Shooter game 2d per piattaforme mobili

Obiettivo della tesi è quello di analizzare le diverse tecnologie messe a disposizioe dai dispositivi mobili, in particolare smartphon e tablet. Verranno analizzate le principali innovazioni portate da questi dispositivi nel campo dei videogiochi e verrà proposto un caso di sviluppo di Shooter game 2d multi piattaforma.

Metodi numerici di regolarizzazione per l'inversione 2d di dati di risonanza magnetica nucleare

Molte applicazioni sono legate a tecniche di rilassometria e risonanza magnetica nucleare (NMR). Tali applicazioni danno luogo a problemi di inversione della trasformata di Laplace discreta che è un problema notoriamente mal posto. UPEN (Uniform Penalty) è un metodo numerico di regolarizzazione utile a risolvere problemi di questo tipo. UPEN riformula l’inversione della trasformata di Laplace come un problema di minimo vincolato in cui la funzione obiettivo contiene il fit di dati e una componente di penalizzazione locale, che varia a seconda della soluzione stessa. Nella moderna spettroscopia NMR si studiano le correlazioni multidimensionali dei parametri di rilassamento longitudinale e trasversale. Per studiare i problemi derivanti dall’analisi di campioni multicomponenti è sorta la necessità di estendere gli algoritmi che implementano la trasformata inversa di Laplace in una dimensione al caso bidimensionale. In questa tesi si propone una possibile estensione dell'algoritmo UPEN dal caso monodimensionale al caso bidimensionale e si fornisce un'analisi numerica di tale estensione su dati simulati e su dati reali.

Creazione di una costmap 2D per la navigazione di un rover terrestre

L’obiettivo di questa tesi è riuscire ad elaborare una point cloud 3D proveniente dal laser scanner per individuare possibili ostacoli e creare con essa, successivamente, una mappa che permetta la navigazione di un rover.

In Your Face! Investigating Facework, Criticism, and Humour with Corpora in Electoral Debates

In political debates, the media[tisation] can determine the use of language with the aim to increase their spectacularisation and polarisation, possibly by means of criticism and humour, respectively. These linguistic strategies are often used in order to shape what was defined by Goffman as one’s face. Politicians, in particular, can recur to facework in a double sense: shaping their own face positively and/or that of their opponents negatively. Starting from the sociologic theory of face by Goffman and Levinson, with the help of corpus analysis tools, this research investigated the ways in which various forms of criticism and forms of humour were conducted in 3 electoral debates on a national scale (Germany, Ireland, and New Zealand) and 1 debate for the municipal election in Rome. The transcripts were revised after automatic transcriptions were extracted or found online, of which the audio-visual content is available on the Internet. The CADS research aimed to investigate the role that criticism and humour played within each participant’s discourse, and to identify differences and similarities among the strategies used by political leaders and moderators in different countries, and in different cultural, political, and media contexts.

Competition between boson condensation and molecule formation in 2D Bose-Fermi mixtures with a pairing interaction

The study of ultra-cold atomic gases is one of the most active field in contemporary physics. The main motivation for the interest in this field consists in the possibility to use ultracold gases to simulate in a controlled way quantum many-body systems of relevance to other fields of physics, or to create novel quantum systems with unusual physical properties. An example of the latter are Bose-Fermi mixtures with a tunable pairing interaction between bosons and fermions. In this work, we study with many-body diagrammatic methods the properties of this kind of mixture in two spatial dimensions, extending previous work for three dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures. At zero temperature, we focus specifically on the competition between boson condensation and the pairing of bosons and fermions into molecules. By a numerical solution of the main equations resulting by our many-body diagrammatic formalism, we calculate and present results for several thermodynamic quantities of interest. Differences and similarities between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional cases are pointed out. Finally, our new results are applied to discuss a recent proposal for creating a p-wave superfluid in Bose-Fermi mixtures with the fermionic molecules which form for sufficiently strong Bose-Fermi attraction.

Fabrication of 2D and 3D microelectrode arrays for amperometric dopamine sensing: towards a metal free approach to bioelectronics

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter which has a role in several psychiatric and neurological disorders. In-vivo detection of its concentration at the microscopic scale would benefit the study of these conditions and help in the development of therapies. The ideal sensor would be biocompatible, able to probe concentrations in microscopic volumes and sensitive to the small physiological concentrations of this molecule (10 nM - 1 μM). The ease of oxidation of dopamine makes it possible to detect it by electrochemical methods. An additional requirement in this kind of experiments when run in water, though, is to have a large potential window inside which no redox reactions with water take place. A promising class of materials which are being explored is the one of pyrolyzed photoresists. Photoresists can be lithographically patterned with micrometric resolution and after pyrolysis leave a glassy carbon material which is conductive, biocompatible and has a large electrochemical water window. In this work I developed a fabrication procedure for microelectrode arrays with three dimensional electrodes, making the whole device using just a negative photoresist called SU8. Making 3D electrodes could be a way to enhance the sensitivity of the electrodes without occupying a bigger footprint on the device. I characterized the electrical, morphological, and electrochemical properties of these electrodes, in particular their sensitivity to dopamine. I also fabricated and tested a two dimensional device for comparison. The three dimensional devices fabricated showed inferior properties to their two dimensional counter parts. I found a possible explanation and suggested some ways in which the fabrication could be improved.