937 research outputs found
Studying Migration from Different Perspectives and with Different Techniques
No full textMigration can be considered a human strategy to improve life and can be defined as a natural behavior of human beings that has developed over time. The issue of migration is a particularly salient theme in this historical period and presents a new challenge for researchers in Europe and worldwide, particularly those researchers attempting to understand the patterns and processes of migration. Researchers of various disciplines have responded to the challenges related to migration using a variety of methodological tools to examine the phenomenon. In this chapter, the author presents qualitative techniques used in the social sciences and discusses their strengths and weaknesses when they are employed to study immigrant populations. Given the complexity of the migration phenomenon, the challenges that researchers must address include collaboration between disciplines and methodologies and the integration of methods. A multimethod, multilevel and multidisciplinary approach is used in an attempt to understand this multifaceted issue
Which intercultural competences for teachers, educators, and social workers? A literature review
No full textEurope seems to be going through a historical period characterized by the fear of otherness, conceived as an attack on the positive values of liberal society. This fear manifests itself, according to several researchers, through neo-assimilationist tendencies in public policies in many European nations: an example of this trend can be considered the reintroduction of the language and knowledge requirements of the country for new immigrants as a prerequisite for obtaining permanent residence and citizenship. At the same time, in both academic and public debates, the tendency is spreading to affirm that it is necessary to overcome the multicultural approach in favour of a new paradigm capable of dealing with the complexities typical of the superdiversity that characterizes European nations: the interculturalism. This trend is in contrast to the thinking of several researchers who believe that the theoretical principles and the practical aims, which are at the basis of multiculturalism and interculturalism are complementary to each other. Multiculturalism tends to focus more on the level of public discourse and political debate while interculturalism is aimed more at more meso and micro-level. It is believed that teachers, social workers and educators play a fundamental role in making the members of the majority of a State more open to comparison and exchange with subjects coming from other historical and geographical contexts. The purpose of this review is to identify the intercultural competencies that these professionals should have to counter the fear and closure towards diversity, which is constantly increasing in European societies
Inclusive society and immigration: A systematic analysis of the literature
No full textAim of this systematic literature review is the analysis, through biblio-graphic research, of the current inclusion processes in order to under-stand if European society is becoming an increasingly inclusive society or is progressively assuming positions of closure towards the Other. The use of MIPEX, as a key to understanding the different inclusion policies implemented by the various European countries, has high-lighted how the ideas of cultural pluralism and appreciation of diversity typical of an inclusive society are giving way to neo-assimilationist trends, symptom of the representation of otherness as a peril capable of undermining the social cohesion and stability of the nation
Some constructions for cyclic perfect cycle systems
No full textWe present direct and recursive constructions for some classes of cyclic i-perfect k-cycle systems with special attention to cyclic Steiner k-cycle systems and cyclic Kirkman k-cycle systems
Multi-person tracking using dynamic programming
No full textThesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-77).This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.by Rania Y. Khalaf.M.Eng
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working
No full textThe article is an autoethnographic account written by three Italian academic
researchers and mothers with children of different ages. The authors engage
in a reflection starting with their experience as working women committed
to the work–family negotiation process while facing the COVID-19 health
emergency that has affected the whole world. This article focuses on how
we, as middle-class, heterosexual, white mothers working in a privileged
employment context during the period of the pandemic lockdown, negotiated
the complex mother and worker roles, balancing work and family time while
smart working (teleworking from home). We start with a reflection on the
use of autoethnography as a research tool and then propose an analysis of
work–family balance strategies in an anomalous situation, such as that of
the lockdown, highlighting the tensions in gender roles within dual-career
families
Care Tasks and New Routines for Italian Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Women
