SECURING CHEMICAL FACILITIES AGAINST INTENTIONAL ATTACKS: A BAYESIAN NETWORK APPROACH FOR ASSET RISK ASSESSMENT

Securing Chemical Facilities Against Intentional Attacks: a Bayesian Network Approach for Asset Risk Assessment

The consequences of a successful intentional attack to a process facility can be severe and could propagate among units generating the so-called domino effects, with potential effects on people, the environment, and assets.For these reasons, institutions and practitioners have found interest in determining the entity of damages associated with thes

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Heart energy signature spectrogram for cardiovascular diagnosis

Abstract A new method and application is proposed to characterize intensity and pitch of human heart sounds and murmurs.Using recorded heart sounds from the library of one of the authors, a A visual map of heart sound energy was established.Both normal and abnormal heart sound recordings were studied.Representation is based on Wigner-Ville joint ti

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West Nile and Usutu Virus Circulation in Wild Birds and Equids in Piedmont, Liguria and Aosta Valley, Northwestern Italy, in 2018-2020

Purpose: A mandatory plan on West Nile (WNV) and Usutu (USUV), aimed at an early detection of viral circulation, is implemented in Italy through an active and passive monitoring.Here we report data on WNV and USUV circulation from 2018 till 2020 in birds and equids in three Northwestern regions of Italy (Piedmont, Liguria and Aosta Valley).Methods

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