cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The association of psychological resources and personality traits with preference for psychotherapy models: evidence from two explorative studies
Creators: name: Gori, Alessio
name: Imperatore, Pierluigi
name: Musetti, Alessandro
name: Topino, Eleonora
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2025
Subjects: Personality; Professional self-efficacy; Psychological features; Psychotherapy approach; Psychotherapy models; Theoretical orientation.

description: Background: The number of theoretical approaches in the field of psychotherapy has been steadily increasing. Considering the influential role that the chosen model plays in clinical practice, the examination of variables associated with the selection of theoretical orientation appears to be highly significant. Previous research has underlined the impact of personal characteristics on this choice, but findings remain scarce and inconclusive. The general aim of this research was to explore the differences in psychological and personality characteristics based on preferences for theoretical orientations among both students and psychotherapists.


Method: Two exploratory studies were implemented to pursue this goal. Study 1 involved 120 Italian Psychology Students (Mean age = 23 years; Standard Deviation = 6.01), and participants of Study 2 were 217 Italian psychotherapists (Mean age = 41 years; Standard Deviation = 8.79). Both the samples completed the Insight Orientation Scale, Rosenberg Self‐Esteem Scale and Ten-Item Personality Inventory. In addition, study participants also fulfilled a demographic and informative section that encompassed queries concerning their attitudes on diverse theoretical orientations. In Study 2, respondents also completed the Therapist Self-Efficacy Scale.


Results: Among students, preferences for psychotherapy models were not significantly associated with personality traits or self-esteem. However, those who considered the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic models to be the most effective showed higher levels of insight orientation than those favouring integrative approaches. Among psychotherapists, those aligned with integrative and psychoanalytic/psychodynamic models showed higher conscientiousness than those oriented toward Cognitive/ Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Integrative psychotherapists also reported greater agreeableness and self-efficacy than the Cognitive/Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy ones. Finally, associations between personal characteristics and the levels of professional self-efficacy within each considered psychotherapist model were highlighted.


Conclusions: Although the exploratory nature and cross-sectional design of the studies invite cautious interpretation and encourage further confirmatory research, these findings may have useful practical implications, by providing insight to elaborate tailored orientation programs, training, and supervisions for psychotherapists within different theoretical orientations.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 13, No 3 (2025)
STREP: un modello di previsione dei flussi turistici internazionali per regione
Creators: name: Carraro, C.
name: Manente, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper presents the STREP model, which estimates the ability of each region to compete with others in attracting the largest number of international tourists from each main market of origin, who have chosen Italy as their holiday destination. Once the region to be studied has been chosen, the mechanism of competitiveness is explained by carrying out the analysis for the group of competing regions offering substitute tourist products, instead of for the region alone. So, the word "Sliding" means that the group of competing regions changes according to the specific area to be analysed. The word "Panel" means that the equations for the chosen group of regions are estimated simultaneously. The methodology has been applied to the case of the Veneto Region, in the North-East part of Italy, and good estimation results have been achieved using both the W-STREP (World to Region) model of the total international flows to the region, and the M-STREP (Multi-origin to Region) model of the tourist flows from each of the 21 main countries of origin of tourism demand to the Veneto region. The goal of the above models is twofold. Firstly, to implement at a regional level an appropriate mathematical and econometric analysis of international tourism demand. Secondly, to produce a reliable forecasting tool - to be used to obtain short- and medium-term estimates of international inbound tourism at a local level - that improves upon existing models and time-series techniques, both from a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 1 (1998)
I consumi di beni e servizi turistici delle famiglie italiane
Creators: name: Bernini, C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The object of this work is to study italian househods' tourism expenditure microbehaviours. We analyse the expenditures' allocation between tourism and other goods, and the relations with social and demographic characteristics of italian population. Statistical analysis of tourism expenditures is done using individual data from the household budget survey made by ISTAT for 1985 and 1994 and the Multiple Correspondences Analisys. It finds out the sources of heterogeneity in tourism expenditures with respect to other goods, and shows that variations in households' behaviours are in relation to social and demographic characteristics and to cohort effects.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 1 (1998)
Spatial partitioning of road traffic networks and their temporal evolution
Creators: name: Anwar, Tarique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Traffic congestion has become a crucial problem today in the urban regions all over the world. Discovering the congestion formation and propagation patterns through traffic data analysis are very useful to develop better travel services and alleviating congestions. In this thesis, we aim to capture the spatiotemporal evolution of urban road traffic networks. We propose technical methods to effectively partition road traffic networks in order to obtain the differently congested partitions, and incrementally update them in order to track their evolution in real time.
title: Jordanian Teachers' Opinions of Effective Peace Education with Syrian Refugees
Creators: name: Acosta, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Syria
subject: refugees
subject: Jordan
subject: peace education practices
subject: International and Comparative Education

