Renewable energy sources offer unprecedented opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But some challenges remain to be solved before their full benefits can be reaped. The main one relates to the intermittency of their electricity supply which can lead to grid problems such as congestion and imbalance between generation and demand. Energy conversion and storage has been touted as a ver…
Covid-19 emergency has produced within societies a strong impulse toward digitization policies, designed to mitigate the negative effects produced on national economies and to ensure a recovery of it. Among the objectives included by the Italian Government within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) there is a boosting of investments in the 4.0 Transition with measures involving not…
Descartes was the first to hold that, when we perceive, the representation need not resemble what it represents but should correspond to it. Descartes developed this ground-breaking, influential conception in his work on analytic geometry and then transferred it to his theory of perception. I trace the development of the idea in Descartes’ early mathematical works; his articulation of it in R…
Earth sciences
Edisi Khusus "Kartografi dan Geomedia" menyajikan pandangan kartografi sebagai perpaduan antara teknologi, sains, dan seni, dengan fokus pada pengembangan geomedia dalam konteks berbasis geomatik dan desain. Pertimbangan individu disajikan sesuai dengan topik berikut: efisiensi teknik pemetaan; karya kartografi sejarah dalam konteks geomedial; pragmatik kartografi untuk warisan budaya, pengajar…
Ruang terestrial adalah tempat interaksi sistem alam dan sosial. Itu kartografi adalah alat penting untuk memahami kompleksitas sistem ini, interaksi dan evolusinya. Ini membawa kartografi ke tempat yang penting di dunia modern. Buku ini menyajikan beberapa kontribusi di berbagai bidang dan kegiatan yang menunjukkan pentingnya kartografi terhadap persepsi dan organisasi wilayah tersebut. Belaja…
Ungkapan "From Bench to Bedside and Beyond" berarti buku membahas dari penelitian laboratorium hingga penerapan klinik pada pasien dan perkembangannya lebih lanjut. Sehingga buku ini mencakup ilmu dasar, diagnosis, pengobatan, hingga prospek masa depan. Namun topik utamanya tetap penyakit arteri karotis. Selain itu, buku ini akan memunculkan keadaan seni stenosis karotid dalam pendekatan dasar …
Buku membahas perbedaan kelenturan arteri karotis antara laki-laki dan perempuan, baik dalam keadaan sehat maupun berpenyakit. Selain itu buku ini mengumpulkan studi eksperimental dan klinis terbaru tentang pengaruh gender dalam kepatuhan arteri karotis dalam keadaan kesehatan dan patologis, membahas juga kegunaan dan kesesuaian terapi medis khusus dan pribadi. Selain itu, ini memberikan gambar…
In this chapter, we propose a methodology for behavior variation and anomaly detection from acquired sensory data, based on temporal clustering models. Data are collected from five prominent European smart cities, and Singapore, that aim to become fully “elderly-friendly,” with the development and deployment of ubiquitous systems for assessment and prediction of early risks of elderly Mild …
Environmental sustainability is one of the main goals of all countries in the world. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been proposed by the United Nations in 2015. The purpose of this paper is to explore if and how European countries achievethe goals of environmental sustainability (tracked by the SDGs number 13, 14, and 15). In particular, SDG 13 refers to climate change and its impact…