2,183 research outputs found
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
Mapping digital businesses with big data: Some early findings from the UK
No full textGovernments around the world want to develop their ICT industries. Researchers and policymakers thus need a clear picture of digital businesses, but conventional datasets and typologies tend to lag real-world change. We use innovative ‘big data’ resources to perform an alternative analysis for all active companies in the UK, focusing on ICT-producing firms. Exploiting a combination of observed and modelled variables, we develop a novel ‘sector-product’ approach and use text mining to provide further detail on key sector-product cells. We find that the ICT production space is around 42% larger than SIC-based estimates, with around 70,000 more companies. We also find ICT employment shares over double the conventional estimates, although this result is more speculative. Our findings are robust to various scope, selection and sample construction challenges. We use our experiences to reflect on the broader pros and cons of frontier data use
Un Spinoza en Borges
No full textFil: Paccazochi, María Cecilia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Filosofía; Argentina.Fil: Rosso, Hernán. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Filosofía; Argentina.Difícil tarea la de superponer en un texto un canónico de la filosofía, un canónico de la literatura. Difícil, porque no es intención estetizar un sistema filosófico, ni subsumir la narración al argumento. Es conocido el interés de Borges por Spinoza. Le dedica un par de poemas y una conferencia al filósofo holandés y confiesa haber pasado su vida estudiándolo. Sin embargo, no nos proponemos buscar el spinozismo de Borges allí donde se refiere a Spinoza o a su sistema filosófico. La pretensión se encuentra, entonces, en leer desde el inmanentismo spinocista algunos cuentos de Borges (como por ejemplo, la teoría del modo como expresión de la sustancia, el concepto de amor fati, la experiencia de eternidad, etc.) sin hacer del cuentista un filósofo; sino mostrando cómo enriquecer la interpretación de un cuento borgeano con ideas de Spinoza, y, como contraparte, enriquecer la compresión del spinocismo con lecturas del escritor argentino.Fil: Paccazochi, María Cecilia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Filosofía; Argentina.Fil: Rosso, Hernán. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Filosofía; Argentina.Filosofía, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia y la Tecnologí
Stili di attaccamento e soddisfazione coniugale in un campione di coppie adottive
No full textScopo della presente ricerca è indagare lo stile di Attaccamento romantico ed il livello
di Adattamento diadico in 30 coppie idonee all’adozione, all’interno del paradigma
teorico dell’attaccamento. Sono stati utilizzati l’Experiences in Close Relationships
Scale-Revised per la valutazione dell’Attaccamento romantico e la
Dyadic Adjustment Scale per la misurazione dell’Adattamento diadico. I risultati
evidenziano, rispetto alla prima variabile, una maggioranza di coppie con uno stile
di attaccamento “sicuro”, caratterizzato da bassi livelli di Evitamento dell’intimità
e di Ansia dell’abbandono; rispetto alla seconda variabile, il campione si colloca
prevalentemente nella categoria “Alto Adattamento”. Questi dati segnalano come
le coppie adottive mostrino sia un forte apprezzamento degli affetti e dei bisogni
legati all’attaccamento nelle relazioni coniugali, sia una positiva valutazione della
qualità del matrimonio e come questi due aspetti possano risultare tra loro in parte
interrelati
Lo spazio rosso e il fuoco, «L'esplosione»
No full textIl saggio analizza il recente poemetto di Nanni Balestrini, «L'esplosione», evidenziando le sue fonti testuali e illustrando le peculiarità del meccanismo di cut-up qui applicato. Questa interpretazione mostra gli aspetti al tempo stesso poetici e narrativi del testo di Balestrini, il Verfremdungseffekt ottenuto dall'articolazione dei versi, i nodi culturali e politici del movimento del '68 e la forza delle «emozioni mentali» che l'autore ha sempre voluto provocare nelle sue opere letterarie e visive, dall'inizio della sua produzione, legata alla Neoavanguardia, fino ad oggi.The essay analyzes the recent poem by Nanni Balestrini, «L'esplosione», highlighting its sources and illustrating the peculiarities of the cut up mechanism applied here. This interpretation shows the poetic and narrative aspects of the Balestrini’s text, the Verfremdungseffekt obtained from the articulation of the verses, the cultural and political nodes of the '68 movement, and the strength of the «mental emotions» that the author has always wanted to provoke in his literary and visual works, from beginning until today
Emigrant Selection and Wages: the Case of Poland
No full textIn this paper, I use a unique individual-level pre-migration labour market dataset for Poland to examine emigrant selection in two major destination countries, the United Kingdom and Germany. I compare the pre-migration observable and unobservable characteristics of emigrants with those of non-emigrants in Poland. First, I find that Polish emigrants to the UK are more similarly educated to non-emigrants while being more negatively selected on residual wages. Second, emigrants to Germany are disproportionately more likely to fall in the middle of the education distribution but they are no different than non-emigrants in terms of unobservable skills. The familiar predictions of the ?) model allow me to partially undercover the mechanism driving the selection patterns of Polish emigrants. I contribute to the migrant selection literature by providing additional evidence on how migrants respond to differences in both labour markets and migration policies across countries
The Effect of Emigration from Poland on Polish Wages
No full textIn this paper, we analyse the effect of emigration from Poland on Polish wages. Focusing on the 1998-2007 period for Poland, we use a unique dataset that contains information about household members who are currently living abroad, which allows us to develop region-specific emigration rates and to estimate the effect of emigration on wages using within-region variation. Our findings show that emigration led to a slight increase in wages for high- and medium-skilled workers, which are the two groups with the largest relative outmigration rates. Workers at the low end of the skill distribution might have experienced wage decreases
In Medio Stat Virtus? Effective Communication and Preferences for Redistribution in Hard Times
No full textThis paper evaluates the effects of statistical information on the propensity to favor a specific group of recipients when allocating a scarce public resource. We refer to scarce resource with reference to the COVID-19 emergency: allocation of the first round of vaccine and the allocation of financial resources provided by the Italian national government to fight the economic emergency triggered by the pandemic. Randomly allocating the information through an online experiment, we show that treated respondents tend to prioritize the group targeted by the information, and they are more likely to do so if they are “in the middle”, in terms of age, political preferences, religiosity and education
Key molecular compounds for simultaneous origin discrimination and sensory prediction of cocoa: An UHPLC-HRMS sensomics approach
No full textCocoa-based and chocolate mono-origin products are increasingly gaining market share because they are perceived by consumers as more valuable and high quality. A comprehensive characterization of the sensory profile of a specific geographical area is complex and different analytical and sensorial strategies have been adopted. This study focused on identifying molecular markers capable of discriminating between different origins and, at the same time, predicting their sensory attributes adopting a sensomics approach. The aim is to provide a useful tool for chocolate producers to effectively screen the origins of cocoa, controlling and optimizing the gustative properties and processing flow. An untargeted method was adopted, based on the coupling of UHPLC-HRMS, followed by the application of chemometric tools for the selection of 71 discriminating molecular markers for six origins. These markers, via OPLS-Regressions, also demonstrated a strong global correlation with the sensory descriptors, evaluated by trained assessors, allowing their prediction
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