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The course offers a study of the fundamental theoretical bases and practical methodology to carry out a neuropsychological assessment in order to obtain a clear neuropsychological diagnosis. The course discusses how to collect the neuropsychological anamnesi including all relevant information on the personal history of the patient; how to observe the patient, his/her behavior and how to interview him/her; how to select and administer the appropriate psychometric tests; and how to integrate all the information in a diagnostic reasoning. The course examines topics including behavior assessment and measurement, neuropsychological anamnesi, interview techniques, psychometric instruments, diagnostic conclusion, and the neuropsychological report. There are no prerequisites, but knowledge of brain and behavior relationship and the bases of neuropsychology are important for following the course.

This course provides an in-depth understanding of the main alternative assets and investment strategies employed by private and institutional investors globally. The emphasis is on the following macro classes: (i) Public Markets/Liquid assets, such as Hedge Funds and liquid alternatives; and (ii) Private Markets/Illiquid assets, such as Private Debt and Private Equity, Real Estate and Art, and Sustainable Investments (ESG). Asset classes are examined in terms of the following aspects: key characteristics, investment strategies, and portfolio consideration (alternative risk premia and contribution to portfolio’s performance). The course requires students to be familiar with the basic concepts of probability, statistics, financial markets, and investments as a prerequisite.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course focuses on research problems in a wide series of topics drawn from migration history, history of ideas and their circulation, material exchange and consumption patterns, global labor history, social protests, transnational mobilizations processes, power forms and resistance strategies. Through direct contact with specific research paths, students are able to apply research techniques and methodologies and to use sources and literature in a critical manner. The first part of the course focuses on theoretical and methodological aspects concerning a world-historical approach to European contemporary history: how to study Europe and contemporary European history with reference to analytical frames drawing on World history. The second part of the courses focuses on European migration history from a global perspective. Particular attention is devoted to different forms of migration in relation to the social and political impact exerted on the societies involved. The topic is presented through case studies of anarchist migration between the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century that students are asked to present in class. The third and last part of the course focuses on decolonization, related social conflicts/movements and its impact on the European political sphere from the 1960s until the 1980s. How antiimperialist and anticolonial criticism addressed Europe and how European left-wing groups and parties reacted to the rising challenges. This topic is illustrated and discussed through case studies presented by the students. Readings are presented either individually or in small groups of students on a weekly basis accordingly to the syllabus.

This course consists of an institutional part to study some of the problematic issues in the history of Italian cinema, and a monographic part dedicated to contemporary Italian cinema and public funding. At the end of the course students are familiar with the history of national cinematography; are able to relate cinema to the history of Italian culture; and can contextualize Italian film production in relation to other forms of expression and in the wider context of the cultural industry.

The course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrolment is by consent of the instructor. The course examines the political and the social conditions of contemporary Iran. Iran is one of the major players in the contemporary geopolitical situation and has a long history as a hegemonic power. It is also characterized by a vibrant civil society, a fact that is not usually acknowledged. Hence the focus of the course is on both political and social aspects. The course focuses on the historical, political, and social situation of contemporary Iran; the patterns of interaction between Iran and the various local political entities (Empires, nation-states, regional organizations); the interaction between Iran and Europe, North America, and Africa; and the influence of international factors on Iranian domestic and foreign policy. Special attention is placed on the interaction with other regional forces and the international and global dynamics affecting the region as a whole. A special section of the course is devoted to the historiographic and political debate concerning Iran, its future, and its role in international politics. The course is designed primarily to familiarize students with the pivotal events and processes of the political history of contemporary Iran and its foreign and domestic policies. Special attention is placed on Iran’s diplomacy and international relations.

This course is part of the LM degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course provides students with an understanding of how a food supply chain is structured, operates, performs, and is managed to increase its competitiveness and sustainability. The course discusses topics including the relevance of food supply chain management; the factors influencing companies’ strategic adjustment to markets globalization and other drivers of change; tools to manage a supply chain; developing critical thinking: discussing supply chain real world experiences; and experiencing the uncertainty in supply chain management.

