101 research outputs found
La competitività italiana nel commercio internazionale
No full textOn the basis of various indexes, the author demonstrates that the Italian productive system has an outstanding position in various industrial sectors in the world economy. In particular, he identifies four sectors denominated the 4As (according to the initial letter of each Italian term: clothing - Abbigliamento-moda; home furniture - Arredo-casa; food - Alimentare-vini; automation - Automazione-meccanica-gomma-plastica). The 4As accounted for a balance of payments surplus which amounts to 100 billion euros. The author emphasises how a "declinist" interpretation is based on the declining share of total Italian exports in world export. Yet, this interpretation does not adequately take into account the strategy adopted by Italian firms that, in the last years, have changed their strategy towards higher value added production. This interpretation is confirmed by the comparison of competitiveness indexes elaborated by UNCTAD/WTO (TPI, Trade Performance Index) and by the Edison Foundation (Fortis-Corradini Index). The paper examines also the performances of italian exports during the first phase of the current global crisis. On the one hand, Italy has been affected by the crisis of global demand; on the other hand, the same diffuculties were experienced by Germany, and the Italian economy initially recovered more successfully. Finally, the paper suggests that prospects for growth of Italy in international trade, depends on greater access to BRIC markets; however, the Italian small/medium size forms find it more difficult obtain a foothold than large multinationals from the other European countries
How Can We Improve the Delivery of Urology Teaching to Medical Students Using Modern Educational Techniques?
No full textFortis Gaba,1 Qassi Q Gaba,2 Dilini A Fernando3 1University of Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; 2Department of Medical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 3Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UKCorrespondence: Fortis Gaba, University of Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, 47 Little France Cres, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK, Tel +447783985984, Email [email protected]: It is generally well-known that the medical school curriculum is becoming increasingly busy, more so with the COVID-19 pandemic. By itself, urology education will need to adapt to meet the changing circumstances, but it remains uncertain on how best to address this need. In this article, we will discuss several methods that will allow institutions to ease and overcome pressures using modern educational techniques. These methods can be classified based on the aspect of the curriculum they seek to improve, namely core-curricular teaching, anatomy training, virtual reality, and electronic learning opportunities. We anticipate that the implementation of these suggestions will enhance medical school teaching.Keywords: surgical education, urology, medical school curriculum, modern educational technique
LA CRISI MONDIALE E L'ITALIA
No full textQuesto volume ha quattro intonazioni che si intrecciano muovendo dalla crisi economico-finanziaria che ha colpito il mondo. La prima intonazione è che la crisi nasce e cresce negli USA a causa di un sistema troppo affidato al debito, con un aumento esponenziale dell'indebitamento delle famiglie americane, particolarmente esposte sui mutui sulla casa. La seconda riguarda la dinamica attraverso cui la crisi si è amplificata a livello internazionale a causa dei cosiddetti titoli "tossici" moltiplicatisi a dismisura a partire dalla massa dei mutui stessi. La terza intonazione è che in tutto ciò l'Europa sta comunque meglio degli USA. La quarta ed ultima intonazione è che l'Italia ha molti punti di forza per affrontare la recessione iniziata nell'ultima parte del 2008: su tutti un sistema manifatturiero competitivo e un elevato risparmio delle famiglie.
Quella che taluno aveva descritto come arretratezza del sistema economico italiano si sta rivelando una sua forza specifica che potrebbe permetterci di superare meglio di molti altri Paesi la crisi internazionale che, comunque, appare gravissima.
L'autore ha seguito la crisi momento per momento con vari interventi sulla stampa, in particolare su "Il Messaggero" ed "Economy", raccolti organicamente in questo volume.This volume deals with four intertwining aspects starting from the current world's economic-financial crisis. The first aspect is that the crisis arose and developed in the USA as a result of a financial system exceedingly relying on debiting, with an exponential growth of the indebtedness of the American households, particularly exposed in housing loans. The second reviews how the crisis spread to the rest of the world because of the enormous increase in the so-called "toxic" assets arising from the mass of loans. The third aspect is that in this mess Europe is definitely in a better position than the US. The fourth and last aspect is that Italy has many strong points in coping with the recession that began late in 2008, the major ones being a competitive manufacturing system and a high level of households saving.
What someone described as backwardness of the Italian economic system is now proving to be a specific strength that could enable us to get over the international crisis, which is undeniably extremely severe, better than many other countries.
