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International audience; The archaeological investigations for the underground stations (Lines 1 and 6) in Municipio square, in Naples, brought to light a sector of the harbour of Neapolis active from the Hellenistic period until Late Antiquity. At the beginning of the 5th century this area of the bay siltedup progressively and, as a consequence, the coast line advanced and the harbour moved towards east. The excavations of the stratigraphy concerning the silting up of the bay and the abandon/reuse of the surrounding buildings found a great quantity of pottery datable between the 5th and 7th centuries AD. In this report are presented the results of the archaeometric analyses conducted on a first selection of numerous samples of North African pottery, amphorae, coarse and cooking wares sherds. The studies carried out determine and circumscribe in most cases the production areas of the artefacts arriving from Tunisia, both from the Hammamet gulf and from workshops of the Tunisian Sahel.

Si mostra Caponapoli, l'acropoli di Napoli, in una nuova mappa topografica basata sull'elaborazione di dati con Spaceborne Digital Elevation Models.&nbsp

Kainua è il il nuovo nome ora associato al sito etrusco presso Marzabotto e significa Neapolis. Iniziamo uno studio sulla letteratura riguardante tale sito da quanto disse Francis John Haverfield di Marzabotto, nel suo Ancient Town-Planning (1913, Oxford: Clarendon). Si parlerà anche del templum inaugurale, in relazione alle planimetrie assiali, come discusse da Ferdinando Castagnoli. Un'altra famosissima Neapolis, Napoli, verrà considerata. La città ha anche lei, come Kainua, la planimetria basata su tre decumani. Verrà anche fatto il confronto con una città, Torino, che ha la tipica planimetria romana, basata su decumano e cardine massimi, planimetria radicalmente diversa da quella di Kainua. Si discuterà anche l'arx di Kainua e la sua orientazione astronomica. Sempre per confronto, con mappe topografiche, si mostrerà la collina di Sant'Elmo (Napoli) e Spaccanapoli, ma anche la sua acropoli Caponapoli. Per Torino si suggerirà il Monte dei Cappuccini come arx. &nbsp

Kainua è il il nuovo nome ora associato al sito etrusco presso Marzabotto e significa Neapolis. Iniziamo uno studio sulla letteratura riguardante tale sito da quanto disse Francis John Haverfield di Marzabotto, nel suo Ancient town-planning (1913, Oxford: Clarendon). Si parlerà anche del templum inaugurale, in relazione alle planimetrie assiali, come discusse da Ferdinando Castagnoli. Un'altra famosissima Neapolis, Napoli, verrà considerata. La città ha anche lei, come Kainua, la planimetria basata su tre decumani.&nbsp

Treball desenvolupat en el marc del programa "European Project Semester". Diabetes is a growing health issue worldwide due to the increasing numbers of people with the condition and diabetes-related complications including an increased risk of developing cardiovascular, kidney, and nerve diseases. A worldwide increment of 51% is expected between 2019 and 2045 resulting in 700 million diabetes patients in 2045. The sustained rise is largely due to the increase in type 2 diabetes and related risk factors. This is on the social level caused by increasing urbanization leading to higher consumption of processed food and sedentary lifestyles. Type 2 diabetes can be managed through lifestyle modifications including physical activity, a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy body weight, and smoking cessation. Social programs can help patients with the lifestyle changes. However, internet-based programs to promote physical activity and weight loss may be more successful than social programs and usual care. Therefore, the goal of this project was the design and development of an application to positively influence the behaviour of type 2 diabetes patients resulting in reduced drug dependency and increased quality of life. In addition, an overview of the patients’ data would be provided to the doctor to monitor the patients’ health between appointments and provide better care to the patient. The application is running, but it is still a prototype. The main features of the application are defined by user research and market research. The features activity tracker, body weight tracker, diabetes information, dynamic stretch exercises, the gamification element “pet” and personal notifications are implemented in the application. In addition, the data is visualized for the doctor. The heartrate tracker and gamification elements except for the pet are not implemented in the application. The user interface (UI) design is almost completed and not implemented in the application. The current lay-out is simple, easy to use for people of all age groups, and self-explanatory. The end software framework is developed and running. The users’ data including the number of steps, body weight, battery level, and location are sent to Sentilo. Sentilo sends the data to InfluxDB and the data is visualized in Grafana. The connection between Android Studio and Sentilo is tested and works. The connection between Sentilo, InfluxDB, and Grafana is not tested yet. The application is quite basic and could be improved by fine-tuning the working of the implemented sensors and implementing the gamification design and UI design. Incoming

