The Rise of Irregular Domestic Work Amongst Female Migrants in Italy

In today’s globalized world, hardship and geopolitical and economic crises have led to the lack of decent work, and this resulted in new, migratory movements. Women have joined these migration flows in growing numbers, which has important consequences for gender equality in both countries of origin and destination (ILO,2015). Hence, migration has a new character, and it includes many women who emigrate from their country because of a lack of access and choices to jobs, exploitation, and lower wages compared to men in Europe. In this context, one can affirm that today irregular migration is on the rise, especially in the South of Europe, not only because of the strategic geographical position of these countries, which are easy to reach by sea but also because of a change in the demand of the labour market, where cheap female domestic work is rapidly spreading. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to fill the gap in the literature and explain the persistence of irregular domestic work through a gendered lens. I will draw on interview data with domestic migrant workers and examine the results to discuss my findings

Irisin evokes bradycardia by activating cardiac-projecting neurons of nucleus ambiguus.

Irisin is a newly identified hormone induced in muscle and adipose tissues by physical activity. This protein and its encoding gene have been identified in the brain; in addition, the precursor for irisin, FNDC5, can cross the blood-brain barrier. The fact that irisin is secreted during exercise together with the lower resting heart rate in athletes prompted us to investigate the effect of irisin on cardiac-projecting vagal neurons of nucleus ambiguus, a key regulatory site of heart rate. In vitro experiments in cultured nucleus ambiguus neurons indicate that irisin activates these neurons, inducing an increase in cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration and neuronal depolarization. In vivo microinjection of irisin into the nucleus ambiguus promotes bradycardia in conscious rats. Our study is the first to report the effects of irisin on the neurons controlling the cardiac vagal tone and to link a myokine to a cardioprotective role, by modulating central cardiovascular regulation

Importance of the Danube in the Development of the European inland transport. Inland and Port Infrastructure Development in Romania

Europe currently has an extensive network of inland waterways components of the PanEuropean Transport Network. The Danube River with Sulina and Danube-Black Sea is part of panEuropean transport corridor VII. European policy in the transport sector, is subject to joint decisions inthe Council of the European Union. A current priority is to balance the use of different types oftransportation alternation and making connections between transport modes. Currently it acts tostimulate the development of a balance between rail sectors, maritime, river and waterways of Europe.Romania is implementing several European and national programs to upgrade its infrastructure on theDanube waterwa

A Comparison of Linear and Somatotype Pattern Drafting for Standard and Plus Sizes

The purpose of this study was to evaluate garment fit drafted using somatotype and linear methods for a standard and a plus woman\u27s size

Genetic Predisposition to Familial Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer: An Update of Molecular Findings and State-of-the-Art Studies

Familial thyroid cancer has become a well-recognized entity in patients with thyroid cancer originating from follicular cells, that is, nonmedullary thyroid carcinoma. The diagnosis of familial thyroid cancer provides an opportunity for early detection and possible prevention in family members. Understanding the syndromes associated with familial thyroid cancer allows clinicians to evaluate and treat patients for coexisting pathologic conditions. About five percents of patients with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma have a familial disease. Patients with familial non-medullalry thyroid cancer have more aggressive tumors with increased rates of extrathyroid extension, lymph node metastases, and frequently show the phenomenon of “anticipation” (earlier age at disease onset and increased severity in successive generations). So far, four predisposition loci have been identified in relatively rare extended pedigrees, and association studies have identified multiple predisposing variants for differentiated thyroid cancer. This suggests that there is a high degree of genetic heterogeneity and that the development of this type of tumor is a multifactorial and complex process in which predisposing genetic variants interact with a number of incompletely understood environmental risk factors. Thus, the search for the causative variants is still open and will surely benefit from the new technological approaches that have been developed in recent years

The Life Cycle of a Maritime Ship between “Product” and “Service”

The life cycle of a ship represents an issue which the ship owner must take into consideration because he must know a series of aspects connected to the exploitation period until the moment of the current and capital repairs, the degree of use of the ship and separately for each installation, the moment of its taking out from service and especially how it can be extended its duration of exploitation. These aspects are not easy to be calculated because there appear a series of aspects connected to the shipping zone, the type of the transported goods, the way of exploitation and maintenance performed by the crews, the number of the exploitation days and many more others. The life cycle of the service performed by the ship, in fact the type of the transported goods is very important taking into account the changes on the maritime market, the competition between shipping companies, the development of the international economy and the requests of the customers of the shipping companies. In this paper, there are analysed the two aspects which a ship represents, as ”a product” and as a performed ”service” and it is presented a type of analyse for a maritime ship

Strategic Research of the Maritime Market

At the beginning of the 21st century, the research and the knowledge of the maritime market prove to be as important as the other elements of the Marketing from the maritime domain. The research of the maritime market can be considered as the first step in tackling the research problems in the Marketing from this domain, which cannot be avoided or ignored. This thing is necessary due to the permanent increase of the competition on the maritime market, to the permanent entrance of new ships and shipping companies, to the development of new transport routes

Measurement and Prediction of Fundamental Tensile Failure Limits of Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA)

The purpose of this research program is to provide an insight into key mechanisms and asphalt mixture properties that control fracture in asphalt materials. A Digital Image Correlation (DIC) (non contact, full-field, surface displacement/strain measurement technique) was developed on purpose for accurately capturing localized or non-uniform stress distributions in asphalt mixtures and as a tool for detecting first fracture. The experimental analysis of asphalt mixture cracking behavior was based on the “HMA Fracture Mechanics” visco-elastic crack growth law (Zhang et al. 2001; Roque et al.; 2002). Investigation of the asphalt cracking mechanism and identification of fundamental tensile failure limits were achieved performing multiple laboratory test configurations, namely the Superpave Indirect Tensile Test (IDT), the Semi-Circular Bending Test (SCB) and the Three Point Bending Beam Test (3PB). Both unmodified and polymer modified mixtures were tested. The results presented herein illustrate that the DIC method could be used to reliably determine asphalt tensile failure limits at first fracture. It was found that these failure limits are independent of the specimen geometry and of the test configuration. Also, importantly the tensile failure limits were shown to be sensitive to both presence and level of polymer modification. It is also shown that first fracture and crack growth in asphalt mixtures can be predicted effectively using a Displacement Discontinuity (DD) boundary element method, for various different boundary condition problems, and not just for the calibrated laboratory test conditions. The numerical simulations and the DIC results presented show that significant damage, stress redistribution and other changes following initial fracture make the analysis at peak load difficult to interpret meaningfully. The effect of polymer modification on crack localization was also investigated through the use of horizontal full-field strain maps obtained from the DIC. It was found that polymer modified mixtures exhibit high strains only up to the location of impending fracture, while unmodified mixtures exhibit highly distributed damage in both the critical area and around the point of fracture