More than 40 years after their introduction in therapy, 1,4-dihydropyridines (DHPs) are still amongst the most prescribed drugs in the world. Though they all share a similar mechanism of action blocking L-type voltage-gated ...

Despite modern technology provide new tools to measure the world around us, we are quickly generating massive amounts of high-dimensional, spatialtemporal data. In this work, I deal with two types of datasets: one in ...

This thesis proposes a conceptual formulation for controlling the resulting mechanical properties of Recycled Aggregate Concretes (RACs) via generalised mix-design rules intended at covering the specific features of ...

The formation of coalition may imply some theoretical difficulties, such as costs arising from forming a coalition or sharing information among agents. In this paper we will assume that only a subset S of the set of all ...

In Computational Linguistics there is an essential dichotomy between Linguists and Computer Scientists. The rst ones, with a strong knowledge of language structures, have not engineering skills. The second ones, ...

Estimating and predicting joint second-order moments of asset portfolios is of huge impor- tance in many practical applications and, hence, modeling volatility has become a crucial issue in financial econometrics. In ...

The supremacy of European law on the Member States’ law is a basic principle of the European integration process. Nonetheless there are some limits: the so-called “counter-limits”, developed by the constitutional jurisprudence ...

Nowadays, complex phenomena need to bee analyzed through appropriate statistical methods that allow considering the knowledge hidden behind the classical data structure... [edited by author]

The main goal of my work is to exploit the benefits of a hardware implementation of a 3D visual search pipeline. The term visual search refers to the task of searching objects in the environment starting from the real world ...