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This article seeks to advance the understanding of how human and material agency enmesh in human-robotic workplaces. By means of a qualitative study, the practical use of robots is investigated within two organisations for medical rehabilitation. The theoretical framework combines Andrew Pickering’s ‘dance of agency’ with a process-oriented view of technology as technical rationality. It shows how resistances and accommodations are enacted by both humans and nonhumans as analytical loci of the dance of agency, and it explains how the experimental activities that are concerned with technology adoption and use are emergently fixed in formal or informal rules of coordination of action – the ‘choreographies of care’. By extending the processual orientation of Pickering’s ‘dance of agency’, and by further elaborating on the organisational implications of technological change within it, the article increases understanding of how the transformation of material agency may enact processes of change in the organisational culture.

A customized Al-Cu-Mg-Si alloy is successfully processed by selective laser melting. AlSi10Mg powder, used as a master alloy, has been mixed with pure Cu powder through a fluidized bed and the obtained powder mix was used as feedstock material for the printing process. To investigate the feasibility of the process and to discuss the effect of the process parameters, a two-step experimental campaign has been carried out: in the first batch of experiments the energy density has been varied to frame the processing window while in the second batch the energy density has been kept constant and the main process parameters have been varied to highlight their influence on the process. Density, porosity, and microhardness have been chosen as output to evaluate the success of the process. The microstructure and composition phase were studied through scanning electron microscopy and X-ray elemental mapping, respectively. A maximum relative density of 97% has been obtained while a predominant role of the laser beam power has been observed.

The paper debates the results achieved in the Sanità district of Naples within the funded research project Play_ACT by the Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II. The research investigates community engagement processes in built heritage design for repurposing. Based on a mixed deductive and inductive approach, this paper frames the built heritage in the following ways: (a) a record of historical development and way of life, a linking capital between community and context; (b) the enabler of community engagement, representative of creative skills and work of humankind; and (c) a driving force for growth. The paper analyses several community-driven repurposing practices experienced within European programs. Supported by the ISO 37104: 2019 and UNI 11151-1: 2005 standards, the paper focuses on the replicability of community engagement in built heritage repurposing processes, outlining the commonalities in terms of strategies, actions, and actors involved in: (1) discovery; (2) negotiation; and (3) sharing. Focusing on the Sanità district of Naples, the research experiences the sustainability of community-led repurposing, observing long-lasting spillover effects on the physical, economic, cultural, and social subsystems. Finally, with the support of a heritage case study, Cristallini 73, future key challenges for a durable and inclusive community engagement are outlined: A activation of collaborative networks; B promotion of inclusive dynamics of long-life learning; and C creation of cultural and creative industries.

En el presente trabajo de investigación, en primer lugar, se desarrolla dentro del “Capítulo I”: a) Los sistemas procesales, a fin de crear un contexto adecuado que permita comprender de mejor manera los conceptos a utilizarse; b) La figura jurídica de la prueba, haciendo hincapié en su objeto, finalidad y cargas, pues estos tres puntos son claves para los resultados de nuestro trabajo; c) La prueba de oficio a profundidad, desde su origen hasta realizar un análisis comparativo y evolutivo de esta potestad judicial; y d) La preclusión procesal, a fin de poder utilizar su concepto de manera correcta cuando oportunamente se trate la preclusión probatoria. En segundo lugar, se desarrolla en el “Capítulo II” la metodología del presente trabajo con el objeto de deliniar el método y técnica que se utilizará para su elaboración con la finalidad de alcanzar un resultado teóricamente válido. Entonces, teniendo en cuenta los capítulos precedentes, se procede a analizar en el “Capítulo III” los siguientes argumentos para proponer la eliminación de la prueba de oficio: a) La incompatibilidad con el principio de imparcialidad; b) La falta de superación del test de ponderación; c) El brindar oportunidad a posibles actos de dilación y corrupción judicial. Asimismo, se explican los argumentos del porqué la flexibilización de la preclusión probatoria es una medida más idónea y necesaria que la prueba de oficio para alcanzar los fines que esta persigue. Por último, en el “Capítulo IV” se discuten los resultados brindados en el presente trabajo de investigación.

The identification of two different lines of thought is a particularly convincing image in Rocco Ronchi’s book, Il canone minore. In this text a rigorous duality, perhaps unsurpassed, which in-habits thought, is represented. But this dualism does not necessarily have to be fought and over-come. And perhaps it is not even a problem to be solved, but rather it is the movement of philo-sophy itself.

Built upon a thirty-year dataset collected from the Web of Science database, the present research aims to offer a comprehensive overview of papers, authors, streams of research, and the most influential journals that discuss product and process innovation in the manufacturing environment. The dataset is composed of 418 papers from more than 150 journals from the period between 1985 and 2015. Homogeneity analysis by means of alternating least squares (HOMALS) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) are used to accomplish the objectives listed above through the keywords given by authors. Initially, the paper highlights and discusses the similarity between the topics debated by the main journals in this field. Subsequently, a wide-range map of topics is presented highlighting five main areas of interests; namely, performance, patent, small firm, product development, and organization. A SNA is also performed in order to validate the results that emerged from HOMALS. Finally, several insights about future research avenues in the manufacturing field are provided.

