163 research outputs found
RECONNECTING THE ROMANTIC OPERA REPERTOIRE: THE FORGOTTEN STAGE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE GRAND THEATRE DE GAND
No full textsponsorship: Bruno Forment holds degrees in music theory, musicology and theatre studies (Ph.D., University of Gent, 2007). Thanks to BAEF and Fulbright grants, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Southern California. He is the author and editor of (Dis)embodying Myths in Ancien Regime Opera (2012), Theatrical Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities (2015), and Swansong of an Illusion: The Historical Stage Sets of the Municipal Theater of Kortrijk (2016). He has also published essays in, among others, Cambridge Opera Journal, Eighteenth-Century Music, Staging Verdi and Wagner (Brepols, 2015), and Carmen Abroad (forthcoming). His work has been awarded by the Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft and the Province of Western Flanders (Heritage Prize for Research, 2017). He is currently a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute, where he investigates the artistic potential of libraries, while teaching at the Royal Conservatoire of Ghent and the Catholic University of Leuven. An earlier version of this essay was read at the 20th Biennial International Conference on NineteenthCentury Music, Huddersfield, 3 July 2018. The author wishes to thank Bruce Alan Brown for his helpful comments, as well as Hendrik Defoort and the staff at the Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent for their always helpful assistance. Digitisation of the photograph collection discussed in this article was financed with a grant from the Research Fund Flanders (FWO). (BAEF, Fulbright grants, Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft, Province of Western Flanders, Research Fund Flanders (FWO))status: Publishe
Determinants of diarrheal disease in Jakarta
No full textIn this report, the authors develop and estimate a model of household defensive behavior and illness. Using cross-section data from a household survey in Jakarta, they observe defensive behavior (washing hands after using the toilet) consistent with expectations: defensive effort intensifies with exposure to contamination, and with income and education. Variables associated with the cost of defensive behavior - such as interruptions in the water supply - reduce defensive behavior. The data suggest that wealthier households are no less vulnerable to illness. The water sources that supply the wealthy (the water company and private wells) are disrupted more often, interfering with their defensive behavior. There is also evidence, although weak, to support findings by van der Slice and Briscoe (1993): that pathogens within a household are less harmful to household members than are pathogens originating from other households. Given the opportunity and knowledge, individuals try to modify the effect of contamination on the incidence of diarrhea. But diarrhea's inccidence is also affected by decisions and problems outside the realm of the household, including the performance of the water company.Water Conservation,Water and Industry,Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Sanitation and Sewerage,Town Water Supply and Sanitation,Water and Industry,Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions,Water Conservation,Health Economics&Finance
The Singer or the Song? Developments in Performers' Rights from the Perspective of a Cultural Economist
No full textOver the last century, performers gradually acquired statutory protection of their economic and moral
rights. These rights are not copyright in the legal sense but neighboring rights and until recently, they
were mainly remuneration rights that are collectively administered. With the WPPT (WIPO
Performers and Phonograms Treaty), performers now have individual exclusive rights for digital
performances; this leads to the question: what has motivated this change – is it a change in the
perception of the value of performer or a change brought about by the changing technology of copying or,
indeed, a change that reflects different economic costs and benefits? The paper discusses the role of
copyright law as an incentive to performers and asks if the economic role of the performer is so different
from that of the author. The conclusion is that a complex interaction of the legal regulations, economic
conditions and institutional arrangements for administering these new rights will determine the outcome
Haspeede3 at Evalita 2023: Overview of the political and religious hate speech detection task
No full textThe Hate Speech Detection (HaSpeeDe3) task is the third edition of a shared task on the detection of hateful content in Italian tweets. It differs from the previous editions while maintaining continuity in analysing and contrasting hate speech (HS) on social media. While HaSpeeDe and HaSpeeDe2 were focused on HS against immigrants, Muslims and Roms, HaSpeeDe3 explores hate speech in strong polarised debates, concerning in particular politics and religion. It is articulated in two different tasks: A) In-domain political hate speech detection and B) Cross-domain hate speech detection about political and religious tweets. Task A consists in two different subtasks for which participants i) can only use the provided textual content of the tweet, or ii) can additionally employ contextual information about the tweet and its author. In Task B, that consists in two
subtasks, participants are allowed to use any kind of external data for detecting hate speech in tweets about i) politics and ii) religion. Six teams from both academia and industry participated in the evaluation, with a total of 13 submitted runs for TaskA and 16 for Task B
A European Exit Strategy. Bruegel Policy Brief 2009/05, 15 October 2009
No full textThis Policy Brief was adapted from a paper written by the three authors and presented by Bruegel Director Jean Pisani-Ferry at the informal ECOFIN Council meetings in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 1 Oct. In the brief, the authors argue that bank recapitalisation and restructuring should be a matter of urgency for EU member states and that governments should not undertake the necessary fiscal and monetary policy exit until problems within the financial sector are addressed. The authors also recommend that European states set debt targets to be reached by the end of 2014 and explain that proper incentives are necessary to ensure that an exit strategy, once implemented, is done so in coordination between various institutional actors. Such a policy framework should be in place by summer 2010, the authors say, in order to avoid a buildup of financial instability during the process
A European Exit Strategy
No full textThis Policy Brief was adapted from a paper written by the three authors and presented by Bruegel Director Jean Pisani-Ferry at the informal ECOFIN Council meetings in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 1 Oct. In the brief, the authors argue that bank recapitalisation and restructuring should be a matter of urgency for EU member states and that governments should not undertake the necessary fiscal and monetary policy exit until problems within the financial sector are addressed. The authors also recommend that European states set debt targets to be reached by the end of 2014 and explain that proper incentives are necessary to ensure that an exit strategy, once implemented, is done so in coordination between various institutional actors. Such a policy framework should be in place by summer 2010, the authors say, in order to avoid a buildup of financial instability during the process.
