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Italy: Technical Note on the Financial Situation of Italian Households and Non-Financial Corporations and Risks to the Banking System

This Technical Note examines the financial situation of Italian households and nonfinancial corporations and risks to the banking system. The credit risk from Italian households is mitigated by their considerable net wealth. Income has declined during the crisis, leading to tighter financial conditions for households, especially for young and low-income groups, but low indebtedness, high levels of assets, and declining interest rates have protected households from widespread debt payment difficulties. The financial situation of nonfinancial corporations, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, is fragile, as evidenced by already high loan default rates. Continued strong policy action will be important to mitigate the impact of these vulnerabilities, especially for firms.

Also, further development of the private market for distressed assets would help
accelerate the disposal of non-performing loans and promote corporate
restructuring. Finally, with SMEs relying heavily on bank financing and suffering
from tight ...

Motivated Social Perception

The Ontario Symposium

This volume highlights state-of-the-art research on motivated social perception by the leaders in the field. Recently a number of researchers developed influential accounts of how motivation affects social perception. Unfortunately, this work was developed without extensive contact between the researchers, and therefore evolved into two distinct traditions. The first tradition shows that the motivation to maintain a positive self-concept and to define oneself in the social world can dramatically affect people's social perception. The second one shows that people's goals have a dramatic effect on how they see themselves and others. Motivated Social Perception shows how these two approaches often overlap and provides insights into how these two perspectives are integrated. Motivated Social Perception contains chapters on: *the effect of motivation on the activation and application of stereotypes; *self-affirmation in the evaluations of the self and others; *implicit and explicit aspects of self-esteem; *self-esteem contingencies and relational aspects of the self; *an investigation of the roots and functions of basic goals; and *extensions of self-regulatory theory. This book is intended for scholars, researchers, and advanced students interested in social perception and social cognition.

European Journal ofSocial' Psychology, 22, 381-396. Carver, C. 5., &. White, T. L.
(I994). Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, and affective responses to
impending reward and punishment: The BISfBAS scales. Journal of Personality ...

It's All about Nuts & Berries : Stories about Everyday Life from College Students

REWARDS & PUNISHMENTS Jeanette Although physiological factors, as well as
present circumstances, contribute to the way we perceive things, I believe that
our past experiences are the essence and the core of each individual's ...

Generating Discourses from Networks Using an Inheritance-based Grammar

Anaphora and Related Devices We finally need to assess the role of cohesive
devices like anaphora in holding a discourse ... are vital in creating coherence,
though our analysis of particular relations often differs from Hobbs (see Chapter 9
).

Comparison of an Eight-hour Plant and a Ten-hour Plant

Local Bos indicus and Bos taursu cattle in Bhutan

phenotypic and genetic characterisation of Siri and other Bhutanese local cattle and assessment of a conservation strategy

Teenagers’ Perspectives on the Role of Religion in their Lives, Schools and Societies. A European Quantitative Study

Religion is on the European agenda again. The secularisation paradigm has lost its explanatory power and the newly coined term ‘post-secularism’ is used to describe the realisation that in the current social transformation, religion cannot be ignored any longer. The quantitative study presented in this book is part of the research effort by the REDCo project. REDCo is the abbreviation for “Religion in Education. A contribution to Dialogue or a Factor of Conflict in Transforming Societies of European Countries”. The project brought together nine research teams from eight European countries: England, Estonia, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia and Spain. The research involved interdisciplinary cooperation between specialists in the different academic fields of education, religious education, sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, theology and religious studies. The book offers valuable interpretations and inspirations on the question how the students in the 14 – 16 year age group in Europe see the (ir)relevance of religions for dialogue and conflict in their daily lives, in the school environment, and in society as a whole. The young respondents of the quantitative study are clearly aware that the diversity of religious and non-religious worldviews is the reality of the European contexts they have to manage within. Most of them are convinced that religion must be addressed in schools, as it is too important as factor in social life, and for the coexistence of people from different cultural and religious backgrounds throughout Europe, to be ignored.

In developing approaches that capitalise on self expression and student
interaction as well as contact with people from ... give more attention to recent
pedagogical developments, such as those using interpretive strategies (Jackson,
1997; 2004; ... Religious Education and Human Development: The Relationship
Between ...

Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems

Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussions of these new applications and their use in solving complex problems. This book explores these techniques, showing how they have been successfully deployed to pursue research previously considered too difficult--or impossible--to undertake. Among the projects described here are studies of land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon, settlement patterns in the Pacific northwest, ethnic distribution within the Los Angeles garment industry, and prehistoric sociopolitical development among the Anasazi. Following an introduction that discusses the theory of geographic information systems in relation to anthropological inquiry, the book is divided into sections demonstrating actual applications in cultural anthropology, archaeology, paleoanthropology, and physical anthropology. The work will be of much interest within all these communities.

This book explores these techniques, showing how they have been successfully deployed to pursue research previously considered too difficult--or impossible--to undertake.