University of Trento

The salient identity of professional accountants in climate change and sustainability accounting for SMEs

Purpose This study aims to explore the salient identity and the perceptions of professional accountants by focusing on the interplay between individual drivers and the self-perceived salient identity in the context of climate change and sustainability accounting in the evolving e...

Investigation into the structural performance of passing-through plate-to-HSS 3D-cut welded joints

Hollow Structural Sections (HSS) are widely used members in the construction sector due to their strength, efficiency, and versatility. However, their complex connections require considerable construction effort and resources. To promote the application of these sections, a new f...

UPF4ROS2 for integrating planner independent task planning into ROS 2

Abstract The lack of standardized interfaces remains one of the main barriers to the adoption of automated planning in robotic systems. To address this challenge, the AIPlan4EU project, part of the European AI4EU initiative, developed the Unified Planning Framework (UPF), a plann...

Revisiting the Normalization of the Moran's I Index: A Correlation‐Based Approach With Inference

Summary Moran's index, the canonical measure of spatial autocorrelation, may take values outside the interval when arbitrary spatial weight matrices are used. This lack of boundedness complicates interpretation and may lead to misleading conclusions. We systematically evaluate se...

The mediational role of close teacher-student relationships in the link between loneliness and academic achievement: A longitudinal study in junior high school students

Loneliness is a well-documented risk factor for adolescents’ psychosocial and academic adjustment. However, the mechanisms through which loneliness is related to school performance remain unclear, as most prior studies have relied on cross-sectional designs. Drawing on the evolut...

Rethinking entrepreneurial negotiation: from isolated episodes to a processual framework

Purpose This paper addresses fragmentation in entrepreneurial negotiation research by developing a conceptual framework that shifts the focus from isolated negotiation episodes to a longitudinal perspective across the entrepreneurial journey, where entrepreneurs function as centr...

Continuous Learning as a Key to Career Sustainability: A Moderated Mediation Model

Contemporary career sustainability increasingly depends on workers’ capacity to continuously develop their competencies and on organizations’ ability to support this process. Drawing on the sustainable career framework and Conservation of Resources theory, this study examines how...

THE REPRODUCTION OF THE NATIVE LAXITY PHENOTYPE GUARANTEES A MORE NATURAL KNEE KINEMATICS COMPARED TO THE RESTORATION OF THE STATIC MORPHOTYPE: A GAIT ANALYSIS EVALUATION FOLLOWING TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY

Introduction Alternative alignments in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are gaining popularity over mechanical alignment because they aim to replicate patients’ natural alignment and restore the original joint line position and obliquity as measured on preoperative weight-bearing X-...

Weapon and poison? Framing disinformation in European Commission Speeches, 2016–2024

Drawing on 238 speeches delivered by European Commission (EC) presidents, vice-presidents, and commissioners (2016–mid-2024), this paper examines how the EC narrates ‘disinformation’. Using topic modelling, text-community detection, and qualitative content analysis, we show a gen...

How robot dogs see the unseeable: Improving visual interpretability via peering for exploratory robots

In vegetated environments, such as forests, exploratory robots play a vital role in navigating complex, cluttered environments where human access is limited and traditional equipment struggles. Visual occlusion from obstacles, such as foliage, can severely obstruct a robot’s sens...

Supporting Visual Working Memory in Healthy Aging: A Review of Current Interventions and Perspectives on Future Approaches

Visual working memory (vWM) undergoes age-related decline, affecting storage capacity, representational precision, feature binding, and inhibitory control, with consequences for everyday functioning. Nevertheless, accumulating evidence indicates that the aging brain retains subst...

Silent signals: how bodily cues and age influence speech adaptation

Abstract Do real-time visual cues of listening effort and expectations on the listener's perceived age drive speech adaptations? In experiment 1, young adults read sentences to a listener shown via a head-mounted display. Participants were told their voices were heard under noisy...

Analysis of healthcare waste management and transition from incineration to sterilisation: the case study of Beira, Mozambique

Purpose Environmentally sound, safe and cost-effective options for the safe treatment of bio-hazardous solid waste (BSW) are currently lacking in low-income contexts (LICs). The purpose of this article is double: to analyse healthcare waste management (HCWM) in Mozambique at a ci...

Artificial Intelligence and Criminology

Machine learning is gaining momentum in criminology, and the unprecedented transformative power of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to affect the discipline even more, perhaps in ways we currently struggle to imagine. In light of the growing role that AI plays in...

Modelling and characterization of the unzipping dynamics of dielectric fluid actuators

Dielectric Fluid Actuators (DFAs) are variable capacitors that contract as a result of electrostatic forces acting on a compliant multilayer structure composed of a polymer film and an insulating liquid. Differences in the dielectric time constants of the liquid and polymeric lay...

Youth Sustainable Career: Integrating the Career Construction Model of Adaptation and the Sustainable Career Framework

This study examined individual antecedents of sustainable career development in emerging adulthood by integrating the Career Construction Model of Adaptation (CCMA) with the Sustainable Career Framework (SCF). We hypothesized that proactive personality and protean career orientat...

On the Numerical Computation of \({R_0}\) in Periodic Environments

Abstract. We propose a novel approach to approximate the basic reproduction number [Formula: see text] as the spectral radius of the Next-Generation Operator in time-periodic population models by characterizing the latter via evolution semigroups. Once birth/infection and transit...

Calculation of Field-line Slippage Rates in Coronal Simulations

Abstract We present the universal Slippage calculator ( USlip ), an extension of the universal Fieldline Tracer ( UFiT ), which computes magnetic field line slippage rates from an input magnetic field defined on a structured grid. The slippage rate provides a local, physically gr...

Mapping HIV infection and sex-based differences among sub-Saharan African migrants in Northeast Italy: a multicenter study

HIV continues to disproportionately affect Sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrants in Italy, who often experience late diagnosis and complex clinical and social challenges. This multicenter cross-sectional study evaluated determinants of poor immunological and virological outcomes and...

Glucose-Derived Carbon Materials via Hydrothermal Carbonization and Pyrolysis for Electrochemical Applications

Abstract Carbon materials are widely used in electrochemical technologies due to their tunable structure and chemical versatility. Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of biomass offers a sustainable synthesis route, yet quantitative links between processing conditions and material p...