177,125 research outputs found
Paesaggi di comunità; la Belle de Mai a Marsiglia
No full textIncrociando approcci propri della fotografia di reportage documentario e della geografia urbana aperta a uno sguardo antropologico, questa duplice narrazione (fotografica e testuale) indaga sul rapporto fra paesaggio urbano e quartiere, fra spazio pubblico e privato, cercando di mettere in luce quelle trame di relazioni che si tessono fra individui e comunità locale, segnate da
un solco multiculturale, e se si vuole cosmopolita. Si tratta delle prime riflessioni di un’indagine sul campo svolta dagli autori nel quartiere della Belle de Mai a Marsiglia fra il 2014 e il 2016, anche con la partecipazione di alcuni abitanti, realizzata nell’ambito di due progetti di ricerca sulla marginalità urbana, i cui sviluppi sono poi confluiti in più recenti ricerche sul cosmopolitismo urbano nel Mediterraneo.Combining the approaches of documentary photography and urban geography open to an anthropological perspective, this dual narrative (photographic and textual) examines the relationship between the urban landscape and the neighbourhood, between public and private space, and seeks to highlight the web of relationships woven between individuals and the local community, marked by a multicultural and, if you like, cosmopolitan rift. These are the initial reflections of a field study carried out by the authors in the Belle de Mai neighbourhood of Marseille between 2014 and 2016, with the participation of some of its residents, as part of two research projects on urban marginality, the developments of which have been incorporated into more recent research on urban cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean
Resolution of inflammation is altered in chronic heart failure and entails a dysfunctional responsiveness of T lymphocytes
No full textChronic heart failure (CHF) is characterized by an ongoing nonresolving inflammatory status, where T lymphocytes seem critical. It has been recently recognized that transition from acute to chronic inflammation could be caused by defects in resolving inflammation, the resolution of which is mediated by a novel family of -3-derived specialized proresolving lipid mediators such as resolvins. We analyzed 27 elderly patients with CHF and 23 healthy age-matched control subjects, and we reported significantly lower levels of D-series resolvin (RvD)1 in plasma of patients with CHF that were associated with a reduced ability of their leukocytes to produce this lipid via its biosynthetic enzyme 15-lipoxygenase and that correlated with gas exchange dysfunction. Furthermore, when pretreating ex vivo peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with CHF with RvD1 or RvD2, we found that neither of them was able to modulate the immune response of CD8(+) and CD4(+) T cells in terms of proinflammatory cytokine production, namely TNF-, IFN-, IL-17, and IL-2. Such impaired T-cell responsiveness in patients with CHF was associated with a significant reduction in mRNA and protein expression of RvD1 receptor GPR32, suggesting a defective signaling in the proresolving pathway. We conclude that patients with CHF show alterations in producing proresolving mediator RvD1 and a failure of adaptive immune cells in responding to the anti-inflammatory actions of RvDs that may contribute to the progression of chronic inflammation. Thus, the proresolution pathway might be a potential candidate to design better treatments for CHF aimed at reducing T cell-mediated chronic inflammation.ChiurchiU, V., Leuti, A., Saracini, S., Fontana, D., Finamore, P., Giua, R., Padovini, L., Incalzi, R. A., Maccarrone, M. Resolution of inflammation is altered in chronic heart failure and entails a dysfunctional responsiveness of T lymphocytes
On the Spread of Innovation in Social Networks
No full textIn this paper we analyse different aspects of the diffusion of innovation in social network. Adopting the linear threshold model we firstly propose an algorithm based on the linear programming which takes as input a set of innovators and returns the maximal cohesive subset contained in the complement of the seed set. Then we introduce and formalize with integer programming two problems. The first one is that of finding a seed set of r individual that maximizes the spread of innovation in the network in k step. The second one is that of finding a seed set whose cardinality is minimal which diffuses the innovation to a desired set of adopters in k steps
The externalisation of R&D activities and the growing market of product development services
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Maria Antonietta Giua (a cura di), Ripensando Tacito (e Ronald Syme). Storia e storiografia. Atti del Convegno internazionale (Firenze, 30 novembre – 1 dicembre 2006). Pise, ETS, 2007
No full textBirley Anthony R. Maria Antonietta Giua (a cura di), Ripensando Tacito (e Ronald Syme). Storia e storiografia. Atti del Convegno internazionale (Firenze, 30 novembre – 1 dicembre 2006). Pise, ETS, 2007. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 79, 2010. pp. 457-459
Inclusive Europe: the impact of the EU Cohesion Policy on immigrants’ economic integration in Italy
No full textBy examining the impacts of the Cohesion Policy on immigrants’ economic integration, this study provides evidence on how the European Union promotes inclusion. Focusing on Italian municipalities, we estimate the causal effects of immigrant-related projects on the wage gap between natives and immigrants during the 2007–2018 period. We find a significant decrease in the average wage gap of approximately 7.6%. Specifically, Cohesion Policy played a positive role in immigrant economic inclusion through interventions targeted at supporting the employment and mobility of workers. For the inclusive dimension of the Next Generation EU program, this is key evidence to start with
Inclusive Europe: the impact of the EU Cohesion Policy on immigrants' economic integration in Italy
No full textBy examining the impacts of the Cohesion Policy on immigrants’ economic integration, this study provides evidence on how the European Union promotes inclusion. Focusing on Italian municipalities, we estimate the causal effects of immigrant-related projects on the wage gap between natives and immigrants during the 2007–2018 period. We find a significant decrease in the average wage gap of approximately 7.6%. Specifically, Cohesion Policy played a positive role in immigrant economic inclusion through interventions targeted at supporting the employment and mobility of workers. For the inclusive dimension of the Next Generation EU program, this is key evidence to start with
FDI inflows in Europe: Does investment promotion work?
No full textCan active investment promotion efforts attract FDI towards areas and sectors that would not otherwise be targeted? This paper leverages an ad hoc survey on national and sub-national Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) in Europe and applies state-of-the-art policy evaluation methods to estimate the impact of IPAs on FDI attraction. The results show that FDI responds to IPAs even in advanced economies. Sub-national IPAs, operating in closer proximity to investors' operations, attract FDI in particular towards less developed areas where market and institutional failures are stronger. IPAs influence FDI over and above other policies targeting the general economic improvement of the host economies. Impacts are concentrated in knowledge-intensive sectors where collaborative systemic conditions are more relevant. IPAs work best for less experienced companies - ‘occasional’ investors - more likely to suffer from institutional failures. Finally, IPAs are equally effective in attracting companies from both outside and inside the EU Single Market even if the latter are less likely to suffer from regulatory or information asymmetries. Overall, this evidence sheds new light on the role of sub-national IPAs as local ‘institutional plumbers’ in support of foreign investors and their operations
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