15 research outputs found
AFFECT ATTUNEMENT, INTERSUBJECTIVITY, AND COMMUNICATIVE MUSICALITY FOSTER THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP IN INTERACTIVE MUSIC THERAPY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
No full textA literature search was conducted using various databases, following the inclusion and exclusion criteria outlined in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) model. The review showed that theories from developmental psychology—such as Daniel Stern's affect attunement, Colwyn Trevarthen's intersubjectivity, and Stephen Malloch's communicative musicality in mother-infant communication—provide significant theoretical foundations for clinical music therapists. These theories inform the use of music and its elements to form relational experiences and therapeutic relationships in interactive music therapy practice
En torno a algunos mss. de Apolonio de Rodas conservados en bibliotecas españolas: notas de paleografía
No full textTaking as a basis for his study the Escorialensis Σ III 3 (102) which was written by A. Apostolis, A. Damilas and G. Gregoropulos, the author studies other mss. of Apollonius in Spanish libraries and identifies new copies by Z. Callieerges (Σ III 20 [119], φ I 4 [182], Ω IV 7 [559] partially and φ III 14 [223]), who was not the copyist of Matritensis BN 4564 (N 25) as has been maintained since Vogel-Gardthausen. Besides that, the author identifies the hand of P. Hypsilas (R I 16 [16] and Matritensis BN 4714 [O 49]), that of John of Corone (Matritensis BN 4549 [N 101]) and other copies made by A. Apostolis (Σ III 15 [114] and φ II 19 [206] partially). Other mss. with their problems and peculiarities are mentioned and studied.No disponible
Prototyping a domain-task ontology for facilitating strategic decisions of asset managers of public sewerage systems
No full textThe current research stems from the motivation of reducing the information loss that asset managers face in the operation & maintenance phase of the project. Most of the public infrastructure assets’ condition nowadays deteriorate due to ageing and municipalities confront challenges to manage their portfolios effectively by adopting proactive management strategies. To succeed the highest possible value from assets, asset management is being adopted as an industry practice in the Dutch construction sector. Successfully managing assets requires managers at the handover stage to acquire accurate, explicit, and complete information from the earlier stages (Design and Construction phase). Only with reliable information they can make the right decisions about costs, performance, and risks which are the pillars of asset management theory. However, the information in the operations stage is incomplete or invalid and dispersed in various sources. This is an obstacle to reuse knowledge as asset managers have to identify information from various sources leading to secondary costs. Significant barriers are the asset managers' limited involvement from the project's beginning. That makes their needs less explicit for contractors and reduces the level of understanding of what information they have to deliver. This thesis works towards providing a more reusable and flexible method in the construction industry for capturing and structuring the strategic information needs of asset managers in a machine and human-understandable way. Linked data and semantic web technologies were used to capture and structure the information and create an ontology. In conclusion, the research demonstrated a way of identifying, capturing and structuring asset information needs with which users can communicate effectively using a common language. The ontology aggregates and stores information from diverse sources and enhance the communication between parties by providing them a common understanding given the specific scope. In this way, the information needs of asset managers can be explicitly defined from the beginning of a project, resulting to complete and reusable information. Now the understanding of what information has to be transferred to asset managers is more straightforward, reusable and unambiguous, resulting in reduced time retrieval of information and secondary costs (e.g. looking for information).Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineerin
The rationalization of civil society
No full text Two ideas are almost universally accepted as reality in political sociology. One is that numbers are declining in nearly all membership associations. The usual interpretation of this phenomenon is that it occurs because of individualization. The other is that the character of collective action has changed. This idea, which stems from Touraine, Melucci and Castells, states that a new historical category of social action has emerged, one that resembles action in primary groups rather than in organizations and in some way is a victory over the iron law of oligarchy. This article questions both ideas. The author intends to show that another historical process is in play here, namely, a process of ‘inert rationalization’ in social movements, political parties and associations, which is taking place in Europe with different starting points and at different tempos. The result of this process can be summed up as ‘more organization with fewer people’. Domination, inherent in oligarchic organizations, is being transformed by the creation of a new organizational boundary between elite (or profession) and members. The point is that it is membership itself as a form for affiliation that is disappearing, not just members. The article argues that this is mainly because resource mobilization patterns have historically changed from the mobilization of resources drawn from members to the mobilization of resources drawn from other organizations. Finally, the article analyses the importance of the unstructured power fields (or open spaces) created by rationalization processes for social innovation and new social movements. </jats:p
Digital Forgetting Using Key Decay
No full textDuring the recent development of information technology and the prevalent breakthroughs of its services, more digital data tend to be readily stored online. Although the massive advantages, there is a pivotal necessity for curating digital data forgetting. Online content can pose perilous threats in terms of privacy and security that may hinder the right to be forgotten, encompassed by the GDPR act, since the released data can be archived and accessed retrospectively. Prior approaches focused on various access heuristics and elastic expiration times to make the data unreachable to some extent. However, there are still many pending issues related to the proposed studies, such as securing ephemeral key storage and co-ownership data deletion. In this paper, we attempt to tackle the problem of storing ephemeral keys during the estimated validity period. Hence, we devise a novel concept called key decay over time, which can achieve the ephemeral existence of the key. The decay idea entails the gradual, irreversible corruption of the key with time passing. In the current work, we combine the concept of gradual time elapsing and corruption into a single notion of the decay rate. Meanwhile, the irreversibility merit formed by randomness and various obfuscation strategies impedes retrospective attacks. Over time, the decay rate will give an estimated range for the key to be destroyed entirely. Finally, we implement and thoroughly assess a proof-of-concept regarding the key decay, including computational complexity and security analysis. Cyber Securit
The Role of International Public Goods in Tax Cooperation
No full textWe provide a quantitative assessment of the welfare cost of tax competition or, equivalently, the welfare benefit of international tax policy cooperation. We use a simple multi-country general equilibrium model of a world economy, in which there are two types of cross-country spillovers: the first one generated by the international capital mobility and, the second one, by the presence of international public goods. In the absence of international public goods, although welfare in the non-cooperative case is typically lower than in the cooperative case, the welfare difference is negligible quantitatively. Things change drastically, both quantitatively and qualitatively, once we introduce international public goods. Now, there can be big benefits from cooperation and welfare effects cease to be monotonic. (JEL classification codes: F02, H2, H4) Copyright The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: [email protected], Oxford University Press.
