528 research outputs found
L'epistolario di Giovanni Papini e Olga Signorelli
No full textIl saggio introduce l'epistolario tra Giovanni Papini e Olga Resnevic Signorelli e approfondisce, da una parte, la ricezione della letteratura russa e degli avvenimenti storici russi da parte di Papini, e dall'altra,il ruolo che la cultura russa e in particolare l'incontro con la Signorelli ebbe nell'evoluzione spirituale e artistica dello scrittore italiano
O olhar de Signorelli
No full textConsiderating the episode of the lapse of proper names, described by Freud and known as "Signorelli case", the author analyses the same, not from the point of view of the significant, but from the point of view of "the look object", whose epiphany happens under the form of " überdeutlich".Partindo do episódio de esquecimento de nomes próprios descrito por Freud e que ficou conhecido como o caso Signorelli, o autor faz uma análise do mesmo não sob a vertente significante, mas sob a vertente do objeto olhar, cuja epifania se dá sob a forma do " überdeutlich"
[Epidemiology in Italy: contributions from the specialists in hygiene and preventive medicine, current state and future prospects]
No full textThis review considers the State-of-art of Epidemiology in Italy with particular emphasis to: the promoting role of the Specialists in hygiene and preventive medicine; the new perspectives after its inclusions among the official disciplines of the Italian National Health Service (NHS) in a political contest of devolution; the past and present role of University training; the actual epidemiological training needs for the NHS; the different opinions about this discipline among the operators. This article reflects the prevalent perspective of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, an association with more than 4000 members
Intorno alla Cappella Nova a Orvieto. Giovanni Sulpizio e la corte dei Piccolomini
No full textAnalisi del contesto culturale in cui dovette prender forma il complesso programma iconografico sotteso al ciclo di affreschi di Luca Signorelli per la cappella Nuova o di San Brizio. Si individua come referente fondamentale, più che l'arcidiacono Antonio Alberi, il suo protettore cardinal di Siena, Francesco Tedeschini Piccolomini, integerrimo esponente della curia papale nei travagliati momenti del pontificato borgiano ed indefesso sostenitore della Riforma della Chiesa. Nel poema Iudicium Dei supremum de vivis et mortuis del noto umanista Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli si rintraccia una connessione tematica puntuale con le tematiche e le fonti letterarie, classiche e moderne già additate come fondamentali per gli affreschi
Mediterranean models of Welfare towards families and women
No full textAfter tracing a Malta’s short historical excursus with its effects on female condition, family’s structure and concept, organizational model of non profit sector, the paper gives a survey of the most recent economic and demographic trends with special attention to families’ well-being and women’s working and social conditions, based not only on statistical data of Malta’s National Institute of Statistics and of Eurostat, but also on the results of some empirical studies based on some surveys carried out into the archipelago. The main islands’ social problems are outlined with the indication of the principal sources of aid to face peoples’ different needs (first of all family, followed by the State, while the Third Sector, with its strong component of foundations, heritage of English culture, is not pre-eminent yet). The paper also shows that the same citizens’ expectations of satisfaction of social needs are still mainly placed in the State, according to the collective image. After drawing this scenario, the paper makes a short history of Malta’s Welfare State specially considering legislation concerning families and women. In addition to the description of the legislative measures, a deeper investigation is also devoted to other programs realized at european and national level: Equal Program (2004-2006) and Malta’s latest “Action Plan”, alias the National Social Plan in its general lines of policy towards families and women. Besides the illustration of the services provided to families by the Ministry of Family and Social Solidarity in the context of the National Action Plan, three other articulations of the Plan are briefly examined: Gender Equity National Action Plan (2003-2004), National Action Plan on Poverty and Social Exclusion (2004-2006), National Action Plan for Employment (2004). The correlative institutional framework is also reviewed: the National Family Commission established in 2001 and the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality for Men and Women considered by the “Equality for Men and Women Act” of 2003. Finally the paper classifies Malta’s Welfare State among the Mediterranean models of social assistance for its specific characteristics though, differently from the evolutive tendencies of these last ones, the passage from Welfare State to Welfare Mix is still problematic and slow in Malta. In spite of the increasing forms of collaboration between public and non profit organizations, Malta’s Third Sector has still a too weak role, in comparison with family and State, in supporting people’s life on both factual and symbolic dimension. In this missing transition, specially as regards elderly care, Malta can not see yet the growth, inside Welfare Mix, of the more informal components formed by immigrated women to detriment of the services offered by private or non profit organizations (“care drain” phenomenon), which is very strongly in course in other Mediterranean countries (Italy, Spain, Greece).Family and Social Policy, Social Segregation, Poverty
Factor decomposition of cross-country income inequality with interaction effects
No full textIn this paper we propose a decomposition of the Theil measures of per capita income inequality which accounts for interaction effects between its multiplicative factors. Our theoretical findings, supported by an empirical application referring to EU-25 countries, suggest that neglecting these effects may strongly bias the relative importance of some factors, with consequent misleading policy implications.Inequality, Decomposition, Interaction Effects
Job satisfaction among young Russian workers
No full textStime di modelli di job satisfaction per i giovani lavoratori russi. Il modello è stimato con ordered logit robusto per eterogeneità latente su dati panel estratti dalla Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
The Youth Experience Gap: Explaining Differences across EU Countries
No full textThis note aims to provide a theoretical framework to think of the youthunemployment problem and a classification of EU countries according to the way they address it.The key factor to explain youth unemployment is what we call the youth experience gap. To helpyoung people fill it in and ease school-to-work transitions, every EU country provides a mix ofpolicy instruments, including different degrees and types of labour market flexibility, of educationaland training systems, of passive income support schemes and fiscal incentives. Five differentcountry groups are detected whose outcomes in terms of youth unemployment are dramaticallydifferent: a) the North-European; b) the Continental European; c) the Anglo-Saxon; d) the South-European; e) New Member States. The Lisbon strategy provides guidelines in line with thetheoretical framework discussed here, but it is costly and hard to implement.Youth Unemployment Problem, Youth Experience gap, Youth Employment Policy, Lisbon Strategy
Collapsing bubbles in the prices of cryptocurrencies
No full textThis paper investigates the existence of bubbles in the daily prices of the most popular cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Ripple (XRP), employing the recursive methods of Phillips et al. (2015) and Phillips et al. (2011) for testing and date-stamping episodes of exuberant behaviour over a period spanning seven years (2018–2024), including the COVID-19 pandemic
crisis (2020–2021). The critical values of the tests are computed through the composite wild bootstrap technique by Phillips and Shi (2020) to make them robust to time-varying unconditional heteroscedasticity and the multiplicity issue in recursive tests. Results indicate that the prices of the most popular cryptocurrencies traded on decentralized ledgers, BTC and ETH,
exhibited multiple episodes of exuberant behaviour, unambiguously for BTC and depending on the tests for ETH. Bubbles detected in the prices of BTC were due to the halving of the crypto, to market exuberance and to the pandemic crisis; bubbles detected on ETH prices were due to the
launch of NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain, and to the change in investors’ expectations (from exuberant to pessimistic); the change in the stance of monetary policy burst the bubbles of BTC and ETH prices in 2024. No test supports the exuberance of XRP that is traded on a centralized
ledger; weekly data confirm the absence of multiple bubbles. By looking at the presence of bubbles in these different digital ecosystems, we also consider how the technological differences can impact, possibly asymmetrically, bubbles’ formation
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