184 research outputs found
The National Labour Policies in the context of the Europe 2020 strategy and of the European Economic Governance
No full textThe National Labour Policies in the context of the Europe 2020 strategy and of the European Economic Governance, by Silvia Borelli
The author presents the main priorities of the Europe 2020 strategy and the different steps of the European Semester of the European Economic Governance. The system of the European measures to solve the economic crisis is completed by the analysis of the “Six Pack”, the EuroPlus Pact and the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance. The author clarifies how the European Employment Strategy has been fully absorbed by the European Economic Governance. After considering some of the new European economic framework’s consequences on Member States’ labour policies and on social dialogue, the author focuses on the recent review of Italian labour policies, performed by European Commission as part of the European Semester
De motv animalivm, volume 1
No full textDe Motu Animalium seemingly constitutes the very first treatise on biomechanics. The author, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679), was professor of mathematics in Pisa, where he worked with Malighi who was professor of theoretical medicine and focused Borelli\u27s interest on the movements of living creatures. The work consists of two parts. In the first part Borelli analyses the action of the muscles, the movements of the limbs, and the activities of man and animals, including skating, running, jumping, swimming and flying. The second part deals with what is now called physiology, considered from the point of view of a mechanist: heart, blood circulation, breathing, separation of urine from blood in the kidneys, liver function, reproduction, fatigue, thirst, hunger, fever, and so on. The book shows Borelli to be a genial precursor. He expresses his opinion as a mathematician on problems which afterwards further stimulated the curiosity and endeavors of many generations of researchers
De motv animalivm, volume 2
No full textDe Motu Animalium seemingly constitutes the very first treatise on biomechanics. The author, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679), was professor of mathematics in Pisa, where he worked with Malighi who was professor of theoretical medicine and focused Borelli\u27s interest on the movements of living creatures. The work consists of two parts. In the first part Borelli analyses the action of the muscles, the movements of the limbs, and the activities of man and animals, including skating, running, jumping, swimming and flying. The second part deals with what is now called physiology, considered from the point of view of a mechanist: heart, blood circulation, breathing, separation of urine from blood in the kidneys, liver function, reproduction, fatigue, thirst, hunger, fever, and so on. The book shows Borelli to be a genial precursor. He expresses his opinion as a mathematician on problems which afterwards further stimulated the curiosity and endeavors of many generations of researchers
A State-Space Analysis of a Single Zone Building Considering Solar Radiation, Internal Radiation, and PCM Effects
No full textThis paper deals with the dynamic modeling of a typical single-zone building. It describes the development of a dynamic model for thermal transient analysis and its application to a simplified test case considering solar irradiation and internal radiation. The dynamic behavior of the indoor air temperature has been investigated by means of a lumped approach using a state-space representation developed in MATLAB/Simulink. A set of daily temperature profiles, which are representative of the Mediterranean climatic condition, on a few different winter days, has been used as boundary conditions for the dynamic simulations. In addition, the model has been validated using two different sets of experimental data available in the literature, both statically and dynamically. Finally, a layer of insulation with a phase change material (PCM) is applied to the single zone building to quantify its effect on the building’s behavior. The results showed that the rate and amount of energy consumption in the building with PCM are moderately lower than the building without PCM. In addition, the variation of inlet air temperature, solar effects, and energy consumption have been evaluated for a case study example, as well as comfort in transient simulation to achieve a complete evaluation of the test building investigated. A satisfactory agreement was obtained between the experimental and the simulation results and shows that the model can be used for a wide range of materials, dimensions, thermal resistances, and boundary conditions
Parlando di Welfare e barbarie, oggi
No full textStarting from a short presentation of the increasing inequality generated by European economic governance and law on freedom of movement, the author furnishes two examples of how European Union could contrast this tendency. The Ryanair case demonstrates that, in order to promote equality and respect the growth and stability pact, the law applicable to employment relationship should be determined applying objective criteria, so that the employer cannot circumvent his obligations. In the case of childcare, the author arguments on the feasible measures that European legislator and European courts could adopt so as to establish binding minimum standards and guarantee social rights
