Ricerc@Sapienza

This book integrates the models employed in the fundamental analysis of a company with the models used by investors in the capital markets to diversify risks and maximize expected returns. The underlying thesis is that the company creates value only if the return on capital invested exceeds the cost of capital, while the objective is to demonstrate how integration of the fields of corporate finance and asset pricing enables comprehensive and accurate company valuation.

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The self-assembly of a mannose-labelled bile salt derivative gives rise to a metastable nematic phase of
monodisperse nanotubes in aqueous solutions that are characterized by a crystalline order. This work is
addressed to study the relative stability of these tubular aggregates in order to have full control of such
a system for possible applications. By using a static light scattering method we evaluate both the
solubilities of the metastable nanotubes and of stable nanocrystals, demonstrating that these are

The most abundant plasma protein, human serum albumin (HSA), is known to undergo several conformational transitions in an acidic environment. To avoid buffer effects and correlate global and local structural changes, we developed a continuous acidification method and simultaneously monitored the protein changes by both small-angle scattering (SAXS) and fluorescence. The progressive acidification, based on the hydrolysis of glucono-?-lactone from pH 7 to pH 2.5, highlighted a multistep unfolding involving the putative F form (pH 4) and an extended and flexible conformation (pH

Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS) is a complex genetic disorder characterized by developmental delay, behavioural
problems and circadian rhythm dysregulation. About 90% of SMS cases are due to a 17p11.2 deletion containing
retinoic acid induced1 (RAI1) gene, 10% are due to heterozygousmutations affecting RAI1 coding region.
Little is known about RAI1 role.

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Still on going excavations of Sapienza University of Rome on the northern slopes of the Palatine bring to light complex stratifications (IX cent. BC?IV cent. AD). In this paper the results of 2015-2016 field campaign are presented and discussed.

The city of Falerii has been widely (although non-systematically) investigated over the last 150 years. A research project being carried out at the University of Southampton and at the British School at Rome aims to collect all the published/unpublished data concerning those excavations, with the purpose of analysing in depth the diachronic development of the settlement from the 8th c. BC to at least the final Roman conquest of the city (241 BC, according to historical sources).