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Cal Tassinari Interview, June 4, 1999
Full text linkCal Tassinari describes his work and experience as a wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service starting in the early 1960s in the Mission Mountains Wilderness area in Montana. He recalls his primary duties which included planning and constructing trails, observing wildlife, and managing the area. Tassinari shares his thoughts on how the area has changed, citing the growing popularity of recreational hiking. He offers unique insight into the concept of wilderness and how this has changed over time. Tassinari also discusses other prominent wilderness advocates of the time such as Bud Cheff and Fred Matzner.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/upperswanvalley_oralhistory/1005/thumbnail.jp
Scoperte ed enigmi: ancora sulla storia della Crocetta
No full textIl volume è curato da R. Lambertini e V. Tassinari
Il contributo mira ad evidenziare elementi chiariti e aspetti ancora oscuri nella ricostruzione della storia dell'Oratorio della Crocetta (nel territorio di Cento (Fe)) e dei suoi rapporti con le confraternite cittadine
On the time course of exogenous cueing effects: a response to Lupianez and Weaver
No full textResponds to the J. Lupianez and B. Weaver (see record 1998-04685-009) comments on the G. Tassinari et al (see record 1994-20171-001) discussion on the role of peripheral non-informative cues in the early facilitation of target detection. The current authors present further data and ideas which support the original claim which was disputed by Lupianez and Weaver: that the inhibitory effect precedes the facilitatory effect. ((c) 1998 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved
Trade Unions in the Gig Economy.
No full textAbstract
Lorenzo Cini, Arianna Tassinari
As the global gig economy grows in size and relevance, trade unions across the world
have increasingly attempted to more systematically organize and represent gig economy
workers. Unions seeking to intervene in the gig economy face a host of challenges related
both to the characteristics of the gig economy labor process and to the legal framework
within which gig workers have thus far been inscribed. These challenges include the
workforce's physical dispersion, particularly pronounced for online labor platforms,
which hinders workers' capacities to build associational power; the potential
pervasiveness of forms of “techno-normative” control to which gig workers are subject;
the internal fragmentation and differentiation of the gig workforce, which might hinder
the consolidation of solidaristic attachments among workers; and gig workers' legal
classification as independent contractors, which limits the applicability of institutions of
collective bargaining and the ability to use conventional channels for workers' voices
Valuation of Collateralized Funds of Hedge Fund Obligations: A Basket Option Pricing Approach
No full textThe purpose of the present contribution is to provide an extension to a
model developed by Tassinari and Corradi [7] to price equity and debt tranches of
collateralized funds of hedge fund obligations (CFOs). The key idea is to price each
CFO liability as an option on the underlying basket of hedge funds. The proposed
model is able to reproduce the empirical characteristics observed in the distribution
of hedge funds’ returns: skewness, excess kurtosis and dependence in the tails. Additionally,
it can be easily calibrated to the empirical correlation matrix and it requires
only historical information to be estimated and implemented. The result is a scheme
that can be useful in structuring a CFO. In particular, we believe that the approach
described in this work can be helpful to rating agencies and to deal structures to
evaluate various capital structures, test levels, liquidity profiles, coupons and equity
distribution rules
"L'albero Falcone" e i suoi epigoni. La propagazione vegetale della memoria antimafia
No full textLe stragi di Capaci e via D’Amelio segnano un punto di svolta nel linguaggio con cui i movimenti antimafia costruiscono la memoria pubblica della violenza mafiosa. Uno dei tratti salienti di questa svolta è la proliferazione di luoghi di memoria che ruotano intorno a figure arboree. Il capostipite di questa genealogia è l’albero Falcone, noto come punto di raccolta per le manifestazioni del 23 maggio, la giornata della legalità. Nel corso degli anni ’90, il modello memoriale costruito intorno all’albero si sviluppa e si diffonde, mentre sono sempre già frequenti le piantumazioni di alberi in memoria delle vittime della mafia. L’articolo cerca di esplicitare le forme semiotiche soggiacenti a questa dendrolatria antimafia e ai suoi modi di diffusione nel repertorio celebrativo dell’Italia contemporanea. Tirando le fila di questa ricostruzione, propone infine alcune considerazioni critiche sul rapporto tra memoria e paesaggio, sullo sfondo più generale del rapporto tra natura e cultura nell’epoca dell’Antropocene.The massacres of Capaci and via D'Amelio mark a turning point in the language with which the anti-mafia movements build the public memory of mafia violence. One of the salient features of this turning point is the proliferation of places of memory that revolve around tree figures. The progenitor of this genealogy is the Falcone tree, known as a collection point for the demonstrations of May 23, the day of legality. During the 90s, the memorial model built around the tree developed and spread, while the planting of trees in memory of the victims of the mafia is always already frequent. The article tries to explain the semiotic forms underlying this anti-mafia dendrolatry and its ways of spreading in the celebratory repertoire of contemporary Italy. Pulling the strings of this reconstruction, he finally proposes some critical considerations on the relationship between memory and landscape, against the more general background of the relationship between nature and culture in the Anthropocene era
Labour Market Policy in Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan: Same Old or a New Departure?
