Search results for "ROA"

The hidden burden of severe asthma: from patient perspective to new opportunities for clinicians

2020

Severe asthma is an important topic in respiratory diseases, due to its high impact on morbidity and mortality as well as on health-care resources. The many challenges that still exist in the management of the most difficult-to-treat forms of the disease, and the acknowledgement of the existence of unexplored areas in the pathophysiological mechanisms and the therapeutic targets represent an opportunity to gather experts in the field with the immediate goals to summarize current understanding about the natural history of severe asthma and to identify gaps in knowledge and research opportunities, with the aim to contribute to improved medical care and health outcomes. This article is a conse…

Sex Differences in the Physiological Network of Healthy Young Subjects

2021

Within human physiology, systemic interactions couple physiological variables to maintain homeostasis. These interactions change according to health status and are modified by factors such as age and sex. For several physiological processes, sex-based distinctions in normal physiology are present and defined in isolation. However, new methodologies are indispensable to analyze system-wide properties and interactions with the objective of exploring differences between sexes. Here we propose a new method to construct complex inferential networks from a normalization using the clinical criteria for health of physiological variables, and the correlations between anthropometric and blood tests b…

Effects of shallow hydrothermal vents on macroalgal communities

2011

Limits to Arbitrage and Interest Rates: a Debate Between Keynes, Hawtrey and Hicks

2018

International audience; This paper deals with a debate between Hawtrey, Hicks and Keynes concerning the capacity of the central bank to influence the short-term and the long-term rates of interest. Both Hawtrey and Keynes considered the central bank’s ability to influence short-term rates of interest. However, they do not put the same emphasis on the study of the long-term rates of interest. According to Keynes, long-term rates are influenced by future expected short-term rates (1930, 1936), whereas for Hawtrey (1932, 1937, 1938), long-term rates are more dependent on the business cycle. Short-term rates do not have much effect on long-term rates according to Hawtrey. In 1939, Hicks enters …

Modeling the shrub encroachment in the Northern Chihuahuan desert Grasslands using a Cellular Automata model

2014

The system of protected areas as the core element in a new vision of the Metropolitan City of Palermo

2022

Un processo di urbanizzazione può certamente essere considerato una delle più significative alterazioni antropiche del sistema ambientale in un territorio. Il presente studio vuole comprendere le caratteristiche spaziali della crescita urbana e i suoi impatti sulle componenti ambientali nella Città Metropolitana di Palermo, un'area in cui i livelli di consumo di suolo inedificato e di pregio, e le conseguenti forme di frammentazione ambientale e territoriale, rischiano di compromettere non solo il valore paesaggistico-ambientale dei territori coinvolti ma anche la loro identità. Partendo da queste premesse, questo contributo esplora il rapporto di reciprocità tra ambiente costruito e territ…

“Congratulations, you’re on TV!”: Middle-space performances of live tweeters during the FIFA World Cup

2018

Social television has transformed the traditional role of the television viewers by providing ‘ordinary people’ access to the public stage. This article describes how public access to television affected the dialogues of Finnish tweeters on Twitter during the massive media event of the FIFA World Cup. Through the lens of digital conversation analysis, the study shows how the media publicity of tweets changed the direction of the interaction between tweeters and transformed their roles vis-à-vis the television show, making one of them into a ‘media flasher’ and the others viewers of his or her performance. The publicity was constructed as important through noticings, congratulations, and com…

EDM and Ecstasy : the lived experiences of electronic music festival attendees

2016

This study aimed to provide a comprehensive exploration of the lived experiences of individuals who attended a multi-day electronic dance music festival. The present study was primarily interested in the perceived beneficial changes within the individual, following their festival experience. As well, we investigated if first time festival attendees perceived changes differed to those of returning individuals. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were used to collect data from 12 individuals who attended the 2015 Electronic Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. Six participants were first-time attendees while the remaining 6 were individuals returning to the festival. The data was analysed using th…

Evaluating environmental and social impacts of a transit oriented development scenario based on a fractal approach

2014

International audience

Ślady (nie)pamięci o Porajmosie. Kulturowa mapa romskiego holokaustu w Serbii i Chorwacji

2019

Giergiel and Taczyńska explore the memory of the Romani Holocaust (Porajmos) in the countries of former Yugoslavia (Serbia and Croatia). The memory of Porajmos is considered here as a social and cultural construct that has a history typical for a particular country/region; however, this subject is commonly marginalized, both in historiography and in cultural texts. Giergiel and Taczyńska examine the causes of Porajmos (social group discrimination, specificity of cultural code, historical discrimination) and the reasons for the absence of memory (mute memory) of Porajmos. The overview of Porajmos research in the post-Yugoslavarea and the discussion of commemorative practices related to the R…