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The Relations between the EU and Kazakhstan: The Case of the Cooperation Program "Supporting Kazakhstan Local Development Policies"
No full textPierobon C. The Relations between the EU and Kazakhstan: The Case of the Cooperation Program "Supporting Kazakhstan Local Development Policies". In: Jonboboev S, Rakhimov M, Seidelmann R, eds. Central Asia: Issues, Problems, and Perspectives. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag; 2015: 257-284
Civil Society in the EU development and human rights agenda: The case of DG DEVCO-EIDHR
No full textPierobon C. Civil Society in the EU development and human rights agenda: The case of DG DEVCO-EIDHR. In: Marchetti R, ed. Partnership in International Policy Making. Civil Society and Public Institutions in Global and European Affairs. International Series on Public Policy . London: Palgrave Macmillan; 2017: 195-213
Measuring dispositional optimism in patients with chronic heart failure and their healthcare providers: the validity of the Life Orientation Test-Revised
No full textPatrizia Steca,1 Dario Monzani,1 Antonia Pierobon,2 Giulia Avvenuti,2 Andrea Greco,1 Anna Giardini2 1Department of Psychology, University of Milano – Bicocca, Milan, 2Psychology Unit, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri Spa SB, IRCCS Montescano, Montescano, Italy Abstract: The Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) measures dispositional optimism (DO) – an individual difference promoting physical and psychological well-being in healthy adults (HAs) as well as in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and healthcare providers (HPs). Controversy has arisen regarding the dimensionality of the LOT-R. Whereas DO was originally defined as a one-dimensional construct, empirical evidence suggests two correlated factors in the LOT-R. This study was the first attempt to identify the best factor structure of the LOT-R in patients with CHF and HPs and to evaluate its measurement invariance among subsamples of patients with CHF, HPs, and a normative sample of HAs. Its validity was also evaluated in patients with CHF. The sample comprised 543 participants (34% HAs; 34% HPs; and 32% CHF patients). Congeneric, two correlated factor, and two orthogonal factor models for the LOT-R were compared by performing confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Measurement invariance was evaluated by considering differential item functioning (DIF) among subsamples of HPs, patients with CHF, and HAs. In patients with CHF, validity was assessed by considering associations with anxiety and depression. The CFA demonstrated the superior fit of the two orthogonal factor model. Moreover, across patients with CHF, HPs, and HAs, the results highlighted a minimal DIF with only trivial consequences. Finally, negative but weak correlations of DO with anxiety and depression confirmed the validity of the LOT-R in patients with CHF. In summary, these findings supported the validity and suitability of the LOT-R for the assessment of DO in patients with CHF, HPs, and HAs. Keywords: Life Orientation Test-Revised, dispositional optimism, validity, measurement equivalence, chronic heart failur
Da Iasos a Kiyikislacik: una storia da scrivereFrom Iasos to Kiyikislacik: a history yet to be writtenIasos'tan Kiyikislacik'a: henuz yazilmamis bir tarih
No full textPartendo dai dati risultanti dalle ricognizioni effettuate nel territorio dell'antica città di Iasos , e di quanto ricavabile da fonti letterarie e bibliografia dei 'viaggiatori', si analizzano, per la prima volta, le testimonianze della storia più recente del sito.
contrariamente a quanto più volte affermato in bibliografia l'area si rivela abitata con continuità, ma con modalità specifiche per ogni fase storic
Compression of Pure and Mixed States in Quantum Detection
No full textQuantum detection in an N-dimensional Hilbert space H involves quantum states and corresponding measurement operators which span an r-dimensional subspace U of H, with r<=N. Quantum detection could be restricted to this subspace, but the detection operations performed in U are still redundant, since the kets have N components. By applying the singular-value decomposition to the state matrix, it is possible to perform a compression from the subspace U onto a "compressed" space , where the redundancy is removed and kets are represented by r components. The quantum detection can be perfectly reformulated in the "compressed" space, without loss of information, with a greatly reduced complexity. The compression is particularly attractive when r<<N, as shown with an example of application to quantum optical communications
Cerimonialità e architettura nelle iscrizioni di costruzione sudarabiche nello Yemen pre-islamico. Dati epigrafici ed evidenza archeologica
No full textNei criteri e nello
spirito richiesti da un contributo a un volume
che raccolga le ‘Avventure della Scrittura’ del
mondo antico, si vuol dipingere un quadro
d’insieme sul fenomeno delle ‘iscrizioni di costruzione’
sudarabiche e sul loro rapporto con
le strutture architettoniche su cui erano poste.
Di fatto, sebbene in mancanza di fonti scritte
specifiche (ad esempio i trattati di tipo vicino
orientale o l’opera di Vitruvio per il mondo
romano) l’ampio numero di ‘iscrizioni di costruzione’
conosciute, proveniente dall’intera
gamma di opere edilizie realizzate dai sudarabi,
attesta di per sé l’importanza che questo genere
di iscrizione rivestiva e fornisce dati di prima
mano sulla visione e il concetto che gli antichi
sudarabi avevano dello loro architetture
Settlement Patterns and Cultural Interactions in Northern Mesopotamia (2nd - 4th century CE)
No full textThe present study has been conceived on the trails of those works about the Roman Near East and the relations and interactions with the Eastern neighbours and the local populations. In more recent times, the on-going excavations projects in the area and the new notions of interaction and integration related to the Roman presence have made relevant further steps in the understanding of the topic. Considering exclusively Roman or, at the contrary, exclusively Parthian (or Sasanian) a site means, nowadays, ignoring the dynamics that characterized the whole area in the period at issue. It is doubtless that the starting point for the comprehension of such dynamics must be the identification of the points of interactions as well as the differences, always bearing in mind the hybridisation that occurred.
The term hybridisation indeed, even if it is a modern word, perfectly fits with the mixture of races, religions and social institutions that shaped the Near East in the period from the Hellenistic period to the late 4th century CE. The theory is quite easily applicable in the major centres (Nisibis, Singara, Hatra), where the abundance of data is widely used to identify this kind of hybridisation such as the distinctive and unmistakable feature of a given culture as well, while it appears to be slightly tougher to track in the minor settlements. The lack of historical and archaeological evidence, indeed, affects our knowledge about the rural landscape and the countryside itself. Some of the minor sites mentioned in the literary sources are still not only unexcavated, but quite often unidentified too, while the fewer where excavation works have been conducted are the same sites almost practically unknown to the ancient sources (see the specifica case of Tell Barri). Notwithstanding this lack of evidence on both sides the countryside and the rural landscape still remains a keystone for the understanding of the Roman occupation in the area, as well as the organization and administration of the newly acquired territory after the severian annexation. The integration of the archaeological data with the known literary and epigraphic evidence could be the only way through which the presence of Rome beyond the Euphrates could be better understood. The region itself, indeed, represents one of the most archaeologically important areas of the world and thus the isolation of a given event in a specific chronological period forcedly needs more elements than elsewhere
Produttività primaria di una comunità a Trapa natans L. in una lanca perifluviale di Po: integrazione tra stima di biomassa e flussi di CO2
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