In recent years, different structural health monitoring (SHM) systems have been proposed to assess the actual conditions of existing bridges and effectively manage maintenance programmes. Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) tools represent frontier research providing innovative non-invasive non-destructive evaluations directly based on output-only vibration measures. This is one key aspects ...

Governmental initiatives around scientific policy have progressively raised collaboration to priority status. In this context, a need has arisen to broaden the traditional approach to the analysis and study of research results by descending to the group or even the individual scale and supplementing the output-, productivity-, visibilityand impact-based focus with new measures that emphasize co...

Ecosystem functioning and community structure are recognized as key components of ecosystem integrity, but comprehensive, standardized studies the responses both structural functional indicators to different types anthropogenic pressures remain rare. Consequently, we lack an empirical basis for (i) identifying when monitoring alone misses important changes in functioning, (ii) recommending sets...