Giustizia sociale e liberalizzazione del commercio internazionale
No full textThe author reflects about the overthrow, occurred in the last two decays, of the legal principles ruling international exchanges. The liberalization of exchanges has become as such a value, contrary to the principles of social justice included in the Philadelphia Declaration of 1944. Economic competition has become the ultimate purpose of each legal order, according to the dogma of the expansion as an absolute value achievable only by a globalized competition. This normative schizophrenia, which separates economic and social dimension of the process of globalization, could be surmounted only restoring social justice as founding principle of international trade. In this perspective, liberalization is only one possible instrument to attain the aim of social justice. In order to abridge the difference between the rights of companies, which can be exerted at international level, and the rights of workers, which remain confined at domestic scope, the author proposes to create an "international social citizenship" as a corollary of free circulation of capitals and goods
Tecniche di regolazione delle organizzazioni complesse e disciplina lavoristica
No full textAfter having presented the different approaches to regulate the economic complex organisation, the author explains why the functional approach only is able to detect the different levels where a power is exerted, and the types of interdependences inside these organisations. The second part of the essay illustrates the consequences that the adoption of the functional approach to regulate economic complex organisation can produce on Italian Labour Law
Reliability Analysis and Economic Evaluation of Thermal Reflective Insulators
No full textHigh-performance thermal insulators allow a dramatic reduction in the thickness of coatings, thanks to their low thermal conductivity. This study provides an overview about thermal insulation materials, with regards to heat reflective insulators in particular. Then, the numerical investigation method adopted to compute the thermal resistance associated with reflective insulators is introduced. This method has been used in turn to check the accuracy of the declared, measured performance of different, heat-reflective materials on the market. Many manufacturers of reflective insulators were available to provide information and a good agreement between the declared and expected thermal resistance has been found. The choice of a non-experimental approach is meant to check the validity of an already performed test on a reflective insulator using a predictive approach instead of standard, additional testing. Then, the insulation of five typical walls at three different sites in Italy has been simulated, showing that most of heat-reflective materials cannot achieve the maximum required transmittance. Interstitial condensation is likely to occur in specific cases, also because of the aluminum layers inside. The economic analyses showed comparable costs for both heat reflective and traditional insulators, and their cost effectiveness needs to be evaluated case by case
La natura maestra di resilienza: aspetti teorici e metodologici delle soluzioni nature-based per gli interventi educativi in situazioni di emergenza
No full textGli eventi catastrofci che provocano le emergenze possono essere riconducibili a “cause umane” o a origini naturali, ma sono quasi sempre
amplifcati da azioni umane disfunzionali. L’impatto di queste emergenze,
infatti, è direttamente proporzionale alla capacità delle società di operare
pianifcazioni strategiche a lungo termine, sia a livello di infrastrutture sia a
livello di formazione e preparazione su modalità e strumenti di intervento
effcaci.
Proprio per tale ragione tra gli elementi del sistema sociale che dovrebbero essere coinvolti nelle pianifcazioni strategiche fnalizzate a ridurre
l’impatto delle catastrof ci sono i contesti educativi (scuole, servizi territoriali, luoghi di cultura, socializzazione, sport ecc.) che possono avere
molti strumenti, approcci e metodologie a disposizione per intervenire
effcacemente in emergenza.
Con l’intento di contribuire a mostrarne il potenziale pedagogico, questo contributo vuole porre l’attenzione su tre elementi – l’esperienza in
natura, l’ascolto del corpo e le pratiche flosofche – che, insieme ad altri
dispositivi pedagogici e a opera dei professionisti dell’educazione, possono sostenere la resilienza in situazioni di emergenza
Who cares? La (mancanza di) dignità sociale per il lavoro di cura
No full textStarting from Stella La Forgia’s analysis on fundamental rights and social dignity, the Author
clarifies the strong interdependency between the recognition and the effective protection
of the right to care and the guarantee of the care workers’rights. In the DIY welfare,
that has developed due to the reduction of the public welfare, the capacity to fulfil people
needs depends on the cost restraint of care work. For this purpose, the State has set up a
special regulation that considers the care work as a “gig work” and deprives the care
workers of almost all rights guaranteed to employees. In this context, social dignity has
been reduced to mere rhetoric
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