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Mobilità di genere e attivismo nel Nord Africa post-rivoluzionario. Strategie, sviluppo e sfide

2019

"Emerging Actors in Post-Revolutionary North Africa: Gender Mobility and Social Activism", Anna Maria Di Tolla e Ersilia Francesca (eds), book review, in «Studi magrebini», XIV-XV (2016-2017), vol. I, pp. 452. The review highlights the issues that that book deals with, focusing in particular on gender mobility and social activism in post-revolutionary North Africa. Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt are Study cases of the book that includes papers in English and in French.

Career counselling for women managers at mid‐career

2008

PurposeThis paper aims to provide a framework for career counselling designed particularly to support the career development of mid‐career women managers. This approach is referred to as an autobiographical approach to career counselling. The practical application of the approach is described.Design/methodology/approachThe autobiographical approach draws upon social constructionism and narrativity. It was developed and applied together with 22 women managers. Various methods were used as narration tools.FindingsAt mid‐career, women managers are often in a transition process in their career. They can be expected to benefit from counselling that focuses on their long work experience and from …

A general framework for collecting and analysing the tracking data of cruise passengers at the destination

2016

Cruise passengers’ behaviour at the destination is a rather poorly investigated phenomenon. The single exit/entry point and the relatively brief visiting time, which characterize cruise passengers’ experience at their destinations, make the use of GPS technology particularly suitable for the analysis of such a relevant phenomenon. The aim of this research is to propose a general framework for collecting and analysing GPS tracking data relating to cruise passengers’ behaviour at their destination. The main prerequisites and research stages for the implementation of surveys on cruise passengers will be described and a set of tools and measures for the analysis of GPS tracking data will be pro…

A Gene-Specific Requirement for FACT during Transcription Is Related to the Chromatin Organization of the Transcribed Region

2006

The FACT complex stimulates transcription elongation on nucleosomal templates. In vivo experiments also involve FACT in the reassembly of nucleosomes traversed by RNA polymerase II. Since several features of chromatin organization vary throughout the genome, we wondered whether FACT is equally required for all genes. We show in this study that the in vivo depletion of Spt16, one of the subunits of Saccharomyces cerevisiae FACT, strongly affects transcription of three genes, GAL1, PHO5, and Kluyveromyces lactis LAC4, which exhibit positioned nucleosomes at their transcribed regions. In contrast, showing a random nucleosome structure, YAT1 and Escherichia coli lacZ are only mildly influenced …

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps-Based Modelling of Residential Mobility Dynamics: GeoComputation Approach

2017

International audience; This paper is concerned with proposing a fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) driven approach for geocomputing urban dynamics (social, spatial and temporal) as a complex system. After an overview of FCMs, mathematical fundamentals methodology that this theory suggests are examined. Then, the formalization and algorithm implementation of a model apply to residential mobility in urban space based on FCMs is described. Very good results were obtained, demonstrating that the use of these modelling approach is good and reliable.

Environmental Features Associated With Older Adults' Physical Activity in Different Types of Urban Neighborhoods.

2020

The authors studied associations of nature- and infrastructure-based features with physical activity (PA) in different urban neighborhood types; 848 community-dwelling people aged 75–90 years reported PA and three perceived nature-based destinations and seven infrastructure-based features as outdoor mobility facilitators. Neighborhood type was defined using a geographic information system based on proximity to central service areas and residential density (city center, subcenter, and dense and dispersed areas outside centers). PA was higher in dense areas and the city center. Binary logistic regression showed that perceiving nature-based destinations increased the odds for higher PA in the …

Urban smart mobility in the scientific literature — bibliometric analysis

2018

Abstract This article aims at identification of the main trends in scientific literature characterising urban smart mobility, on the basis of bibliometric analysis of articles published in the ISI Web of Science and Scopus databases. The study period was set from 2000 to 2017. Authors used a basic technique of the bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature characterising urban smart mobility with the support of the VOSviewer software. The analysis included the number of publications, citation analysis, research area analysis and the most frequent keywords. The analysis led to taking notice of current research trends dealing with the urban smart mobility. The core of the paper is a t…

Population Mobility Patterns and Monitoring of COVID-19 Restriction Measures in Latvia

2021

Development and first application of the athlete adaptation inventory: An exploratory study

2020

Geographic mobility has become an essential part of athletes’ career development and athletic migration is rapidly increasing. However, research on psychological aspects of athletes’ transnational mobility is lacking in the literature. In this study we describe the development of the Athlete Adaptation Inventory (AAI) and examine its first application in a sample of 143 professional and amateur elite migrant athletes. In summary, results indicate that cultural adaptation challenges were perceived as slightly difficult. However, female athletes reported more difficulties than male athletes in the sport domain, whereas male and team sport athletes reported more challenges in the non-sport dom…

Modelling the spatial-temporal progression of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic in Chile

2016

A spatial-temporal transmission model of 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic influenza across Chile, a country that spans a large latitudinal range, is developed to characterize the spatial variation in peak timing of that pandemic as a function of local transmission rates, spatial connectivity assumptions for Chilean regions, and the putative location of introduction of the novel virus into the country. Specifically, a metapopulation SEIR (susceptible-exposed-infected-removed) compartmental model that tracks the transmission dynamics of influenza in 15 Chilean regions is calibrated. The model incorporates population mobility among neighboring regions and indirect mobility to and from other regions via th…