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A review for Ralitsa Kostadinova’s book “Suspended sentence under Bulgarian Criminal Lawâ€
No full textThe review is dedicated to the monograph entitled “Suspended Sentence under Bulgarian Criminal Law†by Ralitsa Kostadinova. In the book the author has pointed her scientific research in an academic area, namely that of suspended sentence, which so far has not been subject of a thorough and in-depth scientific analysis in Bulgaria, but at the same time it is of great practical significance in particular with regard to the work of the judicial bodies. The monograph under review undoubtedly contributes to the criminal legal theory
Web-application for Presentation of Bulgarian Language Heritage: Bilingual Digital Corpora and Dictionaries
Full text linkThe paper describes three software packages - the main components
of a software system for processing and web-presentation of Bulgarian language resources – parallel corpora and bilingual dictionaries. The author briefly presents current versions of the core components “Dictionary” and “Corpus” as well as the recently developed component “Connection” that links both “Dictionary” and “Corpus”. The components main functionalities are described as well. Some examples of the usage of the system’s web-applications are included
Online Dictionary - Tool for Preservation of Language Heritage
Full text linkThe paper aims to represent a bilingual online dictionary as a useful
tool helping preservation of the natural languages. The author focuses on the
approach that was taken to develop compatible bilingual lexical database for the
Bulgarian-Polish online dictionary. A formal model for the dictionary encoding
is developed in accordance with the complex structures of the dictionary entries. These structures vary depending on the grammatical characteristics of
Bulgarian headwords. The Web-application for presentation of the bilingual
dictionary is also describred
100 Years of International Justice – Time to consider a reform of the International Court of Justice
Full text linkThis article critically evaluates the current operational framework of the International Court of Justice. Citing political influence, weak enforcement of due process and other “ambiguities”, the article makes for a provocative piece on this international judicial body. The author scopes the various reform proposals tabled (from the subtle to the more “radical”), espousing those that include reforming: the election process of ICJ judges; the compulsory-jurisdiction of the court; and the relationship between the ICJ and the UN Security Council. She also offers her insight into how the mechanics of reform ought to take effect
A complementary understanding of residential energy demand, consumption and services
Full text linkThis chapter explores potential ways to implement, and benefits for policymaking of, the complementary use of two different types of modelling for analysing residential energy consumption and ethnographic research. The more traditional approach of techno-economic modelling is considered alongside agent-based modelling that incorporates both causal and intentional relationships; ethnographic approaches provide 'thick understanding' of the relationships between social and technical elements and the environment. In doing so, the chapter builds on real examples from academic-policy engagement in the EU on energy demand, consumption and services. We examine three myths of the role of modelling in policymaking and propose practical ways of employing different types of modelling in a complementary way to increase policymakers' understanding of residential energy demand, consumption and services. Finally, we make three concrete recommendations for developing future interdisciplinary work on integrating social and technical models for informing policy.Energy and Industr
Newness as a winning formula for new political Parties
No full textPrevious studies on new political parties have assumed that they either represent new or ignored cleavages or issues, or emerge in order to cleanse an ideology deficiently represented by an existing party. Four highly successful parties analysed in this article manifestly fail to comply with these assumptions. The article proposes a parsimonious two-dimensional typology of new parties refining the one suggested by Lucardie (2000), incorporating a new type of parties based on the project of newness. We show that the four parties analysed fall into the latter category as they fought on the ideological territory of existing parties yet did not attempt to purify an ideology. It is argued that newness has been an appealing project for new and rejuvenating parties everywhere and the experiences from new democracies should be taken seriously also by those working on established democracies
1980-1981: Children of a Lesser God
No full textFrom left: Daniel Mooney as James Leeds and Ella Mae Lentz as Sarah NormanChildren of a Lesser God;Grayscal
Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in a Bulgarian Population of Patients with Dyslipidaemia and Diabetes: An Observational Study
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The general fault in our fault lines
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Kai Ruggeri(Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Policy Research Group, Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)Bojana Većkalov(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,North Holland, The Netherlands)LanaBojanić(Department of Psychology and Mental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)Thomas L. Andersen(PPR Svendborg, Svendborg Kommune, Svendborg, Denmark)Sarah Ashcroft-Jones(Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)Nélida Ayacaxli(School of General Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Paula BareaArroyo(Faculty of Psychology, University of Seville, Seville, Andalusia, Spain)Mari Louise Berge(Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)Ludvig D. Bjørndal(Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway)Aslı Bursalıoğlu(Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago IL, USA)Vanessa Bühler(Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna)Martin Čadek(Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University)Melis Çetinçelik(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)Georgia Clay(Department of Social Psychology, Institute of Work, Organisational and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany)Anna Cortijos-Bernabeu(Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland)Kaja Damnjanović(Department of Psychology, Laboratory for experimental psychology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia)Tatianna M. Dugue(Department of Psychology, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Maya Esberg(Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Celia Esteban-Serna(Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK)Ezra N. Felder(Department of Psychology, School of General Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Maja Friedemann(Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom)Darianna I. Frontera Villanueva(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA)Patricia Gale(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and SocialSciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia)Eduardo Garcia-Garzon(School of Education and Health Sciences, Universidad Camilo José Cela, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain)Sandra J. Geiger(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands)Leya George(UCL Interaction Centre, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK)Aleksandra Gracheva(Political Humanities, Euro-Asia Program, Paris Institute of Political Studies [SciencesPo], Paris, France; Columbia School of General Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Anastasia Gracheva(Department of Political Science, Columbia School of General Studies, ColumbiaUniversity, New York, NY, USA; Political Humanities, Euro-Asia Program, Paris Institute of Political Studies [SciencesPo], Paris, France)Marquis Guillory(Department of Psychology, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Marlene