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Reflections on the importance of built heritage inventory as a tool for preservation in Karachi-a case study of Wadhumal Odharam(Jail)Quarter in Karachi,Sindh,Pakistan

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Built Heritage 2024年第1期8卷 29-45页

作者： Tania Ali Soomro Department of Architecture and Urban Studies Politecnico Di MilanoMilanoItaly

The cultural heritage inventory is an alternate tool to document historic buildings to establish a protected enlistment *** the importance of inventories for developing knowledge of historical and cultural patterns,multiple attempts are being made to record Karachi's historic buildings in the form of inventory *** research investigates the various approaches used for inventorying Karachi's cultural heritage and their potential impact on the survival of the city's historical *** literature,this research provides a brief overview of Karachi's architectural development before and after its annexation to the British Raj(Term used by scholars to represent the British Crown in *** term'The Raj'is also sometimes used.)(1843-1947),which is now considered the historic core of the city of Karachi,together with the systems of inventorying the built heritage over *** Odharam(Jail)Quarter is shortlisted as a case study for this research,which will be examined from the perspective of inventory making in relation to its specific physical and sociocultural context as documented through the inventorying *** Quarter is also referred to as'Jail Quarter'because of the presence of the Jail building within the Quarter precinct,which was demolished during the British era;it is discussed in further detail later in this *** research approach follows a survey of the quarter conducted between August and September 2022,followed by a mapping of the historic *** inventory mapping of the Quarter is performed by using an available database(Database of various historic Quarters of Karachi by Heritage Cell-DAPNED).The data for inventory also helps provide an understanding of the history and development of the *** other aspects of the research methodology include intreating questions and collecting data about various aspects of the Quarter,such as the building information,photographic documentation of the properties,an

关键词： inventorying inventory making heritage conservation commercialisation pressure

Incoherent non-Hermitian skin effect in photonic quantum walks

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Light(Science & Applications) 2024年第5期13卷 885-893页

作者： Stefano Longhi dipartimento di Fisica Politecnico di MilanoPiazza L.da Vinci 32I-20133 MilanoItaly IFISC(UIB-CSIC) Instituto de Fisica Interdisciplinar y Sistemas ComplejosE-07122 Palma de MallorcaSpain

The non-Hermitian skin effect describes the concentration of an extensive number of eigenstates near the boundaries of certain dissipative *** phenomenon has raised a huge interest in different areas of physics,including photonics,deeply expanding our understanding of non-Hermitian systems and opening up new avenues in both fundamental and applied aspects of topological *** skin effect has been associated to a nontrivial pointgap spectral topology and has been experimentally demonstrated in a variety of synthetic matter systems,including photonic *** most of physical models exhibiting the non-Hermitian skin effect full or partial wave coherence is generally *** we push the concept of skin effect into the fully incoherent regime and show that rather generally(but not universally)the non-Hermitian skin effect persists under dephasing *** results are illustrated by considering incoherent light dynamics in non-Hermitian photonic quantum walks.

关键词： dynamics. quantum effect

Adaptive multi-channel Bayesian graph attention network for IoT transaction security

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digital Communications and Networks 2024年第3期10卷 631-644页

作者： Zhaowei Liu Dong Yang Shenqiang Wang Hang Su School of Computer and Control Engineering Yantai UniversityYantai264005China Department of Electronics Information and BioengineeringPolitecnico di MilanoMilan20133Italy

With the rapid advancement of 5G technology,the Internet of Things(IoT)has entered a new phase of appli-cations and is rapidly becoming a significant force in promoting economic *** to the vast amounts of data created by numerous 5G IoT devices,the Ethereum platform has become a tool for the storage and sharing of IoT device data,thanks to its open and tamper-resistant ***,Ethereum account security is necessary for the Internet of Things to grow quickly and improve people's *** modeling Ethereum trans-action records as a transaction network,the account types are well identified by the Ethereum account classifi-cation system established based on Graph Neural Networks(GNNs).This work first investigates the Ethereum transaction ***,experimental metrics reveal that the Ethereum transaction network is neither optimal nor even satisfactory in terms of accurately representing transactions per *** flaw may significantly impede the classification capability of GNNs,which is mostly governed by their *** work proposes an Adaptive Multi-channel Bayesian Graph Attention Network(AMBGAT)for Ethereum account clas-sification to address this *** uses attention to enhance node features,estimate graph topology that conforms to the ground truth,and efficiently extract node features pertinent to downstream *** extensive experiment with actual Ethereum transaction data demonstrates that AMBGAT obtains competitive performance in the classification of Ethereum accounts while accurately estimating the graph topology.

