Con il progetto di ricerca è stata indagata la politica culturale sul patrimonio archeologico e monumentale dei territori occupati dall’Italia liberale e fascista durante la propria espansione coloniale, dal primo possedimento acquisito sul Mar Rosso nel 1870 alla perdita della sovranità sui territori d’Oltremare sancita dal Trattato di Pace di Parigi del 10 febbraio 1947 attraverso lo studio dell’esperienza degli archeologi italiani impegnati in Eritrea, Libia ed Etiopia nelle missioni arche...
Industrial agglomerates are considered as drivers of the urban development, which contribute to the spatial-economic structure of regional spaces. The reiterative process of industrial growth, even though desirable from a development standpoint, may also increase territorial disparities, as the asymmetrical development of certain areas can lead to pre-existent productive spaces’ underuse or abandonment. Numerous spatial and regional economics’ studies about industrial distribution and territo...
Immunoglobulin glycosylation has a strong impact on antibody function, by modifying protein conformation and IgG binding for Fc-Receptors and complement. To elucidate the role of IgG glycosylation in Primary Antibody Deficiencies (PAD), we developed a lectin-based ELISA assay in to estimate the proportion of different glycidic patterns on circulating IgG complex. METHODS: Seven naïve Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) patients were recruited. Controls include eleven patients with IgG sub...
SUMMARY Aims: TAVI is nowdays a worldwide accepted therapy for treating patients with severe aortic stenosis. The aim of the study is to identify clinical, electrocardiographic and procedural predictors of fast-track discharge in patients who underwent TAVI, simplifying the procedure and obtaining a shorter length of hospital stay (LoS). Methods: Patients treated with TAVI by transfemoral approach from November 2019 to December 2021 were categorized according to the LoS. “Fast-Track” (FT) pop...
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a growing ecological issue in coastal ecosystems, disrupting natural light-dark cycles that regulate species behavior, physiology, and interactions. While well studied in terrestrial systems, ALAN effects on marine coastal ecosystems are less understood. This PhD thesis addresses this gap by examining how ALAN alters species behavior and benthic community structure across different habitat types. It begins with a systematic review of ALAN impacts in interti...
This work illustrates the research activities related to the implementation of a suite of hardware cryptographic accelerators to fulfil the cybersecurity requirements in General Purpose Processors (GPPs) for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications, supporting the first phase of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) project. Based on the hardware Root-of-Trust paradigm, the EPI GPP was provided with both a secure zone, to serve the request of security services, and a non-secure zone, t...
La tesi analizza il problema del monitoraggio della temperatura in sistemi di combustione, presentando soluzioni sviluppate sia nel contesto accademico del Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Pisa che nel contesto industriale di Sesta Lab. Il manoscritto si apre con una panoramica delle tecniche e tecnologie adottate nel monitoraggio della combustione, concludendo il primo capitolo con l'introduzione dei sistemi di monitoraggio investigati nel corso del dottorato: per l'attività condott...
In the transition toward sustainable and decarbonized energy systems, hydropower plants (HPPs) stand out as reliable and flexible energy sources. Their ability to provide dispatchable power and balance the intermittency of other renewables like solar and wind makes them central to future energy strategies. However, modern hydropower systems are becoming increasingly complex due to the integration of advanced monitoring technologies, industrial IoT (IIoT), and the demands of Industry 4.0. Thes...
The human gut microbiota is widely considered as a metabolic organ hidden within our bodies. One of the challenges in the research is to recreate an in vitro model of the human gut microbiota to study how the microorganisms regulate different metabolic pathways within human health and disease. For this reason, the aim of my PhD thesis is to investigate various methods to recreate a model of the gut microbiota in vitro and connect it to eukaryotic cell cultures. To do this, various tools from ...
Since 2015 Advanced LIGO and Virgo have detected 93 gravitational wave transients produced by compact object binaries in quasi-circular orbits. Dynamical capture scenarios in dense stellar environments are predicted to form eccentric orbits persisting until the merger. At each periastron passage, the close encounters between the member of the compact object pair should emit gravitational wave signals. Waveforms expected in this scenario are not modeled with the same precision as coalescences,...