LOCAL TOURISM MARKETS IN ITALY - AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY PROPOSALS

Tourism is very important in Italy. In this article we will discuss about the Economy of the Italian Local Labour Markets specialized in Tourism. We will try to explain, through statistical analysis applied to an Econometrical model, the differences existing among them. The result of our research is that the dichotomy of the Italian economy – North vs. South – is also present in the Tourism industry. Nevertheless, there are significant differences among the Tourism Local Markets in Southern Italy. This implies that a policy on local development may help the region to grow.

Defensio Reipublicae

In my thesis idea of Defensio Reipublicae I intend to analyze the founding of the American republic, while also briefly touching upon the history of republicanism in the Roman republic, in order to formulate a defense in support of republicanism. By looking at sources of the foundation of the United States, as well as political philosophy, I plan to lay out why republicanism—as a form of governance—is a prime choice for the self-governance of human societies. Sources such as the Federalist Papers, scholarly articles, political philosophers like Montesquieu, Locke, and Machiavelli, in addition to the expertise of my advisor, President Weiner, will be very useful in the application and presentation of my thesis. Defensio Reipublicae is intended to show that—although imperfect, as all manmade creations are—republicanism is a great form of government for humanity in the past as well as the modern world, allowing the body politic to effectively and peacefully govern itself without the overbearing control of an autocrat, despot, majoritarian faction, monarch, or an otherwise tyrannical regime

Spacecraft Systems & Navigation

This textbook is steered towards higher educational course entailed in Commercial Space Operations. This textbook will be covering in detail Orbital Satellites, and Spacecraft. These topics are discussed according to their application, design, and environment. The power system, shielding and communication systems are reviewed along with their missions, space, environment and limitations. Any vehicle, whether manned or unmanned, intended for space travel is a spacecraft. A spacecraft\u27s required systems and equipment depend on the information it will acquire and the tasks it will perform. Although their levels of sophistication vary widely, they re all subject to the harsh conditions of space. Depending on the missions that each spacecraft is designed to carry out, they can be broadly classed

Literacy Strategies for Reading and Understanding Nonfiction Texts in the Elementary Grades

Abstract Elementary teachers must educate their students to read and understand nonfiction text so they will not only be successful in elementary school, but will also be prepared for the increased demands placed on them in the upper grades and beyond. This literature review investigated the question, what are the most effective literacy strategies teachers can use to better teach the reading of nonfiction texts to elementary students? Data collection was accomplished by gathering academic, peer reviewed articles and scholarly texts containing information on teaching nonfiction to elementary students. The data was then analyzed through content analysis for appropriate strategies and teaching methods. The research presented two main factors which would help students to read and understand nonfiction text. The first factor consisted of aspects of teacher instruction including selection of texts, explicit teaching, teaching methods, and reflection. The second factor, strategy instruction, included a variety of strategies that could be used by students to increase comprehension of nonfiction text. These instructional strategies, grouped by theme, included comprehension, text structure, text features and elements, twin texts, pre-/during/post, oral, and vocabulary. Recommendations are that students should be exposed to numerous and varied nonfiction texts, teachers should be provided with professional development, instructors should maintain a variety of methods and strategies to use as needed, and researchers should investigate the teaching of nonfiction further. Educators succeed when they scaffold student learning, and with repeated use, students will internalize expository text reading skills and strategies, allowing for transfer and continued student success as they become lifelong learners

Strain-induced work function changes in Ge nano-stripes on Si(001) studied by energy-filtered photoelectron emission microscopy

Investigation of Ge nanostructures on Si(001) is of great interest for high-mobility Ge MOSFETs and potential applications in near-infrared photodetection. In this paper the experimental investigation of the strain state of Ge nano-stripes fabricated by selective epitaxial growth of Ge on a Si(001) substrate patterned with 100nm wide trenches is presented. Energy-filtered photoelectron emission microscopy has been used to spatially map with nanoscale resolution the strain-induced change in the electron work function of the nano-stripes. Strain information has been obtained by comparing the experimentally measured work function with a simple model developed within the framework of the potential deformation theory. A tensile deformation of ∼ 0.4% has been found in the nano-stripes. The origin of this strain state is attributed to the joint contribution of the plastic relaxation induced by misfit dislocations and the coherency constraints imposed by the Si substrate, as supported by finite element method (FEM) simulations

An agreement-based approach for reliability assessment of Students’ Evaluations of Teaching

[EN] Students’ Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) are the most common way to measure teaching quality in Higher Education: they are assuming a strategic role in monitoring teaching quality, becoming helpful in taking the major formative and summative academic decisions. The majority of studies investigating SETs reliability focus on the instruments and the procedures adopted to collect students' evaluations rather than on the capability of the students as teaching quality assessors. In order to overcome this lack, a study has been carried out with the aim of measuring SETs reliability in terms of inter-student agreement and intra-student agreement. The results of our study show that the majority of students provided substantially repeatable evaluations whereas only a few students provided almost perfectly repeatable evaluations; the evaluations provided by different students generally slightly agreed, which means that the students did not share the same opinions and beliefs on teaching quality.Vanacore, A.; Pellegrino, MS. (2017). An agreement-based approach for reliability assessment of Students’ Evaluations of Teaching. En Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1286-1293. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD17.2017.5583OCS1286129

Benchmarking procedures for characterizing the extent of rater agreement: a comparative study

AbstractDecision making processes often rely on subjective evaluations provided by human raters. In the absence of a gold standard against which check evaluation trueness, rater's evaluative performance is generally measured through rater agreement coefficients. In this study some parametric and non‐parametric inferential benchmarking procedures for characterizing the extent of rater agreement—assessed via kappa‐type agreement coefficients—are illustrated. A Monte Carlo simulation study has been conducted to compare the performance of each procedure in terms of weighted misclassification rate computed for all agreement categories. Moreover, in order to investigate whether the procedures overestimate or underestimate the level of agreement, misclassifications have been computed also for each specific category alone. The practical application of coefficients and inferential benchmarking procedures has been illustrated via two real data sets exemplifying different experimental conditions so as to highlight performance differences due to sample size