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OLEUM project. Revised method for determination of fatty acid ethyl esters in virgin olive oils. Data from in-house validation
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Palagano R. et al., 2019. Development and in-house validation of a revised method for determination of fatty acid ethyl esters in virgin olive oils.
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The content of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs) is one of the quality parameters to define if an olive oil can be classified as extra virgin since these compounds are considered markers for virgin olive oils obtained from poor quality olives, but can be also indirect markers to detect soft deodorization treatment. The official protocol for determination (EU Reg. 61/2011) can be improved in terms of solvents amount and time of analysis.
An off-line HPLC-GC-FID method for FAEEs determination was developed, revising both the preparative step and the GC injector required by the official method. After optimization, the method was in-house validated by analyzing several parameters (linearity, LOD, LOQ, robustness, recovery, precision and accuracy). This data set contains the in-house validation results obtained
Keynes Between the Classics and Sraffa: on the Issue of the Numéraire
Get PDFThe paper sketches a coherent history of the choice of the measure standard from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations to Sraffa’s Production of Commodities. As neither the Smithian labour commanded unit nor the Ricardian-Marxian labour embodied one provide a general solution to the dilemma concerning the finding of an invariable standard, the author shows the shortcomings of both methods in an analytically rigorous way. Several years later, the largely unacknowledged fourth chapter of the General Theory once again tackles the matter of measuring aggregate values adopting a net approach and introducing an ad hoc unit. Concerned by the inherent difficulties of the operation, Keynes starts from an harsh criticism towards Pigou’s notion of national dividend to end up asking himself a number of questions that makes him partially lean towards the later Sraffian approach as presented in Production of Commodities, though his stance is not fully compliant either with the premises or the aims of Piero Sraffa’s theoretical framework. In the final part, a general solution based on net labour productivity is considered
Critique of the concept of flexibility / Critique de la notion de flexibilité
Get PDFThis monograph proposes a theoretical and methodological critique of the concept of flexibility. This critique is based on evaluation criteria of the concepts offered by the social sciences research methodology. Through this exercise, the concept of flexibility appears to be derived from the explanatory functionalist framework of variability and change, which is not able to interpret the firm and work transformations as the current literature is emphasizing
Religiosità Educazione Cittadinanza. Atti del percorso "Costruire la pace nella convivenza democratica: quali compiti per l'educazione?"
Get PDFIl testo offre al lettore il resoconto dell'iniziativa "Religiosità Educazione Cittadinanza. Costruire la pace nella convivenza democratica: quali compiti per l'educazione?", promossa dall'associazione per il dialogo interreligioso "Abramo e Pace" (Bologna)nel 2018. Si è trattado di un articolato percorso che ha visto il coinvolgimento di docenti di area pedagogica dell'ateneo bolognese già nella fase di progettazione.
I testi contenuti nel volume dibattono le ipotesi di lavoro sulle quali l'intero percorso descritto si è scommesso. La convinzione fondante, fil rouge dell'intero percorso, è che occorra un ribaltamento di prospettiva. Piuttosto che cercare di rintracciare eventuali "norme di cittadinanza" nei contenuti di fede di ciascuna confessione abbiamo ritenuto necessario indagare il ruolo che l'esperienza religiosa gioca nella costruzione dell'identità personale e, di lì, nella promozione di competenze di cittadinanza.
Una prima sezione riporta gli Atti del convegno inaugurale (Palazzo D'Accursio, Bologna, 7/2/2018) aperto dall'introduzione di Beatrice Draghetti (Abramo e Pace), alla quale sono seguite le relazioni di tre studiosi appartenenti alle tre confessioni monoteistiche: Michele Caputo (UniBo), Silvia Guetta (UniFi) e Mulayka Laura Enriello (Coreis). Chiude la sezione l'intervento conclusivo di Maria Teresa Moscato (UniBo).
