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Problemi organizzativi e prospettive del sistema sanitario in Italia
Get PDFThe Italian National Health Service is facing a crisis characterized by healthcare deficiencies, economic inefficiencies, and a lack of investments. Furthermore, the ongoing public debate on this critical issue remains incomplete. This book addresses these challenges by fostering interdisciplinary discussions, analyzing organizational issues, and identifying strategies to revitalize the healthcare system in accordance with constitutional principles and the needs of the diverse Italian regions. The decentralized and unequal state of the Italian healthcare system is examined through a comparative analysis of the Lombardia region in the North of Italy and the Puglia region in the South of Italy. Despite similar national funding per capita, demographic disparities impact resource allocation: only individuals with higher income levels can afford more extensive personal spending on private healthcare when the public healthcare system is deficient. This book provides insights into the evolution of the Italian National Health Service, from its inception to the current crisis, serving as a platform for informed debates and proposals for revitalizing actions
Entering a gender-neutral workplace? College students’ expectations and the impact of information provision
Get PDFAlthough women often outperform men in school and college, they still face higher unemployment rates and lower wages when employed. Are prospective workers aware of these inequalities, or do they expect to enter a gender-neutral workplace? This paper investigates college students’ expectations and the effect of information provision about gender gaps in academic performance and early labor market outcomes on the two sides of the labor market. Our lab experiment comprises a questionnaire to elicit students’ beliefs about academic performance and labor market inequalities, a demand-side game, and a supply-side game. In the demand-side game, subjects act as employers and are asked to hire three candidates and assign them to tasks that differ in complexity and profitability. In the supply-side game, we elicit individual willingness to compete. Information provision takes the form of feedback on the elicited beliefs. Our treatments vary the timing of the feedback: subjects in the feedback treatment received feedback before facing the other two games, while subjects in the priming and the control treatments only received feedback at the end of the experiment. First, our findings indicate that participants are largely unaware of gender gaps. Second, while information provision doesn't substantially alter employers’ hiring decisions, it increases the likelihood of assigning women to challenging tasks. Third, while feedback enhances willingness to compete among job market candidates, it does not significantly alter the gender gap in competitiveness. Overall, our experiment suggests potential positive effects of information provision on women’s labor market outcomes
UNICORN - UNiversity COmmunity leaRNing Staff Training Workbook
Get PDFThe workbook was designed as the main resource to accompany/guide the training of UNICORN PROJECT participants. Its aim was to ensure that all UNICORN project participants have a common knowledge base about service-learning in general; and how service-learning can be incorporated into mobility programs. The training was designed to help participants understand the WHY, WHO, WHEN, WHAT, WHERE, and HOW OF service-learning in the context of UNICORN mobility and engage in significant conversations on these issues, in order to be able to co-design UNICORN SL modules
Corpus UniCittà
Get PDFThe UNICittà project, funded by the Carisbo Foundation as part of the Rediscovering The City 2019 call, focuses on the collection and dissemination of a corpus of texts on tangible and intangible heritage belonging to the University of Bologna. This multilingual corpus contains texts written in English, French, Russian and Spanish by foreign travellers of the past which have been collected in order to be made available to organisations and institutions for the creation of tourism promotion resources on the University's heritage. The main goal of the corpus is thus to enhance knowledge and access to such artistic and historical heritage that remains unknown to the wide public and international tourists. This project is part of the activities of the Multilingual Lexicon Research Unit operating at CeSLiC research center (https://site.unibo.it/ceslic/it) in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Data on the effects of supplemental LED light combined with defoliation on truss-tomato
No full textThe dataset contains the vegetative, physiological and qualitative data of greenhouse truss-tomato cultivated with a combination of defoliation and supplemental LED light. The defoliation factors consisted of the early removal of the leaves (R) right under the developing truss before the fruit turning stage and a non-removal (NR) during the entire cultivation cycle. The lighting factors consisted of an artificial LED lighting treatment with red and blue diodes for 16 h d^−1 (h 8-00) with an intensity of 180 μmol s^−1 m^−2 (RB) and a control cultivated under natural light only (CK)
Canone interpretativo e «dantismo giuridico» del Trecento: Pietro Alighieri, Alberico da Rosciate e Bartolo da Sassoferrato
