Stefano De Falco

• University of Naples Federico II

Concerning the monitoring of the resumption of seismic activity at the Campi Flegrei caldera, which is causing concern to the inhabitants and involving various protection efforts by research bodies, this work intends to constitute a complementary and auxiliary tool with respect to the geophysical studies in progress. In particular, a geographical a...

This special issue, through various contributions from distinguished scholars in the field, attempts if not to provide exhaustive answers then at least to delineate the perimeter of the issues and scientifically circumscribe the contours of the questions that still exist regarding smart cities. Specifically, the ambition of this special issue is to...

Riassunto Abstract In relazione al tema del consumo di suolo, una corretta pianificazione urbana deve adottare approcci olistici che tengano conto delle dinamiche multifattoriali legate ad aspetti diversi, come la legalità, la mobilità sostenibile, la governance partecipativa, la condizione socio-economica e il verde urbano. In tal senso, l'evoluzi...

This work investigates data mining phenomenon in a spatial approach, focused on the United States. The results reveal a predilection of "miners" in areas with low energy costs, but not of a rural type, as it could be expected, but rather in geographical proximity to urban areas where it is easier to reach ICT workers and maintenance and assistance...

Urban landscape and tourism, a complementary binomial or a dual antithesis? The question is becoming more and more interesting, and it is a cause of concern among local administrators. To this end, we aim to investigate the dynamics of a specific case, the city of Naples (Italy), where the fast, increasing touristification of the historic city cent...

Una riflessione sulla attualità del ruolo delle Comunità Montane. Approccio di sistema e strategie digitali Nei decenni passati, i Comuni hanno sovente considerato le Comunità Montane (CM) come un'occasione per ricevere visibilità e finanziamenti, producendone una proliferazione spesso strumentale. Attualmente si rinviene invece, negli orientamenti...

La narrazione dominante, che dal Green Deal si è traslata nel PNRR italiano, tende sovente a considerare le due dinamiche, ambientale e digitale, in forma congiunta, come elementi complementari di un binomio. Il documento afferma, infatti, che “la trasformazione digitale offre gli strumenti necessari per realizzare i cambiamenti, migliorando le cap...

This contribution is inspired by a current scenario regarding the city of Naples, Italy, where a strong popular uprising is underway against local institutions that are destroying the Camorra murals celebrating its “heroes” died in “war”. These events are very interesting to analyse the theme of the iconographic exploitation of urban space by t...

Riassunto Abstract Una parte preponderante del territorio italiano si connota per un'or-ganizzazione spaziale fondata su centri "minori", di piccole dimen-sioni e/o caratterizzati da situazioni di marginalità che, in molti casi, sono in grado di garantire ai residenti soltanto una limitata accessi-bilità ai servizi essenziali. Seppur rilevanti in t...

Introduzione.-La cornice geopolitica mondiale che caratterizza questo periodo, mentre viene scritta tale riflessione, vede qualsiasi dinamica condizionata dal conflitto in Ucraina, soprattutto con riferimento alle problematiche energetiche. Il PNRR è stato concepito ed avviato preliminarmente all'invasione russa in Ucraina e dunque ora occorre ri-a...

Il presente contributo, partendo dai dati del Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), il principale database delle agenzie investigative del governo statunitense, analizza da un punto di vista geografico le dinamiche relative all’andamento dei posti di lavoro nei diversi settori produttivi pre- e post-pandemia.L’approccio metodologico proposto si basa su...

L’articolo intende contribuire al dibattito per l’Istituzione del Parco Nazionale del Fiume Ofanto ed è occasione per riflettere sulle nuove funzioni delle aree protette in Italia. Le riflessioni che vengono svolte partono dall’esperienza realizzata dalla Provincia BAT – Barletta Andria Trani nell’ambito della gestione del Parco Regionale “Fiume Of...

A fundamental objective for the effectiveness and, above all, for the efficiency of the dynamics of environmental sustainability is related to the correct directing of project actions towards those areas that need them most. This contribution intends to verify whether the spatial distribution of eco-innovation projects in some regions of Southern I...

This paper examines the transboundary water resources conflict resolution mechanisms. Although different research perspectives, including social planner, water market, game theory, static and dynamic systems engineering model, have already provided conflict resolution mechanisms that could be used to analyze transboundary water conflicts, here an e...

In recent months, the COVID-19 pandemic has been fervently considered from the perspective of various disciplines in the scientific community. Many of the proposed approaches are tied to reflections on the imminent and future effects of the pandemic. This contribution begins with a study of the recent past in Italy, analyzing the hurdles in politic...

In this paper a sensor data fusion approach for characteristics field monitoring, based on time variance control model, is proposed. Distributed sensing and remote processing are the basic features of the employed architecture. In fact, in order to obtain meaningful information about the temporal and spatial variations, which characterize the field...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in urban areas are increasingly relevant, with a consistent impact on various territories. This research explores the re-territorialization processes, contextualized by the post-Fordism era, in urban areas. The objective of this work is to verify a hypothesis assumed at the base of the research relating to the pr...

For several years, the themes concerning agglomeration economies have been approached from different perspectives in the scientific debate, as capable of triggering various positive features. The present research starts precisely where many others arrive, that is, given the value of these externalities, analyzing the spatial distribution of the geo...

Urban dynamics in recent years show a tendency that cannot be ignored in terms of the impacts that they induce, with regard to many companies, especially big companies, that are settled in the downtown districts of the main cities, where economic spaces are blended with urban spaces. This study, therefore, aims to investigate the sustainability of...

The disruptive explosion of technology that has characterised these last decades has, erroneously, been considered in an early period as the main plan of interest for the studies of global phenomena, especially smart phenomena, while instead the exact opposite is true, because these phenomena represent projections of the new micro-urban phenomena t...

Il contributo riporta la sintesi di un'attività di ricerca triennale svolta nell'ambito di un progetto finanziato dal Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico. L'obiettivo del lavoro è verificare l'influenza di configurazioni topologiche delle imprese, in forma clusterizzata o indipendente, e tipologiche in termini di diverso settore industriale di loro...

A dichotomy often frequent in the context of geographic studies concerns the dualism between propagation and induction models-based phenomena, inherent in variables and factors characterizing contiguous areas, and research relating to homogeneity between geographically not closed areas. In the wake of the latter research, this contribution proposes...

The scientific debate on Special Economic Zones (SEZ) shows many contributions, however the present work intends to offer an original perspective to this theme based on a comparison, through a systemic approach, between the sociourban variables, that make up the symbiotic relationships between SEZ, and urban society. A focus on the SEZ settled in t...

This is the era of the fourth industrial revolution. It is characterized by new, digital spaces in which individuals, especially digital natives, operate. It is in this new framework that digital spaces and physical urban spaces either mutually and constructively reinforce each other or destructively exclude each other. A conceptual reflection rega...

In Africa today there is a real startup explosion of remarkable value. There are several research and innovation hubs in the African continent, such as Silicon Cape, South Africa, and Silicon Savannah, Kenya. How are these initiatives autonomous and how can the more globally famous valley of innovation, Silicon Valley, inspire them? Above all, whic...

Typical of the 1990s, the global cities phenomenon preceded the past decade’s massive spread of smart cities. Yet the question of how the two phenomena currently coincide remains to be considered, as well as an analysis based on viewing smart cities as global cities. An analysis related to the European scenario is developed in this article, aimed a...

San Giovanni a Teduccio, a downtrodden suburb of Naples, Italy, is a far cry from Silicon Valley, USA. The crumbling apartment buildings, the walls covered in both graffiti and death notices and the ubiquitous clothes lines hung outside people’s windows do not leave the impression that this neighbourhood is a centre for high technology. And yet it...

The “smart city” has risen to global prominence over the past two decades as an urban planning and development strategy. As a broad but contested toolkit of technological services and policy interventions aimed at improving the efficacy and efficiency of urban systems, the “smart city” is subject to several pressing critiques. This paper acknowledg...

This paper focuses on the spatial development problem of university-led innovation in peripheral urban areas. Highlighting issues of proximity, uneven geographic development, and multi-scalar urban governance as weaknesses of the regional innovation systems literature, we provide a novel synthesis of regional economics, innovation policy, and criti...