description: This research highlights Jordanian teachers' perspectives on good peace education practices with Syrian refugees in Jordanian public schools. Since the start of the Syrian conflict, many International organizations invest time and money into integrating Syrian refugees into the Jordanian community, including public schools. However, many challenges still exist. In order to understand this phenomenon, Jordanian public school teachers participated in qualitative surveys and in semi-structured group interviews, where they discussed challenges and best practices used in their classrooms. From the surveys and semi-structured interviews, teachers discussed six categories of issues they face daily: societal, physiological, political, religious, and the role of play in helping Syrian students.
Development of a short version of the Spielberger state and trait anxiety inventory (STAI) for pregnant women
Creators: name: Stefana, Alberto
name: Furuta, Marie
name: Cena, Loredana
name: Trainini, Alice
name: Palumbo, Gabriella
name: Mirabella, Fiorino
name: Gigantesco, Antonella
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2025
Subjects: Perinatal anxiety; Pregnancy; Psychometric properties; Scale development; Self-report.

description: Background: The Spielberger state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI) is a widely recognized tool for assessing state and trait anxiety components in the general population. While reliable and valid, each scale in the STAI has 20 items, which limits its usability in certain real-world clinical settings. Additionally, certain items can inaccurately increase anxiety scores among expectant women. This study aimed to develop a concise yet dependable and valid version of these scales tailored for pregnant individuals.


Methods: We engaged 1,158 expectant women who completed the STAI and other assessments to determine criterion validity. Our methodology incorporated item response theory, confirmatory factor analysis, and k-fold cross-validation. Additionally, Bland-Altman regressions and plots assisted in gauging score accuracy, and receiver operating characteristic analyses determined discriminative validity. We also set clinical change benchmarks.


Results: Confirmatory factor analysis yielded the following fit indices: X2(5) = 32.08, CFI = .99, TLI = .97, RMSEA = .07 (90% CI [.05, .09]), and SRMR = .02 for the state anxiety scale (omega total = .85), and X2(5) = 23.58, CFI = .99, TLI = .97, RMSEA = .06 (90% CI [.04, .08]), and SRMR = .02 for the trait anxiety scale (omega total = .79). Furthermore, both scales showed meaningful correlations with measures depression.

