Analysis of the introduction of a business process mapping system in Rosetti Marino spa

After a first theoric introduction about Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), are considered in particular the possible options found in literature regarding the following three macro-elements: the methodologies, the modelling notations and the tools employed for process mapping. The theoric section is the base for the analysis of the same elements into the specific case of Rosetti Marino S.p.A., an EPC contractor, operating in the Oil&Gas industry. Rosetti Marino implemented a tool developped internally in order to satisfy its needs in the most suitable way possible and buit a Map of all business processes,navigable on the Company Intranet. Moreover it adopted a methodology based upon participation, interfunctional communication and sharing. The GIGA introduction is analysed from a structural, human resources, political and symbolic point of view.

A multiparental cross population for mapping QTL for relevant agronomic traits in durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.)

Multiparental cross designs for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) in crops are efficient alternatives to conventional biparental experimental populations because they exploit a broader genetic basis and higher mapping resolution. We describe the development and deployment of a multiparental recombinant inbred line (RIL) population in durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) obtained by crossing four elite cultivars characterized by different traits of agronomic value. A linkage map spanning 2,663 cM and including 7,594 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was produced by genotyping 338 RILs with a wheat-dedicated 90k SNP chip. A cluster file was developed for correct allele calling in the framework of the tetraploid durum wheat genome. Based on phenotypic data collected over four field experiments, a multi-trait quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis was carried out for 18 traits of agronomic relevance (including yield, yield-components, morpho-physiological and seed quality traits). Across environments, a total of 63 QTL were identified and characterized in terms of the four founder haplotypes. We mapped two QTL for grain yield across environments and 23 QTL for grain yield components. A novel major QTL for number of grain per spikelet/ear was mapped on chr 2A and shown to control up to 39% of phenotypic variance in this cross. Functionally different QTL alleles, in terms of direction and size of genetic effect, were distributed among the four parents. Based on the occurrence of QTL-clusters, we characterized the breeding values (in terms of effects on yield) of most of QTL for heading and maturity as well as yield component and quality QTL. This multiparental RIL population provides the wheat community with a highly informative QTL mapping resource enabling the dissection of the genetic architecture of multiple agronomic relevant traits in durum wheat.

Quality assessment of a landslide inventory map and its application to land‐use planning. A case study in the Northern Apennines (Emilia‐Romagna region, Italy)

Landslide hazard and risk are growing as a consequence of climate change and demographic pressure. Land‐use planning represents a powerful tool to manage this socio‐economic problem and build sustainable and landslide resilient communities. Landslide inventory maps are a cornerstone of land‐use planning and, consequently, their quality assessment represents a burning issue. This work aimed to define the quality parameters of a landslide inventory and assess its spatial and temporal accuracy with regard to its possible applications to land‐use planning. In this sense, I proceeded according to a two‐steps approach. An overall assessment of the accuracy of data geographic positioning was performed on four case study sites located in the Italian Northern Apennines. The quantification of the overall spatial and temporal accuracy, instead, focused on the Dorgola Valley (Province of Reggio Emilia). The assessment of spatial accuracy involved a comparison between remotely sensed and field survey data, as well as an innovative fuzzylike analysis of a multi‐temporal landslide inventory map. Conversely, long‐ and short‐term landslide temporal persistence was appraised over a period of 60 years with the aid of 18 remotely sensed image sets. These results were eventually compared with the current Territorial Plan for Provincial Coordination (PTCP) of the Province of Reggio Emilia. The outcome of this work suggested that geomorphologically detected and mapped landslides are a significant approximation of a more complex reality. In order to convey to the end‐users this intrinsic uncertainty, a new form of cartographic representation is needed. In this sense, a fuzzy raster landslide map may be an option. With regard to land‐use planning, landslide inventory maps, if appropriately updated, confirmed to be essential decision‐support tools. This research, however, proved that their spatial and temporal uncertainty discourages any direct use as zoning maps, especially when zoning itself is associated to statutory or advisory regulations.

Un sistema per il Mapping di Access Point Wi-Fi in ambito Android

Un sistema per il mapping di access point wi-fi utilizzando un client scritto in android ed un server scritto in php. Il client si occuperà di scansionare le reti disponibili ed inviarle al server che con tali informazioni potrà inferire sulle posizioni effettive degli access point e fornire ad altri client informazioni più dettagliate per potersi connettere.

