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This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of structural health monitoring, as presented at the 8th Civil Structural Health Monitoring Workshop (CSHM-8), held on March 31–April 2, 2021. It discusses emerging challenges in civil SHM and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems for civil engineering applications. The contributions cover a diverse range of topics, including applications of SHM to civil structures and infrastructures, innovative sensing solutions for SHM, data-driven damage detection techniques, nonlinear systems and analysis techniques, influence of environmental and operational conditions, aging structures and infrastructures in hazardous environments, and SHM in earthquake prone regions. Selected by means of a rigorous peer-review process, they will spur novel research directions and foster future multidisciplinary collaborations.
This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022. The volume covers highly diverse topics, including signal processing, smart sensors, autonomous systems, remote sensing and support, UAV platforms for SHM, Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and SHM for civil structures and infrastructures. The contributions, which are published after a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists.
This book gathers the best peer-reviewed papers presented at the Italian Concrete Conference, held in Naples, Italy, on October 12-15, 2022. The conference topics encompass the aspects of design, execution, rehabilitation, and control of concrete structures, with particular reference to theory and modeling, applications and realizations, materials and investigations, technology, and construction techniques. The contributions amply demonstrate that today’s structural concrete applications concern not only new constructions, but more and more rehabilitation, conservation, strengthening, and seismic upgrading of existing premises, and that requirements cover new aspects within the frame of sustainability, including environmental friendliness, durability, adaptability, and reuse of works and/or materials. As such, the book represents an invaluable, up-to-the-minute tool, providing an essential overview of structural concrete, as well as all new materials with cementitious matrices.
This volume collects a selection of contributions which has been presented at the 22nd Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, the yearly meeting of the Italian Society for Neural Networks (SIREN). The conference was held in Italy, Vietri sul Mare (Salerno), during May 17-19, 2012. The annual meeting of SIREN is sponsored by International Neural Network Society (INNS), European Neural Network Society (ENNS) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). The book – as well as the workshop- is organized in three main components, two special sessions and a group of regular sessions featuring different aspects and point of views of artificial neural networks and natural intelligence, also including applications of present compelling interest.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER AWARD NOMINEE "A riveting period puzzler, filled with history, mystery, and romance." —Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series Book 2 in the enthralling Dr. Genevieve Summerford mystery series. As Dr. Genevieve Summerford watches from the docks, the body of a young Italian woman is pulled from the East River, dampening the city's Independence Day festivities. Although the police suspect random violence, when Genevieve is asked to help find another young Italian woman who's gone missing, she wonders if something more sinister might be afoot. Desperate to find the missing woman before she too meets a grisly end, Genevieve must rely on all of her skills as a psychiatrist—both to understand the mind of a cunning predator, and to help the victims he's left behind. But none of her training can prepare her for what happens when she herself is captured, bringing the case much closer to home than she'd ever anticipated.
The story of the false entries, good-faith errors, retractions, and mistakes that occurred during the formation of the Periodic Table of Elements as we know it.
La giovane neuroscienzata Clara De Martini, laureata in psicologia comportamentale ed esperta di psicobiologia, ha costruito la sua carriera sulla convinzione che qualsiasi evento, anche il più incomprensibile, possa avere una spiegazione logica, dimostrabile, scientifica. Quando viene convocata a Trieste per un caso di sospetta possessione e si trova a dover lavorare al fianco di Padre Jacques, un esorcista, dovrà fare appello a tutto il suo bagaglio razionale per non farsi trascinare oltre il limite… Dalla geniale mente di Fabio Guaglione, l’acclamato regista italiano dei successi internazionali Mine e Ride, un nuovo, inquietante titolo che scava nella torbida battaglia tra fede e ragione. In uscita contemporanea con l’omonimo romanzo pubblicato da Harper Collins, prosegue e si alimenta un progetto crossmediale senza precedenti.
Wieder einmal will es Weihnachten werden. Leise rieseln die Schneeflocken auf das festlich herausgeputzte Entenhausen. Plätzchen werden gebacken, Geschenke gekauft und Tannenbäume geschmückt. In reger Geschäftigkeit vergehen die Tage bis zum Fest der Feste wie im Flug. Und ehe man sichs versieht, steht der 24. Dezember vor der Tür. Auch auf einem uns wohlbekannten Bauernhof vor den Toren der Stadt ist alles vorbereitet für den vielleicht schönsten Abend im ganzen Jahr. Die Geschenke sind verpackt, der Tisch ist gedeckt – fehlen nur noch die Gäste. Doch drei Bäume sind auf die Straße gestürzt, die zu Oma Ducks Hof führt. Das Festmahl droht auszufallen. Das wäre das erste Mal, s...