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“What do you want for breakfast? Privacy!": Defining/Trespassing Boundaries in Family Discourse
No full textTe present study aims to investigate privacy invasion/tutelage in the family
environment as presented in the eighth season of the American TV series Te Goldbergs
(2020–2021) More specifcally, the utterances spoken by Beverly and Murray will be taken
into consideration in order to understand how language affects their personality and the
relationship with their relatives By offering a qualitative analysis of selected excerpts,
I intend to demonstrate that, in some instances, parents use words to either distance
themselves or exert control over the spouse or the prol
THE 2016 CENTRAL ITALY EARTHQUAKE. WAITING FOR RECONSTRUCTION
No full textThe 2016 Central Italy earthquake affected a portion of the sub-Apennine territory that spans 4 regions, 10 provinces, 138 municipalities, and encompasses a total territory of approximately 8,000 square kilometres.
A population of 600,000 people was involved, with a high number of lost lives, injured, and people displaced.
According to the history of natural disasters in Italy, reconstruction is emerging as a delayed process that only
in recent months seems to have started; a top-down process that has greatly burdened communities. In a scenario of great landscape value, communities already subject to depopulation and economic depletion still experience, eight years later, a condition of crisis dictated by the delay in reconstruction and the lack of
policies to keep these communities alive in the long period from the disaster until the reconstruction is completed. Small temporary settlements, built in the aftermath of the earthquake, are the new urban system in which only part of the population has decided to settle, rather than abandon their territories, as others
have done. Observing the impacts of a highly destructive earthquake on communities in the so-called "inland areas" it is necessary to grasp how the impoverishment of a community's intangible values (social relations, quality of living, etc.) can be even more serious than the loss of the buildings
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
Full text linkInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Effect of stimulus type and experimental procedure on a visual discrimination task. A study on tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.).
No full textThe study was aimed at assessing if capuchin monkeys’ learning ability to discriminate stimuli by size varied on the basis of both stimulus types (images, foods and objects) and kind of procedures used for stimulus presentation (computerised and non-computerised). Moreover, subjects’ ability to generalise the solution of the problem across different task conditions has been evaluated
METODOLOGIE A CONFRONTO IN UN COMPITO DI DISCRIMINAZIONE VISIVA. UNO STUDIO NEL CEBO DAI CORNETTI (SAPAJUS SPP.)
No full textThe aim of the study was to assess the ability of tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) to solve a visual discrimination problem presented with different procedures (computerised and non-computerised). The study was done in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology of Leipzig and it had yielded results of methodological relevance in comparative visual cognition research. In particular, it has shown that the presentation of the same discrimination task by using different methodologies, even if equivalent from a functional point of view, leads to significant differences in learning speed
Additive Manufacturing: Opportunities and Challenges for Functional Magnetic Materials
Full text linkAdditive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is transforming manufacturing due to a highly digital approach, the ability to near-net shape manufacture highly complex internal and external shapes of nearly any material, and targeted pore and grain microstructure (thus, properties)
Student Award for the best oral presentation
No full textThe present study assessed the ability of tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) to solve a visual discrimination problem presented with different procedures (computerised and non-computerised). The study was done at the Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology of Leipzig and it had yielded results of methodological relevance in comparative visual cognition research. In particular, it has shown that the presentation of the same discrimination task by using different methodologies, even if equivalent from a functional point of view, leads to significant differences in learning speed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
Full text linkBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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