cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modulation of joint action correspondence effects by task context : examination of the contributions of social, spatial, and response discrimination factors
Creators: name: Lam, Melanie Yah-Wai
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The aim of this dissertation was twofold: (1) to examine task co-representation and joint action in efforts to identify necessary preconditions under which shared representations are formed and (2) to determine whether alternative explanations can account for the social Simon effect (SE). Using joint Simon effect protocols (e.g., Sebanz & Knoblich 2003), we began (Study 1) by showing that when paired participants responded to the same stimulus-response alternative, the joint SE was absent. When participants performed under a competitive context (Study 2), the joint SE was elicited, even though co-representation would have been disadvantageous with respect to the task goal. Next, we examined the influence of spatial and response discrimination factors on the joint action correspondence effect. Our first investigation (Study 3) did not support the assumption that the co-actor may be providing a reference for the spatial coding of alternative responses. Using Ansorge and Wühr’s (2004) response discrimination hypothesis as a framework, we showed in subsequent studies (Study 4 & 6) that a SE could be elicited in a Go/No-Go task when spatial codes were used to discriminate between alternative responses. This was demonstrated when a standard 2-choice task preceded a Go/No-Go task and when participants performed two independent tasks alongside each other. Examination of event-related potentials pertaining to action inhibition suggested reduced action suppression on no-go trials when performing with a co-actor compared to performing with alone under these independent task conditions. In a final study (Study 7), we explored task co-representation using a different experimental paradigm—the response-precuing task. Our results did not provide clear evidence for task co-representation. In cases where the ‘social’ SE was not observed, we propose that a form of ‘social loafing’ or an individualistic mindset approach to the joint action task may have been in operation. Our overall findings encourage further investigation of how task context can modulate the joint SE and highlights how an individualistic mindset can potentially preclude co-representation.
Interpretation of the Flavor Dependence of Nucleon Form Factors in a Generalized Parton Distribution Model
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Hernandez, J. Osvaldo
name: Liuti, Simonetta
name: Goldstein, Gary R.
name: Kathuria, Kunal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an interpretation of the $u$ and $d$ quarks contributions to the nucleon electromagnetic form factors for values of the four-momentum transfer in the multi-GeV region where flavor separated data have been recently made available. The data show, in particular, a suppression of $d$ quarks with respect to $u$ quarks at large momentum transfer. %and constant ratios of the flavor dependent Pauli to Dirac form factors ratios. This trend can be explained using a reggeized diquark model calculation of generalized parton distributions, thus providing a correlation between momentum and coordinate spaces, both of which are necessary in order to interpret the partonic substructure of the form factors. We extend our discussion to the second moments of generalized parton distributions which are believed to contribute to partonic angular momentum.
description: 22 pages, 19 figures; results and figures added and changed, tables added, formulae added, major rewriting of text
title: MRI in diagnosis of peripheral nerve schwannomas in different regions.
Creators: name: Khivrych, Nataliya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology peripheral nerve
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The goal of our work is to demonstrate and evaluate the results of visualization of schwannomas of different location, to determine and describe the presence or absence of their characteristic MR...
LA PARABOLA DEL GUSTO NEL SETTECENTO ITALIANO ED EUROPEO
Creators: name: Franzini, Elio
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Pubblichiamo il testo della prolusione ai “Corsi internazionali di Lingua e cultura italiana” di Gargnano del Garda (LV edizione:  www.calcif.unimi.it ), tenuta il 7 luglio 2012 dal prof. Elio Franzini, ordinario di Estetica nell’Università degli studi di Milano e prorettore per la programmazione e i servizi alla didattica.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 1 (2012)
Classical and quantum Big Brake cosmology for scalar field and tachyonic models
Creators: name: Kamenshchik, Alexander Y.
name: Manti, Serena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a relation between the cosmological singularities in classical and quantum theory, comparing the classical and quantum dynamics in some models possessing the Big Brake singularity - the model based on a scalar field and two models based on a tachyon-pseudo-tachyon field . It is shown that the effect of quantum avoidance is absent for the soft singularities of the Big Brake type while it is present for the Big Bang and Big Crunch singularities. Thus, there is some kind of a classical - quantum correspondence, because soft singularities are traversable in classical cosmology, while the strong Big Bang and Big Crunch singularities are not traversable.
description: final version, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
title: Comparison of the efficacy and safety of transarterial chemoembolization with and without Apatinib for the treatment of BCLC stage C hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Chen, Shiguang
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Chemoembolisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the 5 most-common cancers worldwide and has a poor prognosis. 1 In most cases, HCC is diagnosed at an advanced stage, even at Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage C, and such patients are only eligible...
LA NOZIONE DI ‘COMPETENZA’ NELLA PEDAGOGIA LINGUISTICA
Creators: name: Ciliberti, Anna
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: Nel mio contributo propongo  una riflessione sulle varie nozioni di ‘competenza’ che, nel corso del tempo, si sono succedute nella pedagogia e nella didattica linguistica. Tale nozione, offrendo i principi ispiratori ai programmi di studio di lingue2, determina in buona misura gli obiettivi di insegnamento, la scelta dei contenuti, delle attività  di classe, delle forme esercitative nonché le modalità di  verifica e valutazione dei risultati ottenuti.

