97 research outputs found
Not feeling well ... true or exaggerated? Self‐assessed health as a leading health indicator
No full textWe provide original, international evidence documenting that self‐assessed
health (SAH) is a leading health indicator, that is, a significant predictor of
future changes in health conditions, in a large sample of Europeans aged above
50 and living in 13 different countries. We find that, after controlling for attrition
bias, lagged SAH is significantly and negatively correlated with changes
in the number of chronic diseases, net of the correlations with levels, and
changes in sociodemographic factors and health styles, country and regional
health system effects, and declared symptoms. Illness‐specific estimates document
that lagged SAH significantly correlates with arthritis, cholesterol, and
lung diseases (and weakly so with ulcer, hypertension, and cataracts) and has
a significant correlation with the probability of contracting cancer. Interpretations
and policy implications of our findings are discussed in the paper
The role of subjective indicators of wellbeing in predicting health outcomes
No full textThe thesis investigates then nexus between subjective indicators of wellbeing (such as perceived health status and perceived level of life meaning) and different types of health outcomes. First, we test whether lagged self assessed health (SAH) is correlated with future changes in the number of chronic diseases, net of the concurring correlations with levels and changes in socio-demographic factors and health styles, country and regional health system effects and declared symptoms. We find that low levels of SAH are significantly and negatively correlated with insurgence of chronic diseases (even after controlling for attrition bias). Our findings are robust in age, gender, education and income class splits. Illness specific estimates show that lagged SAH significantly correlates with arthritis, cholesterol and lung diseases (and weakly so with ulcer, hypertension and cataracts), while having a significant correlation with the probability of contracting cancer. The second focus of the thesis is the concept of eudaimonic wellbeing measured by the indicator “meaning in life”. Eudaimonic wellbeing is a relatively unexplored subjective wellbeing indicator, started to be studied only recently. The empirical findings in this case show that having low levels of life meaning has a significant and quantitatively remarkable correlation with the future insurgence of some chronic diseases and the reduction of most functionalities in the ageing population. Moreover, we find that the impact of eudaimonic subjective wellbeing is independent from that of the traditional life satisfaction measure (cognitive subjective wellbeing). Thirdly, we investigate the nexus between life menaing and mortality. We find that the absence of life meaning increases the risk of mortality net of the impact of socio-demographic factors, life styles, symptoms and even life satisfaction and self assessed health controls. We as well document for the first time in this literature that the correlation is gender specific (it works more for females), stronger for the less educated and partially explained by behavioural factors such as deterioration of life styles and body activity
NONLOCAL EXCHANGE AND CORRELATION AND SEMICONDUCTOR BAND-STRUCTURE
No full textWe present the results of self-consistent band-structure calculations for bulk GaAs, in which the density-functional theory is applied with a nonlocal expression for the exchange and correlation energy, Exc[n(r⃗)]. Using the same ionic potentials and basis set, other local expressions for exchange and correlation are also considered for comparison. It will be shown that the inclusion of nonlocality in the exchange and correlation potential improves the description of the valence bands, but does not solve the "gap problem" experienced by the simpler local expressions (i.e., too small a gap).See AlsoErratum: F. Manghi, G. Riegler, C. M. Bertoni, C. Calandra, and G. B. Bachelet, Erratum: Nonlocal exchange and correlation and semiconductor band structure, Phys. Rev. B 29, 5966 (1984).For revisions
Sustainability of Wellbeing: An Analysis of Resilience and Vulnerability Through Subjective Indicators
No full textMany scholars have focused on how the concepts of vulnerability and resilience may be employed in the analysis of sustainability. Different approaches have been proposed, concerning different fields of application (from environmental to financial settings). While much of the existing literature on vulnerability and resilience is sector-specific, we propose a more holistic approach that allows the sustainability of human well-being to be analyzed as a whole. In particular we apply those concepts to BES (Benessere, Equo e Sostenibile) framework, where 12 domains are included. Moreover, while the majority of studies consider the vulnerability and resilience as aspects of the sustainability of a “system” (a society, a country, or even the whole planet), we focus on an individual dimension of wellbeing, considering the exposure to risk and the ability to recover of the single persons. We show how the proposed scheme lends itself to the use of both objective and subjective indicators of well-being. Finally, using Italian data provided by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), we propose an example of how to analyses the subjective aspects of wellbeing in terms of sustainability