Get PDF[Interpretive canon and “Legal Danteism” in the 14th century. Pietro Alighieri, Alberico da Rosciate and Bartolo da Sassoferrato]. The contribution is dedicated to that sector of the centuries-old commentary on Dante Alighieri’s Comedy entrusted to jurists and called juridical dantism. The interest of jurists for Dante has its roots in the very nature of his poetry which is of a doctrinal nature, an outcome of the legal, philosophical, and theological debates of the time
Violetta, l’eroina carnascialesca che abbatté il tiranno in nome di un superiore diritto naturale
Get PDF[Violetta, the carnival heroine who brought down the tyrant in the name of a higher natural right]. Violetta is the central character of the centuries-old tradition of the ‘historic’ Carnival of Ivrea. The origin of the legend that features her as a protagonist is subsequent to the French revolutionary and Napoleonic additions that have been documented in written form since 1808 and that enriched the previous carnival celebrations in Ivrea. It was only in 1858 that the ‘Canzone del Carnovale’ was composed by Ferdinando Bosio, celebrating the exploits of the ‘daughter of a miller’. In a romantic atmosphere that mixes patriotism and neo-Gothic aesthetics Violetta, as a new Antigone, claims justice before the law, rejecting the exercise of a ius primae noctis that is referred to with prudery rather than historical rigour. Yet Violetta as well embodies the conflict between natural law and positive law. Conflict resolved in favour of the former, with the violent death of the tyrant and the celebration of the popular heroine who, like Judith, shrewdly annihilates him. If any moral concerns about the violent gesture are averted by the implicit but clear biblical citation, coherence with the spirit of the Italian Risorgimento is guaranteed by the libertarian expectations of Violetta’s action, indebted – also in symbolic terms – to the Jacobin tradition of the Piedmont area
ConcePTION WP3 task 3.2. Isolation and characterization of Mammary Epithelial Cells from Göttingen minipig (mpMECs): an in vitro study to compare mpMECs vs pMECs (porcine Mammary Epithelial Cells)
No full textThis data set contains data related to the characterization of an appropriate in vitro animal model based on primary culture of Göttingen Minipig Mammary Epithelial Cells (mpMECs). The objective of the research was to verify the accuracy of mpMECs as solid translational model for the study of mammary epithelial barrier and compare mpMECs results with those obtained from Mammary Epithelial Cells isolated from hybrid commercial pig (pMECs). The results showed that it was possible to isolate, culture and expand three pure epithelial cell lines obtained from three different animals. The mpMECs maintained until P10 showed a typical cobblestone morphology and a similar doubling time profile (MG9 32.6 ± 4 h, MG11 30.5 ± 3 h and MG12 27.4 ± 2.8 h, as reported in the data file CONCEPTION_WP3_mpMECs_DoublingTime_09032023.xlsx). DNA index was normal for all the three cell populations with a mean value of 0.98 ± 0.01. Regarding the cell cycle, the cell populations MG9, MG11 and MG12 showed the three distinct phases that could be recognized in a proliferating cell population: G0/G1, S and G2/M (see data file CONCEPTION_WP3_mpMECs_CellCycle_DNAIndex_09032023.xlsx). All the three mpMECs cell lines expressed epithelial markers Epithelial-Cadherin (E-Cad) and Cytokeratin 18 (CK18), confirming their epithelial origin (see data file CONCEPTION_WP3_mpMECs_FlowCytometer_E-Cad_CK18_09032023.xlsx). In particular in MG12, the contour of CK18 positive peak showed a shoulder suggesting the presence of a cellular subpopulation with a particularly high positivity. The barrier function of mpMECs was evaluated via TEER and fluorescein sodium (SF) transport, the formation of the monolayer integrity was evaluated in all the three primary mpMECs and in the pre-mixed pool of mpMECs and pMECs. MG9, MG11 and MG12 resulted in a similar TEER profile at the 0.15×10^6 cells, achieving higher TEER and lower SF values at the day 3 and 4 of culture, which was also confirmed in the pre-mixed pool case. Moreover, by comparing the maximum values of TEER reached at the different seeding density tested, a significative difference resulted in MG9 with respect to MG11, MG12 and pool. From a similar comparison with minimum values of SF transport, no difference between the groups was showed. Finally, in pre-mixed pools of mpMECs and pMECs a difference in the ability to form the epithelial barrier was shown: mpMEC barrier resulted less tight compact then that formed by pMECs. (see data file CONCEPTION_WP3_mpMECs_TEER_SF_09032023.xlsx). On pre-mixed pool of mpMECs and pMECs we evaluated the bioenergetic metabolism: no difference in energy production under basal cell culture condition was observed but under stressed state pMECs made more efficient use of mitochondrial oxidative metabolism than mpMECs, conversely, these last ones could more efficiently increased the glycolytic activity (see data file CONCEPTION_WP3_mpMECs_BioenergerticMetabolism_09032023.xlsx). The transcriptional profile of drug transporters evaluated in pre-mixed pool of mpMECs or pMECs cultured MECGM medium. Among the 84 genes, 66 genes were detectable, 18 genes were not detectable or higher than 35 threshold cycle, so considered as negative according to the handbook, in both cell lines.
