In my dissertation I argue that Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Fasti should be read together as twin poems forming a diptych.
Building on the work of Hinds, Barchiesi, Feeney, and Myers among others, I claim that Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Fasti should be
appreciated as a cohesive, interdependent system. The reader of Metamorphoses and Fasti experiences the same range of
dynamics that characterizes the enjoyment of diptychs, that is contrast and parallelism, complementarity and supplementarity,
o...
Any realistic physical object ought to be regarded as open to influences from an external uncontrollable environment.
Consequently, one of the main topics in the theory of open quantum systems is to derive expressive dynamical laws—master
equations—from a microscopic description of the system-environment compound. While plenty has been said in the Markovian
regime, where there is a unilateral flow of information from the system to the environment, much less is known beyond it. In this
thesi...
Questa tesi indaga l’interazione tra logica, credenza e musica attraverso una struttura tripartita, concepita come tre “movimenti”.
Il primo movimento esplora le radici filosofiche del ragionamento non classico, a partire dalla nozione di vivacità in Hume e dalle riflessioni di Wittgenstein sulla probabilità. Le loro intuizioni vengono collegate al quadro delle logiche sopraclassiche, mettendo in luce come i sistemi logici possano estendersi oltre i limiti della chiusura classica attravers...
The contradiction between the economic demand for low-paid migrant workers and the political portrayal of such immigration as unwanted is not a new phenomenon. Although debated for more than three decades, this needed but not wanted paradox shows no signs of being resolved. Instead, long-term developments such as demographic decline and sudden crises like the Covid19 pandemic have accentuated Europe’s reliance on low-paid, yet essential migrant workers. At the same time, the rise and success...
Protein homeostasis, or proteostasis, refers to the network of cellular processes that maintains the proper balance of protein
concentration, localization, conformation, and interactions within the cell. Many human diseases display proteostasis alterations,
hence regulating proteostasis is a crucial objective for target validation and drug discovery. While regulation of protein synthesis
and folding is essential for maintaining appropriate protein levels, another critical component of prot...
The research project concerns the study and cataloguing of freestanding and wall-mounted holy water fonts preserved in central
and northern Italy, roughly between the Marche region and the Alps, dating from the 12th to the 15th centuries. The catalogue of
works, which includes 273 holy water fonts, is accompanied by a first volume of introductory essays. The initial chapter
undertakes an examination of the origins, earliest Christian uses, and nature of holy water. In order to facilitate an...
The investigation of stochastic perturbations in fluid dynamics has been a standard procedure in the physical and mathematical
literature. In particular, we recall the use of transport-type noise (advection by a stochastic velocity field) in the development of
the theory of turbulence, due to the work of Kraichnan on stochastic transport of passive scalars.
A very classical particle system in the fluid dynamics context is the Point Vortex model. This system is a discretization of the Euler
e...
The complexity of the proteome outnumbers that of the transcriptome by orders of magnitude, due to the diverse post-translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins. PTMs (like acetylation, phosphorylation) have a central role in physiological and pathological intracellular processes. Therefore, they represent a very rich source of targets of biological and therapeutic interest, that, however, is not deeply exploited. As a matter of fact, the functional study and validation of individual PTM ta...
Nelle opere narrative greche antiche, così come nelle opere narrative composte in molte altre lingue, le forme di passato perfettivo aoristico (gli indicativi aoristi) sono usate per far progredire la narrazione. Esse denotano sequenze di eventi in primo piano ordinati dal punto di vista temporale. Le forme di passato imperfettivo (gli imperfetti) sono usate, invece, per designare eventi in secondo piano, come descrizioni o commenti dell'autore. Tuttavia, in greco antico, le forme di passato ...
Artificial neural networks (NNs) and machine learning (ML) algorithms are poorly understood from a theoretical perspective, which makes it difficult to fully realize their potential and overcome their weaknesses. For instance, ML algorithms train NN weights by moving them along a low-dimensional subspace of their allowed values, but this implicitly low-dimensional learning structure is not properly exploited to improve training because its nature is not well understood. Moreover, trained NNs ...