We investigate the economic rationale for a law pertaining to tenancy in Roman Palestine, found in a Jewish legal text. This law allows for risk-sharing (through rent reduction) between tenant and landlord when the macro-economic situation is severe (makas medina), but not if the particular rental plot has a bad harvest. We consider and critique the possibility that the restriction of risk-shar...

This article studies the spatial dimension of social selection local elected officials that takes shape through geographical selectivity officials’ places residence. Based on data residence in Zurich and Lausanne (1980-2016), we show residential dispersion is not random but driven by a logic class socio-spatial selectivity. We also this varies according to partisan affiliation existence or elec...

Two geographers specializing in Russian agriculture and rural development present an exploratory essay on the phenomenon of agricultural land abandonment in the countryside of European Russia. A particular focus is on investigating the relative importance of physical conditions (fertility) and proximity to regional population centers in explaining the prevalence of land abandonment. A map depic...

A key to effective teaching is an awareness and accurate understanding of the thinking and implicit assumptions that students bring to the subject to be learned. In the absence of extensive Socratic interactions with students, one strategy to assess student thinking involves the use of concept inventories (CIs). CIs are typically multiple-choice assessments, constructed based on research into s...

IMP2 (insulin-like growth factor-II mRNA binding protein 2) is an oncofetal protein that is aberrantly expressed in several types of cancer. We recently identified the Imp2 gene as a target gene of the architectural transcription factor HMGA2 (high mobility group A2) and its tumor-specific truncated form HMGA2Tr. In this study, we investigated the mechanism via which HMGA2 regulates Imp2 gene e...

s of Student Presentations Student Presentations I, Monday, 07/12, 15-16 h, IKP Lecture Hall Vaclav Nemcik MU Brno, Czech Republic Anaphora Resolution for Czech One of the challenges in natural language understanding is to determine what entities are referred to in the discourse and how they relate to each other. This is a very complex task. But, as the first step, it is useful to determine co-...

Persistent Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) that fails to respond to appropriate antibiotic therapy is associated with poor outcomes. Comprehensive prospective studies on risk factors and outcomes of persistent bacteremia are limited. We investigated outcomes and risk factors encompassing clinical, pharmacokinetic, microbiologic, and genotypic characteristics associated with persistent ba...

We present the implementation of Distributed Constructionism (DC) through a Participatory Design (PD) methodology for an Online Learning community. The students collaborate on the content and functionality development of an online Modern Greek language course, peer review and publish content contributions, and participate in participatory design teams. Participatory design was implemented as a ...

This article examines the use of the female title Ms. by students, faculty, and staff at a Midwestern university in the United States using data generated with the written survey used by Donna Lillian (1993) in a similar study in Canada. Findings show that faculty are fairly consistent in their understanding of Ms. as a neutral title to be used for all women and are more likely to choose this t...