TY - GEN A1 - Keck, Wolfgang A1 - Kohler, Ulrich A1 - Nauenburg, Ricarda T1 - Quality of life in the european union and the candidate countries BT - harmonized eurobarometer datafile 1998-2002 N2 - Harmonized data file as the basis for comparative analysis of quality of life in the Candidate Countries and the European Union member states, based on seven different data sets, one Eurobarometer survey covering 13 Candidate Countries with an identical set of variables conducted in April 2002, the other six Standard Eurobarometer of different subjects and fielded in different years, each with another set of questions identical with the CC Eurobarometer. Selected aggregate indicators of quality of life ... describing the social situation in the EU15 and Candidate Countries. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7802/1209 PB - WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung ER - TY - GEN A1 - Esguerra, Alejandro ED - Esguerra, Alejandro ED - Helmerich, Nicole ED - Risse, Thomas T1 - Conclusion T2 - Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood: Contesting the New Modes of Governance N2 - This chapter revisits the role of the new modes of governance in areas of limited statehood. First, it states that there is no linear relationship between degrees of statehood and the overall effectiveness of new modes of sustainability governance. Second, the chapter states that, in most of the cases, national governments are hesitant or even actively hamper the development of new modes of governance. Third, it shows that the absence of the shadow of hierarchy can indeed lead to ineffective new modes of governance. However, the shadow of hierarchy does not necessarily need to be cast by states. Finally, the author reviews the complexities involved in participatory practices, stressing the importance of institutional structures and knowledgeable brokers. The chapter concludes by outlining fields for future research. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-319-39871-6 SN - 978-3-319-39870-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39871-6_9 SP - 211 EP - 224 PB - Cham CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - GEN A1 - Esguerra, Alejandro T1 - "A Comment That Might Help Us to Move Along" BT - Brokers in Negotiation Systems T2 - Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood : Contesting the New Modes of Governance N2 - This chapter investigates the trajectory of establishing the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in the early 1990s as the first private transnational certification organization with an antagonistic stakeholder body. Its main contribution is a micro-analysis of the founding assembly in 1993. By investigating the role of brokers within the negotiation as one institutional scope condition for ‘arguing’ having occurred, the chapter adopts a dramaturgical approach. It contends that the authority of brokers is not necessarily institutionally given, but needs to be gained: brokers have to prove situationally that their knowledge is relevant and that they are speaking impartially in the interest of progress rather than their own. The chapter stresses the importance of procedural knowledge which brokers provide in contrast to policy knowledge. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-319-39871-6 SN - 978-3-319-39870-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39871-6_2 SP - 25 EP - 46 PB - Cham CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - GEN A1 - Esguerra, Alejandro A1 - Helmerich, Nicole A1 - Risse, Thomas T1 - Introduction T2 - Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood: Contesting the New Modes of Governance N2 - The Paris Agreement for Climate Change or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) rely on new modes of governance for implementation. Indeed, new modes of governance such as market-based instruments, public-private partnerships or multi-stakeholder initiatives have been praised for playing a pivotal role in effective and legitimate sustainability governance. Yet, do they also deliver in areas of limited statehood? States such as Malaysia or the Dominican Republic partly lack the ability to implement and enforce rules; their statehood is limited. This introduction provides the analytical framework of this volume and critically examines the performance of new modes of governance in areas of limited statehood, drawing on the book’s in-depth case studies on issues of climate change, biodiversity, and health. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-319-39871-6 SN - 978-3-319-39870-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39871-6_1 SP - 1 EP - 22 PB - Palgrave Macmillan, Cham CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - GEN A1 - Martinez-Valdes, Eduardo A1 - Negro, Francesco A1 - Laine, Christopher M. A1 - Falla, Deborah L. A1 - Mayer, Frank A1 - Farina, Dario T1 - Identifying motor units in longitudinal studies with high-density surface electromyography T2 - Converging clinical and engineering research on neurorehabilitation II N2 - We investigated the possibility to identify motor units (MUs) with high-density surface electromyography (HDEMG) over experimental sessions in different days. 10 subjects performed submaximal knee extensions across three sessions in three days separated by one week, while EMG was recorded from the vastus medialis muscle with high-density electrode grids. The shapes of the MU action potentials (MUAPs) over multiple channels extracted from HDEMG decomposition were matched across sessions by cross-correlation. Forty and twenty percent of the MUs decomposed could be tracked across two and three sessions, respectively (average cross correlation 0.85 +/- 0.04). The estimated properties of the matched motor units were similar across the sessions. For example, mean discharge rate and recruitment thresholds were measured with an intra-class correlation coefficient (ICCs) > 0.80. These results strongly suggest that the same MUs were indeed identified across sessions. This possibility will allow monitoring changes in MU properties following interventions or during the progression of neuromuscular disorders. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-319-46669-9 SN - 978-3-319-46668-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_27 SN - 2195-3562 VL - 15 SP - 147 EP - 151 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - GEN A1 - Passarelli, Luigi A1 - Hainzl, Sebastian A1 - Cesca, Simone A1 - Maccaferri, Francesco A1 - Mucciarelli, Marco A1 - Roessler, Dirk A1 - Corbi, Fabio A1 - Dahm, Torsten A1 - Rivalta, Eleonora T1 - Aseismic transient driving the swarm-like seismic sequence in the Pollino range, Southern Italy (vol 201, pg 1553, 2015) T2 - Geophysical journal international KW - Seismicity and tectonics KW - Statistical seismology KW - Dynamics: seismotectonics Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv425 SN - 0956-540X SN - 1365-246X VL - 204 SP - 365 EP - 365 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - GEN A1 - Wawrzenitz, Nicole A1 - Krohe, Alexander T1 - Deformed monazite yields high-temperature tectonic ages T2 - Geology Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1130/G37394C.1 SN - 0091-7613 SN - 1943-2682 VL - 44 SP - E377 EP - E377 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Boulder ER - TY - GEN A1 - Teif, Vladimir B. A1 - Cherstvy, Andrey G. T1 - Chromatin and epigenetics: current biophysical views T2 - AIMS biophysics N2 - Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing experiments and their theoretical descriptions have determined fast dynamics of the "chromatin and epigenetics" field, with new concepts appearing at high rate. This field includes but is not limited to the study of DNA-protein-RNA interactions, chromatin packing properties at different scales, regulation of gene expression and protein trafficking in the cell nucleus, binding site search in the crowded chromatin environment and modulation of physical interactions by covalent chemical modifications of the binding partners. The current special issue does not pretend for the full coverage of the field, but it rather aims to capture its development and provide a snapshot of the most recent concepts and approaches. Eighteen open-access articles comprising this issue provide a delicate balance between current theoretical and experimental biophysical approaches to uncover chromatin structure and understand epigenetic regulation, allowing free flow of new ideas and preliminary results. KW - chromatin KW - epigenetics KW - linker histones KW - nucleosome KW - DNA-protein binding KW - histone modifications KW - remodelers KW - topologically associated domains KW - DNA methylation KW - DNA supercoiling Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3934/biophy.2016.1.88 SN - 2377-9098 VL - 3 SP - 88 EP - 98 PB - American Institute of Mathematical Sciences CY - Springfield ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bubeck, Philip A1 - Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H. A1 - de Moel, Hans A1 - Kreibich, Heidi T1 - Preface: Flood-risk analysis and integrated management T2 - Natural hazards and earth system sciences Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1005-2016 SN - 1561-8633 VL - 16 SP - 1005 EP - 1010 PB - Copernicus CY - Göttingen ER - TY - GEN A1 - Lee, J. A1 - Kang, B. A1 - Park, Chan Soo T1 - Effects of the Lifestyle Modification Program on Blood BDNF and Its Associated Factors in Korean Collegiate Students T2 - Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Y1 - 2016 SN - 0270-1367 SN - 2168-3824 VL - 87 SP - S113 EP - S113 PB - Freshwater Biological Association CY - Abingdon ER -