Full text linkLiberalizing labour market reforms have topped the agenda of structural reforms implemented in Italy over the last two decades, with detrimental effects on employment quality, wage dynamics and productivity. In 2021, Italy’s then Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, promised that the investments outlined in Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) would ‘transform Italy’s labour market’. How and to what extent does the labour market policy agenda enshrined in Italy’s NRRP deviate from the prior trajectory of policy change? What balance of economic, political and class interests does it reflect? And to what extent does it adequately tackle the long-standing challenges of Italy’s labour market? This article addresses these questions combining in-depth analysis of the labour market policy measures in Italy’s 2021 NRRP and interviews with experts and elites involved in the policy process. Contrary to claims of discontinuity, the findings highlight substantive continuity of the NRRP labour market policy agenda with the prior trajectory of liberalization. The Plan maintains a narrow focus on supply-side labour market interventions – primarily the strengthening of active labour market policies (ALMPs) – without re-regulatory interventions to tackle labour market insecurity or wage stagnation. Exogenous conditionality and domestic political dynamics that systematically advanced the preferences of employer organizations in the design of the NRRP account for the limited extent of policy change. Due to the neglect of demand-side labour market interventions and the uncertainties surrounding the implementation of the ALMP reforms, the transformatory potential of the NRRP’s labour market agenda is likely to remain limited.Introduction Labour-market policy in Italy from the great financial crisis to COVID-19 Labour market and employment policy in Italy’s NRRP: contents and goals The politics of LMP in the NRRP Discussion and conclusions Disclosure statement Additional information Footnotes Reference
Metodo e testualità. Costruzioni analtiche e modi di fare
No full textThis number of E | C has an experimental character. The contributions gathered in the volume collect the fruit of the work of a cycle of seminars that took place in Palermo between October and December 2021: they were entitled "Text analysis seminars" and saw the participation of Giuditta Bassano, Denis Bertrand , Alice Giannitrapani, Manar Hammad, Tarcisio Lancioni, Dario Mangano, Francesco Mangiapane, Gianfranco Marrone, Maria Pia Pozzato, Carlo Andrea Tassinari and Ilaria Ventura Bordenca. The seminars were intended to reflect on the semiotic method, already the subject of the 2017 conference of the Italian Association of Semiotic Studies, whose proceedings were published in the numbers 24/2018 and 25/2019 of this magazine. Compared to these previous reflections, the seminars aimed to anchor the reasoning to a specific practice of work, the analysis of the text, with the desire to explain strategies and tactics of approach to analysis, of application of the method in a situation
Night-time unravelling of the brain web: impaired synaptic downscaling in ESES--the Penelope syndrome.
No full textESES (encephalopathy with status epilepticus during sleep) is an epileptic encephalopathy with heterogeneous clinical manifestations (cognitive, motor, and behavioral disturbances in different associations, and various seizure types) related to a peculiar electroencephalography (EEG) pattern characterized by paroxysmal activity significantly activated during slow sleep—that is, a condition of continuous spikes and waves, or status epilepticus, during sleep. The pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying this condition are still incompletely understood; since 2005 we suggested that the abnormal epileptic EEG activity occurring during sleep might cause the typical clinical symptoms by interfering with sleep-related physiologic functions, and possibly neuroplasticity processes mediating higher cortical functions such as learning and memory consolidation (the ‘Penelope syndrome’ hypothesis - Tassinari et al., 2005, 2009; Tassinari and Rubboli, 2006). In this Editorial we discussed the results of the first study demonstrating that physiological downscaling during NREM sleep is impaired in ESES (Bölsterli et al. 2011), confirming our previous hypothesis, and opening a new way for the understanding of the relevance of paroxysmal activities during sleep, not only for ESES but for a large population of children with significant activation of focal paroxysmal epileptiform activity during sleep
Metodo e testualità. Costruzioni analtiche e modi di fare
No full textThis number of E | C has an experimental character. The contributions gathered in the volume collect the fruit of the work of a cycle of seminars that took place in Palermo between October and December 2021: they were entitled "Text analysis seminars" and saw the participation of Giuditta Bassano, Denis Bertrand , Alice Giannitrapani, Manar Hammad, Tarcisio Lancioni, Dario Mangano, Francesco Mangiapane, Gianfranco Marrone, Maria Pia Pozzato, Carlo Andrea Tassinari and Ilaria Ventura Bordenca. The seminars were intended to reflect on the semiotic method, already the subject of the 2017 conference of the Italian Association of Semiotic Studies, whose proceedings were published in the numbers 24/2018 and 25/2019 of this magazine. Compared to these previous reflections, the cotribibutions aimed to anchor the reasoning to a specific practice of work, the analysis of the text, with the desire to explain strategies and tactics of approach to analysis, of application of the method in a situation
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