Journal articles: 'Mobster'

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Matich, Olga. "Mobster gravestones in 1990s Russia." Global Crime 7, no. 1 (February 2006): 79–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17440570600650158.

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SWIRSKI, PETER. "Literature as History: The Lives and Deaths of Richard Milhous Slurrie and Walter Bodmor Nixon." Journal of American Studies 43, no. 3 (November 11, 2009): 459–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875809990818.

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The enduring success of any roman-à-clef owes to the ghost of the real world lurking, like a palimpsest, behind the storyworld. Barring a few counterfactual twists, Richard Condon's Death of a Politician follows the chequered career of a dead-ringer for Richard Milhous Nixon through the war-scam 1940s, the red scare 1950s, and the freewheeling-dealing 1960s. Square the revisionist drive of Condon's political fiction with the premise of historical veracity, and you may wonder where sober fact ends and fiction begins. How much of Nixon lies in Walter Bodmor Slurrie? How much of Nixon's banker and confidant “Bebe” Rebozo lies in Slurrie's banker and confidant “Kiddo” Cardozo? How much of the Miami mobster Mayer Lansky lies in Cardozo's boss, Miami mobster Abner Danzig? How much of their crass venality and control is the figment of Condon's imagination? Better still, how much is true? In my article I set out to answer all these questions, using Condon's roman-à-clef as a springboard for analysis of salient aspects of the Nixon presidency and of American electoral politics in general.

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Tarulli, Laurel. "Readers' Advisory: Bad Boy Romances: Biker Boys and Mobster Royalty." Reference & User Services Quarterly 56, no. 4 (June 21, 2017): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.56.4.245.

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There is no question that the romance genre continues to grow in popularity. In part, this is because romance writers have been quick to explore new avenues for their stories. Here, column editor Laurel Tarulli takes a look at one of the newest trends in romance fiction: bad boy romances. While there have always been some dodgy romance heroes, Tarulli notes the rapid rise of bikers and Mafiosi as romance leads. Tarulli discusses the elements of this increasingly popular subgenre of romance and offers the readers’ advisor some sound advice on working with romance readers.—Barry Trott, RUSQ editor

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Peroli, Michele, Federico De Meo, Luca Viganò, and Davide Guardini. "MobSTer: A model-based security testing framework for web applications." Software Testing, Verification and Reliability 28, no. 8 (September 27, 2018): e1685. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/stvr.1685.

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Spadaro, Francesco, and Marzia Versaggio. "A strange case of gendercide: fascination, psychotic features, archaic elements, and phantasmatic metamorphosis." Gendercide - Gender Divide 3, no. 1 (August 19, 2021): 35–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v3n1.2021.35.

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This is a strange case of murder: a mafia pentito, an informer, reveals after ten years that the death of a man which had been considered natural, had in fact been a murder. The victim, a loan shark associated with crime people, was the companion of his lover at the time. The strange aspect is the way in which the mobster, with a couple of hired killers and helped by the woman, organised the murder: a shot of pesticide while the man was lying in bed with the woman. This modality was suggested by a veterinarian friend of the mobster who claimed that the pesticide would not be detected. The interviewer's imagination/vision of a metamorphosis while he was interviewing the woman in a forensic setting; the dream he had immediately after the interview; the bizarre construction of the crime; the seductive abilities of the woman linked to the choice and the type of partners she had and the bonds she had created; and the almost dreamlike description of the crime itself, suggest the emergence of primitive mechanisms of mental functioning: splitting, the use of massive projections of partial aspects and projective identification. A fragile and hidden common thread is hypothesised in this work. A common thread whose core is the desire for the narcissistic realisation of a woman who, in order to achieve it, puts eros at the service of thanatos. A red thread that connects all the different events, the real and the phantasmatic ones: from seeking a role as a woman of the criminal underworld to the magic fascination of an archaic Sicily, evoking primitive mechanisms of functioning typical of psychosis.

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David-Uraz, A., C. Neiner, J. Sikora, D. M. Bowman, V. Petit, S. Chowdhury, G. Handler, et al. "Magnetic OB[A] Stars with TESS: probing their Evolutionary and Rotational properties (MOBSTER) – I. First-light observations of known magnetic B and A stars." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 487, no. 1 (April 30, 2019): 304–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1181.

