There are people who leave their mark in field. Without doubt, Pier Luigi Nimis (for the registry office, Pierluigi; for friends, Pier; family members, Pil; me and a few colleagues, PL) is such person. On threshold of retirement but no less active than ever, about to begin new phase his life, life dedicated entirely science and, particular, lichenology.

Flow in river bends is associated with generation of secondary flows that leads to a rather complicated flow pattern around bridge piers located the bend. In this study, patterns rectangular and oblong models collar at 90o angle 180-degree sharp bend an experimental plume were investigated. The 3D velocity data collected using Vectrino velocimeter. results indicated presence pier caused more in...

Title: Identification of microbial indicators and free living protozoa in natural mineral water using cultural and molecular methods. Author list: Michele Totaro*, Beatrice Casini*, Paola Valentini*, Mario Miccoli°, Pier Luigi Lopalco*, Angelo Baggiani* Affiliations: *Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy. ° Department of Cl...

1 Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Avenida. Prof. Dr. Cavaco Silva, 2744-016 Porto Salvo, Portugal 2Pervasive Radio Technologies (PeRT) Lab, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Via Pier Carlo Boggio 61, 10138 Torino, Italy 3 Instituto de Telecomunicações, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-011 Lisboa, Portugal 4Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli A...

Roberto Ammendola∗ab, Andrea Biagionic, Ottorino Frezzac, Francesca Lo Ciceroc, Alessandro Lonardoc, Pier Paoluccic, Roberto Petronzioad , Davide Rossettic, Andrea Salamona, Gaetano Salinaa, Francesco Simulae, Nazario Tantaloab, Laura Tosorattoc and Piero Vicinic aINFN Roma Tor Vergata bCentro Studi e Ricerce e Museo della Fisica “Enrico Fermi ” cINFN Roma La Sapienza dUniversità di Roma Tor Ve...

Scour is by far the primary cause of bridge failures in the United States. Scour and other hydraulic effects are particularly threatening because the deterioration is often invisible , hidden beneath turbid water. Many scour monitoring methods attempt to measure the development of scour pockets themselves. However, this is difficult due to debris — both floating and submerged — and shifting str...

the efficiency of a collar in reducing the scour depth around circular and rectangular piers is studied at different flow intensities (ratio of upstream shear stress to sediment critical shear stress). rectangular piers aligned with the flow as well as skewed at 5º, 10º, 20º were examined. previous studies had shown that with collar the equilibrium time of scouring increases considerably. to re...

Recent advances in structural proteomics call for development of fast and reliable automatic methods for prediction of functional surfaces of proteins with known three-dimensional structure, including binding sites for known and unknown protein partners as well as oligomerization interfaces. Despite significant progress the problem is still far from being solved. Most existing methods rely, at ...