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The Wine Attributes with the Greatest Influence in the Process of Consumer Choice in Spain
No full textThe commercialisation of wine in Spain is problematic due to two concrete circumstances: the decrease in wine consumption because of a consumer shift toward substitute drinks and the greater presence of national and foreign wine in the interior market, which involves an increase in business competitiveness. The increase in competitiveness of quality Spanish wine depends on producing enterprises’ knowledge of wine consumer preferences so they can offer consumers what they demand. In order to respond to this matter and better adapt supply, 421 wine consumers were surveyed using the Best-Worst Scaling methodology. Various segmentations were also made by consumer income and age groups. The results indicate that the two main attributes which condition consumers in choosing wine are the region of origin and having tasted it previously. The region of origin attribute is valued in general by consumers over 34 years old who have a monthly family income above 1,500 €. The attribute of having tasted it before, which on many occasions is associated with the price attribute, is valued particularly by younger consumers and those with lower incomes.Consumer behaviour, Wine attributes, Food Marketing, Consumer/Household Economics,
Dr. Rodolfo D. Torres talk at University of Washington Tacoma: After Latino Metropolis
No full textThe role of class and spatial politics in Latino Los Angeles will be the subject of this timely talk. Professor Rodolfo D. Torres is co-author of the highly acclaimed book, Latino Metropolis (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). He will revisit this important book
Attraverso gli spazi di una storia. Opere di Dino Quartana
No full textIl catalogo che raccoglie i testi di S.E. Card. A. Scola, C. De Carli e R. Balzarotti, attiene alla produzione scultorea di Dino Quartana formulata in giochi, guerre, emersioni, angeli, famiglie. Il testo prende le mosse da una citazione di A. Giacometti sulla sensazione immediata e attuale che si prova nello sforzo di raggiungere la realtà. Quartana, come Giacometti, vive drammaticamente e appassionatamente il rapporto con la realtà percependone tutta l’alterità. Di qui il processo di composizione dell’opera che passa attraverso una ricerca spaziale di provenienza architettonica. Essa è capace di restituire con forza e libertà la sensazione profonda del dato di realtà insieme a quella del possibile, come qualche cosa che sta dietro e intorno ad essa, inesauribilmente provocatorio e fecondo.The catalog contains the texts of His Excellency Mr Cardinal A. Scola, C. De Carli and R. Balzarotti, relating the sculptural production of Dino Quartana formulated in games, wars, emersions, angels, families. The text begins with a quote from A. Giacometti on the immediate and present sensation in an effort to reach the reality. Quartana, such as Giacometti, lives dramatically and passionately the relationship with reality perceiving all the otherness. From here the process of composition of the work that goes through a spatial search that has architectural origin. It is capable of restoring with strength and freedom the deep sense of reality as well as that of the possible, as something behind and around it, inexhaustibly provocative and fruitful
How corporate governance and globalization can run afoul of the law and good practices in business: The Enron's disgraceful affair.
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to set out the Enron’s demise into the perspective of Corporate and Global Governance. To accomplish this target, the incremental cash flow model is expanded to give room for governance issues, while a functional introduction to information sets is developed, including bounded rationality, asymmetric information, opportunistic behavior, transaction costs and agency problems. Then, corporate governance is linked to globalization by means of some recent approaches that go beyond a narrow economic mindset to encompass a far-reaching dynamics. Taking advantage of such background, the Enron’s story is tracked down over a span of fifteen years since its starting day to its bankruptcy filing. Leading events are explained from corporate and global governance viewpoints, while an in-depth analysis is worked out on Enron’s complex game of deception and breach of contracts: the outrageous affiliated limited partnerships, the lavish pay package to its executives, the involvement with global governance through the Indian affair and the Taliban connection. It is for the incremental cash flow model to explain malfeasance with cash flows from assets, and how cash flows to creditors were actually contrived. Furthermore, to highlight how cash flows were swindled from stockholders and, finally, how Enron made wheeling and dealing with cash flows on behalf of its managers.corporate governance, global governance, incremental cash flow model, globalization, information sets, good practices.
Gregorio XIII Boncompagni. Arte dei moderni e immagini venerabili nei cantieri della nuova Ecclesia
No full textIl volume illustra attraverso i punti di vista di differenti discipline la doppia natura del pontificato di Gregorio XIII Boncompagni (1572-1585), mecenate e riformatore. L’intenzionalità ideologica sottesa alle opere del papa, connessa a una programmatica adesione al dettato tridentino, viene analizzata nei saggi di specialisti di diversa provenienza sia in relazione alle antichità cristiane, sia alle soluzioni tecniche e figurative messe in campo nei cantieri di sua committenza.
Il rapporto fecondo e peculiare tra la rivalutazione di una stagione sino ad allora negletta, il Medioevo, e le novità architettoniche e artistiche della stagione gregoriana, viene presentato a partire dalla Basilica di San Pietro, per poi snodarsi attraverso l’analisi dei programmi iconografici degli ambienti del Palazzo Apostolico, della committenza privata del pontefice e dei suoi capillari interventi edilizi lungo l’asse Roma-Bologna, che assunse in questi anni un’inedita centralità.
