528 research outputs found
Una finanza per lo sviluppo. Quello che la crisi ci ha insegnato
No full textUna finanza per lo sviluppo
Quello che la crisi ci ha insegnato
Il volumetto Una finanza per lo sviluppo. Quello che la crisi ci ha insegnato è stato appena pubblicato da Vita e Pensiero come n. 8 della collana “Contributi”, curata dal Centro di Ateneo per la Dottrina sociale della Chiesa dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Raccoglie i frutti di una ricerca, che ha visto l’impegno concorde di studiosi di diverse Facoltà della nostra Università (Economia, Scienze bancarie, Scienze politiche e sociali): oltre ai due coordinatori, Lorenzo Caprio e Ferdinando Citterio, vi hanno infatti preso parte i professori Mario Anolli, Elena Beccalli, Simona Beretta, Domenico Delli Gatti, Marco Lossani, Marco Oriani, Andrea Perrone.
Ciascuno ha condiviso con gli altri componenti del Gruppo di lavoro le proprie riflessioni, per lo più maturate nel corso di autonome precedenti ricerche. Ripensate e rielaborate nell’orizzonte della Dottrina sociale della Chiesa, esse sono confluite in un testo unitario, che esprime il pensiero comune dei partecipanti alla ricerca e in cui ciascuno di loro si riconosce.
Muovendo da una sintetica, ma precisa disamina delle radici della crisi e delle risposte di politica economica con le quali si è tentato di farvi fronte, il lavoro si sofferma poi sui modelli di comportamento degli attori del mondo finanziario, mettendone in rilievo le criticità, e infine si interroga sulle condizioni e sui fattori che possano consentire alla finanza di assolvere alle sue finalità più autentiche, come riconnetterla con lo sviluppo
Women Academics in England, 1870-1930
No full textBased on the author's dissertation, this article traces the development of the academic profession for women in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on women at Oxford, Cambridge and London universities. Unlike in the United States, where women's role in higher education expanded and then retracted during this period, British women slowly and steadily made inroads into this male-dominated profession.Peer reviewe
Catholic Women’s Colleges in the United States: An Archival, Bibliographic and Historical Survey
No full textBrief history of Catholic women's colleges in the United States and bibliographic essay on published and archival sources
'To Save Them from the Dangers to their Faith’: Documenting Student Life at Catholic Women's Colleges
No full textThis article focuses on student life at Catholic women's colleges in the United States during the 20th century. These colleges helped acculturate many daughters of immigrants to middle-class American society, at the same time creating a specifically female and Catholic culture on college campuses. This evolving culture, which was characterized by the ideals of femininity, religion, and service, can be reconstructed through documentation from the college archives.Peer reviewe
‘A Well-Balanced Education’: Catholic Women’s Colleges in New Jersey, 1900-1970
No full textBy examining Catholic women's colleges in New Jersey during the period 1900-1970, this paper illustrates the complexity of developing a typology of Catholic women's colleges in the United States. The first Catholic women's college in New Jersey, College of Saint Elizabeth was established in 1899 by the Sisters of Charity; followed by Mount St. Mary's, later known as Georgian Court College, in 1908; Caldwell College in 1939; and Felician, originally a junior college, in 1967. Earlier typologies of Catholic women's colleges have divided them into elite liberal arts institutions and local, vocationally-oriented colleges which served the working and lower-middle-class daughters of immigrants. Using college catalogs and yearbooks from the four New Jersey colleges, this study compiles data on curriculum, the education of faculty, college costs, and student origins, and compares it to similar data from two elite colleges, Trinity in Washington, D.C. and Manhattanville in Purchase, New York. In spite of some pressure to offer vocational courses and the challenge of giving women religious faculty members the opportunity to pursue doctoral degrees, during this period New Jersey's Catholic women's colleges provided a Catholic liberal arts education for white middle-class women not unlike that offered at better known and more prestigious colleges. Only after 1970 did social and demographic changes begin to have an impact on the curriculum and student population of this sector of Catholic higher education.Peer reviewe
Gone and Forgotten? New Jersey's Catholic Junior Colleges
No full textIn the late 1960s, New Jersey had eleven seemingly-thriving Catholic junior colleges; by the mid-1970s, all but one of these colleges had closed. This article analyzes why these institutions appeared and disappeared so quickly, and explores what contribution they made to Catholic higher education. While private junior colleges declined throughout the U.S. during this period, in some respects the situation of New Jersey was unique. Research suggests that the greatest contribution these short-lived institutions made was to the education of women religious.Peer reviewe
Vanished Worlds: Searching for the Records of Closed Catholic Women’s Colleges
