Between here and there: Immigrant fertility patterns in Germany

This paper focuses on the role of the home country’s birth rates in shaping immigrant fertility. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at different time. We apply generalized Poisson regression to account for the underdispersion of the dependent variable. The results favor the socialization hypothesis holding that immigrants follow childbearing norms dominant in their home countries. We find that women from countries where the average birth rate is high tend to have significantly more children themselves. In addition, this relationship is the stronger, the later in life migration occurred.migration, fertility, socialization, underdispersion

Readmission risk prediction for patients after total hip or knee arthroplasty

Cybersecurity intelligence sharing (CIS) has the potential to help organisations improving their situational awareness. Although CIS has received more attention from organisations, participation in CIS operation is not satisfactory, and there is not too much information about the factors that are antecedent to CIS among organisations . Thus, this study aims to investigate technical and non-technical factors including organisational and environmental factors influence organisational participation in CIS practices

Leipzig Philharmonic, November 9, 2010

This is the concert program of the Leipzig Philharmonic performance on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were "Schindler's List" Main Theme for orchestra by John Williams, Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major, K. 456 and Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in E-flat major, K. 365 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Symphony No. 1, op. 11 by Felix Mendelssohn. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Multi-phase state estimation featuring industrial-grade distribution network models

This paper proposes a novel implementation of a multi-phase distribution network state estimator which employs industrial-grade modeling of power components and measurements. Unlike the classical voltage-based and current-based state estimators, this paper presents the implementation details of a constrained weighted least squares state calculation method that includes standard three-phase state estimation capabilities in addition to practical modeling requirements from the industry; these requirements comprise multi-phase line configurations, unsymmetrical and incomplete transformer connections, power measurements on 4-connected loads, cumulative-type power measurements, line-to-line voltage magnitude measurements, and reversible line drop compensators. The enhanced modeling equips the estimator with capabilities that make it superior to a recently presented state-of-the-art distribution network load estimator that is currently used in real-life distribution management systems; comparative performance results demonstrate the advantage of the proposed estimator under practical measurement schemes

Introducing ECMO/ECLS in sub-Saharan Africa – prospects and perspectives

Background: The introduction of modern medical technologies reduced mortality in adults and increased survival in infants less than five years old. Cardiac and respiratory failure can be managed through mechanical circulatory support devices such as ECMO/ECLS (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation/ Extracorporeal Life Support).Main Findings: We evaluate the importance and potential impact of using ECMO/ECLS in improving health care in sub-Saharan Africa. The intention of this recommendation is to introduce this concept as a feasible rescue method for clinicians in the region. The potential use of ECMO/ECLS will be discussed with focus on infrastructure for the retrieval services from the referring hospitals to designated ECMO centres.Conclusion: ECLS resources and time that should be committed to training of staff and on-going education should not be underestimated. ECLS should only be commenced, maintained and weaned in the hands of trained, experienced and knowledgeable medical personnel cognisant that the results will be benchmarked by ELSO (Extracorporeal Life Support Organization) and available for consumption in the public domain. Partnership models are key to the ECLS success with well-defined roles and responsibilities for each party. The possible way for ECMO/ECLS in Africa should be combining with a two-pronged education programme: Improving critical care services in themselves, and once they get to an acceptable level in this department then is to manage ECLS patients for a few hours. To upgrade critical care services, this is vital for Africa, and only then to introduce ECMO/ECLS

Organic Agriculture Worldwide: Key results from the FiBL survey on organic agriculture worldwide 2019 Part 3: Organic agriculture in the regions

About this presentation - There are 3 presentations summarizing the key results of the FiBL-IFOAM survey on organic agriculture worldwide 2019(data 2017). Apart from the global data, key results on crop and on regional data are presented. - More information is available at www.organic-world.net - The following three presentations are available at https://www.organic-world.net/yearbook/yearbook-2019/slide-presentations.html: -- Part 1: Global data 2017 and survey background -- Part 2: Land use and key crops in organic agriculture 2017 -- Part 3: Organic agriculture in the regions 201

Collective awareness platforms and digital social innovation mediating consensus seeking in problem situations

In this paper we show the results of our studies carried out in the framework of the European Project SciCafe2.0 in the area of Participatory Engagement models. We present a methodological approach built on participative engagements models and holistic framework for problem situation clarification and solution impacts assessment. Several online platforms for social engagement have been analysed to extract the main patterns of participative engagement. We present our own experiments through the SciCafe2.0 Platform and our insights from requirements elicitation

The Bush Regime from Elections to Detentions: A Moral Economy of Carl Schmitt and Human Rights

This essay, presented in Vienna at an international conference on the Bush Administration and America's Future and to be published in updated form, analyzes the Bush administration through two lenses: one developed by Marx in his analysis of the rise of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and the other Hans Mommsen's analysis of the happenstantial construction of Hitler's dictatorship. The essay moves through a look at the coup of 22 November 2000 and then proceeds to look at the analogous dynamics of the Reichstagsbrand/Ermaechtigungsgesetz and 9/11-USA Patriot Act. Next, the essay examines the role of sovereignty in states of exception and the role of the decider, as developed from the Weimar Constitution's Art. 48 and Carl Schmitt to John Yoo. Finally, the essay touches upon the ironic and pernicious role of radical human rights discourses in abetting an imperialist agenda. The essay concludes by considering whether the legal, moral, political, and social construct of the West, which the US has shared with Europe for over half a century, has now come to an end in an era of unchallenged, if ineffective, American hegemony

A survey on perceived speaker traits: personality, likability, pathology, and the first challenge

The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge aimed at a unified test-bed for perceived speaker traits – the first challenge of this kind: personality in the five OCEAN personality dimensions, likability of speakers, and intelligibility of pathologic speakers. In the present article, we give a brief overview of the state-of-the-art in these three fields of research and describe the three sub-challenges in terms of the challenge conditions, the baseline results provided by the organisers, and a new openSMILE feature set, which has been used for computing the baselines and which has been provided to the participants. Furthermore, we summarise the approaches and the results presented by the participants to show the various techniques that are currently applied to solve these classification tasks