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Dr. Simona Mancini
University of Salerno

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Journal article
Published: 30 July 2021 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Among the physical pollutants affecting indoor air, the radioactive gas radon may turn out to be the most hazardous. Health effects related to radon exposure have been investigated for several decades, providing major scientific evidence to conclude that chronic exposures can cause lung cancer. Additionally, an association with other diseases, such as leukemia and cancers of the extra-thoracic airways, has been advanced. The implementation of a strategy to reduce the exposure of the population and minimize the health risk, according to the European Directive 59/2013/Euratom on ionizing radiations, is a new challenge in public health management. Starting from an understanding of the general state-of-the-art, a critical analysis of existing approaches has been conducted, identifying strengths and weaknesses. Then, a strategy for assessing the radon exposure of the general population, in a new comprehensive way, is proposed. It identifies three main areas of intervention and provides a list of hazard indicators and operative solutions to control human exposure. The strategy has been conceived to provide a supporting tool to authorities in the introduction of effective measures to assess population health risks due to radon exposure.

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Simona Mancini; Martins Vilnitis; Michele Guida. A Novel Strategy for the Assessment of Radon Risk Based on Indicators. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18, 8089 .

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Simona Mancini, Martins Vilnitis, Michele Guida. A Novel Strategy for the Assessment of Radon Risk Based on Indicators. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18 (15):8089.

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Simona Mancini; Martins Vilnitis; Michele Guida. 2021. "A Novel Strategy for the Assessment of Radon Risk Based on Indicators." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 15: 8089.

Journal article
Published: 29 June 2021 in Applied Sciences
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A vehicular road traffic noise prediction methodology based on machine learning techniques has been presented. The road traffic parameters that have been considered are traffic volume, percentage of heavy vehicles, honking occurrences and the equivalent continuous sound pressure level. Leq A method to include the honking effect in the traffic noise prediction has been illustrated. The techniques that have been used for the prediction of traffic noise are decision trees, random forests, generalized linear models and artificial neural networks. The results obtained by using these methods have been compared on the basis of mean square error, correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination and accuracy. It has been observed that honking is an important parameter and contributes to the overall traffic noise, especially in congested Indian road traffic conditions. The effects of honking noise on the human health cannot be ignored and it should be included as a parameter in the future traffic noise prediction models.

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Daljeet Singh; Antonella Francavilla; Simona Mancini; Claudio Guarnaccia. Application of Machine Learning to Include Honking Effect in Vehicular Traffic Noise Prediction. Applied Sciences 2021, 11, 6030 .

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Daljeet Singh, Antonella Francavilla, Simona Mancini, Claudio Guarnaccia. Application of Machine Learning to Include Honking Effect in Vehicular Traffic Noise Prediction. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11 (13):6030.

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Daljeet Singh; Antonella Francavilla; Simona Mancini; Claudio Guarnaccia. 2021. "Application of Machine Learning to Include Honking Effect in Vehicular Traffic Noise Prediction." Applied Sciences 11, no. 13: 6030.

Journal article
Published: 14 May 2021 in Sustainability
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To reduce environmental noise pollution and to safeguard people’s well-being, it is urgently necessary to move towards sustainable urban development and reconcile demographic and economic growth with the protection and restoration of the environment and the improvement of the quality of human lives. This challenge should be a concern to policymakers, who must issue regulations and define the appropriate actions for noise monitoring and management, and citizens, who must be sensitive to the problem and act accordingly. Starting from an analysis of several crowdsourcing noise data collection tools, this paper focuses on the definition of a methodology for data analysis and mapping. The sound sensing system, indeed, enables mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to become a low-cost data collection for monitoring environmental noise. For this study, the “NoiseCapture” application developed in France by CNRS and IFSTTAR has been utilized. The measurements acquired in 2018 and 2019 at the Fisciano Campus at the University of Salerno were integrated with the kernel density estimation. This is a spatial analysis technique that allows for the elaboration of sound level density maps, defined spatially and temporally. These maps, overlaid on a campus facilities map, can become tools to support the appropriate mitigation actions.

