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Le paysage delphique du XIIe à la fin du Ve siècle av. J.-C.
No full textLuce Jean-Marc. Le paysage delphique du XIIe à la fin du Ve siècle av. J.-C.. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 143ᵉ année, N. 3, 1999. pp. 975-995
Bois-Guillaume – Les Boquets
No full textIdentifiant de l'opération archéologique : 6820 Date de l'opération : 1998 (SU) ; 1998 (EV) Inventeur(s) : Merleau Marie-Luce (AFAN) ; Millard Nathalie Les travaux préalables à la réalisation de la rocade nord de Bois-Guillaume ont révélé l’assiette en ellipse (1 800 m2) d’un ensemble funéraire non enclos d’environ soixante-dix tombes (Merleau, Marie-Luce. 2001.). Le site apparaît à la fin du IIIe s. av. J.-C., à partir de trois noyaux mêlant incinérations et inhumations. L’incinération devie..
The tyrannies in the Greek cities of Sicily : 505-466 BC
No full textThis thesis will examine the tyrants that ruled Gela and Syracuse during the early fifth century BC. It will approach the subject in a thematic manner, considering several aspects of the tyrants' rule which warrant particular attention.
The first chapter will be concerned with our sources of information on the subject, with particular focus on the Bibliotheke of Diodorus Siculus. Being our main source of information, it is crucial that we understand Diodorus' work, especially since it has provoked much criticism
in modern scholarship.
Chapter two will be concerned with the tyrants' foreign policy, in particular we will examine the tyrants' relationship with other Greeks in Sicily and Southern Italy, and then their brief encounter with the Carthaginians.
Chapter three is concerned with the tyrants' recruitment of mercenaries, an important subject given the militaristic nature of the tyranny, as well as a dominant theme in Classical Sicilian history.
Next, the unusual subject of the `refounding' of already existing cities will be discussed. A phenomenon peculiar to Sicily, the four case studies give many clues regarding
the nature of the tyranny in general.
The way in which the tyrants, particularly Hieron, were presented to the rest of the Greek world, and to their own citizens, will be discussed next, considering evidence provided by the tyrants themselves as well as others.
Finally, the impact of the tyranny on Sicily during the next century will be considered, with emphasis on the subjects already discussed in previous chapters, in order to conclude on the importance of the tyrants of Sicily in antiquity
Competing conventions: The Big Branders’ struggle to incorporate new quality conceptions in the Norwegian food market
No full textThe paper addresses recent changes in the Norwegian agrifood industry from the analytical perspective of quality conventions. Storper and Salais’ “worlds of production” plus Boltanski and Thévenots’ “orders of worth” are used as a basis for the empirical study. First, the paper discusses how the largest Norwegian branders try to strategically adapt to “novel” quality attributes like health-enhancing food, origin/terroir, environmental sustainability and ethics. Second, the paper investigates the companies’ quality signalling strategy: How are these “novel” qualities communicated to consumers? Multiple options are available: Do they attempt to systematically incorporate “novel qualities” into their private brand equity (“conventionalizing qualities”)? Do they prefer a co-labelling scheme with a third party control, or do they use any other measures for quality signalling? The paper thereby discusses how the largest Norwegian branders in the food sector cope with conflicting and competing quality conventions.Food quality, economics of convention., Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,
Le banche e il processo di valutazione del merito di credito degli Enti Locali italiani: dal rating esterno ad un modello di analisi interno
No full textIn seguito al recepimento della nuova disciplina di vigilanza prudenziale, le banche possono optare per due metodi alternativi per il calcolo dei requisiti patrimoniali minimi a fronte del rischio di credito: il metodo standardizzato, che prevede il ricorso ai rating esterni forniti da Agenzie specializzate, ed il metodo dei rating interni, basato su modelli testati internamente dalle banche. Mentre da tempo sono state implementate metodologie interne per il calcolo del rating del segmento imprese (peraltro, ancora non del tutto affidabili), sono poche le banche che hanno sviluppato una valutazione interna delle amministrazioni statali e locali e non si trova, inoltre, adeguato supporto teorico da parte della letteratura scientifica.
