Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM013.
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing number of technologies and devices (including smartphones, tablets and alike) able to provide new perspectives for the use of multimedia applications in the field of Cultural Heritage. This work arises from the interest in providing better authoring/delivery possibilities to cultural heritage institutions (small and medium sized in particular). ...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2012 ; 2012ECO003.
The focus of this doctoral thesis is on the determination of the implied cost of capital in the equity market. Three issues are investigated in detail: the relations between the cost of equity capital, the credit spread and the economic growth; the links between realized market returns and the cost of capital; and the forecasting power of the implied discount factor in predicting market...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2021ARC001.
Cette thèse est consacrée à la seconde partie de la carrière de l’architecte Adolf Loos (1870-1933) à partir de la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale jusqu’en 1933, et surtout après son départ de Vienne en 1923. Notre hypothèse de travail est que loin d’être une période « en creux » comme l’historiographie l’a souvent présentée, celle-ci est marquée par une plus large...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016COM010.
This study has examined how the ‘Ageing Society’ -a society with a rapidly ageing population, a growing share of older persons and a decreasing share of younger persons- and its implications for the Belgian population are represented in the Belgian quality newspaper De Standaard (2011-2013). As such, the study delivered first-time Belgian empirical findings about the coverage of the...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015ECO007.
The interaction of capital and risk is of primary interest in the corporate governance of banks as it links operational profitability and strategic risk management. Senior executives understand that their organization's monitoring system strongly affects the behaviour of managers and employees. Typical instruments used by senior executives to focus on strategy are balanced scorecards with...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020COM006.
Tourism and culture are strongly intertwined. People can experience culture before, during and after their journey, both in the offline and in the online world. Arguably, the internet is among the main sources of inspiration and information retrieval for tourists, who navigate social media and websites to know more about the destination, its products and services. Following the developments in...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013COM005.
In recent years, the family context has emerged as one of the most important contexts for the study of argumentation. The activity of mealtime, in particular, represents a privileged moment for studying how parents and children interact with each other, because it is one of the few moments during the day in which all family members come together and engage in intensive verbal interaction....
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
This work investigates how argumentation, namely the communicative exchange aimed at founding ones position in a reasonable fashion, is an essential condition for the fulfilment of the pragmatic goals of mediation, conceived of as a conflict resolution practice. In mediation, the parties are competent and responsible for the decision on the conflict, while the mediator helps them assume an...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
Discussion on the introduction of the smoking ban in Ticino has all the characteristics of a debate, where every participant takes a position. In this context, observing argumentative content means reconstructing the core of the discussion. However, understanding argumentative content is difficult because argumentation is a complex activity. Content analysis allows reconstruction of a small...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010.
This dissertation analyzes argumentative interactions in the context of corporate takeover bids, representing thus a first systematic study of financial communication from the perspective of argumentation theory. In general, the importance of financial communication is justified by the relevance of information for making sound investment decisions (cf. Healy Williams 2008)....
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