The research examines the appearance of new figures of segregation and displacement following the turn in European migration governance. As new governmental instruments of containment, dispersal and concentration combine, new geographies of mobility and immobility (Tazzioli & Garelli, 2018) gradually reshape the spaces of the ‘urban diaspora’ described by Arbaci (2018) and new figures of global and urban displacement intertwine, reshaping cities, mobilities, and subjectivities (Roast et a...
The advent of digital media has profoundly transformed the literary sphere, affecting both the production and consumption of content. While numerous studies have examined these changes descriptively, this work seeks to provide a more nuanced theoretical understanding of the interactions between technology, literature, and society. By focusing on digital spaces where literary communities take shape, the analysis highlights the dynamics that shape contemporary practices of reading, interpretati...
This thesis addresses a fundamental limitation in contemporary network modeling: the inability of traditional graph-based approaches to effectively capture complex, multidimensional relationships that characterize real-world systems. While hypergraphs naturally represent higher-order interactions, current hypergraph neural networks suffer from over-smoothing, where node representations become too uniform during propagation, limiting their effectiveness.
This thesis introduces cellular sheaf ...
Our environment is fundamentally structured and geometric, a quality reflected in the data we collect. By exploring the symmetries and geometric properties inherent in complex systems, we can significantly improve the performance of deep learning models, even when data availability is limited. This dissertation investigates the integration of geometric principles into learning tasks, with a particular emphasis on real-world applications. Based on the evolving field of Geometric Deep Learning,...
La presente tesi di dottorato indaga le coperture protettive dei siti archeologici come soluzioni per la loro conservazione in situ, analizzando casi studio e prospettive metodologiche all'interno del contesto mediterraneo e approfondendo il caso del Parco archeologico di Ostia antica.
Attraverso una panoramica storica e un’analisi dello stato dell’arte, viene affrontata l’evoluzione delle pratiche di copertura e i diversi approcci conservativi che hanno influenzato il modo in cui i resti a...
Procedural modeling has long offered resolution-independent, editable
representations for computer graphics, yet the inverse estimation of
procedural parameters, interactive editing, and collaborative version control
remain challenging. In this work, we present a suite of complementary techniques
that tackle these issues. First, we introduce a method for recovering the
parameters of procedural vector patterns, defined as collections of standard
graphics primitives arranged by arbitrary ...
Il carcinoma ovarico rappresenta una delle principali cause di decesso associata a neoplasie tra le donne. L'elevato tasso di mortalità associato a questa malattia è prevalentemente dovuto alla diagnosi tardiva, all'assenza di test di screening efficaci e allo sviluppo di meccanismi di resistenza alla chemioterapia. Gli attuali criteri prognostici e predittivi non sono sufficienti per anticipare la recidiva o prevedere la risposta ai trattamenti terapeutici.
Le moderne tecniche di biologia m...
The Final Bronze Age (12th-10th century BC) in the Italian peninsula marks a pivotal transition in funerary practices, characterized by the widespread adoption of the 'urnfield' model. This period witnessed a relative homogenization of the cremation rite across the peninsula, extending as far as Sicily. Currently, only four urnfield sites in Southern Italy are sufficiently documented. A seminal discovery in this context occurred in 1901 when Domenico Ridola and Quintino Quagliati unearthed an...
Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges of the modern era. Due to the increasing suffering of the Planet and living beings for environmental transformations that are, in most cases, generated by human conduct, a broad body of research has worked to identify factors leading to pro-environmental behaviors. Strikingly, several aspects were deepened, except cognitive representations of ecological events.
Thus, my research contributions aimed to fill this gap, investigating for ...
Dark Matter (DM) is one of the outstanding questions to which the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics still has no answer. There is a large body of evidence which points to the existence of a non-baryonic matter component in the Universe, interacting with ordinary matter only through gravity. Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) have always been an appealing DM candidate, as they naturally account for the amount of DM seen nowadays. For this reason, different experiments have been...