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Implementing the AIFMD: Success or failure? ECMI Commentary No. 34, 28 March 2013
No full textThis commentary considers the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) by the European Commission. The AIFMD creates an internal market for asset management and as an endeavour to develop market-based finance is an important piece of legislation for the European economy. The author, Mirzha de Manuel Aramendía, considers the implementation of some of the provisions that raised concern among industry participants. He finds that, on balance, a practical and flexible approach to implementation has been followed that should help secure the success of the framework, which at present is still uncertain. The commentary also considers the remuneration guidelines adopted recently by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). It encourages EU and national authorities to commit to the success of the AIFMD framework, as part of a broader effort to develop capital markets and reduce the historical reliance of the European economy on bank finance
Manuel Puig: un destino melodramático
No full textEl trabajo es un extracto de una larga investigación en los archivos del escritor argentino Manuel Puig, la génesis de su producción y su relación con el campo intelectual internacional. En este extracto se presenta un estudio del uso del melodrama en la producción 'espectacular' del autor y la publcación de un inédito que incluí como primicia en 1996 en la revista Orbis Tertius No. 2, Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, UNLP.The work is an extract of one long recherch in the archives of the Argentine writer Manuel Puig, the genesis of its production and its relation with international the intellectual field. In this extract is analyzed the use of the melodrama in “the spectacular” production of the author. The publication of an unpublished is included , published for the first time by me in 1996 in the Orbis Tertius Nº 2, Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, UNLP.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
Letter from Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] to Wayne M. Collins, May 29, 1953
No full textIn this letter to Mr. Wayne M. Collins, Mr. Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] explains that he will need to pay Mr. Collins in segments. Mr. Collins is a lawyer in San Francisco.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Two hybrid structures by Pier Luigi Nervi
No full textp. 1574-1585In 1961 at the apex of his career, Pier Luigi Nervi constructed in Italy two of the
largest buildings of his entire production: The Palace of Labour in Turin and the
Burgo Paper Mill in Mantua. These two buildings may be regarded as the engineering version of the architectural category of the Megastructures, a theme which was developed by seminal architects like Archigram and Hans Hollein.
Nervi, as an engineer, was more interested in the structural consequences of these
large structures than their social and political impact. Indeed, in both these designs
the complex structural issues determined not only the typological solutions and the
architectural layout of these edifices but also the choice to make use of an unconventional material for the Italian engineer: Steel.Cresciani, M. (2010). Two Hybrid Structures by Pier Luigi Nervi. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/715
Oral History Interview with Manuel Medrano, June 18, 2015
No full textInterview with Manuel Medrano, an historian and author from Brownsville, Texas. In his interview, Medrano discusses his family background and childhood, education, experiences with discrimination, political activism, and the Chicano movement
Manuel Muñoz, 38th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textManuel Muñoz is the author of a novel, What You See in the Dark, as well as two short-story collections, Zigzagger and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, which was shortlisted for the Frank O\u27Connor International Short Story Award. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Glimmer Train and Boston Review and has aired on NPR’s “Selected Shorts. The recipient of an O. Henry Prize and a Whiting Writers\u27 Award, Muñoz lives in Tucson, Ariz., where he is an associate professor at the University of Arizona
Manuel Trillo de Leyva. Obra completa 1964-2005
No full textDenis Diderot is credited with saying that men of the past have a great advantage over us in that they did not know the weight of Antiquity. Something of that authority from a bygone era permeates much of the figure of Manuel Trillo de Leyva, a key figure in Seville\u27s architecture in the second half of the 20th century, who has been the subject of this recent monograph promoted by the COAS. For students in the late 2000s, shortly after his untimely death, Manuel Trillo was the name of the auditorium at the School of Architecture, a name that professors imbued with a halo of admiration and that gradually revealed itself to be a life of its own, that of the author of several of the city\u27s landmark buildings. The first of these was precisely that same stage, designed as a result of a competition won together with José Garrido when they were still students.A Denis Diderot se le atribuye haber dicho que los hombres del pasado tienen sobre nosotros la gran ventaja de no haber conocido el peso de la Antigüedad. Algo de esa autoridad de un tiempo anterior impregna mucho de la figura de Manuel Trillo de Leyva, clave para la arquitectura sevillana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, que ha sido objeto de esta reciente monografía impulsada por el COAS. Para el alumnado de finales de la década de los 2000, poco después de su temprano fallecimiento, Manuel Trillo era el nombre del salón de actos de la Escuela de Arquitectura, nombre que los profesores imbuían de un halo de admiración y que poco a poco se desvelaba como una vida propia, la del autor de varios de los edificios señeros de la ciudad. El primero de ellos había sido precisamente ese mismo escenario, diseñado a resultas de un concurso ganado junto con José Garrido cuando aún ocupaban la platea como estudiantes