La presente ricerca vuole rivelare se la giurisdizione amministrativa muti la propria natura in senso oggettivo laddove il giudizio amministrativo prenda linfa vitale dall’iniziativa processuale delle autorità amministrative indipendenti. Per poter rispondere a tale interrogativo, lo studio si concentra, fin da subito, su cosa si intenda per “natura” della giurisdizione. Nell’ambito di tale analisi, il lavoro mette in luce l’ambiguità che accompagna il suo significato, opacizzato da valutazioni finalistiche che, non distinguendo la natura dallo scopo della giurisdizione, attribuiscono esorbitante rilevanza alla qualificazione dell’interesse che muove la macchina processuale. Sostenendosi, di converso, la necessità di cogliere l’essenza della giurisdizione – distinguendola perciò dalla sua finalità – osservando la struttura e le regole formali del processo. Quanto espresso costituisce a tutti gli effetti un metodo d’analisi, il cui campo di applicazione, all’interno del presente studio, è rappresentato dal giudizio amministrativo, dapprima nel suo ordinario atteggiarsi, secondo le più consuete regole dettate dal Codice del processo amministrativo, in seguito – dando risposta alla questio iuris della ricerca – nella diversa fisionomia che viene ad assumere a fronte di quelle previsioni normative che attribuiscono peculiari poteri di iniziativa processuale alle autorità amministrative indipendenti. Il risultato di tale indagine mostra che il giudizio amministrativo, quand’anche prenda vita su impulso di tali Autorità, rimanga – immutato nelle proprie regole di stretta procedura e al di là di ogni qualificazione dell’interesse sostanziale alla base del giudizio – un “processo di parti” improntato alla soggettività. Non che un esito opposto nel senso dell’oggettività, tanto della legittimazione quanto della giurisdizione, sia comunque da ritenersi contrario a Costituzione e perciò quanto più da evitare. Le norme costituzionali, infatti, devono essere intese come norme di garanzia, che fissano un minimo di tutela, senza precludere un di più: dovendosi così ritenere che la legittimazione soggettiva e la giurisdizione soggettiva siano ascritte ad una sfera di costituzionalità necessaria, ma non ad una di costituzionalità esclusiva. L’ultima parte della ricerca è costituita invece da uno studio di diritto comparato. L’ordinamento giuridico scelto a tal fine è quello spagnolo, in relazione al quale lo studio si prefigge di individuare la natura della giurisdizione amministrativa. L’esito è, in tal caso, opposto a quello emerso nell’ordinamento di origine, data la spiccata essenza giurisdizional-oggettiva che connota il processo amministrativo spagnolo. Dallo studio di tale ordinamento v’è però qualcosa che pare doversi interiorizzare ed è la maturata consapevolezza che al giudizio amministrativo siano sottese esigenze di tutela che non possono essere ricondotte alla sola protezione soggettiva del ricorrente. Con la conseguente necessità di far fronte a tali esigenze, strutturando il processo in modo da valorizzare le oggettive ragioni di interesse pubblico, anche mutando l’accesso alla giustizia. Riflessioni, queste, che non pare potersi cogliere con altrettanta unanime convinzione nel nostro ordinamento, ove l’intrapreso percorso verso la soggettività rischia di far perdere la consapevolezza del forte legame che invece unisce il processo amministrativo all’interesse pubblico. Appare dunque necessario non disconoscere, sibbene valorizzare la piena dignità ordinamentale tanto dei poteri obiettivi di iniziativa processuale, quanto delle regole che permeano di oggettività il giudizio, sì da consentire che, all’effettività della tutela giurisdizionale soggettiva del ricorrente, si affianchino, con una marcia a pari passo, le oggettive ragioni imposte dal pubblico fine. The present research wants to reveal if the administrative jurisdiction mutates its nature in an objective sense when the administrative judgment begins from the procedural initiative of the independent administrative authorities. In order to answer to this question, the study initially focuses on the “nature” of jurisdiction, frequently opacified by substantive and finalistic evaluations which, not distinguishing the nature from the purpose of jurisdiction, attribute exorbitant relevance to the qualification of the interest that gives life to the judgment. It is necessary, instead, to distinguish the essence from the purpose of a judgment, identifying the first through an investigation aimed at observing the formal structure and rules of the process. Once the method of analysis has been identified, it can be applied to the Italian administrative judgment, initially in its ordinary physiognomy, and following - in response to the questio iuris of the research - in the special physiognomy that assumes when it begins from by the legal standing of the independent administrative authorities (in particular, of the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, Autorità di Regolazione dei Trasporti and Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione). This investigation allows to realize that the administrative judgment, even if it starts thanks to the impulse of these Authorities, remains a subjective process. In any case, a possible opposite outcome, in the sense of objectivity, both of legal standing and of jurisdiction, would not have been contrary to Constitution. The constitutional rules, in fact, must be understood as guarantee rules, which set a minimum of protection, without precluding broader safeguard. The last part of this research deals with the comparation between the Italian legal system and the Spanish one. Also with regard to this system, the study analyses the Spanish administrative justice, in order to identify, even here, the nature of the Spanish administrative process, first in its ordinary physiognomy, then when the judgment is started by an independent administrative authorities such as the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia. The outcome is opposite to that emerged in relation to the Italian legal system, given that in the Spanish administrative process the objective nature of judgment is always very clear and intense. As a result of this comparison, however, it is necessary to internalize the awareness that the administrative judgments are connected with protection requirements that do not concern only the subjective protection of the applicant, with the consequent need to configure a process that values the objective reasons of public interest, including access to justice. These reflections are not so widespread in our legal system, where the undertaken path towards the subjectivity and the effectiveness of judicial protection risks to generate a lack of awareness of the strong bond that unites the administrative process to the public interest. It is therefore necessary not to deny, but rather to highlight, the full dignity both of the objective powers of the procedural initiative, as well as of the rules that give objectivity to the judgment, in order to more successfully combine the effectiveness of the subjective jurisdictional protection of the applicant with the protection of the objective reasons of public interest.

