9,506 research outputs found
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
Twitter data on 2021 italian vaccine debate
No full textThe dataset contains tweets related to Italian vaccine discussions collected in the period from September 1st to September 24th 2021. The dataset consists of ∼1.8M tweets in Italian, and ∼ 220k URLs. We relied on Twitter’s streaming API to collect those tweets using a keyword-based approach. The keywords we use are variants of the words 'vaccination' ('vax', 'vaccino', 'vaccini', 'vaccinarsi'), 'novax' (An individual who is against vaccination), Covid-19 vaccine names ('Astrazeneca', 'Pfizer-BioNTech', 'Moderna', 'Sputnik'), greenpass. (following twitter policies we share a maximum of 1.5M tweet IDs only for research purposes
"Proyecto por el Barranco Badajoz"
No full textA research project developed by a cluster of the University of Udine coordinated by the author between 2005 and 2006 and presented in Tenerife at the Seminario Internacional de Arquitectura: Proyectar el paysaje. Territorios en Transformacion - Barranco Badajoz de Guimar, Tenerife. The seminar had gathered 15 European schools of Architecture and the proposed topics had developed the contrasting needs of opposed reasons and economies simultaneously acting in an extraordinary valuable landscape. The re-discovery of the inherent values of unearthing, of the “ungrounding”, of the interlace thought as a micro-climatic “overhaul” founded the “Weather Projects” of the proposal shown during the final symposium in June 2006
Twitter data on 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Debates
No full textThe dataset contains Twitter traffic related to the 2020 US pre-election debate. The data was collected considering two types of states, namely swing and safe. The term 'swing' refers to those states in which one cannot be certain of a landslide victory for either Republicans or Democrats, as there is no clear historical orientation of the electorate. In contrast to swing, a state is defined as 'safe' if its citizens have traditionally always elected representatives of the same political party. In particular, the tweets present are from four swing states (i.e., Arizona, Florida, Michigan e Pennsylvania) and four safe states (i.e., New Jersey, Indiana, Washington and Louisiana). The dataset was used in the study "Swinging in the States: Does disinformation on Twitter mirror the US presidential election system?". (under submission)
Twitter data on political debates about the Italian immigration policies
No full textStatistics say that Twitter is the preferred social network by journalists in Europe. This means that it provides a perfect environment for the study on debates about Society, Economics, and Politics. The dataset depicting the retweeting activity on an Italian debate regarding immigration policies over a period of one month (from January 2019, 23rd to February 2019, 22nd). The dataset is labeled according to the boticity score of the users participating in the discussion, as outcome of Botometer, a popular bot detector. All the accounts have been classified either as human-operated or as bots. Due to Twitter developers terms we can only provide ids for users and tweets, that can be used to retrieve the original data through the Twitter API. For additional details please refer to "Twitter data on political debates about the Italian immigration policies". (currently under submission to CIKM 2020 resource papers
Bow-Tie Structures of Twitter Discursive Communities
No full textIn the analysis of Twitter debate, the recent literature focused on
discursive communities, i.e. clusters of accounts interacting among themselves
via retweets. In the present work, we studied discursive communities in 8
different thematic Twitter datasets in various languages. Surprisingly, we
observed that almost all discursive communities therein display a bow-tie
structure during political or societal debates. Instead, they are absent when
the argument of the discussion is different as sport events, as in the case of
Euro2020 Turkish and Italian datasets. We furthermore analysed the quality of
the content created in the various sectors of the different discursive
communities, using the domain annotation from the fact-checking website
Newsguard: we observe that, when the discursive community is affected by
m/disinformation, the content with the lowest quality is the ones produced and
shared in SCC and, in particular, a strong incidence of low- or non-reputable
messages is present in the flow of retweets between the SCC and the OUT
sectors. In this sense, in discursive communities affected by m/disinformation,
the greatest part of the accounts has access to a great variety of contents,
but whose quality is, in general, quite low; such a situation perfectly
describes the phenomenon of infodemic, i.e. the access to "an excessive amount
of information about a problem, which makes it difficult to identify a
solution", according to WHO).Comment: 47 pages, 25 figures, 7 table
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
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
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