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During the 1990s, attention pivoted on Reform in the Public Administration (PA) relative both to the functional and organizational capacity of the Institutions and Administrations and to wider citizen participation in the diffusion of new technologies. At the same time, the Institutions began to privilege principles of efficiency, efficacy and economicity in public action. In particular, reduction in management costs were highlighted while the foundations were laid for processes of administrative simplification and the development of the "digital State ". At European and national scale, the notion of e-Government was far-reaching and inclusive of a series of policies linked to the introduction of ICT (organizational, technological, formative/performative, infrastructural and information technology solutions), in order to collect, conserve, process and transmit (textual, visual or audio) digital information. The focus of the e-Government concept targeted four objectives: 1) collecting and storing massive quantities of information within a confined space; 2) processing and transmitting information more speedily; 3) the exchange of information (interoperability) using diverse techniques and language; 4) the conservation and security of information, content and the impact of digitising modes and processes. Notwithstanding, a decade later e-Government policies of the latest generation still pivot on the delicate issue of interoperability which goes far beyond technical problems of connectivity and language. The impact of the economic recession in Italy (still ongoing) as can be envisaged, has had disastrous results on the productive and social fabric of the country. Planning to resolve governance issues in the Italian Public Administration through innovative policies and strategies of global development such as Structural Funds – Europe 2020 Strategy is vital to support the Digital Agenda, innovation and private sector industrial research while the diffusion of tecnological enterprise is necessary to boost competitiveness and a new culture of systemic actions to foster structural impact. Within this strategic vision, one of the core issues concerns a more virtuous alignment with European policies, well defined in the Strategy Horizon 2020, the main European Union funding tool for Research Europa envisaged for the period 2014-2020.

Il cambiamento climatico e la necessità di ridurre il consumo energetico degli edifici sono argomenti chiave del dibattito politico, scientifico, economico e culturale. Un dibattito al quale si è voluto dare il proprio contributo sin dall'anno accademico 2010-2011 con la prima edizione del Master in Materiali e Tecniche Innovative per l'Edilizia Sostenibile (MeTIES) dell'Università degli Studi di Palermo insieme al Consorzio Universitario per l'Ateneo della Sicilia Occidentale e del Bacino del Mediterraneo (UNISOM), perseguendo il preciso obiettivo di formare una generazione di professionisti che sappiano padroneggiare le nuove tecnologie per ripensare il modo di "costruire". Tutti gli studenti che hanno seguito il master, nelle diverse edizioni, hanno avuto modo di mettere a frutto le competenze acquisite durante il corso in un ambito lavorativo. Si è voluto contribuire al dibattito sulle possibili strade da perseguire per lo sviluppo sostenibile attraverso la formazione di "operatori" che abbiano la capacità di individuare, sviluppare e proporre soluzioni possibili e concrete per l'efficientamento energetico degli edifici. Il libro contiene alcune risposte operative alle necessità di un settore che sarà sempre di più al centro delle scelte economiche e politiche dei prossimi decenni. ; Climate change and the need to reduce energy consumption in buildings are key topics in the political, scientific, economic and cultural debate. Since the academic year, 2010-2011, we wanted to make a debate and also our contribution with the first edition of the Master in Materials and Innovative Techniques for Sustainable Construction (MeTIES) University of Palermo together with the University Consortium for the University of Western Sicily and the Mediterranean Basin (UNISOM). The main objective of this Master is to form a professional generation who knows how to master new technologies and to rethink the way to "build". All the students of the master, in different editions, have had the opportunity to improve skills acquired ...

Oggetto della tesi è in primo luogo l'analisi delle norme che hanno portato alla creazione delle start up innovative e PMI innovative. Prosegue poi con la disamina della disciplina applicabile alle società innovative in tutta la loro fase fisiologica sottolineandone i profili di specialità. Viene poi analizzata la fase patologica delle società innovative confrontando le discipline applicabili per il superamento della crisi descrivendo le diverse procedure applicabili. Obiettivo ultimo è quello di capire i motivi, se vi sono, che hanno portato il legislatore ad adottare soluzioni così diverse per le due figure sopra citate.