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Abstract In this paper we introduce the MOBSTER collaboration and lay out its scientific goals. We present first results based on the analysis of 19 previously known magnetic O, B, and A stars observed in 2-min cadence in sectors 1 and 2 of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. We derive precise rotational periods from the newly obtained light curves and compare them to previously published values. We also discuss the overall photometric phenomenology of the known magnetic massive and intermediate-mass stars and propose an observational strategy to augment this population by taking advantage of the high-quality observations produced by TESS.

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Nochimson, Martha P. "Waddaya Lookin' At?: Re-reading the Gangster Genre Through "The Sopranos"." Film Quarterly 56, no. 2 (2002): 2–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2002.56.2.2.

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"Waddaya Lookin' At?" challenges both current thinking about the genre of the gangster film and simplistic moralizing about "The Sopranos." Establishing the gangster genre as one of five discrete categories of crime entertainment, Nochimson proposes that "The Sopranos" brings to the surface the moral dilemmas and emotional melodrama of the screen mobster that have hitherto been masked because of Production Code restrictions and macho evasions. Far from glamorizing gangsters and/or insulting Italian Americans, the series is founded on a sophisticated exploration of the gangster's charm. It provokes audiences to exchange their unquestioning delight in intense and spontaneous energy and immediate solutions for a mature form of ethics.

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WYNN, NEIL A. "Counselling the Mafia: The Sopranos Regina Barreca, ed., A Sitdown with the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's Most Talked-About Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). 0 312 29528 6 David Bishop, Bright Lights, Baked Ziti: The Unofficial, Unauthorised Guide to The Sopranos (London: Virgin Books, 2001). 0 7535 0584 3 David Chase, The Sopranos Scriptbook (London: Channel 4 Books, 2001). 0 7522 6157 6 Glen O. Gabbard, The Psychology of the Sopranos: Love, Death, and Betrayal in America's Favorite Gangster Family (New York: Basic Books, 2002). 0 465 02735 0 The New York Times, The New York Times on the Sopranos, introduction by Stephen Holden (New York: ibooks, 2000). 0 7434 4467 1 Allen Rucker, The Sopranos: A Family History (London: Channel 4 Books, 2000). 0 752 26177 0 Allen Rucker (Recipes by Michele Scicolone), The Sopranos Family Cook Book As Compiled by Artie Bucco (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002). 0 340 82724 6 David R. Simon, Tony Soprano's America: The Criminal Side of the American Dream (Boulder, CO, and Oxford: Westview, 2002). 0 8133 4036 5 David Lavery, ed., This Thing of Ours: Investigating the Sopranos (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002). 0 231 12781 2." Journal of American Studies 38, no. 1 (April 2004): 127–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875804007947.

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The HBO television series The Sopranos, produced by David Chase, achieved unprecedented critical acclaim and quickly established itself on both sides of the Atlantic as cult viewing. The fourth series, shown in the UK on Channel 4 in spring 2003, had already attracted record audiences in America and received 13 Emmy Award nominations. Not surprisingly, The Sopranos has generated several web sites and a considerable amount of literature, ranging from the usual spin-offs of television series, cds, scripts, collected reviews, and a number of more academic studies ranging from cultural studies through to explorations of the psychological aspects of the programme. At least one MA has been written dealing with the portrayal of psychotherapy in this series and in films. This is not as remarkable as it might seem given that therapy is central to the whole story. The main character, Tony Soprano (played by James Gandolfini), is the head of an Italian–American family living in New Jersey. However, like his name itself, “family” has a double meaning. Tony is also the head of a Mafia-style gang of mobsters, operating a “waste management company” and night club (The Bada Bing!). The two roles of family head are explored when Tony talks (or “sings”) to a psychiatrist (in addition to his gang-land counsellors) as a result of his anxiety attacks and depression. Thus, Tony Soprano, mobster, is presented as a troubled family man – troubled by his relationships with his wife, daughter, and son, and their futures, but also troubled by business rivalries and problems that arise from the nature of his “work” and colleagues. As one commentator writes, Tony is the subject of “profound moral ambiguity” and it is his struggle to come to terms with this that makes it possible for viewers to identify with him. It is also the focus of his sessions with the therapist, Dr Melfi (played by Lorraine Bracco).

