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“La valutazione d’impresa per i fidi bancari”, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2003.
No full textIl libro rapprensenta un manuale completo ed esaustivo sui temi di analisi del rischio di credito di un'aziend
La valutazione dei brevetti per il finanziamento dell’innovazione: stato dell’arte e problemi aperti
No full textStudy of Biaxial Shear Failure Envelope of Reinforced Concrete Columns
No full textSeveral scenarios can trigger bi-axial shear in reinforced concrete (RC) vertical members such as wind actions, earthquake, column loss induced by explosions and/or impacts. The majority of standard codes impose uniaxial shear verification of vertical members and neglect the interaction between shear forces and bending moments acting along the two principal directions of inertia of the transversal cross section. Moreover, bi-axial shear interaction curves proposed by codes are based on the fitting of experimental data conducted on heavily reinforced specimens. In this paper, the bi-axial shear failure envelope of existing RC columns, is investigated. A database previously published by Authors on experimental data on beams and columns tested under bi-axial loading is updated. Afterwards, the experimental shear resistances of the database's members subjected to both monotonic and cyclic loading are compared with analytical predictions. Three different formulations are adopted for the analytical calculation of the uniaxial shear resistance: (i) Model Code 2010, (ii) Eurocode 8 and (iii) the cyclic shear resistance recently proposed by Biskinis and Fardis. Such resistances are adopted to create the bi-axial shear failure envelope. Finally, the shape of the bi-axial shear failure envelope is critically analysed in order to select the formulation that provides the best fitting between experimental and analytical bi-axial shear resistances
The Quality of Disclosures on Environmental Policy: The Profile of Financial Intermediaries
No full textThis study investigates the quality of voluntary disclosures on environmental policy by financial intermediaries (FIs), analyzing the Global Reporting Initiative's data. Through k‐means cluster analysis, four segments of FIs are identified. Our results show a heterogeneous reality. The quality of disclosures is associated to the FIs’ attributes and the home country's characteristics: FIs’ size and operating profitability, national economic wealth, and national environmental performance. No association is found with the FIs’ business area or their quotation on the stock market. The FIs’ relevance for their domestic economy is not significant either
La prospettiva culturale nella valutazione degli adulti: costruzione di significati e apprendimento permanente
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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