In particolare, mi soffermerò sulle nozioni di ‘competenza nella cultura 2’ e su quella, oggi  al centro del dibattito glottodidattico, di ‘competenza comunicativa interculturale’: nozione, quest’ultima, assimilabile, secondo diversi studiosi, al concetto di ‘educazione interculturale’.

The concept of  ‘competence’ in language education: from ‘linguistic competence’ to ‘intercultural communicative competence’

This paper is a reflection on the various notions of ‘competence’ in pedagogy and language teaching over time. This concept provides the guiding principle of the L2 curriculum and determines the teaching objectives, choice of content, classroom activities, ways of practicing and the testing and evaluating method the results obtained to a large extent.

In particular, I will focus on the concepts of ‘competence in culture 2’ and on  ‘intercultural communicative competence’, currently at the heart of the language teaching debate.  The latter is similar to the idea of 'intercultural education' according to several scholars.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 2 (2012)
Bayesian inference methods to assess the asymmetries in the population variances and covariances of measures characterizing the shapes and sizes of human brain regions
Creators: name: Arenaza, Bautista
name: Risau Gusman, Sebastián
name: Samengo, Inés
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Data analysis, machine learning, neuroinformatics

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
title: In Germany, Younger, Better Educated Persons, and Lower Income Groups Are More Likely to Be in Favor of Unconditional Basic Income
Creators: name: Adriaans, Jule
name: Liebig, Stefan
name: Schupp, Jürgen
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
subject: I38 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
subject: H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
subject: Basic Income- Preferences
subject: Survey

description: Representative survey results have shown a stable approval rate for implementing unconditional basic income of between 45 and 52 percent in Germany since 2016/17. In European comparison, this approval rate is low. Younger, better educated persons, and those at risk of poverty support the concept of unconditional basic income in Germany. But these demographics are not the only factors that correlate with attitudes toward unconditional basic income: subjective justice attitudes do as well. The justice norm of equity and unconditional basic income appear to be contradictory. On the other hand, people who find that there are deficits in covering the needs of society’s lower income groups tend to approve of unconditional basic income. Therefore, analyses show that attitudes toward unconditional basic income follow specific patterns and social regularities; and they were relatively stable between 2016 and 2018. As long as uncertainty predominates regarding the social costs and benefits of implementing such a basic income, the relatively high proportion of those in favor must be interpreted with care. It does not indicate that society is actually ready for reforms in this direction.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 15, S. 127-134
title: Safety and adequacy of ultrasound guided percutaneous renal biopsy in children.
Creators: name: Kausar, K
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Paediatric
subject: Kidney
subject: Outcomes

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The accurate localization of the kidney by ultrasound guidance along with automated biopsy needles is intended for optimizing the efficacy and safety of the percutaneous renal biopsy procedure. This results in considerable improvementin thegeneral...
LA VALUTAZIONE DEL PARLATO DEGLI STUDENTI: IMPLICAZIONI SUL TESTING LINGUISTICO
Creators: name: Varcasia, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: In questo contributo viene affrontato il tema della valutazione del parlato. In particolare ci si sofferma, nell’ambito del testing linguistico, sugli aspetti metodologici primari nel processo di elaborazione di un test, quali la definizione del costrutto e la scrittura delle specifiche. Le prove orali delle principali certificazioni della lingua italiana per i livelli avanzati vengono prese in considerazione. Viene presentato infine un test elaborato presso la Libera Università di Bolzano per la valutazione dell’abilità orale.

