Family entrepreneurship: from an interpersonal perspective to integrating processes

Advanced methods and computational approaches for multiscale and multiphysics mechanics of nuclear fusion magnet systems

Il ciclo di produzione e consumo di energia rappresenta una questione sentita oggi a livello mondiale. Gli studi sul futuro a medio-breve termine prevedono un ripido incremento delle richieste di energia nei prossimi anni, fino probabilmente a sforare il raddoppiamento dei consumi entro il 2050, e in parallelo le stime sulle riserve di combustibili fossili ne prevedono una diminuzione altrettanto rapida. Di conseguenza i processi che possano garantire una sostanziale, costante ed affidabile c...

Chinese silk and its westward roads in antiquity

In today’s context, the common understanding of the “Silk Road(s)” transcends its original association solely with the transcontinental silk trade. The inaugural modern articulation of this term, advanced by F. von Richthofen in 1877, was not merely an academic concept. Richthofen’s formulation of the “Seidenstraßen,” however, is intricately interwoven with the ancient knowledge propounded by Ptolemy and Marinus. Consequently, his demarcation of the “Silk Road(s)” predominantly delimits the t...

Progettazione di bio-plastiche compostabili innovative per la produzione di soluzioni per l’imballaggio alimentare = Design of innovative compostable bio-plastics for the manufacturing of packaging solutions

Global production of plastic has continued to rise in the past 50 years, the amount of plastic produced in the last two decades exceeds the total production of plastic in the past century. Market driven by consumerism, alongside comparatively low price of plastic materials caused demand for plastic to increase. Recovery and recycling, however, remain insufficient; millions of tons of plastics end up in landfills and mismanaged waste finds its way to the oceans. Plastic debris may take up to 4...

Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: impact on social life and immune phenotype characterization in a cameroonian population

A national field survey conducted from February to September 2019 helped us investigating the level of adherence among 1000 HIV+ pregnant women on antiretroviral therapy. We found that being a parent of an HIV+ child (P=0.001), or not sharing HIV status with spouse and/or family (P<0.001) were key determinants for the success of antiretroviral therapy. Some women found it difficult to socialise and spent more than they could afford on transport in order to obtain drugs as far away as possi...

Genomics and evolution of human phenotypic traits

Le attuali popolazioni umane mostrano un'ampia gamma di fenotipi noti per essere attribuibili a fattori genetici, ambientali e socioculturali, anche se non è ancora ben noto come questi interagiscano tra loro. Una parte critica della caratterizzazione fenotipica umana riguarda infatti i tratti complessi, per i quali l'intreccio delle loro basi genetiche e dei fattori ambientali complica l'identificazione dei loci sottesi alla loro espressione. Questi fenotipi complessi includono tratti antrop...

A predictive maintenance model for heterogeneous industrial refrigeration systems

The automatic assessment of the degradation state of industrial refrigeration systems is becoming increasingly important and constitutes a key-role within predictive maintenance approaches. Lately, data-driven methods especially became the focus of research in this respect. As they only rely on historical data in the development phase, they offer great advantages in terms of flexibility and generalisability by circumventing the need for specific domain knowledge. While most scientific contrib...

Integrated approach to online frauds detection

This dissertation has focused on the description of how it is possible to detect and block simple and complex online frauds on electronic payment services and gaming online services through an integrated Anti-fraud Framework ingested by data from a Datawarehouse (DWH) infrastructure and a Security Information and Events Management (SIEM) correlation system, both implemented in a large organization respectively for transactional analysis and cyber attacks protection. In this document, therefor...

Opportunità di miglioramento in ambito operations & supply chain management nell’industria della Grande Distribuzione organizzata