Search results for "2008"

Data from: Fine-scale spatial genetic dynamics over the life-cycle of the tropical tree Prunus africana

2014

Studying fine-scale spatial genetic patterns across life stages is a powerful approach to identify ecological processes acting within tree populations. We investigated spatial genetic dynamics across five life stages in the insect-pollinated and vertebrate-dispersed tropical tree Prunus africana in Kakamega Forest, Kenya. Using six highly polymorphic microsatellite loci, we assessed genetic diversity and spatial genetic structure (SGS) from seed rain and seedlings, and different sapling stages to adult trees. We found significant SGS in all stages, potentially caused by limited seed dispersal and high recruitment rates in areas with high light availability. SGS decreased from seed and early…

Suay i Lerma, Ferran, ed. (2008) Psicobiologia de l'esport i de l'activitat física. València. PUV

2008

Approche culturelle en didactique des langues : hommage à Albane Cain

2012

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Una mirada al sector exterior, en la perspectiva de la Gran Depresión

2013

Pocas dudas pueden quedarle a nadie de que la causa última de la Gran Depresión en que se ha sumido la economía española desde el año 2007 en adelante se encuentra en el pinchazo de la burbuja inmobiliaria que se había estado gestando en los doce años anteriores de forma progresivamente acelerada y en los excesos y despropósitos de la construcción de obra civil durante el mismo período. Pero se ha valorado poco aún la magnitud relativa del problema y la multitud de encadenamientos que provocó en el resto de la economía. Estas páginas quieren ser una breve reflexión sobre ello y, a la vez, sobre los caminos de una posible salida de la crisis, particularmente en el sector exterior de la econo…

Il danno non patrimoniale dopo la pronuncia delle Sezioni Unite del novembre 2008

2012

Audiovisual constructs of Paralympic Games : scalarity and camera angle

2014

This research will analyze the variables differentiating between the audiovisual television of the XIII edition of the Paralympic Games and the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, held in Beijing from the 7th of September to the 17th, 2008. This study will serve as a methodological basis for similar future research. By means of a qualitative and quantitative methodology, this study also focuses on determining if TV representations of Paralympic sportspersons favour their social integration or if, on the contrary, lead to higher stigmatization.

The FBN2 gene: new mutations, locus-specific database (Universal Mutation Database FBN2), and genotype-phenotype correlations.

2009

International audience; Congenital contractural arachnodactyly (CCA) is an extremely rare disease, due to mutations in the FBN2 gene encoding fibrillin-2. Another member of the fibrillin family, the FBN1 gene, is involved in a broad phenotypic continuum of connective-tissue disorders including Marfan syndrome. Identifying not only what is in common but also what differentiates these two proteins should enable us to better comprehend their respective functions and better understand the multitude of diseases in which these two genes are involved. In 1995 we created a locus-specific database (LSDB) for FBN1 mutations with the Universal Mutation Database (UMD) tool. To facilitate comparison of …

An Overview of Public Concerns During the Recovery Period after a Major Earthquake: Nepal Twitter Analysis

2016

In responding to disasters, Twitter is extensively used, both for information exchange and mapping the crisis, among citizens, and in relation to national and international humanitarian responders. This paper reports Twitter analysis aimed at identifying the most pressing issues that arose in the short term recovery phase starting about a week after the Nepal earthquake, including the heretofore neglected topic of mismatch between international relief and local cultures. Based on Twitter data collected between April 30th and May 6th 2015. 1,074,864 raw messages apparently related to the Nepal earthquake were retrieved, filtered and analyzed. This exploratory adapts established frameworks fo…

Belief in God, Confidence in the Church and Secularization in Scandinavia

2021

We used the three latest rounds of the religion module of International Social Survey Programme to study secularization in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, focusing on belief in God. We restricted our sample to the affiliated with the majority Protestant churches and the unaffiliated and analyzed the trends toward disaffiliation and disbelief in God. Then, we studied the association between confidence in churches, religious/secular upbringing, and demographic controls with belief in God using multinomial logistic regression models. Our treatment of belief in God as a nominal variable allowed the inclusion of both the element of doubt and different images of God in the analyses. The trends towar…

Increasing the VoIP Capacity through MAP Overhead Reduction in the IEEE 802.16 OFDMa Systems

2010

One of the main issues with supporting VoIP service over 802.16 networks is the signalling overhead caused by the downlink MAP messages due to frequent transmissions and small packets. To decrease the MAP overhead, the 802.16 standard proposes some mechanisms, such as the compressed MAP and sub-MAPs. In this paper, we show by means of extensive dynamic simulations that sub-MAPs can reduce dramatically the signalling overhead associated with VoIP traffic and significantly improve overall VoIP capacity. At the same time, since sub-MAPs are more sensitive to packet drops, they tend to increase the number of HARQ retransmissions in downlink and transmission delays in the uplink direction.