This paper presents a new approach to infectious disease analysis through computer simulation. The case study concerns the spread of Bovine Leukemia, a viral pathology sustained by a retrovirus from the same family as HIV that exclusively strikes cattle within dairy farms. Although analytical...

Nell’ambito della complessa riforma delle politiche di finanziamento del sistema universitario nazionale, si inserisce anche la nuova regolamentazione della ripartizione del Fondo di Finanziamento Ordinario (FFO), che vincola parte della stessa ad una specifica valutazione (ex-post) effettuata...

Forest fires are one of the main factors of environmental degradation, since they cause wildlife destruction, air pollution problems and consistently contribute to the threat of the hydrogeological equilibrium. For this reason, much effort is generally made to avoid their occurrence. Although a...

Taking into consideration the Italian manufacturing sector, the main purpose of this paper is to test some predictions arising from models with monopolistic competitive market. In particular, we want to investigate the two following issues. First, to what extent intra-industry trade and...

We present cross and time series analysis of price fluctuations in the U.S. Treasury fixed income market. By means of techniques borrowed from statistical physics we show that the correlation among bonds depends strongly on the maturity and bonds' price increments do not fulfill the random walk...

Among the several aspects concerning the concept of sustainable agriculture, a very important one is related to food security which requires maintaining constant or increasing agricultural productivity over time. Believing that the Albanian agricultural farm structure should be reorganized to...

Deregulation of the electricity generating industry, under way in the United States as well as in Europe, would yield economies to operate in a more competitive environment causing improvement of efficiency and the possibility to develop related financial markets to manage price uncertainty....