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The sit up test to exhaustion as a test for muscular endurance evaluation

2015

Aims/Hypothesis The aim of this study was to examine the sit up test to exhaustion as a field test for muscular endurance evaluation in a sample of sedentary people of both sexes. Methods A cross-sectional study was performed. Three-hundred-eighty-one participants volunteered for the study (28.5 ± 10.0 years; 168.2 ± 8.9 cm; 65.1 ± 11.1 kg), of which 194 males (27.5 ± 10.2 years; 173.6 ± 7.0 cm; 71.2 ± 5.2 kg) and 187 females (29.6 ± 10.1 years; 162.6 ± 7.1 cm; 58.7 ± 8.9 kg). Each subject voluntarily and randomly performed: a sit up test (SUT), a push up test (PUT), and a free weight squat test (ST), all till exhaustion. A multiple regression analysis was adopted for data analysis. Subsequ…

Assessment; Inter-relation; Normative values; StrengthPercentilemedicine.medical_specialtyCore (anatomy)Multidisciplinarybusiness.industryAssessment; Inter-relation; Normative values; Strength; MultidisciplinaryResearchSit-upNormative valueRegression analysisSquatAssessmentcomputer.software_genreTest (assessment)Inter-relationPush-upNormative valuesLinear regressionPhysical therapyMedicineData miningStrengthbusinesscomputer
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A new hybrid procedure for the definition of seismic vulnerability in Mediterranean cross-border urban areas

2016

Assessment of seismic vulnerability of urban areas provides fundamental information for activities of planning and management of emergencies. The main difficulty encountered when extending vulnerability evaluations to urban contexts is the definition of a framework of assessment appropriate for the specific characteristics of the site and providing reliable results with a reasonable duration of surveys and post-processing of data. The paper proposes a new procedure merging different typologies of information recognized on the territories investigated and for this reason called “hybrid.” Knowledge of historical events influencing urban evolution and analysis of recurrent building technologie…

Atmospheric SciencePeak ground accelerationIndex (economics)Vulnerability indexVulnerability index0211 other engineering and technologiesVulnerability020101 civil engineering02 engineering and technology0201 civil engineeringSeismic riskNatural hazardVulnerability curveEarth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Seismic riskDuration (project management)MasonryWater Science and TechnologyEstimation021110 strategic defence & security studiesPushoverbusiness.industryPGAEnvironmental resource managementVulnerability curvesSettore ICAR/09 - Tecnica Delle CostruzioniMasonry; PGA; Pushover; Seismic risk; Vulnerability curves; Vulnerability index;businessCartographyNatural Hazards
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Evidence of positive tectonic inversion in the north-central sector of the Sicily Channel (Central Mediterranean)

2016

In order to unravel the tectonic evolution of the north-central sector of the Sicily Channel (Central Mediterranean), a seismo-stratigraphic analysis of single- and multi-channel seismic reflection profiles has been carried out. This allowed to identify, between 20 and 50 km offshore the central-southern coast of Sicily, a ~80-km-long deformation belt, characterized by a set of WNW–ESE to NW–SE fault segments showing a poly-phasic activity. Within this belt, we observed: i) Miocene normal faults reactivated during Zanclean–Piacenzian time by dextral strike-slip motion, as a consequence of the Africa–Europe convergence; ii) releasing and restraining bend geometries forming well-developed pul…

Atmospheric SciencePiacenzian010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesSicily ChannelSettore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica E SedimentologicaSettore GEO/03 - Geologia StrutturaleInversion (geology)Structural basin010502 geochemistry & geophysics01 natural sciencesNappePush-up structureCompressive featuresEarth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Tectonic inversionForeland basinStrike-slip motion0105 earth and related environmental sciencesWater Science and TechnologyAnticlinePush-up structuresCompressive featureTectonicsSinistral and dextralCompressive features; Push-up structures; Seismic stratigraphy; Sicily Channel; Strike-slip motion; Tectonic inversion; Water Science and Technology; Atmospheric Science; Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)SeismologyGeologySeismic stratigraphy
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Verso una dimensione narrativa delle mappe