Rate of telomere shortening and cardiovascular damage: a longitudinal study in the 1946 British Birth Cohort.
No full textCross-sectional studies reported associations between short leucocyte telomere length (LTL) and measures of vascular and cardiac damage. However, the contribution of LTL dynamics to the age-related process of cardiovascular (CV) remodelling remains unknown. In this study, we explored whether the rate of LTL shortening can predict CV phenotypes over 10-year follow-up and the influence of established CV risk factors on this relationship
Introduction, 3 "One More Link in the Chain”: Scribes, Stones, Codices, Libraries
No full textAims and Scope
This book offers the hint for a new reflection on ancient textual transmission and editorial practices in Antiquity.In the first section, it retraces the first steps of the process of ancient writing and editing. The reader will discover how the book is both a material object and a metaphorical personification, material or immaterial. The second section will focus on corpora of Greek texts, their formation, and their paratextual apparatus. Readers will explore various issues dealing with the mechanisms that are at the basis of the assembling of ancient Greek texts, but great attention will also be given to the role of ancient scholarly work. The third section shows how texts have two levels of authorship: the author of the text, and the scribe who copies the text. The scribe is not a medium, but plays a crucial role in changing the text. This section will focus on the protagonists of some interesting cases of textual transmission, but also on the books they manufactured or kept in the libraries, and on the words they engraved on stones. Therefore, the fresh voices of the contributors of this book, offer new perspectives on established research fields dealing with textual criticism
Considerations on the principles of development and manufacturing qualities of challenge agents for use in human infection models
No full textA consortium of international experts with experience in the production of challenge agents, performance of challenge studies, and/or good manufacturing practices (GMP) was established to draft a considerations document, intended to discuss fundamental principles of selection, characterisation, manufacture, quality control and storage of challenge agents for international reference. In the absence of clear international guidance on this topic, the principles outlined in this document should be considered for implementation with the context of the pathogen and setting taken into consideration and for the purposes of improving volunteer safety, model reliability, and for interactions with regulatory agencies or other bodies which oversee human challenge studies. This document can be utilised across high-, middle- and low-income countries and can be applied whether the agent is manufactured in a certified GMP facility or in an academic laboratory by trained personnel with sufficient facilities, appropriate quality control measures and other best practices.
Author affiliations
(1) hVIVO: Carine La, Alex Mann, Alan Bell, Bruno Speder
(2) IABS-EU: Jean-Hugues Trouvin, Pieter Neels
(3) European Vaccine Initiative – EVI: Hilde Depraetere
(4) John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Kawsar R. Talaat
(5) Naval Medical Research Center: Chad K. Porter
(6) PATH: Louis Bourgeois
(7) Leiden University Medical Center: Meta Roestenberg
(8) Tübingen University and Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambarene: Peter Kremsner
(9) Oxford University Clinical Research Unit: Evelyne Kestelyn
(10) NAFDAC: Beno N. Yakubu
(11) Translational Health Science and Technology Institute: Amrita Sekkar
(12) The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College: Gagandeep Kang
Carine La
Roles: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project Management, Data Collection, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Review & Editing
Alan Bell
Roles: Methodology, Review & Editing
Consortium members
Roles: Review
Alex Mann (corresponding author)
Roles: Conceptualisation, Methodology, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Project management, Writing, Review & Editing
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Price support at any price? Costs and benefits of alternative agricultural policies for Poland
No full textThe author argues that Poland must choose an agricultural policy that promotes efficiency, structural change, and adjustment to the new market environment and eventual membership in the European Union. That policy must take into account both the needs of, and the financial constraints on, Polish agriculture. Results of simulation experiments performed with the use of the computable general equilibrium model of the Polish economy suggest that Common Agricultural Policy-type price supports are not the most efficient agricultural policy for Poland. The author discusses alternative policies and scenarios. Rather than discuss whether the relationship between farmers'incomes and average Polish wages is fair, the author analyzes whether medium- and long-term development trends in the Polish economy may cause this relationship to deteriorate, and what policies will counteract those trends. Rapid growth in the nonagricultural sectors combined with real appreciation of domestic currency (caused either through good current account performance or significant capital inflows) may jeopardize farmers'relative income position. And such developments are probable if positive projections for economic development and membership in the European Union are realized. The agricultural sector can defend its relative income only by becoming more efficient. Price supports improve farmers'relative income but at a high cost to taxpayers and consumers and to macroeconomic efficiency. To meet these costs, Poland must put in place firm quantity controls. But the author thinks that the best strategy would be to avoid price supports until the moment of joining the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. In the interim, policies aimed at reducing farm employment seem most appropriate. The author discusses two such policies: encouraging older farmers to retire and promoting jobs in rural areas. He also proposes two feasible scenarios for integrating Polish agriculture with that of the European Union by 2005-10.Markets and Market Access,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Policies,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets
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