A reliable road network is a vital local asset, connecting communities and unlocking economic growth. Every year landslides cause serious damage and, in some cases, the full disruption of many networks, which can last from few days to even months. The identification monitoring with conventional methods on an extended complex be rather difficult process, as it requires significant amount time re...

This paper describes the application of remote sensing techniques, based on SAR interferometry for the intensity zonation of the landslide affecting the Castagnola village (Northern Apennines of Liguria region, Italy). The study of the instability conditions of the landslide started in 2001 with the installation of conventional monitoring systems, such as inclinometers and crackmeters, ranging ...

This paper discusses the regularity of multiple-valued Dirichlet minimizing maps into the sphere. It shows that even at branched point, as long as the normalized energy is small enough, we have the energy decay estimate. Combined with the previous work by Chun-Chi Lin, we get our first estimate that H(singular set) = 0. Furthermore, by looking at the tangent map and using dimension reduction ar...

The ability to assess the importance of secretin in various physiological processes is limited by the lack of specific potent antagonists. Recently, reduced peptide bond (psi) analogues of bombesin or substance P in which the -CONH- bond is replaced by -CH2NH- are reported to be receptor antagonists. To attempt to develop a new class of secretin receptor antagonists, we have adopted a similar s...

PSI-G is an 11 kDa subunit of PSI in photosynthetic eukaryotes. Arabidopsis thaliana plants devoid of PSI-G have a decreased PSI content and an increased activity of NADP(+) photoreduction in vitro but otherwise no obvious phenotype. To investigate the biochemical basis for the increased activity, the kinetic parameters of the reaction between PSI and plastocyanin were determined. PSI-G clearly...

The potential energy surfaces of several alpha-(1-->3)- and beta-(1-->4)-linked disaccharides were obtained and plotted in terms of energy versus psi glycosidic angle. These plots were compared to those obtained previously in the way of the usual 3D contour maps, which relate the energy with the two glycosidic angles (phi and psi). Given the usually small variations of the phi angle in the low-...

The aim of this paper is to study the behaviour of certain sequence of nonlinear Durrmeyer operators $ND_{n}f$ of the form $$(ND_{n}f)(x)=intlimits_{0}^{1}K_{n}left( x,t,fleft( tright) right) dt,,,0leq xleq 1,,,,,,nin mathbb{N}, $$ acting on bounded functions on an interval $left[ 0,1right] ,$ where $% K_{n}left( x,t,uright) $ satisfies some suitable assumptions. Here we estimate the rate...

Abstract: In this paper, we apply multidimensional scaling (MDS) and parametric similarity indices (PSI) in the analysis of complex systems (CS). Each CS is viewed as a dynamical system, exhibiting an output time-series to be interpreted as a manifestation of its behavior. We start by adopting a sliding window to sample the original data into several consecutive time periods. Second, we define ...