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Sikora, J., A. David-Uraz, S. Chowdhury, D. M. Bowman, G. A. Wade, V. Khalack, O. Kobzar, O. Kochukhov, C. Neiner, and E. Paunzen. "MOBSTER – II. Identification of rotationally variable A stars observed with TESS in sectors 1–4." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 487, no. 4 (June 20, 2019): 4695–710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1581.

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Tomasi, Silvia, Alyona Zubaryeva, Cesare Pizzirani, Margherita Dal Col, and Jessica Balest. "Propensity to Choose Electric Vehicles in Cross-Border Alpine Regions." Sustainability 13, no. 8 (April 20, 2021): 4583. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13084583.

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Electric vehicles (EVs) are low-carbon innovations that decrease emissions in transportation. Understanding what drives individual propensity to choose EVs supports policymakers in shaping effective low-carbon mobility policies. Within the MOBSTER Interreg project, data were collected using a survey administered to residents in three Alpine cross-border regions—Canton Ticino (Switzerland), South Tyrol (Italy), and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (Italy)—and were analyzed with a logistic regression. This study reports on the relevant drivers of EV uptake, showing (i) that some sociodemographic attributes positively impact the propensity to choose an EV (e.g., young age and teenage children), (ii) that the presence and visibility of charging infrastructures are important, and (iii) that the role of tourism is not a driver of EV uptake. This study confirms that policies should consider sociodemographics, social practices, and physical infrastructures as playing roles in EV uptake. Future research should address the issue of access to low-carbon innovations for all.

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David-Uraz, A., M. E. Shultz, V. Petit, D. M. Bowman, C. Erba, R. A. Fine, C. Neiner, et al. "MOBSTER – IV. Detection of a new magnetic B-type star from follow-up spectropolarimetric observations of photometrically selected candidates★." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 504, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): 4841–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab899.

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ABSTRACT In this paper, we present results from the spectropolarimetric follow-up of photometrically selected candidate magnetic B stars from the MOBSTER (Magnetic OB[A] Stars with TESS: probing their Evolutionary and Rotational properties) project. Out of four observed targets, one (HD 38170) is found to host a detectable surface magnetic field, with a maximum longitudinal field measurement of 105 ± 14 G. This star is chemically peculiar and classified as an α2 CVn variable. Its detection validates the use of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to perform a photometric selection of magnetic candidates. Furthermore, upper limits on the strength of a putative dipolar magnetic field are derived for the remaining three stars, and we report the discovery of a previously unknown spectroscopic binary system, HD 25709. Finally, we use our non-detections as case studies to further inform the criteria to be used for the selection of a larger sample of stars to be followed up using high-resolution spectropolarimetry.

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Shultz, M. E., C. Johnston, J. Labadie-Bartz, V. Petit, A. David-Uraz, O. Kochukhov, G. A. Wade, et al. "MOBSTER – III. HD 62658: a magnetic Bp star in an eclipsing binary with a non-magnetic ‘identical twin’." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 490, no. 3 (October 14, 2019): 4154–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2846.

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ABSTRACT HD 62658 (B9p V) is a little-studied chemically peculiar star. Light curves obtained by the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) show clear eclipses with a period of about 4.75 d, as well as out-of-eclipse brightness modulation with the same 4.75 d period, consistent with synchronized rotational modulation of surface chemical spots. High-resolution ESPaDOnS circular spectropolarimetry shows a clear Zeeman signature in the line profile of the primary; there is no indication of a magnetic field in the secondary. PHOEBE modelling of the light curve and radial velocities indicates that the two components have almost identical masses of about 3 M⊙. The primary’s longitudinal magnetic field 〈Bz〉 varies between about +100 and −250 G, suggesting a surface magnetic dipole strength Bd = 850 G. Bayesian analysis of the Stokes V profiles indicates Bd = 650 G for the primary and Bd < 110 G for the secondary. The primary’s line profiles are highly variable, consistent with the hypothesis that the out-of-eclipse brightness modulation is a consequence of rotational modulation of that star’s chemical spots. We also detect a residual signal in the light curve after removal of the orbital and rotational modulations, which might be pulsational in origin; this could be consistent with the weak line profile variability of the secondary. This system represents an excellent opportunity to examine the consequences of magnetic fields for stellar structure via comparison of two stars that are essentially identical with the exception that one is magnetic. The existence of such a system furthermore suggests that purely environmental explanations for the origin of fossil magnetic fields are incomplete.

