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Regulating (and Self-regulating) the Sharing Economy in Europe: An Overview
2018
The article describes the main legal challenges for regulating the sharing (or collaborative) economy in Europe and explains how the existing body of EU law applies to these new business models. In the last part, it makes a few brief comments on the need for future regulation.
La corte del re di Napoli Ferrante I d'Aragona (1458-1494): tradizione e innovazioni
2015
In seguito alla conquista del regno di Napoli da parte di Alfonso il Magnanimo, la corte, stabilitasi nella capitale, mantenne la struttura ed il funzionamento previsti dalla tradizione aragonese codificata nelle ordinanze di Pietro il Cerimonioso. Sulla base di fonti documentarie recentemente venute alla luce e delle ultime acquisizioni storiografiche, il contributo pone in evidenza come Ferrante, erede del Magnanimo al trono napoletano, sebbene mantenne l’organizzazione palatina ereditata dal padre, per le sue tendenze accentratrici introdusse nell’amministrazione finanziaria centrale talune innovazioni funzionali, al fine di un più ampio controllo delle risorse e delle spese della corte,…
"Antavat anteeksi ovenvieret" : Matjoi Plattosen kuolinriittikuvaukset siirtymäriittiteorian valossa
2019
Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan suistamolaiselta itkijältä Matjoi Plattoselta vuosina 1908−1920 tallennettuja kuolinrituaalien kuvauksia ja niihin liittyviä itkuvirsiä siirtymäriittiteorian avulla. Tutkimuksen aineiston Plattosen kanssa ovat tuottaneet Matti Kaisla, U. T. Sirelius ja A. O. Väisänen. Tutkimuksessa kiinnitetään huomiota erityisesti rituaalisen itkemisen merkitykseen kuolinrituaalien osana. Yksilön tai ryhmän sosiaalisen kategorisen muutoksen yleismaailmallisesti kolmeen vaiheeseen jakavan siirtymäriittiteorian kehitti etnologi Arnold van Gennep (1873−1957). Hän väitti, että rituaaliset seremoniat, jotka liittyvät ihmiselämän tärkeimpiin muutoksiin, eroavat toisistaan eri ku…
Variants in ZFHX3 are associated with atrial fibrillation in individuals of European ancestry
2009
We conducted meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for atrial fibrillation (AF) in participants from five community-based cohorts. Meta-analyses of 896 prevalent (15,768 referents) and 2,517 incident (21,337 referents) AF cases identified a novel locus for AF (ZFHX3, rs2106261, risk ratio [RR]=1.19; P=2.3×10−7), an association that was replicated in the German AF Network (odds ratio=1.44; P=1.6×10−11). Combining the discovery and replication results, rs2106261 was significantly associated with AF (RR=1.25; P=1.8×10−15).
Smart city: casi studio
2015
Il capitolo effettua un'ampia ricognizione delle smart city nel mondo, dagli esempi europei più noti alle smart city nelle città asiatiche. Da Masdar negli Emirati Arabi a Stoccolma, che in questi ultimi anni ha rigenerato con un'ottica smart interi quartieri (Hammarby Syostad e il Royal Seaport), cambiando complessivamente il volto della città. Il capitolo in questa terza edizione dedica un'attenzione speciale alle città asiatiche - la Cina ad esempio - che oggi si confrontano con profondi mutamenti socio-economici e imponenti e veloci fenomeni di urbanizzazione.
La smart mobility come fattore chiave verso una smart city. Alcune esperienze europee
2013
The study and the analysis of some fruitful experiences in Europe we find that the smart mobility is one of the central pillars for initiating processes and best practices sensitive to environmental issues and sustainable development. The city of Stockholm has called his plan sustainable precisely “The Walkable City” meaning that achieve a planning instrument that brings the city to be crossed easily by bicycle, on foot, but also with public transport efficient and low impact on the climate. For this reason the city has the goal of being fossil fuel free by 2050. Freiburg, however, with the urban district of Vauban is definitely an inno- vative model focuses on the use of sustainable public…
The Influence of Religion on Life Satisfaction in Italy
2021
Italy is the cradle of Catholicism and, despite the secularization process, religion continues to be part of its national culture. Although Italian sociologists have investigated the religious paradigm in Italy, there are aspects of such phenomenon still little explored. This paper examines the potential influence religion has on individuals’ life satisfaction. Data from the European Value Study survey provides evidence of a two-way interaction between religion and life satisfaction, with a substantial effect only in the case of public religious forms. This association seems to be moved by the mechanism of social support, and it differs across Italian regions. Results confirm the hypothesis…
Audit Institutions in the European Union: Public Service Promotion, Environmental Engagement and COVID Crisis Communication through Social Media
2020
This article analyses Social Media (SM) use as a promotion tool for public institutions in the public audit sector. The authors propose a quantitative model to assess online engagement of 94 European audit institutions (national and regional) with their stakeholders, based on SM and web activity metrics of these institutions, with a focus on pressing matters such as environment, sustainability and the current COVID pandemic. The proposed model may be applied to assess organisations from any public or private sector. The research finds that SM presence helps audit institutions to promote their services more effectively by directing their stakeholders to extensive content on the audit institu…
Is the European Commission a hothouse for supranationalism? : theorising and exploring the world of Commission civil servants
2005
Does the European Commission (Commission) manage to transform and re-direct the roles played by Commission civil servants? To test the old neo-functionalist claim on loyalty transfer among civil servants, this article provides fresh survey and interview data on seconded national experts in the Commission. The transformative powers of the Commission are tested by assessing the extent to which seconded national experts adopt supranational role perceptions. Theoretically, the emergence of supranational role perceptions is accounted for by considering (i) processes of pre-socialisation outside the Commission, (ii) processes of resocialisation inside the Commission, and (iii) organisational inco…