Conclusion: The resulting five-item STAI short forms manifested robust psychometric attributes and reliability, providing a theoretically grounded and reliable anxiety assessment during pregnancy. This can be effectively applied in obstetric and gynecological settings, offering a streamlined response experience for expectant women.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 13, No 3 (2025)
On purchasing power parities calculation at the basic heading level
Creators: name: Ferrari, G.
name: Riani, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper analyses two procedures for calculating Purchasing Power Parities (ppps) at the basic heading level: the first one suggested by UNSO and the second one used by EUROSTAT For the synthesis of the prices of items, UNSO resorts to the "characteristicity" or "asterisk" approach and proposes the unweighted geometric mean of the ratios with at least one asterisk, whereas EUROSTAT transforms the above approach into that of "equi-characteristicity" and introduces pseudo Laspeyres and Paasche indexes and finally Fisher forms which in some sense are weighted geometric means. For the purpose of producing a complete and transitive matrix of ppps, both resort to the EKS procedure, or GEKS, as this paper proposes to rename it. As far as the EUROSTAT procedure is concerned, the formulas for pseudo L and P are analyzed (leaving aside the simple geometric mean suggested by UNSO which gives biased results because of the Gerschenkron effect) and it is shown that the ratios of sums are proper L and P indexes which advantage is that of having a simple and reasonable economic meaning.
As for the GEKS iterative procedure, the paper proves that the minimization over the L and P matrices of parities instead of over the matrix of the Fs leads the process to converge in many more cases - therefore giving complete and transitive matrices - than one would obtain through minimization of the matrix of the Fs, which results in a minor loss of information.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 1 (1998)
Growth mixture models: a case example of the longitudinal analysis of patient‐reported outcomes data captured by a clinical registry
Creators: name: Kwon, Jae-Yung
name: Sawatzky, Richard
name: Baumbusch, Jennifer
name: Lauck, Sandra B.
name: Ratner, Pamela A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: An assumption in many analyses of longitudinal patient-reported outcome (PRO) data is that there is a single population following a single health trajectory. One approach that may help researchers move beyond this traditional assumption, with its inherent limitations, is growth mixture modelling (GMM), which can identify and assess multiple unobserved trajectories of patients’ health outcomes. We describe the process that was undertaken for a GMM analysis of longitudinal PRO data captured by a clinical registry for outpatients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods: This expository paper describes the modelling approach and some methodological issues that require particular attention, including (a) determining the metric of time, (b) specifying the GMMs, and (c) including predictors of membership in the identified latent classes (groups or subtypes of patients with distinct trajectories). An example is provided of a longitudinal analysis of PRO data (patients’ responses to the Atrial Fibrillation Effect on QualiTy-of-Life (AFEQT) Questionnaire) collected between 2008 and 2016 for a population-based cardiac registry and deterministically linked with administrative health data. Results: In determining the metric of time, multiple processes were required to ensure that “time” accounted for both the frequency and timing of the measurement occurrences in light of the variability in both the number of measures taken and the intervals between those measures. In specifying the GMM, convergence issues, a common problem that results in unreliable model estimates, required constrained parameter exploration techniques. For the identification of predictors of the latent classes, the 3-step (stepwise) approach was selected such that the addition of predictor variables did not change class membership itself. Conclusions: GMM can be a valuable tool for classifying multiple unique PRO trajectories that have previously been unobserved in real-world applications; however, their use requires substantial transparency regarding the processes underlying model building as they can directly affect the results and therefore their interpretation.
On the Relevance and Limitations of Predictive Models in Clinical Psychology
Creators: name: Merlo, Emanuele Maria
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2025
Subjects: Assessment; Causality; Clinical Psychology; Predictive models; Regression analysis.

description: Following a relevant contribution promoted by the American Psychological Association (Hanson, 2022), prediction statistics in Clinical Psychology represent a series of practices useful to predict the effect of an independent variable on possible outcomes.

The study of the relationships between variables enables predictions and dependencies between variables. Such practices would allow for causal clinical reasoning, but this must be evaluated with rigor and knowledge of the existing limitations.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 13, No 3 (2025)
Esistenza e convergenza di distribuzioni di probabilità simmetriche discrete con momenti assegnati
Creators: name: Tagliani, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The simmetric discrete probability distribution approximation by maximum entropy approach, whose the first even moments are assigned, is considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions of existence and entropy convergence are provided.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 1 (1998)
Power comparison of some tests for testing change point
Creators: name: Batti, M. J.
name: Wang, J.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper considers the problem of testing for a change point in variance of the sequence of normal random variables with unknown means. We construct three tests, namely, L-test derived from Lehmann's (1951) U-statistic, B-test obtained from Bayesian method and R-test derived by using the maximum likelihood ratio technique. Simulation studies were carried out to calculate the approximate critical values and the power of these tests. An empirical power comparison of these tests suggest that the power of the B-test is generally better than its competitors, the other two tests.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 1 (1998)
Food Security in Nigeria: Impetus for Growth and Development
Creators: name: Ayinde, Idris A.
name: Otekunrin, Olutosin
name: Sakiru O. Akinbode
name: Oluwaseun A. Otekunrin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70106 Farm Management, Rural Management and Agribusiness
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: One of the most important and crucial debates in the world today is how to provide sufficient food for over seven billion people in the world. In 2019, 690 million people were suffering from hunger globally while about 135 million people in 55 countries and territories were suffering from acute food insecurity with Africa accounting for 73 million of this figure. Food insecurity is one of the major challenges of most African governments occasioned by an increasing number of people living in extreme poverty, high-level corruption, incidences of conflicts/terrorism, low level of human capital and unfavorable climate change in the region. Nigeria has the highest number of people living in extreme poverty globally. The Global Food Security Index (GFSI) rank of Nigeria has been on the increase since 2013 while it was ranked 94th among 113 countries in 2019. Nigeria is facing the challenge of food insecurity, especially in the northeastern and north-central states where conflicts/insurgency, kidnapping, armed banditry, cattle rustling and weather extremes are aggravating the food insecurity situation. This paper therefore recommends that the Nigerian government should redouble efforts aimed at improving food production and processing activities to ensure food security across the states and also boost exports.
Learning Disability-Adapted Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Phobia
Creators: name: Myles, Liam Alexander MacKenzie
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2025
Subjects: Learning Disability; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; Phobia, Walking; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy.

description: Background: Research suggests cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) constitutes an effective intervention for phobia. However, literature investigating the effectiveness of CBT for phobia in people with learning disabilities (LDs) is sparse. This case study reports the outcomes of LD-adapted CBT for phobia.


