This account gives new data on the composition of gold from various lodes and placers in southwestern British Columbia. This research is a continuation of work reported in a 1986 paper (Knight and McTaggart, 1986). This account repeats some of the introductory material of the earlier paper in order to clarify the present report. A main objective of this work is to characterize gold by its suite...

Education I achieved the bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering with the best marks (110/110 con lode) at the Università Politecnica delle Marche in July 2005. At the same University, in July 2007 I achieved the master degree in Thermomechanical Engineering with the best marks (110/110 con lode). In the academic years 2007-2010 I attended the PhD school in Energy at the Department of Energy ...

In this demo paper we provide a brief overview of the main features of LODE, the Live OWL Documentation Environment. LODE is an online service that generates a human-readable description of any OWL ontology, taking into account both the ontological axioms and the annotations, and ordering these with the appearance and functionality of a W3C Recommendations web page, namely as an HTML page with ...

LODE is a logic-based web tool for Italian deaf children. It aims at stimulating global reasoning on e-stories written in a verbal language. Presently, we are focusing on temporal reasoning, that is, LODE stimulates children to reason with global temporal relations between events possibly distant in a story. This is done through apt exercises and with the support of a constraint programming sys...

Good literacy, i.e. a reasonable ability to read and write, is essential for everyone. It ensures a continuous process of personal maturation and a positive social integration. Deaf children encounter several difficulties in learning to read and write due to their disability. New technologies can be usefully employed to create tools for supporting them in tackling this problem. Mich’s PhD work ...

In this paper we describe an experience with the construction of educational itineraries based on Learning Objects (LOs). The experience was carried out with a group of 130 trainee teachers of secondary school using LODE, a collaboration environment associated with a repository of LOs, aiming to facilitate teachers’ work with LOs and the exchange of pedagogical experience. From the discussion o...

Due to a limited exposition to the language in its spoken form in their first years of life, deaf children lack the primary means of acquiring literacy skills. In this paper, we present LODE, a web-based interactive tool for the literacy of Italian deaf children. LODE proposes written e-stories and elicits children to globally reason on them through interactive exercises, developed with the sup...