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Chapter and Conference Paper
Energy Requalification of a Neighbourhood of Reggio Calabria with a View to an Energy District
The energy transition, intended as the construction of a new energy and social organization model based on the production and consumption of energy from renewable sources, with a view to distributed generation...
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Personality Traits and Metacognitions as Predictors of Positive Mental Health in College Students
Presence and absence of both psychological distress and well-being are important in predicting life outcomes among youths. Recently, scholars have been paying increased attention to the role of positive mental...
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Monopole patch antenna for in vivo exposure to nanosecond pulsed electric fields
To explore the promising therapeutic applications of short nanosecond electric pulses, in vitro and in vivo experiments are highly required. In this paper, an exposure system based on monopole patch antenna is...
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Open AccessNeurogenetics of developmental dyslexia: from genes to behavior through brain neuroimaging and cognitive and sensorial mechanisms
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a complex neurodevelopmental deficit characterized by impaired reading acquisition, in spite of adequate neurological and sensorial conditions, educational opportunities and norm...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of an Applicator for nsPEF Exposure of Newborn Mice
This paper proposes the design of a new in vivo applicator of nsPEFs suitable for whole body exposure of several newborn mice. The system is based on a UWB patch antenna and exhibits a wide operating band (300...
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An assessment of gene-by-gene interactions as a tool to unfold missing heritability in dyslexia
Even if substantial heritability has been reported and candidate genes have been identified extensively, all known marker associations explain only a small proportion of the phenotypic variance of developmenta...
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Open AccessSearch for the Higgs boson in the all-hadronic final state using the full CDF data set
This paper reports the result of a search for the standard model Higgs boson in events containing four reconstructed jets associated with quarks. For masses below 135 GeV/c 2, the Higgs bo...
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Open AccessSearch for scalar top quark production in \( p\bar{p} \) collisions at \( \sqrt{s}=1.96\;\mathrm{TeV} \)
We report on a search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark (scalar top) decaying into a charm quark and a neutralino in $ p\bar{p} ...
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The TOP-IMPLART project
A new proton therapy center is planned to be built in Rome, Italy. The project, named TOP-IMPLART, is developed by three institutions, ENEA (Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove tecnologie, l’Energia e lo Sviluppo E...
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Open AccessSearch for narrow resonances lighter than ϒ mesons
We report a search for narrow resonances, produced in \(p\bar{p}\) collisions at
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Similarity Metrics Analysis for Feature Point Based Retinal Authentication
Biometrics refer to identity verification of individuals based on some physiologic or behavioural characteristics (face, fingerprint, signature...). The typical authentication process of a person consists in e...
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Evaluation of goiter using ultrasound criteria: A survey in a middle schoolchildren population of a mountain area in Central Italy
Iodine deficiency is still an important health care problem in the world. In Italy, as in most European countries, it is responsible for the development of mild to moderate endemic goiter. In 1995 we conducted...
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Personal authentication using digital retinal images
Traditional authentication (identity verification) systems, used to gain access to a private area in a building or to data stored in a computer, are based on something the user has (an authentication card, a magn...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Retinal Based Authentication via Distributed Web Application
Traditional authentication systems, employed to gain access to a private area in a building or to data stored in a computer, are based on something the user has (an authentication card, a magnetic key) or somethi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Extraction of the Retina AV Index
In this paper we describe a new method to approach the diameter of veins and arteries in the retina vascular tree, focusing not only on precision and reliability, but also on suitability for on-line assistance...
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No evidence for association and linkage disequilibrium between dyslexia and markers of four dopamine-related genes
Dopamine genes are candidate genes for dyslexia in the light of the well-known comorbidity between dyslexia and ADHD. Within-family association and linkage disequilibrium were tested between four genetic marke...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Retinal Angiography Based Authentication
Traditional authentication (identity verification) systems, employed to gain access to a private area in a building or to data stored in a computer, are based on something the user has (an authentication card, a ...
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Numerical prediction of heat affected zone (HAZ) grain refinement for multiple weld-bead deposits during the SMAW welding process of Cr–Mo–V steel
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of a Medical Application Using XML Based Data Interchange
The recent proliferation of computing devices and the contexts in which they are used demand diversity in distributed applications as well. The objective of our research is the development of a medical framewo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Topological Active Volumes
In the last years, deformable models raised much interest and found various applications in the field of 2D and 3D computer vision. Active surfaces are usually employed for segmentation and object reconstructi...