Thessalonian painters in the eighteenth century : a preliminary study
No full textIn this article the author presents the preliminary data he hascollected on: a) eighteenth-century painters who were natives ofThessaloniki, irrespective of where they actually worked; b) painterswho were not natives of the city but who lived and worked there; c)any other relevant information about painting in eighteenth-centuryThessaloniki.The known eighteenth - century painters are: Gabriel (1702),Theodore (1702), the hieromonk Nikiphoros (surviving work dated1709), Apostolis Longianos Vodeniotis (1755, 1766, 1768), Michael ofThessaloniki (1760) or Michael the Thessalonian (1785), Chrysanthosthe archimandrite of the Metropolis of Thessaloniki (1763), Makariosof Veria the archdeacon of the Metropolis of Thessaloniki (1763),and Hadži Djordje Petrovič (1797). The anonymous painters include the artist who painted the iconostasisof Peć (1722, 1724), and the painters of four, now lost, iconsin St Nicholas’s Church at Irig (before 1733) and the two large iconsfrom the Church of St Stephen at Sremska Mitrovica (before 1733)
Antidumping as Strategic Trade Policy Under Asymmetric Information
No full textThis paper investigates the domestic government’s antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where the foreign firm’s cost is observed by the domestic firm, but not by the government. To induce truthful revelation, the government can design a tariff schedule, contingent on firms’ cost reports, accompanied by a threat of auditing and implementing penalty duties. We show that the antidumping framework within GATT/WTO may not only offer the means to pursue strategic trade policy disguised as fair trade policy, but may also help overcome the informational problems with regard to determining the optimal strategic trade policy.antidumping duties, asymmetric information, trade protection, strategic trade policy
Gains and Losses of India-China Trade Cooperation – a Gravity Model Impact Analysis
No full textAs revealed by the trade intensity indices, India and the People’s Republic of China have significant bilateral trade potential, which remains unexplored until now. These countries are presently negotiating for free trade arrangements among them based on their complementarities. This paper makes an attempt to estimate the likely benefits in terms of gains or losses in imports of both India and China due to different preferential trading arrangements and free trade arrangements using the gravity model. Empirical results show that in the short run India’s potential gain is relatively less compared to China because of its high tariffs but in the long run, India’s gains are higher than China once its tariff levels are brought at par with them. Free trade arrangement is a win-win situation for both countries and is consistent with their growing dominance in the international trade.PTAs, FTA, gravity model, trade intensity indices, India- People Republic of China, bilateral trade flows, trade creation and trade diversion
Upside Down: Exploring the Ecosystem of Dark Web Data Markets
No full textLarge-scale dark web marketplaces have been around for more than a decade. So far, academic research has mainly focused on drug and hacking-related offers. However, data markets remain understudied, especially given their volatile nature and distinct characteristics based on shifting iterations. In this paper, we perform a large-scale study on dark web data markets. We first characterize data markets by using an innovative theoretical legal taxonomy based on the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Convention and its implementation in Dutch law. The recent Covid-19 pandemic showed that cybercrime has become more prevalent with the increase of digitalization in society. In this context, important questions arise regarding how cybercrime harms are determined, measured, and prioritized. We propose a determination of harm based on criminal law qualifications and sanctions. We also address the empirical question of what the economic activity on data markets looks like nowadays by performing a comprehensive measurement of digital goods based on an original dataset scraped from twelve marketplaces consisting of approximately 28,000 offers from 642 vendors. The resulting analysis combines insights from the theoretical legal framework and the results of the measurement study. To our knowledge, this is the first study to combine these two elements systematically
