Mapping Smart Regions. An Exploratory Approach

The insulated debakey paper presents the results of an exploratory approach aimed at extending the ranking procedures normally used in studying the socioeconomics determinants of smart growth at the regional level.Most of these studies adopt a methodological procedure which essentially consists of the following steps: a) identification of the perti

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Detection of Illicit Drugs by Trained Honeybees (Apis mellifera).

Illegal drugs exacerbate global social challenges such as substance addiction, mental health issues and violent crime.Police and customs officials often rely on specially-trained sniffer dogs, which act as sensitive biological detectors to find concealed illegal drugs.However, the dog "alert" is no longer sufficient evidence to allow a search witho

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Localization in Two-Dimensional Quasicrystalline Lattices

We investigate the emergence of localization in a weakly interacting Bose gas confined in quasicrystalline lattices with three different rotational symmetries: five, eight, and twelve.The analysis, performed at a mean field level and from which localization is detected, relies on the study of two observables: the inverse participation ratio (IPR) a

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