Largest Consistent Set in International Environmental Agreements

In this paper we study the formation and the stability of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) in a pollution abatement model with a quadratic cost function. Countries play a two-stage game: in the first stage each country decides to join or not the coalition while, in the -second stage, the quantity of pollution abatement is chosen. To analyze the stability of coalition structures in a multiple coalition game, we use the notion of the Largest Consistent Set (LCS) which allows players to be farsighted.In an abstract context, Chwe (1994) developed the concept of farsighted stability: an outcome is stable and it is in the LCS if and only if deviations from it or potential further deviations are not unanimously preferred to the original outcome by the coalition considering the deviations. Applying this notion of stability in the IEA context we assume that, when a country or a sub-coalition contemplate exiting or joining an agreement, it takes into account the reactions of other countries ignited by its own actions. We identify what would be the resulting stable structures and the LCS, examining the indicator of countries’ environmental awareness proposed by the model. A particular analysis is proposed about the Grand Coalition. Moreover, we present a handy Maple algorithm to compare the cost functions and to determine direct dominance.IEA; Farsightedness; Implementation.

'Il Lament del Marchionn di gamb avert' in un testimone manoscritto finora sconosciuto

Questo intervento dà conto dei primi risultati di una serie d’indagini portiane, sollecitate dal ritrovamento di parte delle carte manoscritte di Giovanni Antonio Maggi. In particolare, l'avvio dell'indagine parte dall'evidenza documentaria del fatto che il 'Lament del Marchionn di gamb avert' già circolasse alla fine del giugno 1816, anche se in una veste ancora ben lontana da quella assunta nella sua prima edizione.This paper gives an account of the first results of a series of Portian investigations, prompted by the discovery of part of Giovanni Antonio Maggi's manuscript papers. In particular, the investigation starts from the documentary evidence that the 'Lament del Marchionn di gamb avert' was already circulating at the end of June 1816, even if in a form still far from that assumed in its first edition. &nbsp

Noterella sulle edizioni dell'ode pariniana "A Silvia"

The most authoritative text of the Parini’s ode A Silvia has been identified by Dante Isella, confimed by Franco Longoni and Mirella D’Ettorre. It is an opuscule whose text is considered more correct than the one published in Como, considered the editio princeps. The two opuscules are typographically similar, although published by different printers: the first one has probably been printed by the same printer of the ode Alla Musa, now archived in Ambrosiana Library (Milan)

Italian Case Study: socio-economic impact analysis of a cyber attack to a power plant in an Italian scenario. Cost and benefit estimation of CIPS standard adoptions. A reduced version

RT 55; The Italian Case study is a comprehensive report in which a possible attack scenario to a thermoelectric power plant is described in the Italian electric grid context and an assessment of social-economic impact is evaluated. A cost-benefit analysis of the adoption of comprehensive CIP standards is estimated. This is a reduced version of a full report in order to have a public deliverable purged from sensitive and confidential informatio

Foscolo critico

Il volume, primo della collana open access dei "Quaderni di Gargnano", ospita i contributi presentati al XV Convegno internazionale di Letteratura italiana "Gennaro Barbarisi", tenutosi a Gargnano del Garda dal 24 al 26 settembre 2012. Il "Quaderno", dedicato al Foscolo critico, accoglie contributi di Giovanni Biancardi, Arnaldo Bruni, Andrea Campana, Massimo Castellozzi, Gustavo Costa, Alfredo Cottignoli, Christian Del Vento, Sandro Gentili, Franco Longoni, Ilaria Mangiavacchi, Donatella Martinelli, Giuseppe Natale, Enzo Neppi, Matteo Palumbo, Elena Parrini Cantini, Chiara Piola Caselli. \uc8 aperto da una Prefazione di Claudia Berra, Paolo Borsa e Giulia Ravera.This volume on "Foscolo critico" is the first volume of the "Quaderni di Gargnano", an open access book series which publishes the Proceedings of the "Gennaro Barbarisi" International Conferences on Italian Literature, held in Gargnano del Garda. It contains contributions by Giovanni Biancardi, Arnaldo Bruni, Andrea Campana, Massimo Castellozzi, Gustavo Costa, Alfredo Cottignoli, Christian Del Vento, Sandro Gentili, Franco Longoni, Ilaria Mangiavacchi, Donatella Martinelli, Giuseppe Natale, Enzo Neppi, Matteo Palumbo, Elena Parrini Cantini, Chiara Piola Caselli, preceded by a Preface by the Editor: Claudia Berra, Paolo Borsa, Giulia Ravera

