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OLEUM Project. Portable system for the determination of free acidity in virgin olive oil. Data from in-house validation
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Grossi M., Palagano R., Bendini A., Riccò B., Servili M., García-González D. L., Gallina Toschi T. (2019). Design and in-house validation of a portable system for the determination of free acidity in virgin olive oil. Food Control, 104:208-216, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2019.04.019.
The quality of virgin olive oil - in terms of belonging to a specific quality grade (extra virgin, virgin, lampante) - is defined by a set of chemical-physical and sensory measurements. The free acidity is the first parameter that has to be determined through a procedure based on an acid-base titration that needs to be carried out in a chemical laboratory.
This data set contains the in-house validation results of a portable battery-operated electronic system for the determination of free acidity in virgin olive oil that can be used for quick “in situ” tests in a production environment (olive oil mills or packaging centers) by people without particular training
Uncertainty, Perception and the Internet
Get PDFMacroeconomic uncertainty consists of three components: the unobservable, the heterogeneous and the “uncertain”. We are unaware of exactly when economic agents perceive uncertainty and which type of uncertainty interests them. This paper introduces and outlines a way of conducting large-scale data searches on the Web. We create the EURQ index of “economic uncertainty related queries” for both the USA and Italy. We show that the EURQ encapsulates agents’ need to gather more information during periods of uncertainty. This need either spontaneously arises in the case of macro-real and political uncertainty, or is induced by the media in the case of normative and financial uncertainty. This distinction is extremely important when trying to understand the immediate impact of fiscal policy uncertainty on economic variables, and how financial shocks can produce a significant short-term impact on economic activity. It is also helpful when trying to solve the identification and endogeneity issues encountered in the literature when assessing the role of uncertainty
Do lottery operators exploit their lottery power? Efficiency and equality considerations in optimal lottery design
Get PDFWe study the problem facing the operator of a lottery who is charged with raising revenue for the public finances. Demand for the lottery is a function of both disposable income and the pricing of the game. Departing from the current literature, we show that optimal lottery pricing includes corrections for the degree of inequality and skewness in the income distribution and features of the function relating lottery spend to disposable income. When gross lottery expenditure is regressive, it is optimal for the operator to improve the terms of the game by being more generous with the proportion of spend that is returned to players. The opposite result holds when gross lottery expenditure is progressive. Using results from analysis of the U.K. National Lottery’s Saturday game between 1997 and 2013, we show that the effective price was about ten percentage points too low to be efficient, so that the operator was not fully exploiting its lottery power. However, we also show that, were it to have raised its price to improve efficiency, it would have increased inequality
PERCEIVE. WP1. Cohesion Policy and identification with the European Union at citizen level in different European countries. Survey at citizen level. European identity and citizens’ support for the EU
No full textThis dataset contains data related to the paper: Aiello V, Brasili C, Revereberi PM (2019) "European identity and citizens' support for the EU: testing the utilitarian approach", published by Regional Science Policy and Practice, Wiley. The dataset was built collecting data from different sources: the dataset “PERCEIVE: WP1: Framework for comparative analysis of the perception of Cohesion Policy and identification with the European Union at citizen level in different European countries: Survey at citizen level and data relative to regional performance of the Cohesion Policy and institutional quality” (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3346047), EUROSTAT (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database) and a dataset on EU funding provided by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG Regio) [“Historic EU payments - regionalised and modelled”, https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/Other/Historic-EU-payments-regionalised-and-modelled/tc55-7ysv]. A readme file is included
Rethinking educational continuity through participatory action-research and professional development pathways. Case Study Italy
Get PDFThis report illustrates the findings of the Italian case study carried out within the START project.The
project – which was designed for promoting a renewed reflection on the issue of educational
continuity in the light of the new regulatory scenarios outlined by Law 107/2015 (with specific reference
to the establishment of the integrated system 0-6) in the national context, and in the light ET2020
strategy with reference to the European context – is aimed at supporting the educational action of
preschool and primary school teachers through the experimentation of innovative practices facilitating
children’s smooth transitions from one grade to the next. After briefly outlining the context in which
the overall project is located, the present report will focus on the experimentation carried out in the
Italian case study, which involved university researchers at the Department of Educational Sciences of
Bologna University and pre- and primary school teachers of DD Vignola in a shared action-research
and professional development pathway
Biodiritto & Letteratura. Il caso delle volontà anticipate di Ulisse
Get PDF[Biolaw & Literature. The case of Ulysses and his living will] In this paper, I will reflect on advance health care directives, from a bioethical point of view. Advance directives, which deal with the right of self-determination, are now regulated by the Italian law no. 219/2017. I will look in depth at the concept of capacity for rational choice in advance decisions, by looking at the figure of Ulysses, who is considered to give his companions the first living will in Western history. From Homer’s “dilemmatic rationality” to the present time, this path will give the opportunity to consider advance directives as instruments of a dialogical-dialectical resolution of dilemmatic situations
CONSOLE Project - Deliverable 6.5 - "Report on Dissemination and Communication Strategy"
Get PDFThis document consists of Task 6.1 (Dissemination and communication strategy) in the framework of WP6 (Dissemination and outreach) and Deliverable 6.5 (Report on dissemination and communication strategy). The main aim will be to boost the impact of the project, through communicating the knowledge and results of the project. The project will target a wide range of audiences in order to link research, evidence-based policy and public awareness. Communication activities, such as workshops, social media accounts and websites have been discussed in this plan as well as identified actors and stakeholders in order to effectively promote innovation in delivery of agri-environmental climate public goods (AECPG) by EU agriculture and forestry.
