Rachele Napolitano

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PostDoc Position at Marche Polytechnic University

In this work, several commercial high-emissivity coatings have been characterized in terms of emissivity, chemical composition and dielectric properties as a function of temperature, under microwave irradiation. Accurate knowledge of their response under exposure to microwaves provides new and crucial information about their practical usability for...

Background and Aims Calcipotriol plus betamethasone dipropionate foam has been developed as a new topical therapeutic option for psoriasis, whose effect has been documented mainly on clinical basis. Methods We decided to evaluate its efficacy on 11 patients, not only at the clinical level (by using Psoriasis Area Severity Index [PASI], Dermatology...

Masticatory efficiency in older adults is an important parameter for the assessment of their oral health and quality of life. This study presents a measurement method based on the automatic segmentation of two-coloured chewing gum based on a K -means clustering algorithm. The solution proposed aims to quantify the mixed areas of colour in order to...

The aims of this study were to propose an automatic color-based segmentation method to separate mixed and unmixed colors of images that were derived from the application of the two-color chewing-gum mixing test and to determine the validity of this method in the assessment of masticatory performance (MP). Fifty young adults (mean age: 24.3 ± 2.7 ye...

In this paper, two different underwater scanning technologies are described, in order to evaluate the 3D shape and colour reconstruction of submerged objects. In particular, a new laser scanner prototype (RGB-ITR) developed in ENEA Centre of Frascati (Roma) is compared with photogrammetric technique. The colour information is an important aspect co...