Search results for "imitation"

Two faces of internationalisation of administrative policy : between government innovation and transgovernmental imitation

2004

Whereas domestic public policy is increasingly penetrated by international governmental organisations, domestic government institutions seem less adaptive. This puzzle triggers the following question: To what extent is the internationalisation of domestic administrative policy moulded by domestic government? Put more starkly, how intimate relationships exist between domestic government decision-making and domestic policy? The paper outlines one organisation theory perspective emphasising a tight coupling of ministerial decision-making and administrative policy, and one supplementary perspective advocating a loose coupling of government decision-making and administrative policy through trans…

Editorial: Reaching to Grasp Cognition: Analyzing Motor Behavior to Investigate Social Interactions

2018

Early signs of mobility decline and physical activity counseling as a preventive intervention in older people

2010

The Hungarian writer of the Lost Time : memory and poetical imitation in Krúdy Gyula’s work

2015

Gyula Krúdy’s (1878-1933) oeuvre admittedly represents a peculiar kind of conundrum within the confines of literary modernism in Hungarian literature. While the most significant authors of the early 20th century drew inspiration from Western European literary forms and preferred to distance their works from previous prose traditions, Krúdy’s fiction remained closely linked to those narrative forms inherent to 19th century Hungarian prose. His motive for continuing to use these narrative forms did not stem from a blind desire to follow tradition, but rather originated from a conscious effort to renew and reform the heritage bequeathed upon him by past authors. Thus, the strange dichotomy tha…

Executive function and life-space mobility in old age

2018

Life-space assessment incorporates all movements in terms of the distance from home, the frequency of movement and the need of assistance for movement. Executive function (EF) is an important higher order cognitive ability that controls and guides people’s goal-directed actions. We examined the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between EF and life-space mobility, and investigated if perceived walking difficulties, lower extremity performance, and transportation difficulties explain the association. Methods 157 community-dwelling persons aged 76–91 years participated in the study at the baseline, and 103 of them in 2-year follow-up study. Based on the distribution on the Trail Ma…

The combined effect of lower extremity function and cognitive performance on perceived walking ability among older people : a 2-year follow-up study

2018

Background We studied the combined effects of cognitive performance and lower extremity function on self-reported walking modifications and walking difficulty and on self-reported walking difficulty incidence over a 2-year follow-up. Methods A total of 848 community-dwelling older people aged 75-90 years participated at baseline, 816 at the 1-year follow-up, and 761 at the 2-year follow-up. Baseline lower extremity function was measured with the Short Physical Performance Battery (<10 vs. ≥10) and cognitive performance with the Mini-Mental State Examination (<24 vs. ≥24). Difficulty in walking 2 km was self-reported and categorized into no difficulties, no difficulties but walking modificat…

Do mobility, cognitive functioning, and depressive symptoms mediate the association between social activity and mortality risk among older men and wo…

2013

Social activity and health correlate in old age, but less is known about what explains this association. The aim of this study was to investigate whether mobility, cognitive functioning, and depressive symptoms mediate the association between social activity and mortality risk, or whether they alternatively should be considered as prerequisites for social activity in older Finnish men and women. In 1988, 406 men and 775 women aged 65–84 years took part in face-to-face interviews about their health, socioeconomic status, and social activities. Confirmatory factor analyses were used to form latent variables describing collective and productive social activity. Latent variable models were used…

La garanzia nella vendita: durata e fatti costitutivi delle azioni edilizie

2020

Il saggio affronta il tema dell'onere della prova e del decorso del termine di prescrizione in materia di azioni edilizie nella vendita. L'analisi tenta di dimostrare che la soluzione di entrambe le questiono non può prescindere dall'esatta concettualizzazione della garanzia nella vendita come figura giuridica dell'attribuzione di utilità senza cooperazione. La garanzia risulta, quindi, caratterizzata da un'attribuzione rafforzata di utilità al compratore e ciò non può non ripercuotersi sia sull'onere della prova sia sull'inizio del decorso del termine di prescrizione. The essay addresses the issue of the burden of proof and the expiry of the limitation period for the claim in the field of …

Garanzia per vizi nella vendita e tempo: il nodo della durata e della prescrizione

2022

Il saggio affronta il tema della durata e del decorso del termine di prescrizione in materia di azioni edilizie nella vendita. Il saggio muove da un recente orientamento della Corte di cassazione e mira a dimostrare che il nodo dell'incidenza del tempo nella garanzia per vizi non possa essere sciolto se non sulla base dell'esatta concettualizzazione della garanzia nella vendita come figura giuridica dell'attribuzione di utilità senza cooperazione. La garanzia risulta, quindi, caratterizzata da un'attribuzione rafforzata di utilità al compratore e ciò non può non ripercuotersi sull'inizio del decorso del termine di prescrizione. The essay deals with the issue of the duration and expiry of th…

Maantieteelliset piirteet ja iäkkäiden henkilöiden liikkuminen ulkona (GEOage)

2021

This dataset is part of the “Geographic characteristics, outdoor mobility and physical activity of older people” (GEOage) project, in which freely available geographic information characterizing the environment is linked to participant data of the “Life-space mobility in old age” (LISPE) cohort comprising 75–90-years-old community-dwelling people living in Jyväskylä and Muurame in Central Finland (n=848). The GEOage dataset contains variables of environmental characteristics of participants' environment within 500 or 1000 m from home. The dataset comprises variables related to characteristics of nature (hilliness, nature and green areas, waterside areas) and built environment (land use, nei…