Schopenhauer e la fondazione laica dell'etica

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La sabbia e la farfalla. Controllo e complessità nell'apprendimento

La teoria del caos e della complessità applicata all’apprendimento come tema, lo storytelling come metodo ed esempio. Il paradigma narrativo è stato utilizzato per superare la staticità di un saggio tradizionale in una prospettiva multilineare, fluida, emotiva, creativa, che stimolasse la riflessione e insieme il coinvolgimento. Non un saggio dunque, ma un racconto. La storia di Tommaso, docent...

Volumetric Modulated Arc (Radio) Therapy in Pets Treatment: The “La Cittadina Fondazione” Experience

Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) is a modern technique, widely used in human radiotherapy, which allows a high dose to be delivered to tumor volumes and low doses to the surrounding organs at risk (OAR). Veterinary clinics takes advantage of this feature due to the small target volumes and distances between the target and the OAR. Sparing the OAR permits dose escalation, and hypofraction...

Compassion in Schopenhauer and Śāntideva

Although it is well known that Schopenhauer claimed that Buddhism closely reflected his own philosophy, this claim was largely ignored until the mid-late Twentieth century. Most commentators on Schopenhauer (with some recent exceptions) since then have mentioned his Buddhist affinities but have been quite broad and general in their treatment. I feel that any general comparison of Schopenhauer’s...

Agents and Ambient Intelligence : the LAICA Experience

Ambient intelligence generally refers to scenarios of computationally enriched environments enabling us both to better interact with the physical world and to integrate in the physical world smart functionalities. In this context, multiagent systems are a natural paradigm to develop and deploy dynamic and situation-aware ambient intelligence services. Here we present and discuss our experience ...