Partendo da tale premessa, il presente lavoro di ricerca si propone di analizzare le metodologie di valutazione adottate dalle Agenzie di rating per individuare quali fattori economico-finanziari incidono in maggior misura sui sub-sovereign credit rating assegnati agli Enti Locali italiani, anche allo scopo di poter mutuare tali metodologie nei processi di valutazione del merito di credito delle banche. A tal fine, è stato applicato un modello probit ordinato multinomiale ad oltre 310 rating assegnati da Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s e Fitch Ratings ad un campione di Province e Comuni capoluogo italiani tra il 2004 e il 2008.
I risultati dell’analisi aggregata consentono di confermare in parte le attese teoriche, evidenziando altresì le divergenze di valutazione tra Agenzie riscontrate in letteratura. In particolare, solo l’indicatore macro-economico rappresentativo del PIL locale pro-capite appare statisticamente significativo e di segno atteso, mentre le variabili di natura strutturale e comportamentale degli Enti sono significative solo per due Agenzie, ma non sempre rispettano il segno atteso. Contrariamente alle attese teoriche e alle evidenze empiriche emergenti in letteratura, il livello di indebitamento locale pro-capite nonché l’indicatore del fabbisogno finanziario non risultano essere statisticamente significativi.
Alla luce di tali evidenze, lo studio contribuisce ad arricchire lo stato dell’arte sulla c.d. public finance con spunti di ricerca che offrono importanti implicazioni anche di carattere operativo.Following the adoption of the new capital adequacy and requirements rules, banks currently have two options in order to calculate the minimum capital requirements for credit risk: the standardised approach, supported by external credit assessments, and the internal ratings-based (IRB) approach, relied on banks’ own internal estimates. While banks have been implementing (not quite reliable yet) internal methodologies to estimate corporate ratings long ago, there are not many banks which currently assess state and local governments, and also literature investigates this theme not much.
So the research aims analyzing Agencies’ methodologies to identify which are the economic and financial determinants of Italian local government ratings, so as to transfer Agencies’ experience inside banks. Consequently, this analysis applies a multinomial ordered probit model to more than 310 Italian sub-sovereign ratings, as overall assigned by Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings in the period 2004-2008.
The results of pooled analysis allow to partially confirm theoretical expectations, and highlight differences of valuation among Agencies as shown in literature. So, only the local GDP per capita is statistically significant and has the expected sign, while other structural and behavioural variables are significant just for two Agencies, but sometimes have the unexpected sign. Instead, contrary to theoretical expectations and empirical evidences from literature, both local debt per capita and borrowing needs are never statistically significant.
So this study contributes to improve the literature on public finance pointing out relevant managerial and operational implications too
The Worldview and the Author´s (Self)Reflection in Czech Contemporary Historiography
No full textCílem studie je představit možnosti, jak na základě publikovaných autorských textů zkoumat světový názor historiků a historiček, zejména v oboru soudobých dějin, kde lze předpokládat vliv jejich hodnotového horizontu na interpretaci relativně nedávné minulosti. Autor nejprve vymezuje pojetí světového názoru vzhledem ke stanovenému záměru a zdůvodňuje analytické užití tohoto pojmu v historiografickém textu, v daném kontextu se také zamýšlí nad vztahem paměti, dějin a historiografie. Konstatuje, že poměrně málo českých historiků a historiček dosud reflektuje vztah (individuální či kolektivní) paměti a práce dějepisce, zvláště s ohledem na jeho pozici v současné společnosti, která bývá často redukována na roli objektivního „objevitele historické pravdy“. Taková (sebe)reflexe předpokládá přiznání vlivu individuálního světového názoru historika (komplexu názorů a postojů formovaných výchovou, vzděláním, vzpomínkami, generační příslušností a podobně) na jeho vědeckou činnost. Autor studie nabízí dvě možné a vzájemně se doplňující cesty k poznání historikova světového