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Fraser, David. "Mobster: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and his Gang by John Cummings and Ernest Volkman." Current Issues in Criminal Justice 3, no. 3 (March 1992): 364–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.1992.12036543.

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Yatsyna, Olena F. "Mobbing Syndrome as a Personality Disorder: The Consequences of Complicated Socialisation in the Symptoms of Occupational Destruction." Scientific Bulletin of Mukachevo State University. Series «Pedagogy and Psychology» 7, no. 3 (September 9, 2021): 110–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.52534/msu-pp.7(3).2021.110-117.

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The relevance of this study is conditioned by the need to identify the key preconditions and causes of increased violence in the workplace to find new methods of combating mobbing at both international and national levels. The purpose of this study is to analyse mobbing as a psychosocial and medical phenomenon, which is logical to consider with the symptoms of professional destruction. The study of mobbing syndrome took place in two stages based on synergetic methodology using such general scientific research methods as analysis, synthesis, comparison, and systematisation. The study identified the specific features of mobbing at the Ukrainian and world level. The authors considered the main causes of mobbing behaviour as a social issue, as a social phenomenon of the organisation, and as a form of collective violence. The study provides reasoning regarding the necessity of studying the mobbing syndrome from the standpoint of psychosocial and medical aspects. The authors analysed fractal dynamics of mobbing formation, presented in somatogenesis, psychogenesis, and sociogenesis. The study presents the main predictors of professional destruction, which include individual-personal, i.e., total control, manipulation, and conflict, etc., and clinical, which include emotional instability, narcissism, steroidism, and more. It is determined that the types of individual's socialisation develop in accordance with the defensive mechanisms that prevail upon restoring one's security. The study considered the specific features of the clinical aspect of personality disorder. The authors provided a general description of the narcissistic type of personality disorder as a structure of mobster. The practical value of this study lies in the interdisciplinary investigation of mobbing syndrome based on psychosocial and methodological factors

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Muhammad, Patricia M. "Stephen L. Carter, Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2018. Pp. 384. $30.00 (cloth)." Journal of African American History 106, no. 3 (June 1, 2021): 537–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/714618.

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Jacob, Wilson Chacko. "Eventful Transformations: Al-Futuwwa between History and the Everyday." Comparative Studies in Society and History 49, no. 3 (June 29, 2007): 689–712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417507000679.

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A special correspondent for the leading Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram wrote from Alexandria on 28 May 1936: “One of the effects of the Al-Bosfur nightclub murder in Cairo is that its circumstances have led to an interest in the problem of ‘al-futuwwat’ [sing., al-futuwwa] and how much power and influence (al-sat˙wa) they have in the capital and in other Egyptian cities.” The murder referred to was that of a popular singer and dancer, Imtithal Fawzi, by a band of assassins led by failed businessman and weight-trainer Fuad al-Shami. I argue here that this murder can be read as an instance of a larger event, which might be inscribed in the following way: a moment that irrevocably branded the public figure of futuwwa with the additional meanings of thug, mobster, and nefarious villain—bal ˙tagi. This is not the conventional way of registering this moment; indeed, the modern transformation of al-futuwwa is rarely considered as a historical event. It is not my aim here to affirm or deny the outcome of this transformation, nor am I suggesting that the normative conception of al-futuwwa as an Islamic ideal of masculinity had never before had any negative connotations. Rather, I posit—and want to interrogate—a changed historical relationship in the constitution of al-futuwwa, in which the nature of history itself was radically transformed and contributed to the formation of a new politics and a new subject of politics. As part of the hegemonic rise of this field of politics and its subject, history typically shows, or simply presumes, that other life-worlds, like that of the futuwwat and their particular form of power, were rendered exceptional and ultimately obsolete. In a larger project from which this article is drawn, I explored the gendered constitution of that new cultural and political hegemony. I labeled the gender norm that emerged at the intersection of colonial modernity and nationalism as effendi (bourgeois) masculinity, which I located in a new constellation of practices and discourses around the desirable, modern body. The present essay is in part an effort to de-center this bourgeois figure and the terms of its narration, which I unwittingly reproduced in the original study by rendering the event of the futuwwa's transformation as a bit part within a larger story of ostensibly greater national and historical import.

