Il costante sviluppo del turismo e delle attività industriali, pone una pressione sempre crescente sull’ambiente, alterandone gli equilibri e costituendo un rischio per la salute umana. Tra le principali cause di natura antropica vi sono le acque di scarico e i fertilizzanti agricoli che, riversandosi in mare, apportano sostanze in grado di promuovere o limitare la proliferazione di micro alghe (fitoplancton), organismi alla base dell’ecosistema marino e della catena alimentare. Tuttavia, nella pratica comune, la concentrazione di micro alghe in mare non viene misurata direttamente ma è piuttosto la concentrazione di clorofilla-a in esse contenuta (in mg/m3) ad essere riconosciuta nell’ordinamento vigente come unico parametro biologico per la determinazione della classe di benessere di appartenenza di un corpo idrico.

There are two well-known and different approaches to statistical inference and hypothesis testing, i.e. the frequentist (or orthodox) and the Bayesian one. Consequently, there are also (if one stays in the framework of probability theory) two rival approaches to uncertainty. The present work is partly a tutorial, aimed at explaining the basic aspects of the two approaches, and their relationship with the GUM; and partly a demonstration that the implementation of the Bayesian approach in the GUM Supplement 1 is too rigid. In particular, objective Bayesianism is incompatible with the propagation of distributions prescribed in Supplement 1.

Implantable devices are being used for long term healthcare and human body physiological monitoring of specific parameters. PDMS (poly-dimethyl-siloxane) can be used either for sensor or for packaging of the same sensor in many applications, notably in laparoscopy and laparotomy as feeler pin in order to help surgeons to touch specific tissues and to get a response based on the nature of the touched tissue (softness). The need of calibrated pressure on a tissue arises when we are in presence particular pathologies or impairments as: cancer issues, high risk of aneurism for aorta and brain, probable haemorrhage in touching capillaries, and so forth. This paper presents a packaging modelling of a build nanosensor to be used in a human body for surgery exploration as laparoscopy and laparotomy. A nanosensor is first build for common application and adapted for implantable applications, and a packaging is studied. The designed sensor is implemented by considering PDMS as polymeric material

Photovoltaic modules need recognized and validated measurements through appropriate certification in order to be sold and used in diverse applications. Certification process, that includes measurements and characterization, is an important aspect of photovoltaic issues. This paper presents an improved intercomparison method of characterizing Photovoltaic Modules (PVMs) in outdoor conditions and in short observation time. The key output is energy prediction

The quality and the quantity of liquid fluid flow in pipelines is a crucial issue for human beings' daily life, especially for leak detection. The control and managing of pipelines have been assuming a major importance for all kinds of fluids to be conveyed through. When the fluid is like oil, hazardous fluid and/or water for human beings' necessity, the monitoring of pipelines becomes extremely fundamental. For complex pipeline networks, even if flowmeters deliver data about fluid quantities, they cannot be used for each part of a complex and extended network because of heavy increasing costs. The research proposes the use of video surveillance in terms of video validation of a magnetic flowmeter in order to measure the amount of fluid by using only video camera located on an analog flowmeter. A specific algorithm has been developed to process liquid frames

In this paper a model based approach is adopted to estimate the thoracic volume. A cylindrical model is developed and standard relations of cylinder are used for the volumetric computations. Six normal male subjects are registered for the analysis and validation of the cylindrical model. Anthropometric dimensions and thoracic impedances are measured as input parameters. Appreciable rhythmic variations of thoracic impedances with computed thoracic volumes are observed for all the registered subjects. The observation can be utilized for monitoring and diagnosis of various respiratory and pulmonary disorders

In this paper the authors describe the architecture and the functionalities of the Transport Integrated Platform (TIP), an Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) application on Dangerous Good Transport on road in Italy. The TIP represents a System of Systems (SoS) application because it aims to manage different kinds of sub systems (each module of the platform) and different kind of entities (electronical devices, DG vehicles, drivers). TIP manages the DG fleet planning routing and the real time vehicles' tours, the customer orders, and other support tools for drivers including training, resource management and advanced data mining. TIP application aims at promoting a safe management of DG freight transport providing timely information to truck drivers and fleet managers about weather, traffic, emergency or other critical situations on the road infrastructures