In this paper, we present the results of a multidisciplinary study aimed to reconstruct the Roman coastal landscape between Pizzofalcone hill and Megaris islet&mdash, the area of the ancient Parthenope, the first settlement along the Naples coast. This coastal sector was surveyed by a team of specialized divers (archaeologists and geomorphologists) and by using an Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) equipped with acoustic and optical sensors. The indirect surveys provided a high-resolution dataset of morpho-acoustic and optical measurements, useful to obtain the geological, geomorphological and archaeological interpretations necessary to formulate hypotheses on the functionality of the complex submerged archaeological structure detected in the study area. In particular, the integration between the surveyed data, the high-resolution seafloor mapping and the previous knowledge deriving from the 1980s underwater research carried out by Centro Studi Subacquei, led us to interpret the submerged remains as a vivarium related to a 1st century BC Roman villa. Finally, by measuring the submersion of several channels and a well-preserved crepido, a relative sea level during the period of use at &ndash, 2.2 m &plusmn, 0.2 m mean sea level (MSL) was deduced, in agreement with the previous geoarchaeological studies realized in the near coastal sectors.

Treball desenvolupat en el marc del programa "European Project Semester". The paper reviews the study of the state of the art of Fabrication Laboratories in order to implement them on Neàpolis buildings. The Neàpolis Fabrication Laboratories Project is conducted by a team of 4 international students participating in the European Project Semester 2019 in cooperation with Neàpolis agency. There is a lack of existing platform that encourages the maker culture, innovative ideas and creative thinking skills in Vilanova I La Geltrù. Therefore, Neàpolis proposed a project to develop Fabrication Laboratories into their buildings to provide the mentioned platform. This concept is going to be implemented in the Neàpolis main building, the La Nau building from Neàpolis district and the sea container building. First of all, a researched on the general information about Fabrication Laboratories, the differences between Maker Space and the existing Fabrication Laboratories were carried out. Next, several proposals for the designs and implementation of the Fabrication Laboratories were done for each of the three buildings. Subsequently, a single final proposal was chosen for each building and a list of machines and equipment was put together for the Fabrication Laboratories. Afterwards, the constructions and installation processes needed was carefully analyzed. Over the whole planning period, the overall cost estimations of Fabrication Laboratories in each building was calculated to give an idea of the project budget. This project shows that the Fabrication Laboratories concept is applicable for Neàpolis and hence, will provide a suitable platform for development of innovative ideas. Besides that, different designs of Fabrication Laboratories in different places around the world would still serve the same purposes and functionalities. The hybridization concept could also be achieved along with this existing platform. Moreover, the said platform would make Vilanova I La Geltrú be a part of the knowledge-sharing community across the world. Therefore, it is hoped that this project will be physically carried out by Neàpolis in the future as there is a lot of positive outcomes of this project. Incoming

Since the discovery of the ancient harbor of Naples in 2004 during construction work on an underground railway, geoarchaeological studies undertaken on the archaeological excavation have revealed the main stratigraphic and paleo-environmental levels of the harbor site near the Piazza Municipio. However, knowledge of the dynamics and paleoenvironmental changes in the water column of the harbor, as well as the processes of transport and deposition of sediments that led to siltation and infilling of the harbor basin, has been lacking due to the absence of high-resolution data. To fill these gaps, we have undertaken a threedimensional study (longitudinal, transverse and vertical) of the harbor deposits by carrying out geochemical and sedimentological analyses of four stratigraphic sections of the archaeological excavation. The results show that after a phase of relative calm during the first half of the 1st c. AD, siltation of the harbor progressed exponentially up to the 5th c. AD, when dredging operations were carried out to obtain a water level sufficient for the development of maritime and harbor activities. We attribute this acceleration of siltation to a combination of climatic, anthropic and volcanic factors. Volcanic activity was responsible for a high-energy, tsunami-type event during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. From the 5th c. AD onwards, the harbor basin of Neapolis does not appear to have been functional as evidenced by its transformation into a lagoon following coastal progradation. The last stage of infilling was the development of a flood-dominated fan delta under the combined influences of climatic cooling in the Early Medieval Cool Period and agro-pastoral activities in the catchment area of the harbor. Several generations of paleo-channels, containing flash flood deposits, as well as sheet wash from sheet floods, are indicative of high environmental instability in this period.

