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Transfers of care between healthcare professionals in obstetric units of different sizes across spain and in a hospital in Ireland: The midconbirth s…

2020

Background: In Europe, the majority of healthy women give birth at conventional obstetric units with the assistance of registered midwives. This study examines the relationships between the intrapartum transfer of care (TOC) from midwife to obstetrician-led maternity care, obstetric unit size (OUS) with different degrees of midwifery autonomy, intrapartum interventions and birth outcomes. Methods: A prospective, multicentre, cross-sectional study promoted by the COST Action IS1405 was carried out at eight public hospitals in Spain and Ireland between 2016&ndash

Effectiveness of Private and Public High Schools: Evidence from Finland

2019

Abstract A number of papers have compared the effectiveness of private and public schools in different institutional settings. However, most of these studies are observational and do not utilize experimental or quasi-experimental design to evaluate the value-added or the effectiveness of private schools in comparison to public schools. This study focuses on private and public high schools in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland. We use two different methods to compare private and public schools, value-added estimation and regression discontinuity design (RDD). Although based on somewhat different assumptions, both methods allow us to evaluate the causal effect of private schools on the exi…

G. Herglotz’ Behandlung von Beschleunigungswellen in seiner Vorlesung «Mechanik der Kontinua» angewandt auf die Stosswellen von Christoffel

1981

Following a lecture delivered by Herglotz in 1925/26 we briefly treat acceleration waves in hyperelastic materials. Our main result is a divergence equation for the squared Euclidean norm of the so-called ‘wave vector’. We then apply Herglotz’ method (devised for acceleration waves) to the propagation of such first order discontinuities in elastic bodies as were treated by Christoffel in [1].

Pētera Ķiķaukas referāts bēgļu nometnē Vācijā 1947. gada 18. novembrī

1947

Referāts par godu Latvijas Republikas neatkarības proklamēšanas dienai 1947. gada 18. novembrī bēgļu nometnē Vācijā, kur Pēteris Ķiķauka uzturējās ar savu ģimeni, pirms izceļošanas uz Kanādu. Referātā tiek apskatīts latviešu tautas un Latvijas valsts liktenis pagātnē un nākotnē.

Words for Expressing What We Care About. The Continuity and the Exteriority of the Heritage Experience

2014

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New insights into the reading of Paleozoic plant fossil record discontinuities

2011

Studying the discontinuity patterns of Paleozoic vascular plants provides a global vision of these key events from the multivariate methods viewpoint. Non-metric multidimensional scaling, detrended correspondence analysis and cluster analysis have been employed together with a set of diversity and abundance measures and an evaluation of the geologic constraints from the plant fossil record data. The results reveal four clear significant discontinuities in terms of taxonomic composition and record representativeness during the early-middle Devonian, Devonian–Carboniferous, Mississippian–Pennsylvanian and early-late Permian. Due to the controversial character of the plant fossil record data a…

Extremal length and Hölder continuity of conformal mappings

1986

Towards nonlocal density functionals by explicit modelling of the exchange-correlation hole in inhomogeneous systems

2013

We put forward new approach for the development of a non-local density functional by a direct modeling of the shape of exchange-correlation (xc) hole in inhomogeneous systems. The functional is aimed at giving an accurate xc-energy and an accurate corresponding xc-potential even in difficult near-degeneracy situations such as molecular bond breaking. In particular we demand that: (1) the xc hole properly contains -1 electron, (2) the xc-potential has the asymptotic -1/r behavior outside finite systems and (3) the xc-potential has the correct step structure related to the derivative discontinuities of the xc-energy functional. None of the currently existing functionals satisfies all these re…

Persistence of temperature and precipitation: from local to global anomalies

2021

Using detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) we find that all continents are persistent in temperature. The scaling exponents of the southern hemisphere (SH) continents, i.e., South America (0.77) and Oceania (0.72) are somewhat higher than scaling exponents of Europe (0.70), Asia (0.69) and North America (0.64), but the scaling of Africa is by far the highest (0.86). The reason for this is the location of Africa near the equator. The scaling exponents of the precipitation are much smaller, i.e. between 0.55 (Europe) and 0.68 (North America). The scaling exponent of Europe is near that of the random noise (0.5), while the other continents are slightly persistent in precipitation. We also show…

Frutto di un «comune sentire»? Presunte «sopravvivenze» di culti demetriaci nel folklore mariano

2018

Sulla diffusione dei culti demetriaci largamente documentata da testimonianze materiali e, di converso, sulle attestazioni mitografiche di una antica relazione cultuale tra la Sicilia, il frumento e le dee Demetra e Core, si fondano le letture di certe pratiche e credenze cultuali mariane siciliane e, segnatamente, ennesi (stante le indicazioni geografiche desunte dai miti), come realtà culturali direttamente discese dal passato greco. Il tema delle continuità, dei sincretismi pagano-cristiani, segnatamente di quelli tra più o meno remote e definite divinità pre-cristiane e le Sante e i Santi, e le Madonne e i Cristi, tanto caro ai folkloristi d’ogni tempo e d’ogni tenore e, quale esotico a…