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Sebastiano Serlio e la Sicilia. Modelli per porte e finestre
2013
Serlio and Sicily. Models for Portals and Windows. More than once historiography has highlighted the role played in Sicilian architecture by Sebastiano Serlio's books. We deal with a clear phenomenon wich is recognizable in many outlines, sometimes in early cases. The spread of these books was synchronous and encompassed the whole half of the 16th century. It seem, from the architectural rsults, that a greater success was obtained by the Libri III and IV, and by the Extraordinario. Withing few decades, many workshop in all Sicily began to reproduced architectural elements based on them; above all gates and windows (the series of works here displayed represents just a selection). The fortune…
An integrated fuzzy-stochastic model for revenue management: The hospitality industry case
2016
Revenue management aims at improving the performance of an organization by selling the right product/service to the right customer at the right time. This task is very dependent on uncontrollable external factors. In the hospitality industry, rooms of the hotel represent perishable assets and fixed capacities at the same time. Therefore, in the case of a stochastic process for customers calling in reservations prior to a particular booking date, a common problem for hotels is to devise a policy for maximizing the total expected profit conditional on the set of bookings. We propose a fuzzy model for the hotel revenue management under an uncertain and vague environment. Fuzziness of objectiv…
Stochastic Fatigue Models for Efficient Planning Inspections in Service of Aircraft Structures
2008
For important fatigue-sensitive structures of aircraft whose breakdowns cause serious accidents, it is required to keep their reliability extremely high. In this paper, we discuss inspection strategies for such important structures against fatigue failure. The focus is on the case when there are fatiguecracks unexpectedly detected in a fleet of aircraft within a warranty period (prior to the first inspection). The paper examines this case and proposes stochastic models for prediction of fatigue-crack growth to determine appropriate inspections intervals. We also do not assume known parameters of the underlying distributions, and the estimation of that is incorporated into the analysis and d…
A model of the filling process of an intermittent distribution network
2010
In many countries, private tanks are acquired by users to reduce their vulnerability to intermittent supply. The presence of these local reservoirs modifies the user demand pattern and usually increases user water demand at the beginning of the service period depending on the tank filling process. This practice is thus responsible for the inequality that occurs among users: those located in advantaged positions of the network are able to obtain water resources soon after the service period begins, while disadvantaged users have to wait much longer, after the network is full. This dynamic process requires the development of ad hoc models in order to obtain reliable results. This paper discus…
DEVELOPMENT OF AN OLIVE PHENOLOGICAL MODEL IN RELATION TO AIR TEMPERATURE
2008
The effect of air temperature on olive phenological development has not been extensively studied. Indirectly related data are available, mostly from air pollen concentration measurements rather than direct observation of phenological stages. Data on phenological stages of olive collected in Sicily, by the Sicilian Agrometeorological Service (SIAS), in 10 locations characterized by different climatic conditions were used to develop and calibrate a phenological model for the most important developmental stages in olive. Phenological stages under study were: bud break, inflorescence emission, and full bloom A base-temperature linear model was developed by choosing a temperature threshold using…
Misura e Modellazione degli Scambi Idrici nel Sistema Continuo SPA e approfondimenti sulle Funzioni di Stress Idrico: Applicazione alla coltura dell’…
2010
Gli effetti negativi dovuti ai periodi di aridità che caratterizzano i Paesi del bacino del Mediterraneo (Rebetez et al. 2006) determinano nel suolo una ridotta disponibilità di acqua per le piante e quindi l’insorgenza inevitabile di una forma importante di stress abiotico (Nielsen et al., 1996). In particolare, nel bacino del Mediterraneo l'aridità ambientale viene ancor più accentuata da fattori climatici poiché, in corrispondenza del periodo estivo, alle scarse o assenti precipitazioni sono associate elevate temperature che si traducono in un aumento della domanda evapotraspirativa dell’atmosfera. Tali effetti sono più marcati nelle regioni semiaride del bacino del Mediterraneo e più in…
CARATTERIZZAZIONE CLIMATICA E COMPORTAMENTO FENOLOGICO DI GENOTIPI LOCALI DI PESCO NELL’ALTOPIANO DI UDZUNGWA IN TANZANIA
2012
La coltivazione del pesco nell’altopiano di Udzungwa in Tanzania risale agli inizi del XX secolo e ancora oggi rappresenta un'opportunità per aumentare l’apporto nutritivo alla popolazione locale. Questo studio preliminare mira a caratterizzare la climatologia del luogo in rapporto al comportamento fenologico di genotipi locali derivati da vecchie cultivar di pesco europee. Le osservazioni fenologiche sono state condotte nel settembre 2010 e a luglio-agosto 2011 su alberi di pesco appartenenti a un genotipo precoce e a uno tardivo. I dati di temperatura sono stati ricostruiti e utilizzati per stimare l’accumulo di freddo mediante tre modelli fenoclimatici: Utah, Mean Temperature e Dinamico.…