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Baronessa Turco Lazzari Giulia
No full textBotanica: Turco Lazzari, Giulia (1848-1912).
Socia della società micologica di Francia, cultrice di micologia e valente disegnatrice di funghi.
Titolo manoscritto su foglio di carta su cui la fotografia era incollata, delle dimensioni di 155 x 128 mm. Su tale foglio di carta è presente, oltre che agli estremi cronologici ed al luogo di nascita e morte (Trento), anche la nota: Dono dell’ab. Bresadola 1913.
Montata su cartoncino 113 x 148.
1 fotografia : aristotipo? ; 109 x 143 mm.
Vai alla scheda bibliografica: https://galileodiscovery.unipd.it/permalink/39UPD_INST/1abjer/alma990015669700206046
Per ulteriori informazioni sulla vita della botanica vedasi:
Macellari, Elena, "Le signore della botanica. Storie di grandi naturaliste italiane", Arezzo: Aboca, 2017.
Scheda bibliografica: https://galileodiscovery.unipd.it/permalink/39UPD_INST/1abjer/alma99002872149020604
Three essays in applied labour economics
No full textLa tesi è composta da tre capitoli indipendenti la cui caratteristica comune è il fatto di essere tre articoli di labour economics applicata. La mia ricerca è caratterizzata da un approcio interdisciplinare. In quanto segue analizzo problemi di economia classica mettendoli in relazione con altre discipline quali la socioogia, la psicologia e la pedagogia. Le research questions sono state ispirate da problemi attuali come l’immigrazione, la religione, la disoccupazione e l’aumento dell’età in cui le donne hanno il loro primo figlio.
Il primo capitolo "Does unemployment challenge religious affiliation? Evidence from European countries", è un lavoro in collaborazione con il mio tutor, il Prof. Luca Nunziata. In questo articolo sfruttiamo l’aumento nel livello di disoccupazione che è seguito alla recente crisi economica per studiare l’effetto della disoccupazione sul livello di religiosità in diversi paesi Europei. I risultati indicano che l’aumento nel tasso di disoccupazione è stato associato ad un aumento della religiosità in regioni a maggioranza Cattolica, mentre le regioni a maggioranza Protestante sono andate incontro ad una diminuzione del livello di religiosità della propria popolazione.
Il secondo capitolo, "The transferability of skills across borders: The case of immigrants and self employment," è un articolo, di cui sono l’unica autrice, che studia l’esperienza degli immigrati che lavorano negli Stati Uniti come lavoratori autonomi e si focalizza su due aspetti principali. Prima di tutto l’articolo esplora le differenze che esistono tra le attività condotte dagli immigrati e dai nativi per vedere se le lo status di migrante pone dei limiti alle occupazioni che possono essere svolte dai non nativi. Come secondo aspetto, l’articolo studia l’importanza delle esperienze passate come lavoratori autonomi nel paese di origine nel predirre lo status occupazionale dei migranti nel nuovo paese. L’analisi mette in luce che le esperienze degli immigrati sono solitamente diverse da quelle dei native, ma quel che è ancor più rilevante nel definire il tipo di attività condotta da un individuo è il gruppo etnico di appartenenza. Nella seconda parte dell’articolo, riscontraimo che le precedenti esperienze come incorporated self employed nel paese di origine hanno un effetto positivo sulla probabilità di essere in una posizione simile anche dopo essersi trasferiti negli Stati Uniti. Al contrario, non ci sono segnali che esperienze come unincorporated self employed nel paese di origine influenzino la probabilità di essere imprenditori nel nuovo paese (nè incorporated nè unincorporated).
Infine, il terzo capitolo, "The effects of late motherhood on children school achievement: Evidence from the NCDS", è ancora una volta un articolo di cui sono l’unica autrice e si focalizza sugli effetti di avere una madre in età avanzata sugli outcomes scolastici dei figli. Ricorrendo all’utilizzo di variabili dummy che indicano se il bambino sia nato da una madre che era al di sopra o al di sotto dei 38 anni al momento del parto, stimiano prima dei modelli OLS e successivamente applichiamo la metodologia PSM per corroborare i nostri risultati. Dall’analisi si risontra che i figli maschi nati da madri in età avanzata hanno uno svantaggio al momento dell’entrata a scuola che si manifesta in punteggi più bassi nei test di lettura e aritmetica condotti all’età di 7 anni. Ci sono lievi segnali che questi risultati mediocri potrebbero persistere anche a 11 anni, ma questi sono dovuti in modo esclusivo allo svantaggio iniziale che non è ancora stato completamente recuperato. In linea con questa ipotesi, all’età di 16 anni non troviamo alcuna differenza tra i risulatati scolastici dei bambini nati da madri più o meno giovani.This dissertation is made up by three self-contained chapters whose common feature is the fact that they are essays in applied labour economics. My research is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. In what follows I investigate classical economic issues putting them in connection with other disciplines, such as sociology, psychology and pedagogy. The research questions have been inspired by pressing contemporary issues such as migration, religion, advancing maternal age and unemployment.
The first chapter, "Does unemployment challenge religious affiliation? Evidence from European countries", is a joint work with my supervisor Prof. Luca Nunziata. In this paper we exploit the increase in the unemployment rate that has followed the recent financial crisis in order to assess the effect of unemployment on the level of religiosity in European countries. The results indicate that the increase in unemployment has been associated with an increase in religiosity in predominantly Catholic regions, while predominantly Protestant regions have suffered a decrease in the level of religiosity among their population.
