In the last decade many studies have exploited the BGP data
provided by route collector projects to infer an Internet ASlevel topology to perform several analyses, from discovering its graph properties to assessing its impact on the effectiveness of worm-containment strategies. Nevertheless, the topology that can be extracted from this data is far from being complete, i.e. from this data it is not possible to infer all the AS connections which actually exist among ASes. This thesis analyses t...
Over the last decades, the Internet has grown from a smallscale
academic network linking few universities, to a largescale
complex system, reaching out to billions of people and
enabling communications and computing worldwide. While
the number of persons connected to the Internet 24/7 is growing
exponentially, particularly through smartphones, most
of them are unaware of the real Internet infrastructure. Recently,
researchers have attempted to discover details about
the characteristics of the...
This thesis treats the relationship between the European Economic Community (EEC) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1968 and 1980. It highlights the political importance of EEC/Yugoslav relations within Community’s broader strategies towards the Socialist bloc and the Mediterranean arena, and contextualises this relationship within the Cold War and European integration scenarios. Based on a Community-centred approach, it focuses on the interaction between EEC member sta...
In dealing with computable general equilibrium modelling,
this thesis builds and runs a computable equilibrium (CGE)
tax model for Italy, with the aim of policy analysis.
It demonstrates in considerable detail the methodology to incorporate a fiscal extension to the national comparative-static computable general equilibrium model of Italy. The output is a model featuring a detailed modelling of a full range of direct and indirect taxes, enabling the evaluation of alternative proposal for tax ...
The present work introduces the main regulatory issues faced
nowadays in EU by policy-makers in the design of the electricity and natural gas markets. The dissertation consists of the following parts: Chapter 2 introduces the new challenges that are currently engaging the European markets, under the perspective of the stronger integration expected in the next years. The coordination of the investments in new facilities and the rules governing
their access, the increasing need of flexible reso...
This thesis analyses the impact of legal and media
representations of war crime trials on master narratives of the war and identity in Croatia and Serbia. Our research is situated on the interception of scientific fields of transitional justice, media studies and studies on nationalism. We explore the relationship between official
narratives of the war, legal narratives of war crime trials and the way that the media conveys both the narratives and reports on these trials. The research address...
Social media are nowadays a common tool that people use
to communicate. Through social media people express their
feelings and exchange information. The information exchanged
concerns events, places, objects etc... and reflects
their interests or their psychological state. Micro-blogging
has become one of the important tools in social media, where
people exchange information through short messages. The
volume of such messages has increased tremendously in the
previous years, reaching a couple...
Since the fall of the communist regime in the beginning of the 1990s, Western Balkan states (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia) have been striving to build democratic governments, market economies and pluralist societies. Although certain progress has been made, more than two decades later the Western Balkan states are still ‘stuck’ in an extended form of democratic transition, and as such are labeled as ‘hybrid’ or ‘semi-consolidated’ regimes. In contrast, most o...
This work intends to shed light on the historical issue of the
bilateral diplomatic relations between the United States and Brazil
during the years of the Carter’s presidency and, more specifically,
on the way the human rights issue affected this relationship.
When Jimmy Carter took office in 1977, in the Southern Cone
countries, namely Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil,
fundamental civil and political liberties of citizens were
systematically restricted or denied. The new presid...
Women’s Conventions, endorsing and approach based on
the recognition of structural discriminatory social patterns
and cultural practices, have been adopted in the Universal
System, with limited national impact, and in the Regional
ones. Such systems present different structures, conditions
and resources, which contribute to determine the conditions
for plausibility of the rights enshrined. The Inter- American System adopted the Belém do Pará Convention (BdPC)
back in 1994, nevertheless, it ...