Manuel Trillo de Leyva. Obra completa 1964-2005
No full textDenis Diderot is credited with saying that men of the past have a great advantage over us in that they did not know the weight of Antiquity. Something of that authority from a bygone era permeates much of the figure of Manuel Trillo de Leyva, a key figure in Seville\u27s architecture in the second half of the 20th century, who has been the subject of this recent monograph promoted by the COAS. For students in the late 2000s, shortly after his untimely death, Manuel Trillo was the name of the auditorium at the School of Architecture, a name that professors imbued with a halo of admiration and that gradually revealed itself to be a life of its own, that of the author of several of the city\u27s landmark buildings. The first of these was precisely that same stage, designed as a result of a competition won together with José Garrido when they were still students.A Denis Diderot se le atribuye haber dicho que los hombres del pasado tienen sobre nosotros la gran ventaja de no haber conocido el peso de la Antigüedad. Algo de esa autoridad de un tiempo anterior impregna mucho de la figura de Manuel Trillo de Leyva, clave para la arquitectura sevillana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, que ha sido objeto de esta reciente monografía impulsada por el COAS. Para el alumnado de finales de la década de los 2000, poco después de su temprano fallecimiento, Manuel Trillo era el nombre del salón de actos de la Escuela de Arquitectura, nombre que los profesores imbuían de un halo de admiración y que poco a poco se desvelaba como una vida propia, la del autor de varios de los edificios señeros de la ciudad. El primero de ellos había sido precisamente ese mismo escenario, diseñado a resultas de un concurso ganado junto con José Garrido cuando aún ocupaban la platea como estudiantes
Three resilient megastructures by Pier Luigi Nervi
No full textResilience, as the ability of a structure to withstand threats and continue to function, it is normally related to durability and performance to accepted standards over time. The resilience of a structure can be threatened by poor design, changes in the public's perception of style, the potential for a change-in-use and structural attack; catastrophic events such as fire, explosion or impact are usually considered the main threats for Resilience. In the contemporary built environment Resilience is considered increasingly important; it has, in fact, become one of the major design issues, especially for large, iconic or public and prominent structures: this has not always been the case.
Following the Second World War, building designers faced the necessity to conceive projects within severe financial constraints, hence the proliferation of a low quality and limited life-span structures; buildings which were designed to be replaceable, cheap and perhaps anonymous. This was thought to be an effec-tive answer to quickly accommodate the large number of people moving towards the urban environment partly destroyed by the WWII. These very buildings now constitute the backbone of our urban scenery and although some still function adequately, many are perfect examples of structures which exhibit a lack of re-silience. Fortunately, there were a few designers who refused this post-war tendency and attempted to design lasting structures of quality: most of them were engineers.
This is not a coincidence, engineers had less to do with the issue of providing residential accommodations and more with the erection of large structures which necessitated a higher quality control on materials and technologies: Pier Luigi Nervi was one of them. This work considers three large structures designed and built fifty years ago,in 1961, by the Italian engineer. The structures are the Bus Station at the George Washington Bridge in New York (USA); The Burgo Paper Mill in Mantua (Italy); and the Palace of Labour in Turin (Italy). All of these buildings are hybrid structures (concrete and steel), an unusual choice for Nervi that perhaps reects the design climate at the time; These buildings reacted quite differently to the events that have occurred over the past half century. One of the key factors to achieve resilience it is considered to be the quality of the buildings, which includes their ability to perform maintenance. The lack of which for whatever reason, this paper aims to demonstrate, will inevitably result in a weak performance in terms of resilience on the long run
Manuel Sánchez Asensio (1860-1919) a través de los periódicos que fundó y dirigió
No full textThe life and work of famed journalist Manuel Sánchez Asensio, founder of fourteen newspapers and the author of 15,000 articles, are presented. The diverse publications, their goals, characteristics and contents are covered. The philosophy and thinking of Sánchez Asensio expressed in his very first articles published in the magazine La Tesis until his last texts appearing in the newspaper El Siglo Futuro, are analyzed in depth
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