Publications by authors named "T de Tommasi"

Apples are among the most commonly cultivated fruits globally. Approximately 65% of annual apple production is transformed into apple juice concentrate generating a large amount of waste material named apple pomace, which includes seeds, skin, and other components. Disposing of apple by-products directly into the environment constitutes a source of environmental pollution due to its high-water content and easily fermentable nature.

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  • Microplastics and microfibers are tiny plastic bits that are causing big environmental problems in oceans.
  • Researchers have created a new, easy way to count and analyze these particles without complicated steps like washing or heating.
  • They tested this new method in areas around Naples, Italy, to see how common these plastic bits are in both sea and land sediments.
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The state of the art in violence detection in videos has improved in recent years thanks to deep learning models, but it is still below 90% of average precision in the most complex datasets, which may pose a problem of frequent false alarms in video surveillance environments and may cause security guards to disable the artificial intelligence system. In this study, we propose a new neural network based on Vision Transformer (ViT) and Neural Structured Learning (NSL) with adversarial training. This network, called CrimeNet, outperforms previous works by a large margin and reduces practically to zero the false positives.

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  • The amount of garbage produced around the world has gone up by 60% recently.
  • Burning this garbage (called incineration) helps reduce its size and can also create energy, but it produces hazardous ashes that can harm the environment.
  • A new study shows a way to safely turn these ashes into useful glass-like materials using a process called vitrification, which is better for the environment when using certain types of materials.
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In this work, the co-immobilization of formate dehydrogenase (FDH) and glycerol dehydrogenase (GlyDH) enzymes is proposed to reduce CO into formic acid, an important chemical intermediate. The reduction of carbon dioxide is carried out by FDH to obtain formic acid, simultaneously, the GlyDH regenerated the nicotinamide cofactor in the reduced form (NADH) by the oxidation of glycerol into dihydroxyacetone. Natural zeolite was selected as immobilization support given its good properties and low cost.

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