názoru: jednak prostřednictvím vlastních svědectví a prohlášení z jeho osobněji laděných textů a egodokumentů (eseje, rozhovory, vzpomínky, příspěvky na sociálních sítích), jednak analýzou jeho vědeckých textů (časopiseckých studií, knižních monografií, recenzí). Oba přístupy autor dokumentuje na konkrétních příkladech z produkce historiků a historiček českých soudobých dějin. V závěru studie pak nastiňuje cíle a smysl zkoumání historikova světového názoru.The aim of this study is to present the opportunities for research into the worldview of historians, especially historians focused on contemporary history, where it can be assumed that their set of values may influence their interpretation of the rela-tively recent past. The author first defines the notion of worldview and justifies the analytical use of this concept in historiographical texts. He also considers the relationship between memory, history and historiography in the given context. The author states that not many Czech historians have so far reflected on the relationship between (individual and collective) memory and the work of the historian, especially with regard to his or her position in contemporary society, which is often reduced to the role of an objective “discoverer of historical truth”. Such (self)reflection presupposes the acknowledgement of the influence of the historian’s individual worldview (a complex of opinions and attitudes shaped by upbringing, education, memories, generational affiliation and so on) on his or her scholarly activity. The author of the study offers two possible and complementary ways to learn about the historian’s worldview: first, through his or her own testimonies and statements from more personal texts and ego-documents (essays, interviews, memoirs or social me-dia posts), and second, through the analysis of his or her scholarly texts (journal studies, monographs and book reviews). The author demonstrates both approaches with concrete examples of works by historians of Czech contemporary history and concludes by outlining the aims and purpose of examining the historian’s worldview. © 2022, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
Inventering av biologiskt kulturarv
No full textFältmanual till biologiskt kulturarv Föreliggande skrift är framför allt en fältmanual till biologiskt kulturarv (och ett urval av andra biologiska kulturbärare), en checklista med bilder och beskrivningar. Det tar också upp några aspekter på själva metodiken för inventering, kartering och tolkning. Fältmanualen omfattar de vanligaste aspekterna av biologiskt kulturarv som man kan hitta i svenska landskap från söder till norr. Listan beskriver biologiskt kulturarv huvudsakligen från nivåerna egenskaper, individer och artförekomster enligt RAÄ:s indelning
Two-dimensional semiconductor alloys: Monolayer Mo1-xWxSe2
No full textMonolayer Mo1-xWxSe2 (x = 0, 0.14, 0.75, and 1) alloys were experimentally realized from synthesized crystals. Mo1-xWxSe2 monolayers are direct bandgap semiconductors displaying high luminescence and are stable in ambient. The bandgap values can be tuned by varying the W composition. Interestingly, the bandgap values do not scale linearly with composition. Such non-linearity is attributed to localization of conduction band minimum states around Mo d orbitals, whereas the valence band maximum states are uniformly distributed among W and Mo d orbitals. Results introduce monolayer Mo1-xWxSe2 alloys with different gap values, and open a venue for broadening the materials library and applications of two-dimensional semiconductors
Bonito (AV). Manufatti e attestazioni toponomastiche di una presenza longobarda a controllo delle valli dell’Ufita e del Calore.
No full textIl contributo analizza le dinamiche insediative di un piccolo borgo dell’alta Irpinia – l'attuale comune di Bonito (AV) -, nel territorio prossimo alla città romana di Aeclanum, alla luce delle testimonianze storiche, archeologiche, toponomastiche. In una lettura integrata e multidisciplinare delle fonti, si evidenziano in particolare le tracce materiali di una cinta muraria ed alcuni manufatti di sicura attribuzione ad età altomedievale che, uniti alle sopravvivenze toponomastiche ed agiotoponomastiche, orientano verso l’identificazione nel sito di una precoce presenza longobarda, probabile posto di guardia a controllo delle valli dell’Ufita e del Calore
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