Fine Mapping of qroot-yield-1.06, a QTL for Root, Plant Vigor and Yield in Maize

Root-yield-1.06 is a major QTL affecting root system architecture (RSA) and other agronomic traits in maize. The effect of this QTL has been evaluated with the development of near isogenic lines (NILs) differing at the QTL position. The objective of this study was to fine map qroot-yield-1.06 by marker-assisted searching for chromosome recombinants in the QTL interval and concurrent root phenotyping in both controlled and field conditions, through successive generations. Complementary approaches such as QTL meta-analysis and RNA-seq were deployed in order to help prioritizing candidate genes within the QTL target region. Using a selected group of genotypes, field based root analysis by ‘shovelomics’ enabled to accurately collect RSA information of adult maize plants. Shovelomics combined with software-assisted root imaging analysis proved to be an informative and relatively highly automated phenotyping protocol. A QTL interval mapping was conducted using a segregating population at the seedling stage grown in controlled environment. Results enabled to narrow down the QTL interval and to identify new polymorphic markers for MAS in field experiments. A collection of homozygous recombinant NILs was developed by screening segregating populations with markers flanking qroot-yield-1.06. A first set of lines from this collection was phenotyped based on the adapted shovelomics protocol. QTL analysis based on these data highlighted an interval of 1.3 Mb as completely linked with the target QTL but, a larger safer interval of 4.1 Mb was selected for further investigations. QTL meta-analysis allows to synthetize information on root QTLs and two mQTLs were identified in the qroot-yield-1.06 interval. Trascriptomics analysis based on RNA-seq data of the two contrasting QTL-NILs, confirmed alternative haplotypes at chromosome bin 1.06. qroot-yield-1.06 has now been delimited to a 4.1-Mb interval, and thanks to the availability of additional untested homozygous recombinant NILs, the potentially achievable mapping resolution at qroot-yield-1.06 is c. 50 kb.

Realizzazione di un'applicazione di Projection Mapping con OpenFrameworks

Il Projection Mapping è una tecnologia che permette di proiettare delle immagini sulla superficie di uno o più oggetti, anche di forma irregolare, trasformandoli in display interattivi. Il suo utilizzo, abbinato a suoni e musiche, permette di creare una narrazione audio-visuale. La suggestione e l’emozione scaturite dalla visione di una performance di Projection Mapping su di un monumento pubblico, hanno stimolato la mia curiosità e mi hanno spinto a cercare di capire se era possibile realizzare autonomamente qualcosa di analogo. Obiettivo di questa tesi è perciò spiegare cos’è il Projection Mapping e fornire una serie di indicazioni utili per realizzarne un’applicazione interattiva con OpenFrameworks (un framework open-source in C++) e hardware a basso costo (un computer, un videoproiettore e un sensore Kinect).

Tecniche automatiche di mapping e localizzazione in ambienti indoor

Il mapping di grandezze fisiche risulta estremamente importante, essendo in grado di fornire un adeguato supporto per la localizzazione e il monitoraggio di parametri ambientali sensibili. Nel caso indoor, in assenza di un sistema di localizzazione di riferimento analogo al GPS per il caso outdoor, sfruttando appieno le potenzialità della sensoristica a bordo degli smartphone, si è fatto progressivamente strada il mapping di grandezze fisiche quali, ad esempio, il segnale Wi-Fi e il campo magnetico terrestre. In questo caso il mapping, senza richiedere alcuna infrastruttura e coadiuvato dall'utilizzo di dispositivi portatili largamente diffusi ad uso quotidiano, rappresenta una soluzione relativamente recente ridefinibile come Mobile Crowd Sensing. Il MCS rappresenta un nuovo paradigma di servizio, volto a sfruttare l'interconnettività tra dispositivi portatili per effettuare misurazioni di caratteristiche ambientali in maniera automatizzata, aggregandole in un sistema cloud usufruibile ad una vasta comunità. Tuttavia , il considerevole flusso di dati generato, la variabilità temporale delle grandezze di interesse e il rumore insito nelle misurazioni costituiscono problematiche fondamentali per l'utilizzo e la gestione delle misurazioni effettuate. Per tali motivi l'attività di tesi ha previsto i seguenti obiettivi: (i) fornire una panoramica delle principali tecniche e tecnologie di localizzazione volta a motivare l'importanza del mapping di grandezze fisiche ambientali; (ii) individuazione di grandezze fisiche appetibili per la creazione di mappe affidabili e realizzabili nei contesti applicativi più disparati, sfruttando risorse già presenti nell'ambiente; (iii) sviluppo di un algoritmo statistico in grado di fornire una stima accurata dell'andamento spaziale della grandezza di interesse attraverso un numero limitato di misurazioni, mantenendo la compatibilità con processi MCS e una bassa complessità computazionale. L’algoritmo sviluppato è stato validato attraverso simulazioni e misurazioni svolte in ambienti reali. In particolare, prove sperimentali sono state effettuate nell’arena Vicon nei laboratori DEI dell’Università di Bologna, sede Cesena, concepita dal gruppo di ricerca Casy.