Evaluating student speaking: implications on language testing

This paper focuses on the assessment of speaking in language testing. In particular, attention is drawn to the primary steps in test development, such as definition of constructs and writing the specifications. The speaking sections of the main certifications for Italian are taken into consideration. A test to evaluate oral ability developed at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is presented.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 2 (2012)
title: The Low-Wage Sector in Germany Is Larger Than Previously Assumed
Creators: name: Grabka, Markus M.
name: Schröder, Carsten
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
subject: I31 General Welfare
subject: I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
subject: Wages
subject: inequality
subject: working-poor
subject: mobility
subject: SOEP

description: The total number of dependent employees in Germany has increased by more than four million since the financial crisis. Part of this growth took place in the low-wage sector. Analyses based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, which in 2017 for the first time include detailed information on secondary employment, show that there were around nine million low-wage employment contracts in Germany that year, around one quarter of all contracts. Women, young adults and employees in Eastern Germany are particularly likely to receive low wages. The legal minimum wage introduced in 2015 is below the low-wage threshold, and thus did not decrease the proportion of low-wage employees, although wages at the bottom-end of the distribution did markedly increase. Wage mobility has hardly changed since the mid-1990s: almost two thirds of employees in the lowest wage category were still there three years later. In order to curtail the low-wage sector, a better and broader qualification of workers, as well as a more proactive wage policy are called for. A reform of the mini-job rules would also be helpful.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 14, S. 117-124
title: Ecological Tax Revenue Still Yields Lower Pension Contributions and Higher Pensions Today
Creators: name: Bach, Stefan
name: Buslei, Hermann
name: Harnisch, Michelle
name: Isaak, Niklas
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
subject: Q52 Pollution Control Adoption Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
subject: Q58 Environmental Economics: Government Policy
subject: H55 Social Security and Public Pensions
subject: D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
subject: Ecological tax reform
subject: pension reform
subject: redistribution

description: The ecological tax reform that Germany implemented between 1999 and 2003 increased energy tax rates—especially on gasoline and diesel. Today, the ecological tax hikes yield an annual revenue of around 20 billion euros or 0.6 percent of GDP. The money is used to finance a higher federal grant to the public pension scheme. Calculations based on a pension simulation model show that the contribution rate to the statutory pension fund is currently 1.2 percentage points lower and pensions 1.5 percent higher than they would be without the currently higher federal subsidies. A microsimulation analysis found that overall, the ecological tax reform is neutral with regard to revenue and burden. For various income groups and social groups, there are certain levels of burden and relief. For example, the reform relieves middle-income households of employees and retired persons who benefit from the public pension scheme. Households with low incomes are actually burdened, as are commuters with long commutes. These distribution effects should be taken into account in a further development of ecological taxes.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 13, S. 107-114
title: Thalamic bilateral stroke in artery of Percheron occlusion: a pictorial review
Creators: name: Scapin, Elisa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review anatomical variants of posterior cerebral circulation such as artery of Percheron, to underline the importance of MRI in detection of vascular thalamic...
LA LINGUA DELLA LETTERATURA MIGRANTE: IDENTITÀ ITALIANA E MAGHREBINA NEI ROMANZI DI AMARA LAKHOUS
Creators: name: Groppaldi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: La letteratura dell’emigrazione in Italia è un fenomeno incidente, seppure ancora piuttosto giovane; si tratta di produzione conseguente al massiccio afflusso di migranti a partire dagli ultimi due decenni del XX secolo. Tra gli scrittori stranieri attivi in Italia, la componente arabofona pare preponderante.

Amara Lakhous è uno degli autori della letteratura della migrazione provenienti dal mondo arabo, maghrebino in particolare, che con i suoi romanzi si è affermato nel panorama della letteratura italiana,  contribuendo a dare uno spaccato delle trasformazioni in senso multiculturale della nostra attuale società. Di grande interesse sono le sue scelte linguistiche che rivelano in maniera evidente l’intenzione di collocarsi come ponte tra la L1 e la L2; un desiderio di istituire un confronto linguistico, una dialettica tra codici in cui né quello di partenza né quello di arrivo siano più come erano prima dell’incontro; una reciproca influenza, un rapporto dinamico dal quale discende l’affermazione dell’identità dei migranti, come quella degli italiani.

The language of literature migrants:

italian and maghreb identity in the novels of Amara Lakhous

The literature of migration in Italy is an accidental phenomenon, still quite new; it is a result of the massive influx of migrants during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Among writers active in Italy, Arabic-speaking writers are especially numerous.