This is a special studies course involving an artist apprenticeship with a renowned local artist or an artist connected to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. It can also involve a group or solo art show held at the Accademia di Belle Arti with the invitation of a faculty member, or an art show held at a local gallery. The Special Study internship is arranged with the Study Center Director or Liaison Officer. Specific internships vary each term and are described on a special study internship form for each student. A substantial paper or series of reports is required. Units vary depending on the contact hours and method of assessment. The internship may be taken during one or more terms but the units cannot exceed a total of 12.0 for the year.

This course goes beyond the fundamentals of marketing emphasizing the concepts, theories, and techniques applied to the “Made in Italy” phenomenon, emblematic of superlative quality. The course explores three key areas: 1) Basis of communication, public relations, and marketing; 2) “Made in Italy”: concept, its evolution and what means for Italy from economic and social point of view; and 3) marketing and advertising approaches of Italian companies pursuing “Made in Italy”. A focus is on the industries of food and cuisine, fashion, and other areas of design. The course explores the appeal of “Made in Italy” as a global brand and the marketing of “Italian Style” throughout the world. Since a flow of expertise across time and disciplines seems to distinguish “Made in Italy,” the course aims to give a way to connect the latter to patterns of continuity and change in Italian society and to examine how the "Made in Italy" phenomenon has impacted the country. An additional concentration is on the business aspect of the label, in particular, on marketing, branding, and consumer behavior seen from both an Italian and international perspective.

This is a graduate level course that is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course consists of two parts. This course provides students with advanced tools for analyzing and modelling momentum, energy, and mass transport in fluid or solid media. Continuum mechanics approach is used to address the discussion of fluid mechanics, heat. and mass transfer problems. The course focuses on the role of local form of total mass, momentum, energy, and species balance equations.

The first part of the course discusses topics including: Eulerian and Lagrangian views. Local and material derivative. Microscopic mass balance. Microscopic momentum balance. Stress tensor in a fluid. Deformation rate tensor components. Constituive equations for the relation between stress and deformation rate for newtonian fluids, Bingham fluids and Power law fluids. Navier Stokes equation. Laminar flows: Couette flow for the different types of fluids, Falling film flow for the different types of fluids. Example on composite falling film (Bingham and Newtonian fluids): velocity profile, stress profile and flowrate. Poiseuille flow in rectangular and cylindrical channels: stress profile, velocity profile, flowrate for Newtonian, Bingham and Power Law Fluids. Consideration on the solution of the Navier Stokes equation in different cases: Couette, Poiseuille and falling films. Flow in an annulus. Velocity and stress profile for a newtonian fluid. Example: wire coating. Non dimensionalization of Navier Stokes equation. Creeping and Inertial flows. Reynolds and Strouhal number meaning. Application to the unsteady falling film problem. Examples of visocus, bidirectional, pseudo-steady flows. Determination of the velocity profile and force exerted on a squeezing-plate viscometer. Viscometry: viscometric kinematics and viscosity. Coeutte viscometer in planar and cylindrical case. Parallel disk viscometer: velocity profile and estimation of viscosity. Cone and plate viscometer:velocity profile and estimation of viscosity. Capillary viscometer for Newtonian fluids. Pressure profile in fluids in rigid-body rotation. Rabinowitsch treatment of capillary viscometer data: example of application to polymeric solution following power-law behavior. Lubrication theory: study of the velocity and pressure profile in a Michell Bearing, lift force applied. Example of the falling cylinder viscometer. Solution of unsteady laminar flow problems: semiinfinite medium. Solution of 2d problems using the stream function: Creeping flow around a sphere. Potential, inviscid and irrotational flow. Vorticity transport theorem. Euler's equation and Bernoulli's equation. Laplace's equation. Potential flow around a cylinder. D'Alembert paradox. Laminar Boundary layer around a flat plate: Blasius' derivation and numerical solution. Applications: entrance length in a duct. Friction factor. Turbulent flow: time smoothed quantities. Time smoothed version of the continuity equation and Navier Stokes equation with inertial stress. Friction factor as interfacial coefficient in internal flow, external flow and boundary layer: analogy with heat and mass transfer case. Dimensionless diagrams for friction factor in various cases. Flow in porous media: Darcy's law and Ergun equation. Application to the filtration process and fluidization point determination.

