148 research outputs found
Ennio Pannese to Viktor Hamburger, June 5, 1987
No full textLetterComments on Nobel PrizeCorrespondenc
Ennio Pannese to Viktor Hamburger, July 14, 1994
No full textLetterEnclosed book and comments on book.Correspondenc
L'imperialismo, come la lebbra, si cura con la morte": intesecting narratives in Ennio Flaiano's Tempo di uccidere
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.In 1947 Ennio Flaiano published what was to become his only full-length novel, Tempo di uccidere. Set in Abyssinia during the 1935-1936 Italo-Ethiopian War, it is a work that, notwithstanding its ostensibly "realist" subject matter, displays a palpable dissonance with the coeval cultural and literary landscape of post-war Italy, then dominated by the age of neorealism. With Tempo di uccidere, Flaiano chooses to counter the largely nationally inward, materialist gaze of his contemporary authors by shifting the focus to a socio-political and cultural environment ghat would have proved largely foreign to the majority of his readers...The primary aim of this MA dissertation is to explore-and to critically engage with - the two indentifiable narratives that frame the interpretation of the novel..
Density and distribution of microtubules in the axons of the lizard dorsal roots
No full textThe number, density and distribution of microtubules were determined in cross-sections of unmyelinated and myelinated axons of lizard (Lacerta muralis) spinal dorsal roots. In both unmyelinated and myelinated axons the average number and density of microtubules were found to be related to the axonal size. The average number of microtubules rose, while the microtubular density decreased with an increase in the cross sectional area of the axon. More precisely, a linear relationship was observed between the logarithm of the microtubular density and the cross-sectional area of the axon. The average microtubular densities were found to be the same in two samples of unmyelinated and myelinated axons of corresponding size. Therefore, it can be hypothesized that the different microtubular densities usually found in unmyelinated and myelinated axons are correlated with the different size range of the two types of axon rather than with the absence or presence of a myelin sheath. The microtubular densities nearly always proved higher in the sub-axolemmal band and around the mitochondria than in the rest of the axoplasm
Dynamic Adverse Selection and the Size of the Informed Side of the Market
No full textIn this paper we examine the problem of dynamic adverse selection in a stylized market where the quality of goods is a seller’s private information. We show that in equilibrium all goods can be traded if a simple piece of information is made publicly available: the size of the informed side of the market. Moreover, we show that if exchanges can take place frequently enough, then agents roughly enjoy the entire potential surplus from exchanges. We illustrate these findings with a dynamic model of trade where buyers and sellers repeatedly interact over time. More precisely we prove that, if the size of the informed side of the market is a public information at each trading stage, then there exists a weak perfect Bayesian equilibrium where all goods are sold in finite time and where the price and quality of traded goods are increasing over time. Moreover, we show that as the time between exchanges becomes arbitrarily small, full trade still obtains in finite time – i.e., all goods are actually traded in equilibrium while total surplus from exchanges converges to the entire potential. These results suggest two policy interventions in markets suffering from dynamic adverse selection: first, the public disclosure of the size of the informed side of the market in each trading stage and, second, the increase of the frequency of trading stagesdynamic adverse selection; full trade; size of the informed side; frequency of exchanges; asymmetric information
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