UniMC - Pubblicazioni Aperte Digitali

From the historical Roman road network to modern infrastructure in Italy

An integrated and widespread road system, like the one built during the Roman Empire in Italy, plays an important role today in facilitating the construction of new infrastructure. This paper investigates the historical path of Roman roads as main determinant of both motorways and railways in the country. The empirical analysis shows how the modern Italian transport infrastructure followed the path traced in ancient times by the Romans in constructing their roads. Being paved and connec...

Environmental migration? An overview of the literature

The literature on the relationship between environmental factors such as climatic changes and natural hazards and human mobility (both internal and international) is characterized by heterogeneous results: some contributions highlight the role of climate changes as a driver of migratory flows, while others underline how this impact is mediated by geographical, economic and the features of the environmental shock. This paper attempts to map this literature, focusing on economics and empi...

Engaging in cognitively stimulating activities and change in cognitive function: a cross-country analysis using SHARE

We examine the relationship between different types of cognitively stimulating activities (CSAs) and cognitive function in a sample of community-dwelling Europeans aged 50 and older. The data were drawn from the fourth, fifth and sixth waves of the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The cognitive activities analysed were: educational and training courses; reading books, newspapers and magazines; word or number games (such as crossword puzzles or Sudoku); and playi...

Studio delle iscrizioni del Serapeum di Leptis Magna, nell’ambito del programma di ricerca diretto da Maria Antonietta Rizzo (Università di Macerata), inserito nei programmi del MAE dei progetti di particolare interesse