Amara Lakhous is an author who focuses on the literature of migration from the Arab world, Maghreb in particular. His novels have emerged in the panorama of Italian literature, offering a glimpse of the transformation towards our current multicultural society. Of great interest are his linguistic choices that reveal an obvious intention to act as a bridge between L1 and L2, as well as to establish linguistic comparison, a dialectic between codes where neither the starting or ending points are the same as before the meeting. This mutual influence, this dynamic relationship derives from the assertion of both the identities of migrants and Italians.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 2 (2012)
A toy model based analysis on the effect of the Lee-Wick partners in the evolution of the early universe
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Kaushik
name: Das, Suratna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present article the thermodynamic results of the Lee-Wick partner infested universe have been applied in a toy model where there is one Lee-Wick partner to each of the standard model particle and more over the longitudinal degrees of freedom of the massive partners of the standard massless gauge bosons are neglected at high temperatures. For practical purposes, the chiral fermionic sector of Lee-wick theories requires two Lee-Wick partners per fermion which opens up the possibility for a negative energy density of the early universe. A toy Lee-Wick model with one fermionic partner relaxes such oddities and hence easy to deal with. In a similar way, the longitudinal degrees of freedom of the massive gauge boson partners also have the potential to yield negative energy densities and thus those will be neglected in a toy model study. In such a toy model one can analytically calculate the time-temperature relation in the very early radiation dominated universe which shows interesting new physics. The article also tries to point out how a Lee-Wick particle dominated early cosmology transforms into the standard cosmological model. Based on the results of this toy model analysis a brief discussion on the more realistic model, which can accommodate two Lee-Wick partners for each standard fermionic field and the longitudinal degree of freedom of partners of the gauge fields, is presented. It has been shown that such an universe is mostly very difficult to attain but there are certain conditions where one can indeed think of such an universe which can evolve into the standard cosmological universe in a short time duration.
description: v2: 23 pages, 2 figures, Title changed, Accepted for publication in PRD
title: German Economy Remaining Strong amidst Uncertainties: DIW Economic Outlook
Creators: name: Michelsen, Claus
name: Bruns, Martin
name: Clemens, Marius
name: Hanisch, Max
name: Junker, Simon
name: Kholodilin, Konstantin A.
name: Schlaak, Thore
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
subject: E66 General Outlook and Conditions
subject: F01 Global Outlook
subject: Business cycle forecast
subject: ecoomic outlook

description: Although the economic boom in Germany is over, a recession is not looming. The economy is still expected to grow by 1.0 percent this year despite its recent weaker performance. Consumption remains a mainstay of the economy; the average annual increase in the number of employees is likely to be just under half a million. At 1.5 percent, inflation is barely dampening purchasing power and together with fiscal policy stimuli, it will lead to a noticeable increase in private consumption. Foreign demand, on the other hand, is developing moderately due to China’s weakening economy and the fact that the industrial sector is losing momentum in many important export markets. The enormous political risks will dampen corporate investment as well.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 11/12, S. 102-105
Martin's conjecture, arithmetic equivalence, and countable Borel equivalence relations
Creators: name: Marks, Andrew
name: Slaman, Theodore
name: Steel, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: There is a fascinating interplay and overlap between recursion theory and descriptive set theory. A particularly beautiful source of such interaction has been Martin's conjecture on Turing invariant functions. This longstanding open problem in recursion theory has connected to many problems in descriptive set theory, particularly in the theory of countable Borel equivalence relations. In this paper, we shall give an overview of some work that has been done on Martin's conjecture, and applications that it has had in descriptive set theory. We will present a long unpublished result of Slaman and Steel that arithmetic equivalence is a universal countable Borel equivalence relation. This theorem has interesting corollaries for the theory of universal countable Borel equivalence relations in general. We end with some open problems, and directions for future research.
description: Corrected typos
title: Transvaginal Ultrasound and Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound for Diagnosis of Cesarean Scar Pregnancy
Creators: name: Xiong, Wen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To determine the significance of transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the diagnosis of cesarean scar pregnancy...
title: The Global Economy and the Euro Area: Weak International Trade, Robust Domestic Demand: DIW Economic Outlook
Creators: name: Michelsen, Claus
name: Baldi, Guido
name: Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine
name: Engerer, Hella
name: Gebauer, Stefan
name: Rieth, Malte
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
subject: E66 General Outlook and Conditions
subject: F01 Global Outlook
subject: Business cycle forecast
subject: ecoomic outlook

description: The current global economic environment remains harsh. Global growth rates stagnated in the fourth quarter of 2018, particularly affected by foreign trade. DIW Berlin’s forecast indicates global economic growth of 3.7 percent for 2019 and 3.6 percent for 2020. Positive stimuli are expected from catch-up effects (in the European automobile industry, for example) and the continued positive development on the labor markets, which will support consumption. However, the outlook for international trade is dominated by trade conflicts, political uncertainties, and a weaker Chinese economy. Although the trade conflict between the USA and China is beginning to ease, there are signs of a dispute between the USA and the European Union over EU automobile and car part exports to the USA. In Europe, the possibility of a no-deal Brexit and the political situation in Italy are causing uncertainty. Against this backdrop, monetary policy is likely to be expansionary in the forecast period.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 11/12, S. 100-101
«PALPITANTE, RIDENTE, NOSTALGICA, APPASSIONATA»: LA LINGUA DEI DIARI DI ANTONIA POZZI
Creators: name: Sergio, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: L’articolo prende in considerazione i diari della poetessa e fotografa Antonia Pozzi, nata nel 1912 e morta suicida nel 1938. Essi si presentano come particolarmente eterogenei, certo per la tipica “cavità” della forma diaristica, ma anche in ragione delle tre distinte tranches in cui vengono stesi: il Quaderno dal ’25 al ’27; le Note di viaggio nel 1933; il Diario intimo vero e proprio fra il ’35 e l’anno della morte. L’analisi si concentra sulle diverse fisionomie linguistiche dei diari e sulla funzione che Antonia Pozzi affida loro, funzione che è sia esistenziale che poetica. Nel Diario intimo, in particolare, la scrittura infatti si configura da un lato come pharmacon, pur elevandosi volentieri dalle contingenze a questioni filosofiche e letterarie, dall’altro come luogo in cui fissare immagini, riflessioni e impressioni in vista di una futura rielaborazione poetica, come dimostrano precise rispondenze fra gli uni e l’altra.

“Throbbing, laughing, nostalgic, passionate”

language in the diaries of Antonia Pozzi

The article studies the diaries of the poet and photographer Antonia Pozzi, born in 1912 and who committed suicide in 1938. They seem very heterogeneous due to their typical “cavity” form, but also because of their division into three separate sections: there are her notebooks from ’25 to ’27, travel notes from 1933, the intimate diary written between the '35 and the year of her death. The analysis focuses on the different language of the diaries and the functions that Antonia Pozzi gives them, functions that are both existential and poetic. In the intimate diary, in particular, the writing is on the one hand configured as a pharmacon, rising above contingencies to address philosophical and literary issues, but it is also a place to fix images, reflections and impressions in view of a future poetic revision, as shown by the precise correspondences present between them.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 2 (2012)
title: Examining the Impact of the Proposed Rules to Implement Basel III Capital Standards
Creators: name: Admati, Anat
Publisher: name: U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institution and Consumer Credit and Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing, and Community Opportunity
Year: 2012

description: In November 2012, Anat Admati testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institution and Consumer Credit and Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing, and Community Opportunity about the Basel 3 international capital accords and capital regulations for banks.
title: Right ventricle dysfunction, as assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), can predict the non-response to cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT)
Creators: name: Cossa, Stefano
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cardiac Assist Devices