La seconda sezione, aperta da una presentazione di Beatrice Draghetti, è costituita dal resoconto e dall'analisi di un'esperienza seminariale in piccolo gruppo, svoltasi in tre appuntamenti a cadenza settimanale nel mese di febbraio 2018, che ha coinvolto docenti e genitori appartenenti alle tre tradizioni monoteistiche. Il testo è firmato da Giorgia Pinelli (UniBo), che con Beatrice Draghetti è curatrice del volume e che ha guidato il seminario stesso
Glaude Luython et Nathanael Duez: deux maîtres de langues “passeurs” de savoirs dans les Pays Bas des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Get PDFGlaude Luython (1510-1568) et Nathanel Duez (1609-1660) sont deux maîtres de langues français qui exercèrent leur profession aux Pays Bas. L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser leur production pédagogique pour observer comment les orientations qui sous-tendent l’enseignement
du français ont pu varier dans l’espace d’un siècle. Luython vise à l’éducation et à la formation morale des jeunes ‘hollandais’ : la langue française est le moyen d’accéder aux valeurs et aux savoirs du monde classique. Duez, au contraire, affiche des objectifs plus franchement pragmatiques et utilitaires. Il offre aux étudiants des matériaux pédagogiques utiles pour affronter des situations de communication quotidienne et il propose un apprentissage plus autonome
Pope Francis’s Encyclical Laudato Si’ and global environmental sustainability: a theoretical and empirical assessment
Get PDFThis paper examines the approach suggested by the Pope Francis’s Encyclical Laudato Si’ (i.e., an inter-disciplinary perspective that combines science and ethics), and theoretically and empirically assesses its scientific and ethical statements in terms of their ability to achieve global environmental sustainability. Scientific statements are shown to be empirically infeasible (e.g., personal fulfillment without population reduction), vague, obvious (e.g., climate as a common good, ecological debt of developed countries), and not novel (e.g., markets and environment in the a-growth paradigm, slowdown of production and consumption in the de-growth paradigm, ecosystem values independent of usefulness in the deep-ecology paradigm). Some ethical statements in the Encyclical are theoretically inconsistent with scientific disciplines (e.g., inter-generational solidarity vs. equity, individual organisms vs. whole species), vague, obvious (e.g., universal communion, happiness as limiting needs), or unnecessary (e.g., cruelty undermines human dignity, animals should not suffer or die needlessly), and thus, contribute little to achieving global sustainability; some other ethical statements are useful, but not novel (e.g., they have been proposed by Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, or Buddhism), late, or empirically unreliable (e.g., a contemplative lifestyle, the liberation provided by sobriety). In summary, Laudato Si’ is unsuccessful from a scientific perspective, and is inadequate from an ethical perspective
Disease management in diabetes care: when involving GPs improves patient compliance and health outcomes
Get PDFAlthough the study of the association between interventions in primary care and health outcomes continues to produce mixed findings, programs designed to promote the greater compliance of General Practitioners and their diabetic patients with treatment guidelines have been increasingly introduced worldwide, in an attempt to achieve better quality diabetes care through the enhanced standardisation of patient supervision. In this study we use clinical data taken from the Diabetes Register of one Local Health Authority (LHAs) in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna Region for the period 2014-2015. Firstly, we test to see whether the monitoring activities prescribed for diabetics by regional diabetes guidelines, actually have a positive impact on patients’ health outcomes and increase appropriateness in health care utilization. Secondly, we investigate whether GPs’ participation in the local Diabetes Management Program (DMP) leads to improved patient compliance with regional guidelines. Our results show that such a program, which aims to increase GPs’ involvement and cooperation in following regional guidelines for best practices, achieves its goal of improved patient compliance with the prescribed actions. In turn, through the implementation of the DMP and the greater involvement of physicians, regional policies have succeeded in promoting better health outcomes and the improved appropriateness of health care utilization
Atti del XXII Convegno Nazionale di Agrometeorologia Ricerca ed innovazione per la gestione del rischio meteo - climatico in agricoltura
Get PDFIl rischio è una componente intrinseca all’attività di impresa. Nessun imprenditore, nel momento in cui assume una decisione, è sicuro delle conseguenze che essa avrà sui risultati economici. Ed è proprio il rischio connesso agli esiti delle decisioni che è all’origine del profitto. Nel caso dell’agricoltura, il carattere biologico dell’attività aggiunge un ulteriore elemento di rischio alle decisioni degli imprenditori del settore. In particolare, l’andamento meteorologico durante la stagione colturale ha un ruolo preponderante, e il rischio meteorologico viene definito come la capacità delle aziende di gestire entrate, costi e performance finanziarie sensibili alle condizioni meteorologiche.