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Teive, Hélio A. G., and Luciano de Paola. "Neurobehavioral disorders locked in Alcatraz: case reports on three famous inmates." Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria 73, no. 8 (August 2015): 722–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0004-282x20150075.

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The Alcatraz prison, with its picturesque surroundings and fascinating life stories of its inmates, has been the subject of a number of films and publications. The authors take a closer look at the biographies of “Al Capone”, Robert “Birdman” Stroud and “Mickey” Cohen. These legendary American mobsters shared not only a history at “The Rock”, but also a history of neuropsychiatric diseases, ranging from neurosyphilis to anti-social, borderline and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.

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Schwartz, David G. "Satan's playground: mobsters and movie stars at America's greatest gaming resort." Journal of Tourism History 3, no. 2 (August 2011): 201–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2011.614503.

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Dabscheck, Braham, and James B. Jacobs. "Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement." Labour History, no. 94 (2008): 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516289.

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Buffington, Robert M. "Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort." Hispanic American Historical Review 91, no. 4 (November 1, 2011): 750–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1416999.

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Bernstein, L. "Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement." Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 4, no. 2 (June 1, 2007): 139–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2006-077.

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Wehrle, Edmund F. "Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement (review)." Labor Studies Journal 31, no. 4 (2007): 102–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lab.2006.0062.

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Tygiel, Jules, and Gerald Horne. "Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds & Trade Unionists." Western Historical Quarterly 33, no. 1 (2002): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4144755.

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Miller, Vivien. "Paul J. Vanderwood, Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort." Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 15, no. 2 (December 1, 2011): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/chs.1307.

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Hall, Linda B. "Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort (review)." Americas 68, no. 2 (2011): 315–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.2011.0117.

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Curtis, James R. "Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort (review)." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 114, no. 4 (2011): 460–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/swh.2011.0038.

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Witwer, David. "Book Review: History: Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement." ILR Review 60, no. 2 (January 2007): 302–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979390706000217.

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Wood, Andrew Grant. "Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort by Paul J. Vanderwood." Latin Americanist 54, no. 3 (September 27, 2010): 114–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1557-203x.2010.01078_11.x.

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Whalen, Philip. "Wine Politics: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink (review)." Journal of World History 23, no. 3 (2012): 723–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2012.0065.

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Caliendo, Giuditta. "Italy’s other Mafia." Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies 7, no. 2 (December 31, 2012): 191–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tis.7.2.06cal.

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Following its translation into more than thirty languages, Roberto Saviano’s non-fiction novel Gomorrah [Gomorra], has unveiled to a vast number of readers across the globe the endless saga of Naples’ crime syndicate, the Camorra (from which the book’s title derives its bitter play on words). Literary critics and reviewers in the UK and in the U.S. have widely acclaimed Saviano’s talent in depicting the corruption plaguing Naples’ gloomy and degraded hinterland, although the sociocultural context portrayed in Gomorrah is naturally distant from the repertoire of the target culture: the text is widely populated by culture-bound concepts and implicit meanings, which further complicates the translation process. Through a contrastive analysis of the Italian and English versions of the exposé, this study explores the strategies employed in translating the voices and deeds of Naples’ mobsters, as well as the socioeconomic setting of the Camorra. With reference to types of non-equivalence between the two language versions, this article investigates to what extent the English translation contributes to the identity-building process of the Camorra as a separate and far more deadly criminal organization vis-à-vis the Sicilian Mafia.

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Smith, Mark C. "Paul J. Vanderwood. Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010." Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 25, no. 1-2 (January 2011): 173–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/shad25010173.

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KAYE, ANDREW M. "Colonel Roscoe Conkling Simmons and the Mechanics of Black Leadership." Journal of American Studies 37, no. 1 (April 2003): 79–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875803007011.

