43 research outputs found
Neutron activation analysis of the 30Si content of highly enriched 28Si: proof of concept and estimation of the achievable uncertainty
We investigated the use of neutron activation to estimate the 30Si mole
fraction of the ultra-pure silicon material highly enriched in 28Si for the
measurement of the Avogadro constant. Specifically, we developed a relative
method based on Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis and using a natural-Si
sample as a standard. To evaluate the achievable uncertainty, we irradiated a 6
g sample of a natural-Si material and modeled experimentally the signal that
would be produced by a sample of the 28Si-enriched material of similar mass and
subjected to the same measurement conditions. The extrapolation of the expected
uncertainty from the experimental data indicates that a measurement of the 30Si
mole fraction of the 28Si-enriched material might reach a 4% relative combined
standard uncertainty
Measurement of the (30)Si Mole Fraction in the New Avogadro Silicon Material by Neutron Activation and High-Resolution γ-Spectrometry
The use of new silicon single crystals highly enriched in (28)Si recently produced for the upcoming redetermination of the Avogadro constant requires knowledge of their molar masses. The isotopic composition data are collected independently in different laboratories but all using the virtual element technique with multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers. In this framework, the comparison of the results with an independent measurement of the amount of at least one of the depleted isotopes is useful to limit hidden systematic errors. To this aim, the (30)Si mole fraction of a sample of the new material was measured using a relative measurement protocol based on instrumental neutron activation analysis. The protocol is similar to that previously applied with the AVO28 silicon material used for the last determination of the Avogadro constant value with the exception that unknown and standard samples are not coirradiated. The x((30)Si) = 5.701 × 10(-7) mol mol(-1) estimate is close to the expected one and is given with a standard uncertainty of 8.8 × 10(-9) mol mol(-1). This value, if adopted, gives a contribution to the relative standard uncertainty of the Avogadro constant of 6.3 × 10(-10)
La gestione dell’aderenza alla terapia del paziente anziano politrattato nelle farmacie di comunità
A multimodal data collection of daily activities in a real instrumented apartment
This paper presents technical setup and methodology used for the data collection in progress within the NETCARITY project, as of middle of February, 2008. The goal of this work is to collect a large amount of high quality acoustic and visual data, concerning people doing common activities of daily living. The final expected structured and annotated database of activities will be helpful to develop systems that, starting from audio-visual cues, automatically analyze the daily behaviour of humans and recognize different kinds of daily living activities (distinguished in single activities, parallel activities, and single activities with some background noises)
Netcarity Multimodal Data Collection
In this paper we describe the multimodal data collection,
carried out within the NETCARITY project. We
shortly present the acquisition system, the recording
procedure and the collected data. Finally, we draw
some considerations, while trying to point out positive
characterizing aspects, as well as met problems and
pitfalls