L’incertezza meteorologica è sempre esistita, ma nel nuovo clima alcuni fenomeni negativi per l’agricoltura hanno aumentato la loro frequenza, mentre altri fenomeni si sono aggiunti alla lista:
temperature massima e minima oltre soglie di criticità termica, pioggia massima giornaliera oltre soglie di criticità, vento con intensità al di sopra di soglie di criticità, grandine, fulmini e tempeste elettriche, alluvioni. Inoltre si verificano con più elevata frequenza sfasamenti stagionali, precipitazioni brevi ed intense e si ha un maggiore rischio di gelate tardive. Uno o un insieme di questi fenomeni concorrono, uniti alla frequenza di accadimento, a definire la possibilità di successo dell’agricoltore.
In questo contesto l’AIAM propone, per il 22° convegno Nazionale, temi riguardanti lo studio del cambiamento climatico e dei rischi per l’agricoltura, quali sono gli strumenti per la previsione e le strategie per la prevenzione del rischio, e come i servizi agrometeorologici supportano gli agricoltori nella difesa integrata delle colture agrarie
A corpus-based analysis of the vitality of Sardinian. A comparison with Māori
Get PDFSardinian and Māori are two endangered languages belonging to similar language systems, despite their territorial distance. Both language systems are set on insular settings and shaped by language contact interactions involving local autochthonous languages ‒ Sardinian and Māori ‒ and imported languages ‒ Italian and English respectively. In both cases, language contact conditions have led Italian and English to become majority languages, while Sardinian and Māori have survived as endangered minority languages. This situation has produced new non-standard varieties of the imported majority languages: Regional Italian of Sardinia (RIS) and New Zealand English (NZE). Drawing on corpus-based research on Māori lexical presence in NZE (Macalister 2001; 2006a; 2006b), this study adapts existing methods of analysis to test the vitality of Sardinian, by measuring its influence on RIS. A new corpus, the RIS Corpus, has therefore been created, based on Macalister’s NZE Corpus (2001). A comparison between the lexical presence of Sardinian and Māori in the two corpora shows different representations of the autochthonous cultures in RIS and NZE, in line with UNESCO’s statement on the vitality of the two endangered languages, with Sardinian defined as definitely endangered, and Māori recognised as vulnerable
The Silk and the Blood. Images of Authority in Byzantine Art and Archaeology
Get PDFByzantine culture is one of the milestones of European cultural heritage. “BYZART - Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana” project (https://byzart.eu/) addresses the general scope of organizing, digitizing, cataloguing and making available rich archival collections related to the Byzantine cultural heritage on Europeana. The project partners who collaborated to this catalogue (the Department of History and Cultures – University of Bologna, the Institute of Historical Research – Section of Byzantine Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, the Open University of Cyprus, the Ionian University – Department of Audio and Visual Arts, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Institute of Art Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Istituzione Biblioteca Classense – Museo della Città di Ravenna – International Centre for Documentation of Mosaics), have shared their cultural contents with the European community raising awareness about this impressive heritage. The book presents the proceedings of the final meeting of “Byzart - Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana” project and the catalogue of the digital exhibition “The Silk and the Blood. Images of Authority in Byzantine Art and Archaeology”