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“Let there be light”. Andrew Carnegie e le biblioteche pubbliche

2021

The impact of cultural patronage for local development has so far not been adequately emphasized in comparative studies on public library history. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), the famous entrepreneur of Scottish origins who, as a young man, emigrated to the United States (Pennsylvania), where the fortunes of his steel industry quickly made him an extremely wealthy man, can rightly be regarded as the most extraordinary patron of public libraries in the English-speaking countries between the 19th and 20th centuries. Later, mindful of the great value of free libraries for his self-training in his youth, Carnegie devoted several million dollars for the establishment of over 2,500 new public lib…

Microcephaly a clinical-genetic and neurologic approach

2013

The great waves of accounting thought: an attempt of comparison between English and Italian literature

2020

The following speech has been pronounced at the XV Biennale of the Italian Society for Accounting History on October, 23rd, 2020, as the Introductory intervention of the Congress. The Author was Chairman of the Organizational Committee of the Congress and member of the Scientific Committee. It has the tentative status of scientific paper in order to be improved for a further process of publishing. It concerned the discerning of a number of parallel waves between English and Italian Accounting literature, since the early beginnings and until the advent of the Globalization Era, when standardization has made relatively unrelevant the specific contributions of single national streams of though…

Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy

2016

Whilst shopping malls have been explored at length by critical urban studies, there has been little exploration of their role in restructuring the practice of urban and spatial planning. This article uses the shopping mall as an object of study in the light of the neoliberal trends and post-metropolisation in Southern Europe, with the aim of exploring challenges for urban governance and planning practice and with a focus on the role of the ongoing economic crisis. A threefold exploratory framework – the ‘lost-in-time scenario’, the ‘messianic mall model’ and the ‘(im)mature planning explanation’ – is used to make sense of the local versions of shopping mall development in Lisbon (Portugal) …

Neck and Shoulder Muscle Activation Among Experienced and Inexperienced Pilots in +Gz Exposure

2017

Background The aim of the present study was to compare differences in electromyography (EMG) activation of the neck and shoulder muscles between groups of inexperienced and experienced pilots during controlled +Gz exposure in a centrifuge. Methods The subjects were volunteer cadets (inexperienced group) and lieutenants (experienced group) undergoing their first centrifuge training. The first group did not have any high performance aircraft (HPA) experience, while the latter one had a 1-yr experience of intense flying of HPA. During the centrifuge run, EMG activity was recorded from the left and right shoulder, neck flexor, and neck extensor muscles. Results The pilots without HPA experience…

Libre circulación de inversiones en la Unión Europea en tiempos de COVID-19

2020

Las inversiones extranjeras han fluido como nunca durante las últimas décadas, en el marco de una aceptación generalizada de sus beneficios. Esta situación, sin embargo, comienza a alterarse de forma acelerada en múltiples lugares del planeta. La presencia de un entorno geoestratégico más complejo y la aproximación crítica de muchos Estados hacia la globalización y lo que ella significa, está consolidando una visión más cautelosa hacia la libre circulación de inversiones extranjeras que, entre otros efectos, se plasma en la elaboración de normativas más restrictivas. La Unión Europea es un espacio económicamente integrado, muy abierto a las inversiones extranjeras y dotado además, de una po…

«Jusqu’à nos désirs, jusqu’aux formes de notre plaisir»: feminism’s development in Les Temps modernes

2017

Les Temps Modernes has been a basic ground for the growth both of the second-wave feminism and of the third-wave one, and has skaken old roles also by questioning traditional longings, as some writings we can (re)read here show: several remarks by Simone de Beauvoir, an article by Colette Audry, an issue of the column Le Sexisme ordinaire.

Algunos aspectos relacionados con la imposición de costas en el proceso civil en el derecho comparado

2002

Al ocuparme en su día del estudio de las conductas emulativas en dos de los campos en los que fue objeto de represión jurídica en la antigua Roma, como son las relaciones de vecindad y el ejercicio malicioso de una acción con el propósito de vejar al adversario procesal, traté muy someramente de algunas cuestiones que atañen a la regulación positiva de la condena en coscas en el derecho italiano y español. Siendo como es un campo de estudio ciertamente vasto, con particularidades propias en su formulación, ha despertado nuestro interés, ante la imprecisión de algunos ordenamientos jurídicos, cuál sea la forma a través de la cual el órgano jurisdiccional termina por imponer las costas y, asi…

More Choice for Better Choosers: Political Freedom, Autonomy, and Happiness

2016

A substantial literature finds that freedom in the sense of an expanded opportunity set is positively related to happiness. A contrasting literature, however, finds that an excess of choice can have socially undesirable outcomes. We test the effect of two types of freedom—autonomy and political—on happiness using five waves of World Values Survey data (1981–2008). We find evidence supporting the claim that equipping people with the tools to direct the course of their lives (i.e. increasing autonomy freedom) incentivizes the desire to investigate alternatives (e.g. political parties) before making a decision. The effect of freedoms on happiness is diminished in contexts where individuals hav…

A la búsqueda de la identidad constitucional: una aproximación al caso español y europeo en clave de pluralismo constitucional y diálogo judicial

2019

En los últimos años, la noción de «identidad constitucional» se ha convertido en un recurso político-constitucional popular a la vez que en un concepto jurídico indeterminado. Resulta difícil tratar de definir la noción enigmática de «identidad constitucional» y su ámbito de aplicación, debido a la falta de consenso entre la doctrina académica, por lo que el presente artículo trata de proporcionar una definición amplia o integradora a través de una serie criterios e instrumentos para su identificación y aproximación jurídica. Con tal premisa, se efectúa un análisis de lo que constituye tanto la identidad constitucional nacional como europea, con especial interés en la identidad constitucion…