Impact of COVID-19 on cardiovascular testing in the United States versus the rest of the world

Objectives: This study sought to quantify and compare the decline in volumes of cardiovascular procedures between the United States and non-US institutions during the early phase of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the care of many non-COVID-19 illnesses. Reductions in diagnostic cardiovascular testing around the world have led to concerns over the implications of reduced testing for cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. Methods: Data were submitted to the INCAPS-COVID (International Atomic Energy Agency Non-Invasive Cardiology Protocols Study of COVID-19), a multinational registry comprising 909 institutions in 108 countries (including 155 facilities in 40 U.S. states), assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on volumes of diagnostic cardiovascular procedures. Data were obtained for April 2020 and compared with volumes of baseline procedures from March 2019. We compared laboratory characteristics, practices, and procedure volumes between U.S. and non-U.S. facilities and between U.S. geographic regions and identified factors associated with volume reduction in the United States. Results: Reductions in the volumes of procedures in the United States were similar to those in non-U.S. facilities (68% vs. 63%, respectively; p = 0.237), although U.S. facilities reported greater reductions in invasive coronary angiography (69% vs. 53%, respectively; p < 0.001). Significantly more U.S. facilities reported increased use of telehealth and patient screening measures than non-U.S. facilities, such as temperature checks, symptom screenings, and COVID-19 testing. Reductions in volumes of procedures differed between U.S. regions, with larger declines observed in the Northeast (76%) and Midwest (74%) than in the South (62%) and West (44%). Prevalence of COVID-19, staff redeployments, outpatient centers, and urban centers were associated with greater reductions in volume in U.S. facilities in a multivariable analysis. Conclusions: We observed marked reductions in U.S. cardiovascular testing in the early phase of the pandemic and significant variability between U.S. regions. The association between reductions of volumes and COVID-19 prevalence in the United States highlighted the need for proactive efforts to maintain access to cardiovascular testing in areas most affected by outbreaks of COVID-19 infection

The final draft of the “Bassvilliana” and its critical text

Giovanni Antonio Maggi, stretto collaboratore di Vincenzo Monti, ha avuto un ruolo chiave nella redazione definitiva della Bassvilliana, come testimoniano i carteggi che lo stesso Maggi aveva conservato in qualità di revisore e autore del commento a corredo dell’opera. Per la pubblicazione del testo critico dell’opera, è stato necessario non solo ricostruire i legami fra Monti, Maggi e gli editori, ma anche stabilire se – e in che misura – Maggi sia intervenuto nell’opera montiana, sebbene ‘su licenza’ dell’autore.   The final draft of the “Bassvilliana” and its critical text Giovanni Antonio Maggi, Vincenzo Monti’s assistant, took an active part in the revision of the Bassvilliana, as the correspondence between them tests: the letters, archived by Maggi himself, are useful to reconstruct the relationship between the author and his assistant, and between Monti and his printers. The scholarly edition edited by Giovanni Biancardi expores if and how Maggi corrected Monti’s work, always with the approval of the author

Minimal addition to the correspondence of Vincenzo Monti

The contribution offers the text of seven letters of Vincenzo Monti on the basis of their autographs. The letters are all sent to Giovanni Antonio Maggi, a faithful, refined and industrious intellectual of Milan, who joined the elderly poet in almost all the latest literary labors. The three later letters were already known to scholars for some time, but are offered here in a more correct version, faithfull to the originals. The others, shorter, have remained unpublished until this publication