No full textThe lockdown management during the COVID-19 pandemic has been very complex for families. The present study is part of a broader interdisciplinary research and follows the gender perspective, which has made it possible to bring a focus on the pandemic starting with women who, within family dynamics, have suffered most from the effects of the lockdown, having to manage multiple roles simultaneously and in the same place. The data were collected through an on-line survey. The aim is to understand how family routines were structured during the lockdown and how women’s emotional regulation developed during this period. Moreover, a further area of investigation focused on the distribution of domestic work and childcare among partners and on the relationships between smart working and the family dimension. The participants are 300 women living in different Italian region. The data highlights how during lockdown women with children have more regulatory and relational routines than women without children and that during this period both regulatory and relational routines become less consistent. It also emerges that women perceive that they dedicate more time to domestic activities and childcare than their partners do anthe effects of the lockdown, having to manage multiple roles simultaneously and in the same place. The data were collected through an on-line survey. The aim is to understand how family routines were structured during the lockdown and how women’s emotional regulation developed during this period. Moreover, a further area of investigation focused on the distribution of domestic work and childcare among partners and on the relationships between smart working and the family dimension. The participants are
300 women living in different Italian region. The data highlights how during lockdown women with children have more regulatory and relational routines than women without children and that during this period both regulatory and relational routines become less consistent. It also emerges that women perceive that they dedicate more time to domestic activities and childcare than their partners do and that the time dedicated to childcare is greater in the 0-6 year range. Moreover, it emerges clearly how reconciling the smart working with the family dimension is not always easy
Psicologia sociale delle relazioni familiari .Identità, progetti e traiettorie
No full textFamily, in a psycho-social perspective, can be considered challenged in epistemic sense: by its nature it is compared with the contexts of change, with the ability to adapt to life events that are varied and numerous. The family may be regarded as a "project" that turns to unify different situations, sometimes contradictory, going to define family "paths" increasingly differentiated and difficult to predict. These pathways may be dependent on life events not selected that people suffer all the consequences, or from events strongly desired that bring people to possible happiness or unhappiness.
The author outlines a scenario that includes the varied strategies of coexistence in which family meanings can be very different; along with a “liquid” love and society, the family no longer seems able to hold its form. The construction of its boundaries and relevant meanings, through the current multiplicity of family forms which each of us can experience simultaneously, is the main challenge relates to the ability of each to build and maintain links
Příprava a oxidativní coupling 1,5-disubstituovaných tetrazolů
No full textUniverzita Karlova v Praze Farmaceutická fakulta v Hradci Králové Katedra anorganickej a organickej chémie Kandidát: Zuzana Rania Hrušková Školitel: Prof. RNDr. Milan Pour, PhD. Název diplomové práce: Príprava a oxidatívny coupling 1,5-disubstituovaných tetrazolov V náväznosti na predchádzajúcu prácu, ktorá viedla k príprave knižnice 1,5-disubstituovaných tetrazolov pomocou paládiom katalyzovaných cross-couplingových reakcií s priamou aktiváciou C5-H väzby, bola mojou prácou táto knižnica rozšírená o nové deriváty. 1,5-disubstituované tetrazoly boli využité ako substráty pre oxidatívny coupling. Tieto reakcie mali viesť k príprave rôznych derivátov tetrazolo[1,5-f]fenantridínu. Všetky použité metódy však viedli iba k stopám požadovaného produktu.Charles University in Prague Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry Candidate: Zuzana Rania Hrušková Supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Milan Pour, PhD Title of diploma thesis: Preparation and oxidative coupling of 1,5-disubstituted tetrazoles. Following the established protocol developed for the preparation of 1,5-disubstituted tetrazoles employing Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions with activated the C5-H bond we have been able to extend the existing library of tetrazoles. 1,5-Disubstituted tetrazoles were used as substrates for oxidative coupling reactions which would result to formation of tetrazolo[1,5-f]phenathridine core. However, all of the common methods we used for this reaction lead only to the traces of the desired product.Department of Inorganic And Organic ChemistryKatedra anorganické a organické chemieFaculty of Pharmacy in Hradec KrálovéFarmaceutická fakulta v Hradci Králov
Meeting the Challenges of Longevity: Lifetime Income from Real Estate
No full textThe reverse mortgage, in spite of its low uptake, is a tool of
protecting the so-called house rich-cash poor persons. It represents an
opportunity especially in social realities with a high aging population,
pension systems struggling to guarantee acceptable living standards, significant
proportion of homeowners with insufficient income to meet daily
expenses. The paper is interested in this contract by looking at it from
the point of view of the provider/lender who commits to a payment to
the borrower/pensioner against the amount that will be made when the
house is sold, in which the borrower will continue to live for life. Our focus
is on quantifying the risks that impact the contract, due to three main
sources of uncertainty. The purpose is to provide formulas for quantifying
each of these risks, which are easy to interpret and apply, and useful
for proceeding to profitable risk control strategies
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