scholarly journals The Dello Scompliglio Project and Camera #3 (Chamber 3

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Broadhurst
Keyword(s):  
Review Paper ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Digital Performance ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
The One

This Perspectives’ (or Review) paper focusses on the interdisciplinary, communal artproject: Dello Scompliglio and one of its multi-layered, hybridised artprojects presented  there, titled: Camera# 3 (Chamber 3). I visited both the project spaces and some of the externalart projects including the one above during a visit to Lucca in June, 2021. Theaim of the Association is to offer to musicians, performers, installationartists and dancers the possibility to create their work in an outdoorenvironment and recreate this as a transmutation in the performance andexhibition spaces. I found the range of creative art topics covered, which areaimed at varying age groups, to be fascinating and very relevant tocontemporary experimental and digital performance.

Spearman's Law of Diminishing Returns

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Principal Axis ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Diminishing Returns ◽  
The One ◽  
Armed Services ◽  
Principal Axis Factor

Spearman's Law of Diminishing Returns (SLODR) with regard to age was tested in two different databases from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The first database consisted of 6,980 boys and girls aged 12–16 from the 1997 cohort ( NLSY 1997 ). The subjects were tested with a computer-administered adaptive format (CAT) of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) consisting of 12 subtests. The second database consisted of 11,448 male and female subjects aged 15–24 from the 1979 cohort ( NLSY 1979 ). These subjects were tested with the older 10-subtest version of the ASVAB. The hypothesis was tested by dividing the sample into Young and Old age groups while keeping IQ fairly constant by a method similar to the one developed and employed by Deary et al. (1996) . The different age groups were subsequently factor-analyzed separately. The eigenvalue of the first principal component (PC1) and the first principal axis factor (PAF1), and the average intercorrelation of the subtests were used as estimates of the g saturation and compared across groups. There were no significant differences in the g saturation across age groups for any of the two samples, thereby pointing to no support for this aspect of Spearman's “Law of Diminishing Returns.”

Older workers in the Russian labor market: Trends in employment reallocation

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-34
Author(s):  
Anna L. Lukyanova ◽  
Rostislav I. Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Intellectual Labor ◽  
Market Trends ◽  
Trade Education ◽  
The One

The paper analyzes changes in job opportunities of older workers in Russia in the period 2005—2017. The study uses the data from the Russian Labor Force Survey conducted by Rosstat. Changes in the occupational and industrial composition of elderly workers follow the trends pursued by other age groups: employment shifts from low- to high-skilled occupations, from physical to intellectual labor, and from material production to the service sector. We find a stronger polarization among older workers as their occupational structure is biased in favor of, on the one hand, the most and, on the other hand, the least qualified types of jobs. Employment of the elderly has fallen sharply in agriculture and manufacturing with a significant increase in trade, education, and health. Although the employment structure of older workers is generally more “traditionalist”, recent decades have witnessed its transformation in “progressive” directions, similarly to other age groups. These findings suggest that the legislated increase in the state retirement age is not likely to give rise to sizeable unemployment among the elderly. Most of them will be able to work in the occupations and industries previously dominated by young and prime-age workers.

The role of prosody in morphological change: The case of Hebrew bound numerals

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irit Meir
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Grammaticality Judgments ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Modern Hebrew ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One

AbstractThe morphological system of cardinal numerals in Modern Hebrew is currently undergoing rapid changes, enabling linguists to unravel the forces shaping the change as it takes place. In the free forms, gender marking on numerals is neutralized by collapsing both masculine and feminine forms into one paradigm, the feminine paradigm. In the bound (definite) forms, an opposite direction is attested, in that at least for some numerals, the masculine forms become more prevalent. The study reported here aims to determine whether the factor determining the change is prosodic or functional in nature, by eliciting production and grammaticality judgments of noun phrases containing bound numerals from five different age groups of native speakers. The results suggest that prosody plays a role in shaping the change, as forms with penultimate stress are favored over those with ultimate stress. In addition, processes of production and processes of grammaticality judgments seem to be subject to different kinds of constraints. This state of affairs indicates that the tension between the tendencies toward simplification on the one hand and maximal distinctness on the other occurs at the morphological level as well.

scholarly journals Overtourism: Between the Right to Travel and Residents’ Rights

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Perkumienė ◽  
Rasa Pranskūnienė
Keyword(s):  
Review Paper ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Review Analysis ◽  
Preliminary Work ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

