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(Im)Memoriale : ex Ospedale Psichiatrico di Rovigo. VOL III
No full textIl Giornale raccoglie gli esiti della esperienza di didattica e di ricerca del Laboratorio di Restauro del Corso di Laurea in Architettura della Università Iuav di Venezia, in particolare raccoglie una selezione dei materiali della mostra "(IM)Memoriale. Vol I" e i testi dei relatori della giornata studio "(IM)Memoriale. Vol II" con il seguente indice:(Im)Memoriale. Strumenti per un progetto di Restauro. (di Emanuela Sorbo). Gli strumenti di (Im)Memoriale. Una storia di sguardo (di Emanuela Sorbo). Ex OPP di Rovigo. Breve storia di un frammento urbano (di Emanuela Sorbo). Appunti sull'ex Ospedale Psichiatrico di Rovigo (di Rodolfo Fasiol, ULSS 18 Rovigo). Carte da curare: l'archivio storico dell'ex Ospedale Psichiatrico Granzette (di Cristina Tognon, servizio archivistico della Provincia di Rovigo). La conservazione degli ex Ospedali Psichiatrici. Il restauro per la memoria (di Giovanna Battista, SBeAP VR). Ex Ospedali Psichiatrici nel Nord-Est italiano. Urla nel silenzio. (di Ferdinando Zanzottera, Politecnico di Milano). Verso il superamento dell'Ospedale Psichiatrico Giudiziario (di Daniele Veratti, Università di San Marino). Segregazione psichiatrica e controllo sociale (di Francesca Carfora, Psicologa clinica). Il divenir-corpo delle immagini nell'istituzione del manicomio (di Pierpaolo Ascari, Università di Bologna). Progetto come Memoriale (Im)materiale (di Emanuela Sorbo). Padiglione 2. Breve Storia per un frammento (di Emanuela Sorbo). Padiglione 4. Breve Storia per un frammento (di Emanuela Sorbo). Padiglione 5. Breve Storia per un frammento (di Emanuela Sorbo). Padiglione 22. Breve Storia per un frammento (di Emanuela Sorbo). Un Ospedale dell'Arte (di Marco Chiuso). Un polo culturale collettivo per la coltivazione della memoria (di Leila Signorelli). Un'architettura della memoria. Il museo e l'archivio (di Leila Signorelli). Una biblioteca per l'ex OPP (di Marco Chiuso)
REGOLAMENTI LOCALI DI IGIENE E REGOLAMENTI EDILIZI: UN’INDAGINE SULL’ADOZIONE E L’AGGIORNAMENTO DELLE NORME SULL’IGIENE EDILIZIA NEI COMUNI ITALIANI
No full textIn relazione ad un lavoro di ricerca precedentemente condotto nel 1999 sull’analisi dei Regolamenti Locali di Igiene (RLI) ed Edilizi (RE) sul territorio italiano e il loro
relativo aggiornamento (Signorelli et al., 1999), un gruppo di lavoro ha indagato nuovamente il tema dei RLI e RE per verificare lo stato dell’arte dei documenti che
normano la sicurezza e la salute negli ambienti costruiti, puntualmente comune per comune, sull’intero contesto nazionale per verificare la corretta applicazione
dei principi in materia igienico sanitaria a livello locale. Tale indagine ritorna anche utile anche in previsione delle riflessioni che il governo sta attuando sul
Regolamento Edilizio Unico per tutti comuni, come il Decreto Legge 90/2014 definisce, e che potrebbe essere esteso anche per i Regolamenti Locali di Igiene
Mediterranean models of Welfare towards families and women
No full textAfter tracing a Malta’s short historical excursus with its effects on female condition, family’s structure and concept, organizational model of non profit sector, the paper gives a survey of the most recent economic and demographic trends with special attention to families’ well-being and women’s working and social conditions, based not only on statistical data of Malta’s National Institute of Statistics and of Eurostat, but also on the results of some empirical studies based on some surveys carried out into the archipelago. The main islands’ social problems are outlined with the indication of the principal sources of aid to face peoples’ different needs (first of all family, followed by the State, while the Third Sector, with its strong component of foundations, heritage of English culture, is not pre-eminent yet). The paper also shows that the same citizens’ expectations of satisfaction of social needs are still mainly placed in the State, according to the collective image. After drawing this scenario, the paper makes a short history of Malta’s Welfare State specially considering legislation concerning families and women. In addition to the description of the legislative measures, a deeper investigation is also devoted to other programs realized at european and national level: Equal