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This course covers materials processing for manufacturing biomaterials, including traditional manufacturing techniques and 3D printing techniques. Students explore how we can produce biomedical materials, implants, and devices using a variety of manufacturing techniques.  

Topics include Introduction to materials processing for biomedical applications, Synthesis of starting materials (ceramics and metals), Polymers as a drug delivery system, CAD/CAM process, Metal casting and surface modifications, Colloidal processes, Processes for porous scaffolds, 3D printing applications.  

This course provides basic knowledge of the relationship between climate and forest ecosystems. This course consists of two sections: the first section introduces basic information about the Earth and climate, while the second section deals with terrestrial plant ecology.

This course begins with a study of the most classical objects in algebraic geometry: conics and plane curves. Students spend time examining these examples to develop a feeling for how algebraic equations and geometric shapes interact and prove an early version of Bezout's theorem. The central part of the course develops the theory of sheaves and schemes, which provide the natural framework in which to formulate and generalize classical results. The course introduces morphisms of schemes and their fundamental properties, and it studies divisors and line bundles as fundamental tools for encoding geometric information. Students examine the local structure of schemes, including objects such as differential forms. The class also introduces Čech cohomology, both as a computational method and as a bridge to more advanced cohomological techniques. The course concludes with the Riemann-Roch theorem.

This course examines theory and research on individual differences in motivation, emotion, and social behavior. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. The course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the comparative dimension of the European legal space through primary institutions and principles, with a particular emphasis on solidarity. The course will lead the students to acquire and improve the following skills: techniques for reading and understanding constitutional norms, legislation and case law from different legal systems, as well as critical skills for the comparative examination of European constitutionalism; ability to find and understand legal sources of the European legal space; skills to elaborate innovative norms and policies in both the public and the private sector.

The course content is divided as follows:

• Comparative Methodology
• Practical and Theoretical Targets of Legal Comparison
• European Legal Families and Political/Territorial Systems
• European Constitutionalism and Comparative Understandings of the Principle of Solidarity
• EU and Domestic Legal Framework of Solidarity
• Solidarity in Inter-territorial relations
• Financial, Migration, and Environmental Norms and Policies on Solidarity
• Constitutional Adjudication and Interaction with European Courts

This course covers the concepts, operation, and terminology of foreign exchange markets; international investment decision-making; sources of and approaches to managing foreign exchange exposure; political risk; and international funding mechanisms and financial decision-making in multinational business organizations.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. At the end of the course, students have the methodological and theoretical tools of 'Atlantic History,' which redefines the spatial limits of modern politics, considering Europe, Africa, and the Americas as part of one and the same global experience. This perspective, well-developed in North American universities, is extended to the history of political concepts, with a special attention to antagonistic political cultures and resistance movements, but also to the colonial dimension embedded in the great classics of modern and contemporary political thought. The course deals with the history of modern political thought, with a special focus on the development of fundamental concepts such as sovereignty, state, rights, property and war, in a global perspective, which assumes the opening of the new Atlantic political space and the problems involved in European expansion overseas as a crucial background for understanding the emergence of new discursive strategies and new political categories in the early modern age.

After an initial lecture designed to provide a general overview of the methodology, the subsequent weeks of classes are divided into three distinct but interconnected units. The first unit deals with the theoretical and methodological tools of conceptual history and its redefinition from a global and oceanic perspective. It is argued that the history of concepts has provided an essential framework for understanding and criticizing the foundations of modern politics, but the Eurocentric coordinates underlying the traditional versions of this approach must be radically revised in order to grasp the genealogy of our global present. The second unit addresses the emergence of the Atlantic space and its distinctive phenomena and actors as a decisive factor of historical transformation that radically displaced the traditional coordinates of politics. On this basis, the development of a new political framework and the modern theory of state sovereignty is understood as a response to this crucial challenge. This is illustrated through a close reading and discussion of relevant passages from classical thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Thomas Paine. The third unit offers a spatial reading of the work of the legal scholar Hugo Grotius in the light of the perspective outlined in the first two units. Grotius – who has been traditionally considered one of the founding fathers of modern international law and modern maritime law, but who was also a crucial figure in the context of the creation of the Dutch "seaborne" empire in the East and West Indies – constitutes a compelling case study because his legal and political theory can be situated in a transitional moment between the medieval and humanist tradition on the one hand and the emergence of a modern outlook on the other, while reflecting the entanglements between states and colonies, land and sea, the territorialized order of sovereignty, and the fluid power of commercial empires and trading companies. An analysis of his work can therefore allow us both to grasp the complex origins and characteristics of modern political space and to elucidate the global genealogy of European modernity.

This course examines the control of normal body function. The specialized organ systems to be studied include the nervous, cardiovascular, muscular, respiratory, kidney and digestive systems. 

This course examines examines sustainability at the national and international scale. It covers existing global initiatives to achieve sustainability, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, and will explore new possibilities for governance of sustainability. 

While Japan used to dominate the Asian gaming landscape, its East Asian and Southeast Asian neighbors have since developed into major gaming hubs with distinctive characteristics. This course examines the formative influence of Japanese games throughout East and Southeast Asia, studies the rise of South Korea and China as centers for online gaming and esports, and surveys the emergence of robust national videogame industries in numerous Southeast Asian nations.