To preserve a cultural asset, the main goal to achieve is represented by the conservation, which can be carried on, at first, through a preliminary” scientific program of knowledge “of the object, and the context it is referred to. In this critical moment, the most influent aspects are the interdisciplinary instruments and methods coming from heterogeneous available sources that have continuous...

This study empirically examines whether managers manipulate reported income through the timing of sales of long-lived assets and investments. Several empirical implications of the income-smoothing and debt-equity hypothesis in the context of asset sales were tested. The findings are consistent with the timing of asset sales by managers so that the recognized accounting income from these sales s...

This study investigates the digital presence of cultural centers in three regions of Germany taking into account the theoretical framework of the knowledge age. In order to find out if the adaption of online tools has a positive influence on visitor reach, i.e. on the success of the centers, the thesis attempts to gather information on online tool usage of individual institutions via questionna...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of Nigerian insurance companies using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Because of the unavailability of the required data, the study is limited to ten Nigerian insurance companies for the period of five years from 2008 to 2012. The input employed were commission expenses and management expenses, while premium and investment income...

Life scripts are culturally shared expectations about the timing of life events in an idealized life course. Because they are cultural semantic knowledge, they should be known by all adult age groups including those who have not lived through all events in the life script, but this has not been tested previously. Young, middle-aged and older adults from the Netherlands were therefore asked in t...

In the last decades plants products are increasingly used also in defining innovative procedures for sustainable conservation of cultural heritage. Particularly, essential oils or hydro-alcoholic extracts have been fruitful applied to contrast microbial colonization on organic and inorganic artworks insect infestation (Anobidae) having regard repellent action.
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Provenance data is a type of metadata that computer scientists argue can support trustworthy and reliable replication of scientific results. From its origins in scientific workflow systems and database theory, and with concurrent interest from the ecological informatics community, a standard data model (PROV) and extensions for DataONE (ProvONE) have led to initial implementations in several to...

Much has been learned about calculation, commodification and marketization from the social studies of markets and finance. But what of capitalization? What is distinctive about this mode of valuation and the reality it impels? What does it mean to live under the ‘asset condition’? In Capitalization: A Cultural Guide, Fabian Muniesa and his colleagues at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation ...