INTRODUCTION In Italy, the current legislation for contaminants in soils provides two land uses: residential/public or private gardens and commercial/industrial; there are not specific reference values for agricultural soils, even if a special decree has been developed and is currently going through the legislative approval process. The topic of agricultural areas is relevant, also in considera...

The following points are developed. First, mediation relations are generally thought of in causal terms. Influences of an antecedent are transmitted to a consequence through an intervening mediator. Second, mediation relations may assume a number of functional forms, including nonadditive, nonlinear, and nonrecursive forms Special attention is given to nonadditive forms, or moderated mediation,...

Many industrial manufacturing processes depend on the rapid and accurate measurement of circular objects, for example, pipe, tube and ball and roller bearings, to ensure that the components satisfy the engineering tolerance standards. Despite the importance of these measurements, they are often carried out using time-consuming, manual and randomly sampled procedures. Cross-sectional imaging tec...

Woodall and Montgomery [35] in a discussion paper, state that multivariate process control is one of the most rapidly developing sections of statistical process control. Nowadays, in industry, there are many situations in which the simultaneous monitoring or control, of two or more related quality process characteristics is necessary. Process monitoring problems in which several related variabl...

Procedures like start-up, product change-over, or shutdown of processing systems usually involve the manipulation of continuous and discrete controls. To optimize such procedures, the use of hybrid models is often appropriate to account for the change of dynamics during the transition. Some recently developed approaches for hybrid system optimization are based on mixed-integer linear programmin...

In this paper we discuss methods of using the language of actions, formal languages, and grammars for qualitative conceptual linguistic modeling of companies as technological and human institutions. The main problem following the discussion is the problem to find and describe a language structure for external and internal flow of information of companies. We anticipate that the language structu...

This paper describes an automatic QA organization experience in the industrial project of DB migration from MS SQL Server 2005 to Oracle 11gR2. The resulting DB of the project is supposed to contain the same data and to have a functional correspondence with the initial one. The initial DB is quite huge: 6 terabytes of data and 2500 KSLOC of stored procedures. The documentation for the initial b...

The classic readers-writers problem has been extensively studied. This holds to a lesser degree for the reentrant version, where it is allowed to nest locking actions. Such nesting is useful when a library is created with various procedures that each start and end with a lock. Allowing nesting makes it possible for these procedures to call each other. We considered an existing widely used indus...

Generally, the controller design should be performed to narrow the shape of the probability density function of the tracking error. A small information entropy value corresponds to a narrow distribution function, which means that the uncertainty of the related random variable is small. In this paper, information entropy is introduced in the field of control performance assessment (CPA). For the...

As a part of our broad program of introducing new redox titrants in general and aromatic sulfonyl haloamines in particular, to develop rapid and accurate analytical procedures for determining a variety of industrially and biologically important organic and inorganic substances in solution (I, 3-25, 28, 30) we have introduced a new reagent, N,N-dibromobenzenesulfonamide or dibromamine-B (C,H,SO,...