Symposium Guide
Some useful information
From the airport to the city centre
From the airport you can reach your hotel by taxi or by airport shuttle Volabus.
Taxi cost is very variable depending on the traffic and it starts form about 20÷25€.
Volabus is of course subject to a timetable, it takes about 30 minutes to reach the city centre
with
several
stops,
and
it
costs
6€.
More
information
available
at
http://www.amt.genova.it/rete_e_orari/volabus_new.asp
Reaching the symposium location
The symposium location, Palazzo Ducale, is located in Piazza De Ferrari, the very centre of the
city. Piazza De Ferrari is easily reachable with a short and nice walk from the hotels in the city
centre or near the old harbour. Hotels near Principe require a bit longer walk of about 20
minutes.
Nevertheless it is possible to reach it by bus or by metro. There are a lot of buses stopping in
piazza De Ferrari and coming from both sides of the city, you may ask for details to your hotel.
The metro reaches Piazza De Ferrari from Brignole station, first stop 5 min, or from Principe
station, fourth stop, about 15 minutes.
Since we are in a public building, please remember not to leave laptops, phones or any other
valuables unattended.
Public transport tickets
Genova has a good buses network and a short but efficient metro connecting the two main
railway stations, Brignole and Principe, and passing through the city centre and Piazza De
Ferrari. You can buy tickets and the newsagents and tobacconist shops and railway stations.
A standard ticket cost 1.5€ and last for 100 minutes with free access to
the metro.
If you plan to use public transports several times in a single day you may
purchase a Genova-Pass 24h ticket fro the first stamp, for 4.5€.
There is the possibility to have a 24h ticket for 4 people travelling
together for 9€.
Beside that a carnet of 5 24h tickets is available for 18€
Finally if you plan to visit some city museums you may be interested in a
museum+buses card, giving access to 22 museums and to the public
transports for 24 h at 13.5€ or 48h at 20€.
More information available at http://www.museidigenova.it/
More
travel
information
available
http://www.amt.genova.it/tariffe/2013/viaggiatore_occasionale.asp
at
Shops, chemist’s and banks
Several shops, coffee shops and restaurants are available in the surroundings of the symposium
location. There are several supermarkets also, the closest is just behind theatre Carlo Felice
exiting the congress location on the opposite side of Piazza De Ferrari, on the left.
Shops are normally open 9 ÷ 12:30 – 15:30 ÷ 19:30 from Monday afternoon to Saturday.
Food shops may follow a slightly different timetable and they may be closed on Wednesday
afternoon.
Chemist’s usually open from Monday to Friday 8:30÷19:30, while on Saturday and Sundays they
follow a shift so it is necessary to find out the nearest one open.
Supermarkets are normally open continuously up to 20 in the evening and on Sunday morning.
Banks are generally open Monday-Friday 8:30 ÷ 13:45 and 14:45÷15:45, but the timetable and
the opening days may vary from bank to bank.
Short walks
Exiting the symposium location there are several possibilities for a relaxing walk and a visit to
the city, here you have just some ideas.
Piazza Matteotti and Santo Stefano Cathedral : exiting
Palazzo Ducale on your right after few steps you will find
Piazza Matteotti, with the other entrance to Palazzo
Ducale and crossing the square you will be in a
pedestrian area with on your right the Cathedral The
pedestrian area continues down to the old harbor.
Piazza San Matteo: exiting Palazzo Ducale on going on
your left you will find vico San Matteo and briefly you
will reach a typical small square with a pleasant church
devoted to San Matteo.
The Palace Street: a bit longer walk (about 500m)
keeping the left side of Piazza De Ferrari will bring you
in Via 25 Aprile, in Piazza Fontane Marose and on your
left you will find Via Garibaldi with its historical palaces.
Finally a shopping tour in Via XX Settembre facing just in
front of Palazzo Ducale in Piazza De Ferrar
Since you are visiting an historical center, use the typical
care to avoid inconveniences.
Just in front of Sala Camino, room A, there is the Historical Archives of the City of Genova,
where it is possible to visit the collection of weights and measures adopted in Genova before the
introduction of the metric system. The archive is open Wed-Thu 9-12:30 and 14-17, Fri 9-12:30.
Symposium Generalities
In the organization of Symposium programme we have tried to use as few parallel session as
possible in order to give the attendees the possibility to follow as many presentations as possible
and to have the maximum exchange of knowledge.
The first day the symposium will be located in two rooms: Sala del Minor Consiglio (A) and Sala
Camino (B).