Academic entrepreneurship is a hot topic that is drawing increasing attention from policymakers, university administrators, and the scientists who engage in it. By adopting a process view of academic entrepreneurship, in this book, we aim to contribute to the conversation on how to effectively commercialize university research. We collect evidence from twelve countries and three continents. We use both qualitative and quantitative research methods to illuminate how and to what extent entrepreneurship unfolds from universities worldwide.

This work reports on accurate, high-resolution measurements of the $^{25}$Mg($n, \gamma$)$^{26}$Mg and $^{25}$Mg($n, tot$) cross sections in the neutron energy range from thermal to about 300 keV, leading to a significantly improved $^{25}$Mg($n, \gamma$)$^{26}$Mg parametrization. The relevant resonances for $n+^{25}$Mg were characterized from a combined R-matrix analysis of the experimental data. This resulted in an unambiguous spin/parity assignment of the corresponding excited states in $^{26}$Mg. With this information experimental upper limits of the reaction rates for $^{22}$Ne($\alpha, n$)$^{25}$Mg and $^{22}$Ne($\alpha, \gamma$)$^{26}$Mg were established, potentially leading to a significantly higher ($\alpha, n$)/($\alpha, \gamma$) ratio than previously evaluated. The impact of these results have been studied for stellar models in the mass range 2 to 25 $M_{\odot}$., Comment: Preprint, 6 pages, 5 figures

Generic standards on risk management and functional safety (e.g. ISO 31000 and IEC 61508) and similar frameworks proved to be surprisingly efficient to trigger and consolidate a widely accepted and ever more effective best practice frontier for risk control. In particular, this includes fundamental and applied research activities to improve processes and to provide more advanced, interlinked and effective methods for risk control. However, this also included the identification of yet unresolved challenges and lacks of completeness. The present work goes beyond these frameworks to address the need for a joint approach to frame resilience management and quantification for system development and improvement. It is understood as extending classical risk control to creeping or sudden disruptive, unexpected (unexampled) events, as strongly focusing on technical systems and organizational capabilities to bounce back (better) and as providing generic (technical) resilience capabilities for such resilience response performance. To this end, the article presents general resilience requirements, a resilience management process, which systematically refers to a resilience method taxonomy, resilience levels as well as an applicability table of methods to different resilience management steps for each resilience level. Three case studies elucidate the approach: (i) disruption effect simulation for the Swiss energy grid, (ii) data-driven resilience of the urban transport system of Florence, and (iii) Ontario provincial resilience model in Canada. The approach comprises representative existing resilience concepts, definitions, quantifications as well as resilience generation and development processes. It supports the development of further refined resilience management and quantification processes and related improved methods in particular to cover jointly safety and security needs as well as their practical application to a wide range of socio-technical cyber-physical hybrid systems. This will foster credible certification of the resilience of critical infrastructure, of safety and security critical systems and devices.

Il volume è frutto di una ricerca che si inquadra in un filone di studi di progettazione architettonica e urbana che, partendo da una tradizione specificamente italiana – e tuttavia ricca di significative ricadute e ramificazioni internazionali – è attenta a descrivere e costruire relazioni interscalari tra architettura, città e paesaggio. In particolare, in costante dialettica sia con il pensiero espresso dalla cultura contemporanea, sia con le accidentate condizioni di costante trasformazione fisica del territorio, la teoria e le strumentazioni tecniche della ricerca progettuale sono in continuo affinamento per proporsi come modo della conoscenza e della descrizione della realtà e come strumento per il governo della forma fisica dello spazio antropizzato. Le relazioni tra gli elementi formali del territorio, non solo crescono esponenzialmente, ma sono descrivibili attraverso molteplici strutture formali autonome e compresenti, nello spazio e nel tempo, che riorganizzano dinamicamente gli stessi elementi secondo diverse scale, diverse velocità, diversi ordini di relazioni.

Il contributo di John Cage al dibattito sul rapporto arte e vita nel 900.