The second part of the course discusses topics including: Heat Transfer. Heat transfer: Fourier’s constitutive equation, thermal conductivity for isotropic and anisotropic materials; constitutive equations for internal energy; local energy balance equation. Heat conduction in solids and quiescent fluids: problem formulation, different initial and boundary conditions. Heat conduction in a semi-infinite slab with boundary conditions on temperature or on heat flux; analogy with penetration theory. Calculation of heat transfer coefficient, heat flux and total heat exchanged. Heat conduction in two semi-infinite slabs in contact at the interface. Two dimensional problems of steady heat conduction: use of conformal transformations. Heat conduction in fins; planar fins and efficiency. Bessel’s and modified Bessel’s equations and their solutions. Solution of heat transfer in cylindrical fins and calculation of efficiency. Solution of transient heat transfer problems in slabs and cylinders: methods of separation of variables and Laplace transform method for different boundary conditions. Solutions available in graphs. Heat transfer in fluids under different motion regimes: a) forced convection, non-dimensional equations, Péclèt number and dependence of Nusselt number on the relevant dimensionless numbers; b) free convection, non-dimensional equations, Grashof number and dependence of Nusselt number on Grashof and Prandtl numbers. Thermal boundary layer on flat surface: detailed solution, thickness, heat transfer coefficient, Chilton – Colbourn analogy. Discussion on analogy between heat transfer and fluid motion. Boundary layer on flat surfaces for liquid metals. Mass transfer. Relevant variables, velocity and flux of each species, diffusive velocities and diffusive fluxes. Local mass balances in Lagrangian and Eulerian form. Constitutive equation for the diffusive mass flux (mobility and chemical potential gradients); discussion. Fick’s law, diffusivity in binary solutions; its general properties, dependence on temperature, pressure; typical orders of magnitude for different phases. Mass balance equation for Fickian mixtures; relevant boundary conditions. Discussion and analogy with heat transfer problems. Measurements of diffusivity in gases; Stefan problem of diffusion in stagnant film. Steady state mass transfer in different geometries (planar, cylindrical, and spherical) in single and multilayer walls. Transient mass transfer: problem formulation in different geometries. Solution for transient mass transfer problems: semi-infinite slab with different boundary conditions, films of finite thickness. Calculation of mass flux, of the total sorbed mass; “short times” and “long times” methods for the measurement of diffusivities. Transient permeation through a film: use of time lag and permeability for the determination of diffusivity and solubility coefficients. Transient mass transfer in ion implantation processes. Mass transfer in a falling film and calculation of the mass transfer coefficient. Mass transfer in a fluid in motion: dimensionless equations; dependence of the Sherwood number on the relevant dimensionless numbers: Reynolds and Prandtl in forced convection, Grashof and Prandtl in free convection. Analogy with heat transfer. Graetz problems. Boundary layer problems in mass transfer: mass transfer from a flat surface, mass transfer boundary layer thickness; explicit solution for the concentration profile and for the local mass transfer coefficient. Levèque problem formulation and solution. Chilton – Colbourn analogy; discussion on analogy among the different transport phenomena. Calculation of the mass transfer coefficient. Mass transfer with chemical reaction: analysis of the behavior of isothermal catalysts with different geometries (planar, cylindrical, and spherical), concentration profiles and efficiency dependence on Thiele modulus. Discussion on non-isothermal catalysts behavior and efficiency. Diffusion with surface chemical reaction: metal oxidation problems: general problem formulation and justification through order-of-magnitude analysis of the pseudo-steady state approximation; solution and oxide thickness dependence on time. Diffusion with chemical reaction in the bulk: concentration dependence on Damkholer number. Absorption with chemical reaction: determination of the mass transfer coefficient and of the enhancement factor for the case of instantaneous reactions, Hatta’s method. Calculation of mass transfer coefficient and enhancement factor for the case of slow and fast reactions; film theory. Elements of turbulent mass transport and on dispersion problems in laminar flows (Taylor-Aris dispersion) and in porous media.