Search results for "FFA"

Passion and prejudice in research

1997

In every country examined, there are far fewer women in senior positions in science than the number who begin a career in research — and those who do achieve success are paid less than their male colleagues. Irrespective of gender, the distribution of grants for scientific research is grossly skewed in favour of the few at the expense of the many. And members of some ethnic minority groups tend not even to begin careers in research. Why are these discriminatory practices tolerated, and what (if anything) is being done to change this state of affairs?

Economic Theory and its History

2016

This collection of essays is a tribute to Neri Salvadori, the man and scholar, teacher and friend, whom the scientific community owes important works in the tradition of Piero Sraffa’s revival of the classical economists’ approach to the problems of value, income distribution, capital accumulation, technical progress, scarce natural resources, economic development and growth. The essays in this book have all been freshly written and contain original work with novel ideas in the areas mentioned.

Introduction

2016

This collection of essays is a tribute to Neri Salvadori, the man and scholar, teacher and friend, whom the scientific community owes important works in the tradition of Piero Sraffa’s revival of the classical economists’ approach to the problems of value, income distribution, capital accumulation, technical progress, scarce natural resources, economic development and growth. The essays in this book have all been freshly written and contain original work with novel ideas in the areas mentioned. In this introduction we first summarize briefly Neri Salvadori’s academic career, his work and his intellectual and organisational activities and then provide a short overview of the essays collected…

Emotions in leaders’ enactment of professional agency

2019

Purpose Although there has been an increase in workplace studies on professional agency, few of these have examined the role of emotions in the enactment of agency at work. To date, professional agency has been mainly conceptualised as a goal-oriented, rational activity aimed at influencing a current state of affairs. Challenged by this, this study aims to elaborate the nature and quality of emotions and how they might be connected to the enactment of professional agency. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected in the context of a leadership coaching programme that aimed to promote the leaders’ professional agency over the course of a year. The participants (11 middle-management lea…

TRA FIANDRE E ITALIA: Rubens 1600-1608

2020

Regesto biografico-critico" by Raffaella Morselli, which took place at the Federico Zeri Foundation during the "Encounters in the Library 2019" event. The volume offers a biographical and critical overview of the artist Rubens, exploring his life and work through previously unpublished sources, including his correspondence, and his nephew's biography. The book provides a unique opportunity to systematize Rubens' correspondence, which has not been done before, thanks to the author's translation skills from Flemish, Latin, Greek, and Spanish. The text also sheds light on Rubens' multifaceted and atypical genius, his ability to speak multiple languages, and his double role as an artist and dip…

Strategies for Including Patients Recruited During Interim Analysis of Clinical Trials

2007

In clinical trials a periodical check of safety and efficacy data is often needed. For organizational reasons it is rarely desirable to stop a trial during such an interim analysis. Therefore, new study patients are included in the trial while the interim analysis is ongoing. Disregarding the additional information provided by these interim patients would be unsatisfactory, especially for an office of regulatory affairs. Consequently, the rules for group sequential or adaptive decisions must be adjusted to the recruitment of interim patients. In this paper, two strategies for modifying study designs to consider the analysis of interim patients are proposed.

An operator-like description of love affairs

2010

We adopt the so--called \emph{occupation number representation}, originally used in quantum mechanics and recently considered in the description of stock markets, in the analysis of the dynamics of love relations. We start with a simple model, involving two actors (Alice and Bob): in the linear case we obtain periodic dynamics, whereas in the nonlinear regime either periodic or quasiperiodic solutions are found. Then we extend the model to a love triangle involving Alice, Bob and a third actress, Carla. Interesting features appear, and in particular we find analytical conditions for the linear model of love triangle to have periodic or quasiperiodic solutions. Numerical solutions are exhibi…

Methodological basis and the cogency of criticism: the cases of Clapham (1922) and Sraffa (1926)

1998

Return flight to the Canary Islands – The key role of peripheral populations of Afrocanarian blue tits (Aves: Cyanistes teneriffae) in multi-gene rec…

2012

Abstract Afrocanarian blue tits (Cyanistes teneriffae) have a scattered distribution on the Canary Islands and on the North African continent. To date, the Canary Islands have been considered the species’ main Pleistocene evolutionary center, but their colonization pathways remain uncertain. We set out to reconstruct a dated multi-gene phylogeny and ancestral ranges for Cyanistes tit species including the currently unstudied, peripheral Libyan population of C. t. cyrenaicae. In all reconstructions the most easterly and westerly peripheral populations (in Libya and on La Palma) represented basal offshoots of C. teneriffae. These two peripheral populations shared all four major indels and dif…

L’Affaire Dreyfus di Roman Polanski

2019

Tratto dal romanzo (o meglio non fiction novel) An Officer and a Spy di Robert Harris (che ha collaborato alla sceneggiatura), J’Accuse si impernia su Georges Picquart, il colonnello che nel 1896 individuò la vera spia nel maggiore Walsin Esterhazy e che per sostenere l’innocenza di Dreyfus sfidò a lungo i capi dell’esercito (ostinatamente decisi, per motivi mai chiariti del tutto – l’antisemitismo giocò solo in parte – a non rimettere in discussione la condanna del 1894). Una didascalia introduttiva sottolinea subito la rigorosa autenticità dei fatti esposti; e vari articoli ne hanno elogiato il valore di testimonianza. About “J’Accuse” by Roman Polanski