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I want you to have power because I will have power.Roscoe Conkling Simmons (1881–1951) was an African American journalist and lifelong Republican, frequently acclaimed as the greatest orator of his day. He wrote for the Chicago Defender, the nation's largest black paper, and was later a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. A sometime advisor on black affairs to Republican administrations during the 1920s, Simmons seconded the re-nomination of Herbert Hoover for president in 1932, where “His exit from the platform was blocked by senators, committeemen, governors and others high in the public life who sought to touch ‘the hem of his garment.’” Throughout his career, the Colonel, as Simmons was often called, forged close links with black organizations. On regular speaking tours, he participated in the affairs of fraternities, churches, and educational institutions nationwide. Simmons was a social chameleon, on familiar terms with black America's most powerful businessmen and editors, entertainers and mobsters, but equally comfortable among the working men and women with whom he gossiped in barber shops and at church picnics. Senators, mayors, and aldermen admired his talent on the speaking platform and valued his connections to the black community. When white Republicans needed help in rallying northern black voters, Simmons was the fixer they summoned. He gladly obliged, out of loyalty to the Grand Old Party and in anticipation of reciprocal dispensations.

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Turner, Nigel E. "The Other Gambling Industry. A Review of Pierre de Champlain’s Mobsters, Gangsters and Men of Honour: Cracking the Mafia Code." International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction 6, no. 3 (September 25, 2007): 454–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-007-9124-2.

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Welch, Rebecca L. "Ron Chepesiuk, Gangsters of Miami: True Tales of Mobsters, Gamblers, Hit Men, Con Men and Gang Bangers from the Magic City." Trends in Organized Crime 14, no. 1 (January 28, 2011): 87–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12117-010-9117-6.

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Rastello, Sara, Ugo N. di Carlo, Michela Mapelli, Nicola Giacobbo, and Alessandro Ballone. "Black Hole dynamics in Young Star Clusters." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 14, S351 (May 2019): 490–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s174392131900680x.

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AbstractYoung star clusters are a promising environment for forming binary black holes. Such binaries may form dynamically or via binary star evolution or through the interplay of these two channels. To study these formation pathways, we have performed high precision direct N-body simulations of low-mass (M < 1000 M⊙) young star clusters. The simulations were carried out with the code Nbody6++GPU coupled with the population synthesis code MOBSE. Our results highlight the importance of dynamics to form massive black hole binaries even in low-mass young star clusters.

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Gindis, David. "RELENTLESS: THE FORENSICS OF MOBSTERS' BUSINESS PRACTICES, by Jerold L.ZimmermanDaniel P.ForresterWillowcroft Publishing (2021), 270 pp. ISBN: 978‐1734837100 (pb, £12.99); 978‐1734837117 (e‐book, £5.79)." Economic Affairs 41, no. 2 (June 2021): 349–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecaf.12478.

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Hall, Linda B. "Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort. By Paul Vanderwood. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. xii, 392. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index." Americas 68, no. 02 (October 2011): 315–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003161500001231.

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Arsovska, Jana. "Strategic Mobsters or Deprived Migrants? Testing the Transplantation and Deprivation Models of Organized Crime in an Effort to Understand Criminal Mobility and Diversity in the United States." International Migration 54, no. 2 (November 16, 2015): 160–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imig.12217.

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Wehrle, Edmund F. "Book Reviews : Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement. By James B. Jacobs. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 352 pp. $32.95 hardback." Labor Studies Journal 31, no. 4 (January 2007): 102–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0160449x0703100421.

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Celeste Artale, M., Nicola Giacobbo, Michela Mapelli, and Paolo Esposito. "The High Mass X-ray binaries in star-forming galaxies." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 14, S346 (August 2018): 332–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921318007627.

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AbstractThe high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) provide an exciting framework to investigate the evolution of massive stars and the processes behind binary evolution. HMXBs have shown to be good tracers of recent star formation in galaxies and might be important feedback sources at early stages of the Universe. Furthermore, HMXBs are likely the progenitors of gravitational wave sources (BH–BH or BH–NS binaries that may merge producing gravitational waves). In this work, we investigate the nature and properties of HMXB population in star-forming galaxies. We combine the results from the population synthesis model MOBSE (Giacobbo & Mapelli 2018a) together with galaxy catalogs from EAGLE simulation (Schaye et al. 2015). Therefore, this method describes the HMXBs within their host galaxies in a self-consistent way. We compute the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of HMXBs in star-forming galaxies, showing that this methodology matches the main features of the observed XLF.

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Slater, Joseph. "James B. Jacobs, Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement, New York: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. 320. $18.95 (ISBN 0-8147-4273-4)." Law and History Review 26, no. 1 (2008): 224–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248000003849.

