Le vaste dismissioni industriali hanno aperto un problema strategico nell’ambito più generale del patrimonio edilizio pubblico e privato. Per la riutilizzazione e la gestione di tale patrimonio dismesso si pongono oggi in discussione, dopo decenni di politiche di invasione di nuove zone territoriali, questioni fondate sulla riconversione delle aree e sul recupero degli edifici, considerati orma...

Human activities such as mining, smelting, and coal combustion dis­ perse mercury that can be methylated by bacteria to produce methyl­ mercury, a potent neurotoxicant. Methylating bacteria thrive in aquatic sediments rich in organic matter, and methylmercury biomagnification eventually leads to heavy contamination of top predators, including fish consumed by humans. Although fish and seafood a...

utes to their tendency to form clumps spontaneously. Since the rise of the field of sociobiology, the study of Though the exact relationship between these behaviors the biological basis of social behavior, scientists have is not known, they all appear to be related to food restriven to assign genetic origins for a variety of social sponse in some manner: in the absence of food, clumpbehaviors. ...

Binary droplet collisions are of importance in a variety of practical applications comprising dispersed two-phase flows. The background of our research is the prediction of properties of particulate products formed in spray processes. To gain a more thorough understanding of the elementary sub-processes inside a spray, experiments and direct numerical simulations of binary droplet collisions ar...

This chapter presents a way to classify interactions between people. Examples of the interactions we investigate are; people meeting one another, walking together and fighting. A new feature set is proposed along with a corresponding classification method. Results are presented which show the new method performing significantly better than the previous state of the art method as proposed by [Ol...

introduction using greenways could be one of the ways which fulfill the improvement of urban streets. greenways, as they are known, improve the pedestrianism and related qualities like climatic comfort, visual complexity and desirable serial visions. the objective of this research is to evaluate the capacity of mâdies[1] network in isfahan to function as greenway. this research aims to assess i...

1. introduction the presence of some woman beside epic and mythical persons has been a widely common feature in many epicsas, for instance, ohrmazd with spenta armaiti or ahriman accompanied byjahi; jamshid, also, is blessed with his own sisters or daughters and freydun and kai khosrow with the mother as well. in these cases, the hero is led to success and fortune with the help of a feminine el...

The gastrointestinal tract of Ciona intestinalis, a solitary tunicate that siphon filters water, shares similarities with its mammalian counterpart. The Ciona gut exhibits other features that are unique to protochordates, including certain immune molecules, and other characteristics, e.g. chitin-rich mucus, which appears to be more widespread than considered previously. Exposure of Ciona to dex...