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) reduces mortality and morbidity in selected patients with heart failure (HF); however approximately one third of the implanted patients do not show any benefit from this treatment [1,2]. Thus a number of...
Soil quality index evaluation model in responses to six-year fertilization practices in Mollisols
Creators: name: Zhou, Meng
name: Xiao, Yang
name: Li, Yansheng
name: Zhang, Xingyi
name: Wang, Guanghua
name: Jin, Jian
name: Ding, Guangwei
name: Liu, Xiaobing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Evaluating soil quality is of vital importance to strategize fertilization and management practices for sustaining agricultural productivity. Five fertilization practices were carried out for 6 years under corn-soybean rotation in Mollisols of Northeast China. Two soil quality index models of Nemoro quality index (NQI) and integrated quality index (IQI), and two indicator selection approaches of total data set (TDS) and minimum data set (MDS) were applied for evaluating changes in soil quality index. NQI-MDS, NQI-TDS, IQI-MDS, and IQI-TDS approaches all indicated that six-year crop straw returning and dairy manure application under corn-soybean rotation increase soil quality index at 0–30 cm soil depth. Depended on soil-depth, IQI-MDS is the most suitable soil quality model for evaluating soil quality at 0–10 cm and 10–20 cm, and NQI-MDS at 20–30 cm soil depth. Soil quality index in IQI-MDS at 0–10 cm soil depth is the method to evaluate soybean yield. Integrating crop yield and soil quality index, the six-year organic amendments, especially dairy manure application is the most suitable management practice in promoting soil biochemical, chemical and physical properties under corn-soybean rotation in Mollisols.
title: German Economy Growing despite Uncertainties and Risks; Global Economy Continuing to Cool Down: Editorial
Creators: name: Michelsen, Claus
name: Baldi, Guido
name: Bruns, Martin
name: Clemens, Marius
name: Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine
name: Engerer, Hella
name: Fratzscher, Marcel
name: Gebauer, Stefan
name: Hanisch, Max
name: Junker, Simon
name: Kholodilin, Konstantin A.
name: Rieth, Malte
name: Schlaak, Thore
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019

description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 11/12, S. 97-99
title: DWIBS and PET/CT as a framework using in a homogeneous pediatric group – usual competition and unusual approach in staging Hodgkin lymphoma
Creators: name: Grzelak, Piotr
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Image verification
subject: Staging
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Comparative studies
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Oncology
subject: Radiation physics
subject: MR physics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is the third most common malignancies among children [1]. There are several diagnostic options for the initial staging and restaging of the Hodgkin lymphoma. According to latest European recommendations (EuroNet-Pediatric...
Spin Physics at COMPASS
Creators: name: Schill, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The COMPASS experiment is a fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS using muon and hadron beams for the investigation of the spin structure of the nucleon and hadron spectroscopy. The main objective of the muon physics program is the study of the spin of the nucleon in terms of its constituents, quarks and gluons. COMPASS has accumulated data during 6 years scattering polarized muons off a longitudinally or a transversely polarized deuteron (6LiD) or proton (NH3) target. Results for the gluon polarization are obtained from longitudinal double spin cross section asymmetries using two different channels, open charm production and high transverse momentum hadron pairs, both proceeding through the photon-gluon fusion process. Also, the longitudinal spin structure functions of the proton and the deuteron were measured in parallel as well as the helicity distributions for the three lightest quark flavors. With a transversely polarized target, results were obtained with proton and deuteron targets for the Collins and Sivers asymmetries for charged hadrons as well as for identified kaons and pions. The Collins asymmetry is sensitive to the transverse spin structure of the nucleon, while the Sivers asymmetry reflects correlations between the quark transverse momentum and the nucleon spin. Recently, a new proposal for the COMPASS II experiment was accepted by the CERN SPS which includes two new topics: Exclusive reactions like DVCS and DVMP using the muon beam and a hydrogen target to study generalized parton distributions and Drell-Yan measurements using a pion beam and a polarized NH3 target to study transverse momentum dependent distributions.
description: Proceedings of the Rutherford conference, Manchester, August 2011. Changes due to referees comments implemented
title: Also on Sundays, Women Perform Most of the Housework and Child Care
Creators: name: Samtleben, Claire
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
subject: J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
subject: Unpaid domestic labor
subject: gainful employment
subject: time use
subject: gender care gap

description: Paid and unpaid work are still distributed very unequally between men and women in Germany. Regardless of time restrictions imposed by gainful employment, there is a gender- specific gap in time spent on housework and child care (gender care gap). The total volume of paid and unpaid work on weekdays is roughly the same for men and women (approx. 11 hours), although women perform more unpaid and men more paid work. Also on Sundays, women spend an average of 1.5 hours more on unpaid work, even though almost no gainful work is done—neither by women nor men. In households with children—especially, young children—the gender care gap is particularly wide. Since the unequal distribution of paid and unpaid work negatively affects the financial situation of women, policy measures which support women’s participation in the labor market and encourage men’s participation in housework and child care are important. An example of the latter would be the extension of partner months for the parental leave benefit.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 10, S. 86-92
title: Strong Correlation between Large Gender Pay Gaps and Non-Linear Pay in Certain Occupations
Creators: name: Zucco, Aline
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
subject: J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
subject: J33 Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
subject: J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
subject: J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
subject: Gender Pay Gap
subject: wage distribution
subject: Part Time Gap
subject: occupations