The author has been following the crisis day by day with articles published especially in "Il Messaggero" and "Economy", now collected systematically in this volum
Kako je A. Fortis pripremao za drugo francusko izdanje »Puta po Dalmaciji« novo poglavlje o Dubrovniku
No full textThe author wants to reconstruct the chapter on Dubrovnik, which Alberto Fortis was preparing in the last years of his life for the second edition of his »Voyage in Dalmatia«. As the autograph of that edition of »Voyage en Dalmatie« was lost, the author analysed the sources that can tell us something about that chapter. They are :
a) Fortis’ correspondence
b) Fortis' inheritance in Bologna, in the first place the books of his own library with marginalia written with his own hand
c) Some of Fortis’ printed works dealing directly or indirectly with Dubrovnik and her past, geography, etc.
The author analyzed particularly Fortis’ political attitude at the time when he was preparing that chapter. As a good connoisseur of contemporary Dubrovnik in which he stayed three times (1779/1780, 1780, 1783), all in all for six months, then knowing many learned Dubrovnik men who either permanently or temporary lived abroad and some educated Dubrovnik women, as a man of France Fortis could say about Dubrovnik less than he wanted. On the other side, concerning his incomplete knowledge of Dubrovnik literary and cultural history, Fortis could not say all that should have been said.
It is a great pity that the prepared chapter was not preserved. In the meantime, regardless of that, Fortis’ printed state ments on Dubrovnik show, although incompletely, that Fortis thought highly of the independent Republic and her inhabitants and that he made efforts that the fame of Dubrovnik be heard of not only in Italy, but somewhere, else too, in the countries where French and German were spoken.Došavši u zrele godine Alberto Fortis (1741—1803) je namjeravao sabrati u dvjema knjigama na francuskom jeziku rezultate svojih mnogobrojnih znanstvenih putovanja po Italiji i po Dalmaciji i okolnim zemljama. Dva su ga razloga na to poticala. S jedne strane želio se pred francuskom kulturnom javnosti afirmirati kako bi — kad dođe za to pogodan čas — dobio u oslobođenoj Italiji priznanje za svoj rad (i za svoj frankofilski stav), što mu je, kao siromašnom strancu u Parizu, gdje je, s jednim prekidom, boravio od 1796. do 1801, bilo i te kako važno. S druge strane htio je obrazovanim interesentima pružiti u dotjeranoj formi znanstveno gradivo, do kojega bi inače, pogotovo ako nisu bili Talijani, sami vrlo teško mogli doći: najveći dio, naime, Fortisovih napisa bio je tiskan u raznim teško dostupnim publikacijama a malobrojne naslove koji su bili izašli u formi knjige, ponekad i u prijevodu, trebalo je dotjerati u skladu s najnovijim stanjem u znanosti
APSYRTIDES – FORTIS ON THE PATHS OF THE ARGONAUTS TOWARDS EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY
No full textOtoci Cres i Lošinj, smatra autorica, imali su u razvoju europske etnologije/antropologije važnije mjesto od drugih jadranskih otoka. Na temelju analize prve Fortisove knjige, Saggio d' Osservazioni sopra l' isola di Cherso ed Osero d'Alberto Fortis (Venezia, 1771), može se vidjeti kako upravo ovdje Fortis sazrijeva politički, prestaje biti samo putnikom i prirodoslovcem i zanima se za život otočana i njihovu tradicijsku kulturu. U knjizi su anticipirani zameci etnološke misli kao npr. pojam "običaj", "tradicija", "zloporaba tradicije", "kulturni relativizam". Pokazuje se da se "otkriće Morlaka" može ustanoviti upravo u Saggiu, knjizi objavljenoj tri godine prije knjige Viaggio in Dalmazia. Autorica analitički "iščitava" Fortisovo djelo, kritički ga smještajući u okvire njegovih ranih istraživanja, ali i rađanja europske etnologije u 18. stoljeću nakon "otkrića" Dalmacije, ovdje pobliže Kvarnerskih otoka.Of all the Adriatic islands, according to the author, Cres and Lošinj had more important and greater impact on the evolution of European ethnology/anthropology, which is why it is so important to reconsider Saggio d'Osservazioni sopra l'isola di Cherso ed Osero d'Alberto Fortis, a book by Fortis not translated as yet, published in Venice in 1771. The paper aims critically to evaluate the position of this book in relation to Fortis' broader work, his beginnings, and also the growth of European ethnology whose foundations were grounded in the "discovery" of Dalmatia, especially of the Kvarner islands, in the middle of the Enlightenment period. It was at that time that the Adriatic transformed itself into a distinct ethnographic entity dividing the Italians from the Slavs and Eastern from Western Europe. Specific examples