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Culture Italian style: business and the arts
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate the practice of business investment in arts and culture, and provide a better understanding of this phenomenon from a competitive strategy perspective. Design/methodology/approach – Our understanding of the way in which companies build relations with the arts and cultural world is very limited. Many studies have looked at the marketing implications but have not really expanded on the larger impact of these activities on overall company strategy and results. The competitive advantage/competitive strategy framework provides a new perspective on the issue and highlights how the different ways in which businesses collaborate and build relations with the arts can be understood as an integral part of the company's activities. In order to illustrate how arts and culture can impact on companies' competitive advantage we present a series of case studies from Italy. Findings – The case studies presented provide a useful set of tools for other companies, involved in supporting the arts or considering similar activities, to benchmark their activities and the nature of their involvement against some successful international case studies. Originality/value – The paper is an original attempt to situate a common business practice such as business support of the arts in a larger understanding of our socio-economic context. Such practices are usually dismissed as simple philanthropy, although they can have a strong connection with the competitive strategy of a company and be a source of competitive advantage, particularly in a new economic era where aesthetic, creative and symbolic values attached to goods and services are becoming increasingly important
Knowledge and business engagement networks in the Maritime Studies University Strategic Research Group (USRG), University of Southampton
No full textSoluzione innovativa per prevenire il deterioramento delle pareti in legno all'attacco con la fondazione
No full textProgettisti ed operatori dell’edilizia in legno concordano che l’aspetto critico per le costruzioni in legno è legato alle problematiche
di durabilità che si possono manifestare in corrispondenza dall’attacco delle pareti lignee alla fondazione. Tale dettaglio costruttivo,
se non viene correttamente progettato e realizzato in opera con perizia, può rappresentare un punto di innesco di fenomeni di
degrado delle pareti dovuto alla presenza di acqua alla base delle pareti e alla successiva risalita di umidità capillare con
conseguente innesco di fenomeni di attacco da funghi. Tale degrado porta in breve tempo alla perdita della capacità portante delle
pareti mettendo a rischio la sicurezza strutturale dell’intero fabbricato. In aggiunta alle problematiche di durabilità, l’attacco alla
fondazione della parete risulta molto spesso un nodo critico anche per gli aspetti di posa in opera: la non perfetta planarità e
regolarità della fondazione in calcestruzzo comporta soluzioni di posa improvvisate in cantiere (quali ad esempio spessoramenti
puntuali delle pareti etc..) che non sono strutturalmente efficaci e contrastano con la logica di prefabbricazione.
Questo lavoro descrive le principali soluzioni tecnologiche tipicamente utilizzate per l’attacco a terra degli edifici a parete in legno,
ne descrive i vantaggi e svantaggi sia con riferimento alle problematiche di durabilità che di posa in opera, riportando i riferimenti
nomativi per la corretta progettazione del dettaglio costruttivo. Viene inoltre presentato un sistema tecnologico innovativo di
cordolo di base in profilo estruso di alluminio che ingegnerizza il nodo di attacco alla fondazione delle pareti in legno risolvendo le
problematiche di posa e livellamento di base delle pareti e assicurando la durabilità nel tempo delle pareti lignee. Infine vengono
presentati dei casi studio significativi dell’utilizzo del sistema
Creative cities in England: researching realities and images
No full textWhat makes a ‘Creative City’? The literature suggests that there are often conflicting accounts as to what the reality of the cultural and creative production is in cities, what their images are in terms of their cultural consumption and how they stimulate the cultural and creative capital of their citizens. This paper, inspired by Hall (2004), highlights how so far our understanding of the ‘Creative City’ has been fragmented and problematic in England by looking at data and measures of both creative production and consumption in two English cities – Birmingham and Newcastle-Gateshead. The authors call for a more holistic approach which takes into account not only the presence of creative industries and creative workers but also the level of cultural consumption and participation occurring in cities and the relationship between the two
Unrewarded careers in the creative class: the strange case of Bohemian graduates
No full textIn recent years, the role of human capital in economic development has been integrated with the concept of 'creative class'. To investigate the impact of creative occupations, the paper focuses on the jobs and career opportunities of individuals with high human capital in the creative disciplines (bohemian graduates). Using micro-individual student data by the Higher Education Statistical Agency, we highlight the mismatch between bohemian graduates and creative occupations and their low economic reward. The data question the role of bohemian graduates as agents of knowledge spillovers and highlight the need to differentiate between different type of human capital and job markets to better understand their influence on local growth. Copyright (c) 2010 the author(s). Journal compilation (c) 2010 RSAI.
Including stratigraphic hierarchy information in geostatistical simulation: a demonstration study on analogs of alluvial sediments
No full textWhen building a geostatistical model of the hydrofacies distribution in a volume block it is important to include all the relevant available information. Localised information about the observed hydrofacies (hard data) are routinely included in the simulation procedures. Non stationarities in the hydrofacies distribution can be handled by considering auxiliary (soft) data extracted, for example, from the results of geophysical surveys. This piece of information can be included as auxiliary data both in variogram based methods (i.e. co-Kriging) and in multiple-point statistics (MPS) methods. The latter methods allow to formalise some soft knowledge about the considered model of heterogeneity using a training image. However, including information related to the stratigraphic hierarchy in the training image is rarely straightforward.
In this work, a methodology to include the information about the stratigraphic hierarchy in the simulation process is formalised and implemented in a MPS framework. The methodology is applied and tested by reconstructing two model blocks of alluvial sediments with an approximate volume of few cubic meters. The external faces of the blocks, exposed in a quarry, were thoroughly mapped and their stratigraphic hierarchy was interpreted in a previous study. The bi-dimensional (2D) maps extracted from the faces, which are used as training images and as hard data, present a vertical trend and complex stratigraphic architectures. The training images and the conditioning data are classified according to the proposed stratigraphic hierarchy, and the hydrofacies codes are grouped to allow a sequence of interleaved binary MPS simulation. Every step of the simulation sequence corresponds to a group of hydrofacies defined in the stratigraphic hierarchy.
The blocks simulated with the proposed methodology are compared with blocks simulated with a standard MPS approach. The comparisons are performed on many realisations using connectivity indicators and transport simulations. The latter are performed with the Kolmogorov-Dmitriev method, which allows to investigate the transport behaviour at a spatial scale one order of magnitude bigger than the scale of the model blocks, using the transport properties statistics extracted from the results of particle tracking simulations on the model blocks. To allow a direct comparison with the observed facies maps, which are available in 2D only, all the aforementioned comparison are first performed in 2D and subsequently on the three-dimensional blocks
The application of hydrogeophysics to study water-based ecosystem services in alluvial plains
No full textSurfing Multiple Tides: Opportunities and Challenges for Contemporary British and German Community Filmmakers
Full text linkThis book examines the role of community filmmaking in society and its connection with issues of cultural diversity, innovation, policy and practice in various places. Deploying a range of examples from Europe, North America, Australia and Hong Kong, the chapters show that film emerging from outside the mainstream film industries and within community contexts can lead to innovation in terms of both content and processes and a better representation of the cultural diversity of a range of communities and places. The book aims to situate the community filmmaker as the central node in the complex network of relationships between diverse communities, funding bodies, policy and the film industries
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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