Method: Following examination of the patient’s developmental history, assumptions, triggers, cognitions, emotions, physiological symptoms, safety-seeking behaviours and secondary cognitions, behavioural experiments were used to reduce a patient’s fear of falling when walking outside. Single case experimental design methodology was used to analyse improvements in the frequency with which the patient walked outside across therapy.


Results: Across therapy, the frequency with which the patient walked outside increased, and her phobia symptoms decreased. By the end of therapy, she regularly walked outside on dry roads, hills, stairs, wet grassy fields, cobbled paths, muddy paths and drains.

Conclusions: This case study provides tentative evidence that LD-adapted CBT attenuates phobias. These results highlight the potential for further research into adapting CBT to meet the unique needs of individuals with LDs.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 13, No 3 (2025)
Nemacerus Solier 1849
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melyridae
Nemacerus

description: Nemacerus Solier, 1849
[1 species; Chile]
 Nemacerus Solier 1849: 431. Type species: Nemacerus incertus Solier, 1849, by original monotypy.
 Nematocerus [lapsus calami]: Gemminger and Harold 1869: 1693; Blackwelder 1945: 376.
 Note: This genus was listed as incertae sedis in Pic (1911: 8) and appeared twice in Blackwelder (1945): once in Malachiidae (as Nematocerus) and once in Scraptiidae (as Nemacerus). Elgueta and Arriagada (1989) listed it as Scraptiidae.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
Basic Psychometric Properties and Italian Normative Data of the DSM-5 Level 2 Anger, Anxiety, and Depression Scales, and DSM-5 Severity of Dissociative Symptoms Scale
Creators: name: Somma, Antonella
name: De Ciechi, Arianna
name: Boscaro, Linda
name: Arioli, Chiara
name: Gialdi, Giulia
name: Mariani, Valeria
name: Fossati, Andrea
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2025
Subjects: DSM-5 Level 2 Anger Scale; DSM-5 Level 2 Anxiety Scale; DSM-5 Level 2 Depression Scale; DSM-5 Severity of Dissociation Symptoms Scale; Reliability; Factor structure; Bifactor models; Normative data.

description: Background: To promote the shift to a dimensional approach to diagnosis, the DSM-5/DSM-5-TR incorporates self-report dimensional measures of DSM-5 cross-cutting symptoms. Against this background, the aim of the present study is examining the basic psychometric properties of the measures and providing clinicians with Italian normative data for the DSM-5 Level 2 Anger, Anxiety, and Depression Scales, and for the DSM-5 Severity of Dissociation Symptoms Scale.


Methods: Sample 1 (N = 1567) community-dwelling adult participants were administered the DSM-5 Level 2 Anger Scale, whereas Sample 2 (N = 2378) community-dwelling adult participants were administered the DSM-5 Level 2 Anxiety and Depression Scales, and the DSM-5 Severity of Dissociation Symptoms Scale. Weighted least square mean and variance adjusted confirmatory factor analyses and exploratory structural equation models were carried out to test item unidimensionality.


Results: Internal consistency reliability (i.e., Cronbach’s  a coefficient) values for the DSM-5 Level 2 Anger, Anxiety, and Depression Scales, and for the DSM-5 Severity of Dissociation Symptoms Scale were all adequate. Confirmatory factor analysis results supported adequate fit of the one-factor model of the DSM-5 Level 2 Anger Scale and DSM-5 Severity of Dissociation Symptoms Scale. Bifactor models of the DSM-5 Level 2 Anxiety and Depression Scales yielded adequate fit indices.

