Search results for "consumer"

Analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes as a tool for assessing the environmental impact of aquaculture: a case study from the western Medite…

2005

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios ( 13C/ 12 C and 15N/14 N) of in situ dominant primary producers and consumers were investigated to assess the impact on a natural ecosystem of a land-based fish farm along the south-western coast of Sicily (Italy). The putatively impacted area close to the farm along outfall was compared with other locations at increasing distances from the outfall. Carbon and mainly nitrogen stable isotopes revealed evidence of widespread aquaculture waste in the study site: benthic organisms collected in the impacted area showed more enriched δ 15N signatures than those at greater distances from the outfall, suggesting a large contribution of aquaculture waste to …

An Online Multilingual Medical Vocabulary/Thesaurus/Dictionary (MED-VTD) for Facilitating Understanding of Medical Texts

Medical texts (e.g., reports and medicine leaflets) are usually written by professionals (physicians, medical researchers, etc.) who use their own language and communication style. On the other hand, they are often read by health consumers or other medical professionals who do not have the same vocabularies and can have difficulties in text comprehension. Thus, to help a generic user in understanding a medical text, it would be desirable to have an online medical vocabulary/thesaurus/dictionary that he/she can easily look for finding the plain equivalent of any medical (technical) term and a definition of the term with the same kind of language. In this work, we present an online multilingu…

U-MedSearch: A Meta Search Engine of Medical Content for Different Users and Learning Needs

2015

More and more people use Internet to look for medical information for understanding and learning but different users, such as experts (e.g., physicians) and consumers (e.g., patients), have different needs and bring different levels of reading ability and prior knowledge. Generic and specific search engines and specialized health sites either do not exploit the whole web or overload users with information of different nature. On the contrary, it is important for a user to immediately find the information on the topic being explored that has the 'right' amount of information and level of complexity. This paper presents a meta search engine of medical information on the web, U-MedSearch, that…

Finding the best web medical content for different learner categories

2015

In the age of Internet where any kind of information can be easily found online, it is becoming increasingly evident that more and more people use the World Wide Web to seek health and medical information for understanding and learning. Different users have diverse needs, even when searching for the same topic. This is certainly true in healthcare, where a patient, a physician or a health executive might look for information on the same topic but have different necessities and bring different levels of reading ability and prior knowledge together with a different vocabulary. Generic search engines (like Google, Bing or Yahoo) work on the whole web but make generic searches often overloading…

I RIGIDI CONFINI DELLA NOZIONE DI «CONSUMATORE» NELLA COMPOSIZIONE DELLA CRISI DA SOVRAINDEBITAMENTO

2016

Consumer bankruptcy Remedies

Green calims, green washing and consumer protection in European Union

2021

The purpose of this paper is to offer some reflection on the importance of reliable green claims to encourage sustainable production. The role of market is fundamental. Businesses and consumers are both involved in achieving environmental protection objectives. There is the real risk of the phenomenon of so-called green washing or misleading marketing. The problem arises of verifying the reliability of green claims to prevent competitive elements from become distorting factors of competition.

La tutela del contraente debole nella platform economy dopo il Regolamento UE 2019/1150 e la Direttiva UE 2019/2161 (c.d. Omnibus)

2020

The article summarise the main legal issue related to the protection of users of online service providers in the light of Reg. EU 2019/1150 and Dir. EU 2019/2161

L'accesso al credito immobiliare

2018

The essay deals with the issue of the various forms of financing real estate purchases with particular regard to the new types of contracts designed specifically to facilitate access to credit, such as rent to buy, the real estate lifetime loan, the real estate credit to businesses and the real estate credit to consumers

Product liability from a comparative perspective. What kinds of protection?

2021

This research aims to analyse English and Italian rules in matters of product liability exploring differences and analogies between the two considered legal systems. Since the Donoghue v Stevenson case (1932) in English Law and the Saiwa case (1964) in Italian Law, both House of Lords and Court of Cassation judgments confirm the extraordinary relevance of food in opening up new frontiers of liability. The research discloses that the current legal framework in this area is still fragmented and rather unsatisfactory and that the significant differences between national consumer laws in the jurisdictions of the trader and the consumer may deter them from transacting across borders.

Frazionamento della filiera produttiva e regole del contratto

2019

In order to adopt a new perspective when discussing contract law in the digital age, the following essay analyses the general topic of the fragmentation of the production in the light of three case studies: Google Nest thermostat, crowd- funding and robo-advisors. The three cases are considered relevant for the matter due to the fact that they all exercises the same disrupting power on their supply chain: if, indeed, part of the products and services of their supply chain have been long offered by one or few providers, now the same products and services are real- ized by an indefinite number of players horizontally spread over the market. This evolution critically challenges not only the tr…