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Disoccupazione, imprenditorialità, crescita: cosa frena davvero i disoccupati
No full textThis volume is the product of a research committed by CFI (Cooperation Finance Italy) to Luiss Laps on the willing of entrepreneurship and limitations in the way of this choice in that Country. The study is based on a survey of a rappresentative sample of italian unemployed peopl
L’innovazione sociale nelle politiche urbane. Un caso studio nel contesto italiano
No full textIl contributo analizza i caratteri di una politica urbana che applica e incorpora concetti e approcci tipici dell’innovazione sociale. Con questo obiettivo, esamina un caso studio, ‘Un acceleratore per l’economia di territorio’, promosso dal comune di Milano con una serie di partner locali e inserito nel framework governativo del Fondo per l’innovazione sociale (fis). Il progetto per la creazione di ‘economie di prossimità’ sarà realizzato combinando strumenti finanziari a impatto sociale e percorsi di accelerazione per lavoro e impresa nelle aree periferiche. L’ipotesi che si vuole qui verificare è se l’innovazione sociale possa essere non solo il contenuto, ma anche il metodo di una politica place-based di sviluppo territoriale: acquisendo conoscenza dispersa, innescando processi di intelligenza collettiva nella ridefinizione dei bisogni sociali e proponendo soluzioni condivise dall’interesse di più attori
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Cardiometabolic risk profile in non-obese children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
No full textObstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) in childhood is a complex disease primarily due both to adenotonsillar hypertrophy and pediatric obesity. Notably, inflammation has been recognized as one of the most important shared pathogenic factor between obesity and OSAS resulting in an increased cardiometabolic risk for these patients. To date, evidence is still limited in non-obese population with OSAS. We aimed to evaluate the cardiometabolic risk profile of a pediatric population of non-obese subjects affected by OSAS. A total of 128 school-aged children (mean age 9.70 ± 3.43) diagnosed with OSAS and 213 non-OSAS children (mean age 9.52 ± 3.35) as control group were enrolled. All subjects underwent a complete clinical and biochemical assessment (including white blood cell count (WBC), platelet count (PLT), mean platelet volume (MPV), % of neutrophils (NEU%), C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), serum glucose, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), uric acid, fasting insulin, iron, ferritin, and transferrin levels). A significant association between inflammation markers (including WBC, PLT, MPV, NEU%, ferritin, CPR, and ESR) and OSAS was found (all p < 0.001). Children with OSAS also showed increased transaminase, glucose, uric acid, and insulin levels (all p < 0.001) compared to healthy controls. Conclusion: Taken together, these findings suggested a worse cardiometabolic profile in non-obese children with OSAS. Given the pivotal pathogenic role of inflammation both for hypoxiemia and metabolic derangements, therapeutic strategies for OSAS might also counteract the increased cardiometabolic risk of these patients, by improving their long-term quality of life.What is Known:• Pediatric OSAS has shown a close relationship with obesity and its cardiometabolic comorbidities.• Inflammation represents the hallmark of both obesity and OSAS.What is New:• Non obese children with OSAS presented with a worse cardiometabolic risk profile.• OSAS treatment might serve as an effective approach also for the increased cardiometabolic risk of these children
Sleep Macrostructure and NREM Sleep Instability Analysis in Pediatric Developmental Coordination Disorder
Get PDFDevelopmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is considered to be abnormal motor skills learning, identified by clumsiness, slowness, and/or motor inaccuracy impairing the daily-life activities in all ages of life, in the absence of sensory, cognitive, or neurological deficits impairment. The present research focuses on studying DCD sleep structure and Cyclic Alternating Pattern (CAP) parameters with a full overnight polysomnography and to study the putative correlations between sleep architecture and CAP parameters with motor coordination skills. The study was a cross-sectional design involving 42 children (26M/16F; mean age 10.12 ± 1.98) selected as a DCD group compared with 79 children (49M/30F; mean age 9.94 ± 2.84) identified as typical (no-DCD) for motor ability and sleep macrostructural parameters according to the MABC-2 and polysomnographic (PSG) evaluations. The two groups (DCD and non-DCD) were similar for age (p = 0.715) and gender (p = 0.854). More significant differences in sleep architecture and CAP parameters were found between two groups and significant correlations were identified between sleep parameters and motor coordination skills in the study population. In conclusion, our data show relevant abnormalities in sleep structure of DCD children and suggest a role for rapid components of A phases on motor coordination development
