Quantum metrology aims to yield higher measurement precisions via quantum techniques such as entanglement. It is of great importance for both fundamental sciences and practical technologies, from testing equivalence principle to designing high-precision atomic clocks. However, due to environment effects, highly entangled states become fragile and the achieved precisions may even be worse than t...

objective(s):  titanium oxides are known to be appropriate hemocompatible materials which are suggested as coatings for blood-contacting devices. little is known about the influence of nanometric crystal structure, layer thickness, and semiconducting characteristics of tio2 on blood hemostasis.   materials and methods: having used sol-gel dip coating method in this study, tio2 thin films were d...

The paper explores the impact of structured learning experiences that were designed to challenge students’ ways of thinking and promote creativity. The aim was to develop the ability of students, coming from different engineering disciplines and characterized by particular thinking style profiles, to collaboratively work on a project-based learning experience in an educational environment. Thre...

Using deliberately designed primitive sets, we investigate the relationship between context-based expression mechanisms and the size, height and density of genetic program trees during the evolutionary process. We show that contextual semantics in uence the composition, location and ows of operative code in a program. In detail we analyze these dynamics and discuss the impact of our ndings on m...

Through a 3D reconstruction of the human back surface using structured light techniques, we study the properties of spine curve by means of a set of parameters related to measures commonly applied in medicine. In this way, descriptors for measuring the abnormalities in the projections of the front and sagittal planes can be computed. We build the spine curve in 3D and analyse the behaviour of t...

Malignant tumors that contain a high proportion of regions deprived of adequate oxygen supply (hypoxia) in areas supplied by a microvessel (i.e., a microcirculatory supply unit MCSU) have been shown to present resistance to common cancer treatments. Given the importance of the estimation of this proportion for improving the clinical prognosis of such treatments, a manual annotation has been pro...

This paper presents MobiSnap, a research project that aims to support the development of SQL based applications for mobile environments, providing configurable support for data divergence control and connectivity abstractions. One of the project goals is to assist the migration of legacy SQL based applications into these new operational platforms.

A new framework for fault diagnosis, called structured hypothesis tests, is proposed. The basic idea is to construct the diagnosis system by combining a set of hypothesis tests. In this way, the task of diagnosis is transferred to the task of validating a set of different models with respect to the measured data. Arbitrary types of faults, including multiple faults, can be handled. That means t...