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Product-Level Trade Elasticities: Worth Weighting For
No full textThis repository contains all the SAS and STATA codes needed to replicate results in the manuscript "Product-Level Trade Elasticities: Worth Weighting For" by L. Fontagné, H. Guimbard and G. Orefic
Tariff-Based Product-Level Trade Elasticities
No full textThis repository contains all the SAS and STATA codes needed to replicate results in the manuscript "Tariff-Based Product-Level Trade Elasticities" by L. Fontagné, H. Guimbard and G. OreficeAbstract. Trade elasticity which varies widely across products is a crucial parameter in evaluating the welfare impacts of changes in trade frictions. We estimate trade elasticities at the product level by exploiting the variation in bilateral tariffs for each product category for the universe of country pairs over the 2001 to 2016 period. The predicted trade flows using the product-specific trade elasticities estimated here match the observed post-EPA import between the US and Chile, confirming the accuracy of our estimates
Intercultural co-existence strategies and identity positioning within a regional train: an educational perspective
No full textNel saggio viene presentata una ricerca che ha indagato uno specifico contesto di convivenza interculturale, quello relativo ad alcuni treni regionali operanti in Toscana (Italia). Oggetto della ricerca sono state le conversazioni, le interazioni (verbali, paraverbali e non verbali) e i posizionamenti spaziali assunti tra alcuni professionisti delle Ferrovie (controllori, addetti alle pulizie, conduttori, addetti all'accoglienza) e dei viaggiatori immigrati (prevalentemente magrebini) che, quotidianamente, hanno percorso la tratta ferroviaria indicata.
I conflitti emersi tra i vari protagonisti, così come le loro narrazioni e i posizionamenti difesi, mostrano quanto sia importante oggi misurare la distanza tra le rappresentazioni dell'Altro e le pratiche quotidiane messe in atto, sondare le emozioni che accompagnano l’incontro interetnico e orientano la percezione reciproca, comparare etiche diverse che diventano comportamenti e atteggiamenti, occasioni di scontro e di confronto. Impegnarsi a lasciare spazio al confronto con la differenza - per quanto irritante, incomprensibile, o conflittuale questo confronto possa rivelarsi - può contribuire alla costruzione di una rappresentazione alternativa dell’immigrazione rispetto a quella oggi socialmente dominante, inserendola in una cornice che appare tanto istituzionale quanto professionale e sociale. Dal punto di vista dei professionisti delle Ferrovie coinvolti, infatti, la "liquidità" delle nostre attuali società impone di incoraggiare dei dispositivi riflessivi che permettano loro di valorizzare il ruolo della pratica nei processi di costruzione della conoscenza, soffermandosi su ciò che fanno e producono, attribuendo così all’esperienza lavorativa una particolare rilevanza nel momento in cui rende possibile tematizzare il sapere professionale come sapere empiricamente situato.
Questo doppio legame ci ricorda quanto la conoscenza sia una risorsa di adattamento flessibile, di capacità di apprendere dall’esperienza e di risolvere problemi nuovi, e quanto le culture umane non siano entità chiaramente circoscrivibili e stabili ma delle narrazioni continuamente condivise, contestate e negoziate.The essay presents a research that investigated a specific context of intercultural coexistence that relates to some regional trains operating in Tuscany (Italy). The objects of the research were conversations, interactions (verbal, paraverbal and non-verbal) and the spatial positions assumed between some railway professionals (inspectors, cleaners, conductors, reception staff) and immigrant travelers (mainly North Africans) who traveled the indicated railway section every day.
The conflicts that emerged between the various protagonists, as well as their narratives and the positions defended, show how important it is today to measure the distance between the representations of the Other and the daily practices implemented, to probe the emotions that accompany the inter-ethnic encounter and guide mutual perception, comparing different ethics that become behaviors and attitudes, opportunities for confrontation. It is common, when leaving a space, to be confronted with difference - however irritating, incomprehensible or conflicting this confrontation may prove to be - it can contribute to the construction of an alternative representation of immigration compared to the one socially dominant today, placing it in a framework that appears as institutional as it is professional and social. From the point of view of the railway professionals involved, in fact, the "liquidity" of our current societies requires the encouragement of reflective devices that allow them to enhance the role of practice in the processes of building knowledge, focusing on what they do and produce, thus attributing particular relevance to work experience when it makes it possible to thematize professional knowledge as empirically situated knowledge.
This double bond reminds us how much knowledge is a resource of flexible adaptation, of the ability to learn from experience and to solve new problems, and how much human cultures are not clearly circumscribable and stable entities but continuously shared, contested and negotiated narratives
Reflective writing and medical humanities: some pedagogical remarks
No full textLiterature has shown increasing interest on reflective writing as a strategy that can enhance communication skills, empathy and overall professionalism in healthcare professionals in general and in medical doctors in particular. These aspects are considered pivotal goals in medical humanities courses/electives. Reflection is considered a deliberate and conscious activity allowing the individual to contemplate is/her/others’ behaviour and events, and responses to them. Reflection is about cogitating one’s own lived experience of thinking, which includes not only thoughts but also ideas, representations, prejudices, emotions, and values. Writing an experience, instead of imply telling about it, allows the writer to put on the paper what he/she could reflect upon. This allows to take a distance from an experience and to analyse it in a deeper and more comprehensive manner. While mandatory reflection is growing in education and reflective accounts are re-viewed and marked in some universities, there has been a general concern that “the requirement for reflection has distorted the original intentions of meaningful reflective practice”. In this paper I will discuss the role of reflection in learning from clinical practice, with a particular focus on undergraduate medical education. I will attempt to explain why writing is intended as a core strategy for developing meaningful learning from one’s own experience. I will then illustrate general features of reflective writing in undergraduate medical education and report some writing prompts. Finally, I will convey some medical students’ reactions to those activities and results of reflective writing experiences, as reported by the literature, concluding with some pedagogical remarks
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Schema ibrido MoM-circuitale ad aggregazionemultipla per l'analisi di strutture stampate estese
No full text.ANTI-TNF alfa IN PATIENTS WITH EITHER RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS OR SPONYLOATHRITIS And CONCURRENT C HEPATITIS:A RETROSPECTIVE RECORD REVIEW ON SAFETY
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