Treball desenvolupat en el marc del programa "European Project Semester". The CRAAX team is a research group that studies smart scenarios. One of the projects they are working on consists of running different simulations on a testbed of a smart city and it is essential for them to have functional elements inside, meaning they can test any scenario efficiently. As the buildings currently used on the testbed do not meet the requirements they need, the objective of this project is to redesign three buildings so that they can interact with other elements of the testbed in simulations and improve the general aesthetics. The outcome of this project is three functional buildings that can interact with other elements and improve the aesthetics of the testbed. The creation process of the structures and the final result will be explained. Incoming

This paper reviews the different logical possibilities in the case of a small group of copper coins struck under the emperor Heraclius that have been traditionally attributed to a town named Neapolis. The difficulty in identifying the location of this Neapolis, usually identified as either Nablus in Palestine or Limassol in Cyprus, is highlighted, as is the doubt even as to whether the group is really attributable to any town of this name.

Treball desenvolupat dins el marc del programa 'European Project Semester' i l' "International Design Project Semester". Sea containers are used globally for shipping and have been for over 60 years, there are millions of them worldwide sitting unused in ports, recently individuals and businesses are realising the potential of this and using them to construct permanent buildings faster and cheaper than traditional buildings. Neàpolis, an innovation agency situated in Vilanova i la Geltrú identified the potential of sea container for a new business property. The present report details the project “Sea Container Building” during the European Project Semester 2017, completed by six international students at Escola Politècnica Superior d’Enginyeria de Villanova i la Geltrú (EPSEVG) in cooperation with Neàpolis Neàpolis encountered a problem due to a lack of space to expand their business so they announced the above-mentioned project. The task given to the team was to design, analyse and plan a new multipurpose building using sea containers as the primary building material which should be constructed on the site next to the main Neàpolis headquarters. First of all, general information about sea containers and existing sea container buildings was researched. Secondly the requirements set by Neàpolis were written down. The new construction must consist of a cowork office space, a maker space, a bar/café and an exhibition hall offering space for at least 30 people altogether. Thirdly the building site is examined and the urban regulations are analysed. At present the plot is qualified as a Green Zone, thus it is not allowed to build. However solutions to change this circumstance exist and should not limit the project. Followed by various research about the climate and eco aspects which led to several exterior design concepts which were then refined into a final design and agreed upon by all stakeholders. Based on the design and the plot characteristics a foundation type was chosen and the sewage piping was planned. At the same time as the exterior finishing the interior layout started in close relation with each other. Floor plans and electrical plans are created. Furniture is chosen and the interior layout is completed. Furthermore the construction process is planned to estimate the construction time and compare it to a classic concrete building. Over the whole planning the costs are monitored and calculated with estimated and researched numbers for each element to give as precise a total cost estimation as possible and to also compare it to classic concrete buildings like the construction time. A conclusion and an outlook (list of next steps) are completing this report.

New data on the ancient landscape of Naples (southern Italy) during the middle and late Holocene from geo-archaeological excavations associated with public transport works were used to reconstruct the hill and coastal environment to the west of the ancient Graeco-Roman polis, where remains of human settlements date to the late Neolithic. The rich stratigraphic and archaeological records that emerged from the digs and from previous boreholes were measured and analysed by combining sedimentary facies analysis, tephrostratigraphy and archaeological data. Between the 5th and 4th millennia BP, a rocky profile with a wave-cut platform cutting across pyroclastites emplaced from the surrounding volcanoes was predominant in the coastal landscape. During the 3rd millennium BP, this rocky coast was progressively replaced by a sandy littoral environment primarily due to marine deposition, with a coastline located some hundred meters inland with respect to the modern one. The sedimentary record of the Greek and Roman periods indicates short-term fluctuations of the coastline, leading to the establishment of a backshore environment towards the end of the 6th century AD, when prograding river mouths and lobes of debris flows contributed to the advancing trend of the shoreline. The frequent archaeological remains from these periods indicate a stable settled area since Roman times. The shoreline was still subject to short-lived fluctuations between the 12th and 16th centuries, and attained its present position during the modern era with man-made reshaping of its profile. The construction of Relative Sea Level curves for two coastal sites reveals that the persistence of the foreshore environment in the Naples coastal strip during the 5th and 4th millennia BP was controlled by the counterbalancing effect of either the concurrent eustatic sea level rise or subsidence. On the other hand, the morpho-stratigraphic record for the last two millennia shows a significant correlation between sedimentation rate and settlement history, accounting for the dominant role of the anthropogenic forcing-factor in late Holocene landscape history. In particular, land mismanagement during Late Antiquity seems to have triggered a slope disequilibrium phase, exacerbating soil erosion and increasing the sediment accumulation rate in both foothill and coastal areas. Nonetheless, the environmental changes of the Chiaia coast during the last 2000 years clearly show volcanic–tectonic perturbations influencing coastline development up to the modern era.