Symposium opening, welcome addresses and first keynote lecture will be given in Sala del Minor
Consiglio (A), then two parallel sessions are foreseen. Next days keynote lectures (9:30) and
sessions will be given in Sala Camino (B).
Lunches and breaks, which are all included in the symposium fees, will be served in the
colonnade just outside Sala Camino (B), where on Thursday after lunch there will be a Poster
session.
The first day we will have a welcome dinner in pizzeria in front of the sea in the old harbor.
Let’s meet just outside palazzo Ducale on Piazza De Ferrari at 18:45.
On Thursday late afternoon a guided tour is foreseen, please make sure to be confortable for a
walk in the city. Meet us with the guides at 17:45 in front of Palazzo Ducale. Then we will have
the Symposium dinner in the Cathedral cloister.
Arriving in the cloister at about 19:30, we will visit the museum, then we will have a cocktail.
Music performances will introduce dinner and dessert.
Programme at a glance
IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13
Genova, 4-6 September 2013
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 4
Room A - Minor Consiglio,
Room B -Sala Camino
Thursday 5
Room B - sala Camino
08:30 09:00
Registration
09:00 09:30
Conference opening
09:30 10:30
Keynote talk 1
Luca Mari and Mark Wilson
Room B
10:30 11:00
Break
11:00 13:00
09:30 10:30
09:30 10:30
10:30 11:00
Break
10:30 11:00
Session B7
Modelling in measurement
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13:00 14:15
Lunch
13:00 14:15
Lunch
Lunch
Poster session
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Coffee & Tea
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Welcome Pizza
Meeting TC13 14:20 14:40
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Session A3 HumanSession B3
related
Advanced
measurements II
instrumentation
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18:45
Break
Session B4
Foundations of measurement
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16:30 17:50
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Session B1
Uncertainty
evaluation
Session B2
Session A2 HumanMeasurement of
related
measurements I human behaviour
16:00 16:30
Session B6
Education in mesurement
Keynote talk 2
Luigi Accardi
Room B
Session A1
Clinical
measurements
13:00 14:15
14:20 16:00
Friday 6
Room B - sala Camino
Break
Session B5
Cell-related
measurements
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Meeting TC1
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17:45
City Tour & Conference dinner
Conference closing
Meeting TC7
Detailed programme
Wednesday 4th September
8:30 Registration
9:00 - Conference opening - room A - Sala Minor Consiglio
9:30 - Keynote Lecture, room A - Sala Minor Consiglio
Prof. L- Mari and M. Wilson - A gentle introduction to Rasch measurement models for
metrologists
10:30 Coffee Break in the colonnade
11:00 Session A1: Clinical measurements, room A, Sala Minor Consiglio
Chairs: Prof. R Summers, Prof. M P Sassi
R. Summers, T. Abdulla,
Delta-Notch Lateral Inhibition within the Organ of Corti
R. Luff
L.
Mortati,
C.
Divieto,
Scaffold characterization using NLO multimodal microscopy in
M.
Boffitto,
S.
Sartori,
metrology for regenerative medicine
G. Ciardelli, M. P. Sassi
A Vehkaoja, M Peltokangas Extracting the respiration cycle lengths from ECG signal
and J Lekkala
recorded with bed sheet electrodes
A. Affanni, R. Specogna,
F. Trevisan
L. Scalise, S. Casaccia,
P. Marchionni, I. Ercoli,
E. P. Tomasini
R Giannetti, M.A. SáenzNuño,
J.M.Valderrama,
D.A.Fernandez
Ex vivo Time Evolution of Thrombus Growth through Optical
and Electrical Impedance data fusion
Muscle activity characterization by laser Doppler myography
Design and test of a semiautomated system for metrological
verification of noncontact clinic thermometers
11:00 Session B1: Uncertainty evaluation, room B, Sala Camino
Chairs: Prof. Z L Warswa, Prof.J A Sousa
J. A. Sousa, A. B. Forbes,
The evaluation of uncertainty in mass calibration: possible
A. S. Ribeiro, P. M. Harris,
approaches in a comparison study
F. Carvalho, L. Bacelar
M L C C Reis, J B P Falcao Uncertainty in airflow field parameters in a study of shock
Filho and M C C Araújo
waves on flat plate in transonic wind tunnel
Z. L. Warsza
Evaluation of the type A uncertainty in measurements with
autocorrelated observations
F. Pavese
Why should correction values better known than the measurand
true value?
