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LA VILLA ROMANA DI POGGIO GRAMIGNANO (LUGNANO IN TEVERINA): NOTIZIE DAGLI SCAVI 2016-2019: MONETE.
No full textNel territorio amerino sono in corso importanti scavi archeologici, in regime di concessione ministeriale, presso la villa romana di Poggio Gramignano (Lugnano in Teverina): l’équipe internazionale impegnata nelle indagini (David Soren, David Pickel, Roberto Montagnetti, Jordan Wilson, Archer Martin, Matteo Serpetti, Tiziano Gasperoni, Mara Elefante, Francesca Rizzo, Emanuela Spagnoli, Barbara Maurina, Gabriele Soranna, Skyler Jenkins) presenta in anteprima le principali novità delle ultime campagne di scavo (2016-2019), che portano avanti quelle condotte fra 1988 e 1992, illustrando sinteticamente lo stato degli studi sulle varie classi di materiali e sui reperti faunistici. Emanuela Spagnoli presenta i reperti numismatici da contesti di scavo della villa e del cimitero infantile; l'esame del dato monetale si iscrive nel quadro economico e sociale del territorio.
Il volume è edito da MIC-Soprintendenza Archeologica dell'Umbria (a cura di Elena Roscini)
Crescere a Pinerolo: stili di vita, benessere e futuro dei ragazzi
No full textCome vivono i ragazzi? Cosa fanno, cosa pensano, come si relazionano in famiglia e con gli amici? Come aiutarli a crescere bene? Lo studio «Crescere a Pinerolo» si rivolge a 800 ragazzi, dai 12 fino ai 20 anni, che ci raccontano la loro vita, i loro problemi e difficoltà, ma anche le loro potenzialità. I risultati offrono un quadro positivo degli adolescenti: il dialogo con i genitori favorisce le relazioni in famiglia e complessivamente si sentono supportati e protetti, la scuola piace abbastanza e viene compresa l’importanza dell’istruzione. Tra gli aspetti critici che emergono vi sono: la solitudine nell’era digitale, il bullismo verbale e relazionale, l’incertezza del futuro.Fil: Vignola Barbero, G.. Fondazione Emanuela Zancan; ItaliaFil: Canali, Cinzia. Fondazione Emanuela Zancan; ItaliaFil: Eynard, Martin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; ArgentinaFil: Vecchiato, Tiziano. Fondazione Emanuela Zancan; Itali
Do lottery operators exploit their lottery power? Efficiency and equality considerations in optimal lottery design
No full textWe study the problem facing the operator of a lottery who is charged with raising revenue for the public finances. Demand for the lottery is a function of both disposable income and the pricing of the game. Departing from the current literature, we show that optimal lottery pricing includes corrections for the degree of inequality and skewness in the income distribution and features of the function relating lottery spend to disposable income. When gross lottery expenditure is regressive, it is optimal for the operator to improve the terms of the game by being more generous with the proportion of spend that is returned to players. The opposite result holds when gross lottery expenditure is progressive. Using results from analysis of the U.K. National Lottery’s Saturday game between 1997 and 2013, we show that the effective price was about ten percentage points too low to be efficient, so that the operator was not fully exploiting its lottery power. However, we also show that, were it to have raised its price to improve efficiency, it would have increased inequality
Public Health Considerations on the Optimal Sin Tax Under Consumer Heterogeneity, with Implications for Inequality in Health
No full textWe study the optimal choice of sin tax by a public health authority, when the consumption of a harmful good is unevenly distributed across the income distribution. The optimal tax level adjusts away from the level applied when heterogeneity is ignored, according to the degree of relative inequality in the income distribution, as well as non-linearities in the population health and
deadweight loss functions. Drawing on findings from the literature on income
distribution and redistribution, we compare the impact of the two tax levels on relative inequality in health and participation in unhealthy consumption.
Under reasonable assumptions about functional forms, and independently of
the distribution of income, we show that the heterogeneity-adjusted sin tax can increase both efficiency and health inequality
Epidemic policy under uncertainty and information
No full textWe present a model of infectious disease control which incorporates uncertainty and
information. A policy-maker possesses beliefs about the value of a key parameter – we
choose the level of herd immunity in the population – and seeks the welfare-maximising
level of intervention, accounting for both the public health benefit and economic cost. An
approximation to the optimal rule shows that it accounts for interactions between beliefs,
the policy-maker’s attitude to risk, the production technology and costs, and the weights in
the welfare function. We consider the role of information, in the form of expert opinion and
scientific advice, in influencing the policy-maker’s beliefs and the optimal policy. We assess
the framework’s potential for advancing the economic modelling of epidemic control
Jack Alive / Martin Dead : The Location of the "Author" in Jack London\u27s Martin Eden
No full textThis essay is an attempt to read Martin Eden, Jack Londonʼs autobiographical novel, in terms of the inextricable relationship between the author and the protagonist. Critics have often taken the unbalanced plot and the lack of ironic distance between narrator and character in Martin Eden as the technical weakness of London, but this paper argues that the achievement of this novel owes a great deal to the attachment of London to Martin. The unbalanced structure is a necessary product of the severe struggle of the author to kill his romantic alter ego. // Martin, who aspires to win Ruth Morse, tries to cross class boundaries by making a career of a writer. Even after realizing the emptiness of Ruth, who turns out to be nothing but a typical figure of the bourgeoisie, he somehow persists in loving her. The notion underlying here is that, for Martin, love, career and art are fundamentally inseparable. He objects to the aestheteʼs view of Brissenden on account of his separation of art from career. Martinʼs identity and life consist only in the triunity of love/career/art; the alternative is the repudiation of life. Thus, the unnatural delay of his disappointment in love can be regarded as Londonʼs strategy to set the suicide of Martin as the necessary consequence of the story. // By finishing the story and killing Martin, London finally detaches himself from Martin, reconstructs his self, and, unlike Martin, survives as a professional writer. In this sense, Martin Eden is a story about “writerʼs self-reconstruction.
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Letter from Martin Chizzick
No full textCongratulations to Duane Pearsall for receiving the Enterpreneur of the Year award; note on the letter was written by Pearsall and it mentions that Martin, the author of the letter, died in a airplane accident
Robert Martin Tiffin's Mystery Man Newspaper Articles
No full textAdvertiser-Tribune newspaper clippings featuring a story about Robert Martin (written by Nancy Kleinhenz), a local author from Tiffin (Ohio) who wrote under the pseudonym of Lee Roberts, and two of his short stories. Martin wrote mystery novels in his spare time, creating more than 22 mystery novels. For more information about Robert Martin and a list of books go to http://www.mysteryfile.com/RMartin/JBennett.html
The Polymorphous Return of the Tragic in J. Littell e M. Amis
No full textIn this article I intend to analyse Jonathan Littell’s novel Les Bienveillants (2006) and Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest (2014) in their dealing with the traumatic events of the Twentieth Century through literary writing and in their conveying meaning in terms of remembrance and historical awareness of collective traumas. In particular, I tackle the relationship between historical consciousness and the return of the tragic, as a way to identify in the representation of the inner rupture of the self the connection between the psychoanalytic dimension and the tragic dimension, and between private and political unconscious
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