Con contributi di: Antonella Ballardini, Kaspar Zollikofer, Pietro Zander, Bianca Hermanin, Valentina Balzarotti, Chiara Cecalupo, Tiffany Lynn Hunt, Raffaella Morselli, Alessandra Rodolfo, Giulia Daniele, Maurizio Ricci, Camilla S. Fiore, Susanne Kubersky-Piredda, Tancredi Farina, Lorenza D'Alessandro
Rodolfo Lenz
No full textIn this article the author intends to offer an overall profile of Dr. Rodolfo
Lenz’ versatile personality, portraying him as the man, the phonetician, the
expert scholar in Araucanian, the orthographer, the methodologist, the
compulsive scientist. All these personality traits contributed to renovate in
Chile the interest in language, in foreign language methodology and the
institutionalization of folklore as a science, which earned him the Chilean
nationalityEn este trabajo el autor se propone dar una visión de conjunto de la polifacética
personalidad del Dr. Rodolfo Lenz: el hombre, el fonetista, el araucanista, el
lexicógrafo, el gramático, el ortógrafo, el metodólogo, el científico compulsivo.
Aspectos todos que contribuyeron a renovar profundamente en Chile el
estudio de las ciencias del lenguaje, la metodología de la enseñanza de las
lenguas extranjeras y la fundación del folclor como ciencia, por todo lo cual
el Gobierno le confirió nuestra nacionalida
El funcionalismo de rodolfo lenz
No full textSummary
This paper deals with the contributions to Hispanic Linguistics by the German-Chilean linguist Rodolfo Lenz (1863–1935), some of whose proposals – often attributed to other scholars – may be seen as an alternative to the ideas of the prestigious Andrés Bello (1781–1865). The paper first reviews those aspects of his work which anticipate some of the basic tenets of Functional Grammar, such as the notion of ‘transposition’ (function shifting), his views on sentential structure, and his treatment of passives as attributive constructions. The paper also explores Lenz’s contributions to Indo-European linguistics and his theoretical affinities with, if not anticipations of, the work of other well-known linguists like Búhler, Tesnière, Hjelmslev, and Benveniste. In sum, the author seeks to vindicate Rodolfo Lenz and his insightful views in both general linguistic theory and Spanish grammar.</jats:p
Rodolfo Lenz
No full textIn this article the author intends to offer an overall profile of Dr. Rodolfo Lenz’ versatile personality, portraying him as the man, the phonetician, the expert scholar in Araucanian, the orthographer, the methodologist, the compulsive scientist. All these personality traits contributed to renovate in Chile the interest in language, in foreign language methodology and the institutionalization of folklore as a science, which earned him the Chilean nationality.En este trabajo el autor se propone dar una visión de conjunto de la polifacética personalidad del Dr. Rodolfo Lenz: el hombre, el fonetista, el araucanista, el lexicógrafo, el gramático, el ortógrafo, el metodólogo, el científico compulsivo. Aspectos todos que contribuyeron a renovar profundamente en Chile el estudio de las ciencias del lenguaje, la metodología de la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras y la fundación del folclor como ciencia, por todo lo cual el Gobierno le confirió nuestra nacionalida
Tres propuestas escénicas para "La Granada" de Rodolfo Walsh
No full textLa obra dramática de Rodolfo Walsh mereció muy poco atención por parte de la crítica. La autora de este artículo analiza tres diferentes puestas en escena de La granada (1965, 1985 y 2003), como un modo de hacer justicia a la tarea creativa del prestigioso escritor, desaparecido por la última dictadura miliar argentina, en 1977.The dramatic texts of Rodolfo Walsh have received little critical attention. The author of this paper focuses on three different stagings of La Granada (1965, 1985 y 2003), as a way of rendering of what is due to the prestigious writer, desaparecido by the argentine military dictatorship on 1977.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
Carta, Rubén Darío a Rodolfo Espinosa, 1908 Junio 11
No full textabstract: Handwritten letter from Rubén Darío to Rodolfo Espinosa, the Foreign Minister of Nicaragua. Rubén Darío reports to the Minister about diplomatic matters. Darío was in Madrid when the letter was written. Rodolfo Espinosa Ramírez (November 11, 1876 - December 1, 1944) was a Nicaraguan politician and diplomatic. Among other positions, Ramírez was Managua's Mayor and he also was Foreign Minister in the José Santos Zelaya's government.The original Rubén Darío Papers 1882-1945 (MSS-339) are located at ASU Libraries Archives & Special Collections. For more information about visiting the collection see http://hdl.handle.net/2286/L.A.0.At the time of this letter, Rubén Darío was Resident Minister of Nicaragua in Spain.Letter has references to several people, all of them are related to political and diplomatic life: Marqués de Viana (José de Saavedra y Salamanca); the Queens Cristina (María Cristina Habsburgo-Lorena) and Victoria (Victoria Eugenia de Battenberg).Alfonso XIII (May 17, 1886 - February 28, 1941), was Spain's King between 1886-1931.Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar (August 24, 1856 - May 17, 1923) was a Spaniard politician. He was Minister during the reign of Alfonso XIII.José Santos Zelaya (November 1, 1853 - May 17, 1919) was a military and Nicaraguan politician who served as President of Nicaragua from 1893 to 1909
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