere e organizzare programmi simili in altri contesti educativi formali o informali. Seguendo i principi del whole school approach le scuole troveranno così nuovi alleati nelle famiglie, attraverso un solido coinvolgimento dei genitori nelle attività promosse.

Una rubrica video interamente dedicata alla cybersecurity, tema di punta del progetto Ludoteca del Registro .it: "Cyber Care" e? il nome di questo ciclo che ha visto il coinvolgimento dei ricercatori dell'Unita? "Trust, Security and Privacy" dell'Istituto di informatica e telematica del Cnr di Pisa. Lo scopo di questa rubrica e? far capire che esistono delle procedure di sicurezza sempre piu? sofisticate e in continua evoluzione, ma la forma di difesa piu? importante resta il comportamento dell'utente e le buone pratiche di "igiene informatica". In questo video Giacomo Giorgi ci parla dell'evoluzione biometrica che, grazie all'appoggio dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, porterà a meccanismi di autenticazione sempre più sicuri e meno invasivi.