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The seasonality of three childhood infections in a pre-industrial society without schools
2021
AbstractBackgroundThe burden of many infectious diseases varies seasonally and a better understanding of the drivers of infectious disease seasonality would help to improve public health interventions. For directly transmitted highly-immunizing childhood infections, the leading hypothesis is that seasonality is strongly driven by social gatherings imposed by schools, with maxima and minima during school terms and holidays respectively. However, we currently have a poor understanding of the seasonality of childhood infections in societies without schools and whether these are driven by human social gatherings. Here, we used unique nationwide data consisting of >40 epidemics over 100 years…
Forty Years of the Philosophy of Education in the Nordic Countries
1997
Abstract The authors of this section's article are of the opinion that the ‘pure’ philosophers in Scandinavia do not usually consider philosophy of education to be a philosophical discipline in line with other ‘hyphenated’ philosophies. They argue that the way that philosophy of education is viewed in the Nordic countries is more like how it is treated in English‐speaking countries, which is different from the German tradition where Bildung is historically both an educational and a philosophical concept. But Nordic contributors to philosophy of education, inspired by the main philosophical trends of the time, have perceived themselves in the last few decades as partakers in the general phil…
Diving into Math with Emmy Noether
2020
Some 100 years ago a notice appeared in the journal of the German Mathematical Society that read: “Dr. Emmy Noether has habilitated as a lecturer in mathematics at Gottingen University.” This quiet announcement was actually the resounding final chord in a long struggle that went on for four years and only ended on June 4, 1919, when Noether joined the Gottingen faculty.
Global consensus recommendations on menopause in the workplace: A European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) position statement
2021
Introduction: Worldwide, there are 657 million women aged 45-59 and around half contribute to the labor force during their menopausal years. There is a diversity of experience of menopause in the workplace. It is shaped not only by menopausal symptoms and context but also by the workplace environment. It affects quality of life, engagement, performance, motivation and relations with employers. Aim: To provide recommendations for employers, managers, healthcare professionals and women to make the workplace environment more menopause supportive, and to improve women's wellbeing and their ability to remain in work. Materials and methods: Literature review and consensus of expert opinion. Summa…
La Gipsoteca del Dipartimento Culture e Società dell'Università degli Studi di Palermo. Storia e catalogo
2017
Il volume presenta, per la prima volta, la storia e il catalogo della Gipsoteca del Dipartimento Culture e Società dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo. Si tratta di un’importante raccolta di calchi in gesso di sculture antiche, voluta da Antonino Salinas (1841-1914) ai tempi del suo magistero accademico e ora completamente riordinata, grazie a un nuovo allestimento curato dallo stesso autore di questo libro. The volume presents, for the first time, the history and catalog of the Gipsoteca of the Culture and Society Department of the University of Palermo. This is an important collection of plaster casts of ancient sculptures, commissioned by Antonino Salinas (1841-1914) at the time of hi…
Simulation of the anomalous social behaviours with a learning model
2010
In this paper our objective is to understand the process of emergence in the study of social behaviours evolution with a learning model. When the system is too complex to study it is important to recreate an artificial universe in which experiments’ simulation can help to understand the mechanisms of human social behaviours. In Previous work we determined the conditions that favour the perpetuity of the Capitalist Globalization, the possibility of its overcoming with a Free Scientific Society and the possibility of the Ecological Hecatomb. In this paper we have theoretically explained the emergence of the anomalous behaviours and developed statistical studies of the conditions that favour t…
Importance of Cultural Capital in the Twenty-First Century Teacher Education in Latvia
2019
The purpose of this research was to investigate the relation between cultural capital and the individual’s cultural and intercultural competence in the contemporary information society. The cultural capital and its accessibility are the most influential factors in the development of cultural competence as a result of arts education. Globalization, integration and social conditions create the necessity to be tolerant, open-minded and helpful, respond flexibly to complex problems and be well prepared for living in a continuously changing environment that has richness of cultural diversity. This article analyses two characterizing aspects of the information society, and the challenges placed u…
In Search of the Metropolitan Dimension
2021
The new settlement phenomena in our territory, linked to current globalisation processes and the increasing complexity of contemporary society, have caused a crisis of the historical boundaries and are creating new planning layouts. In this context, the metropolitan dimension is once again viable, and Italy, with Sicily sometimes experiencing these processes in advance, is reorganising the institutions covering large areas, directing processes and trying out new convergences, under the driving force of new public finance reorganisation policies.
Directing the self-assembly of semiconducting copolymers: the consequences of grafting linear or hyperbranched polyether side chains.
2013
The synthesis and self-assembly of novel semiconducting rod-coil type graft block copolymers based on poly(para-phenylene vinylene) (PPV) copolymers is presented, focusing on the ordering effect of linear versus hyperbranched side chains. Using an additional reactive ester block, highly polar, linear poly(ethylene glycol), and hyperbranched polyglycerol side chains are attached in a grafting-to approach. Remarkably, the resulting novel semiconducting graft copolymers with polyether side chains show different solubility and side-chain directed self-assembly behavior in various solvents, e.g., cylindrical or spherical superstructures in the size range of 10 to 120 nm, as shown by TEM. By adju…
Supramolecular functionalization and concomitant enhancement in properties of Au25 clusters
2014
We present a versatile approach for tuning the surface functionality of an atomically precise 25 atom gold cluster using specific host-guest interactions between ?-cyclodextrin (CD) and the ligand anchored on the cluster. The supramolecular interaction between the Au25 cluster protected by 4-(t-butyl)benzyl mercaptan, labeled Au25SBB18, and CD yielding Au25SBB18�?�CDn (n = 1, 2, 3, and 4) has been probed experimentally using various spectroscopic techniques and was further analyzed by density functional theory calculations and molecular modeling. The viability of our method in modifying the properties of differently functionalized Au25 clusters is demonstrated. Besides modifying their optoe…