<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">================================================================= </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br><b>Special Session on Mental Models of the Human User in Social HRI</b><br><br>within the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">(RO-MAN 2022)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Napoli, Italy, August 28- September 2, 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/accepted-special-sessions/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/accepted-special-sessions/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Special Session code: <b>ubm34</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br>=================================================================<br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Mental models refer to the internal representations of the individual's experiences with the external reality. Research shows that such representations including their cognitive and affective aspects is crucial for the design of interactive systems as a preeminent approach to improve their acceptability and their efficacy for the user. This is particularly important in the case of social robots who are expected to function autonomously in real-world social scenes. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The holy grail of social robotics is giving the robots the basic socio-cognitive skills to 1) detect and interpret human mental states as well as behavioral responses, 2) adapt their behavior according to the needs and expectations of the human, and 3) show contextually appropriate affective and social signals in an intelligent and readable way. From the mastering of such social skills, an effective human-robot interaction can emerge, suspending the disbelief of human partners, allowing trust, partnership, and acceptability. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Among the other social skills, the capability to interpret and adapt to users' mental states could help in solving the mismatch existing between expectations of robots (often elicited by the robot's appearance) and their actual capabilities. This mismatch can lead to ambiguous perceptions and improper interpretation of robot's actions and intentions by negatively affecting the robot's acceptance. We envision human-aware social interaction paradigms allowing robots to automatically detect and correct inaccurate mental states held by users through adaptive behavior. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoN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e.unina.it/ro-man2022/" target="_blank">http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">SUBMISSION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br>Manuscripts submitted to this special session should be done through the paper submission website of the main conference: <a href="https://ras.papercept.net/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://ras.papercept.net/</a> <br>All papers submitted to special sessions will be subject to the same peer-review procedure as the regular papers. Please refer to the main conference website to have additional details.<span style="font-size:9pt"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">To submit a paper to this Special Session authors should adhere to the following steps:</span><br></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Create an account: go to <a href="https://ras.papercept.net/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://ras.papercept.net/</a> , to create a PIN and fill out the form. Ask all your co-authors to do the same if they do not have an account on the system yet, write down the authors' PINs (this information is needed for manuscript processing purposes).</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Go to Support Menu (<a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php</a> ) and depending on how you are preparing your paper, download a template for US LETTER PAPER SIZE : LaTeX (<a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php</a> ) or US LETTER PAPER SIZE MS-Word, (<a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php</a> )</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Use these templates/style files to create the paper and save in PDF format.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Upload the paper: go to <a href="https://ras.papercept.net/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://ras.papercept.net/</a>  and click on "submit a contribution to Ro-Man 2022".</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Submit <b>special session paper</b></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Make sure to insert the code of the Special Session: <b>ubm34</b></span></u></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Fill in the form presented on the next page (make sure to enter all author PINs created in Step 1).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">We look forward to welcoming you soon in Naples!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Sincerely Yours,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Special Session Organizing Committee:</span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><b>Mariacarla Staffa</b>, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy, (e-mail: <a href="mailto:mariacarla.staffa@uniparthenope.it" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">mariacarla.staffa@uniparthenope.it</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Maryam Alimardani</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (e-mail: <a href="mailto:M.Alimardani@tilburguniversity.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">M.Alimardani@tilburguniversity.edu</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Salvatore Maria Anzalone</span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> Paris 8 University, France (e-mail: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:sanzalone@univ-paris8.fr" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang="IT">sanzalone@univ-paris8.fr</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">)</span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">=================================================================</span><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno gio 3 feb 2022 alle ore 17:13 Mariacarla Staffa <<a href="mailto:mcstaffa@gmail.com">mcstaffa@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">================================================================= </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br><b>Special Session on Mental Models of the Human User in Social HRI</b><br><br>within the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">(RO-MAN 2022)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Napoli, Italy, August 28- September 2, 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/accepted-special-sessions/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/accepted-special-sessions/</a></span></p><p class="Mso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na,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Mental models of human users in HRI</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Human-aware perception-action loop</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Affective and emotional HRI</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Empathy and Theory of Mind in Robotics</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Mutual affective understanding</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Internal state monitoring and interpretation</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Detection of non-verbal behavioral cues</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Emotion and intention recognition</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Real-time detection of mental states</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Online adaptive behavior</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Acceptability and personalization</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:n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font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Special Session Organizing Committee:</span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><b>Mariacarla Staffa</b>, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy, (e-mail:<span> </span><a href="mailto:mariacarla.staffa@uniparthenope.it" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">mariacarla.staffa@uniparthenope.it</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Maryam Alimardani</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (e-mail:<span> </span><a href="mailto:M.Alimardani@tilburguniversity.edu" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">M.Alimardani@tilburguniversity.edu</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Salvatore Maria Anzalone</span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span> </span>Paris 8 University, France (e-mail:<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:sanzalone@univ-paris8.fr" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank"><span lang="IT">sanzalone@univ-paris8.fr</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">)</span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">=================================================================</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"></span><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><font color="#9900ff" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><b>Mariacarla Staffa, PhD<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Assistant Professor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Department of Science and Technologies</b></font></div><div><font color="#9900ff" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><b>University of Naples "Parthenope"</b></font></div><div><font color="#9900ff" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><b>address: Centro Direzionale, Isola C, 4° Piano, Lato Nord, Stanza 428, 80143, Napoli</b></font></div><div><font color="#9900ff" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><b>tel: 081-5476580<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px">institutional e-mail: <a href="mailto:mariacarla.staffa@uniparthenope.it" target="_blank">mariacarla.staffa@uniparthenope.it</a></b></font></div><div><font color="#9900ff"><br></font></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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