Into European political and pedagogical debate, the eventuality about thecreation in Italy of an "integrated education and training system for age 0-6" (L 107/2015) requests as no longer to put off the problem of the preschoolprofessionalism identification, as its qualification. The need of a univocaldefinition of professional profiles by models of competences led tothe formulation of this project research, wants to carry out a new model ofcontinuing professional development, according to the paradigm of capabilityapproach. However, the current lack of a model of professional competenceswhich to refer, requires a primary attention to such professionalismdescribing reference, linked to the development of several expansionapproaches at the same. The definition of systematic and coherent paths ofinitial formal training allow us to design new directions of continuing professional development, able to include the non-formal and informal enlargedlearning contexts. ; Nel solco del dibattito politico e pedagogico europeo, la prospettiva dellacreazione in Italia di un "sistema integrato di educazione ed istruzione perla fascia 0-6" (L 107/ 2015) impone come non più rimandabile la questionedel riconoscimento della professionalità prescolastica e della sua qualificazione.L'urgenza di una definizione univoca dei profili di competenzeprofessionali ha condotto alla formulazione di un progetto di ricerca tesoad esplicitare un nuovo modello di sviluppo professionale, secondo il paradigmadel capability approach. La mancanza attuale di un modello di competenzaunivoco richiede un'attenzione preliminare a tale riferimento didescrizione della professionalità, per poter innestare lo sviluppo di approccidi espansione della stessa. La definizione di percorsi coerenti e sistematicidi formazione iniziale di tipo formale permetterà infine di disegnarenuove traiettorie di sviluppo professionale continuo, capace di includere icontesti d'apprendimento allargati di tipo non formale ed informale.

"Nel mondo globale, la sfida si chiama innovazione, ricerca, competitività. È una sfida che riguarda tutti: il rinnovamento scientifico, tecnologico e industriale è la miglior risposta alla crisi economico-finanziaria come alla crisi di fiducia che investe in questo momento l'Eurozona." Quali parole migliori se non quelle del nostro Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano, nel suo intervento al Forum The European House – Ambrosetti di Villa d'Este nel settembre 2012, per esprimere il mio particolare desiderio di analizzare il mondo delle start up innovative (Sti), con particolare riguardo ai fattori in grado di favorirne la nascita e lo sviluppo, in conseguenza del crescente interesse che tale fenomeno imprenditoriale sta destando nell'odierno scenario economico e delle prospettive di crescita che sembra in grado di offrire nei territori che supportano lo sviluppo di innovazione; attenzione testimoniata, non da ultimo, dai numerosi interventi legislativi che si sono succeduti negli ultimi due anni, in favore di questa interessante fattispecie societaria. Riforme radicali per facilitare opportunità imprenditoriali che, vuoi per una burocrazia ossificata, vuoi per un sistema bancario ancorato a rigidi sistemi di garanzie e una cultura sociale favorevole alle grandi imprese, invece che alle piccole start up, hanno stentato a decollare ed hanno impedito sinora di fare passi avanti significativi nella direzione dell'"imprenditorialità produttiva". Chi meglio, allora, dei creatori di start up innovative può riaccendere quello spirito imprenditoriale, oggi sempre più spento e depauperato? Sono proprio loro i "moderni argonauti della conoscenza": scienziati, ricercatori, manager dell'innovazione e imprenditori innovativi che popolano e modellano con le loro iniziative e progetti avveniristici, quel mercato unico, prodotto ultimo della globalizzazione mondiale. Oggi, nel vuoto generato dalla crisi, ogni start up, che sopravviva o meno, è una particella di energia che alimenta il ciclo delle idee imprenditoriali alla sorgente. È da queste considerazioni iniziali e dall'urgenza, ormai al termine del mio personale percorso formativo, di avvicinarmi al mondo del lavoro, con una consapevolezza maggiore di quella finora maturata, che ho deciso di approfondire quale sia l'effettivo contributo che le Sti possono avere nella segnata economia italiana e fino a che punto l'Italia può dirsi un Paese attraente per le start up e per tutti coloro che vogliano lanciarsi in un'impresa simile.

Current technological improvements allow for the realization of MEMS inertial sensors that have several advanced peculiarities such as low production cost, wide bandwidth, high-reliability, small-size, low-power consumption, and lightweight configuration. These advantages combined with new generation MEMS higher levels of accuracy and the development of innovative algorithms is allowing MEMS technology to replace expensive, bulky, heavy and power requiring Fiber Optic Gyroscopes in most applications. This thesis deals with the development of various innovative MEMS-based inertial systems suitable to accomplish different tasks. First, a low-cost Inertial Navigation System solution composed of industrial-grade inertial sensors, magnetometer and GNSS antenna/receiver suitable for Unmanned Aircraft Systems applications is shown. Such aeronautical platforms require attitude determination capabilities more enhanced than the standard attitude measurement accuracy FAA requirements. Then, a land navigator system built around an Inertial Measurement Unit with quasi-tactical level gyroscopes linked with a GNSS equipment and an odometer is exposed. Both civil and military applications are demanding for self-contained, dead-reckoning systems able to provide a continuous and reliable Position, Velocity and Timing solution even in GNSS denied and degraded environments. Finally, a ZUPT algorithm able to accurately initialize a MEMS-based INS navigation state and north-finding activities employing tactical-grade MEMS gyroscopes are described. Each inertial navigation system shall be accurately initialized before navigation in order to improve its performance. Attitude initialization is the most difficult task to satisfy and heading self-initialization has been not considered possible for many years utilizing MEMS gyroscopes.