description: The gender pay gap of 21 percent in Germany is partly due to the fact that men and women work in different occupations. However, considerable pay gaps between men and women can also be observed within occupations, although the gap is not constant across occupations. In particular, there is a substantial gender pay gap in occupations with non-linear earnings, i.e. earnings increase non-linearly with the number of hours worked. Additionally, occupations which have a high share of leadership positions exhibit a larger gender pay gap. Occupations at public companies tend to have smaller pay gaps. Changes in the organization of work that allow more flexible working hours and top-sharing (dividing a management position into two part-time positions) could help reducing the gender pay gap. Moreover, collective agreements, which usually apply to public sector employers, could also lead to a reduction in the pay gap.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 10, S. 77-85
title: Role of ultrasound in acute abdomen in children
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Sulafa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Acute

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this poster isto clarify the role of imaging in pediatric cases complaining ofacute abdomenal...
The social experiences of secondary students with intellectual and learning disabilities : school safety, victimization, risk-taking, and feelings of belonging
Creators: name: VandeKamp, Karen Joy Ott
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This study examined the social and behavioural experiences of secondary students (grades 8-12), comparing a school-based sample of 151 adolescents identified with mild intellectual disabilities or specific learning disabilities, and a school- grade-, sex-, and ethnically-matched group of adolescents without disabilities in terms of self-reported victimization, bullying, racial discrimination, gender harassment, sexual imposition, feelings of school safety, and belongingness, as well as engagement in high-risk behaviours (alcohol/drug use, violent behaviour). Results of a series of planned contrasts indicated that adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities and specific learning disabilities did not report greater rates of victimization or bullying, nor did they report lower feelings of school safety or belonging, or engagement in high-risk behaviours (i.e., drug use, alcohol use, violent behavior) than their peers without disabilities. As well, adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities and specific learning disabilities did not differ from each other on these indices. Sex differences were also non-significant. Bi-variate correlations generally indicated that the relationships between victimization, bullying, and associated socio-environmental variables such as school safety, engagement in high-risk behaviours, and feelings of belonging did not significantly differ between students with mild intellectual disabilities and students without disabilities, but did for students with specific learning disabilities. Specifically, findings from this study failed to find a significant association between school belonging and victimization, victimization and alcohol use, victimization and violent behaviour, as well as bullying and alcohol use for students with specific learning disabilities. Sex differences among these relationships were also examined, and for the most part were non-significant. However, there were a few exceptions. Namely, the relationship between feelings of school belonging and victimization was significant for boys with specific learning disabilities, but not for girls. Similarly, the relationship between bullying and drug use was higher for boys without disabilities than it was for girls.
LA LEZIONE
Creators: name: Bosc, Franca
name: Minuz, Fernanda
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: Nella trasmissione del sapere istituzionalizzata nel sistema scolastico, la lezione tiene il posto centrale e attorno ad essa si organizzano le altre fonti di apprendimento.

Vari studi sulla comunicazione in ambito scolastico condotti da diversi approcci disciplinari ne hanno esaminato forme e caratteristiche. Possiamo definire la lezione come un evento comunicativo complesso nel quale, attraverso l’interazione verbale e non verbale tra i partecipanti, si trasmettono conoscenze e si sviluppano competenze, insieme alla consapevolezza dei valori attribuiti socialmente a tali conoscenze e competenze. Nell’interazione della classe, inoltre, si producono e riproducono rapporti e ruoli sociali; si stabiliscono tra i partecipanti relazioni che concorrono alla costruzione delle identità individuali; in essa si attuano, infine, modelli pedagogici, anche se, una volta realizzati, essi possono risultare diversi dalle intenzioni iniziali.

L’articolo esamina la lezione da diverse prospettive − la struttura interazionale, il piano organizzativo, gli aspetti linguistico-comunicativi – che contribuiscono a mettere in luce competenze e conoscenze necessarie ad allievi, allieve e insegnanti per partecipare alla lezione.

The lesson

Lessons are at the center of the institutionalized transmission of knowledge within the school system and all other learning resources are organized around them.

Several studies on communication in schools conducted following various disciplinary approaches have investigated their forms and characteristics. We can define the lesson as a communicative event where, through verbal and nonverbal interaction between participants, knowledge is transmitted and skills are developed, along with the awareness of the social values attributed to such knowledge and skills. Interaction during the lesson, moreover, produces and reproduces relationships and social roles between the participants that contributes to the construction of individual identities.  The implementation of pedagogical models may differ from the original intentions.

