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From South to North? Mobility of Southern Italian Students at the Transition from the First to the Second Level University Degree
2018
In the last decades, the Italian University System has encountered several structural reforms aimed at making it more internationally competitive. Among them, the introduction of the University financial autonomy has triggered an “internal” competition among Universities to attract students from the entire country. Students’ enrollment at the first level has decreased significantly especially after the economic crisis of 2008, while the students’ migration from the South to the Central and Northern regions of the country has increased. These phenomena have created further inequalities within the country and a cultural and socio-economic loss for the South that does not appear to slow down. …
Il nome della mappa. Traduzioni cartografiche del mondo di Tolkien
2021
Il lavoro di subcreazione che Tolkien porta avanti nelle sue opere si basa su due elementi principali: l’invenzione di lingue ricche e credibili e l’ideazione di un mondo geograficamente verosimile, veicolato da carte geografiche estremamente dettagliate. I toponimi presenti sulle carte sono quindi il trait d’union tra lingue e geografia e a loro sarà dedicato questo articolo. I toponimi del Signore degli Anelli, così come tutta la geopolitica della Terra di Mezzo, derivano direttamente dalle lingue antiche e dalla geografia europea dei tempi Tolkien: qui di seguito si analizzeranno dunque le differenze tra i toponimi originari e la loro resa nelle due principali traduzioni italiane. The su…
LEAVES OFNERIUM OLEANDERL. AS BIOACCUMULATORS OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAH) IN THE AIR OF PALERMO (ITALY): EXTRACTION AND GC-MS ANALYSIS,…
2005
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) were determined in the leaves of Nerium oleander L. an evergreen plant that occurs widely in both urban and rural areas, to monitor the degree of pollution in the urban area of Palermo (Italy) compared to remote areas. Twenty sites (urban roadside, urban, urban park, suburban and rural) in and around Palermo city were investigated. The purpose of this research was to investigate concentration levels and distribution patterns and relate them to possible sources. Analysis of 19 PAH was performed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GCMS) using selected ion monitoring (SIM). The total amount of PAH ranged from 10 to 166 μg/Kg d.w. Each source gives ri…
A New Spatial Shift‐Share Decomposition: An Application to Tourism Competitiveness in Italian Regions
2020
The paper proposes a new version of spatial shift-share decomposition to improve on the various approaches to conventional shift-share analysis found in the literature. The novelty of our proposal is that it enables researchers to assess spatial competitiveness effects controlling for the influence of industrial specialization at both regional and neighborhood level. This new version is applied to inbound tourism in Italian regions and enables us to identify the best and worst performers. Our empirical results identify favorable scenarios in some areas of the country, such as Sardinia as well as regional advantage in a sizeable number of well-known destinations.
Soluzioni smart per la fruizione del patrimonio culturale in siti UNESCO
2022
Configurational theory in traditional manufacturing industries: a new model of high-performing small and medium-sized enterprises
2020
The goal of this study is to provide a model of high-performing small and medium-sized companies to address the new environmental challenges in traditional manufacturing industries. Adopting a configurational logic and following an inductive approach based on four high-performing firms, this paper provides new empirical evidence on how the steps followed by these firms are adjusted to the high-performance models prescribed by the literature. In doing so, it also offers a dynamic view of the interrelationships between the strategy and the new conditions of the environment. At a practitioner level, the paper illustrates which recipes are more appropriate to prescribe recommendations for a mor…
Diversification in evolutionary arenas - assessment and synthesis
2019
Abstract Understanding how and why rates of evolutionary diversification vary is a central issue in evolutionary biology and ecology. The concept of adaptive radiation has attracted much interest, but is metaphorical and verbal in nature, making it difficult to quantitatively compare different evolutionary lineages or geographic regions. In addition, the causes of evolutionary stasis are relatively neglected. Here we review the central concepts in the evolutionary diversification literature and bring these together by proposing a general framework for estimating rates of diversification and quantifying their underlying dynamics, which can be applied across clades and regions and across spat…
Biografies escolars de professorat de geografia i història en secundària: anàlisi de sis casos
2014
El següent treball parteix de l'anàlisi de sis entrevistes semi-estructurades que recorren la vida formativa i professional de tres professors i tres professores de Geografia i Història de diferents centres de secundària del País Valencià. S'analitzen les biografies docents per a intentar establir quins elements influeixen en elles. A través de l'anàlisi de casos es vol esbrinar si hi ha elements que ajuden a un desenvolupament docent satisfactori o, en canvi, el dificulten. Aquest estudi es fa tenint en compte els referents teòrics que han treballat sobre professorat de Ciències Social i cicles de vida professionals. El que hem pogut observar és que hi ha diferents elements que dificulten …