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Behind Italian Bars: the “Caravan with Rusty Wheels”
No full textThesis (B.A. in International Affairs, Minor in Legal Studies and Gender Studies)--John Cabot University, Spring 2024.This research explores the conditions of prisoners in the Italian prison system, specifically those of migrant prisoners. The research question of the thesis is: how are distinctions between “migrants” and “Italians” constructed in the Italian prison system? There are two main objectives. The first one is to understand how distinctions are constructed, and the first hypothesis is that migrants are treated differently from Italian prisoners due to distinctions made between these two categories of people in the system (Hyp. 1). The second objective is to understand whether prisoners’ formal rights are respected in every aspect of prison life. The second hypothesis is that prisoners’ rights are not always respected and that migrants face even more problems and inequalities than Italians (Hyp. 2). The research starts with a background chapter on the Italian penitentiary system. This is followed by a chapter dedicated to the existing, or better said, minimal literature on the matter. Consequently, the theory chapter looks at sociological and criminological perspectives which could be applied to the inmates, as only the inmate subculture was studied so far. The methodology chapter is dedicated to explaining the mixed methods, both quantitative and qualitative, and a second chapter is dedicated to the results. In the quantitative part, data was gathered from the reports of the association Antigone, complemented by an interview with Scandurra. In the qualitative part, eight interviews in total were conducted with people working in the prison system, who used to work in it; or who study it. A chapter is dedicated to possible ideas that could be implemented in the prison system, mainly taking inspiration from the Montessori method but also using Norway and Finland’s prison systems as examples. The research has tried to shed light on the main issues faced by inmates in the Italian prison system, and expose the main issues that prisoners deal with
A Comparative Analysis of Human and AI-Translated Texts: How do they differ?
No full textThesis (B.A. in Art History)--John Cabot University, Spring 2024.Nell’ultimo decennio l’intelligenza artificiale ha compiuto progressi significativi in diversi campi, incluso quello della traduzione linguistica. Con il crescente timore che essa possa prendere il posto di tutti coloro che eseguono attività che sono già state o potrebbero essere rivoluzionate dall’IA stessa, come quella della traduzione, è importante capire se questa sia una possibilità concreta o meno. Analizzando tre testi di Pier Paolo Pasolini appartenenti a generi differenti, che coprono argomenti diversi e che variano per complessità e lunghezza, la presente tesi analizza la capacità di ChatGPT e di DeepL, rispettivamente un agente conversazionale e un servizio di traduzione linguistica entrambi alimentati dall'intelligenza artificiale, di tradurre efficacemente dei testi. I testi tradotti sono poi stati paragonati con le traduzioni effettuate da chi scrive per valutare il tempo impiegato e, soprattutto, se l’intervento umano sia ancora necessario. I risultati hanno indicato che, sebbene strumenti come ChatGPT e DeepL siano di grande aiuto in termini di tempo, la revisione finale del testo da parte di un essere umano è ancora necessaria. Questi risultati contribuiscono alla letteratura sull'intelligenza artificiale e, in ultima analisi, offrono spunti di riflessione per i traduttori professionisti e per coloro che desiderano avvicinarsi al mondo della traduzione
Introduction: Teaching Urban Media
No full textEleonora Diamanti discusses designing the syllabus for her course "Urban Media" and introduces the essays in the Student Voices section
Opportunity Recognition and Innovative Solutions to Societal Challenges: The Case of Community Cooperatives in Italy
No full textIn this chapter, we present some preliminary, exploratory evidence concerning the peculiarities surrounding the recognition of entrepreneurial opportunities as encountered by community cooperatives, that is, entities established with the mission to create value for the community in which they operate and not for their members exclusively. Drawing from the experience of eight Italian community cooperatives, we offer initial empirical support to the argument that community embeddedness complicates the process of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition. Community cooperatives confront the challenge of accommodating the disparate needs of community members, while operating within a context of resource constraints. However, community embeddedness also favors the engagement of community members in more creative processes to identify more innovative solutions to empower communities. Our preliminary findings speak to the emergent research on community-based enterprises and to the broader stream investigating entrepreneurship. They also show how cooperatives can be a source of social innovation while anchoring themselves to their imprinting of human-centered organizations, established to ameliorate the conditions of marginalized people
The Virgin Mary as an open door for the Wise and Foolish Virgins and viewers on the façade of Santa Maria in Trastevere
