Towards Computational Ecolinguistics: Natural Language Processing Methods and Resources for Linguistic Analysis in Environmental Contexts

Can linguistics,ecology,andNaturalLanguageProcessing(NLP)beinterwovento address thecurrentecologicalcrisisinameaningfulandsynergisticway?Thisdoctoral thesis aimstoaffirmativelyrespondtothisquestionbyaddressingasignificantgapinthe literature—namely,theabsenceofasystematic,interdisciplinaryanalysisofecological discourse. Adoptinganinter-andtransdisciplinaryapproach,thisworkproposesasetof methodological frameworksthatleverageNLPtoolsincombinationwiththeoretically grounded linguisticinsightstoexa...

From the transcriptomic data analysis of the Allen Human Brain Atlas to multi-omic integration via Topic Modeling methods

The Stochastic Block Model (SBM) is a powerful probabilistic approach that reinterprets the task of topic modeling as a community detection problem in network theory, providing an effective method for uncovering latent structures in complex datasets. Its hierarchical extension enhances the ability to identify meaningful patterns by incorporating multiple levels of granularity. This model has been used in various domains, including cancer research, to disentangle intricate relationships within...

INDUSTRY 4.0 FOR SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT DATA AS THE NEXUS BETWEEN DIGITALISATION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Design of a CubeSat mission for the detection of small-dimension space debris

Space debris, also known as space junk, constitutes a major challenge for the entire space community. These artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are mainly made up of not-removed spacecraft at the end of their service life, upper stages of lunch vehicles and fragments produced after explosions or collisions. Being out-of-control space waste ready to crash into other orbiting objects, space debris represents a serious threat for all the space activities, present but especially future. ...

L’istituzione immaginaria del capitalismo Cornelius Castoriadis e la crisi della società moderna

Questa tesi analizza la concezione del capitalismo di Cornelius Castoriadis, esaminando gli elementi di continuità e discontinuità nel corso dell'evoluzione del suo pensiero, in relazione ai grandi dibattiti intellettuali del XX secolo. Se il filosofo finisce per identificare l'essenza del capitalismo con un immaginario del dominio pseudo-razionale del mondo sociale, il nostro approccio genealogico mira a mostrare come la condizione umana nella società capitalista ispiri l'emergere di un imma...

Development and Characterization of Biocomposite Materials: Automotive and Food Packaging Applications

In Silico Design of Bioactive Molecules to Counteract Infectious Diseases and Neurological Disorders Introducing Environmental Impact Criteria

This thesis presents the application of ligand-based and structure-based in silico approaches for the development of predictive models and the discovery of bioactive molecules addressing environmental and medicinal chemistry challenges. The research focuses on the dual goals of predicting environmental fate endpoints of chemicals and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and designing novel compounds targeting infectious diseases and neurological disorders. The environmental dimension of P...

Practices of resistance: Photography by Japanese women since the 1970s

With an approach that considers the feminist historiographies of the latest decades, in my PhD research I inspect the recent photographic produc-on by Japanese women. In par-cular, I look at how the female authorship in the field developed in the past 50 years despite the historical inaccessibility of photography to women. The star-ng point of this research is the decade of the 1970s, a -me of social and economic transforma-on, when the public ac-ons of protest groups and student collec-ves i...

L’ideologia di privatus: il princeps come privato cittadino tra Cicerone e Claudiano