DINAMICHE DI PICCOLA GUERRA TRA XVI E XVII SECOLO: UNO STUDIO SULLA TRATTATISTICA E SUGLI AUTORI MILITARI COEVI

Early modern warfare has been interpreted through different paradigms, from revolution to evolution and transformation. These debates have encouraged historians to consider different aspects of war, from the institutions managing it to the operations, passing through military cultures and emotions of the soldiers, but not only. Yet, recently the everyday operational conduct of campaigns has received less systematic attention. This thesis investigates it through what it terms ‘small-war dynami...

Dwelling in Dispersal: Logic of Subtraction, Infrastructuring of Endurance, and the Production of Fugitivity along the Belgian-French Route to the UK

This thesis asks how migrants dwell, move, and sustain orientation toward a destination when the state has organized their presence around its impossibility. Its ground is the Belgian-French route to the United Kingdom, where "Dublinized" migrants face an architecture that compels movement while criminalizing it, and erodes the shelter it requires. Dispersal, the thesis argues, is enforcement's mode of operation, not its failure. Three instruments constitute this formation: the Dublin Regu...

Diversity-Aware Social Robots for Education and Social Assistance

Lattices, Isogenies and Adaptor Signatures in Post-Quantum Cryptography

In this thesis we give an analysis of the hierarchical identity-based broadcast encryption scheme proposed by C. Yang, Zheng, Wang, Lu and Y. Yang. The interest in this scheme is due to the fact that it is one of the few of its kind to be Post-Quantum, and relies on the hardness of the LWE, i.e. on lattice-based problems. For the first time we give a detailed description of the scheme and we present a full introduction to the mathematical and cryptographic background needed to describe it. Th...

Haunting the border: passages, horizons and memories of disappearance in Morocco

This thesis examines how disappearance and death at the border continue to produce social, political, and affective effects beyond the moment of loss itself. Situated within disappearance studies and bringing a hauntological approach to bear on border and migration studies, it attends to how violent absence is produced at the border and to what it generates, in terms of political relations, practices of memory, and claims for justice. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted p...

L'ITALIE EN EXPOSITION. Canali di diffusione e affermazione dell'arte italiana contemporanea in Francia (1959-1981)

La tesi analizza le relazioni transnazionali tra Italia e Francia, attraverso i canali di affermazione dell’arte contemporanea italiana nell’ambiente culturale francese nel periodo 1959-1981. Adottando la prospettiva degli exhibition studies, la ricerca indaga le mostre collettive come "dispositivi" politici, sociali e culturali utilizzati dall'Italia per ridefinire il proprio posizionamento internazionale e promuovere un'immagine di modernità aggiornata . Lo studio si articola attraverso l'e...

Wideband cyclostationary spectrum sensing and characterization for cognitive radios

Motivated by the spectrum scarcity problem, Cognitive Radios (CRs) have been proposed as a solution to opportunistically communicate over unused spectrum licensed to Primary users (PUs). In this context, the unlicensed Secondary users (SUs) sense the spectrum to detect the presence or absence of PUs, and use the unoccupied bands without causing interference to PUs. CRs are equipped with capabilities such as, learning, adaptability, and recongurability, and are spectrum aware. Spectrum awarene...

Bioengineering of joint action: from interpersonal interaction to neurorehabilitation

Joint action in sensorimotor contexts provides a complex yet essential framework for understanding how individuals negotiate actions, coordinate efforts, and make strategic decisions under uncertainty. While classical Game Theory (GT) offers a rigorous theoretical foundation for identifying equilibria in social interactions, it mainly operates within discrete action spaces and cognitive domains. A significant gap remains in understanding how these abstract strategic behaviors—ranging from the...

GNSS Positioning with Low Cost Devices

Outdoor quantitative analysis of human movement is constrained by the technologies currently available. Marker-based optical motion capture is laboratory-bound. Inertial measurement units are wearable but lack an absolute spatial reference and suffer from integration drift. Markerless video-based systems introduce camera geometry biases and operational constraints. None of these approaches simultaneously satisfies the requirements of outdoor, infrastructure-light, deployable motion capture. ...