This book, inspired by the thought of Giacomo Becattini, reflects on why local communities continue to exist and spread. Why does the planet not become one place without borders? Why instead do we ...humans preferentially group ourselves into communities that are neither 'too wide' nor 'too narrow'? What characterizes today's form of community? Why are these communities rooted in places? What is peculiarly 'local' about places? Together with Becattini, we answer that the foundation of local communities is social culture. In its material and symbolic dimensions, social culture animates various forms of proximity between people and between groups: in addition to territorial proximity, social proximity (also online) and institutional proximity matter a lot. This implies that today a local community is not only a place where social culture makes us physically close, but where at least some of the major forms of proximity intersect.
This study develops a new approach that shrinks the forecast combination weights towards equal weights by using weighted least squares and towards zero weight by using regularization constraints. We ...reveal the significant predictability of excess returns to the S&P500 index that can be achieved by using this double shrinkage combination (DSC). Furthermore, our DSC approach significantly outperforms the naïve equal‐weighted combination, solving the combination puzzle. The equal‐weight shrinkage has greater effect in economic recessions, whereas the zero‐weight shrinkage dominates in economic expansions. The DSC's superior performance over that of the naïve combination is observed in the application of forecasting macroeconomic indicators.
Herbert Leroy Needleman Watts, Geoff
The Lancet (British edition),
09/2017, Letnik:
390, Številka:
10098
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Recenzirano
The event that fired Herbert Needleman's interest in the toxic effects of lead occurred on a ward of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where he was Chief Resident. ” “Lead poisoning then was ...perceived as an acute disease”, says Philip Landrigan, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics in the Arnhold Institute for Global Health of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA.
Herbert Barrie Watts, Geoff
The Lancet,
06/2017, Letnik:
389, Številka:
10086
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Odprti dostop
Herbert Barrie was among the first wave of paediatricians in the UK to seek a new responsibility for the youngest of their patients. “The newborn baby was very neglected when I started medicine in ...the early 1950s”, explains Peter Dunn, Emeritus Professor of Perinatal Medicine and Child Health at the University of Bristol.
In memoriam Professor Jan van der Schoot (1927–2017) Busemann Sokole, Ellinor; Valdés Olmos, Renato
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging,
06/2017, Letnik:
44, Številka:
6
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Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Jan van der Schoot, who will be remembered as one of the fathers of nuclear medicine in the Netherlands, has died. A profile is presented.
The poems of John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian and Ron Silliman may seem to offer endless small details of expression, observation, thought and narrative which fail to hang together even from one line to ...the next. But as Elina Siltanen shows here, this extraordinary flow of uncoordinated detail can stimulate readers to join the poets in a delightful exploration of ordinary language. When readers take a poem in this spirit, they actually begin to read as members of a community: the community not only of themselves and other readers, but also including the poet and other poets, plus all the speakers of the language in which the poem is written. For all these different parties, that language is indeed a shared resource, and the way for readers to get started is simply by recalling or imagining some of the numerous kinds of context in which the given poem's words-phrases-sentences could, or could not, be successfully used. The rewards for such proactive readers are on the one hand a heightened sense of the subtle interweavings of language and life, and on the other hand a freshly empowered self-confidence. The point being that, within the community of contemporary experimental poetry, poets have no more authority than readers. Rejecting older cultural hierarchies, they present themselves as teasing out the idiomatic serendipities of their own poems together with their readers.
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