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Investigating Limits in Exploiting Assembled Landslide Inventories for Calibrating Regional Susceptibility Models: A Test in Volcanic Areas of El Sal…

2022

This research is focused on the evaluation of the reliability of regional landslide susceptibility models obtained by exploiting inhomogeneous (for quality, resolution and/or triggering related type and intensity) collected inventories for calibration. At a large-scale glance, merging more inventories can result in well-performing models hiding potential strong predictive deficiencies. An example of the limits that such kinds of models can display is given by a landslide susceptibility study, which was carried out for a large sector of the coastal area of El Salvador, where an apparently well-performing regional model (AUC = 0.87) was obtained by regressing a dataset through multivariate ad…

Revealing the pace of river landscape evolution during the Quaternary: recent developments in numerical dating methods

2016

During the last twenty years, several technical developments have considerably intensified the use of numerical dating methods for the Quaternary. The study of fluvial archives has greatly benefited from these enhancements, opening new dating horizons for a range of archives at distinct time scales and thereby providing new insights into previously unanswered questions. In this contribution, we separately present the state of the art of five numerical dating methods that are frequently used in the fluvial context: radiocarbon, Luminescence, Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), 230Th/U and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides (TCN) dating. We focus on the major recent developments for each technique th…

Celebrities' Memorial Afterlives: Obituaries, Tributes, and Posthumous Gossip in the Romanian Media Deathscape.

2017

Cross-culturally, dead are protected from posthumous negative evaluations by the universal “nil nisi bonum” precept that governs the ethics within the community of mourners. In this study, we set out to test the observance of this injunction against posthumous gossiping in the Romanian public deathscape. Obituaries and other posthumous articles ( N = 1,148) were collected that covered the deaths of 63 celebrities who passed away between 2013 and 2016. Materials were gathered from the digital archives of three Romanian news sources (a news agency, a “quality” newspaper, and a tabloid), published one week after the moment of death. The findings show that 22% of the articles do contain negati…

Bruno Delmas, La société sans mémoire. Propos dissidents sur la politique des archives en France

2011

National audience; Les Archives en France sont souffrantes et seraient en proie à une crise structurelle et conjecturelle. La Direction des archives de France n’aurait plus les moyens de remplir son rôle et le rayonnement des Archives nationales se réduirait comme peau de chagrin. Bref, les archives seraient tombées dans un cercle vicieux dont par méconnaissance et désintérêt personne ne s’émeut aujourd’hui. La France, forte d’une histoire archivistique longue de deux siècles, se préparerait donc un avenir sans devenir.Sur la base de la dialectique de la mémoire et de l’oubli, l’ouvrage se divise en trois parties discutant à leur tour de la mémoire invisible, occultée et retrouvée.

Private archives of noble families from the border Podlasie and Lublin and Lithuania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (The collection of Z…

2016

The primary source of knowledge in the subject careers are documents and files stored in the archives of the once private. Their pieces are among others in the ECR Zygmunt Gloger. Its advantage is a large variety. We find in the genealogical material and economic, excerpts from books municipal and earthly, worldly goods inventories, inventories of movable property, correspondence, and sources resulting from the functioning of the judiciary. Here are excerpts private archives rich in genealogical material and economic. The chronological range of content „Compendium Zygmunt Gloger” includes the era of traditional Polish as well as centuries XIX and XX (l. 1515–1907). Geographically it concern…

"Tea for two": the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages meets the CLARIN infrastructure

2020

This paper aims at showing how integrating the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages (ALIM) into the ILC4CLARIN repository can provide mutual benefits. Making ALIM available to a large community of scholars and researchers, on the one side, represents the first step to reduce the lack of resources for Medieval Latin in CLARIN and, on the other side, constitutes an unprecedented contribution to not only linguistic investigations, but also to the studies of the culture and science at the basis of the Western European society. The paper describes the adopted approach aiming to keep intact the structure of the archive and its metadata, which are both accurately mirrored into the IL…

Document Word Clouds: Visualising Web Documents as Tag Clouds to Aid Users in Relevance Decisions

2009

Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο Information Retrieval systems spend a great effort on determining the significant terms in a document. When, instead, a user is looking at a document he cannot benefit from such information. He has to read the text to understand which words are important. In this paper we take a look at the idea of enhancing the perception of web documents with visualisation techniques borrowed from the tag clouds of Web 2.0. Highlighting the important words in a document by using a larger font size allows to get a quick impression of the relevant concepts in a text. As this process does not depend on a user query it can also be used for explorative search. A user study showed, th…

Guide des archives de l'Internationale Communiste 1919-1943

2009

Association between food insecurity and fall-related injury among adults aged ≥65 years in low- and middle-income countries: The role of mental healt…

2021

Purpose:\ud \ud We investigated the association between food insecurity and fall-related injury among older adults from six low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and the extent to which this association is mediated by mental health.\ud \ud Methods:\ud \ud Cross-sectional, community-based, nationally representative data from the WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) were analyzed. Past 12-month food insecurity was assessed with two questions on frequency of eating less and hunger due to lack of food. Fall-related injury referred to those that occurred in the past 12 months. Multivariable logistic regression analysis and mediation analysis were conducted to assess association…

Mixed-Valence Defect Ferrites : a New Family of Fine Powders and Thin Films of Spinel Ferrites

1997

When highly divided spinel ferrites become reactive enough with oxygen, to allow the oxidation of the Fe 2+ ions at low temperature and of substitute cations too, when these cations are capable of different valence states. We prepared fine particles of spinel ferrites substituted by Mn, Mo, Cu, by chimie douce, especially from oxalate precursors and used them to reveal and to study the oxido-reduction phenomena occurring in these finely divided materials. It was shown that the oxidation created a new family of spinel ferrites : the mixed-valence defect ferrites, having specific characteristics and properties. The ferrites of this type can be fine powders prepared at low temperature, or grou…