Virtue out of necessity : the potential of self-management towards social and environmental sustainability

This dissertation provides a monographic analysis into the formation of Labor-Managed Firms (LMFs) represented by the worker cooperatives emerging of negotiated conversions of previously privately-owned firms, exemplified by the Italian Workers’ Buy-Outs (WBOs), and of labor conflicts, such as the Argentine Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores. The comparative literature review presented in the first chapter adopts a Critical Realist perspective and analytical methodology, and is complem...

Following river paths : water territories, situated knowledge and conflicts in Marabá, Brazilian Amazon.

L’acqua opera simultaneamente come infrastruttura ecologica, confine territoriale e mediatore culturale, configurando le relazioni tra espansione urbana, economie estrattive e pratiche quotidiane nell’Amazzonia brasiliana. Questa tesi indaga tali relazioni attraverso la lente analitica dei territori dell’acqua, esaminando come differenti epistemologie, ontologie e pratiche spaziali si intersechino e producano conflitti nel contesto periurbano di Marabá - città amazzonica in rapida trasformazi...

Quality of Experience across different application areas

Quality of Experience (QoE) is an interdisciplinary concept that assesses an individual’s level of satisfaction and engagement during an interaction, based on sensory perception, sub- jective interpretation, and cultural influences. QoE varies among individuals due to personal factors such as cultural background and emotional state, and it is complex to evaluate as it includes sensory engagement, emotional responses, and intellectual reflection. This thesis examines how movement and emotion i...

THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE UPLIFT OF THE CENTRAL ANATOLIAN PLATEAU (CAP) SOUTHERN MARGIN: NEW EVIDENCE FROM MUT AND ANTALYA BASINS (SOUTH TURKEY)

This thesis investigates the Mut and Antalya basins in southern Turkey to understand how deep Earth processes, particularly slab segmentation, slab break-off, and associated mantle upwelling, shape surface uplift across Anatolia. These basins preserve the highest late Middle Pleistocene marine deposits known worldwide, offering a rare natural laboratory for linking mantle-scale dynamics to rapid surface deformation. The Mut Basin, located along the Central Anatolian Plateau (CAP) southern mar...

Building the shield: new insights into cell envelope biogenesis and homeostasis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Coble surfaces: projective models and automorphisms, with related topics

We study some properties of Coble surfaces, first introduced in 1919 by A. Coble. By definition, a complex Coble surface is a smooth rational projective surface over the complex numbers, with no anti - canonical divisor, and exactly one anti - bicanonical curve C. After a brief summary on the general properties of Coble surfaces, we focus our attention on the family of unnodal Coble surfaces with irreducible Coble curve. Under this assumptions, our main results are the following: any isotropi...

The DigiSafeMan project : innovating occupational safety training through gamification in manufacturing

Il credito bancario nell'era dell'AI

L'elaborato indaga, con un approccio multidisciplinare, l'impatto dell'intelligenza artificiale sulla concessione del credito bancario, chiedendosi quali benefici e quali rischi comporti l'impiego dell'AI nella valutazione del merito creditizio e quali misure, normative e tecniche, appaiano più appropriate per mitigarne le criticità. Muovendo dalla constatazione che il mercato del credito è strutturalmente segnato da asimmetrie informative (che generano selezione avversa, azzardo morale e ra...

Marco Zanuso e IBM : progettare per una multinazionale in Italia

Contrappunto e, ad un tempo, ideale prosecuzione della ormai nota esperienza di collaborazione fra Marco Zanuso (1916-2001) e l’Olivetti, la collaborazione fra l’architetto e designer milanese e la multinazionale americana IBM rappresenta, ad oggi, un tema non ancora specificamente approfondito. Questa collaborazione si materializza infatti in due soli progetti realizzati – quello per il Quartier Generale IBM a Segrate (Milano, 1968-1976) e per lo stabilimento di Santa Palomba (Roma, 1979-198...