No difference between mpMECs and pMECs drug transporter gene expression levels was observed (see data file CONCEPTION_WP3_mpMECs_RT2ARRAY_09032023.xlsx)
Humanities e l’interrogativo di cosa si intenda per diritto. L’orizzonte del giurista oltre la ‘parzialità’ del diritto positivo
Get PDF[Humanities and the question of what is meant by law. The horizon of the jurist beyond the “par-tiality” of positive law] The meritorious IX National Conference of ISLL, through the specific view of narrative dimensions, stimulates a reflection on what should be under-stood by “law”: such a not surprisingly “recurring” question (Hart) is constantly reiter-ated with reference to various historical periods and different latitudes. In its “differ-ent perspectives”, the Law and Humanities binomial goes far beyond a mere cultural ex-ercise: it compels us to reflect on the multifaceted variability and mutability of the constitutive factors of the “legal dimension” (syntagma dear to Paolo Grossi), which go beyond the sole provisions' implementation. The varied artistic and narrative mani-festations represent instruments to understand the human condition with which the law must relate. Multidisciplinarity and attention to artistic expression are a must for a contemporary jurist. The jurist can only be a Siddhartha, a seeker (Hesse) who is not afraid to discover uncharted lands and can sail bravely through the sea storm of unsat-isfied orderly needs
NEW APPROACHES FOR SEISMIC IMPROVEMENT AND RENOVATION OF ADRIATIC AND IONIAN HISTORIC URBAN CENTRES. ADRISEISMIC in a nutshell
Get PDFThe ADRION area is heavily subject to natural hazards, and it is the highest risk earthquake area in Europe. The high vulnerability is due not only to the power of earthquakes, but also to the high population density and to the important value of the Cultural and Natural Heritage, confirmed by a large number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and UNESCO Geoparks.
Each involved Adriatic-Ionian Region has developed laws and norms, methods and techniques as well as expertise for tackling earthquake risks and for reducing seismic vulnerability of the built environment, in particular historical heritage buildings and public squares. Nevertheless, seismic vulnerability of urban areas and particularly historical centres remains at high level. Cooperating in environmental
risk prevention, management of emergencies, reconstruction and seismic retrofitting of damaged buildings can produce significant improvements in facing seismic vulnerability reduction in urban ADRION areas.
ADRISEISMIC overall project objective is to exchange and systematize knowledge and practices in tackling the reduction of the seismic vulnerability of the built environment in the six project partners’ countries (Albania, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Serbia and Slovenia), to harmonize planning and management of emergencies after seismic events and the post-earthquake phase, by providing ready-to-use methods, tools and procedures that will be integrated into the existing policies and practices, thus strengthening local responses and reducing vulnerability to natural hazards. The main focus areas are the historical urban centres and historical squares and their surrounding buildings, conceived as symbol of local identity and socio-economic cores for the ADRION settlements.
The aim of this e-book is twofold: on the one hand, describing in detail the learning process developed within ADRISEISMIC project to stimulate the exchange of experience mainly at interregional and local levels. On the other hand, to present the main project outputs and results, which consist of the expeditious assessment methodology; 2 regional and 2 local Action Plans, developed respectively for region
of Crete in Greece and region of Bačka in Serbia, and the city of Gjirokaster in Albania and the city of Kaštela in Croatia; and the Moodle Platform, conceived as a key tool for setting a new cooperation network while improving skills and expertise concerning seismic vulnerability reduction.
The ADRISEISMIC e-book can be a useful reference for those who are interested in establishing an exchange of experience process among peers that are dealing with the same topics and co-designing tailored solutions at regional and local level with the active involvement of the local stakeholders