Cenni sulle bonificazioni nelle provincie venete ed in quella di Mantova / Ministero di agricoltura, industria e commercio, Direzione generale dell'agricoltura

• Record Nr.: UNINA990001747770403321
• Autore: Italia. Ministero di agricoltura, industria e commercio
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Roma : Tip. G. Bertero, 1892
• Descrizione fisica: 162 p., 2 c. di tav. ripieg. : ill. ; 25 cm
• Disciplina: 551.48
• Locazione: FAGBC; ILFGE; DINGE
• Collocazione: 60 551.49 B 4/2; S-01b-010; U 6/36
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Better than conscious? [[electronic resource] ] : decision making, the human mind, and implications for institutions / / edited by Christoph Engel and Wolf Singer ; program advisory committee: Christoph Engel ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454388403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-262-27235-0; 1-4356-5189-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (464 p.)
• Collana: Strüngmann Forum reports
• Altri autori (Persone): EngelChristoph <1956->; SingerW (Wolf)
• Disciplina: 612.8
• Soggetti: Decision making - Physiological aspects; Decision making - Social aspects; Cognitive neuroscience; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Forum held June 10-15, 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Better than conscious?: the brain, the psyche, behavior, and institutions / Christoph Engel and Wolf Singer -- Conscious and nonconscious processes: distinct forms of evidence accumulation? / Stanislas Dehaene -- The role of value systems in decision making / Peter Dayan -- Neurobiology of decision making: an intentional framework / Michael N. Shadlen ... [et al.] -- Brain signatures of social decision making / Kevin McCabe and Tania Singer -- Neuronal correlates of decision making / Michael Platt ... [et al.] -- The evolution of implicit and explicit decision making / Robert Kurzban -- Passive parallel automatic minimalist processing / Roger Ratcliff and Gail McKoon -- How culture and brain mechanisms interact in decision making / Merlin Donald -- Marr, memory, and heuristics / Lael J. Schooler -- Explicit and implicit strategies in decision making / Christian Keysers ... [et al.] -- How evolution outwits bounded rationality: the efficient interaction of automatic and deliberate processes in decision making and implications for institutions / Andreas Glöckner -- The evolutionary ; biology of decision making / Jeffrey R. Stevens -- Gene culture coevolution and the evolution of social institutions / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions / Richard McElreath ... [et al.] -- The neurobiology of individual decision making, dualism, and legal accountability / Paul W. Glimcher -- Conscious and nonconscious cognitive processes in jurors' decisions / Reid Hastie -- Institutions for intuitive man / Christoph Engel -- Institutional design capitalizing on the intuitive nature of decision making / Mark Lubell ... [et al.].
• Sommario/riassunto: Experts discuss the implications of the ways humans reach decisions through the conscious and subconscious processing of information. Conscious control enables human decision makers to override routines, to exercise willpower, to find innovative solutions, to learn by instruction, to decide collectively, and to justify their choices. These and many more advantages, however, come at a price: the ability to process information consciously is severely limited and conscious decision makers are liable to hundreds of biases. Measured against the norms of rational choice theory, conscious decision makers perform poorly. But if people forego conscious control, in appropriate tasks, they perform surprisingly better: they handle vast amounts of information; they update prior information; they find appropriate solutions to ill-defined problems. This inaugural Strungmann Forum Report explores the human ability to make decisions, consciously as well as without conscious control. It explores decision-making strategies, including deliberate and intuitive; explicit and implicit; processing information serially and in parallel, with a general-purpose apparatus, or with task-specific neural subsystems. The analysis is at four levels--neural, psychological, evolutionary, and institutional--and the discussion is extended to the definition of social problems and the design of better institutional interventions. The results presented differ greatly from what could be expected under standard rational choice theory and deviate even more from the alternate behavioral view of institutions. New challenges emerge (for example, the issue of free will) and some purported social problems almost disappear if one adopts a more adequate model of human decision making.

Repression, resistance, and women in Afghanistan / / Hafizullah Emadi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971524703321
• Autore: Emadi Hafizullah
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2002; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• ISBN: 9798216007715; 9786610422920; 9781280422928; 1280422920; 9780313012464; 0313012466
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/09581/0904
• Soggetti: Women - Afghanistan - History - 20th century; Women in development - Afghanistan - History - 20th century; Women - Afghanistan - Political activity - History - 20th century; Patriarchy - Afghanistan; Women in Islam - Afghanistan
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-174) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Peripheral Social Formation: Drive for Modernity -- 2 Gender Polity: The Status of Women -- 3 Peripheral State: Politics of Modernization -- 4 Political Mobilization: Women's Struggle for Equality -- 5 Politics of Regression: Women in the Post- Soviet Era -- 6 Women's Empowerment: Prospects for the Future -- Appendix: Bilateral Agreement Between the Republic of Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the Voluntary Return of Refugees -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Afghan women have faced an exhaustive struggle in the battle to change their status and improve their situation. Emadi takes a long look at the role of development and modernization policies implemented by the state in the pre- and post-Soviet eras, under the ; Taliban, and beyond. He finds that such policies have failed to bring about much- needed change and improvement for women. Modernization strategies benefited only a small segment of urban women and left the plight of rural women unchanged. Although a small segment of middle- and upper-class women organized themselves and fought to bring about changes in their status and to end gender inequality, their efforts alone did not meet with much success. Islamic orthodoxy and orthopraxy in the Taliban era restricted women's freedom of movement, access to education, and medical care. Using personal accounts not readily available to researchers or scholars, Emadi explores the diverse factors that contributed to women's oppression both at home and in society. This study provides a detailed analysis of state policies toward women's emancipation within the context of a traditional Islamic society. It chronicles the course of the women's movement and women's organizations still active in the political arena and puts forth an alternative plan to involve women in the reconstruction process in both urban and rural areas.