关键词： Internet of things Graph representation learning Node classification Security mechanism

Dewatering of Scenedesmus obliquus Cultivation Substrate with Microfiltration:Potential and Challenges for Water Reuse and Effective Harvesting

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Engineering 2024年第7期38卷 155-163页

作者： Marco Malaguti Lorenzo Craveri Francesco Ricceri Vincenzo Riggio Mariachiara Zanetti Alberto Tiraferri Department of Environment Land and Infrastructure EngineeringPolitecnico di TorinoTorino 10129Italy Clean Water Center Politecnico di TorinoTorino 10129Italy

In the microalgae harvesting process,which includes a step for dewatering the algal suspension,directly reusing extracted water in situ would decrease the freshwater footprint of cultivation *** various algae harvesting techniques,membrane-based filtration has shown numerous *** study evaluated the reuse of permeate streams derived from Scenedesmus obliquus(***)biomass filtration under bench-scale and pilot-scale *** particular,this study identified a series of challenges and mechanisms that influence the water reuse potential and the robustness of the membrane harvesting *** a preliminary phase of this investigation,the health status of the initial biomass was found to have important implications for the harvesting performance and quality of the permeate stream to be reused;healthy biomass ensured better dewatering performance(i.e.,higher water fluxes)and higher quality of the permeate water streams.A series of bench-scale filtration experiments with different combinations of cross-flow velocity and pressure values were performed to identify the operative conditions that would maximize water *** selected conditions,2.4 m·s^(-1)and 1.4 bar(1 bar=105 Pa),respectively,were then applied to drive pilot-scale microfiltration tests to reuse the collected permeate as a new cultivation medium for *** growth in a pilot-scale *** investigation revealed key differences between the behavior of the membrane systems at the two scales(bench and pilot).It indicated the potential for beneficial reuse of the permeate stream as the pilot-scale experiments ensured high harvesting performance and growth rates of biomass in permeate water that were highly similar to those recorded in the ideal cultivation ***,different nutrient reintegration protocols were investigated,revealing that both macro-and micro-nutrient levels are critical for the success of the reuse approach.

关键词： Scenedesmus obliquus Microfiltration Permeate reuse Harvesting Microalgae Pilot-scale

Unveiling field-coupled nanocomputing:Leaning molecules to shape readable bits

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Nano Research 2024年第9期17卷 8447-8454页

作者： Yuri Ardesi Giuliana Beretta Fabrizio Mo Chiara Elfi Spano Gianluca Piccinini Mariagrazia Graziano Corso Duca degli Abruzzi Department of Electronics and TelecommunicationsPolitecnico di TorinoTurin 10129Italy Corso Duca degli Abruzzi Department of Applied Science and TechnologyPolitecnico di TorinoTurin 10129Italy

Molecular field-coupled nanocomputing(molFCN)encodes information in the molecule charge distribution and elaborates it through electrostatic *** the advantageous sub-nanometric size and low-power dissipation,only a few attempts have been made to validate the technology *** of the obstacles is the difficulty in measuring molecule charges to validate information encoding or integrate molFCN with complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor(CMOS).In this work,we propose a paradigm preserving the advantages of molFCN,which exploits the position of waiving molecules to augment the information *** validate the paradigm,named bend-boosted molFCN,with density functional theory using 6-(ferrocenyl)hexanethiol *** demonstrate that the encoded information can be electrically read by constituting a molecular *** paradigm is compatible with the charge-based molFCN,thus acting as a readout *** obtained results favor the experimental assessment of the molFCN principle through scanning probe microscopy techniques and the design of molFCN-CMOS heterogeneous circuits.

关键词： nanoelectronics molecular electronics field-coupled nanocomputing electronics beyond-complementary-metal-oxidesemiconductor(CMOS)

A quantitative analysis of the US materials flow methodology and comparison to the EU methodology for MSW statistics

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Waste disposal and Sustainable Energy 2024年第1期6卷 85-94页

作者： Demetra Tsiamis Fabio Poretti Stefano Consonni Marco J.Castaldi Earth Engineering Center Department of Chemical EngineeringThe City College of New YorkNew YorkNYUSA dipartimento di Energetica Politecnico Di MilanoPiazza Leonardo da Vinci 3220133MilanItaly

The European Union(EU)and the United States(US)determine municipal solid waste(MSW)statistics *** EU applies a site-specific methodology that directly measures waste whereas the US employs a materials flow methodology that estimates MSW statistics indirectly based on production and recovery data from *** study dissects the materials flow methodology and presents quantitative materials flow Sankey diagrams for the primary MSW materials to highlight data gaps that can be addressed to improve the methodology’s *** industry plastics data were applied to the materials flow methodology,and the results were within 10%of the plastics statistics reported by the US Environmental Protection Agency(US EPA).Drawbacks to the methodologies include EU measurement inaccuracies due to double-counting and not accounting for residual waste in the *** latter may partially explain why landfilling tonnages reported by the US EPA were approximately 60%less than the tonnages reported by the Waste to Energy Research and Technology Council(WTERT)in its national MSW survey that applied the EU methodology in the *** the EU,there is no US national policy that requires states to measure and report state-level waste data to the US *** improvements in US MSW statistics rely heavily on the implementation of national policies to homogenize the measurement and collection of waste data from states.