are analyzed that show how Fortis' original geological, mineralogical and paleontological interests were transformed into an ethnological-anthropological approach. It was this new interest that later led him to the Morlachs, who have been reported on so extensively by Croatian and European scholars The paper shows how, during his research on the islands Cres and Lošinj, Fortis was no longer exclusively a "viagiattore naturalista", a travelling naturalist, as he called himself. His political broadening and development became evident. He was no longer merely a passive observer but instead interested himself in the conditions and way of life of the local population. This article tries analytically to "read" this book by Fortis, which is so important for ethnologists and the creation of European ethnology and anthropology. Fortis anticipates the germs of future ethnological concepts such as "custom", "tradition", "misuse of tradition" and "cultural relativism". Even though his journey to Cres and Lošinj ("Saggio") can be tentatively considered as less interesting and famous than his well known travels in Dalmatia ("Viaggio"), the author attempts to show how the "discovery of the Morlachs" can be anticipated precisely in the "Saggio", predating the famous "Viaggio" by three years. Comparing the two works, the author shows Fortis' "anthropological inversion" where he gradually lessens his impetus to civilize and to "cultivate the whole world", a process that is also mirrored in his gradual transformation from Enlightenment to Romanticism. At that time he was, as was all of Europe, fascinated by the exotic and primitive customs of the Morlachs, who were later recognized as a distinct people precisely on the basis of this ethnological category. The paper shows how the Adriatic was subject to mental cartography based on civilization criteria and those of anthropology, but also shows the importance of the Adriatic as a central point of official geographic cartography and the Adriocentric geographical approach of Coronelli – the official cartographer of the Venetian Republic from which Fortis started off on his journeys
Saving a Bank? Cracking the Case of the Fortis Bank?
No full textThis paper presents a simple experimental System Dynamics model of the underlying value and stock market value of a bank to analyze a loss of trust the a bank. The System Dynamics model was developed on 28 September 2008 –the day the governments of the Benelux countries met in a great hurry to rescue the Fortis bank– in order to gain a better understanding of the potential dynamics of bank crises and to test policies for keeping banks from collapsing. The System Dynamics model and an even simpler exam case based on it are interesting because of the actuality and importance of the topic, their small size and simplicity, their potential to generate different dynamic behaviors, and their usefulness for quick fostering of understanding and rough-cut policy exploration.Multi Actor SystemsTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Mostra dei briganti nelle opere di Alberto Fortis, Ivanladimir Ardalić
No full textAutor daje kratak pregled i osnovna obilježja hajdučije u zagorskoj Dalmaciji u 18. i 19. st. Mletačko-osmanlijski ratni sukobi u Dalmaciji završeni su 1718. godine. Tada je utvrđena nova, konačna granica među susjedima te započelo dugo razdoblje stabilnih odnosa, trgovine i suradnje. Međutim, odmetništvo se nastavilo intenzivno i dalje pa i
onda kad je mletačku vlast u Dalmaciji zamijenila francuska, a zatim ovu austrijska. Na hajduštvo u ovoj pokrajini osvrću se opat Alberto Fortis u svom djelu »Put po Dalmaciji« (Viaggio in Dalmazia), u poglavlju »O običajima Morlaka«, a zatim, reagirajući na Fortisovo djelo, mladi prosvjetitelj Sinjanin Ivan Lovrić u svojim »Bilješkama o Putu po Dalmaciji opata Alberta Fortisa i Život Stanislava Sočivice« 1776. godine. Vladimir Ardalić krajem 19. i početkom 20. st. u svojim tekstovima o životu i običajima u Bukovici ne piše posebno o hajducima, već mjestimice upliće kratka zapažanja o hajducima i
hajduštvu, sjećanja kakva su živjela u pučkoj usmenoj tradiciji toga vremena. U našem radu iznose se i komparativno analiziraju Fortisovi, Lovrićevi i Ardalićevi zapisi o hajducima, njihove misli o junaštvu hajdučkih odmetnika i o uzrocima hajduštva na ovim prostorima.The author gives a brief overview of the basic features of banditry in Dalmatian Zagora in the 18th and 19 century. The war-confl icts betweenVenetians and Ottoman ended in 1718.. That year marks the establishing of the fi nal border between the two states, and the beginning of a long period of stable relations, trade and cooperation.
