The execution of a non saturated Real-Rime System leaves idle or empty time-slots called slack. They can be used to execute tasks not belonging to the system but sharing the processor with it. Very often, the quality of service, provided to those tasks can be improved if the slack is reshuffled in such a way that the empty slots are advanced without jeopardizing the real-time tasks. The purpose...

Abstract Health literacy, the ability to access, understand, appraise, remember and use health information services, has great potential reduce inequalities in access outcomes of care. People may have different patterns literacy needs strengths. Yet, design interventions is frequently not responsive specificities segments population, including migrant groups. We aimed identify profiles migrants...

Abstract The Italian welfare state is characterised by a preference for income transfers over in kind and the marginal role of policies aimed directly at supporting family. Despite growing participation women labour market, system still assumes family, with its unbalanced gender division housework intergenerational solidarity, to be primary provider protection support. As result, Italy 2019 onl...

The role of the users and their needs are now recognized in the database community. Many efforts are devoted to improve the quality of the interaction between the user and the database. For designing better interfaces that make the systems more usable, the use of suitable metaphors is crucial. The problem we address in this paper is whether an appropriate notion of metaphor can be tailored to t...