Noise mapping of highly trafficked roads of the province of Bologna according to D.Lgs. 194/2005

The European Community has stressed the importance of achieving a common understanding to deal with the environmental noise through community actions of the Member States. This implies the use of harmonized indicators and specific information regarding the values of indicators, the exceedance of limits and the number of people and dwellings exposed to noise. The D.Lgs. 149/2005 in compliance with the European Directive 2002/49/EC defines methodologies, noise indicators and types of outputs required. In this dissertation the work done for the noise mapping of highly trafficked roads of the Province of Bologna will be reported. The study accounts for the environmental noise generated by the road infrastructure outside the urban agglomeration of Bologna. Roads characterized by an annual traffic greater than three millions of vehicles will be considered. The process of data collection and validation will be reported, as long as the implementation of the calculation method in the software and the procedure to create and calibrate the calculation model. Results will be provided as required by the legislation, in forms of maps and tables. Moreover results regarding each road section accounted will be combined to gain a general understanding of the situation of the overall studied area. Although the understanding of the noise levels and the number of people exposed is paramount, it is not sufficient to develop strategies of noise abatement interventions. Thus a further step will be addressed: the creation of priority maps as the basis of action plans for organizing and prioritizing solutions for noise reduction and abatement. Noise reduction measures are reported in a qualitative way in the annex and constitute a preliminary research.

Numerical and semi-analytical models of sliding masses: application to the 1783 Scilla tsunamigenic landslide

The Scilla rock avalanche occurred on 6 February 1783 along the coast of the Calabria region (southern Italy), close to the Messina Strait. It was triggered by a mainshock of the Terremoto delle Calabrie seismic sequence, and it induced a tsunami wave responsible for more than 1500 casualties along the neighboring Marina Grande beach. The main goal of this work is the application of semi-analtycal and numerical models to simulate this event. The first one is a MATLAB code expressly created for this work that solves the equations of motion for sliding particles on a two-dimensional surface through a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. The second one is a code developed by the Tsunami Research Team of the Department of Physics and Astronomy (DIFA) of the Bologna University that describes a slide as a chain of blocks able to interact while sliding down over a slope and adopts a Lagrangian point of view. A wide description of landslide phenomena and in particular of landslides induced by earthquakes and with tsunamigenic potential is proposed in the first part of the work. Subsequently, the physical and mathematical background is presented; in particular, a detailed study on derivatives discratization is provided. Later on, a description of the dynamics of a point-mass sliding on a surface is proposed together with several applications of numerical and analytical models over ideal topographies. In the last part, the dynamics of points sliding on a surface and interacting with each other is proposed. Similarly, different application on an ideal topography are shown. Finally, the applications on the 1783 Scilla event are shown and discussed.

