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Personalizing politics and realizing democracy
No full textFew people today would challenge the legitimacy of democracy as the form of government most congenial to modern-day citizenship, as it requires its members to treat each other as equals and to cooperate in the shared pursuit of conditions that maximize both the individual's potential and the achievement of a public welfare. However, a number of facts challenge these deeply-rooted ideals: declining political participation, along with skepticism and dissatisfaction with the function of democracy has spread; citizens' increasing capacity to control their own circumstances within their private, economic, and social spheres is at odds with their inability to exert control over their elected representatives; and the shift of opposing radical coalitions towards more pragmatic and ideologically elusive platforms aimed to attract a larger constituency of the electorate has greatly diluted the identity of political parties.
In Personalizing Politics and Realizing Democracy, authors Gian Vittorio Caprara and Michele Vecchione present the ever-growing reciprocal relationship between personality and politics, and assert that politics are not only increasingly dependent on the likes and dislikes of its citizenship, but ultimately on the personalities of political candidates attracting these voters' preferences. In this book, Caprara and Vecchione draw from recent research in personality psychology that offer a decisive role in understanding the major changes that have occurred within politics in the last several decades
Il contratto di engineering e la disciplina dell’attività economica nell’età postmoderna
No full textIl dibattito sul tema della «tipicità sociale» del contratto di engineering non è legato alla sola individuazione della disciplina applicabile, ma anche (e a monte) ad un metodo di regolamentazione dei fenomeni che interessano l’attività d’impresa (e la stessa nozione di impresa), sul piano sia delle fonti, sia della struttura del precetto. L’obiettivo dell’analisi è duplice, ossia, da un lato, di analizzare il contratto di engineering nel più ampio contesto dei nuovi contorni che definiscono l’attività d’impresa e, dall’altro, di verificare le potenzialità operative, oltre che sistematiche, di nuovi (spesso atipici) modelli contrattuali rispetto alla disciplina di rapporti giuridici complessi; rapporti intercorrenti tra soggetti che interagiscono per il conseguimento di uno scopo condiviso sulla base di un determinato programma. In estrema sintesi si può riassumere l’indagine in due temi: l’attitudine dell’impresa a modellare gli schemi contrattuali (e, nello specifico, il contratto di engineering) in funzione di determinate finalità di tutela e, il suo reciproco, ossia il contributo offerto dal contratto (di engineering) alla definizione dell’attività di impresa
Land Suitability Assessment for Potato Cultivation in an Italian Region: a GIS Based Analysis
No full textThe knowledge of soil characteristics and climate conditions is of primary importance for choosing the production techniques more suitable for improving crop yields. Through methods that include the use of georeferenced information (weather, soil, etc.) and GIS (Geographical Information Systems), the environmental characteristics can be properly analyzed, crop requirements compared and type and degree of land suitability identified in relation to product yields.
In potato cultivation the performances and qualitative aspects are both closely linked to environmental factors. In particular, crop profitability is influenced by soil texture, pH, organic matter content and climatic factors such as water availability and temperatures.
The chapter presents a methodology to evaluate the suitability of some areas of Emilia Romagna Region, characterized by high quality production or by high production potential.
In order to demonstrate the validity of the methodology, a GIS analysis was conducted to evaluate the actual potato crop distribution compared with a suitability map derived from land evaluation.
The results provide some guidelines for planning and management of potato cultivation in the Region
Tecnica di redazione dei contratti
No full textIl volume raccoglie le lezioni seminariali tenute nell’ambito del Laboratorio di Tecnica di Redazione dei Contratti, istituito e coordi- nato dai curatori nel contesto del Laboratorio di Didattica Innovativa - IDEA (Innovazione Didattica E Apprendimento). Il Laboratorio IDEA è stato creato grazie al Progetto di Eccellenza 2018-2022 del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche per promuovere e implementare nuovi sistemi di didattica e di apprendimento delle discipline giuri- diche, innovando le metodologie nonché favorendo l’internaziona- lizzazione e l’approccio interdisciplinare
Prefazione a G.V. Caprara e G. Van Heck (A cura di/Eds.), Moderna psicologia della personalità, (Preface to the italian edition of G.V. Caprara e G. Van Heck (Eds.), Modern Personality Psychology)
No full textIl sistema degli statuti personali libanesi. Una panoramica delle fonti normative
No full textstatuti personal
Matrimonio e secolarizzazione: note introduttive
No full textIL MATRIMONIO RELIGIOSO OGGI:
LE NUOVE SFIDE
DELLA SECOLARIZZAZION
Il sistema degli statuti personali libanesi. Una panoramica delle fonti normative
No full textStatuti personali libanes
The Ancient Romans’ Route to Charge Density Waves in Cuprates
Full text linkAn account is given of the main steps that led the research group in Rome, to which the author belongs, to the formulation of the charge-density-wave scenario for high-T-c superconducting cuprates. The early finding of the generic tendency of strongly correlated electron systems with short range interactions to undergo electron phase separation was subsequently contrasted with the homogenizing effect of the long-range Coulomb interaction. The two effects can find a compromise in the formation of incommensurate charge density waves. These charge density waves are inherently dynamical and are overdamped as a consequence of the possibility to decay in electron-hole pairs, yet tend to maintain a (quantum) critical character, which is mirrored in their marked momentum and frequency dependence and in their strong variation with temperature and doping. These dynamical incommensurate charge density waves act as mediators of pairing lading to high-T-c superconductivity, and provide the scattering mechanism that produces the observed violation of the Fermi-liquid paradigm in the metallic phase
Decorous lower bounds for minimum linear arrangement
Full text linkMinimum Linear Arrangement is a classical basic combinatorial optimization problem from the 1960s, which turns out to be extremely challenging in practice. In particular, for most of its benchmark instances, even the order of magnitude of the optimal solution value is unknown, as testified by the surveys on the problem that contain tables in which the best known solution value often has one more digit than the best known lower bound value. In this paper, we propose a linear-programming based approach to compute lower bounds on the optimum. This allows us, for the first time, to show that the best known solutions are indeed not far from optimal for most of the benchmark instances
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