106 research outputs found
Venezia dopo Venezia: Economia e demografia urbana nel Novecento.
No full textSubject of this paper is the relationship between the urban population, the inhabitants (many or few, young or old, male or female) who live in the Venice island, and the economic functions that the city has taken or has been assigned during the twentieth century. The author in fact believes that the answer to some crucial questions concerning the city of today, asking how Venice could become what it is today, should be researched exactely in the interplay between projects of displacement and resettlement of the population, related to an idea of the historical city that becomes unchangeable in its own structure in the mid century
An Exotic Geographical Excursus: Chapters 273-378 of the Third Book of the Cronica Universalis by Galvaneus Flamma
No full textChapters 273-378 of the Cronica universalis by the Milanese Dominican Galvaneus Flamma consist of a long geographical excursus - a sign of the author's interest in the subject. This excursus describes places and cities (real or - for us - imaginary) of Asia, India, Africa, Northern Europe, and even Markland. The study of the sources used in the composition of the excursus allows us to observe first of all that Friar Galvaneus used ancient and medieval encyclopedic sources on the one hand, and written accounts of travelers in the East on the other. It is also possible that the author of the Cronica has resorted to oral testimonies of travelers and sailors. What emerges from this study is a modern image of geography: not only because of the sources cited (the ancient authors are often mediated by medieval works) but also for the places mentioned
Demographics and US Stock Market Fluctuations *
No full textThis article illustrates how the information component determining long-horizon US stock market returns can be related to a demographic variable, MY the ratio of middle-aged to young adults. In fact, MY can be seen as the major determinants of a slowly evolving time-varying mean of the dividend/price ratio. A forecasting model for stock market returns over a century of US annual data that uses as predictors the dividend/price ratio and MY overcomes all the statistical difficulties related to the high persistence of the dividend/price ratio and performs very well in forecasting long-horizon stock market returns. Moreover, the use of demographic variables as a predictor for long-run stock market returns delivers a steeply downward sloping term structure of stock market risk. (JEL codes: G17, C53, E44) Copyright The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: [email protected], Oxford University Press.
It begins and ends with an image reflections on life/death across autobiography and visual culture
No full textAbstract: A three-act session of storytelling, this visual essay explores the connection between photographs (and images at large) and death. A piece of authobiography, it follows the intimate journey of the author accompanying his father's departure first and his own grief later. The article positions photographs as objects that are more than mere representations. They are living things that accompany us during our lives. And photography, the author suggests by looking at photographs taken by himself, is a way for opening up time and acknowledging the present. Photographs are capable of bridging the gap between life and death
Growth forecast errors during the euro crisis: what was the cause?, 11 March
No full textWhat was the cause of the serious growth forecast errors during the Euro crisis? According to the former IMF Chief economist Olivier Blanchard it was an underestimation of the “Keynesian multipliers”, which also led to understate the contractionary effects of austerity. Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi aim for a confutation of this argument and in their new book suggest an alternative interpretation. Emiliano Brancaccio and Fabiana De Cristofaro - author and co-author of “Anti-Blanchard Macroeconomics” - take side with the French economist this time, providing new empirical evidence that supports his point
How do General Practitioners assess physical activity and prescribe exercise in patients with different cardiovascular diseases? An Italian pilot study
No full textThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: A part of the research work provided by the group of UHasselt was supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-ICA grant: G0F4220N). The other authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.Neunhaeuserer, D (corresponding author), Via Giustiniani 2, I-35128 Padua, Italy.
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The low-down on America's lock-down: a critical look at the political economy of prisons
No full textBoston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you.2999-01-0
Il lavoro archivistico in un'istituzione privata
No full textThe Benetton Foundation in Treviso preserves many archives created by families and individuals (writers, researchers, artists and artistic critics). The Foundation preserves private libraries too. As regards the institutional organization, the Foundation includes a Library, a photographic collection, a map collection and the archive. The author indicates hybrid characteristics of some archival and librarian materials, that cannot be preserved by using traditional archival-only or librarian methodologies. The experience on this special matter suggests some procedures an tools to increase preservation, knowledge and accessibility to this special cultural heritage. The author supports digital description an web techniques to improve the reference service provided by archivists and librarians, who manage these cultural goods
FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF ARGON-IMIDAZOLE
No full textW. Caminati, S. Melandri, A. Millemaggi, and P. G. Favero, Chem. Phys. Lett. 294, 377 (1998).Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, Amherst CollegeGuided by the spectroscopic constants obtained in a millimeter-wave the rotational spectrum of Ar-imidazole has been recorded in the GHz region using a pulsed molecular beam, Fourier transform microwave spectrometer. The nuclear quadrupole hyperfine structure due to the quadrupolar nuclei has been resolved for these low J transitions. The nuclear quadrupole coupling constants for each nitrogen nucleus in the complex will be compared with those in the imidazole monomer to derive molecular properties of the complex
In defence of formal experimentation : reflections on the dialogue between visual aesthetics and ethnographic knowledge through the making of the documentary film Flyoverdelhi (2004)
No full textAbstract: The present paper constitutes an exploration of the role of form and (visual) aesthetics in the construction and communication of ethnographic knowledge. It is based on the analysis of a documentary film entitled Flyoverdelhi (directed by the author of the article in 2004) that offers insights into the lives of young middle class men and women in Delhi at the dawn of India\u2019s emergence as a superpower. Reflecting upon the process of making, screening and then re-analyzing the film (15 years after its making), this paper discusses different dimensions of the dialogue between content and form/aesthetics in the context of ethnography. Despite its focus on film and visual communication, the paper aims at raising questions that are common to ethnographers and anthropologists at large and discusses also the relation between ethnographic validity and authority. The paper contains links to visual materials available online hence making a claim for the importance of renewing practcies of publishing in the contextx of visual anthropology
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