This is a living document and will be continuously updated according to CONSOLE’s progress
School opportunities for the development of European citizenship: The perspective of students
Get PDFSchool civic education has been identified as pivotal in fostering young people’s civic and political sense (Kahne & Sporte, 2008; Torney-Purta, 2002). Experiences in school can provide opportunities for participation and reflection in a supportive and challenging environment, which has been shown to lead to positive development of political attitudes (Ferreira et al., 2012). However, there is the need to explore further the characteristics of experiences in school that are relevant for the development of young people’s political attitudes related to the European context and on their perceptions of themselves as capable European citizens.
Although schools are a crucial context of civic capacity-building and involvement, there are evidences that adequate civic education is hindered by inequalities in the opportunities for youth from disadvantaged backgrounds (Kahne & Middaugh, 2008). Special attention should be given to the different school tracks offered in educational systems, which in Italy seem to maintain a vertical hierarchy of prestige and quality (Triventi, 2014). The choice of these tracks in secondary education can be rooted in social background and ultimately reproduces social inequality (Contini & Scagni, 2011; Romito, 2014). It is thus important to understand what structural barriers and uneven opportunities to experience European citizenship are found in educational institutions and how young people might experience them as exposing a discrepancy between ideal and real-world democracy (Watts & Flanagan, 2007).
In order to investigate young people’s understanding of their sociopolitical development as European citizens and of the educational opportunities they feel are crucial in this process in function of the type of school that is attended, we conducted a qualitative exploratory study with upper secondary school students from different tracks.
The study involved 10 focus group discussions with a total of 101 students in 5 secondary schools in Emilia Romagna and Lazio regions. The data was collected within the European-funded H2020 research project CATCH-EyoU. The schools were chosen to represent different tracks, in order to consider diverse educational contexts in terms of resources and quality. Students were asked to talk about their ideas and experiences of civic and political participation, their interest and views on EU matters, the role played by the school in promoting these experiences. The data was analyzed through thematic content analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006).
The results present students’ ambivalent attitudes toward the EU political context, their understanding of the possibilities and limitations to enact European citizenship and the aspects they identify within their educational institutions that foster opportunities for sociopolitical development. Differences and specificities of perspective among students from different school tracks are discussed. The findings highlight the multiple responsibility of schools not only to impart civic knowledge about EU, but to also provide a general environment that is open for dialogue between different views and that invites critical reflection and participation by students. The results have implications for the development of citizenship education programs
Effects of water stress on food security and socio-economic development
Get PDFThis deliverable of MADFORWATER project, D1.3 “Effects of water stress on food security and socio-economic development”, presents an econometric modeling approach developed to assess the effects of different dimensions of water stress and vulnerability on selected indicators for food security and socio-economic development in three Mediterranean African Countries (MACs): Egypt, Morocco and Tunisi
New Policies and Practices for European Sharing Cities
Get PDFIl volume raccoglie i risultati del progetto “New Policies and Practices for European Sharing Cities –EUcity”, attivato nell’ambito dello Jean Monnet Project e co-finanziato dall’Erasmus+ Project dell’Unione Europea.
Muovendo dall’assunto per il quale le città sono i principali recettori dei cambiamenti del mercato poiché si distinguono come legami interconnessi tra la società, lo Stato e l’Unione europea, gli Autori hanno analizzato il fenomeno della sharing economy, alcuni modelli di governance e di fornitura di beni e servizi sul mercato. Come illustrato dal nucleo argomentativo dell’opera, infatti, le sfide normative della sharing economy non derivano solo dalla novità del modello economico p2p, ma anche da una distribuzione completamente nuova delle responsabilità normative tra gli attori coinvolti. A differenza della regolamentazione del mercato tradizionale, la regolamentazione dell’economia della condivisione è principalmente una questione comunale. Allo stesso tempo, anche il diritto europeo offre spunti di riflessione notevoli. Attualmente, sia gli amministratori locali che gli operatori privati di alcuni settori del mercato (ad es. la casa, i trasporti, etc.), ma anche i cittadini che vogliono sperimentare nuovi servizi, sono obbligati ad agire all’interno di sistema normativo difficilmente intellegibile.
In virtù delle considerazioni svolte, quindi, il testo apre un fronte critico argomentativo diviso in tre parti: 1) “Sharing cities”, in cui si introducono i temi principali relativi ai fenomeni urbani in un contesto di sharing economy; 2) “Trasporti, Turismo e politiche abitative nelle Sharing cities”, contenente un focus riguardante gli aspetti dinamici del vivere in contesti smart; 3) “Esperienze a confronto”, parte dedicata all’analisi empirica delle realtà sperimentate da Bologna e Barcellona