The second chapter, "The transferability of skills across borders: The case of immigrants and self employment," is a single-authored paper that investigates the self employment experience of immigrants in the United States, focusing on two main aspects. First, we explore the differences between the activities performed by immigrant and native self employed in order to assess whether the status of immigrant poses some limitations to the range of occupations carried out by non-native individuals. As a second aspect, the paper investigates the importance of past experience as self employed in the home country in predicting the labour market position of individuals after migration. The analysis points out that the self employment experiences of immigrants are usually different from those of natives, but what is even more important in defining the kind of activity performed by individuals is their ethnicity. In the second part of the paper we find that previous experiences as incorporated entrepreneurs in the home country increase the probability of being in a similar position after migration to the United States. Contrarily there are no evidence that previous experiences as non incorporated self employed increase the probability of being self employed in the foreign market (neither incorporated nor unincorporated).
Finally, the third chapter, "The effects of late motherhood on children school achievement: Evidence from the NCDS", is again a single-authored paper that focuses on the effects of advanced maternal age at delivery on children school outcomes. Resorting to dummy variables that identify children born to mothers that were below and above 38 years old at delivery, we perform OLS first and hence PSM. What we find is that boys born to older mothers have a disadvantage at school entry that is reflected in lower scores in the reading and arithmetic tests performed at 7 years old. There are mild evidence suggesting that the worse outcomes could persist at age 11, but these are driven by the initial disadvantage that has not been completely recovered by this age. In line with this fading effect hypothesis, we find no statistically significant coefficients when we compare the school performances of children born to younger and older mothers at age 16
Values, Memory, and the Role of Exploratory Methods for Policy-Design Processes and the Sustainable Redevelopment of Waterfront Contexts: The Case of Officine Piaggio (Italy)
Get PDFIn the last few decades the renewal of waterfront contexts has been especially inspired by neoliberal approaches favoring the creation of residential units and entertainment facilities. However, sustainability frameworks suggest that the economic dimension should be interpreted in a way that goes beyond the profitability of the interventions and that takes into account non-monetary values as well. In light of the complex social value (CSV) theory—which considers as a fundamental value component the intrinsic values attributed by communities to environmental and cultural heritage resources—this article proposes the adoption of exploratory methods to firstly map and then integrate citizens’ points of view into the evaluation and design of redevelopment scenarios, selecting the ex-industrial complex of Officine Piaggio (Italy) as a case study. Survey results highlighted that discrepancies between the new functions advanced by official redevelopment proposals and citizens’ opinions were present, and that values such as memory and collective meaning need to be considered if multidimensional sustainability represents a goal. Coherent with these results, a new project scenario is then envisioned and implications related to the application of exploratory methods in the decision-making and policy-design processes are finally advanced. Full articl
Industrial heritage, adaptive reuse and sustainable redevelopment scenarios: including local communities’ multiple values in the decision-making process
No full textAbandoned 19th and 20th-century industrial buildings represent a particularly vulnerable form of cultural heritage, and current evidence shows that their preservation is frequently at risk. Overall, implementing adaptive reuse interventions is generally recommended as a sustainable strategy to conserve these buildings, make them meaningful for the present society, and eventually enable their transmission to future generations. However, the lack of awareness about the multiple values of industrial heritage (IH), the scarcity of economic resources, and the presence of competing interests of different stakeholders – e.g., owners, local government, bodies for the protection of cultural heritage, potential investors, residents, etc.- make the decision-making process about the future of IH far from being straightforward.
Capitalizing on the case of a recently abandoned industrial area located on the Ligurian coast (Italy), this piece of research aims to highlight that investigating the points of view of relevant communities (e.g., about the intangible values attributed to IH, perceived socio-economic needs, etc.) at an early stage of the decision-making process can contribute to reduce social conflicts and favor the development of projects able to combine the fulfillment of socio-economic objectives with the preservation of the local identity and memory. Then, as a preliminary step towards adopting a holistic approach, the paper explores communities’ willingness to pay for favorite redevelopment scenarios to elicit the intangible values associated with different subjects to IH. Finally, it advances that evaluation frameworks to be adopted in the future should be able to consider the principles of civil economy and intergenerational equity
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Digital Participatory Platforms for Civic Engagement: A New Way of Participating in Society? Analysis of Case Studies in Four EU Countries
No full textThe article is focused on the digital participatory platforms (DPPs) as a tool to enhance civic engagement through dialogue and interaction with the Public Administration and to reduce Digital Divide. To this end, the article presents the objectives and the outcomes of “My Smart Quartier,” a project funded within the ERASMUS + 2017 Program, in which the Department of Architecture and Design (DAD) of the Politecnico di Torino participates with a consortium of European partners. The aim of this project is the setting up and testing strategies and actions to reduce digital illiteracy and increase citizen participation. Best practices from the project partner countries (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal) are selected and analyzed in order to understand if they can constitute innovative ways of participation and civic engagement. Specifically, the article identifies some parameters and indicators that can be used to bring out key success factors of digital participatory platforms. increase citizen participation. Best practices from the project partner countries (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal) are selected and analyzed in order to understand if they can constitute innovative ways of participation and civic engagement. Specifically, the article identifies some parameters and indicators that can be used to bring out key success factors of digital participatory platforms
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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