Mjriam di Nazaret, la donna che conduce a Dio: in dialogo fra cristiani e islamici
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In: [Alma mater] 40
In: Public health in the 21st century
In: Health care issues, costs and access
Intro -- REHABILITATIONPRACTICES, PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH -- PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- HEALTH CARE ISSUES, COSTS AND ACCESS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- BIOFEEDBACK REHABILITATIONIN OPHTHALMOLOGY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BLEPHAROSPASM -- INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE -- VISUAL ACUITY -- STRABISMUS -- FUNCTIONAL AMBLYOPIA -- NYSTAGMUS -- RETINAL DISEASES -- 1. Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) -- 2. Other Retinal Disease -- CORTICAL BLINDNESS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE REHABILITATION FUNCTION OF MOTOR IMAGERY AFTER PERIPHERAL INJURY OR CENTRAL STROKE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION: MOTOR IMAGERY AND MOTOR LEARNING -- RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MI AND ACTUAL EXECUTION -- CONDITIONS REQUIRED BY MI TRAINING DURING MOTOR REHABILITATION -- FEEDBACK INFORMATION DURING ACTUAL EXECUTION, MI AND AFTER DEAFFERENTEATION/DEEFFERENTATION -- MI TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH STROKE -- MI TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY -- MI TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH PERIPHERAL INJURY (JOINT SPRAIN, MUSCLE TEAR, BONE FRACTURE) -- GENERAL CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- IMPAIRMENT AS DEVIANCE AND SOCIETAL REACTION THEORY: IMPLICATION FOR ADAPTATION AND REHABILITATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CONCEPTUAL EXPLANATIONS -- 3. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ON DEVIANCE -- 3.1. Societal Reaction Theory: Its Thrust and Basic Tenets -- 4. DISCUSSION ON IMPAIRMENT AS DEVIANCE WITHIN THE REHABILITATION AND SOCIETAL REACTION FRAME OF REFERENCE -- 4.1. Impairment as Deviance and Societal Reaction Orientation -- 4.2. Impairment as Deviance and Rehabilitation Orientation -- 4.3. Convergence and Divergence Viewpoints on Societal Reaction and Rehabilitation -- 4.4. Limitations of Societal Reaction and Rehabilitation Approaches -- 4.5. Strategies for Interacting and Dealing with Impaired Persons -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.
In: The American economist: journal of the International Honor Society in Economics, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Band 67, Heft 2, S. 195-210
ISSN: 2328-1235
In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required jurisdictions with histories of voter disenfranchisement to receive federal preclearance before altering voting laws. Since Shelby, 1688 polling sites across 13 states have closed. Utilizing a sample of eligible voters from the Current Population Survey, I first predict the likelihood of voting. Then, I analyze how Shelby has influenced the likelihood of ballot box access issues among non-voters. Overall voter turnout is 0.9pp lower in post- Shelby elections. Black eligible voters are 5.4pp less likely to vote after Shelby. However, Shelby is not associated with a higher likelihood of ballot box access issues. While the mechanisms through which Shelby affects voting behavior remain inconclusive, Shelby is significantly associated with widespread voter disenfranchisement. These findings are relevant for policymakers in creating a revised preclearance formula to curb voter disenfranchisement.
We study common agency problems in which principals (groups) make costly commit- ments to incentives that are conditioned on imperfect signals of the agent's action. Our framework allows for incentives to be either rewards or punishments and an equilibrium al- ways exists. For our canonical example with two principals we obtain a unique equilibrium, which typically involves randomization by both principals. Greater similarity between prin- cipals leads to more aggressive competition. The principals weakly prefer punishment to rewards, sometimes strictly. With rewards an agent voluntarily joins both groups; with pun- ishment it depends on whether severe punishments are feasible and cheap for the principals. We study whether introducing an attractive compromise reduces competition between prin- cipals. Our framework of imperfect monitoring offers a natural perturbation of the standard common agency model, which results in sharper equilibrium predictions. The limit equilib- rium prediction provides support to both truthful equilibria and the competing notion of natural equilibria, which unlike the former may be inefficient.
