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Banks’ business strategies on the edge of distress
2019
AbstractThe paper investigates the importance of banks’ business classification in shaping the risk profile of financial institutions on a global scale. We employ a rare-event logit model based on a state-of-the-art list of major global distress events from the global financial crisis. When clustering banks by their business strategies using a community detection approach, we show that (i) capital enhanced resilience only for traditional banks that were on average less capitalized than other banks; (ii) boosting ROE, usually associated with riskier exposures, improved resilience for stable funded and asset diversified banks; (iii) conversely, higher levels of ROA exacerbated banks’ vulnerab…
In nomine patris: Discursive strategies and ideology in the Cosa Nostra family discourse
2017
Abstract The article investigates how Cosa Nostra family discourse is characterized by a series of discursive strategies that give shape to specific ideological structures. By analysing a TV interview to the son of Bernardo Provenzano, boss of Cosa Nostra, it is possible to understand how the criminal values and practices are maintained and reproduced within the father–son relationship. Specifically, we show how the son justifies, legitimises or denies the criminal actions of his father. The ideology of Cosa Nostra seems to be based on the inter-generational cultural continuity of its members, on the family as main locus of adherence, reductionism of its mediatic image, amoralism as father–…
Metaphors in the mirror: The influence of teaching metaphors in a medical education programme
2016
Medical students often face problems in using and understanding metaphors when communicating with a patient or reading a scientific paper. These figures of speech constitute an interpretative problem and students need key strategies to facilitate metaphor comprehension and disambiguation of meaning. This article examines how medical students' strategies of metaphor comprehension could be improved by specific teaching on metaphors using a Cognitive Linguistics approach. Medical students' ability to comprehend mirror neuron metaphors was assessed comparing the performance of students who did not receive any instruction about metaphoric extension strategies after a lesson on mirror neurons wit…
Researching pronunciation learning strategies: An overview and a critical look
2018
Disparate goals that learners might have in learning second or foreign language pronunciation and the scant classroom time that can be dedicated to teaching this target language subsystem dictate that learner autonomy is of vital importance in this case and adept use of pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) can be viewed as key to the development of this attribute. Surprisingly, research on these strategies is scarce, mainly focusing on the identification and classification of PLS, diverse instruments are used for data collection and the findings are inconclusive. The paper provides an overview of the available research on PLS with respect to their identification, learners’ preferences co…
Strategic Processing of Chinese Young English Language Learners in an International Standardized English Language Test
2018
Strategic competence is acknowledged to be able to explain variations in language test performance. Research with adult language test-takers has shown that strategic competence has dual components: strategic knowledge and strategic processing. Of the two components, strategic processing, which is state-like, unstable, and tends to fluctuate from contexts to contexts, is more closely related to language test performance. To date, none of the existing studies investigates strategic processing with children English language learners (ELLs) and explores the relationship between strategic processing in all the four skills of language learning and the test performance. Addressing these gaps, the …
Sourcing on the internet: Examining the relations among different phases of online inquiry
2021
This study examined students’ engagement in sourcing throughout online inquiry, that is, when they specified the information need, formulated search queries, evaluated online texts, and composed a written product. Participants were 167 upper secondary school students. Students completed an online inquiry task in a restricted online environment that utilized authentic online texts. Students’ prior topic knowledge and reading fluency was measured and controlled for in the analysis. The results showed that students engaged in sourcing even in the earliest phases of online inquiry. A sequential regression analysis indicated that the more frequently students engaged in sourcing in specifying the…
Rehabilitació d’addiccions comportamentals: trets d’una experiència
2018
Aquest treball focalitza l’experiència de rehabilitació d’un grup de persones afectades de ludopatia, a la qual se sumen altres carències i diagnòstics dins l’àmbit de la salut mental, per la qual cosa es configuren situacions personals de comorbiditat. L’experiència forma part del programa de rehabilitació d’addiccions vinculades a trastorns del control dels impulsos –jocs d’atzar, compres o les tic– que desenvolupa el Centre d’Orientació Familiar (cof). A través de la metodologia pròpia de la sistematització d’experièn- cies, es procedeix a la identificació i comprensió del procés i a la interpretació del sentit de l’acció realitzada, i es dona compte dels procediments i processos, el seu…
IL DIALOGO NELLA MEDIAZIONE E RISOLUZIONE DI CONFLITTI. APPROFONDIMENTI LINGUISTICI
2016
I paesi europei conoscono da tempo varie forme di mediazione e conciliazione. Pur nella diversità di metodologie e regole della mediazione presenti nei paesi membri, sono riscontrabili tratti comuni che tuttavia necessiterebbero di una regolamentazione univoca per tutto il territorio europeo. Il ruolo assunto dall’esperienza comunitaria in materia di conciliazione è assai rilevante, in quanto lo strumento della mediazione ha ricevuto un importante sviluppo grazie alle direttive europee aventi lo scopo di adeguare le legislazioni degli Stati membri in materia di Alternatitve Dispute Resolution (ADR), dapprima in materia societaria e commerciale, successivamente in materia di consumo e nei ra…
ADVP technology-supported model the development of metacognitive strategies during teacher training academic studies
2012
The aim of the present study is to determine the relationship between metacognition and decision making and whether metacognitive strategy instruction is effective in improving decision-making performance. Previous research results in the field demonstrated a relationship between metacognitive awareness and decision-making performance. Regulation of cognition was shown to have a greater impact on decision making than did knowledge of cognition. Metacognitive strategy instruction was found to be beneficial to those in the below-average group, but not to those in the average or above-average groups. This study, using the elaborated learning and knowledge building model (ADVP model), derived f…