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Gabriella Graziuso; Simona Mancini; Antonella Francavilla; Michele Grimaldi; Claudio Guarnaccia. Geo-Crowdsourced Sound Level Data in Support of the Community Facilities Planning. A Methodological Proposal. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5486 .

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Gabriella Graziuso, Simona Mancini, Antonella Francavilla, Michele Grimaldi, Claudio Guarnaccia. Geo-Crowdsourced Sound Level Data in Support of the Community Facilities Planning. A Methodological Proposal. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5486.

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Gabriella Graziuso; Simona Mancini; Antonella Francavilla; Michele Grimaldi; Claudio Guarnaccia. 2021. "Geo-Crowdsourced Sound Level Data in Support of the Community Facilities Planning. A Methodological Proposal." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5486.

Journal article
Published: 16 January 2021 in Sustainability
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In order to manage noise pollution and reduce its environmental impact and health outcomes, several regulations have been issued in the last few decades, defining acoustic indicators and their thresholds. However, the acoustic environment can be considered a resource, focusing on people’s subjective perception of sounds in accordance with the soundscape approach. The integration of the tools, already applied by the legislation, and the soundscape technique produces a more thorough and comprehensive evaluation of the environmental noise that is necessary for its management. Starting from the best practice of the soundscape in urban planning, this paper presents an application of this approach at the Fisciano campus of the University of Salerno (Italy). The overarching goal is the comparison between the physical parameters, obtained by measuring the sound pressure level, and the psychoacoustic ones, derived by questionnaires given to a group of local experts during a soundwalk. The results will show, for example, some areas characterized by high sound pressure levels and a good perception of the soundscape. As a consequence, the application would seem to have discrepancies between the results of the two methods, but a deeper analysis can reveal further information to the traditional measurements that allow a more accurate knowledge of the acoustic environment.

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Simona Mancini; Aurora Mascolo; Gabriella Graziuso; Claudio Guarnaccia. Soundwalk, Questionnaires and Noise Measurements in a University Campus: A Soundscape Study. Sustainability 2021, 13, 841 .

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Simona Mancini, Aurora Mascolo, Gabriella Graziuso, Claudio Guarnaccia. Soundwalk, Questionnaires and Noise Measurements in a University Campus: A Soundscape Study. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):841.

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Simona Mancini; Aurora Mascolo; Gabriella Graziuso; Claudio Guarnaccia. 2021. "Soundwalk, Questionnaires and Noise Measurements in a University Campus: A Soundscape Study." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 841.

Journal article
Published: 21 December 2020 in Materials
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Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas present in the hydrosphere, lithosphere and atmosphere abundantly. Its ionizing radiation provides the largest human internal exposure by inhalation and ingestion to natural sources, constituting a serious health hazard. The contribution to total exposure is mainly due to inhalation, as ingestion by food or drinking water is typically very small. However, because of public health concerns, the contributions from all these sources are limited by regulations and remedial action should be taken in the event that the defined threshold values are overcome. In this paper, the first campaign of measurements to control the radon activity concentration in drinking water from public water supplies in the province of Salerno, south Italy, is described. The results represent a main reference for the area, as it was never investigated before. The purpose of this survey was to contribute to data compilation concerning the presence of radon-222 in groundwater in the Campania region and to determine the associated risk for different age groups. The maximum radon activity concentrations and the related total annual public effective dose turned out to be lower than the threshold values (100 Bq/l and 0.1 mSv/y, respectively) indicated by international guidelines and the national regulation, showing that the health risks for public consumption can be considered negligible.

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Enver Faella; Simona Mancini; Michele Guida; Albina Cuomo; Domenico Guida. Alpha Spectrometry of Radon Short-Lived Progeny in Drinking Water and Assessment of the Public Effective Dose: Results from the Cilento Area, Province of Salerno, Southern Italy. Materials 2020, 13, 5840 .

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Enver Faella, Simona Mancini, Michele Guida, Albina Cuomo, Domenico Guida. Alpha Spectrometry of Radon Short-Lived Progeny in Drinking Water and Assessment of the Public Effective Dose: Results from the Cilento Area, Province of Salerno, Southern Italy. Materials. 2020; 13 (24):5840.

