COSMO-RS is a novel and efficient method for the a-priori prediction of thermodynamic properties of mixtures. It is based on unimolecular quantum chemical calculations that provide the necessary information for the evaluation of molecular interactions in liquids. Thus, the method provides an alternative to group contribution methods such us UNIFAC for the true prediction of activity coefficient...

L Greco, R Romino, I Coto, N Di Cosmo, S Percopo, M Maglio, F Paparo, V Gasperi, M G Limongelli, R Cotichini, C D’Agate, N Tinto, L Sacchetti, R Tosi, M A Stazi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

The MINERVE project was initiated for flood management in the Upper Rhone river basin. Its first goal is the prediction of floods. The second one is the optimum management of the complex system of hydropower plants located in the basin in order to diminish the peak discharge in the Rhone River and its tributaries. The MINERVE Interactive Decision Support (MINDS) proposes turbine and bottom outl...

cosmological argument has been one of the most significant philosophical and theological arguments in religious traditions of different religions. in the western theo-philosophical tradition, there have been both different interpretations and numerous criticisms presented about this argument. in this article, the most important of those arguments and their criticisms are both taken into conside...

The Wenchuan Earthquake on May 12, 2008, devastated a vast area in Sichuan, China. The swift rescue and disaster management measures of the Chinese government have been supported by radar remote sensing from the very beginning. The new high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, like COSMO-SkyMed and TerraSAR-X, have been used for damage assessment and rapid mapping. Unfortunatel...

This work aims at providing experimental and theoretical information about the water–perfluorocarbon molecular interactions. For that purpose, experimental solubility results for water in cyclic and aromatic perfluorocarbons (PFCs), over the temperature range between (288.15 and 318.15) K, and at atmospheric pressure, were obtained and are presented. From the experimental solubility dependence ...

In the framework of the application of remote sensing to civil protection from floods, the problem of the detection of flooded areas and ground changes in high-resolution images is addressed in this paper. Specifically, the high-resolution multitemporal observation capability offered by the current COSMO-SkyMed synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation is exploited. This work is framed in th...

The COSMO foundation ontology is being developed to test the hypothesis that there are a relatively small number (under 10,000) of primitive ontology elements that are sufficient to serve as the building blocks for any number of more specialized ontology elements representing concepts and terms used in any computer application. Finding evidence for this hypothesis would suggest that a promising...

The data exploitation of the COSMO-SkyMed Mission allows the users to utilise innovative high resolution X-band data generated by the first European civilian radar constellation. The Data Exploitation of the Mission is lead separately for the institutional and commercial user. The former is supported by ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana/Italian Space Agency); the latter by eGEOS [1]. ASI is conduc...

The huge number of possible combinations of binary mixtures of alcohols and ionic liquids (ILs) make the exhaustive measurement of all these ystems impracticable requiring the use of a predictive model for their study. In this work, the predictive capability of COSMO-RS, a model based n unimolecular quantum chemistry calculations, was evaluated for the description of the liquid–liquid equilibri...