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Valenza e insegnamento della lingua straniera
2015
This work deals with valency, a key syntactic notion whose chemistry-inspired label was established by Lucien Tesnière (1959), one of the most well-known contributors to the Prague Linguistic Circle. We will concentrate on two questions: (a) to what extent does valency play a role in Second Language Learning (SLL)?; and (b) what role should the use of valency play in language teaching practices? This paper will provide answers to these questions and propose reasons for motivating the use of valency in SLL.
Numerical methods for pricing options under jump-diffusion processes
2013
PRICING A CALLABLE CONVERTIBLE BOND: A CASE STUDY
2013
In this note I use a simple method to value a complex hybrid security. I evaluate a convertible callable bond issue, adopting an incremental approach where the different features of the hybrid security are added sequentially. In this setting, I solve backwards the game played at each node between the firm and the investors to understand how the price of the callable convertible bond is determined on the basis of the equilibrium behaviour of the players. I show how the different features affect the price of the security, analyzing the security’s characteristics with an optimal capital structure perspective. I provide a simple intuition of why the callable convertible bond value does not nece…
You Can Even Walk Alone. Stadium Attendance and Professional Soccer Clubs’ Social Role
2008
The purpose of the paper is to suggest a new perspective on the social role in the community for Italian professional soccer clubs. Our findings loosen the knot between hooligans and clubs and could have important consequences on the club’s corporate social responsibility and marketing strategies. After investigating the impact of stadium attendance on team performance for Serie A and B in seasons 2004/05 through 2006/07, we conclude that crowd plays no role in the winning performance of soccer teams at home. Our proposal consists of two policies hinting at a reconciliation between social and educational role of the sport with the club’s commercial interests. The first policy is to establis…
Micro-interactional insights from the English as a foreign language classroom
2014
In this paper, we examine instances of the methods pupils deploy to do language policy in an English as a foreign language classroom in Sweden, where there is a locally practised English-only rule. Although we exemplify some more tacit methods of constructing a monolingual classroom (Slotte-Lüttge 2007), we focus primarily on instances where pupils police other pupils and on occasion even the teacher, when they are perceived not to be upholding the rule. This blatantly explicit method of pupils doing language policy, which we term language policing, generally serves to (re-) establish and maintain English as the medium of interaction and instruction. The data for this study consists of vide…
Dynaaminen hinnoittelu verkkokaupoissa
2016
Tämän kandidaattitutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää kirjallisuuskatsauksella, minkälaisia dynaamisen hinnoittelun mahdollisuuksia yrityksellä on verkkokaupoissa. Tutkielmassa käydään läpi, mitä dynaaminen hinnoittelu on, millaisia dynaamisen hinnoittelun malleja on olemassa, minkälaista tietoa minkä- kin mallin käyttö tarvitsee, miten tietoa haetaan ja käsitellään sekä millaisia riskejä dynaamiseen hinnoitteluun sisältyy. Dynaaminen hinnoittelu on hinnoittelumalli, jossa hintaa muutellaan hinnoitteluun liittyvien tietojen perusteen. Dynaamisilla hinnoittelumetodeilla pyritään selvittämään asiakkaan maksuhalukkuus, hinnoitella tuote tai palvelu sen mukaan, ja näin saada maksuhalukkaammilt…
Factors influencing the pricing of applications in the Apple App Store: A developers’ perspective
2011
Many know how Apple Inc. owes its success in Mobile Commerce to the introduction of the new “App Store” business model. This new market is characterized by the opening to third party mobile apps, which are distributed to consumers through the App Store. This paper investigates factors that might influence the pricing of applications in the Apple Mobile Application Store. By reviewing the existing literature on the issue and analyzing the strategic features characterizing the App Store, we detect three main factors that could influence prices for apps, that is the number of developed apps, the presence of two-sided network externalities and developer’s specialization. An empirical analysis o…
Policía Orientada a los Problemas (POP)
2022
Problem Oriented Policing o Policía Orientada a los Problemas (POP) es un modelo policial adaptado a las nuevas demandas sociales y que va más allá de una actuación reactiva a nivel policial, abogando por un estudio íntegro de cada problemática y una solución amplia que se mueva en el ámbito de la prevención, que tiene en su base el método SARA (Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment).
Perception of the Professional Knowledge of and Education on the Medical Technology Products among the Pharmacists in the Baltic and Nordic Countries…
2016
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Promoción de la salud en adolescentes mediante un programa de intervención de mejora de la condición física y del estilo de vida
2011
La adolescencia es una etapa clave para la promoción de estilos de vida saludables, tales como el incremento de la actividad física y la mejora de la condición física. El objetivo de este estudio ha sido conocer el nivel de práctica de actividad física habitual en adolescentes y analizar su influencia en la salud, especialmente cardiovascular. Así como, diseñar y llevar a cabo un programa de intervención de mejora de la condición física y el estilo de vida en esta misma población. Se evaluó, pre-intervención, nivel de práctica de actividad física y tiempo dedicado a actividades sedentarias; y pre- y postintervención, presión arterial, frecuencia cardiaca en reposo, composición corporal, y c…