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La Corte di Giustizia si pronuncia sulla querelle, tutta italiana, circa l’ambito di applicazione dell’art. 111, comma 8, Cost.: note a prima lettura
No full textL’A. ricostruisce, innanzitutto, le divergenze interpretative delle alte Corti italiane circa l’ambito di applicazione dell’art. 111, comma 8, Cost. e richiama la soluzione prospettata dalla Corte di Giustizia UE che fa rientrare nei confini nazionali la questione in esame. Prospetta, quindi, la necessità di una rimeditazione del quadro costituzionale relativo all’ordinamento giurisdizionale, all’esito della quale ritiene che il principio di unità funzionale della giurisdizione, e le connesse garanzie fondamentali dell’indipendenza del giudice e del diritto alla tutela giurisdizionale attraverso un processo equo, rappresentano il frutto di una scelta di fondo dei Costituenti, ribadita e rinvigorita dalla riforma costituzionale del 1999 sul giusto processo. L’A. ritiene, poi, che il diniego di tutela giurisdizionale, derivante da una manifesta violazione dei principi regolatori del giusto processo, si pone in contrasto con il principio dell’unità funzionale della giurisdizione e con le garanzie fondamentali che lo sostanziano. Afferma pertanto la necessità, imposta dalla stessa Costituzione, di uno strumento di controllo relativo al diniego di giustizia, rilevando che, se tale rimedio non viene individuato attraverso un allargamento delle maglie del ricorso in cassazione per i motivi inerenti alla giurisdizione, bisogna provvedere alla istituzione di un organo di controllo a composizione mista. In ordine all’omissione immotivata dell’obbligo di rinvio pregiudiziale da parte del Consiglio di Stato, l’A. rileva che la nuova concezione della giurisdizione (da potere espressione della sovranità statale a servizio per la collettività) — particolarmente evidente nei rapporti tra le giurisdizioni dei diversi Stati e tra queste e le giurisdizioni sovranazionali, quali la Corte di Lussemburgo — induce a qualificare l’ipotesi in esame come vera e propria questione di giurisdizione, per sconfinamento del giudice nazionale nell’ambito della competenza esclusiva della Corte di Giustizia U
Trends in the Italian Dualism: labour productivity dynamics and structural change
No full textThis paper analyzes the dynamics of labour productivity in the Italian provinces from 1991 to 2010. I find
evidence of decreasing dispersion of aggregate labour productivity and of the emergence of a pattern
of polarization. In particular, provinces with very low and very high productivity converged towards
the Italian mean, clustering in two groups with higher and lower relative productivity. This trend did
not change the territorial dimension of the Italian Dualism, since less productive provinces are always
located in the South. Rather, distribution dynamics strengthened within homogeneity, both in the
South and in the Center North. The analysis of sectoral productivity reveals that provinces in the
higher cluster are on average more productive in every sector but non-market services. However,
differences in sectoral relative productivity are not enough to explain the aggregate pattern of
polarization. Indeed, structural composition of output shows that laggard provinces tend to be more
specialised in activities whose productivity is naturally low. Furthermore, productivity growth in the
low cluster was not able to reduce the gap with the initially more productive (Northern) provinces.
Finally, the overall Italian performance in the 2000s has been unsatisfactory, signalling economic
stagnation and decline common to both the clusters
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Multi-Expert Consensus in Strategic Portfolio Evaluation using Discrete Choquet Integral for Analytical Network Process Weights
No full textCustomer profiling tools have been introduced in recent years to protect
investors against the increasing complexity of financial instruments. Advisor
experts have to combine measures of finance and behavioural finance studies
in their evaluation. The need to integrate different competences and compare
complex criteria naturally leads to the modelling of the portfolio selection
problem as a group decision problem. The Analytic Network Process (ANP) is a useful technique that helps decision-makers evaluate the available alternatives
and aggregate their professional knowledge. In this context, the Reaching
Consensus Process (RCP) is crucial for the validity of choices due to the strong
sensitivity of the ANP to the decision maker's judgement. However, the RCP
may be affected by the behavioural characteristics of experts, the vulnerability
of judgements and the uncertainty that characterises the decision-making
context, leading to unbiased judgements that are not based on different
expertise. Similarly, without the involvement of more experts, the process
could be inefficient due to the sensitivity of the ANP decision-maker’s
judgement. In order to maximise the aggregation of experts' knowledge, to
minimise the influence of the individual in quantifying the relationships
between criteria and alternatives, and to preserve the impartiality of
evaluations, the present paper discusses RCP through Choquet’s discrete
integral. This aggregation captures the non-linearity of preferences and
includes the fuzziness of judgments. Thus, there is no need to reach a
consensus when evaluating the criteria: each expert manages a single ANP
whose synthesis are aggregated using Choquet’s discrete integral. In this
sense, the aggregation defines an unbiased consensus which mitigates the
sensitivity of the ANP to the preferences of the decision-maker. The
methodology is applied to a case study in which several experts evaluate
investment alternatives of an individual, simultaneously incorporating
behavioural criteria and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
client profiling criteria
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Empirical antifungal therapy in patients with neutropenia and persistent or recurrent fever of unknown origin
No full textThe Quaternary Hippopotamus records from Italy
No full textThe genus Hippopotamus dispersed from Africa to Europe during the Pleistocene and the taxon is testified from different Italian localities. Despite the large number of available specimens, Hippopotamus is mainly documented by fragmentary remains and detailed stratigraphic and/or geographic data are often absent or uncertain. In Italy, hippopotamuses are recorded in at least 100 fossiliferous localities spanning from the late Early Pleistocene to the Late Pleistocene. At present, three different Pleistocene species are recognised: H. antiquus from Early to Middle Pleistocene, H. amphibius from Middle to Late Pleistocene and H. pentlandi from late Middle-early Late Pleistocene Sicilian localities. Upper Valdarno basin (Tuscany), Chiusi basin (Tuscany), Colfiorito basin (Umbria), Sant’Oreste (Latium), Puntali Cave (Sicily) and Acquedolci (Sicily) are just a few fossiliferous Italian sites where significative findings of Hippopotamus were collected during the 19th and 20th centuries
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