FORUM (Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring) will fly as the ninth ESA's Earth Explorer mission, and an end-to-end simulator (E2ES) has been developed as a support tool for the mission selection process and the subsequent development phases. The current status of the FORUM E2ES project is presented together with the characterization of the capabilities of a full physics retrieval code applied to FORUM data.

E-commerce is a continuously growing sector worldwide, with important repercussions on the delivery system in urban areas and especially in the Business to Consumer (B2C) sector. The delivery of a package to a consumer's address involves not only high costs for couriers (greater number of kilometres travelled), but also increased congestion and greater environmental pollution (greater volume of pollutants released into the air).

For the finite weighted Hilbert transform we consider two different product integration rules, the VP rule and the L-rule, based on the same nodes and obtained by approximating the density function with filtered de la Vallée Poussin and classical Lagrange interpolation polynomials, respectively. The L-rule is well known and widely studied.

According to the European Charter for Researchers «all researchers should ensure [...] that the results of their research are disseminated and exploited, e.g. communicated, transferred into other research settings or, if appropriate, commercialised ...». Therefore, it's part of the researchers' mission to raise the general public awareness with respect to science. This need is further emphasized by a survey of Eurobarometer 2010: society is strongly interested in science but, at the same time, is often scared by the risks connected with new technologies.