Applicazioni di strumenti e procedure per l'elaborazione dei dati da rilievo digitale integrato per l’H-BIM

L’applicazione di strumenti di segmentazione e classificazione delle nuvole di punti ottenute da rilievo tridimensionale integrato, permette di organizzare delle banche dati digitali funzionali alla modellazione H-BIM e all’interrogazione del database stesso, nell’ottica di ottimizzare il processo scan to Bim e al contempo essere un documento interrogabile e consultabile in tutte le fasi del processo di digitalizzazione e di gestione

Characterization of the Pathogenic Potential of the Beach Sand Microbiome and Assessment of Quicklime as a Remediation Tool

Beach sand may act as a reservoir for potential human pathogens, posing a public health risk. Despite this, the microbiological monitoring of sand microbiome is rarely performed to determine beach quality. In this study, the sand microbial population of a Northern Adriatic Sea beach sand was profiled by microbiological (CFU counts) and molecular methods (WGS, microarray), showing significant presence of potential human pathogens including drug-resistant strains. Consistent with these results, the potential of quicklime as a restoring method was tested in vitro and on-field. Collected data showed that adding 1-3% quicklime (w/w) to sand provided an up to -99% of bacteria, fungi, and viruses, in a dose- and time-dependent manner, till 45 days post-treatment. In conclusion, data suggest that accurate monitoring of sand microbiome may be essential, besides water, to assess beach quality and safety. Moreover, first evidences of quicklime potential for sand decontamination are provided, suggesting its usage as a possible way to restore the microbiological quality of sand in highly contaminated areas

A Calculus for Orchestration of Web Services

Service-oriented computing, an emerging paradigm for distributed computing based on the use of services, is calling for the development of tools and techniques to build safe and trustworthy systems, and to analyse their behaviour. Therefore, many researchers have proposed to use process calculi, a cornerstone of current foundational research on specification and analysis of concurrent, reactive, and distributed systems. In this paper, we follow this approach and introduce CWS, a process calculus expressly designed for specifying and combining service-oriented applications, while modelling their dynamic behaviour. We show that CWS can model all the phases of the life cycle of service-oriented applications, such as publication, discovery, negotiation, orchestration, deployment, reconfiguration and execution. We illustrate the specification style that CWS supports by means of a large case study from the automotive domain and a number of more specific examples drawn from it

Morphology of the toe flexor muscles in older people with toe deformities

Objective: Despite suggestions that atrophied, or weak toe flexor muscles are associated with the formation of toe deformities, there has been little evidence to support this theory. This study aimed to determine whether the size of the toe flexor muscles differed in older people with and without toe deformities. Methods: Forty-four older adults (>60 years) were recruited for the study. Each participant had their feet assessed for the presence of hallux valgus or lesser toe deformities. Intrinsic and extrinsic toe flexor muscles were imaged with an ultrasound system using a standardised protocol. Assessor blinded muscle thickness and cross-sectional area was measured using Image J software. Results: Participants with lesser toe deformities (n=20) were found to have significantly smaller quadratus plantae (p=0.003), flexor digitorum brevis (p=0.013), abductor halluces (p=0.004) and flexor halluces brevis (p=0.005) muscles than the participants without any toe deformities (n=19). Female participants with hallux valgus (n=10) were found to have significantly smaller abductor hallucis (p=0.048) and flexor halluces brevis (p=0.013) muscles than the female participants without any toe deformities (n=10; p<0.05). Conclusion: This is the first study to use ultrasound to investigate the size of the toe flexor muscles in older people with hallux valgus and lesser toe deformities compared to otherwise healthy older adults. The size of the abductor hallucis and flexor hallucis brevis muscles were decreased in participants with hallux valgus whereas the quadratus plantae, flexor digitorum brevis, abductor hallucis and flexor halluces brevis muscles were smaller in those participants with lesser toe deformities

La realizzazione di plastici e la rappresentazione di un processo

La realizzazione di plastici nella progettazione architettonica e paesaggistica per la rappresentazione di un processo costruttiv

Rappresentazione, design, industria

Pensare al disegno come gesto culturale, prima ancora che gesto di conoscenza teorico-scientifico, pratico. Rilievo e disegno per la metamorfosi del giocattol

Realizzare in piccolo per pensare in grande

La progettazione dei modelli integrati nel Laboratorio modelli e prototipazione del Dipartimento di Architettura di Ferrara

Rapporto Ricerca-Industria, l’innovazione come chiave di sviluppo metodologico per la produzione competitiva. Analisi di un caso pratico di collaborazione tra l’universita e l’industria mediato dalla formazione didattica

Il motore della prossima ripresa economica sarà, come riportato dalle fonti più autorevoli, indissolubilmente legato ai processi d’innovazione e rinnovamento, sia di processo che di prodotto, che riusciremo a mettere in atto ad ogni livello del nostro contesto economico e sociale. I soggetti chiamati ad impegnarsi per questa nuova stagione saranno, fra gli altri, la ricerca ed i centri del sapere. E’ evidente che queste attività avranno tanto più successo in funzione di quanto saranno stretti i legami di collaborazione con il mondo delle imprese e dei processi produttivi. A che punto è, dunque, la collaborazione fra Università e Industria? Lo scopo di questo intervento è proprio fornire un’occasione per l’approfondimento dell’analisi del contesto e delle modalità con cui si realizza al meglio la sinergia fra ricerca, sviluppo e creazione di un valore. Partendo dall’analisi delle varie iniziative territoriali e che ci interessano in maniera più vicina arriveremo ad analizzare i presupposti del successo tecnologico e competitivo generale di questa sinergia