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Three Projects for Council Houses by Lina Bo Bardi: from Virtual Reconstruction to Graphical Analysis

2018

The paper deals with the studies conducted in 1951 in Brazil by Lina Bo Bardi on the issue of council houses. The three examples were never realised but do help to describe the intention of the architect to promote a “rational” way of living, from a small house to an urban complex. The first project concerns a small house with a close relationship between architecture and nature. The second project concerns three housing units that embody the idea of the housing cell as a constituent piece of a community. The housing typologies to which the architect has referred are: the indigenous maloca, a community house used by the Amazon natives; the Italian peasant house with its living room; and the…

Propaganda grafico-persuasiva. Segni, forme, sguardi

2019

A partire da una ricognizione iconografica di alcune delle trasformazioni sociali che nella storia del XX secolo hanno intravisto nel poster un mezzo di comunicazione e nell’immagine un dispositivo per l’informazione capillare, il saggio mira ad approfondire le forme assunte dalle ideologie storiche nei poster di propaganda, le metafore grafiche adottate per divulgare il messaggio e le tecniche persuasive per diffonderne i valori. Non si tratta di una classificazione iconografica strutturata per artista o per periodo storico, ma di un’analisi sull’individuazione di un comune linguaggio per la rappresentazione delle ideologie politiche che in particolari momenti storici si sono intrecciate c…

Architettura barocca nella Sicilia orientale e progettazione del restauro: la conservazione della facciata della Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Stelle a…

2010

La tavola mostra alcuni elaborati estratti dal progetto di restauro della chiesa di Santa Maria delle Stelle a Comiso (RG), uno degli esempi più rappresentativi d'architettura barocca nella Sicilia orientale.

Graph-based minimal path tracking in the skeleton of the retinal vascular network

2012

This paper presents a semi-automatic framework for minimal path tracking in the skeleton of the retinal vascular network. The method is based on the graph structure of the vessel network. The vascular network is represented based on the skeleton of the available segmented vessels and using an undirected graph. Significant points on the skeleton are considered nodes of the graph, while the edge of the graph is represented by the vessel segment linking two neighboring nodes. The graph is represented then in the form of a connectivity matrix, using a novel method for defining vertex connectivity. Dijkstra and Floyd-Warshall algorithms are applied for detection of minimal paths within the graph…

Shape analysis for image retrieval

1994

The main aim of this paper is to describe a method for locating a subimage of a stored image that approximately matches a given query image. This matching can support naive users in accessing an image database according to image contents rather symbolic attributes. The query image can be either composed using painting tools or cuts out of an actual scanned image. Our method is based on the extraction of features from the query image and from the stored images. The following three steps are involved: (l) an ISODATA algorithm is applied to segment (into region) both the query image and the stored images; (2) the normalized moment and geometrica! features are computed from the segmented region…

Wet electrospinning-aided self-assembly of multifunctional GO-CNT@PCL core-shell nanocomposites with spider leg bioinspired hierarchical architectures

2022

We report a fast route enabling the multiscale design of nanohybrid structures comprising a 3D fibrous network of polycaprolactone (PCL) wrapped by graphene oxide (GO) sheets onto which carbon nanotube (CNT) brushes are anchored. The method relies on electrospinning PCL solutions onto a suspension of GO and CNTs in ethanol. Self-assembly is due to electrostatic wrapping of GO sheets around PCL fibers and 7C-7C stacking between GO and CNTs. Hierarchical architecture and nanopatterned surface allow gathering the starting properties of PCL, GO and CNTs into lightweight (99% porosity) yet robust (1575% stiffness improvement), amphiphilic monoliths that can remove methylene blue and/or methyl or…

Nanocomposites of epoxy resin with graphene nanoplates and exfoliated graphite: Synthesis and electrical properties

2014

Nanocomposites are nowadays one of the most promising materials. Among different fillers, e.g. carbon nanotubes and silicon carbide nanowires (NWSiC), already used with epoxy resin matrices, graphene exfoliated graphite (EG) and graphene nanoplates have some characteristics that make them unique for electromagnetic shielding materials. However, there is still an unresolved problem of proper dispersion that will ensure the homogeneity of samples. To overcome this drawback, inorganic fibres were proposed. An amount of 0.25 phr (parts per hundred; filler content presented as wt.% of the whole polymeric matrix) NWSiC, added to the EG 1 phr/epoxy resin sample, efficiently prevents filler agglome…

FABBRICAZIONE DI SENSORI ELETTROCHIMICI NANOSTRUTTURATI PER APPLICAZIONI NELL’INDUSTRIA ALIMENTARE E BIOMEDICHE

2023

DOPAMINE ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR BASED ON REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE AND METAL NANOPARTICLES

2019

Dopamine (DA) is one of the most important neurotransmitters released from the brain, and is involved in many different biological processes. This neurotransmitter influences the processes that involve memory, sleep, mood, learning, and so on. Besides, in the last years, dopamine concentration in human body fluids has been related to some neurodegenerative pathologies, such as Parkinson and Alzheimer’s diseases [1]. It is well known that these pathologies are due to the formation of amyloids plaques that block part of the brain. Many literature data reports that DAergic neurons (areas of midbrain where DA is synthesized) shows a different activity when amyloid plaques are present with a con…

Phosphate ions detection by using an electrochemical sensor based on laser-scribed graphene oxide on paper

2023

In this work, electrodes based on laser-scribed reduced graphene oxide were fabricated using filter paper as the substrate. To fabricate the electrodes, a water suspension of graphene oxide was filtered to produce a continuous and uniform film of graphene oxide on the filter paper surface. Subsequently, a CO2 laser was used to "write" the working, counter and reference eelctroes by reducing graphene oxide in specific areas to define complete sensors. Referecnce electrodes were then coated with a commercial Ag/AgCl conductive paste to produce a quasi Ag/AgCl reference. As fabricated devices were employed as electrochemical sensors for detection of phosphate ions in water by employing the mol…