Metaverse in Tourism and Hospitality: Empirical Evidence on Generation Z from Italy

The paper has been conducted to analyze the change taking place in tourism marketing due to the metaverse innovation through tastes and needs of today's new generations of tourists, especially generation Z, that will be the future customers of the next decades. The goal of this study has been to analyze the opportunities concerning the metaverse and its immersive technology, through a survey conducted on a sample of generation Z people and understand which are the practical implications that can guide tourism companies and territorial governments' decisions during the nearest future, to satisfy new market demand and optimize their communication in the metaverse

Metaverse in Tourism and Hospitality: Empirical Evidence on Generation Z from Italy

The paper intends to analyze the change taking place in tourism marketing due to the metaverse. The tastes and needs of today's new generations of tourists, especially Generation Z, are becoming more and more in line with new technologies. Tourism marketing requires a change in the way of promoting and telling a product and a brand. The objective of the paper will be to analyze the digital tools of the Metaverse and of the “immersive” technologies. The results of a survey that investigates people's propensity to use digital tools and new technologies will also be presented. Further objectives will be to understand the role these technologies will have in the world of travel and to provide a “guide” for tourism-related businesses, trying to help them face and understand a highly dynamic sector

Metaverse in Tourism and Hospitality: Empirical Evidence on Generation Z from Italy

The paper intends to analyze the change taking place in tourism marketing due to the metaverse. The tastes and needs of today's new generations of tourists, especially Generation Z, are becoming more and more in line with new technologies. Tourism marketing requires a change in the way of promoting and telling a product and a brand. The objective of the paper will be to analyze the digital tools of the Metaverse and of the “immersive” technologies. The results of a survey that investigates people's propensity to use digital tools and new technologies will also be presented. Further objectives will be to understand the role these technologies will have in the world of travel and to provide a “guide” for tourism-related businesses, trying to help them face and understand a highly dynamic sector

Effects of Country of Origin in Product Categories: A Study Concerning Italy and Great Britain

This study examines country-of-origin in terms of the fit between two countries (Italy and Great Britain) and product categories. A framework is suggested which matches the importance of product category dimensions with the perceived image of the country-of-origin along the same dimensions. Such matches (or mismatches) can influence or not the customers in their decisionmaking process in a different manner concerning the country. Data collected from consumers in Italy and Great Britain demonstrate that strategic implications can increase sales in some category. This study has underlined the presence of an important domestic bias concerning convenience goods category, especially in food purchases. Instead, in specialty goods category, the customer seems to identify and prefer specific countries, and goods are critically evaluated for their origin

Il principe inquieto: Federico Colonna (1601-1628). la parabola di un fedelissimo del re

D’Agata, Silvia: Il principe inquieto: Federico Colonna (1601-1628). la parabola di un fedelissimo del re. En: Estudis: Revista de historia moderna, 48 2022: 199-21

The First Results for a New Layout of the Stay Cables for Great Span Bridges

AbstractThe air-elastic vibrations of structures induce fluctuating stresses that lead to fatigue damage accumulation and may determine structural failure without exceeding ultimate strength This paper proposes a new layout of stay cables to be used in the construction or the retrofitting of long span bridges, capable of mitigating the air-elastic problems due to environmental vibrations such as the rain-wind excitations. The structural scheme adopted was derived from the critical conditions in terms of stability obtained by referring to lateral suspension cables stayed bridge with two planes of fan pattern stay cables. The new layout consists in implementing an additional plane of cable stays placed symmetrically just under the deck bridge. The final layout of the cable stays was identified as “duplex”. The numerical investigation was carried out in the frequency domain. The results obtained show a sensible increasing of stiffness, as well as a reduction of the natural period of vibrations. In the analysis the deck was considered as thin and very light. The Duplex layout had, also, permitted to mitigate the wind effects, because the presence of the inferior stay cables simulate the viscous dampers

Genetics of Parkinson’s Disease: The Role of Copy Number Variations

Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second most common progressive neurodegenerative disorder, was long believed to be a non-genetic sporadic origin syndrome. The identification of distinct genetic loci responsible for rare Mendelian forms of PD has represented a revolutionary breakthrough, allowing to discover novel mechanisms underlying this debilitating still incurable condition. Along with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), other kinds of DNA molecular defects have emerged as significant disease-causing mutations, including large chromosomic structural rearrangements and copy number variations (CNVs). Due to their size variability and to the different sensitivity and resolution of detection methodologies, CNVs constitute a particular challenge in genetic studies and the pathogenetic or susceptibility impact of specific CNVs on PD is currently under debate. In this chapter, we will review the current literature and bioinformatic data describing the involvement of CNVs on PD pathobiology. We will discuss the recently highlighted role of PARK2 heterozygous CNVs, the possible common founder effects of PD gene rearrangements and the importance to map genetic breakpoints. We will also add a summary about the current available molecular methods and bioinformatics web resources to detect and interpret CNVs. Assessing the global genome-wide burden of large CNVs and elucidating the role of de novo rare structural variants on PD may reveal new candidate genes and consequently ameliorate diagnosis and counselling of mutations carriers

Antimicrobial stewardship: the need to cover all bases

Increasing antimicrobial resistance has necessitated an approach to guide the use of antibiotics. The necessity to guide antimicrobial use via stewardship has never been more urgent. The decline in anti-infective innovation and the failure of currently available antimicrobials to treat some serious infections forces clinicians to change those behaviors that drive antimicrobial resistance. The majority of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs function in acute-care hospitals, however, hospitals are only one setting where antibiotics are prescribed. Antimicrobial use is also high in residential aged care facilities and in the community. Prescribing in aged care is influenced by the fact that elderly residents have lowered immunity, are susceptible to infection and are frequently colonized with multi-resistant organisms. While in the community, prescribers are faced with public misconceptions about the effectiveness of antibiotics for many upper respiratory tract illnesses. AMS programs in all of these locations must be sustainable over a long period of time in order to be effective. A future with effective antimicrobials to treat bacterial infection will depend on AMS covering all of these bases. This review discusses AMS in acute care hospitals, aged care and the community and emphasizes that AMS is critical to patient safety and relies on government, clinician and community engagement