middle of squares, one of the components of physical aspect is considered as an appropriateindicator in designing successful urban squares, which consequently promotes visual quality. the present study aims todetermine how the above mentioned aspect was presented in the middle-ages and renaissance within italian squares.considering the aim of the investigation, library studies as well as visual...

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background in recent years, accreditation of private hospitals followed by decentralisation of the italian national health service (nhs) into 21 regional health systems has provided a good empirical ground for investigating the tiebout principle of “voting with their feet”. we examine the infra-regional trade-off between greater patient choice (due to an increase in hospital services supply) an...

Swine production in Italy is characteristically oriented towards typical meat products. In 2007, the Italian pig population was more than 9 million head (Italian Pig Breeders Association ANAS, 2008). Pig farms numbered around 101,000 in 2007 and over 80% were concentrated in the four northern Italian regions of Lombardia, Emilia-Romagna, Piemonte and Veneto (ISTAT, 2008). This is why the dairy ...

Italian displays a rich variety of truncation patterns and therefore forms an ideal testing ground for the constraint interaction determining truncation in general. The goal of this paper is to describe the various truncation patterns of Italian and to define a set of constraints which, in their interaction, can capture the individual patterns. I will focus my attention on name truncation, whic...

In 2015 an ample and challenging discussion regarding professional associations is under way in Italy. Professional associations are self-government institutions that control and monitor the correctness and quality of the activities of the professionals registered in professional records recognized by the law. Professional associations have to prepare and update both their official registers an...

Abstract Does the ‘Zeitenwende’ herald beginning of a new and as yet undefined open society realism? The present essay argues this question requires critical discussion nature value realist political theory, particularly at time where international is accelerating to somewhere which itself unclear. Adding revisionist research on realism in International Relations (IR) theory I sketch how vision...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a framework to analyse water politics and governance. The framework has been constructed from a social constructivist perspective. This theory places attention on the role of normative aspects like ideology, values, interests and culture in politics. This means that a theory of international relations such as neorealism, neoliberalism or structuralism w...

This paper attempts to provide a critical approach to the issue of regional integration, one of the most important subjects over the last two decades and currently one of the leading debates that are taking place in the South. Although the importance of regional integration –given its correlation to the process of pacific change in international relations–, it seems that there is no satisfactor...