DarkSide-50 is a direct dark matter detection experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso that uses argon as the target material. Exploiting ionization signal from dual-phase time projection chamber filled with low-radioactivity argon, it has set most stringent exclusion limit on WIMPs mass of few \mathrm{GeV}/c^2 <...

Industrial., commercial, and residential facilities are progressively adopting automation generation capabilities. By having flexible demand renewable energy generation, traditional passive customers becoming active participants in electric power system operations. Through profound coordination among grid operators customers, the facilities' capability for response (DR) distributed resource (DE...

Financial crises and economic downturns provide a unique opportunity to investigate the behavior of investors financial instruments shed light in market's anticipation future growth. In view current crisis, we examine how COVID-19 pandemic affected European green bond market. Using daily data from Thomson Reuter's Refinitiv, conducted event studies on corporate credit spread changes over period...

The non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rescuing migrants off the coast of Libya have been increasingly criminalised. We investigate discursive underpinnings this process by analyzing all articles on sea rescue NGOs published between 2014 and 2019 two major Italian newspapers located at opposite sides political spectrum: Il Giornale La Repubblica. Our discourse analysis shows that media salie...

Advances in information technology and globalization processes make it easier for transnational criminal groups to use the legitimate economy disguise their operations facilitate rapid transfer of proceeds crime avoid investigation by law enforcement authorities. One prominent activities organized is profiting from illicit drug trade, corruption, or other results obtained obtained, either direc...

The thesis describes an agent-based model aimed to simulate those processes in which a digital object faces the risk of obsolescence, a migration process has to be performed and the most appropriate file format has to be adopted. Agents have been designed in order to monitor and control the local system where they reside and its environment. They are able to become aware of obsolescent formats ...

BACKGROUND Transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR) has been increasingly used during the recent past for patients with diffuse coronary artery disease. Because this operation is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, it is important to select patients for TMR who are likely to benefit from the procedure. METHODS We performed an univariate logistic regression analysis of 20...

e Bay’s launch of its API in November 2000 marked the beginning of an era in which Web applications offer services for third-party application integration. The rapid growth of programmatic interfaces for Web applications has recently revolutionized online content integration and created new opportunities for vendors to build developer ecosystems. According to ProgrammableWeb, a leading service ...

Market-based principles can be used to manage the risk of distributed peer-to-peer transactions. This is demonstrated by Ptrim, a system that builds a transaction default market on top of a main transaction processing system, within which peers offer to underwrite the transaction risk for a slight increase in the transaction cost. The insurance cost, determined through market-based mechanisms, ...

This study shows the different developmental stages of welfare state development in Japan and Mainland China, and discusses current challenges of the welfare state systems in these two countries. It may serve as a source for comparison of social policy practices in both countries, since it reveals striking similarities in the attitude of governments of Japan and China (after 1978) towards depen...