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Power-flow and mechanical efficiency computation in two-degrees-of-freedom planetary gear units: new compact formulas
L\u2019 Etna: un percorso attraverso l\u2019immaginario, la consapevolezza del rischio e la gestione del territorio\u201d,
anche in, Annali della Facolt\ue0 di Economia, Catania, anno L, 2004
Performance evaluation of different centrifugal pendulum morphologies through multibody dynamics simulation
A dynamic model of a Cardan joint to evaluate the effect of elasticity and manufacturing errors
Territory and memory: The Landing of the Allies in Sicily in 1943
The concept of memory (memorial site) has gained crucial importance in recent years for the identification of places
(areas) and in the affirmation of local identities. The memorial sites are areas where usually tragic events have occurred
and resulted in a cultural change. In these places there are still signs of these historical events and/or tangible and
intangible indications created by the society such as: monuments, obelisks, marble inscriptions, others. Sicily represents
an ideal area for studying memorial sites; not only because of the number of dominations in the past centuries, but also
for the significance of all places where the mafia has taken its root. These elements have caused several changes in the
culture and in the landscape.
Sicily is the land where \u201cOperation Husky\u201d began, in the summer of 1943. This agreement between the Americans and
the British aimed at occupying Sicily, Italy after World War II. Seventy years after this operation the territory is still
marked by testimonies of those tragic events. The bombing devastated buildings, which we can still acknowledge for
their cultural significance. These memorial areas represent a strong testimony of the past. There are cemeteries,
protecting bodies many of which are unknown; there are bunkers and other military garrisons well preserved throughout
the territory. These signs must be rediscovered, to be replicated because of the contemporary geopolitical situation.
As a result, in this paper we propose to identify the area of eastern Sicily suitable for a tourist itinerary in the cultural
memory of the war of 1943. The idea is to encourage tourism that gives rise to real emotions and thoughts
Positrons in Cosmic Rays from Dark Matter Annihilations for Uplifted Higgs Regions in MSSM
We point out that there are regions in the MSSM parameter space which
successfully provide a dark matter (DM) annihilation explanation for observed
positron excess (e.g. PAMELA), while still remaining in agreement with all
other data sets. Such regions (e.g. the uplifted Higgs region) can realize an
enhanced neutralino DM annihilation dominantly into leptons via a Breit-Wigner
resonance through the CP-odd Higgs channel. Such regions can give the proper
thermal relic DM abundance, and the DM annihilation products are compatible
with current antiproton and gamma ray observations. This scenario can succeed
without introducing any additional degrees of freedom beyond those already in
the MSSM.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
High energy gamma-ray constraints on decaying Dark Matter
New bounds on decaying Dark Matter are derived from the gamma-ray
measurements of (i) the isotropic residual (extragalactic) background by Fermi
and (ii) the Fornax galaxy cluster by H.E.S.S. We find that those from (i) are
among the most stringent constraints currently available, for a large range of
dark matter masses and a variety of decay modes, excluding half-lives up to
about 10^26 to few 10^27 seconds. In particular, they rule out the
interpretation in terms of decaying dark matter of the e+/- spectral features
in PAMELA, Fermi and H.E.S.S., unless very conservative choices are adopted. We
also discuss future prospects for CTA bounds from Fornax which, contrary to the
present H.E.S.S. constraints of (ii), may allow for an interesting improvement
and may become better than those from the current or future extragalactic Fermi
data.Comment: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference
(ICRC2013), ID622, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil
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