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Assessment of contamination of <em>Salmonella</em> spp. in imported black pepper and sesame seed and salmonella inactivation by gamma irr…
2021
This study shows the frequency of seeds samples contaminated by Salmonella spp. collected randomly from local markets; on 30 black pepper sample no contaminated sample was found while Salmonella spp. was detected in 3 of 36 (8.3%) analyzed sesame samples; three different serotypes were identified: S. Montevideo, S. Stanleyville e S. Tilene. The efficacy of gamma irradiation to inactivate Salmonella Montevideo in black pepper and sesame irradiated between 1 and 5 kGy was evaluated. 3 kGy is sufficient to reduce of 3-4 log CFU/g; whereas 5 kGy have been need to reduce 5.5-6 log CFU/g for samples of black pepper and sesame. No statistically significant differences were found between black pepp…
San Giuseppe. Una festa di capodanno
2012
La festa di san Giuseppe presenta strutture iterative e simboli rituali che ne denunziano il suo carattere di festa di capodanno. Tale funzione rifondativa del cosmo naturale e sociale è ancora ben leggibile in diversi contesti siciliani.
Adaptive Control Design for Underactuated Cranes With Guaranteed Transient Performance: Theoretical Design and Experimental Verification
2022
For antiswing control of underactuated cranes, how to guarantee the converging speed of cranes through control design is essential but still remains unsolved. In this paper, the adaptive antiswing control for underactuated gantry cranes with guaranteed transient performance under unmodeled dynamics and external disturbances is investigated. To sovle this problem, a set of filters are proposed to make the backstepping technique applicable for the control of crane systems. Then through variable transformation the position error and swing angel could be guaranteed converging to the origin with a given exponential speed. Hardware experiments are conducted to show that the proposed scheme achiev…
Adaptive backstepping based consensus tracking of uncertain nonlinear systems with event-triggered communication
2021
Abstract This paper investigates the consensus tracking problem for a class of uncertain high-order nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties and event-triggered communication. Under a directed communication condition, a totally distributed adaptive backstepping based control scheme is presented. Specifically, a decentralized triggering condition is adopted in this paper such that continuous monitoring of neighboring states, as required in some existing results, can be avoided. Besides, to handle the non-differentiability problem of virtual controllers, which arises from the utilization of neighboring states collected only at the triggering instants, the virtual controllers in each re…
Approximation-based adaptive tracking control of stochastic nonlinear systems with a general form
2014
In this paper, an approximation-based adaptive tracking control scheme is proposed for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems with a more general structure. Fuzzy logical systems are used to approximate unknown nonlinearities in the controller design procedure and the backstepping technique is utilized to construct a state-feedback adaptive controller. The proposed controller can guarantee that all the signals in the closed-loop system are fourth-moment semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded and the tracking error eventually converges to a small neighborhood around the origin. Simulation results are used to show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
Giuseppe Ricca Salerno
2013
Scienza delle finanze
La statua della Augusta Regina by Giuseppe Valenti in Valletta
2022
The aim of this paper is for it to be a tribute to Queen Victoria through her monument in Valletta (1887-1891) by the sculptor Giuseppe Valenti from Palermo
La scuola di architettura di Palermo, 1779-1865
2007
Il quadro culturale, sociale e politico di Palermo tra la fine del Settecento e gli inizi dell’Ottocento non appare favorevole alla formazione di una scuola di architettura e, più in generale, alla nascita dell’istituzione universitaria. La tentazione è quella di rappresentare la città isolata culturalmente, retriva ad ogni forma di rinnovamento, vessata dal malgoverno borbonico che controlla e reprime il libero pensiero dei pochi intellettuali sfuggiti all’esilio ed è ostile a qualunque iniziativa segnata da una seppur minima connotazione liberale. È la tipica visione storica, consolidata dall’abitudine nell’iterare luoghi comuni, sebbene non privi di fondamento, che vogliono la Sicilia et…
Effetti dei diradamenti sulle caratteristiche ecologiche e selvicolturali dei rimboschimenti di pino d’Aleppo nei Monti Sicani (Sicilia occidentale)
2014
I rimboschimenti di conifere mediterranee sono, in Sicilia, una delle tipologie forestali più rappresentative, sia per la superficie che occupano sia per l’eterogeneità ambientale dei contesti territoriali dove sono stati realizzati. Scopo principale della presente indagine è stato quello di effettuare una valutazione degli impatti dei diradamenti sulle caratteristiche ecologiche e selvicolturali dei rimboschimenti di pino d’Aleppo. L’indagine è stata condotta in tre differenti siti localizzati nell’area dei Monti Sicani caratterizzati dalla stessa tipologia forestale (Pineta a pino d’Aleppo) e da simili caratteristiche stazionali. Inoltre, tutti e tre i siti sono stati interessati da inter…
Investigations on Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae): larval infestation on the tomato cultivated in open field and evaluation of five essentia…
2019
Abstract The tomato miner Tuta absoluta Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is a Neotropical species, which cause serious damages to tomato in spread areas. It appeared in 2008 in Italy, where it seriously threatened tomato production both in greenhouse and open field cultivations. In this work a study on infestation by this leafminer on leaves was conducted in an organic cultivation of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) "Pizzutello" variety in Sicily (Italy), and the insecticidal activity of 5 essential oils (EOs) on T. absoluta was evaluated in laboratory. EOs of basil, cypress, laurel, peppermint and Spanish oregano were used against 3rd- and 4th-instar larvae to assess contact effect…