Conclusions: Providing clinicians and researchers with normative data and basic psychometric properties of DSM-5 measures could be useful in order to allow for dimensional assessment of psychopathology. In turn, this may facilitate the adoption of DSM-5 Level 2 Anger, Anxiety, and Depression Scales, and the DSM-5 Severity of Dissociative Symptoms Scale in routine clinical assessment.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 13, No 3 (2025)
Nothotelus Broun 1914
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Nothotelus

description: Nothotelus Broun, 1914
[3 species; New Zealand]
 Nothotelus Broun 1914: 118. Type species: Nothotelus ocularius Broun, 1914, by original monotypy.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
Does Fasting Make Us All Equal? Evidence on the Influence of Appetite on Implicit Sexual Prejudice
Creators: name: Lucifora, Chiara
name: Martino, Gabriella
name: Grasso, Giorgio
name: Mucciardi, Massimo
name: Magnano, Paola
name: Massimino, Simona
name: Craparo, Giuseppe
name: Vicario, Carmelo Mario
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2025
Subjects: Appetite; Clinical Psychology; Disgust Sensitivity; Implicit Association Test; Interoception; Religiosity; Prejudice; Psychophysiology.

description: Background: Interoception has long been linked to various aspects of social cognition, including morality, altruism, and empathy. This study extends the literature by examining whether interoception also influences automatic evaluative reactions that reveal prejudice. We hypothesized that individuals' interoceptive awareness and their appetitive states would impact their implicit biases, particularly regarding prejudices related to race, weight, and sexual orientation.


Method: We administered three Implicit Association Tests (IATs) targeting prejudices related to race, weight, and sexual orientation to a group of 40 participants (23.94 years, SD = 7.25). To explore the relationship between interoception and IAT performance, we manipulated appetite and assessed interoceptive awareness using the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness.


Results: Our findings reveal an interaction between religiosity and appetite in predicting implicit prejudice toward sexual orientation. Consistent with existing literature, religious individuals demonstrated higher levels of racial prejudice compared to non-religious individuals. However, this difference was attenuated when participants were tested under fasting conditions (i.e., when they were hungry). Furthermore, both disgust sensitivity and interoceptive sensitivity were found to predict implicit prejudice, with their influence varying depending on the specific type of prejudice.


Conclusions: Our study contributes to the field by demonstrating that prejudice can emerge from the interplay between individual characteristics and motivational states. Clinically, these findings suggest that enhancing interoceptive awareness and addressing motivational states could be potential strategies not only to support individual psychological health but also to reduce vulnerability to prejudicial attitudes.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 13, No 3 (2025)
Association Between Obesity, Executive Functions, and Affective States: An Analysis of Patients from an Endocrinology Clinic
Creators: name: De La Portilla Maya, Sonia Rocío
name: De La Portilla Maya, Dario Arturo
name: Montoya Londoño, Diana Marcela
name: Landínez Martínez, Daniel Alfredo
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2025
Subjects: Anxiety; Clinical Psychology; Depression; Executive functions; Obesity.

description: Introduction: Obesity is a multifaceted public health concern with significant cognitive and emotional implications. This study explores the association between obesity, executive function deficits, and affective states in 26 patients (76.9% male; mean age = 41.3 years, SD = 13.0) from an endocrinology clinic in Manizales, Colombia.


Method: This is a non-experimental cross-sectional study that used the BANFE-2 neuropsychological battery and the Hamilton Anxiety and Depression Scales; 96.2% of participants exhibited impaired executive functions, with severe deficits observed in 76.9%.


Results: Key impairments included inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, and self-monitoring, linked to dysfunctions in the dorsolateral (96.2%) and orbitomedial (50.0%) prefrontal cortex regions. Affective disturbances were prevalent, with 50.0% reporting severe anxiety and 73.1% experiencing depression. Men demonstrated higher rates of moderate-to-severe anxiety (66.7%) and depression (46.7%) compared to women, while non-adherence to treatment was associated with increased anxiety (p = 0.019).