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Gould, Anthony M. "Mobsters, Unions and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement, by James B. Jacobs, New York: New York University Press, 2006, 352 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4273-0." Relations industrielles 62, no. 3 (2007): 573. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/016495ar.

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Rastello, Sara, Michela Mapelli, Ugo N. Di Carlo, Nicola Giacobbo, Filippo Santoliquido, Mario Spera, Alessandro Ballone, and Giuliano Iorio. "Dynamics of black hole–neutron star binaries in young star clusters." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 497, no. 2 (July 10, 2020): 1563–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2018.

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ABSTRACT Young star clusters are likely the most common birthplace of massive stars across cosmic time and influence the formation of compact binaries in several ways. Here, we simulate the formation of black hole–neutron star binaries (BHNSs) in young star clusters, by means of the binary population synthesis code MOBSE interfaced with the N-body code NBODY6++GPU. BHNSs formed in young star clusters (dynamical BHNSs) are significantly more massive than BHNSs formed from isolated binaries (isolated BHNSs): ∼40 per cent of the dynamical BHNS mergers have a total mass of >15 M⊙, while only ∼0.01 per cent of the isolated BHNS mergers have mass in excess of this value. Hence, our models strongly support a dynamical formation scenario for GW190814, given its total mass of ∼26 M⊙, if this event is a BHNS merger. All our dynamical BHNSs are ejected from their parent star cluster before they reach coalescence. Thus, a significant fraction of BHNS mergers occurring in the field might have originated in a young star cluster. The mass spectrum of BHNS mergers from gravitational-wave detections will provide a clue to differentiate between dynamical and isolated formation of BHNSs.

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Veseth, Michael. "Tyler Colman: Wine Politics: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2008, 208 pp., ISBN 978–0–52–0255210, $27.50." Journal of Wine Economics 3, no. 2 (2008): 212–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1931436100001243.

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Lorence, James J. "Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930–1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists. ByGerald Home. 335 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Photos, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN 0-292-73138-8." Business History Review 75, no. 4 (2001): 848–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3116525.

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Di Carlo, Ugo N., Michela Mapelli, Yann Bouffanais, Nicola Giacobbo, Filippo Santoliquido, Alessandro Bressan, Mario Spera, and Francesco Haardt. "Binary black holes in the pair instability mass gap." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 497, no. 1 (July 13, 2020): 1043–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1997.

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ABSTRACT Pair instability (PI) and pulsational PI prevent the formation of black holes (BHs) with mass ≳60 M⊙ from single star evolution. Here, we investigate the possibility that BHs with mass in the PI gap form via stellar mergers and multiple stellar mergers, facilitated by dynamical encounters in young star clusters. We analyse 104 simulations, run with the direct N-body code nbody6++gpu coupled with the population synthesis code mobse. We find that up to ∼6 per cent of all simulated BHs have mass in the PI gap, depending on progenitor’s metallicity. This formation channel is strongly suppressed in metal-rich (Z = 0.02) star clusters because of stellar winds. BHs with mass in the PI gap are initially single BHs but can efficiently acquire companions through dynamical exchanges. We find that ∼21 per cent, 10 per cent, and 0.5 per cent of all binary BHs have at least one component in the PI mass gap at metallicity Z = 0.0002, 0.002, and 0.02, respectively. Based on the evolution of the cosmic star formation rate and metallicity, and under the assumption that all stars form in young star clusters, we predict that ∼5 per cent of all binary BH mergers detectable by advanced LIGO and Virgo at their design sensitivity have at least one component in the PI mass gap.

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Perna, Rosalba, M. Celeste Artale, Yi-Han Wang, Michela Mapelli, Davide Lazzati, Cecilia Sgalletta, and Filippo Santoliquido. "Host galaxies and electromagnetic counterparts to binary neutron star mergers across the cosmic time: detectability of GW170817-like events." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 512, no. 2 (March 12, 2022): 2654–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac685.

