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Polish case study. Scenario based assessment of costs and benefits of adoption of comprehensive CIP standards
No full textRT 56; The Polish case study describes results of simulations of cyber-attacks on the Polish transmission system of electricity and compares the economic and social impact of these attacks, assumed to occur in situations where the system is working in normal operation, versus situations where standards are implemented as additional security countermeasures and the same incident arises. This work analyses security measures defined in selected documents, tandardization, evaluates their effectiveness relative to attack scenarios, as well as implementation costs in comparison to weight of potential losses resulting from non-implementation. On this basis, a list of recommended safety measures, which guarantee high level of security and the highest level of return, has been prepare
Strategie di conservazione della biodiversità animale zootecnica in aree montane
No full textWP 17/14; Domestic animal genetic resources (DAnGR) include all animal species and breeds that have been domesticated and selected during the past 10000-12000 years to provide a range of products and functions. Unfortunately, a large number of farm breeds have been lost and many more are at risk of loss. To disappear, replaced by few high-yielding and specialized animals, are local breeds. They are adapted to the local environmental and disease stresses, they need low external inputs and are able to give many different products (i.e. milk-meat-wool) and services. In few words, they are sustainable and multipurpose. Mountains are rich in local breeds that are resistant to inclement conditions of the surrounding environment, plastic enough to contribute to the self-sufficient economy of mountain communities, and preserved in genetic purity because of the geographic isolation. The research compares the strategies adopted in mountain areas for the conservation of three different sheep breeds facing extinction. Throughout deep-interviews to various actors (breeders, representatives of breeders' associations, SME, public officials, policy makers and researchers), the analysis reveals that in all case-studies the program of conservation is linked to a wider process of local development. The research highlights the factors of success or failure, it analyses the role of the different actors involved in the conservation program and the relationships among them. It describes the characteristics of those partnerships between public and private that have some prospects in the medium-long ter
Rapporto sulla contraffazione nel Torinese settima edizione, 2014. La contraffazione dei prodotti cosmetici, il punto di vista dei consumatori
No full textStudi, statistica e documentazione. Rapporto sulla contraffazione nel Torinese.Torino. STE
Torino congiuntura, 2014. Trimestrale settembre 2014, Anno 15, n. 56. Analisi congiunturale aprile-giugno 2014
No full textStudi, statistica e documentazione. Torino congiuntura.Torino. STE
Strategia e Negoziato: atto secondo. Rapporto finale sui risultati del programma di ricerche connesso all'APQ “Azioni di Sistema”. Rapporto di Ricerca
No full textAnalisi delle politich
Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects in the Presence of Neighbourhood Interactions
No full textWP 04/14; This paper presents a parametric counter-factual model identifying Average Treatment Effects (ATEs) by Conditional Mean Independence when externality (or neighbourhood) effects are incorporated within the traditional Rubin's potential outcome model. As such, it tries to generalize the usual control-function regression, widely used in program evaluation and epidemiology, when SUTVA (i.e. Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption) is relaxed. As by-product, the paper presents also ntreatreg, an author-written Stata routine for estimating ATEs when social interaction may be present. Finally, an instructional application of the model and of its Stata implementation through two examples (the first on the effect of housing location on crime; the second on the effect of education on fertility), are showed and results compared with a no-interaction settin
Artificial Neural Networks and risk stratification in Emergency department
No full textWP 12/14; The primary goal of the Emergency Department physician is to discriminate individuals at low risk, who can be safely discharged, from patients at high risk, who deserve prompt hospitalization for monitoring and/or appropriate treatment. Obviously, the problem of a correct classification of patients, and the successive hospital admission, is not only a clinical issue but also a management one since ameliorating the rate of admission of patients in the emergency departments could dramatically reduce costs and create a better health resource use. Considering patients at the emergency departments after an event of syncope, this work propose a comparative analysis between multivariate logistic regression model and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), highlighting the difference in correct classification of severe outcome at 10 days and 1 year. According to results, ANNs can be very effective in classifying the risk of severe outcomes and it might be adopted to support the physician decision making process reducing, at least theoretically, the inappropriate admission of patients after syncope even
Bridging Organizations between University and Industry. From Science to Contract Research
No full textWP 15/14; Two bridging organizations, NIS and Agroinnova, formed both in 2003 internally to the University of Turin, have been studied through a good practice benchmarking in view to assess their validity in the science to business process especially concerning Italian SMEs. References for benchmarking have been established by suitable definitions of technology, technology innovation and a structured model of technology followed by a description of the innovation process as a sequence of steps. Benchmarking attention has been focused on contract research and technology transfer office activities. The results of the study show that such type of bridging organizations, and especially their spin-offs in contract research, may be a good possibility to foster the science to business process. However bottlenecks exist and concern the low diffusion of an entrepreneurial mentality that limits generation of innovative ideas for new technologies despite a large activity in scientific research. Bottlenecks concerning SMEs are mainly lack of experience in R&D and technology management. Fostering of science to business process by a simple increase of funds does not appear effective without a change in mentalities, adoption of suitable industrial policies and new concepts for bridging structures and financial aids to SME
Osservatorio spese famiglie torinesi, 2013. Cambiamenti nelle quote di spesa dedicata a diverse categorie di consumo tra le famiglie torinesi. Risultati di un'indagine campionaria del 2013
No full textOsservatorio spese famiglie torinesi.Torino. STE
Informaires. Piemonte economico sociale 2013. N.46, Giugno 2014
No full textSemestrale dell'Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemont