CHIOSSO (Giorgio) (dir.), TESEO’900. Editori scolastico-educativi del Novecento

Nicolas Brunel , Paolo del Giudice , Stefano Fusi , Giorgio Parisi and Misha Tsodyks

It is shown that theideas thatled to neuralnetworks capable of recallingassociatively andasynchro-nously temporal sequences of patterns can be extended toproduce a neural network thatautomatically counts the car-dinal number in a sequence of identical external stimuli. Thenetwork is explicitly constructed, analyzed, and simulated.Such a network may ac...

Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio

In this paper we propose a methodology for the estimation of Customer Satisfaction (CS) conceived as a Latent variable (LV) specified in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) structural model. The current proposal puts forward: the approaches of structural equations based on LISREL (Joreskog, 1978), since it involves the dual problem of indeterminacy of the latent scores and the norma...

Giorgio Pochetti

Cooperation ∗ Giorgio Gallo

After a discussion on the relevance of ethics in Operations Research, two approaches to the ethical discourse, one based on rules and the other based on principles and values, are analyzed. Then, two ethical principles, which can help O.R. researchers and practitioners in their activity are discussed in some detail. The first is the “responsibility principle”, proposed in a more general context...

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Aim. A new manufacturing method aiming at to producing more flexible and resistant NiTi endodontic instruments has been recently developed (Hyflex, produced with CM wire). The purpose of the study was to determine whether this new manufacturing method produces NiTi instruments (Hyflex) of superior flexibility and/or superior resistance to cyclic fatigue, when compared with instruments produced ...