C Hernández, R Tutsch
Consideration of the Measurement Uncertainty in the Assembly
of Components Characterized by High Dimensional Variation
L. Fabbiano, N. Giaquinto, M.
Observations on the worst case uncertainty
Savino, G. Vacca
13:00 Lunch in the colonnade
14:20 Session A2: Human-related measurements I, room A, Sala Minor Consiglio
Chairs: Prof. W P. Fisher, Prof. V A Granovski
Overcoming the Invisibility of Metrology: A Reading
W. P. Fisher Jr, A.J. Stenner
Measurement Network for Education and the Social Sciences
A. J. Stenner, W.P. Fisher Jr
Metrological Traceability in the Social Sciences: A Model from
Reading Measurement
From Concrete to Abstract in the Measurement of Length
A. Stephanou, W. P. Fisher Jr
R. W. Massof, K. M. Schmidt,
Merging Psychophysical and Psychometric Theory to Estimate
D. M. Laby, D.Kirschen,
Global Visual State Measures from Forced-Choices
D. Meadows
V. A. Granovskii
Measurement as cognitive and applied problem
14:20 Session B2: Measurement of human behavior, room B, Sala Camino
Chairs: Prof. B. Berglund, Prof. M. Wilson
P. J. Thomas
Methods for measuring risk-aversion: problems and solutions
N. Bezruczko
Theory-Based Parameterization of Semiotics for Measuring Preliteracy Development
C. Sundling, B. Berglund,
M. E Nilsson,R. Emardson,
L. Pendrill
E D Fitkov-Norris,
A Yeghiazarian
Measuring Study Habits in Higher Education: The Way
Forward?
M Agus, M Peró-Cebollero,
J Guàrdia-Olmos, M P Penna
The measurement of statistical reasoning in verbal-numerical
and graphical forms: a pilot study
New perspective on the accessibility of railway transport for
the vulnerable traveller
16:00 Coffee and tea in the colonnade
16:30 Session A3: Human-related measurements II, room A, Sala Minor Consiglio
Chairs: Prof. R. Morawski, Prof. S. Khan
PCA-based algorithm for calibration of spectrophotometric
R. Z. Morawski and A. Miękina
analysers of food
E Aristovich and S H Khan
Non-invasive measurement of cholesterol in human blood by
impedance technique: an investigation by 2D finite element
field modelling
F. Crenna, E. Zappa, L. Bovio,
Implementation
of
perceptual
R.
Testa,M.
Gasparetto,
in a face recognition algorithm
G.B. Rossi
F
Cannella,
L
Scalise,
E Olivieri, M Memeo
Dynamic Investigation Test-rig on hAptics (DITA)
and D G Caldwell
aspects
16:30 Session B3: Advanced instrumentation, room B, Sala Camino
Chairs: Prof. L Pendrill, Prof. S. Takayama
S.Takayama,
J.Akiyama, Wireless Sensing Node Network Management for Monitoring
T. Fujiki, N.A.B.Mokhtar
Landslide Disaster
J. Dobiliene , A. Meskuotiene,
E. Raudiene
Problems in choosing methods and tools for conformity
assessment of prepackages at the manufacturer
A test procedure for energetic and performance analysis of cold
appliances for the food industry
F. Armani, A. Boscolo
L Elkarous, F Coghe, M Pirlot Review of experimental techniques for ballistic pressure
and J C Golinval
measurements and recent development in means of calibration
18:45 Meeting in front of Palazzo Ducale , walk to the harbor and welcome dinner in pizzeria
Rosso Pomodoro, Via Calata Molo Vecchio 16-18, at about 19:15
Thursday 5th September
9:30 - Keynote Lecture, room B - Sala Camino
Prof. L- Accardi - Urns and Chameleons: two metaphors for two different types of measurements
10:30 Coffee Break in the colonnade
11:00 Session B4: Foundations of measurement, room B, Sala Camino
Chairs: Prof. S. V. Muravyov, Prof. E. Benoit
New scale classi cation within the representational theory of
E. Benoit
measurement
G.B. Rossi and F. Crenna
Probability as a logic for measurement representations
S
V
Muravyov
Intransitivity in multiple solutions of Kemeny Ranking Problem
and I A Marinushkina
L. Mari, A. Maul, D. Torres Quantification
Irribarra, M. Wilson
Measurement
is
Neither
Necessary
Nor
Sufficient
for
A. Maul, D. Torres Irribarra,
On the conceptual foundations of psychological measurement
M. Wilson
F R Camargo and B Henson
Aligning physical elements with persons’ attitude: an approach
using Rasch measurement theory
13:00 Lunch in the colonnade
14:20 Poster Session in the colonnade with coffee break at 15:45
Chairs: Prof. J.Holub, Prof. G.B. Rossi,Prof. R Summers
The importance of risk-aversion as a measurable psychological
P. J. Thomas
parameter governing risk-taking behaviour
P Mlejnek, P Kašpar
Frequency analysis of DC tolerant current transformers
V A Granovskii, T N Siraia
Modelling adequacy of calibration curves
characteristics of measuring instruments
and
dynamic
Conception and development of an optical methodology
L Lages Martins,J M Rebordão,
applied to long-distance measurement of suspension bridges
A Silva Ribeiro
dynamic displacement
M.
