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Knowledge Capabilities and Regional Growth: an Econometric Analysis for European Developed Regions - By means of different econometric techniques, this paper estimates the relationship between the knowledge capabilities (i.e. the extent of R&D activities and higher education) and the GDP per capita growth of European developed regions. Along with structural features and initial income levels, our estimations account for the presence of spatial dependence. We find that regional growth is positively affected by the intensity of R&D and the share of adults with tertiary education. These findings are robust to alternative estimation procedures, as they arise from both OLS regressions with country demeaned variables and ML estimations of different spatial models. Keywords: Regional growth, knowledge capabilities, spatial dependence.

Keywords: Crescita economica regionale, disuguaglianze regionali, regioni italiane.

Parole chiave: Crescita regionale, capacità tecnologiche, dipendenza spaziale.

JEL classification: R11, O33, C31

Nella poetica sveviana non esiste, o meglio, viene scardinato il concetto d’idea tout court; per imparare a scrivere sul serio non bisogna più ideare un soggetto attingendo alla cronaca o alla fantasia, o meglio, non bisogna farne il nucleo del nostro racconto, si deve invece progettare una ricerca interiore di qualcosa di sincero, qualcosa di non meditato che venga pescato dall’imo del proprio essere prima di poter essere filtrato dalla coscienza, qualcosa, insomma, che un po’ è nascosto anche a noi stessi.

Le rivolte francesi del novembre 2005 nei titoli di ventuno quotidiani italiani. Ricostruzione dei processi rappresentazionali attraverso un'analisi lessicografica - The tradition of the social representations is the framework of research that is part of a wider project focused on the role of mass media, as part of cultural system, and on processes of anchorage and labelling involved to define the events under observation. We studied the social representations of French riots of November 2005 on headlines of 21 Italian daily newspapers with different cultural and ideological orientation. The aims of research, of comparative character, were the exploration: of consistence of results emerged in previous investigations, and of role played from newspapers and from temporal distance by the events 1) on structural organization of representational field, related to lexicon of headlines, and 2) on differential characterization of the lexicon of headlines 2a) of 21 newspapers and 2b) of two periods, more or less near to the beginning of events. The population, composed by 468 headlines, was collected by October 30 to November 18, 2005. The textual data, related to words of headlines, and the extra-textual data, related to newspapers, to period of publication (I and II week), to signature and sex of journalists, have been processed by different steps of statistical package SPAD-T. According to the scree-test were extracted two factors able to explain 20.40% of total variance. Through the intersection between the two factors we analyzed the factorial plan that, by providing the information more synthetic and exhaustive as possible, highlighted the existence of four areas otherwise characterized by the newspapers, by the two weeks and by the signature and gender of journalists. The differential analysis of lexicographical characterization of each of the 21 newspapers and of two periods, allowed the confirmation and deepening of what emerged in the structural analysis. Overall results showed the non-neutrality of language used by the headlines. It was functional to ideological and cultural profile of source, to its geographical area of reference and to temporal distance from origin of events. Furthermore results showed processes of anchorage and la- beling referable to need to preserve and strengthen specific groupal identity of the source.

Pathways of suffering: the temporal effects of domestic violence on women's mental health (di G. Anne Bogat, Alytia A. Levendosky, Erika DeJonghe, William S. Davidson, Alexander Von Eye) - ABSTRACT: This study of 163 women, examined the relationship between mental health and experiences of domestic violence (DV: male violence toward their female partners) during a three year period. The major findings indicated that it is inappropriate to view all female victims of male violence as a single group with common treatment needs. Rather, there are important subgroups of women, based on the chronicity and recency of the abuse they have experienced, who have different constellations of mental health symptoms. In general, the data support other literature which indicates that once violence ends, women’s mental well-being can improve. In other words, the acute effects of abuse appear to abate once a safe situation occurs. On the other hand, women suffering chronic abuse are in the most danger of negative mental health symptoms. Women with histories of abuse may continue to need support and mental health intervention to deal with the longer term effects of the trauma.