Discussion: These findings underscore the critical interplay between neuropsychological deficits and emotional dysregulation in obesity. They suggest that interventions targeting executive functions and affective regulation could enhance outcomes for patients with obesity. This study offers a foundation for developing personalized therapeutic strategies and highlights the need for longitudinal research to establish causal mechanisms.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 13, No 3 (2025)
title: The Evolution of Arms Control Instruments and the Potential of the Arms Trade Treaty
Creators: name: Coppen, Tom
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2016

description: Although the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) has the potential to create an effective international legal framework for controlling the international arms trade, much depends on the subsequent development of its legal framework. This article therefore analyzes how the ATT, as a multilateral arms control treaty, can develop its own legal framework in accordance with international law and what role the organs established by it can play in that process. It will be shown that in its current form the ATT has significant shortcomings that may prevent it from achieving this goal, but there certainly is room for the lawful development of its norms, which will depend on amassing political will and the establishment of practice.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 7, no. 2, page 353-382
Remembering and exhibiting games past: The Popular Memory Archive
Creators: name: Stuckey, Helen
name: Swalwell, Melanie
name: Ndalianis, Angela
name: De Vries, Denise
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Popular Memory Archive is an online collaborative research portal for collecting and exhibiting the production and reception histories of Australian and New Zealand micro-computer games of the 1980s. Proposed as a resource for both historians of technology and media, and the public, the site provides the means to collect and share the memories of those who lived and played their way through this period. This article surveys activity on the site and offers some preliminary evaluation of the significance of the online contributions. From this we consider the discursive, inclusive and questioning practices of the portal as a means of exhibiting historic games.
Dagli eventi singoli agli eventi statistici
Creators: name: Costantini, D.
name: Garibaldi, U.
name: Monari, P.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Bayesian statisticians maintain that statistical inferences aim at determining the probabilities of single events As a matter of fact all statistical methods, including Bayesian, are based upon probability assumptions that transform single events into statistical ones. The paper presents a careful analysis of some of such assumptions.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 2 (1998)
“Walking into the unknown…” key challenges of pregnancy and early parenting with inflammatory arthritis: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Creators: name: Rebić, Nevena
name: Garg, Ria
name: Ellis, Ursula
name: Kitchin, Vanessa
name: Munro, Sarah
name: Hazlewood, Glen S.
name: Amiri, Neda
name: Bansback, Nick
name: De Vera, Mary
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: To conduct a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies on the pregnancy and early parenting experiences of patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA). Methods: We searched online databases for English-language, qualitative studies capturing the experiences of females with IA or their healthcare providers with pregnancy and/or early parenthood. We extracted findings from included studies and used thematic synthesis to develop descriptive and higher-order analytical themes. Results: Of 20 included studies, our analysis identified 5 analytical themes among patients and 3 among providers. Patients’ reproductive desires, the impact of IA on their ability to experience pregnancy, and the availability of information to guide preparedness informed their pregnancy decisions. Patients’ IA management, pregnancy expectations, and access to support influenced their reproductive experiences. Patients’ experiences seeking information and care revealed substantial gaps in reproductive care provision to patients with IA. Reproductive uncertainty related to IA placed a heavy burden on patients’ emotional and psychological wellbeing. Reproductive care provision was influenced by providers’ perceived professional responsibility to address patients’ reproductive goals, fears of negative outcomes, and capacity to harness patient trust, incorporate reproductive care into rheumatology practice and facilitate multi-disciplinary care coordination. Conclusions: Our review illuminated several barriers to experiencing pregnancy among patients with IA, particularly related to pregnancy planning support, availability of information, and care coordination among the patient’s healthcare team. To improve care, these barriers may be mitigated through the provision of relevant, practical, and consistent information as well as patient-centred multi-disciplinary approaches for managing pregnancy among patients with IA.
Phytilea Broun 1893
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Phytilea

description: Phytilea Broun, 1893
[1 species; New Zealand]
 Phytilea Broun 1893: 1171. Type species: Phytilea propera Broun, 1893, by original monotypy.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
Computational assessment of T cell plasticity in immune related adverse events
Creators: name: Fey, Rosalyn M.
name: Kulkarni, Rajan P.
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
subject: Cell Plasticity
subject: Sequence Analysis, RNA
subject: immune related adverse events (irAEs)
subject: immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)
subject: T cells
subject: T cell plasticity
subject: single cell RNA sequencing

