157 research outputs found
Datastory: Are women submitting fewer grant proposals?
No full textDatastory: Are women submitting fewer grant proposals?
Studies and surveys confirm that during the COVID-19 pandemic, women’s workload at home has increased. Does that mean women researchers are also submitting fewer proposals to the SNSF? Analyses show that, with one exception, their share has remained stable.
English
German
French
Author(s): Simona Isler, Laura Lots, Rachel Heyard, Julius Mattern, Anne Jorstad
DOI: 10.46446/datastory.women-submitting-fewer-grant-proposals / 10.5281/zenodo.4787948
Publication date: 2021-05-0
ʻA sort of Philosophical Back Gardenʼ: Keats’s useful and officinal plants
No full textThe relationship between Keats and the green realm is more complex than it appears at first sight. His references to plants are more than occasional pieces of botanical poetry, denotatively conveying his highly specialized expertise in plant taxonomy and the officinal use of herbs, nor can they be always interpreted as symptoms of Keats’s allegiance to the conventions of Romantic organicism.
On the contrary, they are part of a macrotextual semiotic strategy extending for the whole arch of the poetic production of this author and informing the more profound, structural levels of his poems. Moreover, the phenomenon structurally transposes Keats’s ecological and ethical perspectives on the man-nature relationship, on poetry as a life-sustaining agent, on the poet’s responsibility in coping with human suffering to preserve life and health
Un libro e una mostra per la storia delle artiste italiane del XX secolo: Il complesso di Michelangelo di Simona Weller, 1976
No full textA Book and an Exhibition for the History of 20th century Italian Women Artists: Il complesso di Michelangelo by Simona Weller, 1976 The first attempt to write the history of women artists in 20th century Italian art is due to an artist, Simona Weller. Her book Il complesso di Michelangelo, published in 1976, is at the same time the result of a survey conducted among the women artists in Italy at the peak of the so-called second wave of feminism, and the first historical census of women painters and sculptors throughout the century. Controversial since its first appearance, the book deserves careful consideration both for the unprecedented character of the enquiry and for the first-hand news gathered by the author. I analyze the structure of the book and the exhibition held at the Galleria Giulia in Rome in 1977, on the occasion of the presentation of the book, to be remembered as the first retrospective dedicated to women artists in Italy
Book Forum on Estetica e natura umana: Questions by Simona Chiodo, Roberta Dreon, Shaun Gallagher, Tonino Griffero, Jerrold Levinson, Claudio Paolucci, Richard Shusterman: Replies by Giovanni Matteucci
No full textGiovanni Matteucci’s recent book 'Estetica e natura umana. La mente estesa tra percezione, emozione ed espressione' (Carocci editore, Roma 2019) ambitiously aims to bring together on the same ground – namely, a study on human nature – the tenets of two fields of research, aesthetics and the philosophy of mind. The path outlined in the book 'Estetica e natura umana' and some recent articles by Matteucci is aimed at re-establishing the continuity that exists between various aspects and modalities connoting human experience: a continuity, the latter, that according to Matteucci has been undermined by a centuries-long dualistic philosophical attitude towards human nature as such. On this basis, we thought it stimulating for scholars of philosophy, for readers of “Meta” and for the author himself, to put his original philosophical conception to the test, so to speak, by planning and organizing a book forum with some questions asked by distinguished philosophers of our time working on both aesthetics and the philosophy of mind, and with the detailed replies provided by Matteucci. The complexity underlying Matteucci’s recent philosophical research is thus attested, beside his writings, by the wide-ranging questions raised by the discussants involved in this Forum: Simona Chiodo, Roberta Dreon, Shaun Gallagher, Tonino Griffero, Jerrold Levinson, Claudio Paolucci, Richard Shusterman. The topics and problems called into question by each of them, according to their specific competence, span from the relation to the traditions of pragmatism and phenomenology to enactivism, from the question of aesthetic properties to the role of the body in aesthetic experience, from the relation between perception and language to technology, just to mention a few of them. In our view, as editors of this book forum, the discussants’ questions and the replies provided by the author ultimately prove how flourishing, rich and full of potential, also for further discussion, this field of research currently is
Life and non-life insurance demand: the different effects of influence factors in emerging countries from Europe and Asia
No full textUrbanisation, incomes and their distributions, and the population degree of education are relevant factors for the development of insurance sector. This study estimates the different effects of the previously mentioned factors for life and non-life sector. We used the econometrics of panel data on 17 emerging economies from Asia and Europe over a 10-year period. We showed that urbanisation influenced significantly the life insurance demand in Asia, but not in Europe. Also, education was found to be significant only for the non-life sector in both regions and income was nonsignificant in Asia for non-life sector
Parenting stress and broader phenotype in parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia or typical development
