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LA GOVERNANCE ECONOMICA DELL’U.E.: I VINCOLI COMUNITARI GRAVANTI SULLA DETERMINAZIONE DEI PRINCIPI DI COORDINAMENTO DELLA FINANZA PUBBLICA E SULLA AR…
2014
The purpose of this thesis is to study the European Union Economic governance system and, in particular, the analysis of the constraints imposed - by that system – on national budgetary policies. It seems particularly important, in fact, the interference between the (internal) process reform of the regulatory platform in economic and financial matters and budget - from the l. 42 and 196/2009 and with the subsequent implementing decrees of the so-called "Fiscal Federalism" - and the respect for the applicable European stability, understood as a premise (formal and substantial) to contribute to the "European Common Market" and codified also in the rules that govern the functioning of the Econ…
Does country-level gender equality explain individual risk of intimate partner violence against women? A multilevel analysis of individual heterogene…
2019
Abstract Background Gender equality is widely accepted as an important explanatory factor for the occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. However, the relationship is not straightforward, as high country-level gender equality is not always associated with lower IPV prevalence. We apply ‘multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy’ (MAIHDA) to (i) quantify the extent to which the country of residence determines individual risk of IPV and (ii) investigate the association between country-level gender equality and individual experience of IPV, and to which extent this association explains the observed between-country differences. Methods Usin…
The minimum pension and its effect on the gender gap in retirement pensions in Spain
2021
The gender gap in pensions is greater than the gender gap in wages in the majority of countries in the European Union. Similarly, more women live on a minimum pension than do men. Therefore, the me...
Prácticas e identificaciones transnacionales en el fútbol europeo: un estudio referido a nueve países = Transnational practices and identifications i…
2018
Resumen: Este artículo presenta los principales hallazgos empíricos de un estudio sobre las prácticas e identificaciones de carácter transnacional que se han desarrollado en el espacio social del fútbol europeo durante las últimas décadas como consecuencia de los procesos de globalización. El objetivo del estudio ha consistido en identificar y cuantificar la emergencia de patrones de consumo e identificación que trascienden las fronteras del Estado-nación al que aquellos estuvieron confinados desde el surgimiento y desarrollo de este deporte. El sustento empírico del trabajo procede de una encuesta realizada dentro del proyecto de investigación Football Research in an Enlarged Europe (FREE)…
What Determines the Electrochemical Properties of Nitrogenated Amorphous Carbon Thin Films?
2021
Funding Information: We acknowledge the provision of facilities by RawMatters Finland Infrastructure (RAMI, no. 292884), Aalto University Bioeconomy, and OtaNano - Nanomicroscopy Center (Aalto-NMC). Use of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under contract no. DE-AC02-76SF00515. We acknowledge CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland, for computational resources. S.S. acknowledges funding from the Walter Ahlström Foundation. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skł…
Speculative and hedging activities in the European Carbon Market
2015
Abstract We explore the dynamics of the speculative and hedging activities in European futures carbon markets by using volume and open interest data. A comparison of the three phases in the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) reveals that (i) Phase II of the EU ETS seems to be the most speculative phase to date and (ii) the highest degree of speculative activity for every single phase occurs at the moment of listing the contracts for the first time. A seasonality analysis identifies a higher level of speculation in the first quarter of each year, related to the schedule of deadlines of the EU ETS. In addition, a time series analysis confirms that most of the speculative activity…
On generalised FC-groups in which normality is a transitive relation
2016
We extend to soluble FC∗ -groups, the class of generalised FC-groups introduced in [F. de Giovanni, A. Russo, G. Vincenzi, Groups with restricted conjugacy classes , Serdica Math. J. 28(3) (2002), 241 254], the characterisation of finite soluble T-groups obtained recently in [G. Kaplan, On T-groups, supersolvable groups and maximal subgroups , Arch. Math. 96 (2011), 19 25].
Accesibilidad y provisión de servicios de interés general en las áreas rurales de la Unión Europea: un análisis a partir del Eurobarómetro
2014
La finalidad de este trabajo es ofrecer un estado de la cuestión sobre el acceso y provisión de Servicios de Interés General (SeIG) en las áreas rurales de la Unión Europea. Se identifican fuerzas de cambio, oportunidades y dificultades relativas a los SeIG que pueden contribuir a impulsar o ralentizar los procesos de desarrollo rural. Se lleva a cabo una revisión de las principales aproximaciones teóricas y se presentan diversos análisis empíricos a partir de los escasos datos homogéneos disponibles. A partir del conocimiento adquirido se formula un conjunto de reflexiones sobre la función de los SeIG en los procesos de cambio rural en la UE.
Mediterranean diet adherence and synergy with acute myocardial infarction and its determinants: A multicenter case-control study in Italy
2018
Background Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in Western countries. The possible synergistic effect of poor adherence to a Mediterranean diet (MD) and other risk factors for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) such as hypertension, cholesterol, ever smoker, BMI> 25, diabetes, has not been deeply studied. Design Case-control study. Methods Patients with first AMI and controls from four tertiary referral Italian centers were screened for enrolment. Dietary information was collected through a questionnaire and a MD adherence score was calculated. Physical activity and smoking habits were also registered. The Synergy Index was calculated according to Rothman…
Association of maternal prenatal smoking GFI1-locus and cardio-metabolic phenotypes in 18,212 adults
2018
Background: DNA methylation at the GFI1-locus has been repeatedly associated with exposure to smoking from the foetal period onwards. We explored whether DNA methylation may be a mechanism that links exposure to maternal prenatal smoking with offspring's adult cardio-metabolic health.Methods: We meta-analysed the association between DNA methylation at GFI1-locus with maternal prenatal smoking, adult own smoking, and cardio-metabolic phenotypes in 22 population-based studies from Europe, Australia, and USA (n= 18,212). DNA methylation at the GFI1-locus was measured in whole-blood. Multivariable regression models were fitted to examine its association with exposure to prenatal and own adult s…