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'Investire' sul dettato costituzionale: la tutela delle persone con disabilità tra l'incessante pungolo del giudice delle leggi e l'occasione del PNRR, in La Rivista "Gruppo di PIsa", n. 2/2025
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Navigating Climate Change in Green Marketing: Consumer Response to Carbon‐Neutral Claims and Carbon‐Washing
No full textThe escalating climate crisis has driven increased CSR and decarbonization efforts. However, ambiguous or unsubstantiated carbon claims—known as carbon-washing—pose significant barriers to the adoption of low-carbon products. This study examines the effects of disclosing emissions transparency along the value chain and substantiating explicit carbon-neutral claims, as outlined in forthcoming European directives. Across three experimental studies with 1593 Italian consumers (aged 18–70), we find that both interventions reduce perceived greenwashing (PGW) and enhance purchase intentions (PIs), but only when claims are understood. Poor comprehension reverses or nullifies these benefits, as consumers often rely on heuristic reasoning, leading to superficial judgments. Preliminary explanations (PEs) improve the ability to identify carbon-washing practices but remain insufficient to drive behavioral change. These findings emphasize the urgent need for clear, standardized and lifecycle-based communication and ongoing educational initiatives to empower consumers' decisions and foster a low-carbon economy
Dai Lorena ai Savoia: la transizione dal Granducato di Toscana al Regno d’Italia tra il 1859 e il 1861
No full textFrom Lorraine to Savoy: the transition from Grand Duchy of Tuscany to Kingdom of Italy between 1859 and 1861–This essay aims to analyze from both a constitutional and historical point of view the dissolution of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the peaceful transition towards the annexation of Tuscany first to the Kingdom of Sardinia (then Italy), characterized by the departure of the reigning Habsburg-Lorraine family and the establishment of a provisional government before the plebiscite of 1860. This process, although quick and peaceful, was slowed down by the attachment of the Tuscans to the previous institutions and legislation, which were more advanced and respectful of local autonomy than those of the Kingdom of Sardinia
Understanding Health Care Workers’ Attitudes and Preferences Toward Digital Patient Monitoring Platforms: Cross-Country Survey Study
No full textBackground: The integration of digital health tools into the routines of health care workers (HCWs) holds potential to enhance health care delivery. In particular, digital tools for patient data monitoring allow HCWs to quickly access patient health information and detect early warning signs of potential issues. However, while interest in these tools, such as telemedicine and mobile health, has rapidly grown in recent years, limited research has explored HCWs’ attitudes toward digital innovations or their feature preferences. Objective: This study aims to (1) assess HCWs’ attitudes toward digital health tools for patient data monitoring, (2) identify socioeconomic factors influencing these attitudes, (3) determine HCWs’ preferences for features of a novel digital health platform for patient data monitoring, and (4) examine whether HCWs’ baseline attitudes impact their feature preferences. Methods: This study uses an integrated approach combining item response theory (IRT) and discrete choice experiment to evaluate the attitudes and preferences of HCWs. Data come from a web conjoint survey distributed to an international cohort of HCWs across the following 4 European countries: Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, and Greece. Results: Survey respondents comprise 260 HCWs from the 4 countries. The findings indicate that HCWs generally hold a positive attitude toward technological devices (all the IRT coefficients are statistically significant with P<.05). Socioeconomic characteristics, including factors such as gender (P=0.05), professional role (P=0.01), and educational background (P=0.01), significantly influence these attitudes. Results show that highly educated female HCWs are those who are mostly inclined to use technologies. In addition, the specific features of a digital health platform for patient data monitoring highly impact HCWs’ willingness to incorporate such a tool into their daily practice (all coefficients related to the attributes’ effects in the models for the discrete choice experiment results are significant (all P=0.01 except the data looking attribute which has P=0.03) . The findings suggest that an ideal digital health platform for patient data monitoring should offer intuitive graphs, comparative statistics against standards, and include patients’ family clinical history. In addition, health workers should receive instructor-led group training to effectively use the platform. Conclusions: This study shows that health workers generally support the use of digital health tools, which have the potential to improve health care efficiency and patient outcomes through enhanced monitoring and timely interventions. To facilitate adoption, policymakers should strengthen infrastructure, enact supportive legislation, and tailor interventions for groups less inclined to use these tools. Aligning digital health platform features with HCW preferences is crucial, as it directly impacts HCWs’ willingness to integrate these tools into daily routines, ultimately benefiting patients. Future research should examine additional factors influencing HCW adoption and address organizational and infrastructural barriers to optimize implementation of digital health platform and improve patient care
D. Amram, C. Novara, M. Ratti (eds), Introduction. Special Issue - Towards a multilevel and interdisciplinary assessment for a safer use of digital services and ai-based products, Opinio Juris in Comparatione, 2025, II, pp. 103 ff.
No full textThis is a short introduction to a special issue resulting from research conducted in the
last two years, dealing with the development of a multilevel assessment for digital
services and AI-based products with the lenses of children’s rights
FuXi-ENS: A machine learning model for efficient and accurate ensemble weather prediction
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Soft robotics: what’s next in bioinspired design and applications of soft robots?
No full text: The field of soft robotics has shown unprecedented growth in research efforts, scientific achievements, and technological advancements. Bioinspiration and biomimetics have played an instrumental role in the birth and growth of soft robotics. What is next for this field? To promote soft robotics research to the next level and have a broader impact in robotics and engineering fields, in this roadmap, we argue that two research directions should be strengthened i) more structured, formal methods and tools for designing and developing soft robots and bioinspired robots ii) more concrete applications of bioinspired soft robots in diverse sectors of human activities. This article provides a roadmap for the design of bioinspired soft robots, the integration of soft robot systems, and their applications in industry and services. Scientists and experts describe the state-of-the art and the perspectives of bioinspired, model-informed design of soft robots, outlining the challenges in developing complex soft robotic systems, and applications of soft robots in diverse fields.
A fully implantable sensorized artificial urinary bladder to restore continence and fullness monitoring
No full textA fully implantable sensorized organ to replace the natural urinary bladder holds considerable promise for patients undergoing radical cystectomy. Clinical options to restore continence include urine redirection to wearable bags or reconstruction of neobladders from autologous tissues, often with limited capacity. However, none of these approaches can restore patient's ability to perceive bladder fullness, making voiding self-management complex and burdensome. To address these limitations, we introduce the Soft Self-Sensitive Artificial Bladder (S3AB), a fully implantable sensorized organ designed to replace urinary bladder anatomy, as well as continence and fullness monitoring. The S3AB main component is a silicone origami-inspired bladder designed to fit the abdominopelvic cavity. The foldable and soft nature facilitates the maintenance of intravesical pressure below the physiological range, thereby promoting the preservation of renal function over time. The bladder is integrated with a multi-sensor system based on resistive textile sensors featuring durability and functionality throughout repetitive cycles of filling and draining. The sensors demonstrate stability at physiological temperatures. Once isolated from bodily fluids, textile sensors permit to monitor the bladder internal volume leveraging on the origami structure opening during filling, with an estimation accuracy within approximately 12%. Volume monitoring allows warning the patient when the maximum capacity is almost reached, thus making possible a natural micturition management. S3AB proved efficient in restoring urine collection and filling state monitoring upon successful implantation in a large animal model