Model outputs: Historical (1700–2012) Global Multi-model Estimates of the Fire Emissions from the Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP)
No full text<p>This dataset contains the fire model outputs of emissions for 34 species (elements, compounds, and classes of compounds) as described in the following:</p>
<p><strong><em>REPLACE UPON ACCEPTANCE </em></strong>Li, F., Val Martin, M., Hantson, S., Andreae, M. O., Arneth, A., Lasslop, G., Yue, C., Bachelet, D., Forrest, M., Kaiser, J. W., Kluzek, E., Liu, X., Melton, J. R., Ward, D. S., Darmenov, A., Hickler, T., Ichoku, C., Magi, B. I., Sitch, S., van der Werf, G. R., and Wiedinmyer, C.: Historical (1700–2012) Global Multi-model Estimates of the Fire Emissions from the Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-37, in review, 2019.</p>
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Insidious harassment: criminalisation, solidarity and migration in France and Morocco
Full text linkAmidst well-documented hostile migration policies, this article explores how logics of criminalisation seep into the lives of activists and citizens, providing assistance, relief, advocacy, and other forms of support to migrant people. As presences considered legal and legitimate, solidarity actors inhabit distinct subjectivities from those of people migrating informally, yet state authorities interpret their acts as problematic and subject them to intrusive modes of policing. Drawing on critical border studies and feminist geography, this article homes in on less spectacular modes of criminalisation that target them in the intimacy of their everyday lives, threatening their sense of security through opaque surveillance, attacks on their emotions, employment prospects and family life. Drawing on ethnographic research carried out among these groups in Morocco and northern France, we conceptualise this mode of criminalisation as insidious harassment, examining the entanglement of geopolitics, emotions, and the intimate at these migration pressure points. Without decentring migrants as the primary targets of violent bordering, it broadens our understanding of these regimes by drawing attention to the ways in which they viscerally target those who work to protect the rights of migrant people.</p
Macroinfaunal assemblages associated with mussel and clam beds in an estuary of Southern Chile
No full textSamples were collected from September 1990 to February 1992, at three subtidal sites of the middle reaches of the Queule River estuary, southern Chile, to analyze the spatial and temporal variability of the macroinfauna inhabiting substrata with different abundances of bivalves. In addition, water and sediment samples were obtained to study the relationships between the temporal variability in macroinfaunal abundances, physical factors, and chlorophyll a content. Temperature, salinity, and chlorophyll a showed a rather strong seasonal variability but slight between-site differences. Sediment characteristics and bivalve abundances, by contrast, exhibited little temporal variability but large differences between sites. The macroinfauna was primarily represented by polychaetes, Prionospio (Minuspio) patagonica being dominant in the three areas. Most dominant species showed similar trends of temporal variability, with maximum abundances recorded during spring and fall. The appearance of recruits was restricted to the summer with little difference among sites. Multiple regression analyses showed that the temporal variability of macroinfaunal adults and recruits, was primarily associated with variability in salinity and water temperature, respectively. Spatial variability of these organisms was also explained by variations in these factors, together with those of sediment texture and organic matter content. No evidence of interactions (significant relationships) was found between the abundances of bivalves and those of the macroinfauna, nor among macroinfaunal organisms.PT: J; CR: ANDERSSON CA, 1981, ADV CERAM, V3, P184 ANDRE C, 1991, MAR ECOL-PROG SER, V71, P227 BACHELET G, 1986, HYDROBIOLOGIA, V142, P233 BERTRAN CE, 1989, REV CHIL HIST NAT, V62, P19 BEUKEMA JJ, 1986, OPHELIA, V26, P45 BEUKEMA JJ, 1990, EXPECTED EFFECTS CLI, P83 BRAVO A, 1989, THESIS U AUSTR CHILE BUTMAN CA, 1987, OCEANOGR MAR BIOL, V25, P113 DETHIER MN, 1984, ECOL MONOGR, V54, P99 DEVOOYS CGN, 1990, EXPECTED EFFECTS CLI, P83 DITTMANN S, 1990, HELGOLANDER MEERESUN, V44, P335 FOLK RL, 1980, PETROLOGY SEDIMENTAR GRASSLE JF, 1974, J MARINE RE, V32, P253 GRAY JS, 1974, OCEANOGR MAR BIOL AN, V12, P223 HAIR JF, 1979, MULTIVARIATE ANAL HAVEN DS, 1972, GEOL SOC AM MEM, V133, P121 HINES AH, 1989, VELIGER, V32, P109 HOLLAND AF, 1987, ESTUARIES, V10, P227 JARAMILLO E, 1985, STUDIES NEOTROPICAL, V20, P33 JARAMILLO E, 1992, PSZNI MAR ECOL, V13, P317 JARAMILLO E, 1993, MARINE ECOLOGY PROGR, V82, P85 JOHNSON RG, 1977, J MAR RES, V35, P273 LEVIN LA, 1984, ECOLOGY, V65, P1185 LOW A, 1993, THESIS U AUSTR CHILE NICHOLS FH, 1986, SCIENCE, V231, P525 OLAFSSON EB, 1986, J ANIM ECOL, V55, P517 PATERSON DM, 1991, DEV COASTAL ENG, P111 PETERSON CH, 1979, ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES, P233 PETERSON CH, 1987, LIMNOL OCEANOGR, V32, P143 