Pertile,
E. Lorenzini
S.
Debei, Uncertainty analysis of a stereo system performing ego-motion
measurements in a simulated planetary environment
L R Pendrill
Quantifying Human Response: Linking metrological and
psychometric characterisations of Man as a Measurement
Instrument
P Otomański, P Zazula
The experimental verification of metrological properties of
direct current Watt-hour meter
O.
Slavata,
J. Holub
P.
Souček, New Concept of Laboratory Exercise
Measurements Using Thermocouple
Selection
of
spectroscopy
M. Kowalewski
F.
Crenna,
V. Belotti
G.B.
Rossi,
excitation
signals
for
on
Temperature
high-impedance
An investigation on probabilistic relations in measurement
A Tura, S Sbrignadello, Conductivity measures coupled with treatment with
E Mambelli, P Ravazzani, ion-exchange resin for the assessment of sodium concentration
in physiological fluids: analyses on artificial solutions
A Santoro, G Pacini
Ilaria Ercoli, Paolo Marchionni
and Lorenzo Scalise
A wearable multipoint ultrasonic travel aids for visually
impaired
C M Goloni, G P Temporao
and E Costa Monteiro
Metrological reliability of optical coherence tomography in
biomedical applications
S. Gonçalves,
R. Carneiro Martins
Non-contact wearable single forearm cardiac biopotential
acquisition device
14:20 TC 13 meeting– room B, sala Camino
15:40 - Coffee break in the colonnade
16:10 Session B5: Cell-related measurements, room B, Sala Camino
Chairs Prof. R. Carneiro Martins, Prof. D. Robinson
A. Affanni, A. Corazza,
Protein Aggregation Measurement through Electrical Impedance
G. Esposito, F. Fogolari,
Spectroscopy
M. Polano
A Demichelis, S Pavarelli,
Study on the AFM Force Spectroscopy method for elastic
L Mortati, G Sassi, M Sassi
modulus measurement of living cells
C.Divieto, G.Sassi, M.P.Sassi
Uncertainty analysis of cell counting by metabolic assays
D Robinson
Thalamocortical ‘memory’ oscillators: The brain mechanisms
required to account for short-term memory, associative
learning, cognition and consciousness
16:10 TC 1meeting – Meeting room
17:45 Meeting in front of Palazzo Ducale , city tour and social event
Friday 6th September
9:30 Session B6: Education in measurement, room B, Sala Camino
Chairs: Prof. J. Holub, Prof. S. Topfer
D. Hofmann, P.G. Dittrich, Modular Applications with Smartphones and Smartpads in Shape,
E. Düntsch, D. Kraus, Color and Spectral Measurements for Industry, Biology and
C. Gärtner, R. Klemm
Medicine plus Science, Education and Training
O. Bruna,
J. Holub
P.
Souček, Incorporating human
engineering class
stress
measurements
into
biomedical
P. Souček,
J. Holub
O.
Slavata, Innovation of laboratory exercises in course Distributed systems
and computer networks
10:30 Coffee Break in the colonnade
11:00 Session B7: Modelling in measurement, room B, Sala Camino
Chairs Prof. L. Mari, Prof. F. Crenna
Fit
for
purpose
models
for
metrology:
L Wright, T J Esward
selection methodology
a
model
L. Mari, A. Mencattini
A structured strategy of concept definition in measurement: the
case of ‘sensitivity’
G. E D’Errico
The problem of false discoveries from a metrological point of view
F. Pavese
Problems in implementing some of the new measurement unit
definitions of the SI
K. H. Ruhm
Are fluctuating measurement results instable, drifting or nonstationary? – A survey on related terms in Metrology
Yu P Machehin,
Yu S Kurskoy
Features of entropy analysis of measurement results in nonlinear
dynamical systems
13:00 Lunch in the colonnade
14:20 Symposium closing addresses – room B, sala Camino
15:00 TC 7meeting – room B, sala Camino