75 research outputs found
Testare il Modello Standard con misure di precisione del sapore tramite l'esperimento di ATLAS
No full textATLAS è uno dei principali esperimenti al Large Hadron Collider (LHC), situato al CERN, in Svizzera. In tredici anni, ATLAS ha ottenuto notevoli risultati, tra cui la scoperta del Bosone di Higgs nel 2012, ma il Modello Standard è ancora oggetto di studio. In quest'ottica, il riconoscimento del sapore dei quark ha un ruolo importante per identificare processi interessanti. In questa tesi, la misura del bosone W prodotto in associazione con un quark charm è l'argomento principe. In questa analisi, la determinazione del sapore dello charm e del quark strange nel protone, da cui deriva la produzione del W e dello charm, sono di fondamentale importanza, sia per la misura della sezione d'urto, sia per migliorare la precisione sulla strange distribution function. In questa tesi, verranno esposte tutte le tecniche di analisi sviluppate per la misura del processo, riportando i risultati finali della sezione d'urto differenziale e totale con relative incertezze statistiche e sistematiche. La seconda parte del lavoro di dottorato concerne la problematica di riconoscimento di un singoletto di colore, come il bosone di Higgs, da un'altra configurazione, come un gluone, sfruttando la definizione di variabili sensibili al colore, a partire dall'identificazione del sapore di due b-quark. In questa tesi verranno esposti i risultati promettenti, i quali sono stati pubblicati in un articolo.ATLAS is one of the main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at CERN, Switzerland. In thirteen years, ATLAS has achieved notable results, including the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, but the Standard Model is still under study. From this perspective, the recognition of quark flavour plays an important role in identifying interesting processes. In this thesis, the measurement of the W boson produced in association with a charm quark is the main topic. In this analysis, the determination of the flavour of the charm and the strange quark in the proton, from which the production of the W and the charm derives, are of fundamental importance, both for the measurement of the cross section and for improving the precision on the strange distribution function. In this thesis, all the analysis techniques developed for measuring the process will be exposed, reporting the final results of the differential and total cross section with related statistical and systematic uncertainties. The second part of the doctoral work concerns the problem of recognising a color singlet, such as the Higgs boson, from another configuration, such as a gluon, exploiting the definition of color-sensitive variables, starting from the identification of the flavour of two b-quarks. In this thesis the promising results will be exposed, which have been published in an article
Advanced management for resilient and sustainable Multi-Energy Systems
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L’“etimologia”, la “coscienza linguistica" e quella del linguista (prima parte). A proposito di macularità e circolarità in “Omero”
No full textIl presente lavoro costituisce la replica (in una sua prima parte) a una rassegna di alcuni articoli uscita su una rivista di glottologia ad opera di un autore poi deceduto. Forti delle autorevoli osservazioni messe a disposizione, nella replica si conferma la validità delle tesi sostenute negli articoli oggetto della rassegna stessa.This contribution constitutes the reply (in a first part) to a review of some articles published in a journal of historical linguistics by an author who died shortly thereafter. Strengthened by the authoritative observations made available, in the present reply we confirm the validity of the theses sustained in the articles object of the review itself
Salvaguardia della biodiversità vegetale: il lampascione [Muscari comosum var. comosum (L.) Miller], una specie da valorizzare
No full textA review on multi energy systems modelling and optimization
No full textOver the past decade, energy systems for the combined management of power vectors have been attracted the
attention of the scientific community. Most of the published works aim at finding optimal design and operations
of Multi Energy Systems (MES). In these works, the basic structure and assumptions of the formulation are often
taken for granted. Consequently, approaching MESs for the first time, understanding how to guarantee the
desired optimization detail with proper computational expenses, is a challenging and time-consuming task. The
present work presents a novel approach to the analysis of the MES literature, since it is devoted to guide a
practical development of MES optimization. Through the discussion of six case studies, the mathematical
formulation is presented to provide a clear reference to build the model. Emphasis is placed on how the aspects
investigated can change the nature of the problem and the choice of the solvers for the process execution. For
each of these aspects, a literature review to identify and discuss the main proposals for its implementation is
presented. Finally, a great attention is posed on the inclusion of thermal networks and storage in the optimization
of multi-energy systems, discussing the different approaches used in the literature
A Relational Unsupervised Approach to Author Identification
No full textIn the last decades speaking and writing habits have changed.
