Essays in Labor and Political Economy

Un complotto per attraversare il mondo. Indagine sul senso incantato delle ipotesi di complotto.

Il presente lavoro indaga il senso del mondo dischiuso dalle immagini di complotto. Per avvicinare questa strada di ricerca, nel primo capitolo viene condotta un’attenta disamina dei concetti e delle etichette con cui le immagini di complotto sono state formalizzate e rese operative a partire dal XX secolo. Prendendo le mosse da alcuni autori che hanno criticato l’effetto stigmatizzante delle nozioni di complottismo, complottista, e teorie del complotto, si giunge a trovarne la ragione nella ...

Device Characterization and Network Integration of Quantum Key Distribution Components

Quantum technologies are expected to become essential in the near future for secure communication, sensing, and computation. In the Chapter 1: State of the Art of my thesis a description of the fundamental principles of quantum communication, where photons act as qubits, the basic units of quantum information, exploiting superposition and entanglement to enable tasks beyond classical capabilities, and of single-photon sources and detectors as critical components for quantum communication is p...

The circular economy in special paper production

This doctoral work was carried out almost entirely within Ahlstrom, with which I collaborated for the full duration of the project. Ahlstrom is a company that manufactures cellulose based and non cellulosic fibre materials and applies these materials across several sectors, including filtration for the automotive industry, the sector in which my research is situated. The research comprises two principal projects developed within the company. The first project falls under waste reduction effor...

The molecular bases of the anticancer efficacy of high-dose Vitamin C

Several preclinical studies have shown that high doses of vitamin C (vitC) can impair tumor growth by creating intense oxidative stress in tumor cells and causing metabolic collapse due to glutathione and NAPDH depletion. VitC can also increase replication stress due to its ability to activate TET / JmjC enzymes leading to chromatin remodeling and methylation shifts. In addition to its cancer cell–intrinsic effects, vitC has shown superior anticancer activity in immunocompetent compared with ...

Stochastic Modeling of Anomalous Water Transport

This thesis investigates the application of stochastic models to anomalous water transport phenomena in heterogeneous and complex environments, highlighting their effectiveness to realistically represent water movement through heterogeneous media. Indeed, classical diffusion models do not always capture complex dynamics that arise in such environments, where mechanisms such as trapping, memory effects, and spatial variability give rise to anomalous diffusion. Stochastic approaches, including ...

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS) IS A FAMILY ILLNESS: AN ITALIAN STUDY ON FAMILY FUNCTIONING IN PEOPLE WITH MS AND THEIR RELATIVES

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, immune-mediated and neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system (CNS), characterized not only by neurological impairment but also by substantial psychological and relational consequences. Increasingly, the literature has shifted from an individual-centred perspective toward conceptualizing MS as a “family illness,” highlighting its systemic impact on family functioning (FF). Within this framework, the present doctoral dissertation aims to inv...

Una scuola aperta a tutti. La sfida dell’equità tra vecchie e nuove disuguaglianze

On Truth from a Semiotic Point of View