This thesis aims to assess whether social safety net policies used in a very poor country can concretely provide relief from poverty in the short run, while encouraging children education in the long run. The economic ...

The research was aimed at developing a technical-economic governance model for the enhancement of railway assets and in particular of unmanned or underused stations. Through the analysis of the most recent examples of ...

Main objective of this PhD thesis is the development of a new generation of self-healing multifunctional composites able to overcome some of the current limitations of aeronautical materials, such as: absence of auto-repair ...

Recently, regulatory compliance has become increasingly important in the banking and financial sector. Both the European legislator and the Authorities have imposed on banks and intermediaries a duty to implement an effective ...

Aliphatic polyesters are emerging as an important class of materials alternatives to te petroleum-based polymers. They are often biodegradable and can be produced from renewable feedstocks. In this context, the developmentof ...

The main aim of the present research work is to project and develop very large scale electronic integrated circuits, with particular attention to the ones devoted to image processing applications and the related topics. ...

«Relatio transcendens» is a well-known topic among John Duns Scotus’ scholars. Indeed, Scotus was the very first thinker who made a quite extensive use of this notion throughout his works. However, research on this notion ...

The aim of my dissertation is to investigate how universal concepts are formed according to the later medieval Franciscan theologian Peter Auriol (d. 1322). Specifically, in the dissertation I inquiry into the relation ...

The thesis deals with the issue of banking conventions in wortkout agreements aimed at reorganizing the company in crisis. The theme is dealt with throught two interpretations: the bankruptcy law and the contract law, with ...