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Valutazione del rischio biologico negli operatori sanitari;infezioni correlate all'assistenza sanitaria (ICA)
No full textTV Speaks with an Accent: How Italian and Mexican Audiences Interpret Dubbed American Shows
No full textThis dissertation studies the issue of dubbing for television series from a double perspective that combines, on the one hand, interpretive semiotics, and on the other hand audience studies. The research question – how do audiences in Italy and Mexico interpret dubbed American television series? – is born from the observation that in the most significative research projects on the perception of foreign television programs, linguistic adaptation had been often seen as a quasi-transparent element that neither adds nor removes anything from the reception experience. Instead, the objective of the project is to point out the changes in meaning that are created in the text at the time of the adaptation and the role of dubbing in audiences’ understanding of international audiovisual texts. The dissertation aims offering a complete vision of the phenomenon; hence, it includes an overview of the technical aspects of dubbing, a comparative textual analysis of the dubbed versions of two American series (The Big Bang Theory and The Walking Dead) as well as an empirical study with audiences in Italy and Mexico. The main goal of the textual analysis was observing the adaptation of culture- specific elements, as the basis to identify the tendency of each dubbed version towards exoticization (remaining faithful to the source culture) or naturalization (becoming closer to the target culture) in the creation of new Model Readers for the text. The empirical study consisted on twenty-two qualitative interviews with a total of twenty- five audience members from both Italy and Mexico. The participants proved to be competent viewers who knew the conventions of dubbing and subtitling as adaptation methods, as well as the changes that these can bring to the television programs. They also showed clear awareness of the cultural specificity of American series and were eager to grasp the references they contain. In this research project, dubbing reveals itself as a factor that has a weight in the understanding of foreign television and as a topic worth of deeper academic investigation in the field of international audience studies
The Italian Network Spin-UTI: Protocol Design and Validation for Active Surveillance of ICU-Acquired Infections.
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Sorveglianza delle infezioni ospedaliere: revisione della letteratura in una prospettiva storica
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Folate deficiency is not associated with increased mitochondrial genomic instability: Results from dietary intake and lymphocytic mtDNA 4977-bp deletion in healthy young women in Italy
No full textThe mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) 4977-bp deletion is a biomarker of mitochondrial genomic instability. It is frequently detected in a number of sporadic diseases, and it accumulates in many tissues during aging. Folic acid plays an important role in the maintenance of genomic stability in mammals. The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to characterise the levels of the mtDNA deletion in the lymphocytes of healthy young women, taking into account folate intake, red blood cell (RBC) folate levels and the distribution of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene C677T polymorphism. Folate intake was estimated by a food frequency questionnaire. Determination of the MTHFR C677T polymorphism and of the mtDNA deletion was performed by real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis. A total of 476 women were enrolled. Low levels of deletion were found (mean ?Ct = 1.24). After multivariate analysis, results did not show any significant relationship between age, smoking habits, pregnancy status, nutritional status, inadequate folate intake, folate deficiency, use of folic acid supplements, MTHFR C677T polymorphism and mtDNA 4977-bp deletions. The lack of association between inadequate folate intake, folate deficiency and mitochondrial genomic instability was confirmed also considering reference values of folate based on DNA damage prevention. Our results indicate that mtDNA 4977-bp deletions are maintained at low levels in lymphocytes of young healthy women despite the wide range of variation of folate intakes and folate status. Future studies, carefully designed to address limits and methodological issues related to variation of this biomarker as an effect of different dietary patterns and of folate status, could provide further insight on the specific mechanisms that are acting in lymphocytes of healthy subjects under observed folate intake. © 2014 © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the UK Environmental Mutagen Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]
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
Risultati dello studio pilota del progetto SPIN-UTI: un modello per la valutazione ed il monitoraggio dei programmi in sanità pubblica.
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