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Research on Unrealistic Optimism among HoReCa Workers as a Possible Future Hotspot of Infections
2021
As we are facing a new surge of the highly infectious delta variant of COVID-19, there is an urgent need for research to reduce the harm before this next wave hits. In the present paper, we present data that is alarming. We have found that HoReCa (hotels, restaurants, and catering services) workers, who are highly exposed to many new social interactions in close contact, present an unrealistic optimism (UO) bias: they perceive themselves as less at risk to this virus in comparison to others. From the literature, we already know that individuals holding this view are less involved in preventive actions and present more risky behaviors. In the face of the delta variant, this leads to the conc…
Digitalization and sustainability: virtual reality tourism in a post pandemic world
2022
The government-imposed COVID-19 pandemic control measures brought the tourism sector to a complete halt. However, virtual reality (VR) tourism offered people a way to escape the isolation. Media reports and research have noted heightened activity in VR tourism, which has been touted as “alternative tourism” and “eco-tourism”. However, scholars have yet to determine whether this shift is temporary or will persist after the pandemic is over. Questions also remain regarding the factors driving this behaviour. The present study uses stimulus-organism-response theory (SOR) to propose a sequential mechanism of the interplay of antecedents and outcomes, theorising VR tourism as a sustainable touri…
CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE PROBABILITY TO ACQUIRE THE BACKED START-UP: A REAL OPTION PERSPECTIVE
2017
To sustain their competitive positions, an increasing number of corporates access new knowledge and technologies from emerging start-ups by engaging in Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) investments. CVC investments provide corporates the option to in-source start-ups’ knowledge and technologies through follow-on acquisitions. However acquiring a backed start-up is not always a guarantee of success. Then, corporates should consider which are the most appropriate conditions under which it is beneficial to acquire a CVC backed start-up. Utilizing the theoretical lens of Real Option, we examine the conditions under which a CVC investment may evolve into an acquisition of the backed start-up. We p…
Variation on the theme 'In Search of New Foundations for Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance'
2003
Our purpose is to explore an alternative way to give new foundations to the theory of corporate finance and governance. The definition we give of corporate finance considers capital-budgeting as central. The shortcomings of the contract theory of the firm result in proposing new foundations to corporate finance based on the knowledge-based theories of the firm. Lastly, we explore the consequences of these new foundations. It leads to give new explanations of the role of external equity financing, financial debt and especially of internal financing, and to re-examine the corporate governance and financial evaluation questions.
Urban Development and Cultural Policy “White Elephants”: Barcelona and Valencia
2015
AbstractThe importance of culture in defining new models of local development has been increasingly emphasized. However, less attention has been paid to the influence of local development models on local cultural policy. This article will focus on analysing two cities that have used culture as a central element in their economic and urban development. In both cases, they have followed different strategies but the two have finally finished generating two “white elephants”: the Universal Forum of Cultures in the case of Barcelona and the City of Arts and Sciences in the case of Valencia. From a comparison of the two cases, the paper analyses the causes of this urban phenomenon, which combines…
The Europe of “decentralised courts”. The construction of the political image of the Bourbons of Italy and Spain
2022
Nel Regno di Sicilia negli anni Settanta del Settecento Ferdinando di Borbone, in seguito all'espulsione dei Gesuiti e grazie al deciso intervento dell'élite locale, procedette a ricondurre i reperti archeologici nella categoria degli interessi statali. Il re proibì l'esportazione non autorizzata dei reperti e procedette, sull'esempio napoletano, all'organizzazione della Regia Custodia, un piano di custodia monumentale e archeologica. Nel dicembre 1798 Ferdinando e Maria Carolina trasferirono poi la corte a Palermo, avviando la costruzione di riserve di caccia sul modello napoletano, come Ficuzza, e promuovendo nuove aree a fini produttivi. In questo piano edilizio spicca la Casina cinese n…
Traduzione di J. R. Searle, Coscienza, linguaggio, società, a cura di Ugo Perone, Prefazione di Francesca Di Lorenzo Ajello.
2009
In questo testo, che raccoglie il ciclo di lezioni tenuto presso la Scuola di Alta Formazione Filosofica di Torino, John Searle ripercorre il proprio itinerario teorico, dalla filosofia della mente alla filosofia del linguaggio fino alla più recente ontologia sociale, mostrando non solo che la realtà umana, fatta di coscienza, intenzionalità, significato linguistico, razionalità, diritti, doveri, ecc., è compatibile con la realtà naturale quale viene descritta dalla fisica, dalla chimica e dalla biologia, ma anche che, una volta descritta correttamente, la prima è una naturale conseguenza della seconda. Perseguendo tale progetto Searle offre le proprie soluzioni a molteplici problemi della …
‘L'uomo nel labirinto’: Decadenza di Luigi Gualdo, in Atti del Congresso nazionale ADI Gli scrittori d'Italia. Il patrimonio e la memoria della tradi…
2008
Scheduling in Targeted Transient Surveys and a New Telescope for CHASE
2010
We present a method for scheduling observations in small field-of-view transient targeted surveys. The method is based on maximizing the probability of detection of transient events of a given type and age since occurrence; it requires knowledge of the time since the last observation for every observed field, the expected light curve of the event, and the expected rate of events in the fields where the search is performed. In order to test this scheduling strategy we use a modified version of the genetic scheduler developed for the telescope control system RTS2. In particular, we present example schedules designed for a future 50 cm telescope that will expand the capabilities of the CHASE s…
Measuring Spatiotemporal Dependencies in Bivariate Temporal Random Sets with Applications to Cell Biology
2008
Analyzing spatiotemporal dependencies between different types of events is highly relevant to many biological phenomena (e.g., signaling and trafficking), especially as advances in probes and microscopy have facilitated the imaging of dynamic processes in living cells. For many types of events, the segmented areas can overlap spatially and temporally, forming random clumps. In this paper, we model the binary image sequences of two different event types as a realization of a bivariate temporal random set and propose a nonparametric approach to quantify spatial and spatiotemporal interrelations using the pair correlation, cross-covariance, and the Ripley K functions. Based on these summary st…