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Economic strain and public support for redistribution : a comparative analysis of 28 European countries
2012
Author's version of an article in the journal: Journal of Social Policy. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279412000748 Is public support for redistribution affected by the number of people experiencing economic strain in a country? This question is investigated by comparing twenty-eight countries in the fourth round of the European Social Survey 2008-09 using two-level linear regression models. The results show that individuals reporting economic strain support redistribution more strongly than those who do not experience economic strain. Further, individuals living in countries where many other people report economic strain also support redistribution mo…
Developing and Testing Speaking Skills in Academic Discourse
2014
Teaching speaking is an essential aspect of developing students’ sociolinguistic competence in a foreign language at any level. English studies at the tertiary level offer a variety of courses for practicing speaking and helping students reach the C1 and C2 level in BA and MA studies, respectively. However, it is not only the level that differentiates between BA and MA studies, but also aspects of register and style. Beginning with the subjects generally called Conversation, Speaking, Oral reproduction, Argumentation skills, Debating or Public speaking (BA studies), students gradually advance to Conversation based on academic texts (MA studies). This transition requires students to raise th…
Training Cardiac Surgeons: Safety and Requirements.
2021
To analyze whether cardiac surgical residents can perform their first surgeries without compromising patients' safety or outcomes, by comparing their performance and results to those of senior surgeons. All documented CABGs conducted between 2002 and 2020 were included. Surgeries were divided according to the experience level of the main surgeon (defined by the number of CABG conducted by him/her) using the following thresholds: 1000; 150; 80 and 35. This resulted in 5 groups: senior surgeons (the reference group); attending surgeons; fellow surgeons; advanced residents and new residents. Primary endpoint was 30 day mortality. Secondary endpoints included a list of intra and post-operative …
Eligibility for treatment with omalizumab in Italy and Germany.
2013
Summary Omalizumab is an add-on therapy for patients with uncontrolled severe allergic asthma. In Europe, patients must fulfil a number of additional criteria to become eligible for omalizumab therapy, creating a challenge for epidemiology studies to quantify the potential patient pool. Thus, and in the absence of robust data, the number of omalizumab-eligible patients has remained unclear. To assess eligible patient numbers, a chart-audit design approach was employed to measure epidemiology variables based on patient-level data. 770 patient charts were reviewed in designated towns in Germany and Italy, in collaboration with >200 primary care physicians (PCPs) and respiratory specialists (R…
Tuberculosis Following Lung Transplantation. A 27-Year Spanish Multicenter Experience. Incidence, Presentation, Prevention and Treatment with Rifampi…
2020
Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for solid organ transplant recipients, particularly after lung transplant (LT). Our aim was to determine the impact of TB in LT patients in Spain, considering prevalence, clinical presentation, prevention and therapeutic management. In addition, differences in outcome between rifampicin (RIF) versus non-RIF containing regimens were analyzed. Methods Multicenter, observational retrospective study, including all cases of TB diagnosed in recipients after LT, in five pulmonary transplant units in Spain, between January 1990 and December 2017. Results Among 2962 LT recipients, 45 cases of TB were diagnosed, r…
Boundary Regularity for the Porous Medium Equation
2018
We study the boundary regularity of solutions to the porous medium equation $u_t = \Delta u^m$ in the degenerate range $m>1$. In particular, we show that in cylinders the Dirichlet problem with positive continuous boundary data on the parabolic boundary has a solution which attains the boundary values, provided that the spatial domain satisfies the elliptic Wiener criterion. This condition is known to be optimal, and it is a consequence of our main theorem which establishes a barrier characterization of regular boundary points for general -- not necessarily cylindrical -- domains in ${\bf R}^{n+1}$. One of our fundamental tools is a new strict comparison principle between sub- and superpara…
Reversible normal forms of degenerate cusps for planar diffeomorphisms
1998
Resume Dans cet article on donne des formes normales de germes a l'origine de diffeomorphismes reversibles du plan dont la partie lineaire est unipotente a valeurs propres positives. Le calcul de ces formes normales est base sur des algorithmes de geometrie algebrique effective. On etudie aussi des deformations generiques a k parametres (1 ≤ k ≤ 6).
Existence and uniqueness for a degenerate parabolic equation with 𝐿¹-data
1999
In this paper we study existence and uniqueness of solutions for the boundary-value problem, with initial datum in L 1 ( Ω ) L^{1}(\Omega ) , u t = d i v a ( x , D u ) in ( 0 , ∞ ) × Ω , \begin{equation*}u_{t} = \mathrm {div} \mathbf {a} (x,Du) \quad \text {in } (0, \infty ) \times \Omega , \end{equation*} − ∂ u ∂ η a ∈ β ( u ) on ( 0 , ∞ ) × ∂ Ω , \begin{equation*}-{\frac {{\partial u} }{{\partial \eta _{a}}}} \in \beta (u) \quad \text {on } (0, \infty ) \times \partial \Omega ,\end{equation*} u ( x , 0 ) = u 0 ( x ) in Ω , \begin{equation*}u(x, 0) = u_{0}(x) \quad \text {in }\Omega ,\end{equation*} where a is a Carathéodory function satisfying the classical Leray-Lions hypothesis, ∂ / …
Doubly nonlinear periodic problems with unbounded operators
2004
Abstract The solvability of the evolution system v ′( t )+ B ( t ) u ( t )∋ f ( t ), v ( t )∈ A ( t ) u ( t ), 0 t T , with the periodic condition v (0)= v ( T ) is investigated in the case where A (t) are bounded, possibly degenerate, subdifferentials and B (t) are unbounded subdifferentials.
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2017
Maģistra darba mērķis ir apzināt un apkopot Eiropas līmeņa izpildu dokumentu un to izpildes procesu būtību pārrobežu piedziņas lietās, pētot gan tiesībzinātnieku atziņas, gan pieejamo Eiropas Savienības tiesas un Latvijas Republikas tiesu judikatūru. Maģistra darbā galvenokārt pievērsta uzmanība Eiropas Savienības dalībvalsts tiesas nolēmuma izpildes procesam, efektivitātei un problemātikai, veicot secinājumus un izvirzot priekšlikumus faktiskās un tiesiskās situācijas uzlabošanai. Maģistra darba mērķa sasniegšanai autore izvirzījusi uzdevumus, kuru sasniegšanai nepieciešama padziļināta Eiropas Savienības līmeņa izpildu dokumentu, civillietu un komerclietu jēdzienu izpēte, kā arī veicama vi…