Many works faced the author identification task by exploiting frequencybased
approaches, numeric techniques or writing style analysis. Following
the last approach we propose a technique for author identification
based on First-Order Logic. Specifically, we translate the complex data
represented by natural language text to complex (relational) patterns
that represent the writing style of an author. Then, we model an author
as the result of clustering the relational descriptions associated to the
sentences. The underlying idea is that such a model can express the typical
way in which an author composes the sentences in his writings. So,
if we can map such writing habits from the unknown-author model to
the known-author model, we can conclude that the author is the same.
Preliminary results are promising and the approach seems viable in real
contexts since it does not need a training phase and performs well also
with short texts
Optimal Integration of Renewable Sources and Latent Heat Storages for Residential Application
No full textGiven the large amount of energy required in the building sector, an interesting opportunity to reach future sustainable energy systems is the path towards low energy buildings. This work proposes an approach for optimally integrating building-scale energy technologies (both traditional and renewable) to enhance the transformation of the existing buildings (often energetically inefficient) in low-carbon systems. The approach promotes a transition sustainable from both the economic and environmental perspectives. Both operation and design optimization are considered with the aim of suggesting the best set of capacity of the technologies to be installed taking into account the expected operations. The building-scale technologies are integrated with proper storage units: Li-ion batteries and thermal storage (latent heat, that requires low installation space). As a dispatchable renewable technology, a biogas small-scale combined heat and power unit is included in the system. Once the key role played by this component in meeting the loads is proved, an analysis of the impact of the cost of the primary energy carrier of this technology on the system design is carried out. Two optimization approaches have been adopted (both based on non-linear programming). Results show that operation costs can be reduced by up to 29%. The adoption of a combined approach that takes into account both operation and design optimization lead to a reduction in installation and operating costs by up to 27%. In the analyzed cases, the use of the combined optimization confirms that latent heat storage is more suitable to be installed than electric storage (about −4.5% cost)
Caratterizzazione qualitativa di bulbi di Muscari comosum var. comosum L..
No full textLe esigenze salutistico-nutrizionali dei consumatori nonchè il bisogno di una identificazione nella storia, cultura e tradizione di un territorio sono notevolmente aumentati negli ultimi decenni. Il consumo di specie spontanee, come il Lambascione (o Lampascione) (Muscari comosum var. comosum), è in continua crescita, soprattutto in virtù della tipicità legata alla tradizione nell’utilizzazione culinaria di questo prodotto. Il lambascione è una specie appartenente alla famiglia delle Liliaceae, nota sin dall’antichità, un tempo ampiamente diffuso in Puglia nelle zone incolte; recentemente esperienze di coltivazione stanno interessando il territorio costiero della Capitanata, caratterizzato da terreni leggeri, vocato alla coltivazione di specie orticole da organi sotterranei (carote, bulbose come cipolla e aglio).
La parte edule è rappresentata dal bulbo, particolarmente apprezzato per il caratteristico sapore amarognolo, utilizzato cotto come pietanza invernale, e sottoforma di conserva durante tutto l’anno.
Evidenze sperimentali reperibili in letteratura, sia pur scarse e poco recenti, hanno messo in evidenza interesanti proprietà nutrizionali di questi bulbi (elevati livelli di glucosidi e composti fenolici, basso contenuto di ossalati). A sostegno di un processo di valorizzazione di questa specie esempio della biodiversità vegetale pugliese, è stato condotto un lavoro preliminare di caratterizzazione morfo-qualitativa del bulbo attraverso la determinazione di sostanza bioattive con effetti sulla salute e sul benessere del consumatore (sostanza secca, fibra alimentare, vitamina C, contenuto di fenoli totali)
Uric acid lowering for slowing CKD progression after the CKD-FIX trial: a solved question or still a dilemma?
No full textHyperuricemia has been associated with several cardiovascular risk factors and is a well-known predictor of kidney disease. In vitro studies as well as animal models highlighted a role for uric acid in the development and progression of haemodynamic and tissue damage at the renal level leading to glomerular and tubulointerstitial abnormalities. Urate-lowering treatment, especially by xanthine oxidase inhibitors, has been proposed in order to improve kidney outcomes. However, recent randomized controlled trials failed to demonstrate a beneficial effect of allopurinol or febuxostat on renal disease, casting doubts on the role of this therapeutical approach to improve nephroprotection. We provide a critical overview of current literature on this topic and offer a possible interpretation of results from recent intervention trials with urate-lowering treatment on renal outcomes
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