In the framework of the Italian BNCT research program, the low-power (5 kW), fast-flux, TAPIRO research reactor, located at the ENEA Casaccia Centre near Rome, is foreseen to be implemented as the national facility devoted to supply an epithermal neutron beam required for malignant brain tumor treatment[1]. The feasibility to provide both thermal and epithermal suitable neutron beams in the mai...

The municipality of San Marcos is one of the most violent in the country, creating an adverse environment for children and adolescents to avail themselves of educational opportunities. Through UNICEF's financial and technical support, the local government has established a Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, which generates relevant information for the monitoring and enforcement of the rights of ch...

The MSAC is a stack of grids that gives rise, when biased at high voltage, to four planar gas proportional counters connected each other. In spite of the low gas gain of each counter (about 100), the final gain can easily overcome 10. Thanks to such high gain, the MSAC can detect single electrons by using fast front-end electronics to process the current arisen from the last grid when a single ...

This work targets Collaborative Annotations of a Map in a mobile setting. This is a form of communication that makes explicit usage of the geographical/physical context as referent to the message content. The goal of this study is to develop a computational support for such communication, defining a model that enable to integrate spatial information with the textual information produced through...

This photo shows a fi re in a spruce forest in the Innoko National Wildife Refuge. Scientists at SNRAS are studying the effects of fi re on carbon bioavailability in soils, boreal forest soil respiration, climate change, and the ecology of morel mushrooms. Other fi rerelated projects study the vulnerability of human populations to wildfi re, fuel loads in forests, and management methods that be...

Botnet size is often reported as a number of IP addresses, but the link between IP addresses and infected machines is more complicated than a simple one-to-one relationship. To count the number of infected machines when we have only an aggregated view of a botnet, we suggest building a precise probability model of the observable behavior of a single machine, and applying that model to the aggre...