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The Evolution of the Italian Banking System and the New Territorial Gaps
No full textIn this paper we carry out a research on the evolution of financial system, in order to give evidence to differences among local financial system in spite of the processes of globalization and deregulation. Thus the paper shall investigate the most significant historical stages of the Italian banks, underlining the role of the competitive advantages linked to the local embeddedness. Particularly, we drive our attention to the disparities between the North and the South of Italy, assuming the concept of the funcional distance that attests the negative correlation between the increase of the functional distance and the increase of the bank branches in the southern Italian regions. In this framework, we examine the effectiveness of the policies worked out by the Italian banks to face the crisis, with particular interest on the empowerment of the human resources
Financial Crisis and European Cultural Investments. Territorial Impacts and Shared Utopias
No full textThis paper aims to analyze the impact of financial crisis on cultural policies and investments implemented by European Union countries.
The growing political attention to some aspects of social life in contemporary society, contributed to identify culture as a factor of economic development and territorial cohesion at local and regional level. Many territories, in fact, consider culture as a tool to increase their competitiveness and attractiveness, and it is for this reason that, in recent decades, sector's investments were improved. Very different were the territorial effects and particularly interesting, from a geographical point of view, are relationships, not always symmetrical, between amount of investment and local cultural resources.
Although investment in the sector are largely attributable to the domain of public action, emerges, on a European scale, a significant participation of the financial system whose contribution is even more significant due to the financial crisis. The allocated financial resources, in fact, already relatively low if compared to those used in other sectors, are facing a deep contraction determined by the crisis that has clearly highlighted the conjunctural vulnerability of the cultural sector.
The research, by analyzing territorial cases, critically describes some cultural policies and related cash flows, in order to identify a cultural based developing strategy that, even in a recession, can contribute to redistribute capital and reduce regional disparities
Tecniche di rilievo 3D in territori complessi con zone ad elevato rischio idrogeologico. Condivisione in rete di dataset ad alta risoluzione (derivati da dati LiDAR)†
Get PDFUno dei principali effetti indotti dai cambiamenti climatici osservabili nel territorio nazionale è la
localizzazione di fenomeni meteorologici di eccezionale intensità in aree ristrette. Accade che disastri
naturali (quali alluvioni e inondazioni) stiano assumendo in molte zone d’Italia – ma non solo
– una periodicità assai più elevata rispetto al passato. Il contributo descrive una prima applicazione
di condivisione in rete di dataset ad alta risoluzione (derivati da dati LiDAR) impiegata in aree
di studio della Regione Veneto caratterizzate da un significativo rischio idrogeologico, nonché dai
conseguenti dissesti territoriali. Nello specifico la ricerca propone una nuova modalità di gestione
di dati 3D (nuvole di punti, mesh ...), di trasmissione e di visualizzazione degli stessi via internet. Si
ritiene che tale tecnologia possa essere considerata uno strumento di rapido supporto alle decisioni
e al tempo stesso di archiviazione e consultazione ex post dei dati raccolti in fase critica. Il valore
aggiunto desumibile dal primo caso test delle provincie di Verona e Vicenza (cfr. esondazioni dei
Torrenti Tramigna, Alpone, Aldegà e Chiampo del 2010) risiede nella rapidità di integrazione tra il
rilievo 3D dell’area oggetto dell’evento calamitoso e i diversi livelli informativi disponibili
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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