Debates on overtourism, as a challenging phenomenon, are becoming more and more active. The purpose of this integrative review paper is to discuss the right to travel and residents’ rights in the context of overtourism and sustainable tourism, analyzing different scientific and legal sources. The integrative review analysis shows that overtourism and sustainable tourism are important contexts influencing the changing meaning of the right to travel and the right to live. On the one hand, the overtourism context makes the voices of residents more important to be heard, while on the other hand the sustainable tourism context influences the discussion of the right to travel, asking tourist voices to be considered more important. The results of this integrative review also shows the importance of rethinking the concept of sustainability in tourism as a holistic principle of democracy and as a degrowth movement, and opens the broader discussion for future tourism research development. The problem of overtourism could be solved by striving to develop sustainable tourism goals, thus balancing equality between the right to travel and residents’ rights. The presented integrative review paper is a preliminary work; further research is needed in order to find possible concrete solutions for overtourism.

scholarly journals Innovative design and simulation of clothing products for children with atypical changes in conformation and posture

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (01) ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
POPESCU GEORGETA ◽  
NICULESCU CLAUDIA ◽  
OLARU SABINA
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
The Body ◽  
Virtual Simulation ◽  
Simulation And Modeling ◽  
Anthropometric Data ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
3D Simulations ◽  
The One ◽  
Product Verification

The paper presents the design stages of clothing products for children with atypical changes in conformation and posture and the virtual simulation and modeling for the body-product verification. The design technology is an innovative one that allows obtaining the customized patterns by made-to-measure method applied to standardized patterns for all age groups of children, selecting the one corresponding to the typo-dimension of studied subject. The large number of existing anthropometric data and viewing virtual body allows the identification of areas of the body that shows changes in conformation and posture and provides information to the designer and pattern technician in order to develop suitable products in terms of functionality and aesthetics. With the help of simulation software Optitex 3D simulations modeling is performed on the body until fulfillment of the compliance degree for the designed product.

scholarly journals PREVALENCE OF SMOKING IN ADULT POPULATION OF IRKUTSK

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 153-156
Author(s):  
Максикова ◽  
Tatyana Maksikova ◽  
Бабанская ◽  
Evgeniya Babanskaya ◽  
Меньшикова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Significant Risk Factor ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Age Difference ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Considerable Problem ◽  
The One

Smoking is a significant risk factor of chronic noncommunicable diseases. Smoking prevalence is variable in different populations. A study of the prevalence of this risk factor allows to estimate its contribution to the development of cardiovascular pathology, to plan the necessary amount of medical care for people using tobacco, and to determine the effectiveness of prevention activities in the region. As a result of the study, smoking frequency in population of the Irkutsk region older 18years of age or over was established as 29.5%. The number of smokers increased with age, reaching maximum value of 38.6% in the group 30–39 years. Male smokers made maximum in the age group 30–39 years, women – in the age group of 18–19 years. The average age of smokers was 34 years, the one of nonsmokers – 43 years. The age difference was 9 years, and it was lower in the group of men than in the group of women (5 and 11 years, respectively). The number of the smoking men were 3 times larger, than women: 50.2% and 13.5%, respectively. Among persons with arterial hypertension, 22.1% were smoking with the maximum frequency of smoking in age groups from 20 to 49 years. These figures point to a considerable problem of smoking in the region.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of the pathogenic effect of the association of eimeria on hybrid rabbits at different doses of infection

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 06034
Author(s):  
K. Sidorenko ◽  
M. Mkrtchyan ◽  
O. Kaidalova
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Eimeria Species ◽  
Live Weight ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Linear Measurements ◽  
Pathogenic Effect ◽  
Intestinal Length ◽  
Retail Display ◽  
The One ◽  
Meat Productivity

Rabbit breeding is one of the promising branches of animal husbandry, but its development is hampered by various diseases. The problem of the pathogenic influence of parasites of the genus Eimeria on the organism of rabbits at different infective doses is still quite urgent. The study was conducted on hybrids of rabbits of Soviet Chinchilla and Californian breeds at 30 and 45 days of age. Within the framework of the experiment 6 groups of young rabbits were formed by the method of pair-analogs. The one-day old rabbits in the experimental groups were infected with oocysts of the association of Eimeria species E. perforans and E. irresidua at doses of 100 000 (2 groups) and 200 000(2 groups) per head, and in control groups (2 groups) - remained intact throughout the experiment. To analyze the pathogenic effect of parasites determination of meat productivity, veterinary and sanitary assessment of carcasses, linear measurements of intestinal length as well as histological studies of the walls of the small intestine were carried out in rabbits of these age groups. The research results showed that rabbits-hybrids infected at a dose of 100 000 and 200 000 oocysts per head demonstrate significant reduction of the increase in live weight and slaughter yield, despite the preservation of the retail display of the carcasses.

