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Il ruolo strategico della bilateralità nel sostegno al reddito, tra legislazione e contrattazione collettiva
Full text linkThe Bilateral Bodies are the privileged subject of this study, understood as Bodies born and settled from collective bargaining, which have three main features:
- composed and jointly managed by representatives of the social partners, which have signed contracts establishing them;
- provides performances and services funded by contributions of the individual employers and differently from employees;
- legal Bodies operating regardless of the social partners constituting them.
The setting up of Bilateral Bodies has mainly affected sectors traditionally characterized by a strong fragmentation in terms of production, instability of employment (and therefore of the revenues), by a high presence of atypical and irregular work, resulting from the bargaining weakness of the trade union in workplace. It is therefore no coincidence that the experience of bilateralism has included areas such as construction, handicrafts, agriculture, trade and tourism.
Hence it is not coincidence that the experience of Bilateralism has included areas such as construction, handicrafts, agriculture, trade and tourism.
Here it seemed therefore necessary to create and institutionalize, through contracts, a complicated framework of industrial and territorial relations, able to effectively substitute institutions and procedures of collective bargaining or otherwise impracticable or viable only under conditions of high uncertainty of the rights and of permanent social conflict.
The main theme of this study concerns the analysis and understanding of the Bilateralism in Italy, through a reconnaissance survey on the arrangements of Bilateral Bodies and, above all, of the tools in support of the worker in the event of suspension or lack of work due to him.
Reconstructing the Legislative framework in which it is located the action of Bilateralism in the job market, the document wants to verify what may be the trends and future directions along which could unfold the effects of bilateralism in the various productive sectors, about revenues supporting
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Human Robot Interaction in Rehabilitation: a Case Study
No full textThe inherent reliability and safety of collaborative robots allow their application in the healthcare industry, e.g. for neuromuscular rehabilitation. This work proposes a mechatronic implementation of a platform for rehabilitation practices. A case study has been developed with different control laws of the robot for the restoring of the coordination of upper limbs through grasping exercises. Preliminary experiments are conducted on ten healthy volunteers. No adverse events occurred and trajectory and force data were collected in order to track the therapy. Results show that the exercise is sufficiently simple and non-stressing with the provided robotic law
Pegylated versus standard interferon-alpha in antiviral regimens for post-transplant recurrent hepatitis C: Comparison of tolerability and efficacy
No full textBACKGROUND:
In the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, regimens including pegylated interferon-alpha are superior to those including standard interferon; the present retrospective study was performed to verify whether the same is applicable to biopsy-proven recurrent hepatitis C (genotype 1b) after liver transplantation (OLT).
METHODS:
Twenty-four patients (16 male) were studied. Twelve had received interferon-alpha(2b) (IFN), 9 MU weekly and 12 received pegylated interferon-alpha(2b) (PEG-IFN), 0.5 microg/kg weekly. All had received oral ribavirin 600-800 mg/day. Treatment duration was intended for 12 months. A repeat liver biopsy, with evaluation of the Ishak grading and staging scores, was obtained at 1 year.
RESULTS:
Only 12/24 patients (50%) completed a full year of therapy; 17 (71%) experienced side-effects requiring a 50% dosage reduction or discontinuation of the IFN, PEG-IFN and/or ribavirin. This was observed in 6/12 patients (50%) treated with IFN in comparison to 11/12 patients (92%) treated with PEG-IFN (P < 0.05). The difference was mainly accounted for by anemia and leukopenia that were reported in 4/12 IFN patients (33%) versus 9/12 PEG-IFN patients (75%; P < 0.05), respectively. End-of-treatment viral response (ETVR) and histological response were always associated and occurred in 4/24 patients (17%), two in each treatment arm. Patients with ETVR were younger, had always completed 1 year of therapy, had had recurrent hepatitis later after transplantation and presented a higher baseline grading score.
CONCLUSIONS:
In the OLT setting, the potential benefits of antiviral treatments including PEG-IFN may be limited by the poor tolerability of the adopted drugs
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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