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Comparing Human Development Patterns Across Countries: Is it Possible to Reconcile Multidimensional Measures and Intuitive Appeal?
The aims of this paper are two. The first is to to present a framework that facilitates the identification and analysis of human development patterns in terms of outcomes performance from a cross and time perspective. The second is to find a method that is effective in summarizing different dimensions that concerns human development progress. We consider human development progress as enhanced throughout virtuous synergies among positive human development outcomes and between these and `positive' economic outcomes. The methodology aims to take into consideration these synergies, while the theoretical framework captures different patterns of human development progress through the distinction between the social dimensions (SD) and the economic dimensions (ED) as `command over resources'. Although this framework is not a sufficient guide for policy, the research findings are an explicit recognition of the need to analyse and to integrate economic and social policies. Furthermore, the explorative empirical results highlight different human development patterns between countries and their connection to the different policies adopted by each country (e.g. by transition economies) and by the impact of different type of crises.Human Development, HDI, Multidimensional Index
Double hadron lepto-production in the current and target fragmentation regions
We study the inclusive production of two hadrons in deep inelastic processes,
l N ---> l h_1 h_2 X, with h_1 in the current fragmentation region (CFR) and
h_2 in the target fragmentation region (TFR). Assuming a factorized scheme, the
recently introduced polarized and transverse momentum dependent fracture
functions couple to the transverse momentum dependent fragmentation functions.
This allows the full exploration of the fracture functions for transversely
polarized quarks. Some particular cases are considered.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figure
SIDIS in the target fragmentation region: polarized and transverse momentum dependent fracture functions
The target fragmentation region of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering
is described at leading twist, taking beam and target polarizations into
account. The formalism of polarized and transverse-momentum dependent fracture
functions is developed and the observables for some specific processes are
presented.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures. Some equations modified and text shortened; main
conclusions unchange
DDoS Attacks with Randomized Traffic Innovation: Botnet Identification Challenges and Strategies
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are usually launched through the
, an "army" of compromised nodes hidden in the network. Inferential
tools for DDoS mitigation should accordingly enable an early and reliable
discrimination of the normal users from the compromised ones. Unfortunately,
the recent emergence of attacks performed at the application layer has
multiplied the number of possibilities that a botnet can exploit to conceal its
malicious activities. New challenges arise, which cannot be addressed by simply
borrowing the tools that have been successfully applied so far to earlier DDoS
paradigms. In this work, we offer basically three contributions: we
introduce an abstract model for the aforementioned class of attacks, where the
botnet emulates normal traffic by continually learning admissible patterns from
the environment; we devise an inference algorithm that is shown to
provide a consistent (i.e., converging to the true solution as time progresses)
estimate of the botnet possibly hidden in the network; and we verify the
validity of the proposed inferential strategy over network traces.Comment: Submitted for publicatio
Child Poverty Measurement: the Case of Afghanistan
This paper examines child poverty from a multidimensional perspective. The main goal is to apply a general methodology in order to measure child poverty as a deprivation of capabilities and achieved functionings. In the capability perspective, child poverty is intended as the lack of freedom to choose to do and to be what children have reason to value. Although the various approaches to conceptualising, defining and measuring poverty, several researchers underline the need for children to be separated from their adult nexus, and treated according to their own specificities. The case study is focused on Afghan children, and it is based on a survey carried out by Handicap International that took into consideration many dimensions of children’s wellbeing, including concepts that are usually missing in standard surveys.Afghanistan, Multidimensional poverty measurement, Capability Approach, Children
Chain metallicity and antiferro-paramagnetism competition in underdoped YBaCuO: a first principles description
We describe from advanced first principles calculations the energetics of
oxygen doping and its relation to insulator-metal transitions in underdoped
YBaCuO. We find a strong tendency of doping oxygens to order
into non-magnetic CuO chains at any . Ordering produces
one-dimensional metallic bands, while configurations with non-aligned oxygens
are insulating. The CuO planes remain insulating and
antiferromagnetic up to a threshold between =0.25 and 0.5, above which a
paramagnetic normal-metal state prevails. The in-plane antiferro-paramagnetic
competition depends on , but only weakly on the ordering state of the
chains.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, 2 table
Measurement of the halo bias from stacked shear profiles of galaxy clusters
We present the observational evidence of the 2-halo term in the stacked shear
profile of a sample of about 1200 optically selected galaxy clusters based on
imaging data and the public shear catalog from the CFHTLenS. We find that the
halo bias, a measure of the correlated distribution of matter around galaxy
clusters, has amplitude and correlation with galaxy cluster mass in very good
agreement with the predictions based on the LCDM standard cosmological model.
The mass-concentration relation is flat but higher than theoretical
predictions. We also confirm the close scaling relation between the optical
richness of galaxy clusters and their mass.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. In press on ApJ Letter
“Emotional Nose”: The Hedonic Character of Olfaction and its Epistemological and Clinical Implications
The olfactory system is the oldest device that most organisms have to perceive their physical and social environment. However, progressing in the evolutionary tree, the importance of the olfactory perception has decreased, and the sight has taken dominance. Notwithstanding, the olfaction still plays a fundamental role, as it is strictly associated with emotions, which are a medium between perception and behavior. The current work aims at addressing the hedonic character of the olfaction, showing its strong clinical implications for clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and CogInfoCom
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