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Cartes et élections : la construction des circonscriptions électorales aux Etats-Unis, entre égalité et équité
2003
Maps and Elections : The Construction of Electoral Districts in the USA. Decennal census-led redistricting in the United States is the occasion for court actions focused nowadays on the political representation of ethnic minorities. Computer tools make possible the building of districts specifically tailored for Blacks or Hispanics, but blatant racial gerrymandering is now rejected by the US Supreme Court. This paper examines the most relevant judicial decisions and describes several local cases.
Comparison of three algorithms of non-invasive markers of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C
2011
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2012; 35: 92–104 Summary Background Preliminary data suggest that performance of non-invasive markers for liver fibrosis in hepatitis C may improve when combined. Three algorithms based on the combination of Fibrotest, Forns’ index and AST-to-platelet ratio (APRI) have been proposed: Sequential Algorithm for Fibrosis Evaluation (SAFE biopsy); Fibropaca algorithm; Leroy algorithm. Aim To compare three algorithms to diagnose significant fibrosis (≥F2 by METAVIR) and cirrhosis (F4). Methods A total of 1013 HCV monoinfected cases undergoing liver biopsy were consecutively enrolled in seven centres. Fibrotest, APRI and Forns’ index were measured at the time of liver bio…
Storie e immagini di una città contraddittoria
2018
Una città “bella e immensa” è, per Idrisi, Palermo. I monumenti, il mare, il monte Pellegrino, “promontorio più bello del mondo” così come definito da Goethe. E poi, la capacità di produrre del nuovo, che nuovo non è, per affermare la sua esistenza superando facilmente il suo essere “luogo di intrighi e imbrogli”. Una città che, nel suo centro storico, si è adeguata al consumismo e che ha lasciato la sua storia al profumo di un hamburger e che è riuscita a dimenticare il senso del suo disegno urbano. According to Idrisi Palermo is a “beautiful and immense” city. Its monuments, the sea, the Mount Pellegrino as Goethe defined it “the most beautiful promontory in the world”. And then, the abil…
Beyond BMI : waist circumference and social environment is associated with motor performance ability in kindergartners
2020
Abstract Background The aim of the current study was to examine the relationship between anthropometric characteristics (i.e. body height, body weight, body mass index [BMI] and waist circumference [WC]) with motor performance ability [MPA], social environmental factors of the district (i.e. employment status/working life, education, social situation/heterogeneity and home environment), where the respective kindergarten was located, as well as other potential health determinants in a representative sample of kindergartners. Methods We analyzed data of 434 children aged 3 to 6 years which were obtained from a community-based cross-sectional health study conducted in the city of Mainz, German…
DENSIFY/SCALE DOWN. THE ARCHIPELAGO AS A RESPONSE
2020
L’incalzare delle disposizioni sanitarie connesse alla recente emergenza amplifica le criticità già espresse dall’evolversi dell’organismo urbano. L’alternanza tra opportune necessità di confinamento degli abitanti in gruppi circoscritti e le politiche di distanziamento sociale disposte ad arginare la diffusione del contagio da un virus tanto letale quanto straordinario propone, nel tempo corrente, una generale riflessione sulla composizione della forma urbis per l’affinamento di grammatiche insediative che, a fronte dell’estensione e della dispersione della città informale del Novecento delinea, di contro, nella concentrazione e nella discontinuità del costruito, nella riconoscibilità di u…
The role of civil society organisations in European responsible research and innovation
2018
EC policy reveals a strong conviction that CSO’s main function in EU-funded research and innovation projects is to take care of the ‘societal perspective’, which would not be adequately represented otherwise. With this, CSOs are supposed to be the main advocates of RRI in project consortia and are supported by all kinds of EC policy measures to fulfil this role. This conviction is not only problematic due to definition problems concerning CSO as such. Empirical data about the role of CSOs in high-tech/high-innovation research projects and the distribution of RRI activities among consortia members reveal that the role of CSOs is much more multi-faceted (data providers, providers of access to…
Law, Borders, and Speech Conference: Proceedings and Materials
2017
Tensions between national law and the Internet’s global architecture have existed since the network’s earliest days. They took on new urgency in recent years, with developments like French regulators’ efforts to globally enforce “Right to Be Forgotten” laws. New cases, technologies, and platform responses seem to come along every few months. Expert-level discussion of these issues is dynamic and fast-moving -- but the written literature is only starting to catch up. This volume contributes to that literature by capturing insights from the Stanford Center for Internet and Society’s Law, Borders, and Speech conference. The event honored the twentieth anniversary of David G. Post and David R. …
Global trends in a fragile context : public–nonpublic collaboration, service delivery and social innovation
2020
PurposeThis study aims to enhance the understanding of the nature of collaboration between public and nonpublic actors in delivering social services and achieving social innovation in a fragile context, with an emphasis on the role of civil society organisations (CSOs). The paper focuses on Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Southeastern European country which has faced a turbulent post-conflict transition and experienced challenges in its social welfare policy and practice.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses institutional theory, particularly new institutionalism and institutional networking, as a lens through which to understand public and nonpublic collaboration and social innovation withi…
Students’ Experiences of Studying Music in Small Groups
2015
Abstract The transition to the group instruction in teaching to play music has created a need to understand the significance of the group in connection with studying to play music. What kind of significance do the students in the class teachers’ adult education give to the group in connection with studying to play music? The aim of this study is to describe and to understand the significance given to the small group by teacher students in connection with studying to play to music, learning in small groups and the challenges and possibilities brought on by the group learning to the pedagogics. The material of the study consists of 17 students’ writings. The writings have been created as answ…
Elements of Language Theory
1988
In this chapter we shall review the mathematical and computer science background on which the presentation in this book is based. We shall discuss the elements of discrete mathematics and formal language theory, emphasizing those issues that are of importance from the point of view of context-free parsing. We shall devote a considerable part of this chapter to matters such as random access machines and computational complexity. These will be relevant later when we derive efficient algorithms for parsing theoretic problems or prove lower bounds for the complexity of these problems. In this chapter we shall also discuss a general class of formal language descriptors called “rewriting systems”…