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Food-associated calls and audience effects in tufted capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella nigritus
Get PDFSeveral species of birds and primates produce food-associated vocalizations upon finding or consuming food. Tufted capuchin monkeys produce two food-associated vocalizations (the grgr and the food-associated whistle series), which are functionally referential. By experimentally placing new food sources (feeding platforms containing half pieces of banana), I explored the factors that affect the production of food-associated calls in a wild group of tufted capuchins. Finders of these platforms called in 81% of the discoveries when the platform contained fruit (N = 57) but in 0% of cases when the platform was empty (N = 5). Males and females of all ages and dominance ranks gave food-associated calls when discovering a platform with fruit. The probability that a finder gave food-associated vocalizations was lower during the period of food scarcity and when the platform contained a small amount of bananas (three pieces as opposed to ≥ 20 pieces). There was an effect of the audience on the latency to give food-associated calls. The time elapsed until the finder gave the first food-associated call decreased with the presence and density of nearby individuals and increased with the distance from other individuals to the platform. The latency to call was longer for females than for males. The audience effect and the effect of the sex of the finder are consistent with the hypothesis that capuchins use these vocalizations deceptively by withholding information about the presence of a food source. By increasing the latency to call, finders of new food sources can obtain a larger amount of food and thus reduce the costs associated with calling.Fil: Di Bitetti, Mario Santiago. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Laboratorio de Investigaciones Ecológicas de las Yungas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Confronto del comportamento di due differenti tipologie di malte geopolimeriche a base di cenere volante
No full textLa sempre maggiore richiesta di materiali da costruzione a ridotto impatto ambientale con la possibilità di riciclare materiali di scarto è stato l’impulso per lo sviluppo di leganti geopolimerici come possibili sostituti del tradizionale cemento Portland per il confezionamento di malte.
La ricerca è stata condotta confrontando le prestazioni di 2 differenti serie di malte a base geopolimerica a parità di classe di resistenza meccanica: R1 ≥ 10MPa, R2 ≥ 15MPa, R3 ≥ 25MPa e R4≥ 45MPa, in accordo con la norma UNI EN 1504-3:2006.
I geopolimeri sono il risultato della reazione chimica tra materiali sorgente e una soluzione alcalina. In questo studio, le malte geopolimeriche sono state confezionate con cenere volante (prima serie) e con cenere volante parzialmente sostituita con cemento alluminoso (seconda serie) come materiali sorgente. Come soluzione alcalina è stata utilizzata una soluzione di silicato di sodio e di idrossido di sodio, in assenza di cemento alluminoso, o di potassio, in presenza di cemento alluminoso, a differenti concentrazioni. Tutte le malte geopolimeriche sono state preparate con rapporto sabbia/cenere di 3:1, mantenendo sempre pari a 1 il rapporto tra il peso della soluzione di silicato di sodio e la soluzione di NaOH o KOH.
In generale, nonostante la minore permeabilità al vapore rispetto alle miscele con NaOH, le malte con KOH hanno ottenuto pari assorbimento d’acqua per capillarità, una maggiore aderenza al mattone e un minore ritiro libero. Inoltre, la presenza del cemento alluminoso e dell’idrossido di potassio nei geopolimeri ha contribuito alla riduzione delle efflorescenze
Author in Essay by I. A. Goncharov “Pepiniere”
Get PDFFeatures of the embodiment of the author’s position in the essay by I. A. Goncharov “Pepiniere” are considered. The relevance of the study is due to the poorly studied poetics of this work. A review of the scientific literature on relevant topics is performed. Methodological and theoretical definitions are given. The scientific novelty of the article is in the fact that for the first time attention is paid to artistic techniques that allow to identify the author's position in the specified literary text. The author of the article grounds her opinion from the fact that, despite the dominance of the subjective point of view, other characters’ views stand out in the work. It is concluded in the study that the text of the work represents a biographical author and author-creator. It was established that the position of the author-creator is expressed through the title, epigraphs, which are quotes, as well as through different points of view, including the author-character, the author-narrator, the characters of the work. The author of the article dwells in detail on different ways of expressing the points of view of the author-character and the author-narrator. It is proved that the point of view of the author-character and the author-narrator can intersect, they are interchanged. The author's development of the term comic “point of view” is presented in the article
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