• Enantioselective construction of new heterocyclic scaffolds via organocatalyzed cascade reactions 

      Capaccio, Vito (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2019-02-04)
      Chirality plays a vital role in human daily life. After the famous but tragic case regarding the Thalidomide, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave a guide in relation to the submission of new drug applications... [edited ...
    • Environmental and catalytic applications of alkaline oxides 

      Cucciniello, Raffaele (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-04-20)
      Alkaline oxides are widely used in industrial processes involving removal of gaseous compounds as unwanted by-products such as CO2, hydrogen sulphide and nitric oxides. Traditional processes generally involve Ca-based ...
    • Enzymatic synthesis of macrolactones 

      Fortunati, Tancredi (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2011-02-24)
      Macrolactones are a large and structurally diverse class of compounds. Natural products having a macrolactone structure have been isolated from many natural sources such as plants, insects, marine organism and bacteria. ...
    • Event triggering and deep learning for particle identification in KM3NeT 

      De Sio, Chiara (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2018-04-11)
      Neutrino astronomy experiments like KM3NeT allow to survey the Universe leveraging the properties of neutrinos of being electrically neutral and weakly interacting particles, making them a suitable messenger. Observing ...
    • Exact solutions in general relativity and alternative theories of gravity: mathematical and physical properties 

      Canonico, Rosangela (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2011-06-06)
      In this thesis, we discuss several subjects connected with the framework of GR, in order to characterize astrophysical compact objects. The main purpose is to provide simple models describing gravitational fields generated ...
    • Exploring the transport properties of quantum systems on different lenght scales 

      Avallone, Guerino (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2021-11-10)
      In this thesis, after introducing some theoretical aspects of Mott insulators, pure single crystals of the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4 was investigated from an experimental point of view. The surprisingly low current density ...
    • Fabrication of graphene based devices and study of their electrical and optical properties 

      Santandrea, Salvatore (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2013-05-13)
      This work is dedicated to investigate the unique and excellent electrical and optical properties of graphene, through the fabrication and experimental study of several graphene based devices. Particular attention is paid ...
    • Flavor mixing in quantum field theory and quantum information 

      Di Mauro, Marco (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2011-05-10)
      After reviewing the formalism for describing flavor mixing, both in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory, some consequences along three different directions are studied. First, it is proposed that flavor mixing can ...
    • Fluorescence-based sensors for the detection of biologically and environmentally relevant molecules 

      Mirra, Silvia (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2016-03-15)
      Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has been known for long time as a toxic molecule in biological systems. More recent studies have shown that mammals can produce H2S in a controlled fashion, suggesting that it’s important in maintaining ...
    • Foam Injection molding with physical blowing agents 

      Volpe, Valentina (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-04-20)
      Foam injection molding uses environmental friendly blowing agents under high pressure and temperature to produce parts having a cellular core and a compact solid skin (the so-called “structural foam”). The addition of a ...
    • Forensic analysis for digital images 

      Cembalo, Maurizio (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2011-11-23)
      Nowadays, taking and sharing digital pictures is becoming a very popular activity. This is witnessed by the explosive growth of the digital cameras market: e.g., more than one billion of digital cameras have been ...
    • Forest fire modelling 

      Malangone, Luca (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-04-21)
      Wildland fires have always been undesired and dangerous events. The danger includes the destruction of a renewable natural resource, damage of the atmospheric environment through the emissions of pollutant gases, which ...
    • Fractional derivative of the riemann zeta function 

      Guariglia, Emanuel (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2017-05-02)
      In this work of thesis, the Riemann zeta function was studied by using an unconventional approach. The reason for choosing this approach was to explore the many applications that the Riemann zeta has not only in pure ...
    • A framework to access risks and derive requirements for a complex systems 

      Vozella, Angela (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2014-04-22)
      This thesis provides an innovative framework, based on the risk assessment methodology, to support the design of a pioneering complex systems, strongly ICT based, whose failures could threaten people, environment and society ...
    • From GeoVisualization to visual-analytics: methodologies and techniques for human-information discourse 

      De Chiara, Davide (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2012-04-03)
      The objective of our research is to give support to decision makers when facing problems which require rapid solutions in spite of the complexity of scenarios under investigation. In order to achieve this goal our studies ...
    • Functionalized Syndiotactic Polystyrene 

      Califano, Rosa (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2012-02-14)
      La sintesi di materiali polimerici da metodo di modificazione, per ottenere le proprietà desiderate in polimeri, è un argomento importante in chimica dei polimeri e tecnologia. Molto spesso, proprietà desiderate non sono ...
    • Fuzzy concept analysis for semantic knowledge extraction 

      De Maio, Carmen (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2012-03-22)
      Availability of controlled vocabularies, ontologies, and so on is enabling feature to provide some added values in terms of knowledge management. Nevertheless, the design, maintenance and construction of domain ontologies ...
    • Gaussian and non-Gaussian resources in Quantum Information 

      Nocerino, Gaetano (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2013-04-05)
      This dissertation was carried out within the framework of the Quantum Information (QI). In particular, I have analyzed the main aspects: the protocol, the quantum states, the conditional measurements, and the decoherence. The ...
    • Geometries associated with Von Dick Groups 

      Stypa, Monika Ewa (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-05-04)
      This thesis contains a theoretical result in the eld of group actions on combinatorial structures, which is an important area of research, bringing forth some thirty publications per year. Besides its applications, mostly ...
    • Graphene and carbon nanotubes in transistors, diodes and field emission devices 

      Iemmo, Laura (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2017-03-22)
      Since their discovery, graphene and carbon nanotubes have been playing an important role in nanoscience and nanotechnology thanks to their extraordinary physical and chemical properties. With silicon-based electronics ...