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Introduction
This introduction suggests regarding
\u2018religion\u2019 as a cultural product. The relationship between religion and memory can be investigated through the
practice of oath-taking, a particularly sophisticated social tool in ancient Greece. It concerns, in fact, both the status of social trust and problematic intercourses between gods and human beings, who fi nd in oath a regulated and effective space of interrelation
Il Museo Geofisico di Rocca di Papa: tra divulgazione e ricerca scientifica
The Geophysical Museum of Rocca di Papa is located in an historical, three floor building, of the small
town Rocca di Papa, twentyfive kilometres from Rome. The edifice was, until 1931, the place of the
Geodynamic Observatory, created in 1889 by the famous seismologist Michele Stefano De Rossi. The
museum is due to an agreement between the Town Council of Rocca di Papa and the Istituto Nazionale di
Geofisica (INGV, one of the most important European Research Institutions operating in geophysics) signed
in 2000. After bureaucratic passages and two years of important restoration the museum was open to the
public at 26th February 2005.
The main aim of the Geophysical Museum is to illustrate how experimental data and information,
accumulated by science in the course of time, led to new hypotheses on the internal structure of the Earth.
The target of the educational and of the scientific disciplines of the Museum is mainly school students of all
ages, but also local residents, and tourists: since its opening, approximately two years ago, the Museum has
been visited by more than eight-thousand people. Posters, movie presentations, plastics, games and interactive
experiments explain to visitors the main topics of geophysics and the stages of scientific research which led to
the modern concept of the Earth internal model. Seismic instruments and games are easily accessible so that
the visitor can interact with them: experimental data are recorded in real time and displayed through different
monitors placed throughout the rooms. The museum has also a small cinema for three dimensional projections
which allow visitors to experience a virtual tour on the Alban Hills, the seismic zone where the museum is
located, and also on some other Italian tectonic belts where earthquakes occurred in past. The article
introduces the museum and the seismological characteristics of the area, and describes the activities, the
exhibits of the Museum and their methodology
Muon spin rotation and relaxation in the superconducting ferromagnet UCoGe
We report zero-field muon spin rotation and relaxation measurements on the
superconducting ferromagnet UCoGe. Weak itinerant ferromagnetic order is
detected by a spontaneous muon spin precession frequency below the Curie
temperature K. The precession frequency persists below the
bulk superconducting transition temperature K, where it measures
a local magnetic field T. The amplitude of the SR signal
provides unambiguous proof for ferromagnetism present in the whole sample
volume. We conclude ferromagnetism coexists with superconductivity on the
microscopic scale.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PR
Statistical analysis driven optimized deep learning system for intrusion detection
Attackers have developed ever more sophisticated and intelligent ways to hack
information and communication technology systems. The extent of damage an
individual hacker can carry out upon infiltrating a system is well understood.
A potentially catastrophic scenario can be envisaged where a nation-state
intercepting encrypted financial data gets hacked. Thus, intelligent
cybersecurity systems have become inevitably important for improved protection
against malicious threats. However, as malware attacks continue to dramatically
increase in volume and complexity, it has become ever more challenging for
traditional analytic tools to detect and mitigate threat. Furthermore, a huge
amount of data produced by large networks has made the recognition task even
more complicated and challenging. In this work, we propose an innovative
statistical analysis driven optimized deep learning system for intrusion
detection. The proposed intrusion detection system (IDS) extracts optimized and
more correlated features using big data visualization and statistical analysis
methods (human-in-the-loop), followed by a deep autoencoder for potential
threat detection. Specifically, a pre-processing module eliminates the outliers
and converts categorical variables into one-hot-encoded vectors. The feature
extraction module discard features with null values and selects the most
significant features as input to the deep autoencoder model (trained in a
greedy-wise manner). The NSL-KDD dataset from the Canadian Institute for
Cybersecurity is used as a benchmark to evaluate the feasibility and
effectiveness of the proposed architecture. Simulation results demonstrate the
potential of our proposed system and its outperformance as compared to existing
state-of-the-art methods and recently published novel approaches. Ongoing work
includes further optimization and real-time evaluation of our proposed IDS.Comment: To appear in the 9th International Conference on Brain Inspired
Cognitive Systems (BICS 2018
LA RETE SISMICA DELLA PIANA DI GUIDONIA (LAZIO): DATI PRELIMINARI
After the seismic period during 2001-2002 that has interested the Plain of Guidonia, situated
about fifteen kilometres NE of Rome, which events greatest resentment reached the V-VI MCS, have
been installed a local seismic purchased by Comune of Guidonia-Montecelio (Rm). The seismic
network (RLG) consists of three digital seismic stations with distances of each other about 2
kilometers, activated to leave from the June 2004 and equipped with three components 1 Hz
sismometer. Subsequently, the RLG has enriched of other four digital stations equipped with three
components 5 Hz sismometer This network has like main objective the high quality data that agree a
better definition of the seismic local activity. These data, that integrate those of the Seismographic
Centralized National Network (SCNN), agreed a better ipocentre location. Network geometriy was
chosen so as to give back the RLG an independent structure to carry out reliable seismicity locations
that characterizes the plain of Guidonia. Unfortunately, industrial and human activity, increases in
considerable manner the seismic noise, giving back difficult the record of small events. For this motive
the location of the sites was more times changed, and lately, after a seismic crisis in the northern side
of the Mountains Cornicolani, that has presented with the same features of that of 2001 of Guidonia,
some stations were moved in the neighboring village of Palombara Sabina (Rm)
Integration of Argo trajectories in the Mediterranean Forecasting System and impact on the regional analysis of the western Mediterranean circulation
The impact of Argo float trajectory assimilation on the quality of ocean analyses is studied by means of an operational oceanographic model implemented in the Mediterranean Sea and a 3D-Var assimilation scheme. For the first time, both Argo trajectories and vertical profiles of temperature and salinity (TS) together with satellite altimeter data of sea level anomaly (SLA) are assimilated to produce analyses for short-term forecasts. The study period covers 3 months during winter 2005 when four Argo trajectories were present in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. The scheme is first assessed computing the misfits between observations and model forecast and analysis. The misfit statistics appear improved for float trajectories, while they are not degraded for the other assimilated variables (TS profiles and SLA). This indicates that the trajectory integration is consistent with the other components of the assimilation system and provides new information on horizontal pressure gradients. Comparisons between analyses obtained with and without trajectory assimilation suggest that trajectory assimilation can have an impact on the description of boundary currents and their instabilities, as well as mesoscale activity at regional scales. Changes are depicted by intermediate water mass redistributions, mesoscale eddy relocations, and net transport modulations. These impacts are detailed and assessed considering historical and simultaneous in situ data sets. The results motivate the integration of Argo trajectories in the operational Mediterranean Forecasting System
Os 10 anos de graduação em informática biomédica da Universidade de São Paulo
Esse artigo descreve a estrutura do curso de Bacharelado em Informática Biomédica da Universidade de São Paulo, destacando a área de atuação, o perfil profissional e as mudanças curriculares que ocorreram no decorrer dos 10 primeiros anos de existência do curso.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ
Os 10 anos de graduação em informática biomédica da Universidade de São Paulo
Esse artigo descreve a estrutura do curso de Bacharelado em Informática Biomédica da Universidade de São Paulo, destacando a área de atuação, o perfil profissional e as mudanças curriculares que ocorreram no decorrer dos 10 primeiros anos de existência do curso.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ
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