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Analysis of the first urban regeneration area in Kocaeli after Gölcük earthquake by using zoning plans
Get PDFRapidly growing cities following The Industrial Revolution
remained insufficient to fulfill today’s necessities. Also,
natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods or unsound
structures have affected the development of cities
adversely. Although natural disasters can be unpredictable,
the issue of preparing cities for natural disasters, planning
cities and regulating laws accordingly are becoming
increasingly crucial. Urban regeneration activities are one
of these preventions taken in this purpose. It is observed
that countries such as Turkey, faced with natural disasters
intensively, suffer from serious physical, financial and
moral losses. Therefore, urban renewal activities have
gained importance in Turkey after The Gölcük Earthquake
(7.4Mw) and The Düzce Earthquake (7.2Mw) in 1999. The
first urban regeneration project in Kocaeli where was one of
the cities experiencing hard collapses of these earthquakes
is about to be completed. Research of the principles of
urban sustainability and resiliency in urban regeneration
practices, which are priority issues due to natural disaster
risks, has come into prominence. It is important not only
to make urban areas more resistant to disasters but also to
design according to social, economic and ecological criteria
to make more livable. In this study, social, health, green,
transportation and educational areas of the first urban
regeneration area in Kocaeli were examined in terms of
the basic needs of the city. For this purpose, pre and postproject
zoning plans are analyzed and transferred to the
GIS. The areal changes in the above-mentioned needs
are evaluated for changing population density and their
sufficiencies are compared
ART4SOS - Terminale remoto per il sistema di osservazione dei sensori
Get PDFNell’era dell’Internet degli oggetti (IoT), dove ogni giorno si diffonde la disponibilità della connettività dati e dei dispositivi intelligenti, la capacità di acquisire i dati dei sensori attraverso una soluzione semplice, economica ed efficiente in grado di utilizzare lo standard affermato per l’osservazione dei sensori, è un fattore di promozione per la creazione collaborativa di una serie di dati secondo la filosofia Open Data. Questa impostazione è particolarmente adatta al monitoraggio ambientale attraverso la misurazione ripetitiva di parametri fisici e chimici. Questo rapporto tecnico presenta una nuova soluzione software
per l’acquisizione dei dati basata su un terminale Raspberry PI dotato di un sensore termico e connettività dati a livello di sistema. Sfrutta le funzionalità standard del Sensor Observation Service (SOS)come il modello di dati, i formati di comunicazione e assume la disponibilità di un server SOS per archiviare i dati, e un implementazione open source da 52° North come servizio remoto
Victimización y desvictimización en el Derecho penal del riesgo: un planteamiento victimológico en el ámbito de los “delitos sin víctima”
Get PDFIn spite of the aggressiveness inherent in modern post-industrial society, contemporary criminal policy has given little or no attention to the problem of diffuse victimization in crimes against collective interests. The consequences of this form of criminality, such as social insecurity and harm to public health, call for a firmer stance towards the promotion of measures of devictimization and the prevention of revictimization. A victimological approach should consider diffuse victimization and the identification of real victims as a basis for the promotion of measures involving public assistance and material, medical, psychological and social reparations. The present article intends to awake interest in this realm of contemporary victimology, with reference to both Spanish Criminal Law and International Criminal Law
Timescales and radial lengthscales of quasi-periodic density structures observed by the Helios probes
Get PDFQuasi-periodic density structures are important mesoscale structures that constitute the slow solar wind. The associated periodicities play a fundamental role in the understanding of the release processes of solar coronal plasma and provide important constraints on models trying to understand the origin of the slow solar wind. However, observational restrictions have limited their study to coronagraph images near the Sun and in situ measurements at 1 AU, preventing a clear connection between in situ structures to their coronal sources. A first step toward a better understanding of this problem is the analysis of Helios measurements to probe the solar wind between 0.3 and 0.6 AU. Three instances of quasi-periodic density structures have been identified showing characteristic timescales of ≈31-33 minutes and ≈112-120 minutes. Using the mean radial bulk speed corresponding to the time intervals of the structures, the related radial lengthscales are derived showing a characteristic value of ≈120-150 RE
