Search results for "Mali"

ALTERARE LA SOCIOLOGIA? RISCHI E PARADOSSI DEI PROCESSI DI “NORMALIZZAZIONE”

2012

La discriminazione per orientamento sessuale e per identità di genere intercetta quell’insieme di stereotipi, rappresentazioni, pregiudizi emotivi e comportamenti orientati a determinare processi di esclusione, condanna, stigmatizzazione, allontanamento, negazione, violenza, nei confronti di ciò che non è inquadrabile nei modelli dominanti di orientamento sessuale e di identità di genere. Il saggio attraverso il riferimento alle prospettive sociologiche di analisi queer fornire una lettura critica dei processi di “legittimazione” della violenza e della discriminazione nei confronti delle persone LGBTQI e di “normalizzazione” delle suddette forme di soggettivazione, nonchè degli effetti norm…

Osakehintojen palautuminen suuren kurssilaskun jälkeen

2000

Chiens chez Modiano: análisis interdisciplinar de la representación animal en su obra

2017

Más que por un animalismo strictu sensu, la obra de Patrick Modiano se caracteriza por un profundo animalismo latente, en consonancia con una escritura minimalista marcada por la atenuación y por la poética de la ambigüedad. La investigación desvela cómo los cuentos de Marcel Aymé aportan a su imaginario de lector infantil un mundo en el que los animales viven y dialogan con una pareja de hermanas con las que el pequeño Modiano se identifica junto a Rudy, su hermano pequeño. Los accidentes que sufrieron dos perros con los que Modiano tuvo relación de niño le hicieron percibir una experiencia de la muerte, que precedió al trauma de la temprana desaparición de Rudy. A la influencia de Aymé se…

Determinants of the interannual relationships between remote sensed photosynthetic activity and rainfall in tropical Africa

2007

International audience; The response of photosynthetic activity to interannual rainfall variations in Africa South of the Sahara is examined using 20 years (1981-2000) of Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) AVHRR data. Linear correlations and regressions were computed between annual NDVI and annual rainfall at a 0.5° latitude/longitude resolution, based on two gridded precipitation datasets (Climate Prediction Center Merged Analysis of Precipitation [CMAP] and Climatic Research Unit [CRU]). The spatial patterns were then examined to detect how they relate to the mean annual rainfall amounts, land-cover types as from the Global Land Cover 2000 data set, soil properties and soil typ…

Strongly Coupled Coherent Phonons in Single-Layer MoS 2

2019

We present a transient absorption setup combining broadband detection over the visible-UV range with high temporal resolution ($\sim$20fs) which is ideally suited to trigger and detect vibrational coherences in different classes of materials. We generate and detect coherent phonons (CPs) in single layer (1L) MoS$_2$, as a representative semiconducting 1L-transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD), where the confined dynamical interaction between excitons and phonons is unexplored. The coherent oscillatory motion of the out-of-plane $A'_{1}$ phonons, triggered by the ultrashort laser pulses, dynamically modulates the excitonic resonances on a timescale of few tens fs. We observe an enhancement by…

Somaliland's investment in peace : analysing the diaspora's economic engagement in peace building

2010

Introduction: Since 1991 the people of Somaliland have successfully established a peaceful and relatively stable state and community. They have managed a process of reconciliation, demobilized the local militias, restored law and order, and held three rounds of peaceful elections. Much of the urban infrastructure and basic social services destroyed during the war (1988-1991) have been re-established. Peace and stability allowed normal patterns of trade and other economic activities to resume, and thousands of refugees came back from neighbouring countries. However, despite being the most stable polity within the territory of the former Somali Republic, Somaliland has not been recognized int…

Diasporic engagement in the educational sector in post-conflict Somaliland : a contribution to peacebuilding

2010

This working paper provides a background to the rebuilding of the educational sector in Somaliland, which had been completely destroyed during the civil war, developed again from very modest beginnings in the early 1990s, and includes manifold offers up to tertiary education a decade later. Arguably, the educational boom in the country is part of the second phase of peacebuilding, which began around 1997 and still continues. It involves extensive diasporic investments in the form of economic and social remittances. The case-study section in the second half of the paper presents two universities founded by diaspora and local actors. These universities are located in quite different regions o…

Diasporas and their role in the homeland conflicts and peacebuilding : the case of Somali diaspora

2010

I began collecting data for this paper almost two years ago at a time when the role of the Somali diaspora was intensely debated both within and outside the country. In these debates the potential contribution of Somali diaspora is presented in two forms. Firstly, within and outside the academic circles, the role of Somali diaspora is described as potential contributors to the ongoing conflict in Somalia and as spoilers. There are several reasons for this assertion. Proponents of this argument see the enormous size of remittances sent by the Somali diaspora to their country of origin coupled with the lack of oversight and absence of monitoring capabilities of these remittances both at the s…

Engagement dynamics between diasporas and settlement country institutions : Somalis in Italy and Finland

2010

This study presents a comparative work on engagement dynamics occurring between the Somali diaspora1 and authorities in two countries of settlement, namely Italy and Finland. The analysis focuses on cooperation dynamics, on the one hand looking at how ‘external actors’ (governmental and non governmental)2 attempt to engage diaspora in development and peacebuilding in Somalia, and on the other hand how the diaspora3 attempts to get support from external actors for their efforts in development and peacebuilding in the country of origin4 The cross country comparison between Somali diaspora engagement strategies in Italy and Finland responds to the following three research questions: . 1. Which…

TISSBERT: A benchmark for the validation and comparison of NDVI time series reconstruction methods

2018

[EN] This paper introduces the Time Series Simulation for Benchmarking of Reconstruction Techniques (TISSBERT) dataset, intended to provide a benchmark for the validation and comparison of time series reconstruction methods. Such methods are routinely used to estimate vegetation characteristics from optical remotely sensed data, where the presence of clouds decreases the usefulness of the data. As for their validation, these methods have been compared with previously published ones, although with different approaches, which sometimes lead to contradictory results. We designed the TISSBERT dataset to be generic so that it could simulate realistic reference and cloud-contaminated time series …