The paper summarizes the preliminary results from the analysis of data collected during the 2008 and 2009 vegetative seasons in a northern Italy vineyard (Vitis vinifera L., Barbera variety) and the simulations carried out in the same period with the land surface model UTOPIA. The aim of the work is to study the influence of the meteorological factors on the plant conditions. We collected a set...

These approximations are a tribute to Claudio Magris and his Itaca e oltre (1982), but also Turin Salgari. I have attempted push the boundaries of essay writing that, during 1980s, was still about discovery, not scholarly archiving (or terminal editing): an essayistic form which did shun away from drawing attention itself, in ‘metacritical’ ‘interdisciplinary’ sense avant la lettre. concentrate...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition among hospitalized patients increases length of stay (LOS) and carries extra hospitalization costs. OBJECTIVE To review the impact of malnutrition on hospital LOS and costs in Europe. METHODS PubMed and Google Scholar search. All articles from January 2004 until November 2014 were identified. Reference lists of relevant articles were also manually searched. RESULTS...

Utopian thought has been discredited because attempts to re-engineer society using Utopian formulae have invariably produced violence and despotism. But the apparent eclipse of Utopia has left a yawning gap, for economic and social conditions across the globe suggest a need for alternatives to the reigning social order – and thus for Utopian thinking which avoids the pitfalls of ‘classical’ Uto...

Philosophical accounts of narrative fiction can be loosely divided into two types. Participant accounts argue that some sort of simulation, or 1st person perspective taking plays a critical role in our engagement with narratives. Observer accounts argue to the contrary that we primarily engage narrative fictions from a 3rd person point of view, as either side participants or outside observers. ...

This article probes how childhood experiences are actively taken into adult lives and thus challenges the unwitting and unintentional reproduction of an adult-child binary in childhood studies. We do this by analyzing interviews with one adult daughter of immigrants from Mexico to the United States at four points in time (ages 19, 26, 27, and 33). Using narrative analysis to examine the mutabil...

Load sharing in large heterogeneous distributed systems allows users to access vast amount of computing resources scattered around the system and may provide substantial performance improvements to applications We discuss the design and implementation issues in Utopia a load sharing facility speci cally built for large and heterogeneous systems The system has no restriction on the types of task...

The war seems an inappropriate element in the commentary on utopian texts. Yet it is one of recurring motifs fictions about Elsewhere 17th and 18th centuries. In article, through famous works as well those little known, we try to sketch place role warrior motif representation fictional worlds narrative construction. century, only a question allusions discreet mentions experience which express f...

Despite the implicit belief that IT innovations brings beneficial change, medical practitioners and healthcare professionals constantly struggle to realize the innovation potential of electronic medical records (EMR) system in revolutionizing clinical practices. To understand this conundrum, this paper uses an in-depth case study of an EMR implementation to develop a grounded theory of why, whe...

A series of seven computing and online games was reviewed following a criterion based selection process. The games were reviewed relative to their capacity to incorporate elements of gaming comparable to content or themes evident in children’s literature including, type of game, genre, elements of violence, disturbing scenes, gender of key protagonists or heroes, location and relative time fram...