Search results for "FOUNDATION"

A beautiful flourish. The foundation story of Wroclaw (and Wroclaw residents)

2020

In the article, I present the content and the context of the foundation story of Wroclaw – created after 1945 in one of the largest and most destroyed cities which joined Poland after World War II (Polish Western and Northern Territories). The analyzed empirical material consists of personal documents – statements of Wroclaw residents written and submitted in 1966 for the competition entitled: “What does the city of Wrocław mean to you”. The most important element of this story about the creation of the city is the figure of a pioneer, shaped in the image of a mythical hero. The features of pioneers (such as courage, uncompromising love for the city and openness to others) have become an im…

How Integrated is Latvian Society? An Audit of Achievements, Failures and Challenges

2010

El protagonismo de las fundaciones americanas en la institucionalización de la sociología (1945-1960)

2001

Este artículo expone el protagonismo que desempeñaron las fundaciones Rockefeller, Carnegie y Ford en la institucionalización de la sociología después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Estas instituciones han tenido grandes cantidades de dinero a su disposición y la mayor parte del trabajo empírico en ciencias sociales sólo se puede llevar a cabo si hay dinero disponible para cubrir sus gastos. Pero, ¿quiénes se beneficiaron de estas ayudas en Europa y Estados Unidos? El dinero público y privado ha desempeñado un papel significativo y cada vez mayor en el desarrollo de la sociología, pero cabe también preguntarse cómo ha afectado a la investigación el origen de este dinero. La Ford, por ejemplo…

Germany Needs a National Stability Pact

2003

In many publications1, Horst Siebert has recommended that national fiscal policies within European Monetary Union be subjected to certain conditions in order to lay the foundation for a stable currency. Provisions to this effect have been laid down in Art. 104 of the EC Treaty and the European Stability and Growth Pact. The first “acid test”, however, has cast doubt on whether these provisions are sufficient to ensure sustainable solid public-sector finance in the member countries.

Does stakeholder engagement encourage environmental reporting? The mediating role of firm performance

2020

Stakeholder engagement policies have become a relevant strategy in firms because they may signal to stakeholders the commitment of the firm to the stakeholder’s needs and demands. In this research, we aim to examine whether firms with stakeholder engagement policies tend to disclose more environmental information. Additionally, we analyse the moderating role played by firm performance on the association between stakeholder engagement and environmental disclosure. As far as we know, previous research has not addressed these two questions. Our evidence shows that firms with stakeholder engagement policies are more likely to report environmental information, while firm performance negatively m…

Integrated Geophysical Investigations at the Greek Kamarina Site (Southern Sicily, Italy)

2018

Kamarina, located in southern Sicily (Italy), was an important Greek colony since its foundation in the sixth century BC. Archaeological excavations, carried out since the twentieth century, uncovered only limited portions of the site so far. Despite the importance of the Greek colony, the presence of remarkable buildings that archaeologists expected to bring to light has not found fully correspondence in the archaeological excavations. Consequently, the integrated geophysical prospection carried out in the study area is aimed to support and address the future archaeological investigations. After the photographic and thermographic survey obtained by an unmanned aerial vehicle, we performed …

Alla base del processo: scientificità del progetto e attualità dei fondamenti teorici

2020

Di fronte a kaos e kosmos, ordine e disordine, teorizzazione generale e pensiero “debole”, modernità, postmodernità, surmodernità… l'uomo oggi non è in grado di formarsi un'opinione assoluta su nulla. Fare una scelta può creare problemi, forse anche disperazione, essere costretti a optare per più scelte conseguenti, come accade nel processo progettuale, può diventare davvero un dramma insolubile. Considerati questi aspetti, riteniamo sia necessario soffermarsi per fare alcune considerazioni (anche se relative e parziali) sulla disciplina, sui suoi fondamenti scientifici e sulla loro effettiva concretizzazione nel progetto architettonico. Possibili considerazioni sui fondamenti dell'architet…

Retrieval of characteristic parameters for water vapour transmittance in the development of ground based Sun-Sky radiometric measurements of columnar…

2014

Abstract. Sun–sky radiometers are instruments created for aerosol study, but they can measure in the water vapour absorption band allowing the estimation of columnar water vapour in clear sky simultaneously with aerosol characteristics, with high temporal resolution. A new methodology is presented for estimating calibration parameters (i.e. characteristic parameters of the atmospheric transmittance and solar calibration constant) directly from the sun–sky radiometer measurements. The methodology is based on the hypothesis that characteristic parameters of the atmospheric transmittance are dependent on vertical profiles of pressure, temperature and moisture occurring at each site of measurem…

Precipitable water vapour content from ESR/SKYNET sun-sky radiometers: validation against GNSS/GPS and AERONET over three different sites in Europe

2018

The estimation of the precipitable water vapour content (W) with high temporal and spatial resolution is of great interest to both meteorological and climatological studies. Several methodologies based on remote sensing techniques have been recently developed in order to obtain accurate and frequent measurements of this atmospheric parameter. Among them, the relative low cost and easy deployment of sun–sky radiometers, or sun photometers, operating in several international networks, allowed the development of automatic estimations of W from these instruments with high temporal resolution. However, the great problem of this methodology is the estimation of the sun-photometric calibration par…

Hamiltonian structural analysis of curved beams with or without generalized two-parameter foundation

2013

The solution of curved Timoshenko beams with or without generalized two-parameter elastic foundation is presented. Beam can be subjected to any kind of loads and imposed external actions, distributed or concentrated along the beam. It can have external and internal restraints and any kind of internal kinematical or mechanical discontinuity. Moreover, the beam may have any spatial curved geometry, by dividing the entire structure into segments of constant curvature and constant elastic properties, each segment resting or not on elastic foundation. The foundation has six parameters like a generalized Winkler soil with the addition of other two parameters involving the link between settlements…