DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPHYSICS, SEMI-AUTOMATIC, AND MULTISCALE TOOLS FOR BREEDING BLANKET DESIGN

Nuclear fusion reactors could be a long-term solution to the world's energy supply problem. However, this technology has several critical points that have not yet enabled its industrial deployment, such as fuel supply and the machine operating conditions from the point of view of the physical phenomena involved, either in terms of neutronics or thermohydraulics and thermomechanics.One of the key components of a nuclear fusion reactor that will have the fuel production function for its self-s...

Storia, restauro e rappresentazione come strumenti per una nuova comprensione e valorizzazione del patrimonio archeologico. Il sito di Solunto, nel parco archeologico di Himera, Solunto e Monte Iato

La ricerca mira a proporre un nuovo processo metodologico di valorizzazione dei siti archeologici attraverso l’interazione delle tre discipline caratterizzanti il curriculum di riferimento del Dottorato, ovvero Rappresentazione, Restauro e Storia dell’Architettura, naturalmente arricchite da un dialogo costante con l’Archeologia. Tale processo viene applicato al caso studio dell’area archeologica di Solunto (in provincia di Palermo), parte del Parco Archeologico di Himera, Solunto e Iato, che...

Cambiamenti climatici e Malattie Infettive: La valutazione della diffusione di Legionella spp. e potenziali miglioramenti nei protocolli di sanificazione

Hemiplegic migraine: neurophysiological, neurovegetative and clinical correlates

Migraine is a highly prevalent neurological disease present in around 12% of the general population, with a trifold prevalence in women [1]. The disorder is usually characterised by moderate-to-severe throbbing unilateral headache episodes, recurring with a variable frequency. The pain may last from 4 to 72 hours and may be associated with various symptoms which include physical exercise intolerance, nausea, photo- or phonophobia. Before or during an attack, a portion of patients (around 10-2...

Il patrimonio archeologico come strumento di tutela del paesaggio storico e di sviluppo sostenibile. L’insediamento tardoantico e medievale di Hykkara in c.da San Nicola a Carini: conoscenza, tutela e valorizzazione.

La presente tesi, sviluppata nell'ambito del Dottorato in Scienze della Cultura e parte del programma “Dottorati su Tematiche Green”, approfondisce il ruolo del patrimonio archeologico come strumento di tutela del paesaggio storico e di promozione dello sviluppo sostenibile. Il caso studio analizzato è l’insediamento tardoantico e medievale di Hykkara, sito in contrada San Nicola a Carini, che viene indagato attraverso un approccio multidisciplinare basato su metodi territoriali e topografici...

Waste activated sludge minimization and carbon footprint reduction to foster transition to circular economy in the water sector

The urgent need to address environmental challenges such as increasing sewage sludge production and greenhouse gas emissions in wastewater management has spurred a global transition towards a circular economy approach. This transition often involves transforming traditional wastewater treatment plants into water resource recovery facilities, essential for sustainable water resource management. In this view, different schemes were evaluated in a pilot scale and full-scale WWTP, to find a trade...

Machine Learning-Driven Solutions for Enhancing Agricultural Sustainability: The Case of Mango Farms in Sicily

This thesis presents a novel interdisciplinary framework that transfers machine learning models originally developed for astroparticle physics to agricultural forecasting, with a specific application to mango farming in coastal Sicily. Techniques such as XGBoost, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, and Residual Networks (ResNet), previously applied to reconstructing inclined muon events in water-Cherenkov detectors, were reconfigured to address agro-meteorological challenges including tem...

Antonio Gramsci nell'operaismo italiano. Echi, fantasmi e usi strategici

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