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Enver Faella; Simona Mancini; Michele Guida; Albina Cuomo; Domenico Guida. 2020. "Alpha Spectrometry of Radon Short-Lived Progeny in Drinking Water and Assessment of the Public Effective Dose: Results from the Cilento Area, Province of Salerno, Southern Italy." Materials 13, no. 24: 5840.

Journal article
Published: 05 November 2020 in Advances in Geosciences
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The aim of this paper is to analyse and discuss the results of the regional program Rad Campania for the monitoring and the assessment of the radon risk. An innovative methodology, based on a geogenic approach, was developed, supported by a comprehensive campaign of radon measurement performed in soil gas, natural waters, drinking natural water samples and indoor air. Data refer to field measurements carried out in three provinces of the Campania Region (Italy): Salerno, Avellino and Benevento. The programme was completed with the main purpose to investigate the peculiarities of the radon issue at a provincial scale and to redact a map of the radon potential from soil as a tool for authorities to recognise critical areas (“Radon prone areas”) to monitor. Since the experience demonstrates that the high radon potential from soil is not indicative of high indoor radon concentrations, in this paper the authors have tried to identify a possible general correlation between geological features of the soil and structural characteristics of the buildings, elaborating more in depth all data collected. The main purpose is to categorize and analyse the performance of different kind of construction, typical of the local area, in order to develop, in a future work, an indicator of the building performances as a useful tool, for authorities, to recognise constructions potentially more exposed to high indoor radon activity concentrations. Results and perspectives have been discussed.

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Simona Mancini; Michele Guida; Albina Cuomo; Domenico Guida. A geogenic approach for the Radon monitoring and the exposure assessment at a regional scale: The results of the Rad_Campania project. Advances in Geosciences 2020, 52, 87 -96.

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Simona Mancini, Michele Guida, Albina Cuomo, Domenico Guida. A geogenic approach for the Radon monitoring and the exposure assessment at a regional scale: The results of the Rad_Campania project. Advances in Geosciences. 2020; 52 ():87-96.

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Simona Mancini; Michele Guida; Albina Cuomo; Domenico Guida. 2020. "A geogenic approach for the Radon monitoring and the exposure assessment at a regional scale: The results of the Rad_Campania project." Advances in Geosciences 52, no. : 87-96.

Proceedings
Published: 01 January 2020 in Environmental Sciences Proceedings
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The operational management of tanks for urban water distribution networks is usually a critical element due to the dynamic nature of the water demand and the age of the distribution networks themselves. Today, in a context of water resource scarcity, optimal management is a key point for the sustainable management of urban systems. For this purpose, it is useful to implement predictive tools, able to provide short-term forecasts to inform urban water managers on the most suitable procedure to be applied in the case of routine or critical events. A possible approach is to use autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models, which combine the autoregression and the moving average approaches, with the possibility to work on a differenced series of the data. They can further embed a seasonal- component (Seasonal ARIMA models), to account for possible periodic patterns in the observed data. In this study, the data of water levels measured from May 2018 to 10 January 2019 in a water storage tank in the area of Benevento, Campania region (Italy), were considered as a case study. The standard ARIMA techniques were applied to find the best model for this dataset, according to “Deviance Information Criterion” (DIC) and “Bayesian Information Criterion” (BIC) optimization. The results are discussed, shedding light on the behaviour of the time series with reference to the management of the infrastructure and the dataset. The residual analysis, carried out to check if the autocorrelation was still present and if the residuals were normally distributed, revealed a narrow distribution. Small values were found throughout the dataset, except for a few periods, corresponding to the imputed data. This application represents a preliminary step of more detailed research that will be carried out to detect the best model for forecasting tank levels for the case study to help to manage the urban water supply.

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Claudio Guarnaccia; Antonia Longobardi; Simona Mancini; Giacomo Viccione. Drinking Water Tank Level Analysis with ARIMA Models: A Case Study. Environmental Sciences Proceedings 2020, 2, 33 .

