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Supplemental Material - Prescription Trends in Hospice Care: A Longitudinal Retrospective and Descriptive Medication Analysis
No full textSupplemental Material for Prescription Trends in Hospice Care: A Longitudinal Retrospective and Descriptive Medication Analysis by Ursina Wernli, Désirée Hischier, Christoph R. Meier, Sibylle Jean-Petit-Matile, Alice Panchaud, Andrea Kobleder, and Carla Meyer-Massetti in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®.</p
Climate change integration in the multilevel governance of Italy and Austria: the key role of vertical and horizontal coordination
No full textClimate change represents a global problem and a challenge with manifold responses, which requires coordinated action at different levels. In this context, subnational governments play a significant – yet still understudied – role in the fight against climate change; they exercise powers in policy sectors that may have an impact on climate mitigation and adaptation objectives, such as transport, energy and water, and spatial planning. The research project “Climate change integration in the multilevel governance of Italy and Austria” (Research Südtirol/Alto Adige 2019) compares the Italian and Austrian legal systems with a particular focus on how climate change policy integration (CPI) is realized in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and Trento in Italy and Länder Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The project hypothesizes that five factors play a particularly significant role in realizing CPI, namely coordination, participation, information, leadership and funding. In this contribution, we will focus on the dimension of coordination. Also in light of the different decentralization arrangements in Italy and Austria, coordination in the study areas analysed unfolds differently concerning both the type and the employed instruments of coordination, although certain common tendencies can also be observed. Drawing from the results of the empirical research (interviews) conducted in the study areas, this article argues that coordination is affected by the federal vs regional organization of the State only when it comes to vertical coordination. Furthermore, since climate change in not a unitary policy field, improving horizontal coordination among policy fields seems to be more crucial than improving vertical coordination
Uncoupling of Behavioral and Metabolic Twenty-Four-Hour Rhythms in Reindeer (Current Biology, Meier et al. 2024): Actigraphy data
No full text<p>Raw reindeer actigraphy data collected and analysed in the course of the study "Uncoupling of Behavioral and Metabolic Twenty-Four-Hour Rhythms in Reindeer" (Current Biology, Meier et al. 2024). Details on data processing and plotting can be found in the published article. Further information and codes can be requested from the first author Sara A. Meier.</p>
Climate change integration in the multilevel governance of Italy and Austria: the key role of vertical and horizontal coordination
No full textClimate change represents a global problem and a challenge with manifold responses, which requires coordinated action at different levels. In this context, subnational governments play a significant – yet still understudied – role in the fight against climate change; they exercise powers in policy sectors that may have an impact on climate mitigation and adaptation objectives, such as transport, energy and water, and spatial planning. The research project “Climate change integration in the multilevel governance of Italy and Austria” (Research Südtirol/Alto Adige 2019) compares the Italian and Austrian legal systems with a particular focus on how climate change policy integration (CPI) is realized in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and Trento in Italy and Länder Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The project hypothesizes that five factors play a particularly significant role in realizing CPI, namely coordination, participation, information, leadership and funding. In this contribution, we will focus on the dimension of coordination. Also in light of the different decentralization arrangements in Italy and Austria, coordination in the study areas analysed unfolds differently concerning both the type and the employed instruments of coordination, although certain common tendencies can also be observed. Drawing from the results of the empirical research (interviews) conducted in the study areas, this article argues that coordination is affected by the federal vs regional organization of the State only when it comes to vertical coordination. Furthermore, since climate change in not a unitary policy field, improving horizontal coordination among policy fields seems to be more crucial than improving vertical coordination
Mitigating heat stress in full-time grazing dairy cows in temperate climates: The impact of indoor housing during the hottest time of day