Learner Autonomy Powered by Moodle: Do Language Students Really Want It?

10.47908/9/14 ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 251-264
Author(s):  
Maria Pree
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Learner Autonomy ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Advanced Students ◽  
Language Students ◽  
Traditional Classroom Teaching ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The One

The study described in this article focuses on two major subject areas. On the one hand, different age groups of university language students at B2, B2+ and C1 level were asked to evaluate the opportunities of Moodle when studying English as an applied business language; on the other hand, the students’ disposition to use Moodle as a technological tool to foster learner autonomy was investigated. As Moodle provides social media features such as blogs, chats and quizzes, it seems to perfectly supplement traditional classroom teaching with student activities which can be performed without the supervision of the language instructor. One question of the survey among 138 applied business language students at the JKU (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria) therefore attempted to establish how much the increasing use of social media has impacted on students’ needs for teacher-independent online learning. The results show a clear preference for ‘conservative’ language acquisition methods. Only 25% of the less advanced students (and even fewer of the more advanced ones) are interested in using social media features to direct their own learning progress and/or to create their own course content. The teacher still is - in the eyes of these students - very clearly the only person to provide content. This article will discuss the survey in detail and offer possible explanations for its results.

scholarly journals Spanish Validation for Olfactory Function Testing Using the Sniffin’ Sticks Olfactory Test: Threshold, Discrimination, and Identification

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 943
Author(s):  
María Luisa Delgado-Losada ◽  
Alice Helena Delgado-Lima ◽  
Jaime Bouhaben
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Olfactory Function ◽  
Olfactory Test ◽  
Spanish Validation ◽  
Healthy Sample ◽  
The One ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Function Testing

The assessment of olfactory function is becoming increasingly relevant, especially in cases of cognitive decline (i.e., neurodegenerative diseases), where olfactory alterations may be relevant as potential early biomarkers. The Sniffin’ Sticks Olfactory Test, developed in Germany and validated in several countries, is an objective measure of olfactory performance. This study aims to validate this test in a Spanish sample. This study included 209 healthy normosmic volunteers (154 females and 55 males) aged between 20 to 79 years (mean age = 50.11 ± 15.18 years) as the normative sample. From this group, 22 participants were retested in order to obtain test–retest reliability evidence. Odor familiarity for descriptors in the olfactory identification test was also studied on an independent healthy sample (n = 69), and required cultural modifications were applied. Results indicate that men and women, as well as smokers and non-smokers, performed equally in every test. However, significant differences were found between age groups in every score. The general trend is that olfactory function progressively decreases as a function of age, the elderly group (+60 years) being the one with the lowest scores. In conclusion, this normative data, in addition to the test’s cultural modifications, allows the Sniffin’ Sticks Olfactory Test to be administered on a Spanish population.

Children's Empathic Responses to Emotional Complexity

1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelle Ricard ◽  
Mary Kamberk-Kilicci
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Emotional Complexity ◽  
The One

The aim of this study was to assess the empathic reactivity of children when confronted with two different emotions felt by the same character. A total of 90 girls, divided into three equal groups aged 4, 6, and 8 years, were asked to verbally respond to a series of fictitious stories illustrated by a picture where the character's face was left blank. Four of these episodes implied one simple emotion, and the remaining four were complex episodes where the situation potentially induced two opposite emotions within the character, either successively or simultaneously. Empathy was scored according to (a) the match between the emotion identified in the character and the one reported by the subject, and (b) the interpretation given for the subject's reaction. Both the quality of the match and the level of interpretation from self-to event-to character-centred justifications-were found to increase with age, for complex as well as for simple emotions. However, children of all three age-groups displayed less empathic capabilities when witnessing complex rather than simple episodes, given the more demanding task involved in recognising and sharing emotional complexity. Finally, successive emotions appeared more difficult to cope with than simultaneous emotions, but this decalage may be due to the content of the stimuli used in this study.

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