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Enhancing Delphi outputs exploring visual communication modalities for future scenarios representation
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Pasolini e la lingua italiana: il “nuovo” italiano
No full textPasolini is the first writer, framed within a relevant international scenario, who can be considered as a “multimedia” artist in tune with the contemporary technologies of communication and expression. This paper investigates some linguistic reflections imposed by Pasolini to the coeval public opinion and Italian culture. In particular, the paper deals with the importance of “technological Italian” and “new Italian” that are strongly characterized by technology, as the latter cannot be seen as a disintegrating element but as a relevant conjunction of linguistic unit
Flexible Plasmonic Polymeric Membranes Consisting of Gold Nanoparticle Clusters as a Platform for Biomedical Sensing
No full textFlexible plasmonic platforms are increasingly sought after for wearable and implantable biosensing, yet current solutions are often costly or mechanically fragile. In this work, we present a scalable and low-cost method to fabricate fully flexible plasmonic substrates by combining ultrathin PDMS membranes with patterned amorphous silicon layers. Nanopatterning, achieved via soft lithography, enables localized growth of gold nanoparticle clusters through electroless deposition, ensuring strong plasmonic activity while maintaining mechanical adaptability. The resulting membranes easily conform to curved surfaces and enable sensitive fluorescence and Raman detection of biomarkers, such as IgG (100 pg/mL) and IL-8 (1 ng/mL). The device also operates effectively in an inverted configuration, which is a key feature for wearable integration. FEM simulations confirm the plasmonic field enhancement, highlighting the robustness of the design
Climate-related Risks and Loan Quality in Europe: Do Institutional Quality, Environmental Commitment, and Bank Size Matter?
No full textThe paper examines how climate-related risks impact credit quality in the European banking sector, utilizing fixed-effects models on a sample of 127 banks across 27 European countries from 2005 to 2023. More specifically, this research assesses the impacts of transition risk and physical risk, taking into account structural, institutional, and sustainability variables.
The results indicate that transition risk has a significant impact on degrading credit quality, whereas physical risk has a minimal impact on credit risk. However, this effect is attenuated by the presence of institutional quality and the development of ESG strategies, particularly the publication of sustainability reports. Additionally, our results indicate that institutional quality mitigates the negative impact of climate-related risk on loan quality, suggesting that institutional quality plays a significant role in enhancing financial resilience. Furthermore, robustness tests with alternative proxies and samples disaggregated by bank size reveal a greater vulnerability of small banks and a more effective response in ESG-oriented banks.
The work’s innovative contribution lies in integrating environmental risks, institutional indicators, and ESG practices within a single empirical framework, applied to the stability of bank credit. The results provide new evidence for prudential regulation and demonstrate that the climate transition poses an environmental challenge and a crucial lever for rethinking risk management in the European financial system
La mascolinità nella letteratura e nelle arti. Decostruzione/evoluzione di modelli identitari
No full textLa mascolinità nella letteratura e nelle arti: decostruzione/evoluzione di modelli identitari è una raccolta di saggi critici che esplorano modelli e figure della mascolinità attraverso varie culture, periodi storici e forme del narrare. Oltre a offrire una breve illustrazione della genesi e dell’evoluzione dei Masculinities Studies, la sezione introduttiva esamina la cosiddetta “crisi della mascolinità” che, soprattutto in epoca recente, è stata al centro di un animato dibattito intellettuale, ancora in corso. I tredici saggi successivi analizzano l’importante funzione svolta dalle arti nel rappresentare la crisi dei ruoli maschili egemoni e nel promuovere nuovi modi di ripensare l’identità di genere. L’idea di mascolinità che emerge dai vari contributi è quella di un concetto in continua oscillazione tra conservazione, crisi e ristrutturazione – concetto che viene sviluppato in diverse forme narrative attivando un costante, duplice processo di decostruzione/ricostruzione dell’identità maschile. Precipuamente investigato in ambito letterario, questo processo è anche colto in ambito cinematografico e pubblicitario nel volume che, con la sua pluralità di approcci, dimostra l’efficacia di narrazioni sviluppate in più arti e media. Grazie a questa pluralità, La mascolinità nella letteratura e nelle arti offre al lettore una visione eterogenea, seppur non esaustiva, di come l’identità maschile sia discussa, decostruita, ripensata e riassemblata in forme nuove nel corso degli ultimi tre secoli e in una varietà di realtà culturali