AntarctiCor: Solar Coronagraph in Antarctica for the ESCAPE Project
Get PDFThe Antarctica solar coronagraph –AntarctiCor– for the “Extreme Solar Coronagraphy Antarctic Program Experiment” –ESCAPE– comprises an internally-occulted coronagraph based on the externally-occulted ASPIICS coronagraph for the ESA formation-flying PROBA-3 mission. This paper describes the AntarctiCor design for ground-based observations from the DomeC Antarctica plateau of the polarized broad-band (591 nm ± 5 nm) K-corona and of the narrowband (FWHM = 0.5 nm), polarized emission of the coronal green-line at 530.3 nm. The science goal of these observations is to map the topology and dynamics of the coronal magnetic field, addressing coronal heating and space weather questions
Active Region evolution prior to magnetic flux rope ejections
Get PDFMagnetic flux rope ejections from the Sun are the main progenitors of Coronal Mass Ejections and thus driver of the Space Weather. To study and understand these phenomena is key to tackle the challenges of Space Weather and to do so we need tools to identify where and when magnetic flux ropes are ejected. We run a non-linear force-free field magnetofrictional simulation of the active region AR11261 over the two days prior to an observed magnetic flux rope ejection. We analyse the distribution of three quantities from the numerical model at the time of the flux rope ejections and we verify that in this application they highlight the location where the flux rope ejection originates
Measuring the 2D distribution of the expansion speed of solar eruptions: A first test based on synthetic coronagraphic data
Get PDFThe determination of the propagation speed of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) is usually done by tracking the motion of isolated brighter parcels of plasma embedded in the body of the eruption in coronagraphic and heliospheric imagers. In this work we explore the possibility to derive the 2D map of the instantaneous velocity distribution in the body of a CME. To this end, in this first test we analysed synthetic coronagraphic observations, to compare the derived CME speed with the expanding speed of the simulated eruption. First results are presented here
Galactic cosmic-ray flux short-term variations and associated interplanetary structures with LISA Pathfinder
Get PDFThe European Space Agency LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission orbited around the Sun-Earth first Lagrangian point L1 between January 2016 and July 2017. A particle detector aboard LPF allowed for galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) integral flux measurements above 70 MeV n−1 between 2016 February 18 and 2017 July 3 during the descending phase of the present solar cycle N. 24, which is characterized by a positive polarity period. The statistical uncertainty on hourly-averaged GCR countings was of 1%. The characteristics of recurrent and non-recurrent GCR flux short-term variations observed with LPF are reported here. In particular, it is focused on GCR flux variation profiles and their association with the passage of large-scale interplanetary structures. Forbush decrease observations and geomagnetic storm occurrence during LPF are also briefly discussed
Gamma beam collimation and characterization system for ELI-NP-GBS
Get PDFELI-NP-GBS is a gamma source based on inverse Compton interaction that will provide photons with tunable average energy ranging from 0.2 to 19.5 MeV, energy bandwidth down to 0.5% and average flux of about 108 photons/s in ultra-short pulses. Given these challenging characteristics, dedicated devices and techniques were developed to measure and monitor the gamma beam parameters during the commissioning and the operational phase. Futhermore an adjustable collimation system was developed to fulfill the beam monochromaticity requirement. The gamma beam characterization and collimation apparatus, currently assembled and under test at INFN-Ferrara laboratories, is described in this work
SPES, the LNL exotic beam ISOL facility
Get PDFA new facility is being constructed at the Legnaro National Laboratory of INFN, devoted to the production of exotic beams (RIBs), mostly neutronrich, through the production of fission fragments (1013 fiss/s) by an intense proton beam (200 μA) on a direct UCx target. However, a larger beam typology will be available, developing and using several other targets. Therefore, in the forthcoming years forefront research in nuclear structure and dynamics will be carried on, studying the Terra Incognita in the chart of nuclides, far from the β-stability valley. Characterized by high intensities, high quality and maximum available energies (up to 11 MeV/n for A�130) of beams, through a coordinated effort dedicated to the developments and upgrading of both the accelerator complex and of up-to-date experimental set-ups, SPES will be operated as a modern and high performing facility