Reliability-Focused Design, Management, and Maintenance of Water Distribution Networks

Access to clean water is vital for hygiene and public health and is critical for social and economic activity of urban life. Water distribution networks (WDNs) bring water from sources and treatment facilities to consumers via interconnected systems of pipes and mechanical components. The increasing urbanization and continuous changes in demand patterns and land use result in incremental modifications, expansions, and rehabilitation actions that gradually transform the network. At the same t...

External Exposome of Italian adults with Multiple Sclerosis focusing on nutrition-related inflammation: results from the cross-sectional EXPOSITION study

Background: The cause of multiple sclerosis (MS) is unknown and likely multifactorial, including genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors. Some dietary patterns have been studied in relation to MS, however the data are scarce, especially about the role of nutrients, dietary inflammation and body composition. Aims: This thesis aims to fill these gaps by assessing nutrition and lifestyle habits in people with MS, examining sex-specific differences and their associations with phase angle and...

Design of a High Efficiency Inverting Buck-Boost Converter for OLED Displays

This thesis addresses the design of high-efficiency inverting DC–DC converters for AMOLED display applications in mobile devices. AMOLED panels require negative bias voltages whose magnitude varies with operating conditions and luminance, imposing stringent constraints on efficiency, silicon area, and passive component count in power management integrated circuits. The work presents a comprehensive analysis of different converter topologies, including inductive, switched-capacitor, and hybrid...

La produzione discografica in Italia come pratica sociale. Mappatura, etnografia, modelli sistemici di creatività (1965-1999)