International audience; The influence of a sophisticated water distribution system on urban development in Roman times is tested against the impact of Vesuvius volcanic activity, in particular the great eruption of AD 79, on all of the ancient cities of the Bay of Naples (Neapolis). Written accounts on urbanization outside of Rome are scarce and the archaeological record sketchy, especially during the tumultuous fifth and sixth centuries AD when Neapolis became the dominant city in the region. Here we show that isotopic ratios of lead measured on a well-dated sedimentary sequence from Neapolis’ harbor covering the first six centuries CE have recorded how the AD 79 eruption was followed by a complete overhaul of Neapolis’ water supply network. The Pb isotopic signatures of the sediments further reveal that the previously steady growth of Neapolis’ water distribution system ceased during the collapse of the fifth century AD, although vital repairs to this critical infrastructure were still carried out in the aftermath of invasions and volcanic eruptions.

Il contributo è una rilettura della documentazione in nostro possesso per le fasi di età romana delle terme di Agnano (NA), alla luce di nuove campagne di scavo.

Treball desenvolupat dins el marc del programa 'European Project Semester'. Since a few years, the civil engineering world can see a changing about how to preserve and monitor the structures. Thanks to the system of Smart Structures we can notice the early damages on the structure and anticipate the future. This science is already applied on bridges and now different researches work on buildings, such as the company Neàpolis in Vilanova i la Geltrú. As participators of European Project Semester at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya a feasibility study and cost analysis for the implementation of Smart Structure systems had to be done. This has been an assignment of the innovation agency Neàpolis, which was founded in 2007 by the city council of Vilanova I la Geltrú. The outcome of this project should be a cost-benefit-analysis, which compares the costs to the savings and recommendations for the implementation of sensors in the Sant Antoni church and the Neàpolis building. The research has been done in order to give Neàpolis an indication whether Smart Structures are feasible to put into buildings by lowering maintenance cost and improving the life span of buildings. There is not a known study that is similar to this project, in our knowledge this is the first feasibility study on Smart Structure Systems that has been performed. This is why the research is of importance to the company. Because it has been not possible to gain a great deal of useful information from the internet, the assistance of the supervisors Félix Ruiz Gorrindo and Pau Martí and third parties has been necessary. In this report you can read on the one hand about the way research has been done. First there are pointed out the most important advantages of Smart Structures. Then there are information about the research of sensors and pathologies that could occur in buildings and how they are related to the project. Our supervisors have been given us lectures about civil engineering to explain the different ways of how a building can be constructed. On the other hand you can find information about the planning of the implementation of the Smart Structures in the Neàpolis building and the Parroquia Arciprestal Sant Antoni Abat (Sant Antoni church). The buildings are both located in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain. After the inspection of both buildings and the transfer of the blueprints we were looking for the best positions for the sensors in the buildings. Therefrom we deduced different concepts for the implementation based on different states of intensities. Relation to these results formulas has been created to show from which point the implementation of Smart Structure systems in buildings is feasible. There are proposed formulas for the feasibility in time as well as formulas for the break-even-point. Also the different parameters are explained in this report. In the end an example of the Neàpolis building was realised, to prove that the proposed formulas are meaningful. With the gathering of all the information a conclusion has been drawn on which recommendations have been given.

An epitaph preserved in Nabeul Museum (Tunisia) mentions Iulia Regula, and the agnomen stolata which, in the current state of epigraphic documentation, is an unicum in Roman Africa., Une épitaphe conservée au musée de Nabeul (Tunisie) mentionne Iulia Regula et l’agnomen stolata qui, dans l’état actuel de la documentation épigraphique, constitue un unicum en Afrique romaine., Fantar Mounir. Iulia Regula siue Stolata : une matrona neapolitana ?. In: Antiquités africaines, 49,2013. pp. 215-217.