关键词： Materials flow methodology Site-specific methodology United States European Union Municipal solid waste discrepancy

Complementary memtransistors for neuromorphic computing: How, what and why

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Journal of Semiconductors 2024年第6期45卷 64-80页

作者： Qi Chen Yue Zhou Weiwei Xiong Zirui Chen Yasai Wang Xiangshui Miao Yuhui He School of Integrated Circuits Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan 430074China Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of CaliforniaSan DiegoUSA dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione and *** Politecnico di MilanoMilanoItaly Department of Applied Physics Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong KongChina

Memtransistors in which the source-drain channel conductance can be nonvolatilely manipulated through the gate signals have emerged as promising components for implementing neuromorphic *** the other side,it is known that the complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor(CMOS)field effect transistors have played the fundamental role in the modern integrated circuit ***,will complementary memtransistors(CMT)also play such a role in the future neuromorphic circuits and chips?In this review,various types of materials and physical mechanisms for constructing CMT(how)are inspected with their merits and need-to-address challenges *** the unique properties(what)and poten-tial applications of CMT in different learning algorithms/scenarios of spiking neural networks(why)are reviewed,including super-vised rule,reinforcement one,dynamic vision with in-sensor computing,*** exploiting the complementary structure-related novel functions,significant reduction of hardware consuming,enhancement of energy/efficiency ratio and other advan-tages have been gained,illustrating the alluring prospect of design technology co-optimization(DTCO)of CMT towards neuro-morphic computing.

关键词： complementary memtransistor neuromorphic computing reward-modulated spike timing-dependent plasticity remote supervise method in-sensor computing

Experimental evaluation of mechanical compression of lattice trusses made with Ti6Al4V for aerospace use

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Chinese Journal of Aeronautics 2024年第5期37卷 520-532页

作者： Carlo Giovanni FERRO Sara VARETTI Paolo MAGGIORE Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Politecnico di TorinoCorso Duca degli AbruzziTorino 10124Italy

Lattice structures are three-dimensional structures composed of repeated geometrical shapes with multiple interconnected nodes,providing high strength-to-weight ratios,customizable properties,and efficient use of materials.A smart use of materials leads to reduced fuel consumption and lower operating costs,making them highly desirable for aircraft ***,the customizable properties of lattice structures allow for tailoring to specific design requirements,leading to improved performance and safety for *** advantages make lattice structures an important focus for research and development in the aviation *** paper presents an experimental evaluation of the mechanical compression properties of lattice trusses made with Ti6Al4V,designed for use in an anti-ice *** truss structures were manufactured using additive manufacturing techniques and tested under compressive loads to determine mechanical *** showed that lattice trusses exhibited high levels of compressive strength,making them suitable for use in applications where mechanical resistance and durability are critical,such as in anti-ice *** also highlight the potential of additive manufacturing techniques for the fabrication of lattice trusses with tailored mechanical *** study provides valuable insights into the mechanical behavior of Ti6Al4V lattice trusses and their potential applications in anti-ice systems,as well as other areas where high strength-to-weight ratios are *** results of this research contribute to the development of lightweight,efficient,and durable anti-ice systems for use in aviation and other industries.

关键词： Additive Manufacturing(AM) Selective Laser Sintering(SLM) Anti ice systems Lattice structures Aircraft on board systems Design of Experiments(DOE)

Friction and wear performance of polyether ether ketone(PEEK)polymers in three lubrication regimes

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Friction 2024年第4期12卷 670-682页

作者： Davide MASSOCCHI Nora LECIS Marco LATTUADA Davide SCAGLIA Steven CHATTERTON Paolo PENNACCHI Department of Mechanical Engineering Politecnico di MilanoMilan 20156Italy Eni SpA Downstream product R&DLombardia 20097Italy Eurobearings S.R.L. Lombardia 29016Italy

This experimental study investigates the friction and wear of three coatings commonly used in industrial applications,particularly in hydrodynamic *** three materials under investigation were Babbitt,polyether ether ketone(PEEK)reinforced with 15%carbon fibers,and PEEK reinforced with 20%carbon *** first polymer material was extruded,while the other was produced by fused deposition modelling(FDM).The materials were subjected to sliding tests in a pin-on-disc configuration,with a steel ball serving as the counter *** tests were conducted at room temperature,with a load of 10 N and under three different lubrication conditions:dry,grease,and *** linear speed was set at 0.3 m/s for the dry and semi-solid lubrication tests,while for the oil tests,the speed was set at 0.25 m/*** greases used had consistency grades of NGLI 000 and NGLI *** ISO VG 68 circulation oil was used for the oil lubrication ***,thermodynamic analyses were performed under the most severe conditions(i.e.,dry)to investigate the steel-Babbitt and steel-PEEK contact.

关键词： hydrodynamic bearings polyether ether ketone(PEEK)polymers additive manufacturing grease lubrication sliding oil lubrication ball-on-disk tribology