Strategic information is one of the main assets for many organizations and, in the next future, it will become increasingly more important to enable the decisionmakers answer questions about their business, such as how to ...

Hip and knee articulations are the main joints in human body and they have the duty of sustaining heavy loads. This task is normally well performed by a healthy joint but, in some cases, the occurrence of diseases can ...

The guarantee of food safety requires a fast and accurate control for all chemicals and bacteria, which are harmful for human health. In the food industry, the safety of a product is evaluated through periodic chemical ...

The problem of the increase in the magnitude and frequency of flooding events in urban areas can be approached by means of techniques of sustainable urban stormwater management. In this PhD dissertation, the effectiveness ...

The interest in the protection and conservation of Cultural Heritage and the growing role that it plays in the development ofthe national policies, represents a valid reason to focus the attention ofthe research in this ...

Traditional materials (steel, concrete, timber and masonry) still dominate the building industry. However new materials are constantly being explored by engineers and scientists due to their numerous advantages offered. With ...

The research focused on the analysis of the deviation that an aerofotogrammetric survey can produce with respect to the classic topographic surveys, by total station, GPS (Global Positioning System) or TLS (Terrestrial ...

In the industrial field the employment of innovative fabrication technologies is emerging to the purpose of cost reduction and flexibility. In particular, great interest is addressed to additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, ...

Human factors play an inevitable role in working contexts and the occurrence of human errors impacts on system reliability and safety, equipment performance and economic results. If human fallibility contributes to majority ...

In recent years, the field of organic electronics has been experiencing a great expansion, due to several characteristics which candidate it as a main player in the definition of new markets comprising low-cost, flexible ...