description: Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy targets checkpoint proteins to restore normal function to the immune system so that it can attack cancer cells. It is used successfully to treat a variety of cancers; however, many patients suffer from the development of immune-related adverse events (irAEs), which may affect any organ system and can be severe enough to cause the cessation of therapy. There is therefore great interest in understanding the mechanism of irAE development. Our work contributes to the understanding of the role of Treg plasticity and Treg-Th17 balance in the context of ICB treatment and irAE development that will guide future research in the field.
Goodness-of-fit tests for normal distribution of order p and their asymptotic effìciency
Creators: name: Burgio, G.
name: Nikitin, Y.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper deals with the Bahadur local efficiency of the parametric score test and of the Kolmogorov, Cramér-von Mises and Chapman-Moses non parametric tests to verify the null hypothesis Ho Teta= 0 agains the alternative Hl: Teta > 0, being Teta the centrality parameter of a p normal distribution. Bahadur efficiency is calculated with respect to the theoretical upper bound for exact slopes given in terms of Kullback-Leibler information numbers. It is analytically, numerically and graphically shown that the score test is locally optimal for all p >= 1 whereas the non parametric tests behave very differently for large p and p close to 1. As a matter of fact, for large p their efficiency decreases approxi-mately as 1/p, but for p close to 1 they are serious competitors of the score test. For instance, the Kolmogorov test is for p= 1 locally optimal in the Bahadur sense.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 2 (1998)
Modelli log-linearigraflici-catena per l'analisi della durata di intervalli tra nascite
Creators: name: Barusco, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Log-linear graphical chain models have a one-to-one correspondence to directed graphs where any missing eUge represents a conditional independence statement. Hence, they can be considered in the study of directional links among categorical variables. The meaning of these models, following an asymmetrical approach in the analysis of demographical data, is presented. Making use of WFS (Italy, 1979) data referring to the lenght of two birth intervals (first and between first and second birth), some applications of log-linear graphical chain models are performed. The structure of the relationships among background variables, intermediate variables and birth interval lengths is described.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 2 (1998)
title: Combating Illegal Fishing in the Exclusive Economic Zone - Flag State Obligations in the Context of the Primary Responsbility of the Coastal State
Creators: name: Schatz, Valentin J.
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2016

