Pt. F. Microfluidics : theory, methods and applications. Moving boundary problems for the BGK model of rarefied gas dynamics / G. Russo. Experimental investigation on parameters for the control of droplets dynamics / F. Sapuppo, F. Schembri and M. Bucolo. Rapid prototyping of Thiolene microfluidic chips / G. Mistura ... [et al.]. Development integrated inductive sensors for magnetic immunoassay in "lab on chip" devices / B. Ando ... [et al.] -- pt. G. Mathematical modelling of dynamic systems for volcano physics. Wavelet multi-resolution analysis for the local separation of microgravity anomalies at Etna volcano / F. Greco ... [et al.]. Integrated inversion of numerical geophysical models using artificial neural networks / A. Di Stefano ... [et al.]. SPH modeling of lava flows with GPU implementation / A. Herault ... [et al.]. 3D dynamic model for channeled model flows with nonlinear rheology / M. Filippucci, A. Tallarico and M. Dragoni. Clustering of infrasonic events as tool to detect and locate explosive activity at Mt. Etna volcano / P. Montalto ... [et al.]. Lava flow susceptibility map of Mt. Etna based on numerical simulations / A. Cappello, C. Del Negro and A. Vicari. Automated detection and analysis of volcanic thermal anomalies through the combined use of SEVIRI and MODIS / G. Ganci ... [et al.]. Modeling volcanomagnetic dynamics by recurrent least-square support vector machines / S. Jankowski ... [et al.] -- pt. H. Geometric control for quantum and classical models.

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