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BIM AUTOMATION: ADVANCED MODELING GENERATIVE PROCESS for COMPLEX STRUCTURES
The new paradigm of the complexity of modern and historic structures, which are characterised by complex forms, morphological and typological variables, is one of the greatest challenges for building information modelling (BIM). Generation of complex parametric models needs new scientific knowledge concerning new digital technologies. These elements are helpful to store a vast quantity of information during the life cycle of buildings (LCB). The latest developments of parametric applications do not provide advanced tools, resulting in time-consuming work for the generation of models. This paper presents a method capable of processing and creating complex parametric Building Information Models (BIM) with Non-Uniform to NURBS) with multiple levels of details (Mixed and ReverseLoD) based on accurate 3D photogrammetric and laser scanning surveys. Complex 3D elements are converted into parametric BIM software and finite element applications (BIM to FEA) using specific exchange formats and new modelling tools. The proposed approach has been applied to different case studies: the BIM of modern structure for the courtyard of West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa (Ontario) and the BIM of Masegra Castel in Sondrio (Italy), encouraging the dissemination and interaction of scientific results without losing information during the generative process
Nuclear transport models can reproduce charged-particle-inclusive measurements but are not strongly constrained by them
Nuclear transport models are important tools for interpretation of many heavy-ion experiments and are essential in efforts to probe the nuclear equation of state. In order to fulfill these roles, the model predictions should at least agree with observed single-particle-inclusive momentum spectra; however, this agreement has recently been questioned. The present work compares the Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model to data for mass-symmetric systems ranging from 12C+12C to 139La+139La, and we find good agreement within experimental uncertainties at 0.4A and 0.8A GeV. For currently available data, these uncertainties are too large to permit effective nucleon-nucleon scattering cross sections in the nuclear medium to be extracted at a useful level of precision
First video documented presence of Mediterranean monk seal in Southern Apulia (Italy)
Sightings of Endangered monk seal (Monachus monachus) specimens have been increasingly reported along the
coasts of its historic Mediterranean distribution over the last two decades, even from countries where the species
was considered extinct for about half a century. These encounters have been documented and verified particularly
along the coasts of the Adriatic-Ionian basin. The activities carried out in Salento (Southern Apulia, Italy) since 2012,
engaging with local protected areas, authorities and different stakeholders (organizations, museums, universities,
fishermen’s cooperatives and tourism sectors enterprises) allowed us to record and verify 10 monk seal sightings (from
2009 to 2014) in the area. However, the last sighting with photographic documentation dates back to 1973. In June
2017, after six years of monitoring and awareness of the territory, immediately after the sighting, we received a video
evidence of such presence. The footage, and the resulting interview with the witnesses, documented the presence of a
Mediterranean monk seal’s specimen, about 2 meters in length, along the coast of Tricase (Lecce, Apulia). This new event
has a remarkable importance to the hypothesis that Salento and the Adriatic-Ionian basin might play an important role
in the overall conservation of the specie
VIRTUAL MUSEUMS AS A MEANS FOR PROMOTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Abstract. The use of virtual reality and ICT in the museum context provides a new key to understand and promote Cultural Heritage: thanks to these technologies the user has the opportunity to experience without the need to come into contact with the real objects. For the museum institutions VR and ICT are a valuable tool that allows them to perform different cultural tasks, addressing the public in a much more effective way than has previously been possible. Especially through VR, it is possible to reconstruct the original context of the artworks through the interconnection of contents: the virtual visitor, while viewing the artwork, can consult useful contents for the learning process. Another revolutionary element introduced by the new technologies is linked to the possibility of creating virtual exhibitions through which it is possible to exhibit works that are not accessible or not visible. These reflections and these theoretical principles were the basis for the development of the project proposal presented in these pages, that was born as a collaboration between the R3D Lab of the Museo della Rappresentazione of University of Catania and the CIMS Lab of Carleton University, Ottawa. It consists in the creation of a virtual museum, the Timeless Museum, in order to create an educational experience, able to make the users reflect on topics such as the value of history, the sense of beauty, the relationship with our past and our future, the protection and transmission to future generations of the artistic heritage we have.</p
Phonon-Assisted Photoluminescence in a Spherical Nanocrystal
Using the matrix density in the representation of path integrals for an electron, the multiphoton nonlinear absorption light coefficient in the second order of interaction energy with polar optical phonons is derived. This coefficient describes any electron interaction mechanism with phonons. From the interaction mechanism, the main role is played by dimensional resonance when the electron continuously absorbs energy from the field as a result of synchronizing its oscillation with the field. This dimensional resonance is possible when the frequency characterizing the laser field is a multiple of the phonon frequency. Whether a photon is absorbed or emitted, the initial level from where the transition occurs defines the temperature dependence. The absorption spectrum has the form of stripes whose intensity depends on the resonance character. The most pronounced absorption is at the triple resonance, where values of radiation and oscillatory and optical phonon frequencies are equal
No alternatives, always more, willful optimism: New editors of the European Journal of Cultural Studies in conversation
The following is a conversation, conducted over email in late 2019 and early 2020, between Yiu Fai Chow and Anamik Saha, the two incoming editors of European Journal of Cultural Studies
Some estimates of Wang-Yau quasilocal energy
Given a spacelike 2-surface in a spacetime and a constant future
timelike unit vector in , we derive upper and lower estimates
of Wang-Yau quasilocal energy for a given isometric
embedding of into a flat 3-slice in . The quantity itself depends on the choice of , however the infimum of
over does not. In particular, when lies
in a time symmetric 3-slice in and has nonnegative Brown-York quasilocal
mass \mby(\Sigma), our estimates show that equals \mby (\Sigma). We also study the spatial limit of , where is a large coordinate sphere in a
fixed end of an asymptotically flat initial data set and is
an isometric embeddings of into .
We show that if has future timelike ADM energy-momentum, then
equals the ADM mass
of .Comment: 17 page
Discontinuous Predicates as Partial Deletion in Cantonese
Providing novel evidence from discontinuous predicates in Cantonese, this paper argues that partial deletion applies to the word level. A number of disyllabic verbs in Cantonese may appear as discontinuous strings where the two syllables are separated by suffixes and/or phrasal elements. We propose that their derivation involves a conspiracy of multiple operations in Narrow Syntax and in the Phonological Form (PF): (i) verb movement in Narrow Syntax creates copies; (ii) affixes induce a PF syllable deletion rule on the higher copy; (iii) partial Copy Deletion applies to the lower copy. Consequently, partial deletion not only applies to phrasal constituents (Fanselow and Cavar 2002), but also to words/heads. We also maintain a relatively conservative understanding of Copy Deletion by scattering the deletion to a PF deletion rule and Copy Deletion, where the partial effect is due to disruption of the latter by the former
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