Comparative Evaluation of ChatGPT and Students in the Outcomes of Online Learning Courses Related to Security

Artificial Intelligence has increasingly affected the educational scenario, and its careful assessment is more and more essential to avoid misuses and not fair exploitation on the part of the students. This paper provides a preliminary comparison between the performance of a very well-known Large Language Model, namely ChatGPT 3.5, and those of a cohort of students attending online courses about network and computer security in an online university. The analysis has been performed by consider...

Aerial Autonomy Under Adversity: Advances in Obstacle and Aircraft Detection Techniques for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Experimental design to extract natural compounds from Calendula flowers

The genus Calendula grows along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, including Calendula officinalis (Linn.), Calendula arvensis (Linn.), and Calendula maritima (Guss). Among these species, only the first one is studied in detail for bioactive molecules, pharmacological properties, and it is therefore considered for commercial product as medicines and cosmetics. In this study, ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) of C. maritima flowers has been designed, using a hydro-alcoholic mixture at dif...

Una questione non soltanto generazionale. Storia sociale dell’animazione giapponese in Italia (1978-1983)

The article aims to examine the consumption of Japanese animated drawing in Italy from the end of the Seventies and the early Eighties. The viewing of Japanese animation is a direct and clear consequence of the particular social, cultural, medial and technological situation of historical time period on which our analysis is focused. To be precise, this analysis tries to piece together, although in broad terms, the history of consumption of the Japanese animated drawing in Italy underlinin...