«Una croce e un cartellino d’inventario». Studio critico sull’opera di Fleur Jaeggy

This thesis is concerned with the work of Swiss Italian writer Fleur Jaeggy (Zürich,1940). Well-known in Italy, as much as abroad, for her cold, brief, detached style, but rather neglected by the critics. In this thesis I try to demonstrate that by researching the intertextual relationships between her work and that of two writers she either befriended (as Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann) or translated (as Marcel Schwob), and finally, by putting in relationship her work with the western mys...

Robotic Contextual Awareness for Human-Robot Collaboration and Environmental Understanding

The transition of autonomous mobile robots from controlled industrial settings to dynamic, human-centric environments, such as manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare, has made their safe and autonomous operation a critical area of research. These sophisticated machines must be capable of perceiving, understanding, and interacting with their surroundings to navigate freely and perform complex tasks. A significant obstacle to achieving this is the lack of comprehensive contextual awareness, w...

Development of a Novel Thermal Shock test for isostatically Pressed Carbon-Bonded Refractories

In refractory engineering, assessing thermal shock resistance is crucial for flow-control components such as ladle shrouds, tundish nozzles, and slide gates. Chemical, mechanical, and thermal degradation of these parts can produce severe safety, environmental and economic consequences in steel plants. Standardized tests, however, may not fully characterize the damage evolution and failure modes that occur under real service conditions. To address this gap, we developed a novel thermal-shock t...

LA MUSICA SACRA A MILANO FRA L'ETA' DI SAMMARTINI E L'EPISCOPATO DEL CARDINALE GAISRUCK: NUOVE ACQUISIZIONI ARCHIVISTICHE

Il lavoro di tesi, dedicato alla musica sacra a Milano fra l’età di Giovanni Battista Sammartini e l’episcopato del cardinale Karl Kajetan von Gaisruck, si propone di ricostruire in modo organico il quadro liturgico-musicale milanese tra il lungo Settecento e l’età della Restaurazione, superando letture storiografiche parziali o inficiate da pregiudizi ideologici. Attraverso un’attenta ricognizione e analisi delle fonti primarie – partiture, documentazione archivistica, cronache, gazzette, ep...

Il "consenso" come veicolo della transizione digitale - Una necessaria armonizzazione tra reale e virtuale

Valutare la giustizia spaziale nei processi di rigenerazione urbana. La valutazione di impatto sociale come strumento di insorgenza (italiano)

La giustizia spaziale implica l’organizzazione e la gestione dello spazio e la distribuzione delle risorse in modo equo, con l’obiettivo di affrontare le disuguaglianze strutturali che attraversano le città. Adottare un approccio orientato alla giustizia spaziale significa interrogare criticamente i processi di trasformazione urbana, le relazioni di potere che li strutturano e le modalità con cui vengono coinvolte, o escluse, le comunità locali. In questo quadro, la valutazione di Impatto So...

INTEGRATED AND MULTI-SCALE CHARACTERISATION OF GEM MATERIALS LACKING LONG-RANGE ORDER. THE CASE STUDIES OF CHRYSOCOLLA AND ANDEAN BLUE OPAL

The PhD research project was focused on the integrated and multi-scale characterisation of gem materials lacking long-range structural order. These materials, positioned between crystalline and completely amorphous systems, present significant challenges in terms of classification and characterisation, due to their intrinsic heterogeneity and complexity, which conventional analytical techniques are often unable to investigate properly. However, these characteristics are often responsible for ...

AN ECOLOGICAL CRITIQUE TO DIGITAL BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH THE CASE OF ESPORTS

An expanding body of research in organisational studies and information systems characterises modern industries as systems comprising interconnected participants, utilising the ecosystem metaphor. This concept has been increasingly applied to examine platforms and innovation processes across both traditional and digital industrial sectors, particularly in scenarios where complementarity, interdependence, and non-hierarchical structures define the interactions among networked organisational en...

DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIALS AND ELECTRODES FOR MICROBIAL BIOELECTROLYSIS SYSTEMS AND MONITORING OF MICROBIOLOGICALLY INFLUENCED CORROSION

The global energy transition toward carbon neutrality demands innovative technologies that integrate renewable electricity with sustainable carbon management strategies. This doctoral thesis addresses critical challenges in Power-to-X systems by investigating three interconnected research areas: oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysis for efficient hydrogen production, microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) in biological methanation environments, and bioelectrochemical CO₂ conv...