Vittorio and I, the second named author, were friends for many years. We first met at a conference in Bari in 1975 where we discussed some work he was doing. It was only several years later that we really became friends — through Henri Berestycki who was staying with Vittorio and his wife in New York. After that we would meet in Italy or in New York, and it was always a great pleasure to spend ...

Exploration of underwater environments, such as coral reefs and ship wrecks, is a difficult and potentially dangerous tasks for humans, which naturally makes the use of an autonomous robotic system very appealing. This paper presents such an autonomous system, and shows its use in a series of experiments to collect image data in an underwater marine environment. We presents novel contributions ...

Although Marianna Fotaki’s Editorial is helpful and challenging by looking at both the professional and institutional requirements for reinstalling compassion in order to aim for good quality healthcare, the causes that hinder this development remain unexamined. In this commentary, 3 causes are discussed; the boundary between the moral and the political; Neoliberalism; and the underdevelopment ...

cation of mathematical models, questionnaire " Mathematicians, like physicists, are pushed by a strong fascination. Research in mathematics is hard, it is intellectually painful even if it is rewarding , and you wouldnt do it without some strong urge. " [D. Ruelle]. We shall give some examples from our experience, when we were able to simplify some serious mathematical models to make them under...