Program (2004-2006) and Malta’s latest “Action Plan”, alias the National Social Plan in its general lines of policy towards families and women. Besides the illustration of the services provided to families by the Ministry of Family and Social Solidarity in the context of the National Action Plan, three other articulations of the Plan are briefly examined: Gender Equity National Action Plan (2003-2004), National Action Plan on Poverty and Social Exclusion (2004-2006), National Action Plan for Employment (2004). The correlative institutional framework is also reviewed: the National Family Commission established in 2001 and the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality for Men and Women considered by the “Equality for Men and Women Act” of 2003. Finally the paper classifies Malta’s Welfare State among the Mediterranean models of social assistance for its specific characteristics though, differently from the evolutive tendencies of these last ones, the passage from Welfare State to Welfare Mix is still problematic and slow in Malta. In spite of the increasing forms of collaboration between public and non profit organizations, Malta’s Third Sector has still a too weak role, in comparison with family and State, in supporting people’s life on both factual and symbolic dimension. In this missing transition, specially as regards elderly care, Malta can not see yet the growth, inside Welfare Mix, of the more informal components formed by immigrated women to detriment of the services offered by private or non profit organizations (“care drain” phenomenon), which is very strongly in course in other Mediterranean countries (Italy, Spain, Greece).Family and Social Policy, Social Segregation, Poverty
Factor decomposition of cross-country income inequality with interaction effects
No full textIn this paper we propose a decomposition of the Theil measures of per capita income inequality which accounts for interaction effects between its multiplicative factors. Our theoretical findings, supported by an empirical application referring to EU-25 countries, suggest that neglecting these effects may strongly bias the relative importance of some factors, with consequent misleading policy implications.Inequality, Decomposition, Interaction Effects
The IGARCH e®ect: Consequences on volatility forecasting and option trading
No full textThis paper studies the integrated Garch (IGARCH) e®ect, a phenomenon often encountered when estimating conditional auto-regressive models on ¯nancial time series. The analysis of twelve indexes of major ¯nancial markets provides empirical evidence of its well-spread presence especially in periods of market turbulence. We examine its impact on volatility forecasting and on trading and hedging options. We show that a strong IGARCH e®ect may have relevant consequences on trading and on risk management.stock returns, volatility forecasting, GARCH(1,1), IGARCH effect, option hedging
Subset selection in dimension reduction methods
No full textDimension reduction methods play an important role in multivariate statistical analysis, in particular with high-dimensional data. Linear methods can be seen as a linear mapping from the original feature space to a dimension reduction subspace. The aim is to transform the data so that the essential structure is more easily understood. However, highly correlated variables provide redundant information, whereas some other feature may be irrelevant, and we would like to identify and then discard both of them while pursuing dimension reduction. Here we propose a greedy search algorithm, which avoids the search over all possible subsets, for ranking subsets of variables based on their ability to explain variation in the dimension reduction variates.Dimension reduction methods, Linear mapping, Subset selection, Greedy search
Sustainability between economy and culture. Restoration, re-construction and "reuse" in some post-world war II cases in Germany (East and West)
No full textIl concetto di sostenibilità, attorno al quale oggi tutto l'universo dell'architettura pare ruotare, in modo a volte parossistico, non rappresenta di certo, nella tradizione storica dell'edificare, una novità. Sono noti gli esempi, riferiti alla tradizione costruttiva dell'Uomo, da sempre attenta ad un riuso quanto più possibile virtuoso delle risorse materiali che sono già state rese disponibili.
