When It Is Fake and When It Is Flawed. The impact of biases in professionals’ decision-making about the veracity of symptom reports

Genome analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes associated with infections in North-West Italy And Development of a high-throughput phenotypic screening framework and its application to Staphylococcus aureus isolates from cystic fibrosis patients

Respiratory infections constitute a major global health burden and are caused by a wide range of bacterial pathogens. The clinical behaviour of those pathogens is strongly influenced by strain-level genetic variation and host-associated environments. Among these, Gram-positive cocci such as Streptococcus pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus represent two pathogens responsible for a diverse range of human infections, from mild skin and throat infections to respiratory infections. Understanding h...

Nature as a Resource in High-Demand Indoor Environments

Beef-Haze. Hazelnut Industrial By-Product Inclusion in Piemontese beef cattle livestock system

Valorisation of autochthonous chicken breeds: reviving and restoring the prominence of the Bionda Piemontese, Bianca di Saluzzo and Millefiori Piemontese

Improving Trust in Safety-Critical AI Systems: Explainable AI and Anomaly Detection Frameworks for human safety in Smart Industries

The growing use of deep learning systems in safety-critical applications, such as smart industries, collaborative robots environment, and healthcare, raises basic questions of trust, transparency, and accountability. While modern propositions have shown incredible predictive performance but their black-box nature of decision-making poses a challenge in applications where trust and readability are of paramount importance. This thesis focuses on the advancement in the field of Explainable Artif...

Framing the Big Screen: An Analysis of Cinema Policy Between International Trade and State Control

This thesis contributes to the law and economics literature by analysing legislative intervention in the film market, a sector characterised by intense regulatory attention stemming from high fixed costs, the mass reach of audiovisual content, and the strategic role of cinema in projecting soft power abroad. The first chapter offers a systematic review of the economic literature on film policy, organised around five macro-categories: subsidies, quotas, piracy, co-productions, and censorship. ...

Influence of Cocoa Cultivar and Roasting Parameters on the Rheological, Sensory and Physico-chemical Properties of Cocoa Paste

La documentazione e la divulgazione del restauro. La storia del restauro e la sua narrazione attraverso l’analisi del fondo archivistico Pinin Brambilla Barcilon

Questa tesi indaga il rapporto tra restauro, comunicazione e opinione pubblica attraverso il caso studio di Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, figura emblematica della storia del restauro italiano del secondo Novecento. La ricerca si colloca all’intersezione tra storia del restauro, storia dell’arte, storia della comunicazione e giornalismo culturale, interpretando il restauro non soltanto come pratica tecnico-scientifica, ma come fenomeno sociale e culturale capace di influenzare il dibattito pubblic...