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ABSTRACT The association of GRB170817A with a binary neutron star (BNS) merger has revealed that BNSs produce at least a fraction of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). As gravitational wave (GW) detectors push their horizons, it is important to assess coupled electromagnetic (EM)/GW probabilities and maximize observational prospects. Here, we perform BNS population synthesis calculations with the code mobse, seeding the binaries in galaxies at three representative redshifts, $z$ = 0.01, 0.1, and 1 of the Illustris TNG50 simulation. The binaries are evolved and their locations numerically tracked in the host galactic potentials until merger. Adopting the microphysics parameters of GRB170817A, we numerically compute the broad-band light curves of jets from BNS mergers, with the afterglow brightness dependent on the local medium density at the merger site. We perform Monte Carlo simulations of the resulting EM population assuming either a random viewing angle with respect to the jet, or a jet aligned with the orbital angular momentum of the binary, which biases the viewing angle probability for GW-triggered events. We find a gamma-ray detection probability of $\sim\!2{{\rm per\ cent}},10{{\rm per\ cent}},\mathrm{and}\ 40{{\rm per\ cent}}$ for BNSs at $z$ = 1, 0.1, and 0.01, respectively, for the random case, rising to $\sim\!75{{\rm per\ cent}}$ for the $z$ = 0.01, GW-triggered aligned case. Afterglow detection probabilities of GW-triggered BNS mergers vary in the range of $\sim \! 0.3 \!-\! 0.5{{\rm per\ cent}}$, with higher values for aligned jets, and are comparable across the high- and low-energy bands, unlike gamma-ray-triggered events (cosmological SGRBs) which are significantly brighter at higher energies. We further quantify observational biases with respect to host galaxy masses.

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Caravagna, Giulio, Guido Sanguinetti, Trevor A. Graham, and Andrea Sottoriva. "The MOBSTER R package for tumour subclonal deconvolution from bulk DNA whole-genome sequencing data." BMC Bioinformatics 21, no. 1 (November 17, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-03863-1.

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Abstract Background The large-scale availability of whole-genome sequencing profiles from bulk DNA sequencing of cancer tissues is fueling the application of evolutionary theory to cancer. From a bulk biopsy, subclonal deconvolution methods are used to determine the composition of cancer subpopulations in the biopsy sample, a fundamental step to determine clonal expansions and their evolutionary trajectories. Results In a recent work we have developed a new model-based approach to carry out subclonal deconvolution from the site frequency spectrum of somatic mutations. This new method integrates, for the first time, an explicit model for neutral evolutionary forces that participate in clonal expansions; in that work we have also shown that our method improves largely over competing data-driven methods. In this Software paper we present mobster, an open source R package built around our new deconvolution approach, which provides several functions to plot data and fit models, assess their confidence and compute further evolutionary analyses that relate to subclonal deconvolution. Conclusions We present the mobster package for tumour subclonal deconvolution from bulk sequencing, the first approach to integrate Machine Learning and Population Genetics which can explicitly model co-existing neutral and positive selection in cancer. We showcase the analysis of two datasets, one simulated and one from a breast cancer patient, and overview all package functionalities.

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Thung, Djie Tjwan, Joep de Ligt, Lisenka EM Vissers, Marloes Steehouwer, Mark Kroon, Petra de Vries, Eline P. Slagboom, Kai Ye, Joris A. Veltman, and Jayne Y. Hehir-Kwa. "Mobster: accurate detection of mobile element insertions in next generation sequencing data." Genome Biology 15, no. 10 (October 2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-014-0488-x.

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Olszowska, Lara Hania. "From Hollywood mobster to Russian gangster: representations of mafia in Coppola’s Godfather trilogy and Balabanov’s Brother films." Slovo 35, no. 1 (February 21, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444.0954-6839.1275.

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This study examines the changed mythology of crime in the Hollywood gangster genre resulting from new representations of mafia in Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy. The trilogy will be viewed as a point of departure for new experimentations in the gangster genre in response to the Russian experience of mafia, namely in Aleksei Balabanov’s Brother film sequence. This analysis will discuss the key themes that appear in Coppola’s trilogy including family, masculinity, morality, and identity and consider the extent to which they either translate to or mutate in Balabanov’s sequence. This research will also explore how Balabanov infuses his films with unique Russian stylistic elements from the bylina (fairy-tale) and aesthetics from chernukha (dark cinema) in order to create a reimagined version of the gangster film. This consideration of the filmic depictions of mafia does not attempt to define the mafia in its truly existing form but seeks to understand how two different experiences of mafia and their interpretations can compare on screen, and how this reveals the tension between resisting and accepting the influence of Hollywood and America on Russian cinema and society.

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