No full textIn the present study parenting stress and the broader phenotype are investigated in two highly common developmental disorders, namely Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and specific reading impairment (dyslexia). Within a total sample of 130 parents, 27 were parents of children with ADHD (P-ADHD), 38 were parents of children with a diagnosis of dyslexia (P-DYS) and the other 65 participants were parents of children with typical development (P-TD). A battery of cognitive tasks was administered which included verbal and non-verbal Intellectual Quotient (IQ), reading speed (passage and nonwords), verbal fluency and the Attention Network Task (ANT). Reading history, symptoms of ADHD in adults and parenting stress were measured through questionnaires. Group differences evidenced that the P-DYS group had lower scores in the reading tasks, in the verbal fluency task and in the reading history questionnaire. Conversely, the P-ADHD group had more transversal cognitive weaknesses (IQ, reading tasks, verbal fluency) and the highest scores in parenting stress and ADHD symptoms, together with poor reading history. The groups did not differ in the ANT task. Parenting stress was predicted, on the whole sample, by lower socioeconomic status (SES) and number of family members and higher ADHD symptoms. Implications for research and clinical settings are discussed. © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
Estimating consumers’ behaviour in motor insurance using discrete choice models
No full textInsurance is a fi nancial service in which consumption is highly affected by the characteristics of
the potential buyer and his perceptions about the offered product. Motor insurance with its two
components – the Motor Third Party Liability Insurance (MTPL) and the Motor Damage insurance
– constitutes the largest line of business of the non-life insurance sector in Europe. The present
study models the voluntary motor damage insurance consumer behaviour using discrete choice
models, hypothesizing a hierarchical and a non-hierarchical decision. The sample consists of 311
car owners from Cluj County, Romania. The econometric estimations use binary logit, multinomial
logit and nested logit models. The predictive power of these models is compared by means of the
Receiver Operating Characteristic curve for discrete choice models. The results reveal that the main
factors affecting the purchase of a voluntary motor insurance policy are risk preference/aversion,
the distance travelled by car, the driver’s education level and the ratio between the driver’s income
and the car price. In contrast to previous studies who estimated the risk profi le only through proxy
variables without accounting for any behavioural aspects, our study has successfully integrated
the risk profi le of the policyholders as a self-standing explanatory variable. Since the explanatory
variables are representative not only for a particular geographical area, the highlighted behaviour
may be applied to all cases where motor damage insurance is voluntary
Fair Lineups Improve Outside Observers' Discriminability, Not Eyewitnesses' Discriminability: Evidence for Differential Filler-Siphoning Using Empirical Data and the WITNESS Model
No full textFair lineups (good fillers) better sort between innocent and guilty suspect identifications than do biased lineups (poor fillers). Why are fair lineups better? Some argue that the fair-lineup advantage is an improvement in eyewitness discriminability through some mechanism such as diagnostic-feature detection. Others argue that the fair lineups do not improve eyewitnesses’ discriminability at all but instead improve the discriminability of outside observers who are privy to which lineups members are known-fillers (the differential filler-siphoning mechanism). Experiment 1 used a forced-choice paradigm to show that fair lineups do not improve eyewitness discriminability. The second experiment used the WITNESS model to show that differential filler-siphoning and the fair-lineup advantage readily surfaces and nicely patterns experimental data based on minimal assumptions even though witness memory strength was held constant. Together, these two experiments support differential filler-siphoning and the idea that fair lineups enhance the outside observer’s discriminability, not the eyewitness’s discriminability.This Unpublished paper published as Smith, Andrew & Smalarz, Laura & Wells, Gary & Lampinen, James & Mackovichova, Simona. (2020). Fair Lineups Improve Outside Observers' Discriminability, Not Eyewitnesses' Discriminability: Evidence for Differential Filler-Siphoning Using Empirical Data and the WITNESS Model. 10.13140/RG.2.2.23329.22887/1
Econometric Estimations of the Services and Financial Sector Impact on Economic Growth Variations in Times of Crisis
No full textThe world economy has been recently upside–downed by the Global Financial Crisis. However, the effects have been extremely different from one country to another and from one economic sector to another. Starting from the economic assumptions formulated in the field’s literature, the article analyzes the hypotheses of the disadvantageous influences of the services and financial sector upon the volatility of the economic growth rate and the unemployment rate in times of crisis. Econometric estimations using cross-sectional OLS Robust (White) Regressions on a sample of worldwide data taken from the World Bank confirm the theoretical hypotheses. The consequences of the highlighted mechanisms can be significant through the repositioning of the role of the different economic sector
Bibliometric approach of factors affecting scienti?c productivity in environmental sciences and ecology
No full textDifferent academic bibliometric studies have measured the in?uence of economic, political and linguistic factors in the academic output of countries. Separate analysis in different ?elds can reveal speci?c incentive factors. Our study proves that the Environmental Performance Index, computed by Yale University, is highly signi?cant (pb0.01) for the productivity of research and development activities in environmental sciences and ecology. The control variables like education ?nancing, publishing of ISI Thomson domestic journals and the English language are also signi?cant. The methodology uses Ordinary Least Squares multiple regressions with convincing
results (R2=0.752). The relative positions of the 92 countries in the sample are also discussed. We draw up a
ranking of the countries' concern for the environment, considering evenly the scienti?c productivity and the environment quality. We notice huge differences concerning the number of inhabitants and population income between the countries that dominate the classi?cation and those occupying the last positions
- …
