An intelligent building from an existing building: integrated redevelopment, innovative storage system for energy from renewable sources

Innovative Approaches to the Dynamic Behavior of Rockfall Protection Embankments

MEASURING THE CIRCULARITY OF CHEMISTRY-BASED PROCESSES: MESO AND MICRO LEVEL APPLICATIONS

Chemistry is a fundamental piece of the production networks, which nowadays, all over the world, are dealing with the management of their environmental, economic and social impacts. Chemistry is behind many sectors, in a more or less visible guise, such as behind pharmaceutical, food, leather, packaging, automotive, construction and buildings, energy, even recovering and recycling operations. Given these interconnections, this research in the sustainable manufacturing field has focused partic...

Designing Collaborative Governance and Innovation Trajectories for Urban and Regional Transitions: The Role of Boundary Objects, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, and Grassroots Institutionalisation

Real-time 4D-dose calculation to assess the efficacy of motion mitigation strategies

In radiotherapy, precise dose delivery to the tumor while sparing healthy tissue is crucial for treatment success. This challenge is even greater in particle therapy, where sharp dose gradients increase sensitivity to anatomical uncertainties. Respiratory motion, common in thoracic and abdominal tumors, can cause significant displacements that compromise dose conformity and efficacy. Various motion mitigation techniques, such as gating, rescanning, and tracking, have been developed, with adap...

NARRARE L’EPIGRAFIA NEI SITI DELLA CITTÀ GRECA ANTICA. UN PROGETTO DIGITALE PER IL PAESAGGIO EPIGRAFICO ATENIESE

La tesi si propone di esaminare il problema della comunicazione dell’epigrafia, greca in particolare, al di fuori della comunità scientifica. La scienza delle iscrizioni pone infatti numerosi ostacoli alla fruizione, a partire da un primo livello materiale e testuale. Ma per comprendere appieno le motivazioni della scarsa comunicabilità delle iscrizioni in contesto di fruizione è necessario considerare il più ampio quadro della Rivoluzione Digitale e dei cambiamenti che ha inevitabilmente app...

Surfactant-Polymer interaction at the Liquid-Solid Interface

The scientific study of colloidal interactions gocs back to the nincteenth century, although colloids have been used by humanity since the beginning of time. Noncthcless, our level of understanding of colloidal interactions is still insufficient to predict many phenomena. This thesis is an attempt to build a colloidal toolbox for a wide extent of applications starting from the different colloidal interactions that take place during the removal of proteic "dirt" from hard surfaces. The toolb...

Advanced garment modeling for object-centric assistive dressing policies

Despite the growing demand for intelligent robotic systems and the substantial progress achieved in related domains such as rigid object manipulation, the field of garment manipula- tion continues to face considerable challenges and remains comparatively underdeveloped. This lag is primarily due to the intrinsic complexity of garments as manipulation targets. Unlike rigid objects, garments are characterised by extreme thinness, a high-dimensional configuration space, frequent self-occlus...

Indicatori di attività insediativa ed estrattiva nella Liguria orientale attraverso analisi territoriale LiDAR-drone e indagini archeologiche di superficie. Studio dell’impatto delle trasformazioni permanenti ed elaborazione di un modello predittivo.

This research investigates the long-term transformations produced by settlement and extractive activities in the eastern Ligurian landscape (NW Italy), which remain morphologically detectable even after their abandonment. The study employs innovative tools for spatial and morphological analysis, notably UAV-mounted LiDAR sensors (UAV-LiDAR), to examine how human interventions have reshaped and structured the environment. Through digital modelling and spatial analysis, the project aims to iden...