No full textThis article presents the results of a survey of the archives of 36 Roman Catholic women's colleges that have closed or merged with other institutions since 1967. The majority of these archives are held by the women's religious communities that originally sponsored the colleges, although about one third are held by universities. These archives are rich resources on the history of women, education, religion, and culture that to some degree have been neglected by scholars who have focused on the history of colleges that are still open. As well as suggesting avenues for future research, this article contributes to the literature on how archives can cope with the voluminous records of twentieth-century institutions, and to emerging scholarship on the relationship of archives and memory. The survey upon which it is based revealed certain limitations on preservation, access, and use of these archives, so the article concludes with recommendations on how to make them more visible.Peer reviewe
Seismic demand and performance evaluation of non-structural elements in low-damage building system
No full textRecent lessons from past earthquakes repeatedly showed the vulnerability of existing buildings and of non-structural elements. In the past decades, efforts have mainly focused on improving the seismic performance of the structural skeleton. Although buildings designed according to modern and recent seismic codes generally performed as expected by securing the human life, the observed damage was often deemed too expensive to be repaired and stakeholders often preferred to demolish and rebuild the buildings. For this reason, within a performance-based seismic design approach, the attention is nowadays focusing on two main objectives: 1) the harmonization of performance objectives between structural and non-structural elements; 2) the development of damage-control or low-damage structural and nonstructural systems. Within the framework of an EU-funded SERA project, titled “(Towards the) Ultimate Earthquake proof Building System: development and testing of integrated low-damage technologies for structural and non-structural elements”, a two-storey 1:2 scale fully prefabricated and dry-assembled timber-concrete low-damage integrated building system, comprising different high performance or damage-resistant non-structural elements (facades, light and heavy partitions), has been tested on a 3D shake-table at the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) in Lisbon. The experimental program consisted in one - two - and three - dimensional seismic tests performed at increasing
intensities. The selected input ground motions were representative of spectral-compatible earthquakes at various level of code-based limit states up to Collapse Prevention.
This paper provides the preliminary results of the experimental campaign focusing on the seismic performance of the two typologies of partition wall tested, specifically 1) the fiber-reinforced ceramic gypsum partitions and 2) the lowdamage masonry infill wall. After an initial description of the detailing, the assembly/construction phases and the monitoring system of these elements, the test results are presented in terms of peak floor accelerations and maximum inter-storey drifts in order to investigate the seismic demand at which the non-structural elements were subjected. The
seismic performance of the partition walls is then described, focusing on both their global behaviour and the observed damage. Finally, dynamic identification by impact hammer is also provided for the two partition walls
Seismic demand and performance evaluation of non-structural elements in a low damage building system
No full textRecent lessons from past earthquakes repeatedly showed the vulnerability of existing buildings and of non-structural
elements. In the past decades, efforts have mainly focused on improving the seismic performance of the structural
skeleton. Although buildings designed according to modern and recent seismic codes generally performed as expected
by securing the human life, the observed damage was often deemed too expensive to be repaired and stakeholders often
preferred to demolish and rebuild the buildings. For this reason, within a performance-based seismic design approach,
the attention is nowadays focusing on two main objectives: 1) the harmonization of performance objectives between
structural and non-structural elements; 2) the development of damage-control or low-damage structural and non-
structural systems.
Within the framework of an EU-funded SERA project, titled “(Towards the) Ultimate Earthquake proof Building
System: development and testing of integrated low-damage technologies for structural and non-structural elements”, a
two-storey 1:2 scale fully prefabricated and dry-assembled timber-concrete low-damage integrated building system,
comprising different high performance or damage-resistant non-structural elements (facades, light and heavy partitions),
has been tested on a 3D shake-table at the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) in Lisbon.
The experimental program consisted in one - two - and three - dimensional seismic tests performed at increasing
intensities. The selected input ground motions were representative of spectral-compatible earthquakes at various level of
code-based limit states up to Collapse Prevention.
This paper provides the preliminary results of the experimental campaign focusing on the seismic performance of the
two typologies of partition wall tested, specifically 1) the fiber-reinforced ceramic gypsum partitions and 2) the low-
damage masonry infill wall. After an initial description of the detailing, the assembly/construction phases and the
monitoring system of these elements, the test results are presented in terms of peak floor accelerations and maximum
inter-storey drifts in order to investigate the seismic demand at which the non-structural elements were subjected. The
seismic performance of the partition walls is then described, focusing on both their global behaviour and the observed
damage. Finally, dynamic identification by impact hammer is also provided for the two partition walls
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