2010/2011 ; Since from the first Industrial Revolution, energy supply, which feeds human activities, has been characterized by consumption of fossil fuels such as coal, crude oil and gas. This supply model is heavely affected by a dramatic limitation, taht is the idea of feeding an infinite system (such as the human activities energy demand) with a finite (in terms of time) source - fossil fuels. Although this issue was already forecast in the early decades of the last century (e.g. G. Ciamician in The photochemistry of the Future, during The Ninth International Congress of Applied Chemistry - New York), it has been largely neglected until the first oil crisis in the 70s, when public eye become aware of the (social) issue coming from the oil dependence. The exponential growth of Earth population and the consequent increase of energy demand and the environmental and pollution issues that characterized last decades leaded large part of scientific and (marginally) politic community to focusing its endeavours to research of more efficient way of exploiting renewable sources and to the fillip of their usage. The main drawback, which affects the usage of renewable energies, is that the supply, whether it comes from the earth or the sun, is never constant. Day turns to night, winds die down and the geothermal heat from the crust of the earth, although seemingly constant, will eventually diminish. The capability of storing energy and release it on demand, therefore, plays a crucial role in the possibility of exploiting renewable energies. The main target of this PhD study is investigation and design of devices capable of collecting thermal energy. According to the idea of gathering the largest quantity of energy in the most efficient way, as storage strategies it has been decided to adopt the latent heat thermal storage method. Suitable materials for accomplishing this task are Phase Change Materials (PCMs); they are a class of materials capable of collecting and releasing a large amount of energy during melting and freezing process at a temperature that may be useful for anthropic activities, such as air heating&cooling, domestic hot water production, industrial processes and energy production. In this thesis in particular, the existence of a convergence point between the possibility to adopt nano-enhanced material into largely used devices (heat exchangers, boilers etc.) is explored. This research has been, therefore, performed focusing mainly onto two different aspects: the possibility of improving thermal properties (melting enthalpy) of PCMs by addiction of nano-enhancer materials and on the other hand design and development of systems which imply the usage of PCMs, eventually nano-doped. The structure of this thesis reflects the division of topics and every part represents one of these task: * in the first part, Phase Change Materials a general overview on the state of art of PCMs is presented. A brief description of strategies for thermal storage is discussed and a dissertation on different typologies of PCMs, main advantages and disadvantages coming from their usage is given. The discussion than continues analysing possible ways of modelling the thermal behaviour during melting or freezing process. Both the analytical and numerical approaches are treated; * in the second part, Nanotechnology and Phase Change Materials, dissertation on thermal variations induced by inclusion of carbon nano tubes is carried out. After a snapshot on the state of the art in the field of nano-doping of PCMs, procedures and results of four commercially available paraffin waxes doped with CNTs have been discussed; * in the third part, Design and Phase Change Materials, devices which exploit PCMs have been designed and (numerically) optimized. A panel heat exchanger, capable to accomplish requirements of modularity and short time heat release has been numerically studied and optimized by genetic algorithm; the possibility of using a nano-enhanced material has been explored. Then, a system for avoiding ice formation on pavement surface during winter time has been developed. PCM elements (pipes) embedded into asphalt concrete of road pavement have been modelled using a commercial FE code. 1D and 2D models have been used and coupled with weather data collected in Trieste during the first week of January 2009; * in the last part, Conclusions, final remarks and further developments are discussed. ; XXIV Ciclo ; 1982

The scope of this thesis is application and impact of tools used in a service company connected with Operations Management. In order to improve quality and company's performance, the Total Quality Management (TQM) tool was used. TQM and all the concepts of quality control provides innovation not only to the company's organization (process management, services design, strategy) but especially to human resources management improvement in terms of both, short (profits) and longtime development (quality). Analysis is based on two years' personal experience in a ABC company which provides services for Pharma and Medical Device industries. The process of examining began with organization's S.W.O.T. analysis that provides important information about company strengths and weaknesses (internal environment), threats and opportunities (external environment). This approach helped to create four improvement strategies. Subsequently, by further analysis of this company's structure, I have performed the organizational performance improvement that could be approached on three different levels: organizational, process and employee. I have made an accurate study of each of them and what is more, I have pointed out all the errors that might occur. Successively, a strategy in terms "to be" that shows the performance improvement after application of new strategies, was presented. Analysis of the different process in the ABC company showed problems with invoices issuing process. Due to this, I decided to execute an analysis of "Order Management" process using Operations Management tools like Flow Charts, Graphics, Diagrams and Tables. It showed clearly company's situation in that area and helped easily to identify errors that are possible to occur. The improvement strategy was prepared for each of three mentioned previously levels, due to careful investigation of the responsibilities of each actor that takes part in the analyzed process. An important conclusion, that can be made thanks to the profound analysis of this subject, based on the ABC company processes examination, is the importance of the well-functioning human recourses. It is of high importance to manage employees with the Leadership approach that is also one of the Total Quality Management philosophical elements. As a result it shows that in order to improve company's performance, it is necessary to provide employee's empowerment and commitment.