Currently, urban planning theory and practice is focusing on the renewal and enhancement of the existing urban settlements and no longer on enlargement and expansion of the city. Generally, cities are looking for the ...

In the last decades, the theory of approximation has been enriched by a new class of approaches, that is fuzzy approximation. How can be introduced this class? Broadly speaking, any function, which is smooth enough, can ...

Medium and Large Companies must compete every day in a global context. To achieve greater efficiency in their products/processes they are forced to globalize by opening multiple locations in geographically distant places. ...

In the next years, it is expected a deep growth of world primary energy and electricity demand. The scenarios prospect a positive rate in all the sectors, especially in the residential one. In particular, residential sector ...

The aim of the study proposed in this discussion is to provide all specifications on comfort in the human-machine relationship and to ensure all tools for the evaluation of the same. To be able to analyze the comfort it ...

Recent security breaches showed that every attack begins with the involvement of users and continues with the exploitation of technology bugs. In almost all cases, without human collaboration, conscious and unconscious, ...

The present research aims at defining a methodological proposal to evaluate the environmental performances of a complex structure, in order to reduce the pressures and the environmental impacts of the various activities ...

Durability and sustainability of cementitious materials are two important issues in the field of construction materials. Durability is defined as the ability of cementitious materials to resist weathering action, chemical ...

Hydrogels are three-dimensional, hydrophilic, polymeric networks capable of imbibing large amounts of water or biological fluids. Depending on the type of polymer, number of cross-links, presence of ionic species the ...