Hecht(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany)Katharina Herte(Social, Health and Organisational Psychology, Utrecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)Barbora Hubená(unaffiliated)William Ingalls(Department of Psychology, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Lea Jakob(National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic; Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)Margo Janssens(Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, North Brabant, The Netherlands)Hannes Jarke(Policy Research Group, Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)Ondřej Kácha(Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom)Kalina Nikolova Kalinova(unaffiliated)Ralitsa Karakasheva(unaffiliated)Peggah R. Khorrami(Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School ofPublic Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA)Žan Lep(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana,Ljubljana, Slovenia)Samuel Lins(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal)Ingvild S. Lofthus(Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway)Salomé Mamede(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal)Silvana Mareva(Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)Mafalda F. Mascarenhas(Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)Lucy McGill(Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)Sara Morales-Izquierdo(Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom)Bettina Moltrecht(Evidence-Based Practice Unit, Anna Freud National Centre & University College London, London, UK)Tasja S. Mueller(Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands)
2Marzia Musetti(Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy)Joakim Nelsson(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)Thiago Otto(Department of Psychology, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Alessandro F. Paul(Department of Social, Economic, and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)Irena Pavlović(Laboratoryfor experimental psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia)Marija B. Petrović(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia)Dora Popović(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia)Gerhard M. Prinz(Bezirkskrankenhaus Straubing, Straubing, Germany)Josip Razum(Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia)Ivaylo Sakelariev(unaffiliated)Vivian Samuels(Department of Psychology, School of General Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Inés Sanguino(Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)Nicolas Say(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)Jakob Schuck(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)Irem Soysal(Department of Psychology, Columbia College, Columbia University,New York, NY, USA)Anna Louise Todsen(Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Arts, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK)Markus R. Tünte(Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria)Milica Vdovic(Department of psychology, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia)Jáchym Vintr(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech RepublicMaja Vovko(Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)Marek A. Vranka(Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)Lisa Wagner(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)Lauren Wilkins(Department of Psychology, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Manou Willems(unaffiliated)Elizabeth Wisdom(Department of Psychology, School of General Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Aleksandra Yosifova(Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology, School of Graduate Studies, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria)Sandy Zeng(Department of Psychology, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Mahmoud A. Ahmed(Department of Psychology, St Olaf College, Northfield, MN, USA)Twinkle Dwarkanath(Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)Mina Cikara(Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)Jeffrey Lees(Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Economics, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA); Tomas Folke(Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USAA pervading global narrative suggests that political polarisation is increasing in the US and around the world. Beliefs in increased polarisation impact individual and group behaviours regardless of whether they are accurate or not. One driver of polarisation are beliefs about how members of the out-group perceive us, known as group meta-perceptions. A 2020 study by Lees and Cikara in US samples suggests that not only are out-group meta-perceptions highly inaccurate, but informing people of this inaccuracy reduces negative beliefs about the out-group. Given the importance of these findings for understanding and mitigating polarisation, it is essential to test to what extent they generalise to other countries. We assess that generalisability by replicating two of the original experiments in 10,207 participants from 26 countries in the first experiment and 10 in the second. We do this by studying local group divisions, which we refer to as fault lines. In line with our hypotheses, results show that the pattern found in the US broadly generalises, with greater heterogeneity explained by specific policies rather than between-country differences. The replication of a simple disclosure intervention in the second experiment yielded a modest reduction in negative motive attributions to the out-group, similar to the original study. These findings indicate first that inaccurate and negative group meta-perceptions are exhibited in a large number of countries, not only the US, and that informing individuals of their misperceptions can yield positive benefits for intergroup relations. The generalisability of these findings highlights a robust phenomenon with major implications for political discourse worldwide.Version of Recor
EndoCompass Project: Research Roadmap for Reproductive and Developmental Endocrinology
Full text linkEndocrine science remains underrepresented in European Union research programs despite the fundamental role of hormone health in human well-being. Analysis of the CORDIS database reveals a persistent gap between the societal impact of endocrine disorders and their research prioritization. At national funding level, endocrine societies report limited or little attention of national research funding towards endocrinology. The EndoCompass project - a joint initiative between the European Society of Endocrinology and the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology, aimed to identify and promote strategic research priorities in endocrine science to address critical hormone-related health challenges.
Research priorities were established through comprehensive analysis of the EU CORDIS database covering the Horizon 2020 framework period (2014-2020). Expert consultation was conducted to identify key research priorities, followed by broader stakeholder engagement including society members and patient advocacy groups.
Research priorities encompass variations in sex development, hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal regulation, and female and male reproductive disorders. Key areas include improving diagnostic capacity through (epi)genetic analysis, optimizing hormonal treatments, developing fertility preservation strategies. Special emphasis is placed on establishing pan-European registries, developing novel reproductive technologies, and exploring environmental impacts on reproductive health.
This component of the EndoCompass project provides an evidence-based roadmap for strategic research investment. This framework identifies crucial investigation areas into reproductive and developmental endocrinology pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment strategies, ultimately aimed at reducing the burden of these disorders on individuals and society. The findings support the broader EndoCompass objective of aligning research funding with areas of the highest potential impact in endocrine health.
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