Motivation In 2012, Iqbal et al. introduced the colored de Bruijn graph, a variant of the classic de Bruijn graph, which is aimed at 'detecting and genotyping simple and complex genetic variants in an individual or population'. Because they are intended to be applied to massive population level data, it is essential that the graphs be represented efficiently. Unfortunately, current succinct de ...

This paper shows some preliminary results on the exploitation of COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) data for the characterization of agricultural fields. In particular, we analyze the impact of the planting row direction on to the radar backscattering response. We considered two different crop types, namely carrots and potatoes, and we grouped them in two subsets, the first including fields with row direction ...

Weather forecasts and climate projections are of tremendous importance for economical societal reasons. Software implementing weather models is complex to develop hard maintain, requires a large range different competencies, ranging from environmental sciences, numerical methods, low level programming. In order manage this complexity we developed GridTools, set software libraries targeted at mo...

Ionic liquid (IL) 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride was found to effectively intensify cyclohexanol oxidation and resulted in 100% conversion of cyclohexanol with 100% selectivity to cyclohexanone using hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant and WO(3) as a catalyst. The effect of the IL as a solvent is discussed with the support of COSMO-RS theory.

There is a consensus concerning the view that both auditory and motor representations intervene in the perceptual processing of speech units. However, the question of the functional role of each of these systems remains seldom addressed and poorly understood. We capitalized on the formal framework of Bayesian Programming to develop COSMO (Communicating Objects using Sensory-Motor Operations), a...

We consider neutrinos with varying masses which arise in scenarios relating neutrino masses to the dark energy density in the universe. We point out that the neutrino mass variation can lead to level crossing and thus a cosmo MSW effect, having dramatic consequences for the flavor ratio of astrophysical neutrinos and the composition of the relic neutrino background. Two of the most mysterious p...

This study presents an extended vertical grid for the regional atmospheric model COSMO, used for numerical weather prediction, reaching up to 33 km. The extended setup has been used to stably simulate eleven months in a domain covering central and northern Europe. Temperature and relative humidity have been validated using 5 radio sonde data in polar and temperate latitudes, focussing on the st...