2021

Tra il pensiero e la costruzione dell’architettura il disegno ha un ruolo baricentrico per connettere i diversi protagonisti di una realizzazione e per coinvolgere la collettività facendo percepire inedite prospettive. La scrittura si rivela utile per esplicitare ciò che nella grafica è sotteso e per stabilire un ordine nuovo nel ragionamento progettuale. I rapporti fra segni e significati si moltiplicano nei sistemi informativi recenti in cui si ha la sensazione di poter dire moltissimo (dati numerici e spaziali) ma a volte sfugge quella sintesi indispensabile per una interpretazione concreta, finalizzata alla costruzione di possibili esperienze fisiche. Per l’esplorazione dell’uso di dive…

Between the idea and the construction of the architecture the drawing plays a central role to connect the different protagonists of a project. It involves the community by envisaging unprecedented perspectives. Writing is useful to explicit the graphics and establish a new order in the design reasoning. The relationships between signs and meanings multiply in recent information systems in which it seems possible to conclude a lot (thanks to numerical and spatial data) but sometimes a synthesis is missing though that synthesis is fundamental to create new physical experiences. For the exploration of the use of different architectural languages and for the push towards the project rather than a sterile cataloging the case of the Piano Programma for the historic center of Palermo (Giuseppe Samonà Giancarlo De Carlo Umberto Di Cristina Anna Maria Sciarra Borzí 1979-82) reveals to be ambitious. Giuseppe Samonà integrates the classical representation based on Monge's projections with photographs and iconic drawings associating signs with a linguistic-structural communication capable of expressing the relationships between the parts at the basis of a morphological approach to the plan. The graphic story ("second language") of the urban fabric has creative implications expressed by images and annotations ("first language") useful for decoding them. Since the plan focuses on the potential of a storytelling that orients the imagination of its readers (designers citizens politicians) it can contribute to the study titled "B4R– BRANDING 4 RESILIENCE - Tourist infrastructure as a tool to enhance small villages by drawing resilient communities and new open habitats” as a starting point for the mapping in which GIS analysis and multidisciplinary data (geometric topological and quantitative) relating to some villages of the internal Sicily shall translate into a new architectural urban and landscape quality.Settore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E Urbana
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Effects of different intra canal medicaments on the push out bond strength of endodontic sealers

2016

BACKGROUND One of the essential properties of the root canal sealers is the adhesion to root canal dentin and their higher bond strength decreases the microleakage. The aim of the present study was to compare the effect of Different Intracanal medicaments on the push out bond strength of AH26 and MTA Fillapex sealers. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 104 one-rooted extracted human teeth were divided into 4 (n=26) experimental groups. After the cleaning and shaping, the root canals were filled with Ca(OH)2, triantibiotic paste (TAP), Metapex or 2% chlorhexidine gel for two weeks. Then, intracanal medicaments were rinsed away and the samples in the sub-groups were obturated with gutta-percha a…

Chlorhexidine gelBond strengthbusiness.industryChemistryRoot canalResearchChlorhexidineDentistry030206 dentistry:CIENCIAS MÉDICAS [UNESCO]Operative Dentistry and Endodontics03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinemedicine.anatomical_structureMTA-FillapexPush outUNESCO::CIENCIAS MÉDICASDentinmedicinebusinessGeneral Dentistry030217 neurology & neurosurgerymedicine.drug
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The Minimum Amount of Useful Space: New Results and New Directions

2014

We consider minimal space requirements when using memory with restricted access policy (pushdown - hence giving pushdown automata (PDAs), and counter - hence giving counter automata (CAs)) in connection with two-way and realtime head motion. The main results are that: (i) loglogn is a tight space lower bound for accepting general nonregular languages on weak realtime PDAs, (ii) there exist unary nonregular languages accepted by realtime alternating CAs within weak logn space, (iii) there exist nonregular languages accepted by two-way DPADs within strong loglogn space, and, (iv) there exist unary nonregular languages accepted by two-way CAs with quantum and classical states within middle log…

