Strategie e pratiche di gestione della diversità culturale, etnica e religiosa: una ricerca-intervento sul Diversity Management nelle imprese italiane

La rappresentazione della diversità culturale, etnica e religiosa all’interno dei luoghi di lavoro, costituisce ad oggi un elemento di forte attenzione da parte dei diversi attori coinvolti nella gestione delle risorse umane e delle organizzazioni. In seguito ai rapidi mutamenti globali e sociali ai quali l’intera società assiste, le diverse parti sociali sono chiamate a rispondere e ad individuare nuove politiche per l’inclusione dei lavoratori stranieri. Dalla letteratura in tema di diversi...

The strong-coupling regime of correlators in N = 2 SCFTs

In this thesis we investigate the strong-coupling regime of N = 2 superconformal field theories (SCFTs) by employing matrix model techniques arising from supersymmetric localization. We develop an approach to the interacting matrix models of N = 2 gauge theories which turns out to be extremely efficient to derive expressions valid for all values of the coupling constant for various correlators in the planar limit. We apply this method to N = 2 theories with different matter content and to dis...

Defects in Conformal Field Theory with O(N) Symmetry

Conformal field theories (CFTs) are essential tools in quantum field theory and statistical physics, providing a framework for understanding critical phenomena and renormalisation group flows, with further applications to other formal areas of theoretical physics. In recent years, extended excitations within these theories–such as conformal defects–have gained prominence as powerful probes of quantum field theories, offering insights into dualities and symmetries. Moreover, conformal defects ...

OCEANIC TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY AND ALPINE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE SUSA AND LANZO VALLEYS OPHIOLITES

ADENOVIRAL-BASED VACCINE PROMOTES NEOANTIGEN-SPECIFIC CD8+ T CELL STEMNESS AND TUMOR REJECTION

Upon chronic antigen exposure, CD8+ T cells become exhausted, acquiring a dysfunctional state correlated with the inability to control infection or tumor progression. In contrast, stem- like CD8+ T progenitors maintain the ability to promote and sustain effective immunity. Adenovirus (Ad)–vectored vaccines encoding tumor neoantigens have been shown to eradicate large tumors when combined with anti–programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) in murine models; however, the mechanisms and translatio...

Mutational signatures of colorectal cancers according to distinct computational workflows

Anionic Rearrangements Promoted by Organolithium Reagents: Challenges and Sustainable Opportunities

Transcriptome-wide gene expression outlier analysis pinpoints therapeutic vulnerabilities in colorectal cancer

Multiple strategies are continuously being explored to expand the drug target repertoire in solid tumours. We devised a novel computational workflow for transcriptome-wide gene expression outlier analysis that allows the systematic identification of both overexpression and underexpression events in cancer cells. Here it was applied to expression values obtained through RNA sequencing in 226 colorectal cancer (CRC) cell lines that were also characterized by whole exome sequencing and microarra...

Virtual Realities, Real-World Impacts: Psychophysiological Responses to Environmental Cues in Virtual Reality

Taking care about the environment means taking care about others. As such, pro-environmental attitudes build upon pro-social motifs. However, climate-related issues are seldom perceived as emotionally impacting, and a major role is played by the emotional distance we feel with respect to people around us and also from people further apart in space and time. Indeed, it is only thanks to feeling emotional contagion with others that we can build a social agency and a cooperative attitude for tac...