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Interview with the Coordinator Prof. Giuseppe Di Giovanni, University of Malta, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry
Interview with the Coordinator of the Malta Neuroscience Network Programme, Prof. Giuseppe Di Giovanni regarding the Malta Neuroscience Net-
work. "With the creation of the Malta Neuroscience Network, we will be keeping up with the most important developments with regard to brain research world-
wide: multi-disciplinary collaboration. Understanding
the way the brain works, and above all brain diseases is
extremely complicated, and requires the involvement of
researchers coming from a number of diff erent scientifi c
disciplines and clinical areas collaborating in new ways."peer-reviewe
Second Neuroscience Day at the University of Malta
The second Neuroscience Seminar Day @ the
University of Malta was held on the 5th and 6th of July
2011 at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. The
principal aim of this day was to create a forum in which
Maltese and Italian neuroscientists could meet. Academics
involved in this field benefit substantially by meeting and
interacting with international colleagues, and thereby
developing new collaborations. This view is held not only
by myself, but also by Professor Richard Muscat, ProRector
for Research and Innovation, who is always highly
supportive of the development of the field of neuroscience
and of research in general in Malta. My second objective
in organising these neuroscience seminars is to offer the
opportunity for our medical and science students and also
the general public to get to know about new developments
in the field of brain research achieved by both Maltese and
foreign scientists.peer-reviewe
self-monitoring reading of implicit contents and moral of self
The research concerns self-monitoring psychological processes and aims to verify two hypothesises: that there is difference in the theories on Self in HSM and LSM, and that the HSMs are more able implicit readers than the LSMs. The 18 item SMS was administered to 86 people, who had also undergone the implicit reading test. HSM and LSM were then thoroughly studied with further implicit reading trials and by means of dilemmas intended to explore their implicit theories of self. The HSMs read more implicits, in a livelier way, and with less fatigue. The dilemmas show differences in the structure of the self and above all in the moral conviction of self.
Hunting electroweakinos at future hadron colliders and direct detection experiments
We analyse the mass reach for electroweakinos at future hadron colliders and
their interplay with direct detection experiments. Motivated by the LHC data,
we focus on split supersymmetry models with different electroweakino spectra.
We find for example that a 100 TeV collider may explore Winos up to ~ 7 TeV in
low scale gauge mediation models or thermal Wino dark matter around 3 TeV in
models of anomaly mediation with long-lived Winos. We show moreover how
collider searches and direct detection experiments have the potential to cover
large part of the parameter space even in scenarios where the lightest
neutralino does not contribute to the whole dark matter relic density.Comment: 25 pages, matches version accepted by JHE
Bs Mixing, DeltaGamma_s and CP Violation
We discuss the results from the Tevatron experiments on mixing and {\sf CP}
violation in the system, with particular emphasis to the
first measurements of the decay width-difference and the {\sf
CP} violating phase using flavor tagging information. We also briefly
review the charge asymmetry measurements in semileptonic decays and in
decays.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, Pub. Proceedings of the XLIIIrd Rencontres de
Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, La Thuile, Italy,
March 1-8, 200
FISCAL-MONETARY POLICY COORDINATION AND DEBT MANAGEMENT: A TWO STAGE DYNAMIC ANALYSIS
This paper studies the interaction between two autonomous policymakers, the central bank and the government, in managing public debt as the result of a two-stage game. In the first stage the institutional regime is established. This determines the equilibrium solution to be applied in the second stage, in which a differential game is played between the two policymakers. It is shown that, if the policymakers can communicate before the game is played, (multiple-equilibrium) coordination problems can be solved by using the concept of correlated equilibrium. Unlike Nash equilibrium, which only allows for individualistic and independent behaviour, a correlated equilibrium allows formonetary and fiscal policies, differential games, correlated equilibrium.
Integration of migrants in Italy: A simple general and objective measure
Measuring migrantsâ integration into host societies is a challenging task as, in general, measuring any social behavior and social phenomena. The task is affected by many specific problems related to the definition of the objective of study and the impact of subjective evaluations in the construction of an index. Our study aims to provide a measure of integration as much as possible general and objective. More in details, first, we consider some different general aspects of the integration problem related to migrantsâ polarization, cultural diversification, social stability, integration in the labor market. Second, we aggregate them in a synthetic linear index, which is rather objective since the weights are computed by only considering the statistical properties of our dataset, i.e. choosing those weights that minimize the information loss in terms of data variances/co-variances.Migrations; migrantsâ integration; regional index; principal component analysis
Cetacean Morbillivirus-Associated Pathology: Knowns and Unknowns
The present minireview deals with the pathology of Cetacean Morbillivirus (CeMV) infection in free-ranging cetaceans. In this respect, while "classical" CeMV-associated lesions were observed in the lung, brain, and lymphoid tissues from striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) and pilot whales (Globicephala melas) which were victims of the 1990-1992 and 2006-2008 epidemics in the Western Mediterranean, an apparent reduction in CeMV neurovirulence, along with a different viral antigen's tissue and cell distribution, were found during the 2010-2011 and the 2013 outbreaks in the same area. Of remarkable concern are also the documented CeMV ability to induce maternally acquired infections in wild cetaceans, coupled with the progressively expanding geographic and host range of the virus in both Hemispheres, as well as in conjunction with the intriguing forms of "brain-only" morbilliviral infection increasingly reported in Mediterranean-striped dolphins. Future research in this area should address the virus-host interaction dynamics, with particular emphasis on the cell receptors specifying viral tissue tropism in relation to the different cetacean species and to their susceptibility to infection, as well as to the CeMV strains circulating worldwide
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