La formazione del paesaggio storico urbano del Centro Antico di Napoli nasce dalla conciliazione tra luoghi naturali e luoghi antropizzati; con la fondazione di Neapolis nel 475 a.C si forma il tipico paesaggio della polis greca, modello di armonia tra comunità e individuo, dove il bello, il buono e l'utile erano beni da condividere democraticamente. Quindi alla base della costruzione di Neapolis c'è un'astrazione filosofica, esemplificata nei paradigmi della pianificazione ippodamea che possono essere ancora letti. Nel Centro Antico è custodita una biodiversità culturale che si è stratificata nel corso della storia unitamente ad una biodiversità naturale che serba in sé le tracce dell'antropizzazione che ha trasformato la produzione vegetale spontanea in produzione programmata utile all'uomo. Ancora oggi il paesaggio urbano del centro antico evoca l'immagine dello spazio verde della città greca. Il dialogo tra il paesaggio dei luoghi antichi e quello dei luoghi attuali si traduce nella lettura delle stratificazioni che si sono formate nel corso del tempo. L'astrazione tecnologica di questi luoghi può essere perseguita utilizzando la tecnologia GIS che è lo strumento ideale per realizzare questo dialogo, in quanto collega logicamente informazioni descrittive alla geografia dei luoghi così da richiamare i dati contestualmente al loro spazio e alla loro storia. Gli illimitati strati informativi che possono realizzarsi con il GIS consentono di realizzare la modellazione/astrazione dei valori della biodiversità culturale e della biodiversità naturale custoditi dal paesaggio urbano del centro antico di Napoli. Il monitoraggio ambientale di questo paesaggio urbano può essere perseguito utilizzando le piante delle aree verdi residue attivando studi di bioindicazioni per controllare la qualità dell'aria. Dalle piante possono essere ricavate informazioni utili a rilevare le aree più inquinate e documentare le variazione dei tassi di inquinamento atmosferico nel tempo.

Tra il 1954 e il 1955, in località Torrette di Mercogliano, presso Avellino, si rinvenne un miliario ancora in situ, oggi conservato nel giardino dell’ex Carcere Borbonico di Avellino. Sul miliario, realizzato impiegando una pietra già sommariamente prelavorata per ricavare una statua di donna, compaiono due iscrizioni, eseguite in tempi diversi. La prima, che ricorda l’imperatore Giuliano, è databile fra il 361 e il 363, la seconda, che menziona Valentiniano II, Teodosio e Arcadio, risale a un periodo compreso fra il 383 e il 392. Le indicazioni numerali poste su entrambe le facce del miliario indicano che la pietra era stata collocata a quattro miglia da Avellino e a tre miglia da un’altra località, corrispondente all’odierna Monteforte Irpino, lungo la strada che collegava Abellinum con Neapolis, passando per Avella e Nola., Between 1954 and 1955, at Torrette di Mercogliano, near Avellino, a milestone was found still in situ. Now is preserved in the garden of the ex Carcere Borbonico of Avellino. On the milestone, made using a stone already summarily carved to make a statue of a woman, there are two inscriptions carved at different times. The first, with the name of the emperor Julian, is dated between 361 and 363, the second, which mentions Valentinianus II, Theodosius and Arcadius, dates between 383 and 392. The numeral indications placed on both sides of the milestone indicate that the stone was located four miles from Avellino and three miles from another place, corresponding to today’s Monteforte Irpino, along the road that connected Abellinum with Neapolis, through Avella and Nola.

Hb Villejuif [beta123(H1)Thr--Ile] is a silent and asymptomatic variant described in 1989 in an 87-year-old woman of French origin suffering from coincidental polycythemia vera. This paper reports the second observation of Hb Villejuif in three related subjects from Montesarchio, Southern Italy. All routine techniques for hemoglobin analysis yielded normal results with the exception of a slight increase in the Hb A2 value. The occurrence of a variant beta-globin was rapidly assessed by liquid chromatography mass spectrometric analysis and the abnormal chain purified by high performance liquid chromatography. The amino acid replacement Thr--Ile at beta123 was determined by tandem electrospray mass spectrometric analysis of the tryptic digest of the variant beta chain. The corresponding DNA mutation was established as C--T at the second position of codon 123 (ACC--ATC) by polymerase chain reaction amplification techniques.