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European Integration and Baltic Sea Region: Diversity and Perspectives

2011

This publication presents a collection of research papers in conjunction with the international conference “ European Integration and Baltic Sea Region: Diversity and Perspectives” , 26–27 September 2011 at the University of Latvia, Riga. The conference is hosted by the Doctoral School for European Integration and Baltic Sea Region Studies, recently established at the university. The publication is a conference volume – Volume I in an anticipated series of publications featuring research papers by doctoral students issued in two-year intervals. -- All contributions have been double-blind peer reviewed.

Telecommunication industry - LatviaEuropean integration - historical aspectsResearchTerritorial and spatial developmentEuropean integration - legal aspectsTransportMacro regionsGlobalisationInnovation:SOCIAL SCIENCES [Research Subject Categories]EU internal marketCompetitivenessEducation
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Governing the Metropolitan Dimension: A Critical Perspective on Institutional Reshaping and Planning Innovation in Italy

2019

As in other European countries, over recent decades the question of metropolitan government has captured political and academic attention in Italy too. The debate has been recently fuelled by a national reform introduced to create 14 metropolitan authorities to provide for new government solutions in the territories of the larger urban areas. Based on literature and empirical observation, this paper presents a critical view of that process by examining the following questions: How do metropolitan areas relate to broader Italian urban policy? How does the reform contribute to a reshaping of multi-level governance through national and local initiatives? And how does institutional reorganisati…

Territorial GovernanceMetropolitan governmentCritical perspectiveUrban PolicyGeography Planning and DevelopmentMetropolitan AreasUrban policyManagement Monitoring Policy and LawMetropolitan areaUrban StudiesPoliticsItalyPolitical scienceSocial and Economic GeographyRegional scienceDimension (data warehouse)Social och ekonomisk geografiSpatial PlanningTerritorial governanceSpatial planningEJSD
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Regional Innovation System as a Framework for the Co-generation of Policy: An Action Research Approach

2018

Policy makers in regional development often relate their policies to frameworks proposed by researchers in the field. Of these frameworks, the regional innovation system (RIS) has been one of the most influential. This chapter focuses on the difficulties that arise when policy makers try to enact the RIS and other related frameworks and proposes action research—and, more specifically, a co-generative approach—to help face these challenges. The starting point for this proposal is an analysis of the differences and similarities between the observer and co-generative research approaches. Most research in this field has been developed with researchers positioned as outside observers, and co-gen…

Territorial developmentCo generationKnowledge managementbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciences0211 other engineering and technologies021107 urban & regional planning02 engineering and technologyRegional innovation systemRegional developmentPolitical science0502 economics and businessIdeologyAction researchbusiness050203 business & managementmedia_common
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An analysis on the subjective perception of policy action on peripherality: A comparative assessment in accessible and peripheral areas of six countr…

2009

The paper presents an analysis of the subjective perception of the policy efficiency on peripherality in 12 regions of six countries of the EU. In each country two regions are selected: one peripheral but relatively dynamic and another accessible but relatively lagging. Public action conditions a range of processes and activities that continuously influence the intensity and direction of development. It can be part of the new factors of territorial development (NFTD) building up or hindering peripherality. The paper has the following aims: to identify what generic types of measures are believed to be more efficient for development; to analyse which measures (spatial or aspatial) are conside…

Territorial developmentEconomic growthSubjective perceptionGeography Planning and DevelopmentRank (computer programming)Management Monitoring Policy and LawDevelopmentPolicy analysisGeographyRegional developmentAction (philosophy)Regional sciencePublic actionLaggingRegional Science Policy & Practice
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Whitewater sports: An innovation conducive to regional development? The case of the Ubaye Valley

2015

The Ubaye Valley in the French Alps became a center of tourism and outdoor sports in the twentieth century. It is named after the river which became a site for the practice of whitewater sports (canoeing/kayaking, rafting, etc.). Various structures were created there to disseminate these practices (associations, clubs and finally companies). The marketing of products combining these activities was able to take off thanks to the promotion of events undertaken by elected officials and area companies. But how was this offer able to foster innovation, understood as the adaptation of practices to current needs? Reconstructing the perspectives of ordinary innovation, this article examines the tec…

Territorial developmentGeographyPromotion (rank)Resource (biology)Sociology and Political ScienceRegional developmentEconomymedia_common.quotation_subjectCivil engineeringTourismmedia_commonLoisir et Société / Society and Leisure
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Latvia: A Centre-Oriented Country in Transition

2005

Territorial developmentRegional developmentPolitical scienceTransition (fiction)Economic geography
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Verde pensile estensivo ad alto valore ecologico in ambiente mediterraneo. Aspetti progettuali e funzionali

2013

Green areas are open spaces holding an unexpected kind of local biodiversity within the city, linked to species and habitats frequently found in human settlements. Green roofs can be an important means for environmental mitigation and, if designed according to the principles of restoration ecology, can improve the thermodynamic performance / hydraulic system and at the same time encouraging the development of urban biodiversity. With this work, we propose a methodology approach for green roofs in Mediterranean areas, that integrate aesthetic values with the functional traits of native species, in order to make green roofs “local tanks of biodiversity”.