La riflessione sull'uso di questo termine, però, pare sempre più spesso soffermarsi esclusivamente sugli aspetti energetici ed economici del fenomeno, tralasciando di valutare che ciò che risulta sostenibile energeticamente ed economicamente può esserlo molto meno rispetto alla tutela di altri valori: architettonici, artistici e anche di semplice testimonianza storico-materiale; ovviamente se non si mantiene alto il livello dell'attenzione ad una visione culturale più ampia. Si tratta, a parere di chi scrive, di un atteggiamento inaccettabile, foriero di grandi rischi per quel patrimonio e dal quale vanno prese evidenti distanze.
L'atteggiamento ideologico risulta, in questo senso, decisivo.
Il gruppo di ricerca bolognese sta da tempo lavorando su questi temi, temi che, ad esempio, si incrociano strettamente con quelli della valutazione dell'impatto impiantistico sulle fabbriche storiche.
In questa prospettiva, pare fornire spunti utili alla riflessione teorica la rilettura di alcune esperienze, a livello tecnico e storico, riferite alla Germania postbellica, che rendono con chiarezza di quanto possano variare le declinazione del concetto di sostenibilità nel campo della tutela del patrimonio architettonico, a partire semplicemente dal variare delle premesse ideologiche. Nelle esperienze illustrate, infatti, gli atteggiamenti teorici posti alla base degli interventi tecnici influiscono sostanzialmente nel fissare i limiti di ciò che è accettabile e sostenibile, determinando il livello dell'"accettabilità della perdita" o del sacrificio di particolari aspetti di testimonianza culturale, storica, artistica associati agli oggetti; ciò in rapporto ai vantaggi di uso di risorse che ne derivano alle comunità.
Queste variazioni sono ancora più significative per il fatto che si verificano in un orizzonte culturale omogeneo, solo spezzato da un confine fittizio, quello che, fino al momento della riunificazione, nel 1990, separava la Repubblica Federale Tedesca (ovest) dalla Repubblica Democratica Tedesca (est).
I casi che si illustreranno sono, da una parte alcuni noti casi di restauro di edifici storici bavaresi: l'Alte Pinakothek di Monaco (1953-1957), restaurata dall'architetto Hans Döllgast, la cui ricostruzione/restauro fu accompagnata da un acceso dibattito tra chi propendeva per la completa demolizione e chi invece, come Döllgast, proponeva di conservarne i resti, in un'ottica anche di riuso sostenibile delle risorse materiali; e, dall'altro, in un panorama molto distante, le vicende che portarono alla perdita di alcuni edifici storici, tra i quali la Sophienkirche a Dresda e della Chiesa dell'Università di Lipsia.The concept of sustainability, around which today seems to rotate the entire universe of architecture, sometimes so paroxysmal, isn't certain something new in the building's historical tradition. There are known examples, referred to the building traditions of man, always careful to reuse virtuously as much as possible from the material's resource, which have already been made available.
However, the reflection on the use of this term seems more and more often to dwell exclusively on energy and economic aspects of the phenomenon, neglecting to consider that, what is sustainable in terms of energy and costs, can be much less than the protection of other values: architectural, artistic and even of a mere historical-material witness; obviously if you don't try to maintain a high level of attention to a broader cultural vision. In this writer's opinion, it's an unacceptable attitude, a harbinger of great risk to the cultural heritage and from which are to be taken distances.
In this sense, the ideological stance is crucial.
The Bologna's research team has been working for a long time on these themes, which, for example, intersect closely with those of the evaluation of installations on historical buildings.
