A passive bistatic ground-based synthetic aperture radar (PB-GB-SAR) system without a dedicated transmitter has been developed by using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware for local-area high-resolution imaging and displacement measurement purposes. Different from the frequency-modulated or frequency-stepped continuous wave signal commonly used by GB-SAR, the continuous digital TV signal broadcast by a geostationary satellite has been adopted by PB-GB-SAR.

This work presents a methodology to monitor the dynamic behaviour of tall metallic towers based on ground-based radar interferometry, and apply it to the case of telecommunication towers. Ground-based radar displacement measurements of metallic towers are acquired without installing any Corner Reflector (CR) on the structure. Each structural element of the tower is identified based on its range distance with respect to the radar.

A composite specimen, made of two slabs and an interface A is heated through one of its sides S, in order to evaluate the thermal conductance H of A. The direct model consists of a system of Initial Boundary Value Problems completed by suitable transmission conditions. Thanks to the properties of multilayer diffusion, we reduce the problem to the slab between A and S only. In this case evaluating the thermal resistance of A means to identify a coefficient in a Robin boundary condition. We evaluate H numerically by means of Thin Plate Approximation.

In a typical secure communication system, messages undergo two different encodings: an error-correcting code is applied at the physical layer to ensure correct reception by the addressee (integrity), while at an upper protocol layer cryptography is leveraged to enforce secrecy with respect to eavesdroppers (confidentiality).

The T-box transcription factor TBX1 has critical roles in the cardiopharyngeal lineage and the gene is haploinsufficient in DiGeorge syndrome, a typical developmental anomaly of the pharyngeal apparatus. Despite almost two decades of research, if and how TBX1 function triggers chromatin remodeling is not known. Here, we explored genome-wide gene expression and chromatin remodeling in two independent cellular models of Tbx1 loss of function, mouse embryonic carcinoma cells P19Cl6, and mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs).

This work presents a methodology for the short-term forecast of intense rainfall based on a neural network and the integration of Global Navigation and Positioning System (GNSS) and meteorological data. Precipitable water vapor (PWV) derived from GNSS is combined with surface pressure, surface temperature and relative humidity obtained continuously from a ground-based meteorological station. Five years of GNSS data from one station in Lisbon, Portugal, are processed. Data for precipitation forecast are also collected from the meteorological station.

Out-of-equilibrium relaxation processes show aging if they become slower as time passes. Aging processes are ubiquitous and play a fundamental role in the physics of glasses and spin glasses and in other applications (e.g., in algorithms minimizing complex cost/loss functions). The theory of aging in the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of mean-field spin glass models has achieved a fundamental role, thanks to the asymptotic analytic solution found by Cugliandolo and Kurchan.