No full textMaster of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2024.This thesis examines the thirteenth-century façade mosaic of Santa Maria in Trastevere through the lens of a thirteenth-century viewer standing in the piazza gazing upwards at the church’s exterior. The iconography on the church’s façade has long troubled scholars with the way it breaks many of the “rules” of its two iconographic groupings: the Virgo lactans and the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins. The Virgo lactans in Santa Maria in Trastevere presents problems due to the image type’s relative rarity in Western Europe before the hypothesized date of this mosaic’s execution in the second or third decade of the thirteenth century. This thesis places the Virgo lactans within its Roman context, compares it to other popular images of the Virgin Mary in Rome to understand how the iconography may have been received by a thirteenth-century viewer. The second iconographic group presents different challenges. The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, unlike the Virgo lactans, is scriptural. And yet, on the façade of Santa Maria in Trastevere it diverges from the iconographic formulas and messaging that preceded this façade, even to the point where some art historians have argued that the parable is in fact not the subject. This thesis explores the prescriptive motivations behind Santa Maria in Trastevere’s unique adaptation of the parable in a post-Fourth Lateran Council context, and questions whether its novelty could have been read as such by a thirteenth-century viewer by incorporating a wide range of comparanda. By placing this façade mosaic in both its architectural context, and its Roman context, this thesis proposes a reading of the façade mosaic based on the idea of contrasts between biblical women with the Wise and Foolish Virgins as the obvious contrast and the Virgin Mary and Eve as the less-obvious contrast. These contrasts result in a mosaic that encourages movement into the church structure by using the metaphor of an open door through the Virgo lactans iconography, further deepened by the resonances and associations a thirteenth-century viewer may have made while viewing the figures on the façade of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Planning for Instruction Training: Implementing an On-the-Job Training for Library Instructors
No full textThe chapter describes the implementation and revision of an instruction training plan developed to assist early-career librarians and librarians with no previous instruction experience with developing the basic skills for teaching information literacy in an academic environment. The case study enters an already existing scholarly conversation, wanting to provide a real-life example of an instruction training program meant to support an on-the-job approach to train new instruction librarians. The instruction training plan developed at John Cabot University was informally developed throughout the years to teach librarians with no previous instruction experience the basics of library instruction with a strong active learning component, due to the fact that most of the training had to happen on the job. Learning the theory and applying it in practice became a need and the major strength of this program, and the need to hire, and therefore train, new instruction librarians, became the opportunity to update and formalize the training plan. The instruction training plan builds its foundations on the ACRL documents and guidelines related to instructional practices, including the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and Roles and Strengths of Teaching Librarians. The training plan focuses on the essential aspects of backward design, developing assessable learning outcomes, creating instructional activities that foster authentic learning, and applying appropriate assessment techniques
A cost-effectiveness analysis of Navina Smart on adult patients affected by neurogenic bowel dysfunction
No full textBackground and Objectives:The objective of this study is to evaluate the economic impact of the device Navina Smart on patients affected by neurogenic bowel dysfunction and dependent on transanal irrigation within the Italian context. This study employs the perspective of the Italian National Health Service.
Methods: The analysis was conducted through a Markov model, comparing two scenarios: standard bowel care vs. transanal irrigation. The model operates on a 30-year time period. The results were reported in terms of net monetary benefit.
Results: Transanal irrigation therapy was dominant in all scenarios with lower costs and higher effectiveness. The population was assumed to be composed of 1,000 subjects. Setting the willingness to pay at €35,000.00/QALYs (quality-adjusted life years), the analysis yielded a net monetary benefit of €81,087 and cost savings of €66,101 per patient over 30 years.
Conclusion: The results of this study substantiate that transanal irrigation therapy treatment employing the Navina Smart device can significantly benefit patients suffering from neurogenic bowel dysfunction by relieving their symptoms. In addition, this therapy offers important cost savings for the Italian National Health Service by reducing resource utilization
Men’s Reflection of Women’s Anger in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
No full textThesis (B.A. in English Literature)--John Cabot University, Spring 2024.This analysis of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë focuses on the feeling of anger and how it shapes the dynamic between the main characters of the novels. This thesis will explore the sentiment of ire in the novels, focusing on its origin and identifying it mainly through a feminist lens. In Jane Eyre I will focus on the shift from expression of anger to repression of anger, concerning the character of Rochester, and the contrary regarding Jane, all the while identifying the source of their rage as their inability to fit into society. In Wuthering Heights I will analyse Catherine and Heathcliff’s shifts from expression, to suppression, to expression once again, by taking into consideration their roles as misfits
Organized Crime: Perspectives on Societal Challenges, Threats, and Crises
No full textOrganized crime groups (OCGs) are important business and institutional actors in several locations around the world. In this symposium, we explore how the presence and activities of OCGs influence emerging societal challenges, threats, and crises. Our investigations use OCGs as a metaphor for pursuit of extreme profit motive and instrumental practices that contribute towards perpetuating social inequalities and exploitation. By digging deeper into the workings of organized crime groups, we develop theoretical and practical implications for what constitutes firms’ ethical and socially responsible behavior
