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The personal and national costs of lost labour force participation due to arthritis: an economic study
No full textArthritis is a common and costly health condition internationally. The direct medical costs of arthritis are significant, with the condition being the fourth most common reason for seeking general practitioner medical care. Treatment of arthritis in Australia cost around $4 billion (AU) in health system expenditure in 2004–05, the fourth largest cause of health expenditure in the country. However, this figure covers only the direct medical costs, and the indirect costs, are considered to be larger. Within Australia arthritis has been listed as a ‘National Health Priority Area’, and affects 15% of the population. By 2020 the prevalence of the condition is estimated to increase, with arthritis potentially affecting 35% of the Australian population. Arthritis can cause significant activity limitation, and is responsible for around 13% of the disability reported in Australia. Due to its impact on functional ability, arthritis is associated with decreased labour force participation rates. Within Australia the impact of arthritis on labour force participation among people in the pre-retirement age group of 45 to 64 years is significant – with people suffering from arthritis being 3 times more likely to be out of the labour force than those with no chronic health condition.Authors: Deborah J Schofield, Rupendra N Shrestha, Richard Percival, Megan E Passey, Emily J Callander and Simon J Kell
Schofield sequences for weighted projective lines of type
No full textsummary:We focus on the Schofield sequences over weighted projective lines in the sense of Geigle and Lenzing. We give a classification of all the Schofield sequences whose middle terms are line bundles or extension bundles for any weight type . In particular, for the latter case such Schofield sequences are related to the distinguished exact structure on the subcategory of vector bundles. More precisely, the projective covers and injective hulls of extension bundles will provide Schofield sequences, and all the Schofield sequences in the subcategory of vector bundles can be obtained in this way
Two men standing in doorway of L.O. Schofield Furniture Store
No full textTwo men pose outside the L. O. Schofield Furniture Store on a sunny day
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
World Climate Research Program Special Workshop on Climatic Effects of ozone depletion in the southern hemisphere: assessing the evidence and identifying gaps in the current knowledge
No full textA World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Special Workshop titled the “Climatic effects of ozone depletion in the Southern Hemisphere: Assessing the evidence and identifying gaps in the current knowledge” focused on the current understanding of Southern Hemisphere (SH) ozone depletion, in particular high-latitude ozone depletion, with regards to its impacts on hemispheric climate and its role relative to greenhouse gas (GHG)–induced climate changes. The 2010 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion, and research published since, provided the starting point for discussion. The workshop was supported by WCRP, the National Science Foundation (NSF; United States), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA; United States), Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Técnica (Argentina), and the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (Argentina).Fil: Canziani, Pablo Osvaldo. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina ; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Oneill, Alan. National Centre For Earth Observations; Reino UnidoFil: Schofield, R.. University of Melbourne; AustraliaFil: Raphael, M.. University of California at Los Angeles; Estados UnidosFil: Marshall,G. J.. British Antarctic Survey; Reino UnidoFil: Redaelli, G.. Universita degli Studi dell'Aquila; Itali
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Larry O. Spencer, Conference Author Presentation
No full textGen. Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.), author of Dark Horse: A Journey from the Horseshoe to the Pentago
Dibattito trentanove per la facciata del Duomo di Milano
No full textI trentotto “pareri” compilati tra il 30 agosto 1607 e il 1682 per la facciata del Duomo di Milano, recentemente rieditati (2003), fanno di questo progetto architettonico quello meglio documentato da disegni e da testi del Seicento italiano. Gli autori presentano in questo articolo un trentanovesimo parere, finora inedito, non datato né firmato, ritrovato tra le carte dell’Archivio Storico Civico di Milano. Non si tratta del contributo teorico di un architetto che riporta le più conosciute fonti della letteratura architettonica, o quello di un tecnico che discute i dettagli e le dimensioni della struttura del Duomo, ma di un testo, probabilmente preparato da un ecclesiastico, nel quale sono presentate precise prese di posizione su alcune scelte progettuali e dove sono citati en passant alcuni esempi di edifici di Bologna, Roma e Napoli
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
I Lombardo. Architettura e scultura a Venezia tra ‘400 e ‘500
No full textL'attività artistica di Pietro Lombardo e dei figli Tullio e Antonio, protrattasi a Venezia per oltre cinquant'anni, è un'autentica sfida filologica per gli studiosi. Le tante sculture eseguite - rilievi, statue, tombe ducali - e le importanti architetture realizzate o soltanto progettate - cappelle, chiese, palazzi - formano un catalogo di opere quanto mai vasto ed eterogeneo. E' difficile pensare che in qualsiasi edificio di una certa importanza realizzato a Venezia tra Quattro e Cinquecento non sia stata coinvolta la bottega, non foss'altro come impresa specializzata nella fornitura di materiali lapidei. Questa ininterrotta e ramificata attività artistica e professionale comporta l'oggettiva difficoltà di delineare un quadro unitario dell'opera dei Lombardo, e giustifica l'assenza, a tutt'oggi , di una monografia a essi dedicata. I consueti strumenti storiografici e narrativi sembranoi infatti infrangersi contro tale ricchezza di dati, e non è forse casuale che a distanza di oltre un secolo resti ancora indispensabile quello straordinario, e per certi versi inestricabile, mosaico critico-documentario rappresentato da L'architettura e la scultura del Rinascimento in Venezia di Pietro Paoletti (1893-1897).
Con questo libro si tenta di scalfire l'omogeneità di quella massa imponente di informazioni. Per articolare un discorso sui Lombardo è sembrato indispensabile riunire e mettere a confronto fra loro, e per la prima volta su questo tema, specialisti italiani e stranieri, diversi per formazione e orientamento metodologico. E' una scelta che si inserisce nel solco di una pluridecennale tradizione di studi del Dipartimento di Storia dell'Architettura dell'Università IUAV di Venezia, i cui convegni sono sempre stati dettati dall'urgenza scientifica di un problema storiografico, a prescindere da ricorrenze o centenari.
I saggi qui raccolti iniziano dunque a colmare una vistosa lacuna negli studi sull'arte e l'architettura veneziane tra Quattro e Cinquecento, indagando la nascita e lo sviluppo di un nuovo linguaggio artistico in città e nel Dominio: dalla diffusione nel secondo Quattrocento, ad opera soprattutto del capostipite Pietro, di modelli antichizzanti ancora intrecciati a tradizioni figurative e iconografiche medievali (si vedano i saggi di Richard Schofield, Cristiano Tessari, Laura Corti), alla affermazione di un gusto esplicitamente romano e antico, come emrge nelle opere dei figli tullio e Antonio (saggio di Charles Hope). In questa evoluzione risalta l'inedito apportato dato dalle illustrazioni a stampa prodotte dalla nuova industria tipografica veneziana (si veda il saggio di Alison Luchs)
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