The article examines the lesson from different perspectives - the interaction structure, the organization, the linguistic aspects of communication - that help to highlight skills and knowledge necessary for students and teachers to participate in class.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 2 (2012)
An Information-theoretic Quantification of the Content of Information Flow Across Neurons and Brain Areas
Creators: name: Celotto, Marco
name: Tlaie, Alejandro
name: Bìm, Jan
name: De Feo, Vito
name: Chicharro, Daniel
name: Bieler, Malte
name: Hanganu-Opatz, Ileana
name: Donner, Tobias H.
name: Brovelli, Andrea
name: Panzeri, Stefano
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Data analysis, machine learning, neuroinformatics

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
SPERIMENTAZIONE DI UNA PROVA INVALSI: PER COSTRUIRE UN CURRICOLO DI LETTURA
Creators: name: Campagnolo, Augusto
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: Che cosa sono le prove INVALSI? Che cosa valutano e a che cosa servono? E ancora, quale contributo possono offrire alla didattica della lettura? Mentre la scuola italiana è investita da una fase di grandi cambiamenti, docenti e dirigenti devono confrontarsi anche con un nuovo sistema di valutazione che, attraverso le prove Invalsi, sta delineando la scuola del futuro. L’articolo offre un contributo di riflessione sul modello di valutazione proposto dalle prove e aiuta a chiarire il quadro teorico della lettura e comprensione del testo; analizza, infine, una prova di lettura e propone un possibile utilizzo delle prove somministrate di italiano nel curricolo scolastico.

New INVALSI testing: building a curriculum for reading

  What are INVALSI tests? What do they assess and what are they for? And again, what can they contribute to the teaching of reading? Italian schools are undergoing great change, and teachers and administrators are faced with a new evaluation system, the INVALSI tests, which are shaping the future of the school system. The article offers a reflection on the evaluation model proposed by the tests, helping to clarify the theoretical framework for reading and understanding texts and also analyzes a reading test.  Suggestions for a possible way to use the Italian language tests administered as part of the school curriculum are made.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 2 (2012)
title: Italy Must Foster High Growth Industries
Creators: name: Gebauer, Stefan
name: Kritikos, Alexander S.
name: Kriwoluzky, Alexander
name: Mattes, Anselm
name: Rieth, Malte
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Italy
subject: economic structure
subject: growth sectors
subject: innovation
subject: manufacturing
subject: SME
subject: regulatory environment
subject: knowledge-intensive services

description: Italy has yet to recover from the economic consequences of the financial and sovereign debt crisis that began more than a decade ago. In addition to losing 1.4 million jobs across the manufacturing and construction sectors, new industries driving growth across the EU, such as knowledge-intensive services, are instead stagnating in Italy. Previous structural reforms focused on deregulating the labor markets and on restructuring the state budget. Other framework conditions, such as an efficient innovation system or substantial R&D investments, were ignored. Going forward, governmental reforms should focus on creating such growth-friendly conditions for businesses in future-oriented industries. Our own calculations show that increased government spending within the amount provided in the latest draft budget can, in principle, have a positive short-term effect on value added, thus mitigating the adjustment costs of pending reforms. Unfortunately, the current government’s plans barely fulfill these criteria.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 7/8/9 S. 65-74
Superradiance Transition in Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Complexes
Creators: name: Celardo, G. L.
name: Borgonovi, F.
name: Merkli, M.
name: Tsifrinovich, V. I.
name: Berman, G. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We investigate the role of long-lasting quantum coherence in the efficiency of energy transport at room temperature in Fenna-Matthews-Olson photosynthetic complexes. The excitation energy transfer due to the coupling of the light harvesting complex to the reaction center ("sink") is analyzed using an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We show that, as the coupling to the reaction center is varied, maximal efficiency in energy transport is achieved in the vicinity of the superradiance transition, characterized by a segregation of the imaginary parts of the eigenvalues of the effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. Our results demonstrate that the presence of the sink (which provides a quasi--continuum in the energy spectrum) is the dominant effect in the energy transfer which takes place even in absence of a thermal bath. This approach allows one to study the effects of finite temperature and the effects of any coupling scheme to the reaction center. Moreover, taking into account a realistic electric dipole interaction, we show that the optimal distance from the reaction center to the Fenna-Matthews-Olson system occurs at the superradiance transition, and we show that this is consistent with available experimental data.
description: 9 pages