The paper summarises activities within a broad-based research program for the reconstruction of the evolution of Italian climate in the twentieth century. The main result of the program is that Italian climate is becoming warmer and drier with an increase of both heavy precipitation events and long dry spells. Most of the observed signals appear to be due to changes in atmospheric circulation c...

objective: experiencing ‎pleasant events during daily life ‎has a significant positive role in ‎the personal mental health and ‎acts as a keystone for “behavioral ‎activation” (ba) interventions. ‎there are serious differences in ‎the pleasant event schedules in ‎different cultures and countries. ‎we aimed to develop a persian ‎checklist of pleasant events ‎‎(pcpe) to provide and validate a ‎cu...

It has been claimed that corpus-based TTS is unworkable because it is not practical to include representative units to cover all or most of the combinations of segments and prosodic characteristics found in general texts, a problem characterized as Large Numbers of Rare Events (LNRE). We argue that part of this problem is in its formulation, and that a closer look, including investigations into...

What a Difference a Y Makes: Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the decision to become selfemployed to test for differences between women and men in...

Random walks with long-tailed increments have many important applications in insurance, finance, queueing networks, storage processes, and the study of extreme events in nature and elsewhere. See, for example, Embrechts et al. (1997), Asmussen (1998, 1999) and Greiner et al. (1999) for some background. In this paper we study the distribution of the maximum of such a random walk over a random ti...

The planing of sustainable development and of economic activities in the marine environment requires long term information about the prevailing environmental conditions. For the design of marine and coastal protection structures detailed knowledge on local wave conditions is an essential prerequisite. To estimate the risk which emerges from local wave conditions knowledge on both, the wave clim...