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“Head home via the wine store next door...”: Knowledge of Place and Other Representation in American and Italian News Articles
No full textThe discourse of professional journalists has been the object of
several scholarly studies which dealt with its rhetorical specificity
from the most diverse perspectives, from critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis (Fowler 1991; Fairclough 1995) to genre studies (Mansfield 2006) and the practitioner’s viewpoint at large (Cotter 2010). As far as the present study is concerned, corpus and discourseanalytic perspectives (Ädel and Reppen 2008; Charles et al. 2009) were combined with the aim of investigating the discursive resources employed by quality newspapers from Italy and the United States of America in the representation of each other’s country through the places chosen as the preferred observation points of the other
Value Relevance of Stakeholder Engagement: The Influence of National Culture
No full textOur study investigates whether stakeholder engagement is associated with a firm's valuation and the value relevance of accounting earnings. Since prior literature posits that the economic consequences of such practices may depend on the specific environment in which they are adopted, we also explore whether these associations are affected by the cultural traits of the country in which a firm operates. Based on a worldwide sample of firms for the period 2002 to 2014, we document that stakeholder engagement positively influences market-to-book value of equity, without enhancing the value relevance of firm's accounting earnings. Drawing on Schwartz's cultural framework, we show that the results hold only in countries with a low (high) level of embeddedness and hierarchy (mastery). Our study contributes to the literature exploring the economic consequences of non-financial information and the importance of institutional characteristics for economic outcomes. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
Dynamics of liquid nanodroplet formation in nanosecond laser ablation of metals
No full textThe laser ablation mechanisms of metallic targets leading to liquid nanodroplet ejection are of wide interest both from a fundamental point of view and for applications in various fields, especially when nanoparticle synthesis is required. The phase explosion process was recognized as the driving mechanism of the expulsion of a mixture of vapor and liquid nanodroplets in the short pulse laser ablation of metals. A model based on thermodynamics that links the theory of homogeneous vapor bubble nucleation to the size distribution of the generated liquid nanoclusters has been recently proposed. The present work aims to take a step ahead to remove some assumptions made in previous work. Here an improved computational approach allows us to describe time-dependent nucleation in a homogeneous system with no temperature spatial gradients under nanosecond laser irradiation. Numerical results regarding the size distribution of formed liquid clusters and the time evolution of the process are shown for aluminum, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, silver and gold. Connections with experimental data and molecular dynamics simulations, when available from literature, are reported and discussed
“La Sentenza Come Genere Argomentativo: una Riflessione Linguistica”
No full textIl saggio si propone di mettere in luce gli strumenti linguistici più diffusi del dialogismo come tratto costitutiovo del discorso argomentativo dei giudici. Sulla base di tre corpora confrontabili di sentenze redatte in lingua inglese, i dati evidenziano i vari livelli ai quali le voci che si mescolano a quella del giudice nella costruzione dei propri dispositivi argomentativi
Formation of inclusion complex between the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (RS)-2-(4-isobutylphenyl)-propiohydroxamic acid and beta–cyclodextrin
No full text(RS)-2-(4-isobutylphenyl)-propiohydroxamic acid is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, which forms a equimolecular complex with beta–cyclodextrin, thus increasing the solubilization and the rate of dissolutono f the drug. The inclusion complex in aqueous solution and in solid phase, was studied by solubility methods, spectroscopy (UV, IR, 1H NMR), thermal analysis (DSC, TG). X-ray diffractometry and paper chromatography (PC). Rsults confirmed the formation of this comple
Accuracy of structured vs. unstructured psychiatric diagnosis in a consultation-liaison psychiatric service.
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