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Circular economy and corporate social responsibility in the agricultural system: Cases study of the Italian agri-food industry
Full text linkThe persistent exploitation of natural resources and the consequent use of consumption are driving global food demand with the result that agricultural activity is becoming less and less environmentally friendly. The circular economy (CE) can become a valid alternative, inserting the economic-agricultural system into the harmonic process of material circulation. The corporate social responsibility (CSR) model is particularly interesting not only because of the ethical dimension of the company but also as a factor of strategic business improvement that combines the concepts of CSR and CE as possible solutions for developing sustainable business processes. The objective of the work is to highlight a detailed framework of how the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the Italian agri-food industry can provide an ade-quate level of communication, circular strategies and social responsibility practices. The research methodology is based on a qualitative multiple study conducted on a sample of nine companies in the Italian territory. The study highlights the attention of companies on the issues of the CE for the achievement of the set sustainable objectives and the attention to CSR and CE practices. The work has several implications. It provides a further understanding of CSR and CE policies as enabling factors for the development of sustainable organizational performance in agriculture. Moreover, it better investigates the relationship between CSR and the CE. Finally, it analyses the SMEs state of the art in the CE field and strengthens the concept of CE by analysing corporate practices consistent with sustainability reports
Principali effetti derivanti dall’adozione del Regolamento 1513/2001 e Regolamento 1019/2002 in materia di commercializzazione ed etichettatura degli oli di oliva nell’Unione Europea
No full textIl tempo dei giovani e della musica in Italia. Dall'urlo al beat
No full textIl saggio ripercorre l'emergere in Italia di una nuova categoria sociale, quella della gioventù, e la sua relazione complessa con il sistema mediale degli anni Sessanta. Attraverso l'utilizzo di fonti primarie tratte dalla pubblicistica giovanile dell'epoca, si coglie di questo periodo storico la sua importanza quale età di cesura tra la grande fase di rilancio economico e simbolico del Paese, seguita alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, e la successiva presa di coscienza politica. Utilizzando la gioventù quale cartina al tornasole di questa epoca, il saggio lascia emergere il passaggio da una mediatizzazione diffusa ma ancora ingenua, quella degli anni del boom, alla costituzione di attori sociali consapevoli. L'ampio ventaglio di prodotti, cantanti film e canzoni nei quali rispecchiarsi disegna una generazione in bilico tra passato e futuro, ingenuamente ribelle, ma non per questo meno rivoluzionaria
Moltiplicare l'istante. Beltrami, Comerio e Pacchioni tra fotografia e cinema
No full textEditing, in collaboration with Elena Mosconi and Silvia Paoli, of the volume Moltiplicare l’istante. Beltrami, Comerio e Pacchioni tra fotografia e cinema. The study of these personalities and of their work has highlighted to which extent the existence of continuous and dynamic relationships between photography and cinema has contributed, at a national level, to the affirmation of a modern and conscious visual culture
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
Charge Localization, Stabilization, and Hopping in Lead Halide Perovskites: Competition between Polaron Stabilization and Cation Disorder
No full textMetal halide perovskites, of general formula ABX(3), show a complex interplay of the inorganic BX3 sublattice and the organic/inorganic A-site cations, which likely determines some of their peculiar optoelectronic properties. Comprehension of the physics underlying this interaction may reveal further means of fine-tuning their optoelectronic response. Here, we investigate in depth charge-lattice interactions associated with the formation of polarons in different models of the prototypical CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite through advanced electronic structure calculations. We demonstrate that charge localization, while induced by the disordered dipolar field of the organic cations, is stabilized by distortions in the inorganic sublattice. Polaron hopping between neighboring minima is related to the random reorientation of the organic cations and occurs via a delocalized transition state. Our simulations highlight a struggle between thermally induced disorder, driven by the motion of A-site cations, and polaron stabilization within the BX3 sublattice, which explains the simultaneous low mobility and high diffusion length of charge carriers in lead halide perovskites
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
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