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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion determine academics' effort.
Checchi, Daniele +2 more
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Gender Equality Plan: An Explorative Analysis of Italian Academia
International Conference on Gender Research, 2023 Since 2015, the European Union, always sensitive to gender issues, has been recommending and actively supporting the implementation of the Gender Equality Plan (GEP) in academic and research organisations: a set of commitments and actions that aim to promote gender equality through a process of structural change.
Chamochumbi Diaz, Gail Denisse +3 more
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The Glass Door of Academia: Unveiling New Gendered Bias in Academic Recruitment
Social Sciences, 2019 Gender statistics and studies on gendering mechanisms have been developing over recent years on two parallel tracks. This research reveals the need to rethink the standard indicators used in European comparative analyses to identify (1) gender-related ...
Ilenia Picardi
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Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques, 2014 This article examines the role of passion among precarious labour force in the Italian academia. By relying on C. Wright Mill’s distinction between “passion as a reason” of action and “passion as a motive” to represent and discuss one’s employment ...
Sandro Busso, Paola Rivetti
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What Can We Learn from the History of STS in Italy? A Few Hints for the Future
Tecnoscienza, 2020 By recalling his own career as an historian of science and technology, the author sketches the history of Science and Technology Studies in Italy from their early steps in the 1970s and 1980s.
Giuliano Pancaldi
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Gender, 2021 Gender equality has been actively promoted in EU academic institutions by the European Commission’s Science with and for Society (SwafS) programme through the implementation of gender equality plans (GEP).
Rita Bencivenga, Eileen Drew
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American Liberals and the Italian 'Communist Question' in the 1970s
USAbroad, 2020 This essay analyzes the attitude of American experts and policymakers towards the Italian Communist Party during the 1970s. As the PCI promoted a moderate line at both domestic and international level, members of American think tanks and academia started
Alice Ciulla
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Political Science in Italian Universities: Demand, Supply, and Vitality
Italian Political Science, 2020 Political Science is widely considered to be an established academic discipline, even in a country like Italy, where the penetration of empirical social science has been deeply constrained historically and culturally, and where there has been a clear ...
Bruno Marino, Luca Verzichelli
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Are Men Given Priority for Top Jobs? Investigating the Glass Ceiling in Italian Academia [PDF]
Journal of Human Capital, 2016 We investigate the gender gap in academic promotions, focusing on the Italian system, in which candidates first participate in a nationwide competition to obtain a scientific qualification and then...
De Paola, Maria +2 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Activation of the mitochondrial protein OXR1 increases pSyn129 αSynuclein aggregation by lowering ATP levels and altering mitochondrial membrane potential, particularly in response to MSA‐derived fibrils. In contrast, ablation of the ER protein EMC4 enhances autophagic flux and lysosomal clearance, broadly reducing α‐synuclein aggregates.
Sandesh Neupane +11 more
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