Costituzione europea e democrazia pluralista nella globalizzazione

«Quo vadis Italia? Quo vadis Spagna? sembrano a noi domande più “sensate”, dal momento che pensiamo di avere la capacità di decidere quale è il destino dell’Italia, mentre sentiamo di non avere la capacità di decidere quale è il destino dell’Europa. Sentiamo, piuttosto, che si tratta di una questione da decidere tra gli stati, dunque attraverso l’Italia, attraverso il governo italiano, attraverso lo stato italiano. Ma se non immaginiamo l’Europa come lo spazio in cui noi stessi possiamo decidere, noi non abbiamo ancora interiorizzato l’idea di Europa»... (segue)

FACETEQ interface demo for emotion expression in VR

© 2017 IEEE.Faceteq prototype v.05 is a wearable technology for measuring facial expressions and biometric responses for experimental studies in Virtual Reality. Developed by Emteq Ltd laboratory, Faceteq can enable new avenues for virtual reality research through combination of high performance patented dry sensor technologies, proprietary algorithms and real-time data acquisition and streaming. Emteq founded the Faceteq project with the aim to provide a human-centered additional tool for emotion expression, affective human-computer interaction and social virtual environments. The proposed demonstration will exhibit the hardware and its functionality by allowing attendees to experience three of the showcasing applications we developed this year

Oil prices, tourism income and economic growth: A structural VAR approach for European Mediterranean countries

In this study, a Structural VAR model is employed to investigate the relationship among oil price shocks, tourism variables and economic indicators in four European Mediterranean countries. In contrast with the current tourism literature, we distinguish between three oil price shocks, namely, supply-side, aggregate demand and oil specific demand shocks. Overall, our results indicate that oil specific demand shocks contemporaneously affect inflation and the tourism sector equity index, whereas these shocks do not seem to have any lagged effects. By contrast, aggregate demand oil price shocks exercise a lagged effect, either directly or indirectly, to tourism generated income and economic growth. The paper does not provide any evidence that supply-side shocks trigger any responses from the remaining variables. Results are important for tourism agents and policy makers, should they need to create hedging strategies against future oil price movements or plan for economic policy developments