University of Sannio

About: University of Sannio is a education organization based out in Benevento, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The organization has 1278 authors who have published 6125 publications receiving 167577 citations. The organization is also known as: Università degli Studi del Sannio & Universita degli Studi del Sannio.

A Tale of CI Build Failures: An Open Source and a Financial Organization Perspective

Abstract: Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are widespread in both industrial and open-source software (OSS) projects. Recent research characterized build failures in CI and identified factors potentially correlated to them. However, most observations and findings of previous work are exclusively based on OSS projects or data from a single industrial organization. This paper provides a first attempt to compare the CI processes and occurrences of build failures in 349 Java OSS projects and 418 projects from a financial organization, ING Nederland. Through the analysis of 34,182 failing builds (26% of the total number of observed builds), we derived a taxonomy of failures that affect the observed CI processes. Using cluster analysis, we observed that in some cases OSS and ING projects share similar build failure patterns (e.g., few compilation failures as compared to frequent testing failures), while in other cases completely different patterns emerge. In short, we explain how OSS and ING CI processes exhibit commonalities, yet are substantially different in their design and in the failures they report.

Salting out of methane by sodium chloride: A scaled particle theory study.

Abstract: The salting out of methane by adding NaCl to water at 25°C and 1atm is investigated by calculating the work of cavity creation by means of scaled particle theory and the methane-solvent energy of attraction. The latter quantity changes to little extent on passing from pure water to an aqueous 4M NaCl solution, whereas the magnitude of the work of cavity creation increases significantly, accounting for the salting out effect. There is quantitative agreement between the experimental values of the hydration Gibbs energy and the calculated ones. The behavior of the work of cavity creation is due to the increase in the volume packing density of NaCl solutions, since the average effective molecular diameter does not change, being always 2.80A. The same approach allows the rationalization of the difference in methane salting out along the alkali chloride series. These results indicate that, fixed the aqueous solution density, the solubility of nonpolar species is mainly determined by the effective diameter of so...

Compensation of hysteresis in magnetic field sensors employing Fiber Bragg Grating and magneto-elastic materials

Abstract: The paper proposes a novel magnetic field sensor where a technique for hysteresis compensation is employed. The sensor integrates a magnetostrictive material with a Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) strain sensor. Because of hysteresis and non-linear phenomena taking place in such materials, the sensor’s performances may be sensibly reduced. To this aim, magneto-elastic material is accurately modelled in order to compensate hysteresis. In particular, the proposed approach allows to embed the compensation algorithm in the developed device, yielding to a more linear response of the sensor and to a reliable reconstruction of magnetic field. Results are shown and discussed.