Stefano: 1425 books
by Stefano Tomelleri
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Questo libro nasce dall'esigenza di accogliere la provocazione di Friedrich Nietzsche contenuta nella domanda scelta a titolo di questa introduzione: quanto e come il risentimento condiziona la nostra vita quotidiana? Nel corso del novecento abbiamo assistito a vere e proprie eruzioni di questo male...
by Stefano Baia Curioni
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Come i Ricordi hanno trasformato la scena musicale dell’Ottocento, per il modo in cui hanno inteso il mestiere di editore, per le battaglie che hanno scelto di combattere, per le loro vittorie e per la dimensione eclatante delle loro sconfitte.
SME Funding
The Role of Shadow Banking and Alternative Funding Options
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This book explores current financing options for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), with particular insight into the European market. The authors position SME funding within a risk-averse lending environment with high regulatory costs on business loans, which has arisen from the recent financial...
Politics and Big Data
Nowcasting and Forecasting Elections with Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution of online ideas and opinion allows observers and scholars to monitor trends and momentum in public opinion well before traditional polls. However, there...
Ranking of Multivariate Populations
A Permutation Approach with Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Ranking of Multivariate Populations: A Permutation Approach with Applications presents a novel permutation-based nonparametric approach for ranking several multivariate populations. Using data collected from both experimental and observation studies, it covers some of the most useful designs widely...
The Innovative Company
An Ill-defined Object
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
The concept of innovation is the result of human activities carried out to produce a new product, service or something new that creates value. More recently, the idea of an innovative enterprise, organization or company has emerged, thanks to an increasing interest in innovation as an essential process...
Water Governance Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Between Myth and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book is about the process of water management decentralization in African countries, which is seen as a means of advancing river basin management at the lowest appropriate level.
There are very different stages of implementing decentralization in practice. This called for research aiming to...
Nonlinear Guided Wave Optics
A testbed for extreme waves
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Experiments and theory have rapidly progressed on nonlinear optical extreme waves, showing that guided wave nonlinear optics and fiber lasers provide a relatively simple, accessible and controllable test bed for the observations and accurate statistical studies of extreme wave phenomena that obey...
Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing
Rank and Permutation Methods with Applications in R
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A novel presentation of rank and permutation tests, with accessible guidance to applications in R
Nonparametric testing problems are frequently encountered in many scientific disciplines, such as engineering, medicine and the social sciences. This book summarizes traditional rank techniques...
Splines and PDEs: From Approximation Theory to Numerical Linear Algebra
Cetraro, Italy 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This book takes readers on a multi-perspective tour through state-of-the-art mathematical developments related to the numerical treatment of PDEs based on splines, and in particular isogeometric methods.
A wide variety of research topics are covered, ranging from approximation theory to structured...
Corporate Sustainability in the 21st Century
Increasing the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Corporate sustainability needs a rethink. We have entered the human-influenced Anthropocene age, and we are witnessing accelerating changes in earth system processes. Businesses’ current initiatives, such as product innovation and pollution reduction, are not enough to combat the intensifying social-ecological...
by Mattia Persiani, Stefano Liebman
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 2, 2013
L’Opera fa il punto sullo stato del mercato del lavoro in seguito all’entrata in vigore nel nostro ordinamento della l. 28 giugno 2012 n. 92, nota come "Riforma Fornero", che introduce misure finalizzate a dare il via a prospettive di crescita e di sviluppo, puntando molto sulla flessibilità...
Temporary Work Agencies in Italy
Evolution and Impact on the Labour Market
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The book analyzes the rise and evolution of the Temporary Work Agencies' (TWAs) field in Italy. Using an in-depth longitudinal analysis from 1986 to 2015, the authors study the evolution of the Italian labor market, analyzing the interaction between players in the TWA sector and the influence of the...
Coordination of Complex Sociotechnical Systems
Self-organisation of Knowledge in MoK
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
The book discusses the main issues of coordination in complex sociotechnical systems, covering distributed, self-organising, and pervasive systems. A chemistry-inspired model of coordination, a situated architecture and coordination language, and a cognitive model of interaction are the ingredients...