Il lavoro presenta uno studio di alcuni aspetti del sistema universitario in Italia sia attraverso un’analisi normativa, evidenziando il riconoscimento di un certo grado di autonomia alle università (in particolare didattica, ...

Today, the increasingly serious lack of resources and the obsolescence of the plants present on the whole planet led to develop new ways that go beyond “traditional” chemical engineering. The research is now focusing on ...

Strategic information is one of the main assets for many organizations and, in the next future, it will become increasingly more important to enable the decisionmakers answer questions about their business, such as how to ...

In the next years, it is expected a deep growth of world primary energy and electricity demand. The scenarios prospect a positive rate in all the sectors, especially in the residential one. In particular, residential sector ...

The aim of this work has been to obtain bionanocomposites with a degradation rate which can be modulated in time, so that it can be possible to decide a priori the time after which the material will disappear in a given ...

The thesis focuses on statistical approaches to model, mitigate, and prevent distributed network attacks. When dealing with distributed network attacks (and, more in general, with cyber-security problems), three fundamental ...

The increase in dietary-intake-related illnesses, such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes and cancer, have made in recent years the development of health-and-wellness promoting foods a priority of ...

The research of new eco-friendly technologies that enable the production of energy is nowadays one of the topics of greatest interest to the scientific community. The population has chosen to break free from the use of ...

Starting from the recent law provisions contained in the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education) Plan - and aimed to revamp school buildings, this Ph.D. thesis has investigated methods and preliminary criteria applicable to ...

Recently, the possibility of upgrading conventional vehicles to Hybrid Electric Vehicles is gaining interest. Among the different options for hybridization, researchers are focusing on electrification of rear wheels in ...