Shaping a Sustainable Future with IoT and AI for Water Distribution Networks

This thesis addresses both environmental and technical challenges in developing sustainable systems for critical infrastructures, with a particular focus on Water Distribution Networks (WDNs). By leveraging Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Machine Learning (ML), and Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) technologies, specifically Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN), this research aims to optimize and enhance the resilience of WDNs amidst rising global wa...

Sub-Saharan Migrants in post-2011 Tunisia: A Cross-Disciplinary Study of the Dynamics of Media Representations and Policy Shifts

The present research is concerned with the representations, counter-representations, and policy-related representations of sub-Saharan migrants in “post-revolution” Tunisia. This encompasses the study of representations in media as vehicles of social, cultural and political expressions. It elaborates on the rhetoric, frames and images built around sub-Saharans migrants in the mainstream and alternative media outlets. The task of scrutinising such representations is crucial to exploring the po...

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of new anticancer drugs: FGFR inhibitors

Fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) constitute a family of tyrosine kinases receptors (RTKs) that exert pivotal physiological functions in human embryonic and adult tissues.Hyperactivated FGFR signaling drives tumorigenesis in multiple cancer types, including lung and brain cancers. Great effort has been laid on the development of new compounds that specifically target the FGFR axis. However, cancer cell- based and microenvironmental resistance mechanisms against FGFR inhibitors often ...

USE OF NON-CONVENTIONAL YEASTS ISOLATED FROM SUGAR-RICH SUBSTRATES FOR MODULATING THE AROMATIC PROFILE OF FRUIT AND SOUR BEERS

La struttura formale del paesaggio rurale. Forme architettoniche e mosaico agrario nel territorio siciliano

Il paesaggio, costituito da una complessità di elementi – antropici e naturali – che si tessono con diversi gradidi intensità, è da sempre sottoposto ad un processo, intenzionale o meno, di mutazione.Tale processo ha permesso che al paesaggio “naturale” si sia sostituito un paesaggio sempre più costruito, cheha portato ad avvicinare il suo aspetto formale a quello di una architettura.Secondo Morris (1881) l’architettura «è l’insieme delle modifiche e delle alterazioni operate sulla superficie...

Percorsi identitari arbëreshë: Dinamiche e strategie di costruzione dell’identità nelle comunità albanesi d’Italia

La presente tesi di dottorato indaga e analizza il processo di costruzione dell'identità che ha coinvolto e riguardato le comunità albanesi di storico insediamento in Italia. Attraverso un approccio antropologico e storico-letterario è stato avanzato uno studio critico-analitico inerente alle dinamiche e alle strategie messe in atto dalla classe intellettuale arbëreshe nella produzione di un paradigma ideologico che riuscisse a definire i marcatori identitari della minoranza italo-albanese. A...

IL CONSIGLIO DI STATO DURANTE IL VENTENNIO. APPUNTI SUI DIRITTI PUBBLICI SUBIETTIVI

NEW SPACE ECONOMY: THE SOCIO-CULTURAL REVOLUTION OF THE SPACE RACE INTO A NEW EARTH RACE AND THE NEED FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR TO MODERNIZE ITS PROCESSES AND WORKING PRACTICES TO ADAPT TO THE NEW FAST-CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence for Smart Sustainable Agriculture

The main objective of this thesis work involves the improvement and disseminationof digitization in agriculture. In fact, in the near future, the agricultural sector iscalled upon to face a significant challenge due to increasingly scarce resources, extreme weather conditions, population growth, and the reduction of cultivable land. One solution is to transition from the old concept of agriculture to Smart Agriculture, with the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intellige...