In this perspective, it seems to provide useful insights to the theoretical re-reading of some experiences, both technical and historical, relating to post-war Germany, which make clear how they can change the declination of the concept of sustainability in the field of the protection of the architectural heritage, starting simply by changing ideological presuppositions. In the described experiences, the theoretical attitudes at the basis of technical operations substantially affect in setting the boundaries of what is acceptable and sustainable, determining the level of '"acceptable loss" or the sacrifice of particular aspects associated with objects, as cultural, historical or artistic values; this in relation to the advantages in terms of use of resources, which come from the community.
These changes are even more significant by the fact that they occur in a homogeneous cultural horizon, broken only by a fictitious boundary, which, up to the time of reunification in 1990, separated the Federal Republic of Germany (West) from the German Democratic Republic (east).
The cases illustrated are, on the one hand some well-known cases of restoration of historic Bavarian buildings: the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, restored by architect Hans Döllgast (1953-1957), whose reconstruction/restoration was accompanied by a heated debate between those who tended to its complete demolition and who, as Döllgast, sought to preserve the remains, also in view of the sustainable reuse of material resources ; the Glyptothek, long remained as a ruin, restored by Josef Wiedemann during the Sixties with re-used bricks; and, on the other hand, in a far landscape, the events that led to the loss of some historic buildings, including the Church of St. Sophia (Sophienkirche) in Dresden and the Church of the Leipzig University
THE CONCEPT OF NEUTRAL INFLATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE EU ECONOMIC GROWTH ANALYSES
No full textThe prospects of economic growth in the Euro area depend, to a large extent, on the way in which its participants will solve the problems of economic stabilisation; they depend on whether the conceptual dogmas will prevail in the stabilisation policy or the tendency to make the stabilisation policy instruments more flexible and adjustable to changes in the economic situation. The system of restrictions imposed upon the EU countries by the Maastricht Treaty and the Stability and Growth Pact fulfilled its tasks in the sense that it enabled the indispensable co-ordination of the economic policies of these countries and introduction of the common currency. It seems now that the framework is too rigid and singlemindedly aimed at persuing one goal only (i.e. price stability) and, therefore, in the long run, it cannot be a useful tool of integration and creation of favourable conditions for the development in the Euro area countries. Hence it seems that the reform of the system is inevitable and it should rely on using the opportunities offered by both - monetary and fiscal policy.
The Maastricht convergence criteria and economic growth in the EMU
No full textThe Maastricht convergence criteria are partially based on the theory of optimum currency areas and costs-benefits analysis of the creation of a single currency area as the EMU foundation. Fulfillment of convergence criteria should be durable, but it requires a certain degree of real convergence between member countries of the monetary union. The analysis of the economic role of the convergence criteria which has been carried out in this paper indicates that its implementation has been an important factor of macroeconomic stabilization for the EMU countries as well as for the countries planning accession to the Union. On the basis of the theory of economics and results of empirical studies we cannot state univocally that the convergence criteria are a barrier to economic growth. Naturally, this problem is controversial, but we can formulate a hypothesis that implementation of convergence criteria is an important factor of macroeconomic stabilization and sustainable economic growth.monetary union, monetary policy, fiscal policy, costs-benefits analysis, single currency, inflation, economic growth, budget deficit, public debt, coveregence criteria
Temporary job protection and productivity growth in EU economies
No full textThe present study examines cross-national and sectoral differences in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in fourteen European countries and ten sectors from 1995 to 2007. The main aim is to ascertain the role of employment protection of temporary contracts on TFP by estimating their effects with a “difference-in-difference” approach. Results show that deregulation of temporary contracts negatively influences the growth rates of TFP in European economies and that, within sectoral analysis, the role of this liberalisation is greater in industries where firms are more used to opening short-term positions. By contrast, in our observation period, restrictions on regular jobs do not cause significant effects on TFP, whereas limited regulation of product markets and higher R&D expenses positively affect efficiency growth.productivity, labour regulation.
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