Mother yeast as a successfully entrepreneurial innovation: the case history of Porta1918

The purpose of this contribution is to highlight how heritage represents, in some cases, the main company innovation on which to build its competitive success. To do this goal a case study was chosen for a small company that makes baked goods in a small town in Sardinia, from which it emerges that the "roots" were the main innovation to face the current challenges, but accompanied by the "wings as "knowledge, technology, openness to relationships with other actors in the context. The approach followed is of a qualitative narrative type and the case history is constructed through a mix of sources

Su di un trittico di questioni di carattere generale relative al nuovo comma 5-bis dell’art. 7, d.lgs. n. 546/1992: profili temporali, rapporto con l’art. 2697 c.c. ed estensione del principio di vicinanza alla prova

Il lavoro esamina tre questioni di carattere generale relative al nuovo comma 5-bis inserito dalla L. n. 130/2022 di riforma dell’ordinamento e del processo tributario nell’ambito dell’art. 7 D.Lgs. n. 546/1992: la prima, se la nuova disposizione sia applicabile o meno ai giudizi in corso; la seconda, se a seguito di tale introduzione l’art. 2697 c.c. sia ancora applicabile in materia tributaria; la terza, se il principio di vicinanza alla prova sia anch’esso tuttora applicabile.The article investigates three general aspects related to the new paragraph 5-bis of Article 7 of Legislative Decree No. 546/1992, as inserted by Law No. 130 of 2022 reforming the tax and tax litigation systems. The first aspect regards the applicability of the new provision to pending litigations; the second one attains to the permanent applicability to tax litigations of Article 2697 of the Italian Civil Code further to the mentioned paragraph 5-bis; the third one deals with the permanent applicability to tax litigations of the principle of ‘proximity to evidence’

From built environment to health inequalities: An explanatory framework based on evidence

The Health in All Policies strategy aims to engage every policy domain in health promotion. The more socially disadvantaged groups are usually more affected by potential negative impacts of policies if they are not health oriented. The built environment represents an important policy domain and, apart from its housing component, its impact on health inequalities is seldom assessed. Methods: A scoping review of evidence on the built environment and its health equity impact was carried out, searching both urban and medical literature since 2000 analysing socio-economic inequalities in relation to different components of the built environment. Results: The proposed explanatory framework assumes that key features of built environment (identified as density, functional mix and public spaces and services), may influence individual health through their impact on both natural environment and social context, as well as behaviours, and that these effects may be unequally distributed according to the social position of individuals. Conclusion: In general, the expected links proposed by the framework are well documented in the literature; however, evidence of their impact on health inequalities remains uncertain due to confounding factors, heterogeneity in study design, and difficulty to generalize evidence that is still very embedded to local contexts

Response to Kestens et al. Comments on Melis et al. The effects of the Urban Built Environment on Mental Health: A Cohort Study in a Large Northern Italian City. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2015, 12, 14898-14915

The commentary from Kestens et al. [1] raises interesting issues about measuring contextual exposures and encourages new studies to incorporate them in their design: as a group of researchers, we strongly support their view and think that those useful reflections should be used as guidelines for future research.[...

Learning from the past in the COVID-19 era: rediscovery of quarantine, previous pandemics, origin of hospitals and national healthcare systems, and ethics in medicine

After the dramatic coronavirus outbreak at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on 11 March 2020, a pandemic was declared by the WHO. Most countries worldwide imposed a quarantine or lockdown to their citizens, in an attempt to prevent uncontrolled infection from spreading. Historically, quarantine is the 40-day period of forced isolation to prevent the spread of an infectious disease. In this educational paper, a historical overview from the sacred temples of ancient Greece—the cradle of medicine—to modern hospitals, along with the conceive of healthcare systems, is provided. A few foods for thought as to the conflict between ethics in medicine and shortage of personnel and financial resources in the coronavirus disease 2019 era are offered as well

Are all online hotel prices created dynamic? An empirical assessment

Understanding how tourist firms set their online prices is important due to their growing reliance on Online Travel Agencies (OTA). Little is known, however, about whether differences exist in the online pricing approaches adopted by hotels using an OTA. The article tests, using a big data approach, whether the diffuse narrative of a pervasive presence of dynamic pricing provides a realistic description of hotels’ pricing behavior and thus challenges the view that dynamic pricing should be considered the prevailing norm for the industry. The evidence suggests a heterogenous attitude across hotels, with uniform pricing being more widespread in most hotels of our sample, namely, the 3-star or less, while dynamic pricing is more likely applied in higher quality hotels

Are all online hotel prices created dynamic? An empirical assessment

Understanding how tourist firms set their online prices is important due to their growing reliance on Online Travel Agencies (OTA). Little is known, however, about whether differences exist in the online pricing approaches adopted by hotels using an OTA. The article tests, using a big data approach, whether the diffuse narrative of a pervasive presence of dynamic pricing provides a realistic description of hotels’ pricing behavior and thus challenges the view that dynamic pricing should be considered the prevailing norm for the industry. The evidence suggests a heterogenous attitude across hotels, with uniform pricing being more widespread in most hotels of our sample, namely, the 3-star or less, while dynamic pricing is more likely applied in higher quality hotels