he increased availability of gambling opportunities resulting from the progressive liberalisation of the gambling sector coupled with the widespread access to online gambling, is raising concerns regarding adolescents’ participation in gambling and possible increase in problem-gambling. However, the influence of the different gambling products commercialised across countries is less known.
Plankton is critical in contaminants transfer but its role in mercury’s is to be investigated. The objective was to characterize the plankton continuum’s taxonomy, trophic organization and mercury levels. Bacteria, pico-, nano- and zooplankton were more abundant in the LiB and phytoplankton in the LaB. Mercury levels were higher in the LiB. Contrarily to standard mercury biomagnification pa…
The study of germline stem cells and of germline cells has deep implications for the understanding of fertility, development and cancer. Nowadays, we are experiencing the very fascinating challenge of application of –OMICS technologies to this issue, which is opening new and unexpected horizons in virtually all the branches of biology. Here, we carried out a review of signalling systems invol…
It is well known that, in classification problems, the predictive capacity of any decision-making model decreases rapidly with increasing asymmetry of the target variable (Sonquist et al., 1973; Fielding 1977). In particular, in segmentation analysis with a categorical target variable, very poor improvements of purity are obtained when the least represented modality counts less than 1/4 of the …
The poetry of Israeli émigré Igor' Guberman, comprising thousands of quatrains (‘gariki’), represents a hybrid genre at the junction of Jewish aphoristic tradition, Russian oral folklore, and classical Russian poetry. The theme of toska, which is central to the gariki, may be sharply distinguished from the ‘restorative nostalgia’ theorized by Svetlana Boym (2001): Guberman's toska is …
On 13 April 1635, Druze emir Fakhr al-Dīn Maʿn was executed in Constantinople, after years of ambiguous relations with the Ottoman sultan. Exactly three centuries later, a biography of the emir was published in Rome, edited by Maronite father Paolo Carali and financed by the Fascist government. The reason why Fascism was interested in his figure can be traced back to the policy implemented by…
Pendahuluan membahas tantangan baru-baru ini untuk teori umum sosial. Aktor-Jaringan teori dan Antropologi (Descola) mempertanyakan bahwa hanya manusia yang hidup yang dapat menjadi aktor sosial. Bagaimana seharusnya teori sosial dikonstruksi yang memahami lingkaran aktor yang sah sebagai kontingen historis. Jika lingkaran aktor yang sah terbuka untuk dipertanyakan, orang tidak dapat lagi menga…
Optical physics
Diri dan bagaimana kaitannya dengan dunia sekitarnya dan sejarahnya menjadi perhatian utama humaniora dan ilmu sosial. Buku ini membahas masalah ini dengan membahas berbagai cara mempelajari dan mendefinisikan diri, berdasarkan berbagai sumber dari Skandinavia Barat abad pertengahan, c. 800-1500, seperti bukti arkeologi, seni dan arsitektur, dokumen, sastra, dan prasasti rahasia. ;;; Kumpulan t…
Ini adalah volume esai yang diedit oleh para sarjana terkemuka di bidangnya tentang perkembangan Yudaisme modern yang nyata, terutama pada abad kesembilan belas dan awal abad kedua puluh.;;; Buku kumpulan tulisan ini menghimpun enam kajian mendalam dari para pakar terkemuka untuk menelaah transformasi agama Yahudi dan identitas keberagamaan Yahudi sejak abad ke-18 hingga abad ke-20, sebagai jaw…