The discoveries of the last thirty years in Apulia have highlighted the leading role of this region, and especially ancient Peucetia, in the evolution of Lucanian and Apulian red-figured pottery. In fact, from the last decades of the fifth century BC onwards the aristocratic classes of Apulia (in the fourth century also those of the Daunian district) were the main patrons and consumers of the products of Italic workshops. As the most complex elements of the funerary assemblage there was a specific demand for those objects.

A Round Robin exercise was implemented by ESA to compare different classification methods in detecting clouds from images taken by the PROBA-V sensor. A high-quality dataset of 1350 reflectances and Clear/Cloudy corresponding labels had been prepared by ESA in the framework of the exercise. Motivated by both the experience acquired by one of the authors in this exercise and the availability of such a reliable annotated dataset, we present a full assessment of the methodology proposed therein.

We introduce a new class of robust M-estimators for performing simultaneous parameter estimation and variable selection in high-dimensional regression models. We first explain the motivations for the key ingredient of our procedures which are inspired by regularization methods used in wavelet thresholding in noisy signal processing.

We introduce a multi-platform portable implementation of the NonLocal Means methodology aimed at noise removal from remotely sensed images. It is particularly suited for hyperspectral sensors for which real-time applications are not possible with only CPU based algorithms. In the last decades computational devices have usually been a compound of cross-vendor sets of specifications (heterogeneous system architecture) that bring together integrated central processing (CPUs) and graphics processor (GPUs) units.

The problem of front propagation in a stirred medium is addressed in the case of cellular flows in three different regimes: slow reaction, fast reaction and geometrical optics limit. It is well known that a consequence of stirring is the enhancement of front speed with respect to the nonstirred case. By means of numerical simulations and theoretical arguments we describe the behavior of front speed as a function of the stirring intensity, U. For slow reaction, the front propagates with a speed proportional to U-1/4, conversely for fast reaction the front speed is proportional to U-3/4.

The problem of inverse statistics (statistics of distances for which the signal fluctuations are larger than a certain threshold) in differentiable signals with power law spectrum, E(k) approximately k(-alpha), 3< or =alpha<5, is discussed. We show that for these signals, with random phases, exit-distance moments follow a bifractal distribution. We also investigate two dimensional turbulent flows in the direct cascade regime, which display a more complex behavior.

The first carved ambers appear in the Adriatic area at the end of the eighth century BC with the beginning of the Orientalizing period. Among the most active centers, the Etruscan Verucchio is one of the main poles for the sorting of amber. At the beginning of the sixth century, a fundamental role is exercised from Piceno and the Etruscan Felsina, whose intercept part of the tra!cs previously directed on the Adriatic road.

In a recent paper, we have introduced new sets of Sheffer and Brenke polynomial sequences based on higher order Bell numbers. In this paper, by using a more compact notation, we show another family of exponential polynomials belonging to the Sheffer class, called, for shortness, Sheffer-Bell polynomials. Furthermore, we introduce a set of logarithmic numbers, which are the counterpart of Bell numbers and their extensions.