description: Illegal fishing in the Exclusive Economic Zones [EEZs] of developing coastal States is an urgent problem for the marine environment, global food security, and local economies. While past academic debate has predominantly focused on obligations of flag States to tackle so called IUU-fishing in the High Seas, the recent request for an advisory opinion submitted by the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS, Case No. 21) has drawn attention to the fisheries regime of the EEZ. This article argues that the primary responsibility for fisheries management in the EEZ rests on the coastal State and that, so far, flag States have no obligation under customary international law to exercise their jurisdiction and control over vessels flying their flag which fish in the EEZ of other States. The article first gives an account of coastal State regulatory and enforcement jurisdiction. It outlines recent developments of the law by drawing on the jurisprudence of the ITLOS, particularly the recent M/V “Virginia G” Case. Further, the article undertakes to identify potential flag State obligations to combat illegal fishing in the EEZ. To that end, it provides an in-depth analysis of relevant binding and non-binding legal instruments such as the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, other multilateral treaties, bilateral fisheries treaties, and relevant soft-law instruments of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The article also discusses the relevance of principles of international environmental law. Next, the article analyzes the nature and scope of potential flag State obligations, qualifying them as obligations of due diligence. Finally, the article concludes that, de lege lata, no persuasive evidence of established flag State obligations exists. The author suggests that the situation should be remedied by a new, fully binding legal instrument.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 7, no. 2, page 383-414
Principio di verosirniglianza e scelta della legge a priori nell inferenza statistica
Creators: name: De Cristofaro, R.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: According to a common opinion, if all designs produce proportional likeliLoods, one sbonld make an identical inference about a parameter from the data d irrespective of the design which yields d. This thesis is not surprising in Bayesian approach. In fact, Bayesians support that inference is made in terms of the posterior alone and it is independent of design. On the contrary, the corrected Bayes formula sbows that the posterior depends on the sampling rule s. Namely, in principle, the piece of information about s is relevant for the purpose of inference. Besides, the paradoxical consequences of the irrelevance of sampling rule in statistical inference (both in general and in the case of sampling from finite populations) can be considered as counter-examples against this thesis. In conformity with the sampling rule, a hypothesis h is supported rather than another. In other words, the equiprobability assumption is to be linked to the idea of the impartiality of sampling with respect to the set of the considered hypotheses. In line with such a conception, prior probabilities are determined in an objective way according to the original version of Jeffreys' prior, and the use of Bayes formula as an inductive tool is confirmed (in sampling from finite/infinite populations).
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 2 (1998)
La stima del ciclo-trend col metodo delle funzioni sferoidali prolate
Creators: name: Faliva, M.
name: Zoia, M. G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper develops a new method of trend-cycle estimation. According to the authors' frequency-domain characterization of latent components in economic time series, trend-cycle turns out to be a band-limited signal, located within the low-middle frequency range. Hence, the aforesaid component can be represented, resting on Landau and Pollak's smart theorems, in terms of a properly chosen set of prolate spheroidal functions and, what is more, it can be detected by projecting the observed series onto the subspace of band-limited sequences spanned by such functions. The paper plainly sets forth the theoretical frame and the technicalities of the suggested novel method of trend-cycle estimation and discusses a few of its operational aspects.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 3 (1998)
An alternative approach to the seasonal integration test
Creators: name: De Luca, G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The aim of this paper is to propose an alternative approach for detecting a non-constant seasonal pattern in a time-series. It differs from the Canova and Hansen test in taking account of the structure of the autocorrelation of the process in a parametric way. A Monte Carlo experiment was carried out for comparing the two approaches. The statistics calculated according to the alternative one highlighted a better ability in detecting a stationary process at a particular frequency, even with a coefficient near the border of the non-stationarity region, not implying any reduction in the power of the test.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 3 (1998)
title: Comparative Evaluation of Compression Testing Methods for Murine Lumbar Vertebral Bodies: Identifying Most Reliable and Reproducible Techniques for Assessing Compressive Strength
Creators: name: Kronenberg, Daniel
name: Wieskötter, Britta
name: Soeger, Sarah
name: Hidding, Heriburg
name: Timmen, Melanie
name: Raschke, Michael J.
name: Stange, Richard
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: This study evaluates four compression testing methods to determine the most reliable and reproducible technique for assessing the compression strength of murine lumbar vertebral bodies. Twenty female C57BL/6 mice (12 weeks old) were randomized into four groups: Group 1, compression of the complete lumbar vertebral body (LVB) with dorsal spinal processes; Group 2, compression at the vertebral body surface; Group 3, compression at the vertebral body surface after vertebral arch resection; Group 4, resection of the vertebral arch with straightening of the intervertebral joint surface. A mono-axial static testing machine applied compression, measuring load to failure, stiffness, yield load, and elasticity modulus. Method 1 resulted in significantly higher load-to-failure and yield-to-failure (25.9 N compared to 18.2 N, and twice 12 N for Methods 2–4), with the least variation in relative values. Method 3 had increased stiffness and a significantly higher Young’s modulus (232 N/mm, in contrast to 101, 130, and 145 N/mm for Methods 1, 2, and 4, respectively) but yielded inconsistent results. Method 4 showed the greatest variability across specimens. Method 2 yields suitable data quality as well, albeit with a slightly higher variation, and is the recommended procedure if the spinal processes have to be excluded from the measurement. Based on these findings, Method 1 produced the most consistent and reproducible data and is recommended for future studies evaluating vertebral biomechanics in mice.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Universität Münster.
Un modello non lineare per la serie storica dell'indice della produzione industriale italiana
Creators: name: Mazzali, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper we intend to experiment Smooth Threshold Autoregressive model (STAR) in order to capture asymmetric business cycle in the time series of the industrial production index. First we obtain some evidence of non linearity by non parametric lag-regression, then we fit an ESTAR model using the Granger-Terasvirta's procedure. The results are better than the ones available from a linear model. In addition the graph of the transaction function tell us some interesting features on the changing regimes. In the paper we suggest also an informal way to easily obtain a STAR model for various asymmetries in business cycles.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 3 (1998)
Dependence structures of Polya tree autoregressive models
Creators: name: Sarno, E.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: According to the recent developments of models for dependent data and autoregressive processes based on Polya trees (West, 1996), the dyadic expansion of an observation Xt, defined on a separable measurable space Omega, is used here to investigate the dependence structure of an autoregressive process of order one under non-normal marginal distributions of Xt. It is assumed that the dyadic representation of two consecutive observations is identical up to a level k (i.e. the last known matching point), with k distributed as a Geometric random variable with parameter Teta. Such parameter Teta models the autoregressive structure of the time series as a large k yields high dependence and a small k gives low dependence. In this work, we showed that small values of Teta produce an almost linear relation between xt and x(t+ 1), whereas Teta equal to one leads to independence, and values of Teta between zero and one allow for non-linear dependence. Moreover, we elicited the conditional distributions p(x(t+1)Ixt) and explore their features in correspondence of Uniform marginal distributions of Xt.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 3 (1998)