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Alzheimer da vicino
2014
Si tratta del contributo di studio di un architetto che, alle prese con la malattia della madre (l'Alzheimer) tenta di porre in essere una serie di azioni e strategie che gli permettono di verificare sul campo come lo spazio influisca sul paziente, facilitando la degente in un percorso di vita più gestibile
Palermo: lo Zen a l'arte della negoziazione pubblico-privato
2008
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The analysis of Mashhad social housing projects through SWOT technique
2017
The dire need to supply housing to all classes of people has resulted in the emergence of social housing to support the lower classes. However, lack of attention to quantitative and qualitative assessment of projects when they are finished causes many design and construction problems and issues to be repeated in future projects. Many of such social housing projects in the city of Mashhad had failed to perform favourably, so their positive and negative attributes must be analysed if the desirable model of social housing is ever to be known. The main goal of this study is to identify the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats of social housing projects in Mashhad and suburbs. The…
Comparing social contact and group identification as predictors of mental health
2012
Current research on social integration and mental health operationalizes social integration as frequency of interactions and participation in social activities (i.e., social contact). This neglects the subjective dimension of social integration, namely group identification. We present two studies comparing the effect exerted by social contact and group identification on mental health (e.g., depression, stress) across two different groups (family; army unit), demonstrating that group identification predicts mental health better than social contact.
The cost and actuarial imbalance of pay‐as‐you‐go systems: the case of Spain
2010
This work determines the actuarial cost of delivering a monetary unit of pension in the case of a pay‐as‐you‐go system. The model is also applied to determining the imbalance and the unitary pension cost of the contributory pension system of the Spanish Social Security system. The study covers all benefits and all regimes for five consecutive years from 2002 to 2006. Policy alternatives are presented that would allow the system to be brought back into balance by actuarially equating the cost to the value of the pension delivered.
Prerequisites for Maintaining Emotion Self-regulation in Social Work with Traumatized Adolescents: A Qualitative Study among Social Workers in A Norw…
2020
Many adolescents in residential care have a history of traumatization, often with consequences on regulating emotions, thoughts, behaviors, as well as on establishing healthy relationships. Such evidence-based knowledge has paved the way for various trauma-informed models of care that emphasize the adolescents’ need to be other-regulated through caring adults. Being a “regulating other” requires the ability of self-regulation, which may be challenging for staff faced with intense emotional and behavioral expressions from the adolescents. In this qualitative study, fifteen social workers at a residential care unit for adolescents in Norway were individually interviewed on themes addressing w…
An analysis of the price escalation of non-linear water tariffs for domestic uses in Spain
2015
Abstract Efficient and sustainable water resource use and management is becoming increasingly important, especially in regions under water stress. The use of increasing block pricing involving an escalation or progressivity of unit prices in tariff systems is an economic instrument that contributes to achieving this objective. More progressive tariffs are expected to contribute to a better allocation of resources and avoid their wastage. This article analyses the determinants of the price escalation of water supply tariffs in Spain, a country subject to a high water stress throughout most of its territory. The main objective is to discern whether differences in the degree of progressivity i…
Sostenibilità e Social Housing: alcuni modelli di riferimento
2013
La crisi economica e sociale degli ultimi anni non ha risparmiato il settore delle abitazioni e i gruppi più deboli di utenti. L'abitazione sociale sembra offrire soluzioni adeguate all'emergenza che stiamo vivendo, soprattutto se gli interventi sono caratterizzati dalla sostenibilità ambientale. L'articolo mostra alcuni dei progetti residenziali più interessanti realizzati in Europa. The economic and social crisis of recent years has not spared the housing sector and the weaker groups of users. social housing appears to offer adequate solutions to the emergency we are experiencing, especially if interventions are environmental sustainability characteristics. the article shows, in the resid…
Booms, Busts and normal times in the housing market
2015
We assess the existence of duration dependence in the likelihood of an end in housing booms, busts, and normal times. Using data for 20 industrial countries and a continuous-time Weibull duration model, we find evidence of positive duration dependence suggesting that housing market cycles have become longer over the last decades. Then, we extend the baseline Weibull model and allow for the presence of a change-point in the duration dependence parameter.We show that positive duration dependence is present in booms and busts that last less than 26 quarters, but that does not seem to be the case for longer phases of the housing market cycle. For normal times, no evidence of change-points is fo…
The subjective and objective evaluation of accomodation in Latvia in the aftercrisis period
2021
The most important wishes of people concentrate on the tendency to reach vitally significant factors (well-being, security, sustainability) that are realized through various channels – education, employment, family, material prosperity a.o.). One of the basic needs of an individual is a need for a physical shelter or a dwelling, yet, a dwelling is not only a roof over the head - it is also an indicator of the life quality. In its turn, it includes also the location of the dwelling, its technical conditions, as well as the living space – all influences the quality of life. Thereby the satisfaction with the dwelling can be linked with the satisfaction with life and well-being. On the side of …