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Claudio Guarnaccia, Antonia Longobardi, Simona Mancini, Giacomo Viccione. Drinking Water Tank Level Analysis with ARIMA Models: A Case Study. Environmental Sciences Proceedings. 2020; 2 (1):33.

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Claudio Guarnaccia; Antonia Longobardi; Simona Mancini; Giacomo Viccione. 2020. "Drinking Water Tank Level Analysis with ARIMA Models: A Case Study." Environmental Sciences Proceedings 2, no. 1: 33.

Conference paper
Published: 30 July 2018 in AIP Conference Proceedings
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A model has been developed for the calculation of the Radon activity concentration in indoor air, taking into account all the different important parameters responsible of the global Radon dynamics, from its generation into the source (soil, water or building material) to its accumulation in confined spaces. The Radon accumulation into buildings is mainly due to the transport from the soil dominated by diffusion, pressure driven flow or a mixture of both depending on the real conditions. Experimental observations and measurements were carried out on different sites in the Campania Region (Italy) to gain valuable information about the various parameters influencing the indoor Radon level. The acquired results indicate that, generally, in the regional area, indoor Radon accumulation is not only due to the transport from the ground to the building, driven by pressure differences, through the basement, but it is also due to the direct exhalation from building materials. So, aim of this work was to refine a physical mathematical model of the Radon dynamics, developed in a previous work by the authors, by gathering and incorporating realistic experimental values. A graphical plot has been elaborated for an easy visualization and interpretation of the data.

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Simona Mancini; Michele Guida; Albina Cuomo; Domenico Guida; Asaad H. Ismail. Modelling of indoor radon activity concentration dynamics and its validation through in-situ measurements on regional scale. AIP Conference Proceedings 2018, 1982, 020043 .

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Simona Mancini, Michele Guida, Albina Cuomo, Domenico Guida, Asaad H. Ismail. Modelling of indoor radon activity concentration dynamics and its validation through in-situ measurements on regional scale. AIP Conference Proceedings. 2018; 1982 (1):020043.

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Simona Mancini; Michele Guida; Albina Cuomo; Domenico Guida; Asaad H. Ismail. 2018. "Modelling of indoor radon activity concentration dynamics and its validation through in-situ measurements on regional scale." AIP Conference Proceedings 1982, no. 1: 020043.

Conference paper
Published: 25 October 2017 in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
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The main purpose of the work described in this paper has been to establish the protocol for a new non-disruptive technique of intervention, based on microwave treatment, for cleaning operations on monumental historical buildings, to eliminate biodeteriogens infesting stones. Non-destructive methods in the cleaning operations, should not only preserve the physical integrity, the chemical-mineralogical and structural identity of materials, but, when the exhalation of pollutant agents (like for example Radon gas) from building materials is considered, also, make the indoor air quality (IAQ) levels healthy. Therefore, one of the main steps of the protocol proposed in this paper is concerned with the assessment of the Radon exhalation rate in order to verify that microwave treatments do not increase the Radon naturally exhalated by building materials. In this paper, the preliminary results of the Radon measurements performed on two different type of tuff samples (grey tuff and yellow tuff), typical of the Italian traditional construction heritage, with the E-PERM passive technique at the Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory (Amb.Ra.), University of Salerno, Italy, ISO 9001:2008 certified, are summarized.

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S Mancini; E Caliendo; M Guida; B Bisceglia. Preliminary assessment, by means of Radon exhalation rate measurements, of the bio-sustainability of microwave treatment to eliminate biodeteriogens infesting stone walls of monumental historical buildings. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2017, 251, 012026 .

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S Mancini, E Caliendo, M Guida, B Bisceglia. Preliminary assessment, by means of Radon exhalation rate measurements, of the bio-sustainability of microwave treatment to eliminate biodeteriogens infesting stone walls of monumental historical buildings. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2017; 251 (1):012026.

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S Mancini; E Caliendo; M Guida; B Bisceglia. 2017. "Preliminary assessment, by means of Radon exhalation rate measurements, of the bio-sustainability of microwave treatment to eliminate biodeteriogens infesting stone walls of monumental historical buildings." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 251, no. 1: 012026.