To approach, in a scientific form, the issue of the analysis of the innovative character of the city of Naples, is a delicate and risky operation: positive and negative consolidated city representation paradigms represent a cumbersome burden which physiologically should be taken in charge. Any approach to the "Naples" issue, from the landscape, his...

With the growing competition in a globalized world, universities are seen as the key organizations and supporters in the national innovation system (Audretsch et al. 2006). Thus, national and regional policy makers try to set incentives for innovations and to increase the innovative potential of universities and to use it effectively. A large and d...

Education is the main activity for universities but the innovations resulting from their research become more and more a prominent and very lucrative business for them.University research and its transfer to industry has been a topic of interest in the management of technology literature over decades and several researchers focused the performances...

The aim of this paper is to give an answer to the question “how to detect the regional dimension of innovation?”. So, in this paper, a method to be used as an operational tool that is able to grasp regional specificities in the innovation process, based on the optimization of measurement activity, is proposed. Evidence in the scientific literature...

The traditional control charts are based on the assumption that the measurement data relating to the average of each subgroup of the parameters under observation of a specific quality characteristic of product, process, system or service, are reported regardless of time stability of its own parameters. This condition is generally not verified in re...

In many fields of electrical applications, the energy management process, is always more becoming one of the main process should be controlled and monitored. Itpsilas necessary to reach the optimum and, in the same time, the cheaper system working conditions. Particularly in the field of naval electrical system, where there are many environmental f...

This paper proposes an innovative design of a Web-sensor network for environmental monitoring of the electromagnetic pollution. A remote control application allows to process acquired data and available information by an original data fusion procedure. The aim is to verify the compliance of the exposure levels to electromagnetic field with the limi...

In [1] the Author presented a new approach to quality management of naval electrical systems, based on the identification of the electrical energy generation and distribution process with a common industrial process in which apply all SPC tools. Particularly, a comparative analysis on power quality standards either dedicated for ships was done and...

In this paper a telemedicine application in support of heart patients homecare is proposed. Diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias typically requires heart monitoring for 24 or 48 consecutive hours, so it causes long waiting lists in hospital. In this sight the authors have projected an user-friendly virtual assistant able to acquire and analyze patient...

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This paper leads to provide a methodological procedure, in order to establish optimal calibration intervals according to the reference standards. At this aim a virtual instrument has been developed to perform the proposed procedure. Generally speaking, the goal of a calibration process is to reduce out-of-tolerance occurrences to an acceptable leve...

In this paper the authors describe the implementation of a smart sensor based on microcontroller for the extraction of new conceived power quality indexes. The work is carried on starting from the improvement of three indexes presented in a previous work (De Capua et al., 2004) for exhaustively detecting voltage sags. After an examination of the lo...

In the paper the authors propose the improvement of three new power quality indexes presented in a previous work (De Capua, 2004) for exhaustively detecting voltage sags. In fact, during the indices' experimental assessment, some weak points of the previous presented indices have arisen. After indices' correction, ANOVA analysis have been performed...

In the paper, an analytical model based on measurement indexes is developed to assure the property of reliability of a Web server's network. The proposed approach, making use of a fault tolerant technique, allows data transmission optimization in dispatching process. Simulations, representative of different operative conditions of network, evaluate...

In the paper the authors propose an original approach for uncertainty estimation in decision-making problems. By an innovative analysis of incorrect decision probabilities associated with the considered process, the used statistical model allows to estimate the maximum uncertainty that can affect the measurement system. Starting from statistical in...

Assessment of risks connected with exposure to electromagnetic fields at either low or radio frequencies requires appropriate evaluation of the value read on probe's display – whose variability depends on both EM field and measurement system – with respect to the actual value of the underlying monitored process. That can be accomplished through a s...

The present paper gives a quality measurement methodology based on a complex analysis of internal and external indicators and of the relationship existing between the two ones. The result of the proposed methodology application is to dispose of an operative tool to apply appropriate corrective actions to get the quality characteristic monitored on...

In industrial field, one of the most advan-tages, derived from the industrial automation process im-plementation, is possibility to regulate process control pa-rameters. It allows parametric optimisation methodologies application. In the paper an innovative methodology for the produc-tive processes qualification based on quality characteristics imp...