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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Open AccessEarly-succession secondary forests following agropastoral abandonment are key winter habitats for the conservation of a priority bird in the European Alps
In contrast to old-growth forests, early-successional stands remain understudied despite potentially harbouring species of conservation interest. With this work, focused on hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia, a crypt...
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Clinical outcomes to pemetrexed-based versus non-pemetrexed-based platinum doublets in patients with KRAS-mutant advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer
KRAS mutation has been associated with enhanced dependency on the folate metabolism in preclinical studies. However, whether KRAS mutation correlates to increased sensitivity to pemetrexed in patients with advanc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Open AccessPotential Use of Sicilian Landraces in Biofortification of Modern Durum Wheat Varieties: Evaluation of Caryopsis Micronutrient Concentrations
The selection process has caused modern durum wheat cultivars to achieve higher yields with different protein quality but also to have low micronutrient amounts. In order to evaluate the suitability of germpla...
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Hepatitis E Virus (Genotype 3) in Slurry Samples from Swine Farming Activities in Italy
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emergent causative agent of acute hepatitis, transmitted by fecal–oral route. Infection with HEV is a global cause for morbidity and mortality throughout the world: it mainly caus...
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Quality of life in patients treated by adjuvant radiotherapy for endometrial and cervical cancers: correlation with dose–volume parameters
Modern multidisciplinary cancer treatments aim at obtaining minimal influence on patients’ quality of life (QoL). The purpose of this study was to assess QoL and correlate it with dose–volume parameters of org...
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Open AccessHigh-loop perturbative renormalization constants for Lattice QCD (III): three-loop quark currents for Iwasaki gauge action and \(n_f=4\) Wilson fermions
This is the third of a series of papers on three-loop computation of renormalization constants for Lattice QCD. Our main points of interest are results for the regularization defined by the Iwasaki gauge actio...
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High-loop perturbative renormalization constants for Lattice QCD (II): three-loop quark currents for tree-level Symanzik improved gauge action and n f =2 Wilson fermions
Numerical Stochastic Perturbation Theory was able to get three- (and even four-) loop results for finite Lattice QCD renormalization constants. More recently, a conceptual and technical framework has been devi...
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Diagnostic accuracy and agreement between whole-body diffusion MRI and bone scintigraphy in detecting bone metastases
This study was done to determine the diagnostic value of whole-body magnetic resonance using diffusion-weighted imaging with background suppression (WB-DWIBS) for detecting bone metastases compared with whole-...
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Perfusion computed tomography assessments of peri-enhancing brain tissue in high-grade gliomas
This study was undertaken to identify tumoural infiltration of peri-enhancing brain tissue in patients with glioblastoma by means of perfusion computed tomography (PCT) parameters, cerebral blood volume (CBV) ...
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Chapter
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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Solitons in semiconductor microcavities
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Self–propelled soliton collisions in a semiconductor cavity soliton laser
Spontaneous soliton motion has been demonstrated in different systems supporting cavity solitons. Here we consider the case of a semiconductor laser with an intracavity saturable absorber, and study the intera...
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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...
