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The Nordic Superintendents’ Leadership Roles: Cross-National Comparison
2013
The chapter focuses on what happens when national education policies meet structures of implementation at the local school district and school levels. Focus is on the position that is subordinated to a municipal committee or board responsible for education. This position is here called superintendent, even if precise titles vary. By focusing on this position, its relation to the political board and the function as superior of principals in the school district, it will be possible to investigate some of the preconditions for learning in the school districts.
The development of national and European identity: A cross-cultural comparison between Italian and Ukrainian children and adolescents.
2008
È ancora possibile il romanzo-saggio?
2018
Questo articolo tenta di rispondere alla domanda circa la possibilità della sopravvivenza della forma letteraria del romanzo-saggio nella letteratura contemporanea. Dapprima, viene proposta una distinzione teorica fra due forme letterarie che combinano narrazione e riflessione: saggio narrativo (ricco di esempi) e romanzo-saggio (la cui persistenza è invece problematica). In secondo luogo, attraverso la lettura parallela di Estensione del dominio della lotta di Michel Houellebecq e La vita degli animali di J. M. Coetzee, vengono avanzate alcune ipotesi teoriche sulla trasformazione del romanzo-saggio e su un suo possibile declino: è invece la fantascienza, si ipotizza, a rivestire oggi il r…
Employment Effects of Skills Around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
2017
Making use of an international survey that directly assesses participants’ cognitive skills, I study the effect of skills on workers’ employment in 32 countries. On average, a one-standard-deviation increase in numeracy skills is associated with a 7.6 percentage points increase in the probability of being employed. Controlling for years spent in education, the employment effect of numeracy skills falls to 4.8 percentage points. Numeracy skills account for 30 percent of the 2.7 percentage points employment effect that is associated with years of education. There is considerable heterogeneity across both subgroups and countries.
R&D Networks Among Unionized Firms
2005
We develop a model of strategic networks in order to analyze how trade unions will affect the stability and efficiency of RD otherwise, the efficient network is the partially connected network. Thus, a conflict between stability and efficiency may occur: efficient networks are pairwise stable, but the reverse is not true. Strong stability even reinforces this conflict. However, once unions settle wages such conflict disappears: the complete network is the unique pairwise and strongly stable network and is the efficient network whatever the spillovers.
Possible association between OPRM1 genetic variance at the 118 locus and alcohol dependence in a large treatment sample: relationship to alcohol depe…
2012
Background Several lines of evidence from previous research indicate that opioid receptors play an important role in ethanol reinforcement and alcohol dependence (AD) risk. Conflicting results were reported on the role of the mu-opioid receptor (OPRM1) polymorphism A118G (Asn40Asp, rs1799971) in the development of alcoholism. Methods We investigated a total number of 1,845 alcohol-dependent subjects recruited from inpatient facilities in Germany and 1,863 controls for the mu-opioid receptor (OPRM1) polymorphism using chi-square statistics. Results An association between the OPRM variant and AD was detected (p = 0.022), in recessive (AA vs. GA/GG) and co-dominant (AA vs. GA) models of inheri…
13P Comparison study of different programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) assays, readers and scoring methods in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)
2021
Comparative study of the determinants of the effectiveness of educational policies of inclusion in France and Cameroon from the point of view of teac…
2014
Considering the fact that inclusive education is an international recommendation (UNESCO, 2008; 2006; 2000; 1994); Framework for Action on Education for All, (2000); Millennium Development Goals (2000), Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)) , educational policies, both in the countries of the North and those in the South , more or less clearly take into account the educational needs of certain groups including children with disabilities. Considering also that teachers appear as key role players in the success of inclusive education related to children with disabilities (Asrat Dagnew, 2013), (Ngo Mélha, 2013; 2011), ( Kabano , 2001); Bothma M. & al.,2000) , it is judi…
Design Optimization Automation for Luminaire Reflectors Using COMSOL Multiphysics and Performance Comparison Against Zemax Opticstudio
2019
This work showcases the complete design pipeline based on COMSOL Multiphysics for one of the luminaire models manufactured by Vizulo. Generation of optimization targets, ray tracing models and utilized optimization algorithms are described. The authors also evaluate the performance of COMSOL against Zemax OpticStudio Premium, a specialized optics design suite widely used by the optics industry. Out-of-the-box version of both packages are tested: ray tracing and optimization performance are compared. It is found that, while OpticStudio' ray tracer is by far superior, OpticStudio is greatly outperformed by COMSOL in optimization tasks for considered problems. Other aspects of both packages ar…