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Operational Oceanography (OO) emerged to a stage of development that allows the design and development of services such as the routine production of environmental and climate indicators for specific users. Indicators are synthetic indices of environmental changes at various time scales. The indicators are often used by international environmental agencies and national directorates like the European Environment Agency (EEA web page on indicators: http://themes.eea.europa.eu/indicators/) and by the regional Conventions (i.e. Helcom webpage on indicators: http://www.helcom.fi/environment2/ifs/en_GB/cover/ ). In this paper we have carried out an analysis on the possible improvements of existing indicator reporting in use by EEA and on the development of new indicators based on OO products. The list of indicators includes: Temperature, Chlorophyll-a (from ocean colour), Ocean Currents and Transport, Salinity, Transparency, Sea Level, Sea Ice and Density. A critical analysis has been carried out to identify the relevance of the above mentioned indicators for EU policies, their spatial and temporal coverage, their accuracy and their availability. The Temperature and Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) products are the most suitable for an indicator development test phase. In particular the OO Chl-a product, deduced from satellite data, will be able to contribute to the further development of the EEA Chl-a indicator that is based on in-situ measurements (CSI023). Sea Level and Sea Ice products are also robust quantities for climate indicators. For the above mentioned indicators a development test phase has been undertaken in 2008 within the European Topic Center for Water (ETC-W) and BOSS4GMES (http://www.mersea.eu.org/Indicators-with-B4G.html) projects. Ocean Currents and Transports and Salinity products appear less mature for the development of new indicators at pan-European level because their connection with environmental aspects are less recognised in all European marine areas, to be noted that Transport derived indicators are available in the Norwegian Sea and in the North Sea where correlation with ecosystem components have been shown. Transparency product appears suitable for indicator production, but more effort should be put to relate the indicator to in-situ measurements. In addition to the products mentioned above, we have also identified a Density indicator that appears relevant for the eutrophication problems and ecosystem health. ; EUROGOOS ; Submitted ; Exeter, UK ; 3.11. Oceanografia Operativa ; open
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In: Public Health Genomics, Band 11, Heft 5, S. 295-303
ISSN: 1662-8063
<i>Background:</i> The Italian external quality assessment scheme in classical cytogenetics was started in 2001 as an activity funded by the National Health System and coordinated by the Italian Public Institute of Health. <i>Objectives:</i> The aim of our work is to present data from the first 4 years of activity, 2001–2004. <i>Methods:</i> Italian cytogenetics public laboratories were enrolled on a voluntary basis, and this nationwide program covered prenatal, postnatal and oncological diagnosis. The scheme is annual and retrospective; a panel of experts reviewed the quality of images and reports in order to assess technical, analytical and interpretative performance. <i>Results:</i> Over the 4-year period, the number of participating laboratories increased: from 36 in 2001, 46 in 2002, 49 in 2003 to 51 in 2004. The overall technical performance was satisfactory. Inadequacy or lack of information in reporting was the most frequent analytical inaccuracy identified in all parts of the scheme. However, the percentage of complete reports increased significantly during the period: by 36% in postnatal diagnosis between 2001 and 2004 (p < 0.001) and by 42% in oncological diagnosis between 2002 and 2004 (p = 0.003). <i>Conclusions:</i> Our experience reveals that participation in external quality assessment programs has significant advantages, helping to standardize and to assure quality in cytogenetic testing.
Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research ; Austrian Science Fund ; Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique ; Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) ; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) ; Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science ; CERN ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Ministry of Science and Technology ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Colombian Funding Agency (COLCIENCIAS) ; Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport ; Croatian Science Foundation ; Research Promotion Foundation ; Cyprus ; Ministry of Education and Research ; Recurrent financing contract ; European Regional Development Fund ; Estonia ; Academy of Finland ; Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture ; Helsinki Institute of Physics ; Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules / CNRS ; Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives / CEA, France ; Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung ; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, Germany ; General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece ; National Scientific Research Foundation ; National Innovation Office, Hungary ; Department of Atomic Energy ; Department of Science and Technology, India ; Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran ; Science Foundation, Ireland ; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy ; Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology ; World Class University program of NRF, Republic of Korea ; Lithuanian Academy of Sciences ; Ministry of Education, and University of Malaya (Malaysia) ; CINVESTAV ; CONACYT ; SEP ; UASLP-FAI ; Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand ; Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission ; Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; National Science Centre, Poland ; Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal ; JINR, Dubna ; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation ; Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences ; Russian Foundation for Basic Research ; Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia ; Secretaria de Estado de Investigacion, Desarrollo e Innovacion and Programa Consolider-Ingenio, Spain ; ETH Board ; ETH Zurich ; PSI ; SNF ; UniZH ; Canton Zurich ; SER ; National Science Council, Taipei ; Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics ; Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand ; Special Task Force for Activating Research ; National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand ; Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey ; Turkish Atomic Energy Authority ; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ; State Fund for Fundamental Researches, Ukraine ; Science and Technology Facilities Council, U.K. ; US Department of Energy ; US National Science Foundation ; Marie-Curie programme ; European Research Council ; EPLANET (European Union) ; Leventis Foundation ; A. P. Sloan Foundation ; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium) ; Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium) ; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of Czech Republic ; Council of Science and Industrial Research, India ; Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino) ; HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science ; EU ; Regional Development Fund ; Thalis and Aristeia programmes ; EU-ESF ; Greek NSRF ; Recurrent financing contractSF0690030s09 ; The central component of the CMS detector is the largest silicon tracker ever built. The precise alignment of this complex device is a formidable challenge, and only achievable with a significant extension of the technologies routinely used for tracking detectors in the past. This article describes the full-scale alignment procedure as it is used during LHC operations. Among the specific features of the method are the simultaneous determination of up to 200 000 alignment parameters with tracks, the measurement of individual sensor curvature parameters, the control of systematic misalignment effects, and the implementation of the whole procedure in a multiprocessor environment for high execution speed. Overall, the achieved statistical accuracy on the module alignment is found to be significantly better than 10 mu m.
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