414 research outputs found

    Patterning molecular scale paramagnets at Au Surface: A root to Magneto-Molecular-Electronics

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    Few examples of the exploitation of molecular magnetic properties in molecular electronics are known to date. Here we propose the realization of Self assembled monolayers (SAM) of a particular stable organic radical. This radical is meant to be used as a standard molecule on which to prove the validity of a single spin reading procedure known as ESR-STM. We also discuss a range of possible applications, further than ESR-STM, of magnetic monolayers of simple purely organic magnetic molecule.Comment: This preprint is currently partially under revisio

    CLSPN (claspin)

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    Review on CLSPN (claspin), with data on DNA, on the protein encoded, and where the gene is implicated

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    Modifications in Chemical, Physical and Mechanical Properties of Nebbiolo (Vitis vinifera L.) Grape Berries Induced by Mixed Virus Infection

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    Modifications in grape quality parameters induced by mixed infection with GFLV and GFkV, GLRaV-1and GVA, and GLRaV-3 and GVA in three Nebbiolo clones were compared against healthy plants of thesame clones in two experimental vineyards in Piemonte, northwest Italy. The aim of the study was toevaluate the effect of virus infection on the mechanical properties of the berry skin and the whole berry asassessed by texture analysis tests, and on the amount and quality of berry skin phenols. Differences wereobserved in grapevine vigour, yield and juice composition, depending on the viral status of the plants. Theanthocyanin profile of the vines infected with GFV and GFkV and those infected with GLRaV-1 and GVAshowed a lower percentage of the more stable tri-substituted malvidin-3-glucoside and a higher percentageof cyanidin and peonidin-3-glucosides. Texture analysis showed that the viruses may increase berry-skinthickness and reduce phenol extractability. These effects carry practical implications for wine quality

    On-Street Parking Search Time Estimation Using FCD Data

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    Abstract This paper focuses on modelling on-street parking search time by using FCD data coming from probe vehicles. It is based on data detected by probe vehicles, which allow to identify the typical spiral around the destination that vehicles perform in the final part of the trip to find a parking place. The proposed model is suitable to be used either in real-time to support user information and dynamic routing, or off-line for a better assessment of transport plans. A real-size application to the city of Rome is presented to show the promising results obtained for the estimation of parking search time in urban areas

    Codes and standards on computational wind engineering for structural design: State of art and recent trends

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    This paper first provides a wide overview about the design codes and standards covering the use of Computational Wind Engineering / Computational Fluid Dynamics (CWE/CFD) for wind-sensitive structures and built environment. Second, the paper sets out the basic assumptions and underlying concepts of the new Annex T "Simulations by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD/CWE)" of the revised version "Guide for the assessment of wind actions and effects on structures" issued by the Advisory Committee on Technical Recommendations for Constructions of the Italian National Research Council in February 2019 and drafted by the members of the Special Interest Group on Computational Wind Engineering of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (ANIV-CWE). The same group is currently advising UNI CT021/SC1 in supporting the drafting of the new Annex K - "Derivation of design parameters from wind tunnel tests and numerical simulations" of the revised Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 1-4: General actions - Wind actions. Finally, the paper outlines the subjects most open to development at the technical and applicative level

    Inertial Sensor Based Modelling of Human Activity Classes: Feature Extraction and Multi-sensor Data Fusion Using Machine Learning Algorithms

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    Wearable inertial sensors are currently receiving pronounced interest due to applications in unconstrained daily life settings, ambulatory monitoring and pervasive computing systems. This research focuses on human activity recognition problem, in which inputs are multichannel time series signals acquired from a set of body-worn inertial sensors and outputs are automatically classified human activities. A general-purpose framework has been presented for designing and evaluating activity recognition system with six different activities using machine learning algorithms such as support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural networks (ANN). Several feature selection methods were explored to make the recognition process faster by experimenting on the features extracted from the accelerometer and gyroscope time series data collected from a number of volunteers. In addition, a detailed discussion is presented to explore how different design parameters, for example, the number of features and data fusion from multiple sensor locations - impact on overall recognition performance

    Spintronic magnetic anisotropy

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    An attractive feature of magnetic adatoms and molecules for nanoscale applications is their superparamagnetism, the preferred alignment of their spin along an easy axis preventing undesired spin reversal. The underlying magnetic anisotropy barrier --a quadrupolar energy splitting-- is internally generated by spin-orbit interaction and can nowadays be probed by electronic transport. Here we predict that in a much broader class of quantum-dot systems with spin larger than one-half, superparamagnetism may arise without spin-orbit interaction: by attaching ferromagnets a spintronic exchange field of quadrupolar nature is generated locally. It can be observed in conductance measurements and surprisingly leads to enhanced spin filtering even in a state with zero average spin. Analogously to the spintronic dipolar exchange field, responsible for a local spin torque, the effect is susceptible to electric control and increases with tunnel coupling as well as with spin polarization.Comment: 6 pages with 4 figures + 26 pages of Supplementary Informatio
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