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This volume includes contributions selected after a double blind review process and presented as a preliminary version at the 45th Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society. The papers provide significant and innovative original contributions and cover a broad range of topics including: statistical theory; methods for time series and spatial data; statistical modeling and data analysis; survey methodology and official statistics; analysis of social, demographic and health data; and economic statistics and econometrics.
The 5th Multidisciplinary Academic Conference in Prague 2015, Czech Republic (The 5th MAC 2015)
This book covers sustainable approaches for industrial transformation pertaining to valorization of agro-industrial byproducts. Divided into four sections, it starts with information about the agro/food industry and its byproducts, including their characterization, followed by different green technologies (principle, process strategies and extraction of bioactive compounds) applied for the management of agro industry byproducts. It further explains biotechnological interventions involved in the value addition of these byproducts. Various regulatory and environmental concerns related to by-product management along with biorefinery concept and future strategies are provided as well. Features: ...
In the most recent years, Economic Statistics, like other applied and non-applied sciences, has been involved in the new intense data revolution, which regards all research fields, especially for data collection and data processing issues. The traditional statistical measures, used to monitor economic activities, are transformed from slow and periodic recordings into real-time information, with the need to integrate different sources of information. Complex data offer additional information to analyse economic phenomena, although main problems are still open questions regarding methodological issues, costs of collection, storing and analysis. In the light of this new scenario, the 2nd Confer...
Nel 1910 le scuole rurali private della Montesca e di Rovigliano, fondate nelle tenute umbre dei Baroni Franchetti, partecipano all’Esposizione Universale e Internazionale di Bruxelles dove si raccontano per la prima volta. L’iniziativa è frutto della lungimiranza di Alice Hallgarten che, filantropa e visionaria, mira a suscitare interesse internazionale verso un innovativo progetto pedagogico volto a contrastare l’analfabetismo e la miseria che segna la vita delle famiglie dei mezzadri locali. Nella capitale belga, i quaderni e i disegni di questi ‘figli delle campagne’, che il primo giorno di lezione fanno fatica persino a «dire il loro nome», meriteranno una medaglia d’oro ...
The trend of measuring performances is global and pervasive. We all live in quantified societies, in which performances in an ever-growing array of fields–from education to health, work to credit, justice to consumption–are assessed and governed through quantitative techniques. While the disruption brought by the quantitative turn has been widely studied by social scientists, legal research on the issue is minimal. This book aims to fill the gap. The essays herein collected explore how performance measurements interact with the law in different regions and sectors, which legal effects they produce, and for whose benefit.
Un bilancio critico a dodici anni dalla riforma: cosa ha funzionato, cosa non ha funzionato e perché.Il 2000 segna un'importante cesura nella storia recente dell'università italiana. In quell'anno viene introdotta, infatti, la riforma del '3+2'. Nata dalla volontà di adeguare l'organizzazione dell'offerta universitaria al modello prevalente di istruzione superiore europea, strutturato su due livelli principali di studio laurea triennale (bachelor) e laurea magistrale (master) la riforma si propone di superare il grave ritardo dell'Italia rispetto agli altri paesi avanzati in termini di capitale umano. E, insieme, di rispondere a una domanda di equità e di mobilità sociale. Aumentare il ...
This book presents what is the state-of-the-art in the field of the food waste phenomenon at consumer level, including a thorough literature review, and it highlights trends in the field. It provides a comprehensive starting point for future research. Food waste represents a major public policy issue, which is included in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In this context, the present work identifies the most important definitions given to food waste and its environmental, social and economic impacts. With a comprehensive literature review that covers a forty-year time span (1977-2017), this book highlights the multiple, complex facets of food waste at the consumer level. Drawing from behavioural and marketing theories, it proposes a new theoretical framework with the aim to better explain food waste behaviour. Extensive research is being carried out on the main worldwide initiatives (both public and private) and food policies aimed at tackling the phenomenon.
Si algo caracteriza al fenómeno turístico es su multidimensionalidad. Y una consecuencia inmediata de esas múltiples posiciones que pueden adoptarse sobre el fenómeno turístico cuando se aborda su estudio es, precisamente, su complejidad. Una complejidad que, en estos últimos años, ha sido enfrentada, primero, con diversas técnicas y métodos heurísticos fundados en supuestos importados de otras disciplinas para, después, pasar a la especialización de las herramientas de estudio en la temática turística. De un enfoque unidisciplinar y centrado en la rentabilidad a corto plazo, se ha evolucionado hacia una visión holística, multidisciplinar y abierta, que engloba las múltiples...