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M. Brambilla
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On the Influence of Corrosion Levels in the Dynamic Behavior of Pretensioned Concrete Structural Elements
Corrosion of internal reinforcements represents a serious issue in prestressed concrete structures, as it progressively decreases the load bearing capacity of components, hence contributing to reduce the servi...
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Laboratory Testing and SHM of a Prestressed Concrete Beam Under Accelerated Artificial Corrosion and Sustained Loads
Real-time long-term monitoring can be an essential tool for the continuous assessment of existing and new structures. Numerical modelling of the real behavior of structures requires deep information that can b...
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Metrological Evaluation of New Industrial SHM Systems Based on MEMS and Microcontrollers
Microcontrollers are becoming popular in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems, as they can manage sensors, process data and meet requirements compliant with the cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) paradig...
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Pig Farming in the Abruzzo Region and Hepatitis E Virus Detection in Swine Slurries
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a recognized emerging zoonosis, and sporadic autochthonous cases, unrelated to travel in endemic areas, are rising in industrialized countries. Pigs and wild boars are cons...
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Evaluation of Coaxial Pipes for Basal Heating as Alternative for Energy Saving in Heating System for Leafy Vegetables
Protected horticulture is a high energy-demanding sector where the optimization of energy use and cost for heating facilities are strategic to achieve high environmental and economic sustainability of producti...
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Efficiency of Tractor Drawbar Power Taking into Account Soil-Tire Slippage
Heavy drawbar work on cultivated soil is the most critical aspect for agricultural tractors after the impairment of efficiency resulting from wheel slippage. To investigate this aspect with specific reference ...
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Cavity Solitons
In this chapter we describe the topic of cavity solitons in the framework of the general area of optical pattern formation. We illustrate how one can generate and control them; we compare them with standard sp...
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Nonlinear Optics and Saturation Behavior of Quantum Dot Samples Under Continuous Wave Driving
The nonlinear optical response of self-assembled quantum dots (QD) is relevant to the application of QD-based devices in nonlinear optics, all-optical switching, slow light, and self-organization. Theoretical ...
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Strumenti e metodi per la verifica della purezza radionuclidica dei radiofarmaci
Le monografie della European Pharmacopoeia inerenti i controlli di qualità dei principali radiofarmaci utilizzati in medicina nucleare hanno introdotto test specifici per l’identificazione e la valutazione sia...
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Radioprotezione nel laboratorio di produzione dei radiofarmaci
Lo scopo principale della radioprotezione negli ambienti di lavoro è il raggiungimento e il successivo mantenimento di un livello di sicurezza accettabile e di condizioni lavorative soddisfacenti.
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Cavity Solitons in Semiconductor Devices
Cavity solitons represent a class of dissipative solitons which are generated inside an optical resonator. They have attracted considerable interest in the recent years due to their possible application to opt...
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A Proposed Framework for Multinational Comparative Risk Analysis: Pesticide Use, Impacts and Management
Comparative risk assessment is a natural tool for decision making regarding transboundary environmental issues. A workgroup of environmental experts met during the NATO Workshop over three days and addressed t...
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Cavity Spatial Solitons in Semiconductor Microcavities
In the framework of Transverse Nonlinear Optics and Optical Pattern Formation, we study the formation of cavity solitons (CS) in semiconductor microcavities. We adopt a microscopic model that describes the fie...
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Laser-Based Optical Associative Memories
A new approach to architecture based on the use of a laser as a nonlinear discriminator for all-optical, auto- and hetero-associative memories is presented. The laser operates in a regime of spatial multistabi...
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Localized Structures In Nonlinear Optical Systems And Materials
Diffractive effects in passive nonlinear optical resonators can lead to pattern forming bifurcations with subcritical character. When the pattern (in our case, a regular hexagonal lattice of inte...
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Instabilities and pattern formation in a Laser with Injected Signal
In the last years, diffractive effects coupled to medium nonlinearity in nonlinear optical systems were increasingly investigated as the main means of pattern formation and spatio-temporal dynamics in optics [1].
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Laser-Based Optical Associative Memories
A new approach to architecture based on the use of a laser as a nonlinear discriminator for all-optical, auto- and hetero-associative memories is presented. The laser operates in a regime of spatial multistabi...
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Quantum Noise Reduction and Instabilities in Nondegenerate Four-Wave-Mixing
Four-wave-mixing (FWM) is one of the basic mechanisms in nonlinear optics. We consider the interaction of a pump field of frequency ω l and two signal fields (or more precisely, a signal and an id...
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Spatio-Temporal Instabilities in Nonlinear Optical Systems
Pioneered by Hermann Haken, the field of optical instabilities has shown a flourishing development in the last fifteen years. One of the culminating points in this trend was the experimental observation [1] of...
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Lower Hybrid Current Drive and Recharging of the Ohmic Heating Transformer in ASDEX
Lower hybrid current drive can be applied in a tokamak in a number of different schemes, namely for start-up of the discharge, for plasma current ramp-up, for driving a stationary plasma current or for recharg...