PETHICK J, 1984, INTRO COASTAL GEOMOR PINO M, 1983, REV GEOLOGICA CHILE, V18, P77 POSEY MH, 1987, MAR ECOL-PROG SER, V39, P99 POSEY MH, 1990, REV AQUAT SCI, V2, P343 QUIJON P, 1993, ESTUAR COAST SHELF S, V37, P655 REISE K, 1983, MAR ECOL-PROG SER, V12, P229 REISE K, 1985, TIDAL FLAT ECOLOGY E RHOADS DC, 1970, J MAR RES, V28, P150 RHOADS DC, 1982, ANIMAL SEDIMENT RELA, P3 RISK MJ, 1977, J SEDIMENT PETROL, V47, P1425 ROJAS C, 1984, REV BIOL MARINA VALP, V20, P139 ROMAN MR, 1978, ESTUARINE COASTAL MA, V6, P47 SHA LP, 1991, CLASTIC TIDAL SEDIME, P199 SOKAL RR, 1969, BIOMETRIA SOUZA WP, 1979, ECOLOGY, V60, P1225 STOLINE MR, 1981, AM STAT, V35, P134 STRICKLAND JDH, 1972, B FISH RES BOARD CAN, V167 THISTLE D, 1981, MAR ECOL-PROG SER, V6, P223 TORO JE, 1984, REV BIOL MARINA VALP, V20, P23 VOS PC, 1988, TIDE INFLUENCED SEDI, P511 WILSON WH, 1991, ANNU REV ECOL SYST, V21, P221 WOODIN SA, 1976, J MARKETING RES, V34, P25; NR: 51; TC: 8; J9: ESTUARIES; PG: 13; GA: TU217Source type: Electronic(1
Comparative foreign policies toward Cuba: Plus ca change ...
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Migration, race, and gender:the policing of subversive solidarity actors in Morocco
Full text linkThe policing of racialised migrant people in Morocco and across the Maghreb has been violent since the 1990s. The intimidation of those who support migrant people and seek to denounce human rights abuses against them has become an important dimension of border control. This article investigates the policing of “subversive solidarity actors”: human rights defenders and activists who publicly or covertly engage in a critical stance on migration control policies and practices in Morocco. These forms of activism are considered a threat by the state because they make visible the brutality of migration governance and control in the country, which the state seeks to conceal. As objects of state mistrust and suspicion, solidarity actors experience everyday acts of intimidation and criminalisation. Drawing on ethnographic material and interviews with migrant people and subversive solidarity actors, this article demonstrates how these solidarity actors - much like migrant people themselves - are differentially targeted according to intersectional differences. Racist and gendered bordering logics characteristic of migration management seep into the differential policing of those who dare act or speak out in support of migrants’ rights. Race and gender provoke particular policing behaviours which are reinforced when people engage in politics or acts of solidarity considered subversive. This is reinforced by the persistence of racial hierarchies of domination in post-colonial Morocco, which still bear the legacy of the active enslavement of Black people in the country and the legacy of the country’s colonisation by Europeans. First, honing in on racial difference, the article sheds light on the differential policing of Black, Moroccan and white-European solidarity actors. While Black solidarity actors are often migrant people who have regularised their status and settled in Morocco, their decision to engage in subversive solidarity work marks them as “ungrateful guests” and relegates them to a position of vulnerability in which their administrative status is compromised. In contrast, white Europeans in Morocco tend to benefit from privileges and freedoms, including within the bureaucratic realm. Those engaging in subversive acts of solidarity may experience state intimidation or punitive acts of administrative exclusion from the country, however these usually (with some stark exceptions) amount to better treatment relative to the experiences of their Black and Moroccan counterparts. Finally, Moroccans engaging in subversive solidarity action are framed as “internal enemies” to the state and are hyper-aware that punitive action might be set in motion against them at any moment. Second, this article focuses on gender, which also plays an important role in determining the ways in which solidarity actors are policed and their scope of action. Gender inequalities remain deeply entrenched in Morocco and social norms profoundly gendered. Particularly for women, activism is considered deviant, giving rise to greater police and social scrutiny of their acts and attempts to govern their behaviour. While men tend to face professional threats as insidious punishment for their activism, attacks on women more often target their family or intimate life. This article emphasises the importance of taking the policing of solidarity actors into account to understand the policing of migration more broadly, stressing how the racist and gendered policing of migrant people bleeds into the disciplining of those who support them. We conclude with a discussion of how this policing impacts subversive solidarity actors and networks, by instilling fear and hindering (coordinated) action. While some interviewees demonstrated an awareness of both intersectional differences and overlapping experiences, we call for solidarity actors to mobilise these differences and experiences to strengthen their action on migration issues and their ability to withstand intimidation from state authorities. <br/
Temporal variability in the intertidal macroinfauna in the Queule river estuary, South-Central Chile
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