421 research outputs found
Selected Topics in Regulation and Competition
No full textOpportunità di pre-funding delle infrastrutture aeroportuali italiane alla luce di un’analisi di benchmarking delle tariffe dei servizi aeroportuali internazionali. The role of the discount rate in cost-benefit analysis between theory and practice: a comparative survey. The harmonization of market entry regulation for the operation of air services in the European Union: a comparative survey of the implementation of Regulation (EC) no. 1008/2008 by member states' authorities. The "dark side" of code-sharing - The anticompetitive effects of code-sharing agreements among airlines
Harmonization of market entry regulation for the operation of air services in the European Union: A comparative survey of the implementation of Regulation (EC) no. 1008/2008 by Member States’ authorities
No full textCompetitiveness of corporate sourcing of renewable energy. Annex D to Part 2 of the Study on the competitiveness of the renewable energy sector. Impact of corporate sourcing of renewable electricity on economic growth and jobs
No full textBridging the valley of death in the EU renewable energy sector: Toward a new energy policy
No full textThe European Union (EU) has committed to becoming a global leader in renewable energy. Reaching this target implies fostering innovation activity to maximize the competitiveness of the European renewable industry. By relying on a case study approach based on a small number of in-depth interviews with selected stakeholders, this paper illustrates one of the main factors hindering technological development in the renewable energy sector in Europe. More specifically, the paper focuses on the so-called "valley of death," which traps promising technologies in a "limbo." While ready to be deployed from a technical standpoint, these technologies are not cost competitive and, paradoxically, only their widespread commercialization would allow to drive their cost down. The paper also identifies a mix of policy solutions that can effectively support the competitiveness of the EU renewable energy industry. While more public funding to deploy promising renewable energy technologies is certainly needed, EU policymaker should also improve synergies between EU funding programs at all stages of the research and innovation process. In addition, introducing an EU risk insurance and guarantee fund would ultimately allow to reduce deployment costs and boost commercialization of new technologies
Carlo Felice Cillario - violin recordings for 'La voce del padrone' 1930s
No full textThese recordings were made for 'La voce del padrone' (His Master's Voice) in Italy, in the late 1930s and released as a 78RPM discs. Carlo Felice Cillario, violin. Riccardo Simonelli, piano
Migrazioni e schiavi in Roma imperiale. Cenni ed episodi
No full textL’autore si concentra su aspetti e problemi di storia del diritto romano connessi ai fenomeni migratori a Roma nell’epoca dell’espansione. Pone peraltro in rilievo che pure alla condizione giuridica personale di schiavo ci si sottoponeva talora non coercitivamente, bensì mediante la vendita di sé stessi come schiavi e la venuta a Roma. Svolge anche alcune considerazioni su flussi e consistenza numerica degli immigrati e della schiavitù nel contesto della mobilità nell’età imperiale, per concludere con rapidi cenni sugli inizi delle invasioni straniere nell’età tardoantica.The author concentrates on aspects and problems of the history of Roman law related to migration phenomena in Rome during the era of expansion. Moreover, he emphasized that the personal legal status of slave, sometimes were not subjected with coercion, but with the sale of themselves as slaves and the coming to Rome. He also makes some observations on the flows and numerical consistency of immigrants and slavery in the context of mobility in the imperial age, to conclude with a brief outline of the beginnings of foreign invasions in the Late Antiquity
What is Beauty But a Breath? (1984)
No full textSATB a cappella – (text is an anonymous 14th century English author - premiered by members of the Concordia College choirs, Frank Felice, conducting, April 1984; originally published by Moon of Hope Publishing, Galesburg, Illinois, 1996.https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jca_scores/1040/thumbnail.jp
CLiC-it 2020 - Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2020 - Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
No full textOn behalf of the Program Committee, a very warm welcome to the Seventh Italian Conference on
Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2020). This edition of the conference is held in Bologna and
organised by the University of Bologna. The CLiC-it conference series is an initiative of the Italian
Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC) which, after six years of activity, has clearly
established itself as the premier national forum for research and development in the fields of
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, where leading researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry meet to share their research results, experiences, and
challenges.
This year CLiC-it received 80 submissions against 64 submissions in 2015, 69 in 2016, 72 in
2017, 70 in 2018 and 82 in 2019 confirming the increasing trend of the past years. The
Programme Committee worked very hard to ensure that every paper received at least three
careful and fair reviews. This process finally led to the acceptance of 19 papers for oral
presentation and 53 papers for poster presentation, with a global acceptance rate of 90%
motivated by the inclusive spirit of the conference. The conference is also receiving considerable
attention from the international community, with 17 (21%) submissions showing at least one
author affiliated to a foreign institution. Regardless of the format of presentation, all accepted
papers are allocated 5 or 6 pages plus 2 pages for references in the proceedings, available as
open access publication. In line with previous editions, the conference is organised around
thematic areas managed by one or two area chairs per area.
In addition to the technical programme, this year we are honoured to have as invited speakers
internationally recognised researchers as Veronique Hoste (Ghent University) and Stefan Kopp
(Bielefeld University). We are very grateful to Veronique and Stefan for agreeing to share with
the Italian community their knowledge and expertise on key topics in Computational Linguistics
The Misty Grail: The Search for a Comprehensive Measure of Development and the Reasons for GDP Primacy
No full textRecent decades have seen a flurry of new indicators to measure economic progress, but none of them has succeeded in replacing GDP. This article seeks to explain this outcome and to contribute to the debate about composite indicators versus a dashboard approach. To this end, it reviews some of the most popular alternatives to GDP (the Human Development Index, the Genuine Progress Indicator, the Happy Planet Index, and an environmentally corrected GDP), focusing on their conceptual foundations rather than on their statistical consistency as most of the literature does. It is shown that most of these measures are theoretically inconsistent; the exception is the environmentally corrected GDP, but since this too has failed to replace GDP, inconsistency must be only one reason behind the limited use of alternative measures. The author argues that the main reason for GDP’s primacy is that GDP is better suited to reflect the goals of capitalist market economies. This implies that constructing composite indicators as alternatives to GDP will be pointless as long as the current preference system has not changed to include environmental or social goals. The author also suggests that for this purpose a dashboard approach, which provides different social groups with intelligible quantitative instruments, may be preferable to the use of composite indicators
I partiti politici nel prisma del diritto comparato
No full textThe article reconstructs the transformation processes of the party system by analysing the most recent comparative law essays published in Italy. Since the late 1980s, the transformation of traditional democratic parties has, as is well known, led to the emergence of post-democratic leader parties and the rise of populist forces. For the Author, the political party can still have a future, but its reference horizon cannot be the national, nor the European legal framework
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