L'informativa di bilancio nelle imprese familiari di piccole dimensioni : caratteri distintivi e aspetti evolutivi

SOMMARIO: 1. I fattori che incidono sulla funzione informativa del bilancio nelle imprese familiari. 2. Funzione, obiettivi e attese informative nella comunicazione esterna delle imprese familiari. 3. I caratteri del “familismo” nei prospetti di bilancio. 4. Verso un nuovo modello di bilancio per le imprese familiari: riflessioni critiche e spunti per la ricerca.

Developing the quantum probability ranking principle

In this work, we summarise the development of a ranking principle based on quantum probability theory, called the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP), and we also provide an overview of the initial experiments performed employing the QPRP. The main difference between the QPRP and the classic Probability Ranking Principle, is that the QPRP implicitly captures the dependencies between documents by means of quantum interference". Subsequently, the optimal ranking of documents is not based solely on documents' probability of relevance but also on the interference with the previously ranked documents. Our research shows that the application of quantum theory to problems within information retrieval can lead to consistently better retrieval effectiveness, while still being simple, elegant and tractable.

El origen de la civitas en el Defensor Pacis y la reinterpretación de la causalidad final aristotélica

Resumen: La obra capital de Marsilio de Padua, el Defensor Pacis, comienza con un relato histórico-genético de la Ciudad o comunidad perfecta a partir de las organizaciones más primitivas. El autor explica el probable devenir histórico de las comunidades desembocando en la explicación de las partes funcionales de la comunidad última, con la vista puesta en estudiar cuál es la función y lugar de la parte sacerdotal de la ciudad. Es sugerente que el mismo recurso del relato genético ya había sido utilizado por Aristóteles en el Libro I de su Política, y no parece ser casualidad la similitud dado el evidente interés de Marsilio por dicha obra del Estagirita. El objetivo del trabajo planificado es estudiar las similitudes y diferencias entre los relatos genéticos de la comunidad perfecta presentados por Marsilio y por Aristóteles, con énfasis en el uso teórico que ambos hacen de la causalidad final. Es mi opinión que, mientras que Aristóteles dispone de una causa final con un espectro teórico más amplio, la causa final retomada por Marsilio se limita al aspecto intencional. Una lectura de ambos textos con esta diferencia presente podría explicar las diferencias tanto en los resultados como en los desarrollos de las dos “historias” de la ciudad.

Society, theatre and Social Work: beauty will save us

Three different worlds, sometimes concentric and often intersecting —society, theatre and the art of performance— and social work. Diverse worlds that live, reflect and self-reflect and interact, and can also afford an opportunity for meeting, misunderstanding and confrontation, and above all offer the possibility of profound change.This article considers the experience of a theatre company that has spent more than three years moving at the limits of these three universes. To these three worlds can be added an infinite number of words that fill them with meaning and significance: territory, meeting, diversity and search. An artistic experience that has chosen to focus on creating scenarios for debate and to examine the difficulties, the human contradictions and the constant and inexhaustible confrontation with human experience. At the heart of this theatrical activity is all of this, seeking the balance between narration, meeting, investigation and the artistic dimension. This meeting between society, theatre and social work also contains the search for sustainability of this cultural business, in an Italy that has been destroyed by a crisis that is not merely economic, but also of values and, above all, of role models. The guiding theme, though not always made explicit, is always present and essential: the search for beauty.

A Study of Tower Shadow Effect on Fixed-Speed Wind Turbines

This paper studies the impact of tower shadow effect on the power output of a fixed-speed wind farm. A data acquisition unit was placed at a wind farm in Northern Ireland which consists of ten fixed-speed wind turbines. The recording equipment logged the wind farmpsilas electrical data, which was time stamped using the global positioning network. Video footage of the wind farm was recorded and from it the blade angle of each turbine was determined with respect to time. Using the blade angle data and the wind farmpsilas power output, studies where performed to ascertain the extent of tower shadow effect on power fluctuation. This paper presents evidence that suggests that tower shadow effect has a significant impact on power fluctuation and that this effect is increased due to the synchronising of turbine blades around the tower region.