Gli unica inediti del ms. 10077, BNE, Madrid

Il lavoro ha lo scopo di offrire l’edizione critica e il commento dei testi che il ms. 10077 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Spagna, a Madrid (M), tramanda come unico testimone. Si tratta di 25 componimenti in versi, di diverso metro e diversa struttura, ma tutti di argomento morale e religioso. L’edizione vera e propria è preceduta da un’ampia introduzione suddivisa in cinque sezioni: la prima è dedicata alla descrizione e alla storia del manoscritto; la seconda si concentra sul corpus oggetto...

La formazione professionale continua tra responsabilizzazione dell'impresa e individualizzazione dei percorsi professionali. Lezioni dal modello francese.

This research aims to explore the most relevant legal tools developed to support the access of people, already active in the labour market, to vocational training measures; focusing on the protective role they may play both in the individual employment relationship and in the labour market. Regarding the first thematic core, the research will point out that current flexible productive structures require continuous realignment process of workers’ professional capital vis-a-vis the organization...

Therapeutic silk fibroin-based systems for tissue engineering applications

Tissue engineering (TE) is an interdisciplinary field, in continuous evolution, that possesses as main goal the creation of efficient systems for tissues and organs healing and regeneration. For bone, TE strategies are typically based on the combined use of scaffolds, cells, and bioactive molecules. Different materials were successfully studied and proposed for the fabrication of scaffolds. Among them, silk fibroin (SF) was evaluated as particularly promising for different TE applications, e...

Application of avalanche detectors in scientific and industrial measurement systems

Per una storia del mal francese nel Rinascimento italiano. Tra letteratura e medicina (1494-1629)

The aim of my PhD thesis is to analyse the representation of the veneral desease in the Renaissance medecine and the reaction of the italian literature to the plague. To assess these questions, the analysis of literary texts required the study of the historical context, whit a particular attention to the history of medecine and the history of ideas. In view of its interdisciplinary purpose, the thesis has been divided into four research areas : the autobiographical tales of the poets affected...

Fertility Decisions in Context - Individual and Couple Dynamics

This thesis contributes to enhance our knowledge on fertility decisions by addressing two major issues. First, it contributes to the understanding of the factors behind the differences in fertility levels among European countries by adopting a holistic perspective. Second, it adds to the fertility topic by examining the whole fertility decision-making process using a dyadic and a life-course perspective to address the ‘fertility gap’ that exists between desired family size and the actual numb...

Modeling, Optimization and Control of Hybrid Powertrains

To cope with the increasing demand of a more sustainable mobility, the main Original Equipment Manufacturers are producing vehicles equipped with hybrid propulsion systems that increase the overall vehicle efficiency and mitigate the emission problem at a local level. The newly gained degrees of freedom of the hybrid powertrain need to be handled by advanced energy management techniques that allow to fully exploit the system capabilities. In this thesis we propose an optimal control approach...

Three Essays on Cooperation and Reciprocity

This dissertation aims to contribute to the literature of cooperation and social preferences. We use experimental and computational methods to understand the role and extent of reciprocity on cooperation. The first paper is a methodological contribution to the large literature on conditional preferences of cooperation. Cooperation generated by this type of preferences is notoriously unstable, as individuals reduce their contributions to the public good in reaction to other subjects' free-...

Toward the "Deep Learning" of Brain White Matter Structures

In the brain, neuronal cells located in different functional regions communicate through a dense structural network of axons known as the white matter (WM) tissue. Bundles of axons that share similar pathways characterize the WM anatomy, which can be investigated in-vivo thanks to the recent advances of magnetic resonance (MR) techniques. Diffusion MR imaging combined with tractography pipelines allows for a virtual reconstruction of the whole WM anatomy of in-vivo brains, namely the tractogr...