La PKI e l'attacco man in the middle

Violazione della sicurezza sul web da parte di attacchi man in the middle

Da romanzo a serie TV - proposta di sottotitolaggio del primo episodio della serie The Man in the High Castle

Il presente elaborato si propone come scopo quello di analizzare il primo episodio della serie televisiva statunitense “The Man in the High Castle” e di proporne una traduzione nella forma del sottotitolaggio. L'elaborato si compone di tre capitoli: Il primo capitolo si presenta come una parte più teorica, nella quale analizzo la traduzione audiovisiva in generale per poi passare a parlare del sottotitolaggio e di alcuni aspetti che caratterizzano questa disciplina; con particolare attenzione nei confronti di quelle ferree regole su cui si basa il lavoro del “sottotitolatore”. Nel secondo capitolo contestualizzo la serie televisiva e l’episodio da me sottotitolato, presentando anche una panoramica sul genere del quale il romanzo originale è uno dei capolavori. Infine, nel terzo capitolo commento il mio lavoro svolto sull'episodio, specificando qual è il target verso cui sto indirizzando il mio prodotto e quali sono le mie scelte traduttive dinanzi alle difficoltà incontrate nel portare a termine un lavoro così intrigante, ma al contempo nuovo per me. In appendice è presente la tabella con i sottotitoli da me creati e la trascrizione dell'audio originale dell'episodio.

Anaerobic oxidation of ethanol over spinel mixed oxides: the first step in the steam-iron process for H2 production

The future hydrogen demand is expected to increase, both in existing industries (including upgrading of fossil fuels or ammonia production) and in new technologies, like fuel cells. Nowadays, hydrogen is obtained predominantly by steam reforming of methane, but it is well known that hydrocarbon based routes result in environmental problems and besides the market is dependent on the availability of this finite resource which is suffering of rapid depletion. Therefore, alternative processes using renewable sources like wind, solar energy and biomass, are now being considered for the production of hydrogen. One of those alternative methods is the so-called “steam-iron process” which consists in the reduction of a metal-oxide by hydrogen-containing feedstock, like ethanol for instance, and then the reduced material is reoxidized with water to produce “clean” hydrogen (water splitting). This kind of thermochemical cycles have been studied before but currently some important facts like the development of more active catalysts, the flexibility of the feedstock (including renewable bio-alcohols) and the fact that the purification of hydrogen could be avoided, have significantly increased the interest for this research topic. With the aim of increasing the understanding of the reactions that govern the steam-iron route to produce hydrogen, it is necessary to go into the molecular level. Spectroscopic methods are an important tool to extract information that could help in the development of more efficient materials and processes. In this research, ethanol was chosen as a reducing fuel and the main goal was to study its interaction with different catalysts having similar structure (spinels), to make a correlation with the composition and the mechanism of the anaerobic oxidation of the ethanol which is the first step of the steam-iron cycle. To accomplish this, diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRIFTS) was used to study the surface composition of the catalysts during the adsorption of ethanol and its transformation during the temperature program. Furthermore, mass spectrometry was used to monitor the desorbed products. The set of studied materials include Cu, Co and Ni ferrites which were also characterized by means of X-ray diffraction, surface area measurements, Raman spectroscopy, and temperature programmed reduction.