Recently, many European local authorities have set up Urban Consolidation Centres (UCC) for dealing with challenges arising from the environmental and social impacts of logistical activities in urban contexts through shipment synchronisation and carrier coordination policies. However, the number of successful UCC projects led by local authorities in Europe is low, with most of the UCCs failing to achieve financial sustainability after the initial experimental phase, which is often heavily supported by public funds.

We numerically study by lattice Boltzmann simulations the rheological properties of an active emulsion made of a suspension of an active polar gel embedded in an isotropic passive background. We find that the hexatic equilibrium configuration of polar droplets is highly sensitive to both active injection and external forcing and may either lead to asymmetric unidirectional states which break top-bottom symmetry or symmetric ones. In this latter case, for large enough activity, the system develops a shear thickening regime at low shear rates.

The Fokker--Planck approximation for an elementary linear, two-dimensional kinetic model endowed with a mass-preserving integral collision process is numerically studied, along with its diffusive limit. In order to set up a well-balanced discretization relying on an $S$-matrix, exact steady states of the continuous equation are derived. The ability of the scheme to keep these stationary solutions invariant produces the discretization of the local differential operator which mimics the collision process.

ZFP57 is required to maintain the germline-marked differential methylation at imprinting control regions (ICRs) in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Although DNA methylation has a key role in genomic imprinting, several imprinted genes are controlled by different mechanisms, and a comprehensive study of the relationship between DMR methylation and imprinted gene expression is lacking. To address the latter issue, we differentiated wild-type and Zfp57-/- hybrid mouse ESCs into neural precursor cells (NPCs) and evaluated allelic expression of imprinted genes.

In this study, we computationally corroborate the flow of rock glaciers against borehole measurements, within the context of a model previously developed (2020). The model is, here, tested against the simulation of the sliding motion of the Murtel-Corvatsch alpine glacier, which is characterized in detail in the literature with internal structure description and borehole deformations measurement.

The existence of eigenfunctions for a class of fully anisotropic elliptic equations is estab- lished. The relevant equations are associated with constrained minimization problems for inte- gral functionals depending on the gradient of competing functions through general anisotropic Young functions. In particular, the latter need neither be radial, nor have a polynomial growth, and are not even assumed to satisfy the so called 2-condition. In particular, our analysis re- quires the development of some new aspects of the theory of anisotropic Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. This is a joint work with G.

Numerical resolution of two-stream kinetic models in a strong aggregative setting is considered. To illustrate our approach, we consider a one-dimensional kinetic model for chemotaxis in hydrodynamic scaling and the high field limit of the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system. A difficulty is that, in this aggregative setting, weak solutions of the limiting model blow up in finite time, and therefore the scheme should be able to handle Dirac measures.