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Assessing the role of spatial externalities in the survival of Italian innovative startups

Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The paper provides novel empirical evidence about the effects of spatial externalities on the survival of innovative startups in Italy. Using geocoded firm‐level data, we build micro‐geographic measures of specialization and diversity that are robust to the modifiable areal unit problem.
Diego Giuliani, Daniele Toffoli, Maria Michela Dickson, Andrea Mazzitelli, Giuseppe Espa   +4 more
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The well-being of British expatriate retirees in southern Europe [PDF]

, 1999
This article examines the personal outcomes of overseas residence in later life, by analysing some findings from the first large-scale, comparative study of the retirement of British citizens to southern Europe.
King, R., Patterson, G., Warnes, A.M., Williams, A.M.   +3 more
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Animals-assisted therapy: A brief review [PDF]

, 2018
In rehabilitative setting, the presence of animals can be considered as an important stimulus for verbal and social communication, and for mood regulation.
Cerroni F., Chisari M. G., D'Oro L., Di Folco A., Gallai B., Geraci D., Giugliano P., Lavano F., Lavano S. M., Magliulo R. M., Marotta R., Marsala G., Murabito P., Parisi L., Pennacchio S., Picciocchi E., Romano P., Ruberto M., Russo D., Salerno M., Sorrentino M., Testa D., Tripi G.   +22 more
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The development of early expressive vocabulary in children with Down Syndrome [PDF]

, 2015
A delay in expressive language in children with Down Syndrome (DS) is common, and often a major challenge of the condition. This study aimed to investigate the early expressive vocabulary skills of Maltese children with DS, whose first languages were ...
10.14614/VOCDOWNSYND/4/15, Coppini, Christina, Gatt, Daniela   +2 more
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First record of Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (Rondani, 1875) (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) from Malta [PDF]

, 2016
Short correspondence article on Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (Rondani, 1875). A pteromalid wasp that emerged from puparia of Drosophila spp.
Farrugia, Lucia
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Motor skills in children with primary headache: A pilot case-control study [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Headache is the most common painful manifestation in the developmental age, often accompanied by severe disability such as scholastic absenteeism, low quality of academic performance and compromised emotional functioning. The aim of the study
Cerroni F., Chisari M. G., D'Oro L., Di Folco A., Gallai B., Geraci D., Lavano F., Lavano S. M., Magliulo R. M., Marotta R., Marsala G., Murabito P., Parisi L., Picciocchi E., Polito A. N., Romano P., Russo D., Salerno M., Salerno M., Sorrentino M., Testa D., Tripi G.   +21 more
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Matryoshka journeys: im/mobility during migration [PDF]

, 2016
Acts of mobility require corresponding acts of immobility (or suspended mobility). Migrant journeys are not only about movement. Indeed, in the present policy context, this is ever more true.
Brigden, Noelle, Mainwaring, Ċetta
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Neuropsychomotricity in water: A new rehabilitative tool for neruodevelop-mental disorders [PDF]

, 2018
Neuropsychomotricity in water is a rehabilitative practice that avails itself just of the liquid element, as a mediator of relationships: in water yes they upset all dynamics, be they relational, of equilibrium, of movement and perception, due to the ...
Cerroni F., Chisari M. G., D'Oro L., Di Folco A., Franco S., Gallai B., Geraci D., Lavano F., Lavano S. M., Magliulo R. M., Marotta R., Marsala G., Murabito P., Parisi L., Picciocchi E., Polito A. N., Romano P., Ruberto M., Russo D., Salerno M., Sorrentino M., Testa D., Tripi G.   +22 more
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Hypothesis Testing based Intrinsic Evaluation of Word Embeddings

, 2017
We introduce the cross-match test - an exact, distribution free, high-dimensional hypothesis test as an intrinsic evaluation metric for word embeddings.
Gurnani, Nishant
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ADDICTIONS SUBSTANCE FREE DURING LIFESPAN [PDF]

, 2018
The addictions substance free is an umbrella definition comprises internet addiction, sexual addiction, gambling pathological, workholism, videogames and computer addiction. Actually, the technological addictions is frequent in young adolescents.
ANGELO MONTANA, ANNA NUNZIA POLITO, ANNABELLA DI FOLCO, BEATRICE GALLAI, DANIELA RUSSO, DAVIDE TESTA, DIEGO GERACI, ELISABETTA PICCIOCCHI, FRANCESCO CERRONI, FRANCESCO LAVANO, FRANCESCO SESSA, GABRIELE TRIPI, GABRIELLA MARSALA, LUCIA PARISI, LUCREZIA D’ORO, MARGHERITA SALERNO, MARIO GIUSEPPE CHISARI, MICHELE SORRENTINO, MONICA SALERNO, PALMIRA ROMANO, PAOLO MURABITO, PASQUALE GIUGLIANO, ROSA MAROTTA, ROSARIA MARTINA MAGLIULO, SABRINA FRANCO, SERENA MARIANNA LAVANO   +25 more
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