CombinatoricsDiscrete mathematicsRegular languageUnary operationQuantum registerUnary languagePushdown automatonSpace (mathematics)Upper and lower boundsAutomatonMathematics
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Modular Strategies for Recursive Game Graphs

2006

AbstractMany problems in formal verification and program analysis can be formalized as computing winning strategies for two-player games on graphs. In this paper, we focus on solving games in recursive game graphs which can model the control flow in sequential programs with recursive procedure calls. While such games can be viewed as the pushdown games studied in the literature, the natural notion of winning in our framework requires the strategies to be modular with only local memory; that is, resolution of choices within a module does not depend on the context in which the module is invoked, but only on the history within the current invocation of the module. While reachability in (global…

Computer Science::Computer Science and Game TheoryTheoretical computer scienceGeneral Computer ScienceCombinatorial game theoryContext (language use)02 engineering and technology0102 computer and information sciences01 natural sciencesTheoretical Computer ScienceProgram analysisReachability0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering0101 mathematicsMathematicsbusiness.industry010102 general mathematics020207 software engineeringPushdown systemsResolution (logic)Modular designCall graphUndecidable problemModel-checkingGames in verification010201 computation theory & mathematicsbusinessComputer Science(all)
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Touchless Interfaces For Public Displays

2016

Public displays have lately become ubiquitous thanks to the decreasing cost of such technology and public policies supporting the development of smart cities. Depending on form factor, those displays might use touchless gestural interfaces that therefore are becoming more often the subject of public and private research. In this paper, we focus on touchless interactions with situated public displays, and introduce a pilot study on comparing two interfaces: an interface based on the Microsoft Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), a de facto standard in the field, and a novel interface, designed by us. Differently from the HIG-based one, our interface displays an avatar, which does not require an…

Computer scienceInterface (computing)Public displaysPush-button02 engineering and technologycomputer.software_genreTouchless interfaceGestural inputPublic displayHuman–computer interaction020204 information systemsHuman interface guidelinesUser interface design0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringGestural input; Public displays; Touchless interfaces; User interface design; Software; Human-Computer InteractionAvatarSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniFocus (computing)Multimedia020207 software engineeringUser interface designHuman-Computer InteractionTouchless interfacescomputerSoftwareDe facto standardGestureProceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
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Weak and strong recognition by 2-way randomized automata

1997

Languages weakly recognized by a Monte Carlo 2-way finite automaton with n states are proved to be strongly recognized by a Monte Carlo 2-way finite automaton with no(n) states. This improves dramatically over the previously known result by M.Karpinski and R.Verbeek [10] which is also nontrivial since these languages can be nonregular [5]. For tally languages the increase in the number of states is proved to be only polynomial, and these languages are regular.

Deterministic pushdown automatonCombinatoricsDeterministic automatonProbabilistic automatonPushdown automatonQuantum finite automataBüchi automatonTwo-way deterministic finite automatonNondeterministic finite automatonComputer Science::Computational ComplexityComputer Science::Formal Languages and Automata TheoryMathematics
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Block-Deterministic Regular Languages

2001

We introduce the notions of blocked, block-marked and blockdeterministic regular expressions. We characterize block-deterministic regular expressions with deterministic Glushkov block automata. The results can be viewed as a generalization of the characterization of one-unambiguous regular expressions with deterministic Glushkov automata. In addition, when a language L has a block-deterministic expression E, we can construct a deterministic finite-state automaton for L that has size linear in the size of E.

Deterministic pushdown automatonDiscrete mathematicsDeterministic finite automatonNested wordDeterministic automatonDeterministic context-free grammarQuantum finite automataTwo-way deterministic finite automatonNondeterministic finite automatonComputer Science::Formal Languages and Automata TheoryMathematics
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