Land and flood protection: A strategic planning experience in Franciacorta (Lombardy, Italy)

The contribution proposes a governance approach on strategic spatial planning devoted to land protection. The case study involves 22 municipalities located in Franciacorta (about 200,000 inhabitants and 300sq. km), which is also an important wine-area in northern Italy. It is a story of partial failure that makes evidence of the difficulties of engagement processes on land and flood protection that need interinstitutional approaches and collaborative attitudes among municipalities to rea...

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Evaluation Protocols for the Optimization of Water Treatment Plants

In recent years, water treatment is becoming more important and in the future the number of water treatment plants (WTPs) is destined to increase. However, plants often operate less than optimally from a resource management point of view. This lack of efficiency in WTPs can lead to a drop in pollutants removal yields, an increase in operating costs as well as a waste of resources, in opposition to the concept of circular economy. In this work, a methodological approach useful to identify the ...

Computer-assisted orthopedic surgery

Computer-assisted orthopedic surgery (CAOS) represents one of the most effective means of treatment in clinical orthopedics and, in general, in the treatment of different kinds of musculoskeletal diseases. In fact, the CAOS approach aims at optimizing the surgical process by enhancing the available information with quantitative data, measurements, and estimations during the execution of procedures, so as to enhance the overall surgery-related accuracy, improve the clinical outcomes, and reduc...