332 research outputs found
Comment analyser et comparer les toponymes de différentes langues dans une perspective synchronique
No full textLöfström Jonas, Schnabel Betina. Comment analyser et comparer les toponymes de différentes langues dans une perspective synchronique. In: Nouvelle revue d'onomastique, n°52, 2010. pp. 291-318
Vers une toponymie narrative: récits autobiographiques et ancrages géographiques dans deux villages de la Haute Vallée du Vomano (Italie)
No full textVers une toponymie narrative: récits autobiographiques et ancrages géographiques dans deux villages de la Haute Vallée du Vomano (Italie centrale) Dans cet article nous présentons les résultats d’une série d’enquêtes menées fin 2011 dans deux villages de montagne des Abruzzes (Italie centrale). L’objectif est triple : 1) le collectage d’informations concernant les microtoponymes locaux; 2) le collectage de récits autobiographiques s’inspirant de ces microtoponymes en vue de la réalisation d’atlas de “toponymie narrative”; 3) une contribution à l’analyse du rapport liant le toponyme à son interprétation subjective, moyennant des techniques d’analyses du discours.Towards a narrative toponymy: autobiographical stories and geographical relations of two villages in Upper Valle Vomano (Central Italy)
In this article we present the results of a series of inquiries carried out at end 2011 in two mountain villages in Abruzzo (Central Italy). The objective is triple: 1) The collection of information concerning local microtoponyms; 2) Collection of autobiographical stories related to those microtoponyms prior to the realization of an atlas on “fiction toponymy”; 3) An inquiry on the relationship between toponym and its subjective interpretation through techniques of discourse analysis.In Richtung einer erzählenden Toponomastik: autobiographische Erzählungen und geographische Verankerungen in zwei Dörfern des Alta Valle Vomano (Mit-telitalien)
In diesem Artikel präsentieren wir die Ergebnisse einer Ende 2011 in zwei Bergdörfern der Abruzzen (Mittelitalien) durchgeführten Untersuchungsreihe. Das Ziel ist dreifach: 1) Informationssammlung lokaler Mikrotoponymie; 2) Sammlung autobiographischer Erzählungen in Verbindung mit jenen Kleinobjektnamen im Hinblick auf die Realisierung eines "erzählenden toponomastischen" Atlasses; 3) Erforschung der Beziehung zwischen dem Ortsnamen und seiner subjektiven Interpretation mittels der Techniken der Redeanalyse
Underground Engineering: Opportunities, Challenges and Innovation
No full textUNDERGROUND ENGINEERING: Opportunities, Challenges and Innovation. Complexity, sustainability, safety, security, versatility, creativity, and innovation are essential themes driving engineering science today. The world is changing rapidly and although the content and methods of engineering are evolving with it, an engineer's professional mission remains the same: to solve problems and make decisions. The application of new software such as BIM, Digital Project and Advanced TBM is shaping the landscape of underground design and construction, particularly for mass transportation and water conveyance. This lecture will demonstrate the successful use of technology to improve project design and management via project examples from around the globe. A particular focus will be Italy, which presents unique geographic and geologic challenges for the development of sophisticated underground infrastructures. Underground works will remain a massive market all over the world for at least the next two decades, and the bright light at the end of every tunnel will be the new and exciting opportunities these projects present for engineers across multiple disciplines and locations.
About Paolo Mazzalai, P.E. A native of Italy, Mr. Mazzalai earned a Master of Science degree in civil engineering in 1973 from Padua University, where he has taught as an associate professor for many years. The field has been his laboratory on advanced engineering projects: the dam of Valda in the 1980s, the road tunnel of Martignano in the 1990s, and into the 21st century with record-setting infrastructure such as the Brenner Base railway tunnel connecting Italy and Austria through the Alps. An international planner of major infrastructure projects in transport and water, Mr. Mazzalai is the author of over 100 scientific papers and a member of several scientific and entrepreneurial professional associations. He joins Alan Rasband, Kord J. Wissmann, Karen Durham-Aguilera, Edward J. Cording, Donald A. Bruce, Jerry A. DiMaggio, S. Scot Litke, James Morrison, Douglas Boyer, Don Deere, and Ray Martin in the pantheon of Schnabel Lecture Series speakers.Schnabel Engineerin
A Note on the Equivalence of Rationalizability Concepts in Generalized Nice Games
No full textMoulin (1984) describes the class of nice games for which the solution concept of point-rationalizability coincides with iterated elimination of strongly dominated strategies. As a consequence nice games have the desirable property that all rationalizability concepts determine the same strategic solution. However, nice games are characterized by rather strong assumptions. For example, only single-valued best responses are admitted and the individual strategy sets have to be convex and compact subsets of the real line R1. This note shows that equivalence of all rationalizability concepts can be extended to multi-valued best response correspondences. The surprising finding is that equivalence does not hold for individual strategy sets that are compact and convex subsets of Rn with n>1.
Figure 6 in REVIEW The use of integrative taxonomy in Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa): a literature survey
No full textFigure 6. Total author pool and number of taxonomic publications on octocorals per year (2000–2020).Published as part of Kessel, Gustav M., Alderslade, Philip, Bilewitch, Jaret P., Schnabel, Kareen E. & Gardner, Jonathan P. A., 2023, REVIEW The use of integrative taxonomy in Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa): a literature survey, pp. 677-690 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 (2) on page 684, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac099, http://zenodo.org/record/800487
Modeling the Use of Nonrenewable Resources Using a Genetic Algorithm
No full textThis paper shows, how a genetic algorithm (GA) can be used to model an economic process: the interaction of profit-maximizing oil-exploration firms that compete with each other for a limited amount of oil. After a brief introduction to the concept of multi-agent-modeling in economics, a GA-based resource-economic model is developed. Several model runs based on different economic policy assumptions are presented and discussed in order to show how the GA-model can be used to gain insight into the dynamic properties of economic systems. The remainder outlines deficiencies of GA-based multi-agent approaches and sketches how the present model can be improved.
Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership
No full textIn an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel direct measures of individual risk aversion, we find evidence of a significantly positive relationship between risk aversion and the likelihood of union membership. Additionally, we observe a negative correlation between bargained wages in aggregate and average risk preferences of union members. Our results suggest that an overall increase in risk aversion contributes to wage moderation and promotes employment.Employment, membership, risk aversion, trade union
Raley_JournMarFam_2012_D2LY - Schnabel/Méndez-Chacón - Reproduction (without author data) - k637
No full textRaley_JournMarFam_2012_D2LY - Schnabel/Méndez-Chacón - Reproduction (without author data) - k637
No full textUniqueness Conditions for Point-Rationalizable
No full textThe unique point-rationalizable solution of a game is the unique Nash equilibrium. However, this solution has the additional advantage that it can be justified by the epistemic assumption that it is Common Knowledge of the players that only best responses are chosen. Thus, games with a unique point-rationalizable solution allow for a plausible explanation of equilibrium play in one-shot strategic situations, and it is therefore desireable to identify such games. In order to derive sufficient and necessary conditions for unique point-rationalizable solutions this paper adopts and generalizes the contraction-property approach of Moulin (1984) and of Bernheim (1984). Uniqueness results obtained in this paper are derived under fairly general assumptions such as games with arbitrary metrizable strategy sets and are especially useful for complete and bounded, for compact, as well as for finite strategy sets. As a mathematical side result existence of a unique fixed point is proved under conditions that generalize a fixed point theorem due to Edelstein (1962).
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