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This book focuses on the transmission of ethnic identity across three generations of Italian-Australians, specifically Italian-Australians of Calabrian descent in the Adelaide region of Australia. Simone Marino analyzes ethnographic data collected over a three-year period to consider individual, familial and community cultural practices, as well as societal influences on ethnic identity transmission, in order to present generational differences in the understandings of Italian-Australian identity. Among other factors, the role of community events, community networks, and cultural practices associated with being Italian-Australian are examined. The transmission of ethnic identity is analysed ...
The financial crisis of 2008 led the United Kingdom's Labour Government to make changes--primarily cuts--to social programs and a wide range of social services. The subsequent Coalition Government followed those changes with much more dramatic cuts. This book offers the first in-depth empirical analysis of the two governments and their approach to social policy in a period of crisis, assessing policy aims, policy implementation, and measurable outcomes.
Workers’ skills are an essential asset for firms to recover from the COVID-19 shock and succeed in the twin digital and green transitions. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) face special barriers to investing in human capital because of their size and more limited access to information and capital markets. This report identifies policies that are successful in promoting SMEs’ investment in the skills of employees, managers or entrepreneurs.
This report on Bulgaria is the eighth country study published in a series of reports looking into how policies connect people with jobs. It provides a detailed analysis of Bulgaria’s inactive and unemployed population and identifies groups of people who would benefit from measures and services provided by Bulgaria’s Public Employment Service.
This book contains a selection of papers presented at the conference on High Performance Software for Nonlinear Optimization (HPSN097) which was held in Ischia, Italy, in June 1997. The rapid progress of computer technologies, including new parallel architec tures, has stimulated a large amount of research devoted to building software environments and defining algorithms able to fully exploit this new computa tional power. In some sense, numerical analysis has to conform itself to the new tools. The impact of parallel computing in nonlinear optimization, which had a slow start at the beginning, seems now to increase at a fast rate, and it is reasonable to expect an even greater acceleration ...
L’abilità degli individui nell’assumere il controllo delle azioni, delle emozioni e della fiducia in se stessi dona la capacità di sviluppare le attitudini e l’autonomia decisionale. Questo processo può condurre a una maggiore realizzazione personale e a una migliore qualità della vita. Il benessere psicologico ed emotivo deriva dall’adozione di pratiche e frasi a effetto che contribuiscono a favorire l’autodeterminazione e la comprensione degli atteggiamenti altrui. Ognuno di noi ha il potenziale per influenzare la propria vita e l’ambiente circostante, ma occorre imparare a esaminare cosa si ha di fronte, studiare gli atteggiamenti e la postura delle persone: in tutto ciò ...
La musica contemporanea nasce come riflesso delle complessità e delle incertezze che caratterizzano il nostro tempo. Affascinante quanto ermetica, questa categoria stilistica incarna le istanze di compositori, interpreti e fruitori che decidono di spezzare le catene con il passato per esplorare nuove frontiere sonore e artistiche. Difatti, le problematiche relative alla musica contemporanea derivano proprio dalla sua essenza: la ricerca della novità. Gli interpreti si trovano ad avere a che fare con nuove tecnologie e con nuove tecniche strumentali e al pubblico viene richiesto un nuovo tipo di ascolto, il quale pone in primo piano l’esperienza piuttosto che la piacevolezza. Il superamento di queste criticità ha però come ricompensa la possibilità di prendere parte a momenti totalizzanti, che permettono a ognuno di cogliere per un instante la profondità e la complessità dell’esperienza umana attraverso l’essenza dell’arte.
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