No full textWe hypothesised that bringing full-time grazing dairy cows indoors during the hottest time of summer days could reduce heat stress if barns are cooler than outdoor. A 51-day pilot study on 19 pasture-based Swiss dairy farms revealed that, with daily mean ambient temperatures between 15 and 22 °C, barns were on average 2.5 °C cooler than pasture between 1000 and 1800 h. In an experiment over two summers, 38 Holstein dairy cows were investigated in 12 experimental periods of up to three consecutive days, with a mean daily comprehensive climate index between 23.6 and 28.5 °C. Cows experienced two treatments with a cross-over after each experimental period: half of the cows stayed on pasture full time except during milking, while the other half was brought inside the barn from 1130 h until afternoon milking and was supplemented with hay. During this time, barn conditions were cooler (mean and SD −2.9 ± 3.8 °C) than those on pasture. Between 0830 and 1100 h, when all cows were on pasture, no differences in physiological and behavioural indicators were detected in relation to treatment. Between 1200 and 1430 h, cows kept inside had lower vaginal temperature, reticular temperature, heart rate and respiration rate compared with those on pasture. Cows kept inside spent less time feeding and walking, but more time ruminating and lying down. These results suggest that bringing dairy cows inside during the hottest time of summer days reduces heat stress in grazing systems if barns are cooler than outdoors
Cwbr Author Interview: Nature\u27s Civil War: Common Soldiers And The Environment In 1862 Virginia
No full textInterview with Kathryn Shively Meier, Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University Interviewed by Michael Frawley
Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today the Civil War Book Review is proud to speak with Kathryn Shively Meier, an Assistant professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, and discuss her recent book Nature\u27s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia. Thank you for joining us today. Kathryn Shively Meier (KM): Thank you for having me
Meier Shfeyah signing ceremony
No full textThe Meir Shfeyah Youth Village was founded following World War One as an orphanage for girls. Boys were accepted shortly thereafter. Located in the Jewish colony of Meir Shfeyah, near Zikron Ya’akov, the facility was situated on the site of previous youth facilities. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, funded the orphanage through its Palestine Orphan Committee until 1925 when Junior Hadassah, a division of Hadassah for young, unmarried women, took over the responsibility after several years of supporting individual orphans. Meir Shfeyah Youth Village, alternately known as Meir Shfeyah Children's Village, became Junior Hadassah’s largest fundraising project. Junior Hadassah financed the institution’s expenses for three decades until turning over primary responsibility to the State of Israel’s Department of Agriculture in 1958. Although Junior Hadassah merged with other Hadassah divisions in 1967, Hadassah continued to provide support to the Meir Shfeyah Youth Village, which still exists today as a residential, comprehensive high school with an agricultural focus.Hadassah National President Miriam Freund signing a contract for the shikun [housing] at Meier ShfeyahDigital imageDigital finding aid
Max Weber et l’Antiquité
No full textCette contribution est la traduction française d’un article publié en 1988 par Christian Meier, intitulé « Max Weber und die Antike ». L’auteur se propose d’évaluer l’apport des travaux de Max Weber dans le domaine de l’histoire ancienne et des sciences de l’Antiquité. Après avoir interrogé la place accordée à l’Antiquité dans l’œuvre du savant allemand, depuis son habilitation sur L’histoire agraire romaine (1891) jusqu’à son essai sur La Ville (rédigé entre 1911 et 1914, publié en 1921), Christian Meier souligne l’originalité de la démarche historienne de Weber, centrée sur la question de la spécificité de la civilisation gréco-romaine au sein de l’histoire universelle. Il montre comment les recherches de Weber dans ce domaine, fondées à la fois sur l’analyse croisée de facteurs concrets et la mise en œuvre d’une approche comparatiste, constituent le point de départ d’une théorie globale de la société antique. C’est en cela que réside, selon Christian Meier, toute l’actualité de l’œuvre de Weber, que l’on peut compter parmi les historiens de l’Antiquité de premier plan.This contribution is the French translation of an article published in 1988 by Christian Meier, entitled “Max Weber und die Antike”. The author aims at evaluating the contribution of Max Weber’s work to classical studies and ancient history. Christian Meier underlines the importance of Antiquity within the German scholar’s writings, from the habilitation thesis on Roman Agrarian History (1891) to the essay on The City (composed between 1911 and 1914, published in 1921). He also emphasises the originality of Weber’s historical approach, centred on the specificity of Graeco-Roman civilisation within universal history. Christian Meier shows how Weber’s research on this issue, by combining the cross-analysis of concrete factors with a comparatist perspective, provides a sound basis for a global theory of ancient society. Therein lies, according to Christian Meier, the current relevance of Weber’s work as a major ancient historian
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
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