308 research outputs found
Conciliare lavori e famiglie. Differenze virtuose e differenze perniciose in tema di tassazione dei redditi da lavoro e sistemi pensionistici
No full textReconciling works and families.
Virtuous differences and pernicious differences in the field of salary income taxation and pensions schemes.
In the first paragraphs, the author considers on one side the different meanings of the word “conciliation” and the different underlying notions, on the other side the possible horns of the “conciliation dilemma”: works/families, remunerated work/care, professional life/ private life, and so on. Then she analyzes two examples that show how gender based rules can be deemed “virtuous” or “pernicious” according to different parameters of equality, and how the implementation of such rules can help or, on the contrary, prevent a fair division of family chores between man and women, such an important piece in the puzzle of conciliation (for men as well as for women). The first example is about the proposal, coming from some economists, for a gender based taxation of salary income. The second one, is about the lower age of retirement allowed by Italian pension schemes for working women; in exploring that issue, the Author takes into account the recent (2008, November 18) Judgement of the European Court of Justice in Case C-46/07 as well as the different paths the Italian Government could or should take as a reaction to the deemed infringement to EC law
Rhode Island Election Tickets: A Survey
No full textRhode Island was the first English colony in America to issue printed election ballots, with the first issued in the mid-1740s. This survey of Rhode Island election tickets, while not exhaustive, is representative of the use of tickets in elections spanning a period of over 150 years and documents state and local politics, political factions and election results from the Ward-Hopkins controversy of the colonial period to political factions during the War of 1812, the Anti-Masonic period of the 1830s, the Law and Order coalition of the 1840s following events of the Dorr Rebellion, the temperance movement of the 1850s, the pro-Union tickets of the Civil War, and Greenback party and Prohibitory factions of the 1870s and 1880s. Statewide elections for general officers, United States congressional representatives, presidential electors, special purpose elections as well as local elections for city, town and district offices are also examined. The scope of this study includes a survey of tickets found in the collections of the University of Rhode Island Library Special Collections, Rhode Island State Archives, Warwick Historical Society as well as private collections of Henry A.L. Brown, Russell DeSimone, and Daniel Schofield.
This document was last revised in 2015. The previous version (2007) can be found below as a supplemental file
Which trial do we need? Long-acting glycopeptides versus oral antibiotics for infective endocarditis in patients with substance use disorder.
No full textThe Impact of Employment during School on College Student Academic Performance
No full textThis paper estimates the effect of paid employment on grades of full-time, four-year students from four nationally representative cross sections of the Harvard College Alcohol Study administered during 1993-2001. The relationship could be causal in either direction and is likely contaminated by unobserved heterogeneity. Two-stage GMM regressions instrument for work hours using paternal schooling and being raised Jewish, which are hypothesized to reflect parental preferences towards education manifested in additional student financial support but not influence achievement conditional on maternal schooling, college and class. Extensive empirical testing supports the identifying assumptions of instrument strength and orthogonality. GMM results show that an additional weekly work hour reduces current year GPA by about 0.011 points, roughly five times more than the OLS coefficient but somewhat less than recent estimates. Effects are stable across specifications, time, gender, class and age, but vary by health status, maternal schooling, religious background and especially race/ethnicity.
Beyond Vasoprotection: Statins and Risk Reduction for Community-Acquired Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
No full textDraft genome of the filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi
No full textParasitic nematodes that cause elephantiasis and river blindness threaten hundreds of millions of people in the developing world. We have sequenced the approximately 90 megabase (Mb) genome of the human filarial parasite Brugia malayi and predict approximately 11,500 protein coding genes in 71 Mb of robustly assembled sequence. Comparative analysis with the free-living, model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans revealed that, despite these genes having maintained little conservation of local synteny during approximately 350 million years of evolution, they largely remain in linkage on chromosomal units. More than 100 conserved operons were identified. Analysis of the predicted proteome provides evidence for adaptations of B. malayi to niches in its human and vector hosts and insights into the molecular basis of a mutualistic relationship with its Wolbachia endosymbiont. These findings offer a foundation for rational drug design
Effects of donor density on power-law response in tin dioxide gas sensors
No full textWe investigated the power-law responses in two types of tin dioxide (SnO2) films: one made from nanosized grains and another from from very large grains, both under dry air. Experimental results revealed a significant dependence between the sensitivity and the SnO2 grain size. We therefore propose, that the gas sensor sensitivity is not only determined by oxygen chemisorption, but also by changes in the density of oxygen vacancies in response to changes in the ambient gas pressure. Band bendings and adsorbate coverages for different oxygen pressures were derived resorting to the electroneutrality condition, including changes in the concentration of oxygen vacancies within the grains due to the exposure to different oxygen pressure. The consequences for the film conductivity and its power-law response were analyzed and compared with experimental results.Fil: Mirabella, Daniel A.. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ingeniería. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales; ArgentinaFil: Desimone, Paula Mariela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ingeniería. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales; ArgentinaFil: Ponce, Miguel Adolfo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ingeniería. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales; ArgentinaFil: Aldao, Celso Manuel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ingeniería. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales; ArgentinaFil: Da Silva, Luis Fernando. Universidade Federal do São Carlos; BrasilFil: Catto, A. C.. Universidade Federal do São Carlos; BrasilFil: Longo, E.. Universidade Federal do São Carlos; Brasi
Bloodstream Infection Due to Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci: Impact of Species on Prevalence of Infective Endocarditis
No full text(1) Background: Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are an important group of organisms that can cause bloodstream infection (BSI) and infective endocarditis (IE). The prevalence of IE in patients with BSI due to different CoNS species, however, has received limited attention; (2) Methods: A retrospective study of adults with monomicrobial CoNS BSI who had undergone echocardiography and a risk factor analysis was done to determine the most common CoNS species that cause definite IE; (3) Results: 247 patients with CoNS BSI were included in the investigation; 49 (19.8%) had definite IE, 124 (50.2%) possible IE, and 74 (30.0%) BSI only. The latter two entities were grouped in one category for further analysis. The most common species in CoNS BSI was Staphylococcus epidermidis (79.4%) and most patients (83.2%) had possible IE/BSI only. 59.1% of patients with BSI due to S. lugdunensis had definite IE. The majority of CoNS were healthcare-associated/nosocomial bacteremia. Multivariable analysis demonstrated that valve disease (p = 0.002) and a foreign cardiovascular material (p S. lugdunensis BSI had an 8-fold higher risk of definite IE than did those with S. epidermidis BSI and nearly a 13-fold higher risk than did patients with BSI due to other species of CoNS (p = 0.002); (4) Conclusions: The prevalence of definite IE in patients with BSI due to different CoNS species was significant. CoNS bacteremia, particularly with S. lugdunensis, confers a significant risk of IE, particularly in patients with a valve disease or intravascular foreign body material and should not be immediately dismissed as a contaminant
Infection of an axillo-bifemoral bypass graft following intravesical bacillus Calmette–Guerin (BCG) immunotherapy for urothelial cancer due to Mycobacterium bovis and Staphylococcus aureus
No full textAbstractWe report a case of occult Mycobacterium bovis left axillary-bifemoral bypass graft infection, with superimposed acute methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infection in an 82 year old male following intravesicular bacillus Calmette–Guerin (BCG) for adjuvant therapy of urothelial cancer. The patient underwent partial removal of the bypass graft and treated with antimycobacterial therapy—rifampin and isoniazid for 9 months, and intravenous cefazolin followed by oral cephalexin for chronic suppressive therapy for MSSA. This presentation highlights the need to consider indolent infection masquerading as mechanical erosion, even when an alternate infection is present
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