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Individual differences in selective attention predict speech identification at a cocktail party
2016
Listeners with normal hearing show considerable individual differences in speech understanding when competing speakers are present, as in a crowded restaurant. Here, we show that one source of this variance are individual differences in the ability to focus selective attention on a target stimulus in the presence of distractors. In 50 young normal-hearing listeners, the performance in tasks measuring auditory and visual selective attention was associated with sentence identification in the presence of spatially separated competing speakers. Together, the measures of selective attention explained a similar proportion of variance as the binaural sensitivity for the acoustic temporal fine stru…
Intra-party heterogeneity in policy preferences and its effect on issue salience: Developing and applying a measure based on elite survey data
2017
Quantitative research on party politics often has to assume that parties are unitary actors with homogeneous policy preferences simply because intra-party heterogeneity is difficult to measure. This article proposes a measure of preference heterogeneity based on surveys of party elites. We draw on Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS) data from 28 elections in 21 developed democracies to quantify intra-party heterogeneity and validate this measure. The usefulness of the measure is demonstrated by studying the effects of intra-party heterogeneity on issue salience. We find support for the hypothesis that heterogeneity regarding a policy issue tends to be negatively associated with the emphasi…
Entrepreneurial Opportunities Created by Electronic Grocery Shopping
2000
Current trading of daily consumer goods, groceries, is based on large chain masters as co-ordinators and extensive use of small companies as subcontractors, stores as customer front-ends and self-service as means for picking-up and home delivery of the goods. Our research aims at sketching what will be their role in the age of Internet storefronts and seamlessly interlinked information system. We use task analysis to reveal the areas of opportunities created for entrepreneurs by changing industry operations and structure. The analysis is based on literature on entrepreneurs, explorative survey on EGSs (Electronic Grocery Shops) around the world on the Internet, and on the experiences of the…
Scaffolds based on hyaluronan crosslinked with a polyaminoacid: Novel candidates for tissue engineering application
2008
New porous scaffolds, with a suitable hydrolytic and enzymatic degradation, useful for tissue engineering applications have been obtained by a carbodiimide mediated reaction between hyaluronan (HA) and a synthetic polymer with a polyaminoacid structure such as α,β-polyaspartylhydrazide (PAHy). Scaffolds with a different molar ratio between PAHy repeating units and HA repeating units have been prepared and characterized from a chemical and physicochemical point of view. Tests of indirect and direct cytotoxicity, cell adhesion, and spreading on these biomaterials have been performed by using murine L929 fibroblasts. The new biomaterials showed a good cell compatibility and ability to allow ce…
Finnish Franchisee Training Program — Findings from the First Ten Programs 1999–2001
2004
The Finnish franchisee training program is a unique training because it is given to prospective franchisees by a third party. The program aims to find people interested in franchising and to give them the essential skills and knowledge a franchisee needs. Additional goal is to help the trainees to choose a franchise. In total, more than 200 trainees graduated from the first ten programs held in 1999–2001. The graduates comprise the samples of the current study. The data was collected in two separate phases. The present study explores the potential differences of the samples. The purpose of the research is to analyze the effectiveness of the franchisee training program by describing the care…
Young Scottish National Party (SNP) Members’ National Identity and Party Membership
2021
Scotland’s future in the United Kingdom seems to be uncertain. Even though a majority of Scottish people voted to remain in the UK in 2014, the EU referendum two years later fuelled the independence movement in Scotland. Scholars show that the Scottish independence referendum encouraged people to join political parties, particularly the Scottish National Party. This work focuses on young people. Party membership scholars agree that they are underrepresented in parties. Given that the SNP seem to be rather successful in appealing to young people, this thesis explores SNP youth membership and the reasons why young Scots make the decision to join the party. It shows that Scottish independence …
La politica per le donne : Nilde Iotti e l’impegno per l’emancipazione femminile
2021
The contribution aims to retrace some particularly significant moments of the commitment of Nilde Iotti in promoting women’s rights. Iotti, a founding mother of the Republic and prominent figure of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), fought for the democratization of Italian society through women’s emancipation. This essay focuses on Iotti’s public role and political action from the election to the Constituent Assembly (1946) until the late Seventies. In 1979, indeed, Nilde Iotti - the “Lady of the Republic” – was elected President of the Chamber, as a result of a life devoted to political engagement. In particular, the focus of the essay is on Iotti’s major effort in supporting family trans…
Eiropas Savienības un Ziemeļkorejas attiecības: Kima Čonina loma attiecību noteikšanā starp Eiropas Savienību un Ziemeļkoreju.
2015
Kopš 2001. gada Eiropas Savienība ir mēģinājusi uzturēt formālas attiecības ar Ziemeļkoreju, lai palīdzētu tās ekonomiskajai attīstībai un uzlabotu iekšzemes apstākļus. Tomēr attiecības nav izvērtušās pozitīvas, galvenokārt Ziemeļkorejas veiktās kodolprogrammas dēļ. Pavisam nesen Ziemeļkoreja piedzīvoja vadības maiņu līdz ar ģimenes diktatūru un neatbildēts ir jautājums, vai tas ir ietekmējis attiecības starp Eiropas Savienību un Ziemeļkoreju. Galvenais darba mērķis ir definēt attiecības starp Eiropas Savienību un Ziemeļkoreju divu dažādu periodu laikā (vadītāji Kims Čerins un Kims Čonins) un saprast vai tās ir mainījušās. Hipotēze apgalvo, ka vadības maiņas dēļ, attiecības starp ES un Ziem…
Budżet obywatelski – analiza porównawcza Gorzowa Wielkopolskiego i Opola
2020
Pojęcie budżetu obywatelskiego jako szczególnej formy konsultacji społecznych zostało wprowadzone do ustawy o samorządzie gminnym dopiero w 2018 r. Mieszkańcy danego miasta są corocznie decydentami w zakresie części wydatków budżetu gminy. Przykładem dobrych praktyk są omawiane w niniejszym artykule Opole, gdzie rozwiązanie to wprowadzono w 2014 r. (I edycja budżetu na 2015 r.) oraz Gorzów Wielkopolski, który wprowadził budżet obywatelski już w 2012 r. (I edycja budżetu na 2013 r.). W artykule wskazano na podobieństwa i różnice proceduralne wynikające z regulaminów budżetów obywatelskich obu miast, a następnie przedstawiono podział środków finansowych w ramach budżetów oraz kategorie zadań …
Multi-party metering: An architecture for privacy-preserving profiling schemes
2013
Several privacy concerns about the massive deploy- ment of smart meters have been arisen recently. Namely, it has been shown that the fine-grained temporal traces generated by these meters can be correlated with different users behaviors. A new architecture, called multi-party metering, for enabling privacy-preserving analysis of high-frequency metering data without requiring additional complexity at the smart meter side is here proposed. The idea is to allow multiple entities to get a share of the high-frequency metering data rather than the real data, where this share does not reveal any information about the real data. By aggregating the shares provided by different users and publishing …