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Global connectedness in higher education : student voices on the value of cross-cultural learning dialogue

2015

The study explores how sense of global connectedness can be enhanced by creating opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue in higher education. Thematic analysis of randomly selected 15 learning journals, students’ reflections on their learning during an international seminar was used to identify students’ significant learning experiences. The results emphasise the added value of diversity (geographical, disciplinary, cultural and social) among students, faculty and invited presenters for creating meaningful learning. Furthermore, they suggest that designing an integrated approach of contents, contexts and activities for critical engagement in global dialogue and knowledge generation in hig…

Evaluación de las democracias contemporáneas bajo los efectos de la crisis económica

2017

RESUMEN: Historicamente ha habido un debate sobre el resultado del proceso democratico que se centra en si el producto de las democracias deben ser derechos politicos y libertades civiles o por el contrario deben ser bienes y servicios basicos a los ciudadanos. La crisis economica global que comenzo en 2007 ha tenido un impacto en las politicas economicas de los gobiernos que han tenido que aplicar medidas de ajuste, a veces impuestas por organismos internacionales no sujetos a control ciudadanos de los paises donde se aplicaban dichas medidas, generando protestas y revueltas y la aparicion de nuevos partidos politicos. En este escenario la crisis economica proporciona una oportunidad unica…

Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010

2015

Land use is a cornerstone of human civilization, but also intrinsically linked to many global sustainability challenges—from climate change to food security to the ongoing biodiversity crisis. Understanding the underlying technological, institutional and economic drivers of land-use change, and how they play out in different environmental, socio-economic and cultural contexts, is therefore important for identifying effective policies to successfully address these challenges. In this regard, much can be learned from studying long-term land-use change. We examined the evolution of European land management over the past 200 years with the aim of identifying (1) key episodes of changes in land …

The emergence and development of the cryptocurrency as a sign of global financial markets financialisation

2022

The article presents one of the most important, in the author's opinion, manifestations of further intensification of the processes of financialisation of global financial markets, which was the emergence of decentralized digital currencies (so-called cryptocurrencies) based on blockchain technology. Their creation and existence on the global financial market have been widely considered as one of significant effect of the global financial crisis, which symbolic beginning is September 15, 2008, when one of the largest US investment banks Lehman Brothers collapsed. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has only highlighted the importance of this effect of financialization. The purpose of the articl…

Altered gene expression profiles in liver cancer cells upon sorafenib treatment

2010

Una ricerca-intervento per costruire il giudizio sintetico globale degli alunni

2022

For the formulation of the synthetic global judgment of the primary school pupil it is proposed to use EU key competences as indicators and as descriptors of the overall educational goals of the class council which constitute the operational formulation of the fundamental objectives of the S.O.F.E.

Do Volcanic Eruptions Solve Global Atmospheric Mercury Pollution?

2011

Besides human activities, volcanoes also introduce significant quantities of potentially harmful chemical compounds into the environment, mainly in the forms of gases and particles. High-temperature emissions from persistently degassing volcanoes are a known source of trace metal emissions to the atmosphere which may have important environmental consequences. Among these metals, mercury (Hg) is of particular interest since it is a toxic volatile metal found at elevated concentrations in remote regions of the world. Many natural Hg pathways include a recycled component of anthropogenic material. The anthropogenic contribution to the global atmospheric Hg budget is now well constrained, with …

Approaching the whole quality of buildings: methods for the evaluation of economic, energetic and environmental issues

2002

In this work the energy, economy and environment ("three E") requirements for buildings are approached in a joint view, by means of an application to an example building typical of the Italian building stock. With this aim, the rate of involvement of renewable sources is here considered for linking energy and environmental characteristics. Economic and environmental features are joint by means of the evaluation of the cost of the saved CO2. Economic and energy characteristics are linked by means of the cost of the saved energy. In turn, the environmental ambit is addressed by means of the ecoprofile methodology and of the environmental labelling of buildings. This should lead toward a first…

MESURE DE LA PERFORMANCE GLOBALE DES AGENCES BANCAIRES : UNE APPLICATION DE LA MÉTHODE DEA

2005

In a DEA framework, the global performance of bank branches is measured and decomposed in technical efficiency and price efficiency.

Global scripts and local translations: The case of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in Norway

2014

Author's version of an article in the journal: City, Culture and Society. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2014.05.007 Cultural and creative industries (CCI) have, in recent years, been a prominent feature of policy initiatives across Northern Europe. This paper approaches CCI as a global, hegemonic 'script' or 'myth' that has spread across national boundaries and policy circles and, as a result, been translated in the light of historical trajectories, local dynamics, and strategic imperatives. In doing so, we shed critical light on ongoing dynamics across the Nordic countries, and more specifically, in the Norwegian national context, by illustrating how…