Time-dependent boundary conditions, uncertainties and variability of soil suction and water content of the filling material together with the use of proper retention and strength soil models are crucial aspects to be included for reliable analyses of the actual stabilit...

In this work we study the performances of our microscopic optical potential [1, 2], derived from nucleon-nucleon chiral potentials at fifth order (N4LO), in comparison with those of a successful non-relativistic phenomenological optical potential in the description of e...

In this paper, the process for obtaining non-encapsulated Thermochromic Liquid Crystal (TLC) micro-particles from commercial bulk material (UN R25C10W) is described. The bulk material is analyzed in terms of morphology and rheological properties (i.e. viscosity, maximum...

Copper is the third metal by production volume after iron and aluminium, but its wide use in modern technology can be affected by high vulnerability to supply restriction due to the anticipated mine production peak. Securing access to copper forms is of particular impor...

In this paper, we study distributed big-data non-convex optimization in multi-agent networks. We consider the (constrained) minimization of the sum of a smooth (possibly) nonconvex function, i.e., the agents' sum-utility, plus a convex (possibly) nonsmooth regularizer. ...

The new goals towards efficiency increase, pollutant emissions and fossil fuel reduction had led to an increasing diffusion of district heating networks. New generations of district heating had introduced the concept of smart thermal grids, consisting in the bidirection...

Hybrid and multi-cloud become prominent infrastructure strategy of enterprise. However, the complexity of such infrastructure is a considerable challenge. It is common to see that multi-cloud infrastructure is divided into several smaller units to facilitate the managem...

The goal of this work is to present a synthesis of the improvements and updates developed to deliver the final version of the ANN tool adopted by the second edition of the wave overtopping manual, EurOtop, released on the internet in 2016. This tool consists of three id...

Mechanisms that sustain atrial fibrillation (AF) are not yet clearly identified. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in detecting spiral waves and rotors and in understanding how these potential drivers sustaining AF might be therapeutic targets for catheter...

In this paper, we propose a distributed solution to the navigation of a population of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to best localize a static source. The network is considered heterogeneous with UAVs equipped with received signal strength (RSS) sensors from which it i...