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The investigation involves a statistical analysis of educational gymnastics equipment in Italian schools during the 19th century. The purpose of the study is not only to survey the state of gyms in the 1880s but also to examine the extent to which they were equipped as prescribed by the School Regulation of 1878. The paper provides an accurate map of gymnastics education in Italy in the Liberal Age. Conversely, it seems necessary to focus on local developments, didactic approaches and institutions (Sani 2011). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literacy is a complex notion that cannot be reduced to a dichotomy (literate / non-literate). In this paper we discuss the notion of literacy and we distinguish it from the Italian term alfabetizzazione, which is more based on schooling and reveals to be only partially reliable. We consider various national and international surveys which have been developed to measure the levels of literacy in world population so that results can be now compared and correlated with other development factors. The analysis of international surveys is the necessary milestone for increasing and improving educational policies in the world. In international surveys of this century, Italy has ranked among the states with the lowest literacy rates. It is, therefore, necessary to start from this framework and from the worrying persistence of adult functional illiterates in Italy to renew the commitment of the institutions in order to promote and increase literacy in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What challenges for lifelong learning in face of new professional pathways This paper argues some aspects related to the continuity/discontinuity of the labour market trajectories with a view on the employment trends characterised by a raising number of temporary and short-term contracts and by a progressive fragmentation of career paths. To substantiate such considerations the study has taken into account the users involved in the survey "Users Profile and PES consumers satisfaction" carried out by ANPAL in 2017. It is about 40.000 people aged over 30 more representative than those who subscribed or renewed the Declaration of Immediate Readiness to work at the Job Centres in 2016. Data from the Statistical Information System of Mandatory Communications have been attached to this population. Specifically, it has been verified the presence or absence of Communications related to the activation of a job engagement in the period 2012-2017. These analyses on the whole have allowed to trace the main characteristics of employment and transitions from an employment and non-employment state also inside different professional groups. The aim has been to disclose the variety of issues that training has to face combining personal growth expectations and regime objectives to fight exclusion and impoverishment of individuals and territories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although, there is no generally definition for the term “Emerging Markets”, there are two representative features for emerging countries. First, these markets are characterized by rapid growth which is usually expressed in terms of income levels and population. The term of emerging economies refers to nations with social and business activity in the process of fast growth and industrialization. Emerging markets countries are assumed to play a decisive role in international trade and finance as well as to contribute significantly to the global economic growth. Entering an emerging market is not easy. Opportunities in the emerging markets come with their own set of challenges. Doing business in Emerging Markets reflects the challenges and opportunities facing international businesses and professionals when operating in emerging markets. There is intense competition among emerging countries to capture their share of the global economy. Emerging markets are commonly considered relatively riskier than developed markets as they carry supplementary political, economical and currency risks. As a result, these markets could be good investments for diversification purposes. These economies are growing fast, so the information that is defining them is easily outdated as their structure is quickly evolving. My research contains a theoretical introduction, literature review and also applied statistics on a dataset. In this paper I apply linear regression using IBM SPSS Statistics in order to measure the profitability for 51 banks from China during the period 2016 to 2019. The purpose of my research paper is to analyze the profitability of Chinese banks using two important profitability indicators: Return on Assets and Net Profit Margin. ANOVA is used to verify if the regression model is a good fit for the data. Also, I present descriptive statistics that show a general overview for the variables. The variables that are in the center of analysis are Return of Assets and Net profit Margin. For a more detailed analysis, Pearson Correlation was performed in order to verify the association between the variables that are in the interest of my research paper.

Although women have a long history of contributing to classical scholarship, they continue to be a minority both among faculty members and scholarly authors. In this paper, I compare the proportion of women employed at Classics departments in the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland with their proportion among the authors of a sample of English journal articles. While the overall institu­tional gender balance is approaching parity, women continue to be under­represented in senior positions, and progress seems to have stalled over the last ten years. In addition, my analysis of the L’Année philologique database demonstrates that while the share of articles written by women has greatly increased from 1970 to 2009, it has remained stagnant since, hovering just around the 28% mark. I hypothesise that the main reason for women’s con­tinued underrepresentation in Classical scholarship, apart from uncon­scious biases, is the disproportionate share of care responsibilities shouldered by women both within and without academia. In order to improve the situation, I propose a series of interventions to be taken by journal editors and university administrators, particularly the introduction of quotas.