However, intensive brigandry continuedeven after Venetian rule was replaced by the French, and the latter by the Austrian. Two eiighteenth-century atuhors offern account of brigandry (hajduštvO): the abbot Alberto Gortis in his Viaggio in Dalmazia, and his younger contemporary, an educator from Sinj Ivan Lovrić in his Travels of Alberto Fortis in Dalmazia and the Life of Stanislav Sočivica.The latter work is composed as critical evaluation of Fortis’ work, and published in 1776. In his studies composed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Vladimir Ardalic does not focus specifi cally on
brigands (hayduks). Instead he includes brief accounts of brigands and brigandry as part of oral memory in the region that he records. In this work we present and analyz Fortis, Lovrić and Ardalić’s records on brigands and their thoughts about the perceived heroism of brigands, and the causes of brigandry in this region.L’autore fornisce una breve panoramica e le caratteristiche fondamentali del brigantaggio nella retroterra di Dalmazia nel 18 e 19 secolo. I Confl itti di guerra veneto-turchi in Dalmazia sono stati completati nel 1718. Poi ha trovato un nuovo confi ne defi nitivo tra vicini di casa, e cominciò un lungo periodo di relazioni stabili,
commerciali e di cooperazione. Tuttavia, il ribellione è continuato intensamente anche quando il dominio veneziano in Dalmazia ha sostituito il francese e poi austriaco. Del brigantaggio in questa provincia parlano l’abate Alberto Fortis, nel suo “Viaggio in
Dalmazia” (Viaggio in Dalmazia), nel capitolo “Delle usanze di Morlacchi “ e poi, in risposta al lavoro di Fortis, un giovane educatore da Sinj Ivan Lovrić nelle sue “Note del Viaggio in Dalmazia di abate Alberto Fortis e Vita di Stanislav Sočivica “ nel 1776. Vladimir Ardalić, alla fi ne del 19 e all’ inizio del 20 secolo, nei suoi scritti della vita e dei costumi in Bukovica non scrivava appositamente dei briganti, ma brevemente interferisce con le osservazioni dei briganti e del brigantaggio, i ricordi che vivevano nella tradizione popolare orale del tempo. Nel nostro lavoro sono presentate e analizzate le note di Fortis, Lovrić e Ardalić dei briganti, i loro pensieri del l’eroismo dei ribelli briganteschi e le cause del brigantaggio in questa regione
Development of the business plan of JSC Fortis M on a new series of furniture of the economy class
No full textIn this work the author developed the business plan for the JSC Fortis M enterprise on a new type of production, namely on a new series of made furniture of an economy class. Today JSC Fortis M occupies one of leading positions in the branch on the territory of AsbestosРазработан бизнес-план для предприятия ООО «Фортис М» на новый вид продукции, а именно на новую серию производимой мебели эконом-класса. На сегодняшний день ООО «Фортис М» занимает одно из лидирующих положений в своей отрасли на территории г. Асбест
THE RECORDS ON INSECTS AND SPIDERS IN CROATIA IN THE WORKS OF ALBERT FORTIS
No full textVenecijanski opat, prirodoslovac i putopisac A. Fortis boravio je u hrvatskim krajevima od Istre do Dubrovnika 11 puta kroz 26 godina (1765-1791). Prikazani su manje poznati ili nepoznati Fortisovi zapisi o kukcima i nekim srodnim životinjama s tog područja. Iz detaljnog opisa te crteža štitaste uši na smokvi na otoku Ugljanu autor zaključuje da se radi o smokviniom mediću Ceroplastes rusci L. Fortis spominje i najvećeg europskog pauka tarentulu Lycosa tarentula Rossi, te najotrovnijeg pauka Europe i jednog od najotrovnijih pauka na svijetu crnu udovicu Latrodectus tredecimguttatus Rossi. To je i prvi zapis latrodektizma u Hrvatskoj kao i prvi opis liječenja latrodektizma u pučkoj medicini. Opisujući na više mjesta komarce i malariju, Fortis je - doduše - pretpostavljao njihovu uzročnu vezu, ali mu je ona ostala nejasna. Opisuje se i uzgoj dudovog prelca Bombyx mori L. od pradavnih vremena no više mjesta na kopnu i otocima, kao primjerice na otoku Rabu još početkom XI stoljeća.Venetian abbot, naturalist and travel writer A. Fortis visited different parts of Croatia from Istria in the north to Dubrovnik in the south for 11 times through 26 years (1765-1791). Presented are less known or even completely unknown writings by Fortis on insects and some related animals in the area. From a detailed description and drawing of scale insect on fig-trees on the island of Ugljan, the author concludes that it is the fig scale Ceroplastes rusci L. Fortis also mentions the largest European spider tarantula Lycosa tarentula Rossi, as well as Europe’s most poisonous spider, and one of the most poisonous Spiders in the world – the black widow spider Latrodectus tredecimguttatus Rossi. This is also the first record on latrodectism in Croatia, as well as the first description of lactrodectism treatment in popular medicine. While describing mosquitos and malaria on several occasions, Fortis did indeed anticipate a causal link between them, but it remained unclear to him. Described is also the breeding of silkworm Bombyx mori L. since ancient times in several places on both mainland and the islands of Rab, back towards the beginning of the 11ᵗʰ century
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