Tetti verdi verde pensile estensivo Regione Mediterranea habitat biodiversitàGreen roofs Mediterranean Region biodiversity extensive green roofs habitatSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata
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Protective effect of paraoxonase-2 against endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptosis is lost upon disturbance of calcium homoeostasis

2008

PON2 (paraoxonase-2) is a ubiquitously expressed antioxidative protein which is largely found in the ER (endoplasmic reticulum). Addressing the cytoprotective functions of PON2, we observed that PON2 overexpression provided significant resistance to ER-stress-induced caspase 3 activation when the ER stress was induced by interference with protein modification (by tunicamycin or dithiothreitol), but not when ER stress was induced by disturbance of Ca2+ homoeostasis (by thapsigargin or A23187). When analysing the underlying molecular events, we found an activation of the PON2 promoter in response to all tested ER-stress-inducing stimuli. However, only tunicamycin and dithiothreitol resulted i…

ThapsigarginRNA StabilityApoptosisCaspase 3Protein degradationEndoplasmic ReticulumBiochemistryGene Expression Regulation EnzymologicCell Linechemistry.chemical_compoundStress PhysiologicalHomeostasisHumansEnzyme InhibitorsPromoter Regions Genetic3' Untranslated RegionsMolecular BiologyCalcimycinIonophoresbiologyAryldialkylphosphataseCalpainTunicamycinEndoplasmic reticulumCalpainCell BiologyTunicamycinCell biologyDithiothreitolchemistryApoptosisbiology.proteinUnfolded protein responseThapsigarginCalcium5' Untranslated RegionsBiochemical Journal
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Narrativa dei Caraibi nel nuovo millennio

2020

L’etichetta “Letterature franco-caraibica” utilizzata, per convenzione, dalla critica per indicare unitariamente la produzione letteraria in lingua francese della regione centrale del Continente americano è assai impropria. La regione dei Caraibi abbraccia, infatti, sia alcune delle isole dell’arcipelago delle Piccole Antille (Martinica, Guadalupa), sia l’isola di Haïti, che fa parte delle Grandi Antille, che la Guiana incastonata sulla costa orientale dell’America meridionale. Pur nella diversità dei movimenti ideologici e degli avvenimenti storici che si sono succeduti nella regione, le opere letterarie degli scrittori caraibici francofoni, nel loro insieme, hanno oscillato, e continuano …

The definition "Franco-Caribbean Literature" used by convention from the critique to indicate all the literary production in French of the central region of the American continent is very improper. The Caribbean region includes in fact the islands of Martinique Guadeloupe Haïti and the Guiana. Despite the diversity of ideological movements and historical events that took place in these countries the literary works of the Caribbean writers have fluctuated and continue to oscillate between two tendencies: that of rooting in tradition and that of escape from it. The writers show themselves open to comparison and dialogue with other literary and cultural traditions in order to create a narrative form that corresponds to the many inheritances of those composite populations. Here the cultural syncretism that has been created allows to recognize a common identity in the name of all that the West wanted to extinguish. The common denominator seems to be inverted in the contradictory result of courageous but dangerous encounters of curiosities that can lead to conflicts to exclusions.
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Caraibi: un "archipel inachevé"

2018

L’etichetta “Letterature franco-caraibica” utilizzata, per convenzione, dalla critica per indicare unitariamente la produzione letteraria in lingua francese della regione centrale del Continente americano è assai impropria. La regione dei Caraibi abbraccia, infatti, sia alcune delle isole dell’arcipelago delle Piccole Antille (Martinica, Guadalupa), sia l’isola di Haïti, che fa parte delle Grandi Antille, che la Guiana incastonata sulla costa orientale dell’America meridionale. Pur nella diversità dei movimenti ideologici e degli avvenimenti storici che si sono succeduti nella regione, le opere letterarie degli scrittori caraibici francofoni, nel loro insieme, hanno oscillato, e continuano …

The definition "Franco-Caribbean Literature" used by convention from the critique to indicate all the literary production in French of the central region of the American continent is very improper. The Caribbean region includes in fact the islands of Martinique Guadeloupe Haïti and the Guiana. Despite the diversity of ideological movements and historical events that took place in these countries the literary works of the Caribbean writers have fluctuated and continue to oscillate between two tendencies: that of rooting in tradition and that of escape from it. The writers show themselves open to comparison and dialogue with other literary and cultural traditions in order to create a narrative form that corresponds to the many inheritances of those composite populations. Here the cultural syncretism that has been created allows to recognize a common identity in the name of all that the West wanted to extinguish. The common denominator seems to be inverted in the contradictory result of courageous but dangerous encounters of curiosities that can lead to conflicts to exclusions.Settore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria E Letterature Comparate
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