The fall of imperial authority and the decline of the Byzantine state at the end of the 12th century has its cause not only in foreign policy but also, to a large extent, in the family policy of the Komnenoi emperors. The “clan” system introduced during Alexios I’ reign and continued by his successors, connected the aristocratic elites with the imperial family by blood ties. In the 12th century, the composition of this group, linked by a complicated marriage network, underwent a significant transformation, which could be one of the most important factors of the later crisis. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First: distinguishing two groups of aristocrats within the Komnenos “clan” i.e. “core” Komnenos family and affine families. Second: determining their approximate numer during the 12th century. Relatively large amount of data about aristocratic elites of that period allows for statistical approach. Written sources and sigillography of the 12th century Byzantium is rich in information about high ranking persons. In addition, the Komnenos era has been thoroughly described in prosopographical works. This allows for counting the number of aristocrats and thus obtaining reliable results. Such an approach is not free from estimation and probability. However, the amount of information is sufficient enough to show the overall trends visible in the composition of the elites associated with the Komnenoi. The result of this study is a table that shows the tendency of the weakening of the Komnenos family in face of a constantly growing group of affine aristocratic families. This sheds a new light on the progressive collapse of the imperial authority after the death of Manuel I Komnenos, the key role of destructive actions of Andronikos I, and the weakness of the Angelos dynasty.

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) stresses the importance of accurate, reliable, comparable and disaggregated data by conditions and areas of life. There is national and international research, but the UN itself declares them unsatisfactory, denouncing the connection with unequal and ineffective policies on disability. In light of these considerations, this paper intends to present an overview on the nature and criticalities of the statistics on persons with disabilities reviewing the scientific literature. Starting from this framework, the project «More than just numbers» disability data matter, held by the University of Bergamo, will be introduced. It aims at developing a theoretical-methodological model to promote an in-depth, updated knowledge on disability, on the phenomena and the systems related to it, as well as tracing political actions for a truly inclusive society.

This paper aims to highlight the potential of a FADN additional survey when payment for organic farming is to be calculated in the rural development decision-making process. In fact, the number of organic farms included in the FADN is often too low to provide consistent results. The analysis is based on a direct survey conducted on a larger number of farms than those included in the FADN continuous sample, considering the organic grape-growing farms. The estimate of the appropriate support payments (amount per hectare) is based on the gross margin methodology which allows additional costs and income foregone at micro-level to be highlighted. The method uses the partial balance sheet of a single crop processing to compare costs and revenues of organic and conventional grape-growing farms and considering both certification and transaction costs.

The article addresses the issue of accessibility to urban cultural services in the city of Milan, in relation to the socio-economic status. Through a statistical and spatial analysis of census and administrative data, the article highlights the inequalities of cultural accessibility between urban and suburban neighborhoods, of lower and higher socio-economic status. The study reveals a «selective» trend that characterizes the polycentric nature of the cultural services distribution: as a result of the process of urban regeneration, the suburban areas have become the new cultural centers, with a higher socioeconomic-cultural status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper undertakes a fractal analysis of spontaneous self-built neighbourhoods within Algerian cities. It focuses on a city called Batna and situated in the East of the country. Three phases structure this research work. First, the fractal analysis of the morphological identity of four spontaneous self-built neighbourhoods; second, the verification of the hypotheses related to the morphological characteristics of spontaneous self-built neighbourhoods in comparison to two planned self-built neighbourhoods; and finally, the comparative study of morphological identity between spontaneous self-built neighbourhoods and two other traditional self-built agglomerations. Correlation and dilatation analysis methods have been used in this research in order to study the built-up areas and their urban boundaries.The results showed that spontaneous self-built neighbourhoods have a distinguishing morphological identity that reflects the existence of distinct elements: the correct adaptation to the land relief, the hierarchy of public thoroughfare as well as the complexity of the urban blocks forms. Those elements constitute a specific morphological system. This morphological identity is the result of the communities’ lifestyles and the pragmatic logic of construction. The research could figure out that fractal features of spontaneous self-built neighbourhoods represent a median between the ones of planned self-built neighbourhoods and the ones related to traditional self-built agglomerations. This research is a preliminary study about the fractal features of spontaneous self-built neighbourhoods in Batna city. Future researches will aim at extending this study to other morphological features of neighbourhoods from a larger number of Algerian cities.

Academic dictionary writing is making greater and greater use of the TEI Guidelines’ dictionary module. And as increasing numbers of TEI dictionaries become available, there is an ever more palpable need to work towards greater interoperability among dictionary writing systems and other language resources that are needed by dictionaries and dictionary tools. In particular this holds true for the crucial role that statistical data obtained from language resources play in lexicographic workflow—a role that also has to be reflected in the model of the data produced in these workflows. Presenting a range of current projects, the authors address two main questions in this area: How can the relationship between a dictionary and other language resources be conceptualized, irrespective of whether they are used in the production of the dictionary or to enrich existing lexicographic data? And how can this be documented using the TEI Guidelines? Discussing a variety of options, this paper proposes a customization of the TEI dictionary module that tries to respond to the emerging requirements in an environment of increasingly intertwined language resources.