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Modelling pavement surface characteristics for noise prediction through Bailey-related indicators
2021
The aggregate gradation of bituminous mixtures (hot mix asphalts, HMA) is one of the major factors affecting their surface texture. In turn, this latter is a crucial factor and influences drivers and bystanders’ safety, comfort, and health. Despite this, the design of texture levels still lacks sound bases and dedicated algorithms and this negatively affects the acoustic design of bituminous mixtures. Consequently, the objectives of this study were confined into the derivation of relationships to be used in mix design to predict texture levels. Experimental data were analyzed, in the pursuit of setting up appropriate models and algorithms. Analyses involved the consideration of Bailey-relat…
The shared project SMART REHABILITATION 3.0 for the EU architectural rehabilitation : examples of enhancement, preservation and intervention for trad…
2022
Sicilian Mountain municipalities and inland areas are the engine for the harmonious development of the entire region. Saving the cultural identity of these places, encouraging entrepreneurial activity, optimizing the network of services, especially in education and healthcare, is an act due to the new generations. This article wants to stimulate the creation of a strong constructive-cultural identity in resident citizenship and to hypothesis communication strategies which are useful for the enhancement of cultural resources and also of compatible technological & sustainable innovation. To this challenge is associated the shared creation - through the European Erasmus+ Project Smart Reha…
Pyrolysed cork-geopolymer composites: A novel and sustainable EMI shielding building material
2019
Abstract In this investigation, and for the first time, pyrolysed sustainable cork was used to produce waste-based geopolymer-cork composites with enhanced electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding properties. The influence of the pyrolysed cork amount and the geopolymer porosity on the EMI shielding ability of the composites was studied. The maximum total shielding effectiveness (SET) values achieved by these novel building materials (−13.8 to −15.9 dB) are equal to any other reported geopolymer microwave (MW) absorbers over the X-band, despite containing much lower carbon content. In addition, our composites were produced using an industrial waste (biomass fly ash) as raw material and …
Succeeding with Building Information Modeling: A Case Study of BIM Diffusion in a Healthcare Construction Project
2014
Technological innovations such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) offer opportunities to improve collaborative work and integration in the architecture, engineering and construction industry. However, research to date has documented how many organizations struggle with how to work based on this new technology, and many implementations fail. In this paper we present a case study of a major healthcare construction project in which the use of BIM was paramount, and where designers claim to have succeeded in integrated design. The designers organized their digital collaboration by establishing 1) change agents; 2) a cloud computing infrastructure; 3) new roles and responsibilities; 4) BIM c…
Rinnakkaislaskentamallien arviointi : Intel Threading Building Blocks
2013
Moniydinprosessoreiden ollessa jo normi on rinnakkaislaskennasta tullut arkipäivää yhä useammalle ohjelmoijalle. Rinnakkaislaskenta on hankalaa hahmottaa ja toteuttaa, joten tarvitaan uusia korkeamman abstraktiotason rinnakkaislaskentamalleja tukemaan rinnakkaislaskennan yleistymistä. Tässä tutkielmassa luomme mallin rinnakkaislaskentamallien arviointiin kahdeksasta eri näkökulmasta. Sen jälkeen tutustumme Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) -rinnakkaistuskirjastoon, joka lupaa tehdä rinnakkaislaskennan toteuttamisesta helpompaa siirtämällä rinnakkaistuksen perusmekanismeja pois ohjelmoijan vastuulta. Lopuksi arvioimme TBB:tä aiemmin luomamme mallin pohjalta. Toteamme, että TBB täyttää hy…
Machine learning techniques to estimate the degree of binder activity of reclaimed asphalt pavement
2022
Part of this research was funded by the project RTI2018-096224-J-I00 that has been cofounded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, inside the National Program for Fostering Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research, National Subprogram of Knowledge Generation, 2018 call, in the framework of the Spanish National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017-2020, and by the European Union, through the European Regional Development Fund, with the main objective of Promoting technological development, innovation and quality research. Part of this work was financially supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research with the research Grant PRIN 20…
Early-design improvement of human reliability in an experimental facility: A combined approach and application on SPES
2019
Abstract SPES (Selective Production of Exotic Species) is a second-generation Isotope Separation On-Line (ISOL) facility for advanced nuclear physics applications, currently under construction at INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) of Legnaro, Italy. Despite the potentially important safety implications of human errors for ISOL facilities, only a limited number of studies addressing this issue have been performed worldwide. This paper tries to address this need by means of an integrated approach of Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) and three human error quantification methods: HEART (in an enhanced version), SPAR-H, and CREAM. The application of multiple Human Reliability Analysis (…
Automated Procedures Based on Market Comparison Approach in Italy
2017
The question about objective valuation is linked on the one hand to the identification of a large number of reliable sale data, on the other hand to the ability to control the critical evaluation protocol. Automating the valuation process, ensured by computerization of real estate data properly detected, provides a concrete answer to the problem of objectivity, allowing a significant control of the subjective component which characterizes the more traditional appraisals. Automatic methods traditionally proposed at international level are often set on multiple regression models, designed to build prediction functions that are valid throughout the study area, calibrating the coefficients on t…
Language and Long Nation Building in Finnish Higher Education
2020
The chapter discusses the nation-building period of Finnish higher education. After presenting a short introduction to higher education and language policy developments in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, I will analyse the role of language in Finnish higher education from mid-nineteenth century to Finnish independence in 1917. I will then move on to the interwar years and discuss language and nationalisms in the process of founding new universities and the particular case of the bilingual University of Helsinki in the 1920s and 1930s. The interweaved nature of nationalisms and internationalisms is discussed from the perspective of international politics in general and the post…
The Commission’s informal agenda-setting in the CFSP. Agenda leadership, coalition-building, and community framing
2020
This study contributes to the literature on informal governance by examining politics of informal agenda-setting in the European Commission. As a ‘hard case’, the paper examines how the European Commission exceeds limited legal Treaty provisions in foreign and security policy (CFSP). This system, where the Commission has come to play a more prominent role than stipulated in the treaties, is interpreted as a normalization of CFSP governance. Three complementary propositions on the informal agenda-setting role of the Commission are developed: agenda leadership (#1), coalition-building (#2), and community framing (#3). To illuminate these propositions, we examine their relevance across three e…