Statistical mapping of real environments with uwb radars

In this master thesis I evaluated the performance of a Ultra-Wide Bandwidth (UWB) radar system for indoor environments mapping. In particular, I used a statistical Bayesian approach which is able to combine all the measurements collected by the radar, including system non-idealities such as the error on the estimated antenna pointing direction or on the estimated radar position. First I verified through simulations that the system was able to provide a sufficiently accurate reconstruction of the surrounding environment despite the limitations imposed by the UWB technology. In fact, the emission of UWB pulses is limited in terms of transmitted power by international regulations. Motivated by the promising results obtained through simulations, I successively carried out a measurement campaign in a real indoor environment using a UWB commercial device. The obtained results showed that the UWB radar system is capable of providing an accurate reconstruction of indoor environments also adopting not directional antennas.

Analisi del degassamento di CO2 diffuso dal suolo presso la Solfatara di Pozzuoli (Napoli, Italia): Misura, mapping e quantificazione del flusso totale.

Il presente lavoro ha come obiettivo la descrizione dello studio del degassamento diffuso di CO2 (acquisizione dei dati e loro trattazione) effettuato nell'area vulcanica dei Campi Flegrei (NA), nello specifico nell'area della Solfatara di Pozzuoli. Questo infatti rappresenta attualmente il punto di massimo rilascio di fluidi ed energia dell'intero Distretto Vulcanico Flegreo attraverso attività quali fumarole e degassamento diffuso dal suolo, nonché deformazioni del terreno (bradisismo). Tramite l'acquisizione dei valori di flusso diffuso e delle temperature dei primi 10 cm di suolo, attraverso una trattazione dei dati statistica e geostatistica, è stato possibile distinguere e caratterizzare le sorgenti di CO2 (biologica o vulcanica), la realizzazione di sviluppo di mappe di probabilità e di flusso medio e la quantificazione dell'output totale giornaliero di CO2. Il lavoro è stato suddiviso in due fasi principali: 1. La prima fase ha riguardato l'acquisizione dei dati sul campo nei giorni 19 e 20 marzo 2015, tramite l'utilizzo di una camera d'accumulo ed un termometro munito di sonda, in 434 punti all'interno del cratere della Solfatara e nelle aree circostanti. 2. Nella seconda fase sono stati elaborati i dati, utilizzando il metodo statistico GSA (Graphical Statistic Approach) ed il metodo geostatistico della simulazione sequenziale Gaussiana (sGs). Tramite il GSA è stato possibile ripartire i dati in popolazioni e definire una media (con relativa varianza) per ognuna di esse. Con la sGs è stato possibile trattare i dati, considerando la loro distribuzione spaziale, per simulare valori per le aree prive di misurazioni; ciò ha permesso di generare delle mappe che mostrassero l'andamento dei flussi e la geometria della struttura del degassamento diffuso (Diffuse Degassing Structure, DDS; Chiodini et al., 2001). Infine i dati ottenuti sono stati confrontati con i risultati di precedenti studi e si è messo in relazione la geometria e l'intensità di degassamento con la geologia strutturale dell'area flegrea indagata.

Web Mapping: dai GIS ai sistemi per la geolocalizzazione

L'elaborato tratta dell'evoluzione dei sistemi di raccolta dati geografici e mappatura grazie all'utilizzo delle tecnologie informatiche e di come sia cambiato il loro utilizzo nel corso del tempo e l'utenza che ne fa uso. Viene anche trattata in maniera tecnica la struttura che compone uno di questi sistemi per permettere l'interazione via web con una mappa digitale. Si effettuano inoltre ipotesi su possibili sviluppi futuri di tali tecnologie.

Percutaneous access of the epicardial space for mapping ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias in patients with and without prior cardiac surgery

There is a paucity of data on the success rates of achieving percutaneous epicardial access in different groups of patients.

Catheter ablation of recurrent scar-related ventricular tachycardia using electroanatomical mapping and irrigated ablation technology: results of the prospective multicenter Euro-VT-study

Ventricular tachycardia (VT) late after myocardial infarction is an important contributor to morbidity and mortality. This prospective multicenter study assessed the efficacy and safety of electroanatomical mapping in combination with open-saline irrigated ablation technology for ablation of chronic recurrent mappable and unmappable VT in remote myocardial infarction.

Lumbar intervertebral disc abnormalities: comparison of quantitative T2 mapping with conventional MR at 3.0 T

To assess the relationship of morphologically defined lumbar disc abnormalities with quantitative T2 mapping.