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Procedural aspects of the organization of the comprehensive European Board of Ophthalmology Diploma examination.
2016
International audience; The comprehensive European Board of Ophthalmology Diploma (EBOD) examination is one of 38 European medical specialty examinations. This review aims at disclosing the specific procedures and content of the EBOD examination. It is a descriptive study summarizing the present organization of the EBOD examination. It is the 3rd largest European postgraduate medical assessment after anaesthesiology and cardiology. The master language is English for the Part 1 written test (knowledge test with 52 modified type X multiple-choice questions) (in the past the written test was also available in French and German). Ophthalmology training of minimum 4 years in a full or associated…
Serotonin transporter gene polymorphism in eating disorders: Data from a new biobank and META-analysis of previous studies.
2016
Objectives Growing interest focuses on the association between 5-HTTLPR polymorphism and eating disorders (ED), but published findings have been conflicting. Methods The Italian BIO.VE.D.A. biobank provided 976 samples (735 ED patients and 241 controls) for genotyping. We conducted a literature search of studies published up to 1 April 2015, including studies reporting on 5HTTLPR genotype and allele frequencies in obesity and/or ED. We ran a meta-analysis, including data from BIO.VE.D.A. – comparing low and high-functioning genotype and allele frequencies in ED vs. controls. Results Data from 21 studies, plus BIO.VE.D.A., were extracted providing information from 3,736 patients and 2,707 co…
The Secretion of Areolar (Montgomery's) Glands from Lactating Women Elicits Selective, Unconditional Responses in Neonates
2009
Background The communicative meaning of human areolae for newborn infants was examined here in directly exposing 3-day old neonates to the secretion from the areolar glands of Montgomery donated by non related, non familiar lactating women. Methodology/Principal Findings The effect of the areolar stimulus on the infants' behavior and autonomic nervous system was compared to that of seven reference stimuli originating either from human or non human mammalian sources, or from an arbitrarily-chosen artificial odorant. The odor of the native areolar secretion intensified more than all other stimuli the infants' inspiratory activity and appetitive oral responses. These responses appeared to deve…
Le scelte strategiche ed operative delle banche locali nelle regioni dei distretti tecnologici italiani alla luce della crisi finanziaria internazion…
2011
Questo lavoro di ricerca si inserisce nell’ambito degli studi sui sistemi regionali di innovazione ed in particolare cerca di approfondire il ruolo che la finanza innovativa può esercitare nei distretti tecnologici. La natura intangibile dei fattori di sviluppo dei distretti tecnologici e la mancanza di asset fisici per garantire linee di credito richiedono necessariamente una trasformazione delle tradizionali fonti di finanziamento delle imprese distrettuali. Gli asset intangibili comportano un incremento delle asimmetrie informative nel rapporto banca-impresa e di conseguenza la necessità di ricercare nuove tecniche finanziarie capaci di garantire una copertura adeguata dei maggiori risch…
Banche locali e private equity: quali sfide culturali e organizzative alla luce della crisi finanziaria internazionale
2012
Questo contributo intende descrivere gli eventuali mutamenti portati dalla crisi finanziaria globale sul mercato italiano del private equity osservando contestualmente il lato della domanda e dell’offerta caratterizzante tale comparto finanziario. Dal lato della domanda, questo ampliamento temporale intende rispondere al tentativo di descrivere le principali le eventuali ricadute della crisi finanziaria in termini di trend di tale comparto e delle caratteristiche settoriali, dimensionali e reddituali delle imprese target. Dal lato dell’offerta questo lavoro intende verificare se, a seguito della crisi finanziaria globale, la categoria di intermediario bancario rappresentata dalle banche loc…
Advances in mobile financial services: a review of the literature and future research directions
2022
PurposeUsing the theory, construct, method, moderator (TCMM) format, this framework-based review critically analyses the mobile financial services (MFSs) field through a detailed synthesis and analysis of a sample of mainstream empirical research published in various scientific journals within the period 2009–2020.Design/methodology/approachThe authors followed a three-step structured approach suggested by Webster and Watson (2002) to search for the literature to synthesise the global perspectives on MFSs and their associated applications and systems. The literature research resulted in the identification of 115 most relevant articles.FindingsThe authors identified three major categories or…
THE EMERGENCE OF MONEY – INSIGHT INTO THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE NEED OF BANKS
2011
Money is the blood of the economy. Here is an aphorism validated by historical experience, a historical truth that transcends all ages and all economic and political systems. (Buzatu N., G. Popa, 2003). Since ancient times, people were forced to exchange goods and services, natural conditions, cultural and religious backgrounds, were abundant in some areas and partially or totally absent in others.As a consequence of certain historically determined relations of production, at a certain stage of social development money came as a necessary product of the change process. (Kiriþescu C. Costin, Emilian M. Dobrescu, 1998). The emergence of money required to create specialized institutions to dea…
Synthesis and application of orthogonal signal bases possessing enhanced timefrequency localization for mobile wireless networks
2012
Banche e struttura modulare dei sistemi di pagamento: una prospettiva di analisi economico-aziendale
2019
Technology is changing the fundamental economics of the payment industry, just as it has in many other industries. Technological innovations in payment systems have deep managerial and financial implications at firm, industry, and regulatory levels. This paper adopts a business management perspective of studies to examine the distinctive factors of the adoption and diffusion of technological innovation in the economics of payments systems. The main aim is to identify the relevant drivers which lead to modularity of payments systems in the financial industry. In this paper, I adopt a modular design methodology to identify the factors related to the interoperability of payments systems, to an…