Corporate Governance and Economic Performance: The Limit of Short Termism

This article includes exploring arguments and counterarguments in the context of conducting a scientific discussion on the impact of corporate governance on a company's financial and economic performance. The main purpose of this paper is to determine the nature of the impact of corporate governance policy on the activities of economic entities

The physicianelderly patient relationship: challenges and perspectives

O objetivo deste artigo é expor os desafios e perspectivas da relação médico-paciente idoso. Nas relações interpessoais, inerentes ao exercício profissional da medicina, é a qualidade do encontro que determina sua eficiência. Assim, na formação e na identificação do bom profissional, a relação médico-paciente idoso é fundamental na promoção da qualidade do atendimento. Os mé dicos devem privilegiar sentimentos e valores dos pacientes idosos e de seus familiares, estimu lando a tomada das decisões necessárias em conjunto, ou seja, a democratização da relação médi co-paciente, resgatando sua humanização. Esta proposta aspira ao nascimento de uma nova imagem deste profissional responsável pela efetiva promoção da saúde, ao considerar o paciente idoso em sua integridade física, psíquica e social, e não somente do ponto de vista biológico.The aim of this article was to discuss challenges and perspectives in the physician-elderly patient relationship. In interpersonal relations, inherent to medical practice, it is the quality of the encounter that determines its efficiency. Thus, in training and identifying good medical professionals, the physician-elderly patient relationship is essential for promoting quality of care. Physicians should prioritize the feelings and values of elderly patients and their families, encouraging the necessary joint decision-making, that is, democratization of the physician-patient relations hip, reclaiming its humanization. This proposal aspires to the birth of a new image for these professionals, who are responsible for effective health promotion, by considering elderly patients in their physical, psychological, and social entirety, and not merely from the biological point of view

Archaeometric study on minting dies produced under papal rule in Ferrara

In the Civic Museum of Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara, a collection of 1104 coin striking tools is stored. Among these, eight steel dies produced from the 2nd decade of the seventeenth to the half of the eighteenth century, representative of the whole period of activity of the papal mint in Ferrara, have been chosen and studied. In that period, while important innovations in the coin minting technique were introduced in Europe, Ferrara declined from the rank of ducal mint to that of peripheral minting center of the highly centralized Papal States.The dies have been characterized by metallographic, chemical, and microhardness investigations. The results suggest that the dies were obtained by a manual smithing technique consisting in hammer hot forging. The die quality improved with time. In fact, in the period 1619-1622, a hardening treatment for the engraved die end consisting in a simple local carburization coexisted with a more efficient production method, based on the application of a proper final heat treatment. This treatment induced a graded microstructure from the engraved end, with a hard martensitic or bainitic structure, to the opposite end, with a tough ferritic/pearlitic structure. From 1675 onward, the latter production method was applied on all the studied dies.The chemical analysis of the alloys suggest that they were likely obtained from iron ores with a common provenance, while the analysis of the slag inclusions suggests the adoption of a direct method of ironmaking throughout the activity period of the mint