Electrochemistry of extended aromatic systems and nanostructures

La transmisià³n al ruso de especifidades culturales espaà±olas en las traducciones de Don Quijote de K. P. Masal'skij y N. M. Ljubimov

Dentro la struttura

Lo svolgimento della tesi segue la falsariga del discorso tenuto da Pier Luigi Nervi a Torino nel maggio 1961 al momento dell'inaugurazione del Palazzo del Lavoro. In quell'occasione egli illustra la concezione strutturale del suo edificio, realizzato attraverso l'accostamento di 16 elementi autoportanti e indipendenti (ciascuno costituito da un grande pilastro in cemento armato a sezione variabile - da cruciforme a circolare - e da una piastra metallica di copertura) che gli permettono di co...

Analysis of agrifood value chain actors' choices in Albania

Supramolecular approaches to organized luminescent nanostructures for sensing, labeling and imaging applications

The common thread of this thesis is the will of investigating properties and behavior of assemblies. Groups of objects display peculiar properties, which can be very far from the simple sum of respective componentsࢠproperties. This is truer, the smaller is inter-objects distance, i.e. the higher is their density, and the smaller is the container size. ࢠConfinementࢠis in fact a key concept in many topics explored and here reported. It can be conceived as a spatial limitation, that y...

Formal planning rationality in public sector professional work: between discourse and practice

Although rational models of formal planning have been seriously criticized by strategy literature, they not only remain a widely used organizational practice in private firms, but they have increasingly been entering public, professional organizations too, as part of public sector managerial reforms. This research addresses this apparent paradox, exploring the meaning of formal planning in public sector professional work. Curiously, this is an issue that remains under-investigated in the lit...

An advanced analytical study on linseed oil paint binder

Drying oils, and in particular linseed oil, were the most common binding media employed in painting between XVI and XIX centuries. Artists usually operated some pre-treatments on the oils to obtain binders with modified properties, such as different handling qualities or colour. Oil processing has a key role on the subsequent ageing of and degradation of linseed oil paints. In this thesis a multi-analytical approach was adopted to investigate the drying, polymerization and oxidative degradat...

Finite element models of coseismic deformation due to the 2009 L'Aquila (Italy) and 2008 Wenchuan(China) earthquakes

The topic of my Ph.D. thesis is the finite element modeling of coseismic deformation imaged by DInSAR and GPS data. I developed a method to calculate synthetic Green functions with finite element models (FEMs) and then use linear inversion methods to determine the slip distribution on the fault plane. The method is applied to the 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake (Italy) and to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (China). I focus on the influence of rheological features of the earth's crust by implementing s...

Photo- and redox-active supramolecular systems containing metal complexes

The aim of this Ph.D. project has been the photophysical and photochemical characterization of new photo- and redox-active supramolecular systems. In particular we studied two different classes of compounds: metal complexes and dendrimers. Two different families of bis-cyclometalated neutral Ir(III) complexes are presented and their photophysical properties are discussed. The first family of complexes contains two 2-phenylpyridyl (ppy) or 2-(4,6-difluorophenyl)pyridyl (F2ppy) cyclometalated l...