Limiares poéticos do pensamento político de Giorgio Agamben

Alessandra Agostini and Giorgio De Michelis

In their best-selling book M. Hammer and J. Champy (1993) claim that "Business Process Reengineering means putting aside much of the received Wisdom of 200 years of Industrial Management." But the book does not follow the above claim and in their view Business Process Reengineering (BPR) reduces to a radical rationalisation of the processes of a company on the basis of their expected outcomes, ...

The metaphysical art of Giorgio de Chirico. Migraine or epilepsy?

It has been suggested that the great Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), who developed the unique style of 'metaphysical art', suffered from migraine and used some of his morbid manifestations as a source of inspiration for his paintings. Yet, whereas many of the symptoms that de Chirico described are rare in migraine, they are frequently encountered in patients with temporal lobe e...

Entendendo o Pensamento Computacional

The goal of this article is to clarify the meaning of Computational Thinking. We differentiate logical from computational reasoning and discuss the importance of Computational Thinking in solving problems. The three pillars of Computational Thinking Abstraction, Automation and Analysis are outlined, highlighting the role of each one in developing the skills needed for the problem-solving process.

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