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    Kos: A design for the Baths Museum

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    The contribution is based on a recent survey conducted as part of a degree thesis on "The Central Baths of Kos", held at the Department DICAR the Polytechnic of Bari under the scientific direction of Prof. G. Rocco and Prof .M. Livadiotti. The proposed design of a “Museum of the Baths”, to be realized in an archaeological area, therefore, is founded on a thorough preliminary historical research, the result of more than twenty years of studies of these scholars in Dodecanese (Greece). The Museum, in a central position near the ancient agora, occupies the space of five ancient insulae south of the thermal building, ensuring its readability and creating a multi-poles museum which could be potentially replicated in the surrounding areas. The management of the space inside the Museum takes in account the geometric ratio of the typical Hellenistic block. The choice of a wooden construction system was dictatd by several considerations especially in order to the possibility of the presence of not yet investigated runs under the new building. It was chosen therefore a system that ensures the support to the ground without damaging any ancient structures below, considering how premise of the project was the reversibility. Besides, this architectural object offers the opportunity of a better protection of archaeological sites, ensuring its study and visit. The museum fulfills the dual purpos of collecting and exposing the architectura fragments discovered. The project of teachig materials and exhibition routes tries to make clear the complex history of the building and functioning of thermal baths, displayed in all its phases in a chronological order. In addition, the arrangement of the exposition and every single support, panel and thematic path have been studied. The whole ensures a complete comprehension of the expsed material and of the archaeological site

    Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and coupling strengths using pp collision data at √S=7 and 8 TeV in the ATLAS experiment

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    Combined analyses of the Higgs boson production and decay rates as well as its coupling strengths to vector bosons and fermions are presented. The combinations include the results of the analyses of the H -> gamma gamma, ZZ*, WW*, Z gamma, b (b) over bar, tau tau and mu mu decay modes, and the constraints on the associated production with a pair of top quarks and on the off-shell coupling strengths of the Higgs boson. The results are based on the LHC proton-proton collision datasets, with integrated luminosities of up to 4.7 fb(-1) at root s = 7 TeV and 20.3 fb(-1) at root s = 8 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS detector in 2011 and 2012. Combining all production modes and decay channels, the measured signal yield, normalised to the Standard Model expectation, is 1.18(-0.14)(+0.15). The observed Higgs boson production and decay rates are interpreted in a leading-order coupling framework, exploring a wide range of benchmark coupling models both with and without assumptions on the Higgs boson width and on the Standard Model particle content in loop processes. The data are found to be compatible with the Standard Model expectations for a Higgs boson at a mass of 125.36 GeV for all models considered
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