Over the past decade, asylum seekers and refugees arriving in Italy were accommodated reception facilities located not only large metropolitan centres but also Small-medium Towns Rural Areas (STRAs). Italy’s system evolved quickly to face peaks of applications, especially 2015-2017 period. At same time, changes policies pushed by increased polarisation debate, which, turn, has led great heterog...

The main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. Numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. Therefore, railway track desig...

Sailing represents a new area of research within the field of applied AI. This paper gives a global overview of an ongoing broad-scoped research programme, called the RoboSail project (www.robosail.com). Part of this project is the realization of a semiautonomous intelligent pilot and a decision support system, assisting sailors in optimizing sailboat performance. The project encompasses a wide...

The Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Problem (LSFRP) poses a large financial burden on liner shipping firms. During repositioning, vessels are moved between services in a liner shipping network. The LSFRP is characterized by chains of interacting activities, many of which have costs that are a function of their duration; for example, sailing slowly between two ports is cheaper than sailing qu...

On March 31, 2010, the first English issue of the Korean Journal of Hematology (KJH) was published and dispatched to overseas libraries and domestic readers. It was the emotional zenith of my editorial career. At last, the KJH has been reborn as an international journal to fulfill our mission of delivering new and important scientific knowledge and information regarding all aspects of hematolog...

With the rise of sailing sports, second-hand trading market shows a great potential for development. We research thorough on pricing sailing. Firstly, linear regression model and decision tree use machine learning algorithm to accurately evaluate price; secondly, two-factor analysis method is used analyze influence manufacturer geographical region finally, accuracy evaluated by paired sample T-...