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Cardiovascular responsiveness to physiological agonists of male rats made hypertensive by long-term exposure to cadmium
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Mechanisms in cardiovascular regulation following chronic exposure of male rats to inorganic mercury
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Causal Coherence in Deaf and Hearing Students' Written Narratives
No full textThis study investigates the causal coherence of deaf students’ written narratives and the relation between students’ use of causal structures in narrative writing and their linguistic skills. The written narratives of 17 deaf high school students were compared
with those of 2 groups of hearing writers: 17 high school tudents and 16 second graders. Participants were asked to produce a written narrative on the basis of the picture storybook Frog, Where Are You? (Mayer, 1969) and their texts were analyzed
according to the causal network model. The number of psychological links and superordinate and subordinate narrative episodes were considered, and the extent to which the use of these causal structures and deaf students’ scores in a written syntax comprehension test correlated was examined. Results show that deaf writers made use of principles of causal organization in narrative writing. However, their texts
were causally less coherent than those of their hearing peers and closer to young hearing writers’ texts, although with some important differences in the strategies for generating coherence. Deaf students’ written syntax skills seemed to be only partially correlated with their difficulties in generating causal coherence
Planning and control of medical device investments by Italian public health authorities: A means to improve the decision-making process
No full textWithin the context of increased health care spending in Italy and governmental cost-containment efforts,
attention has focused on the medical device sector also in light of the newly introduced centralized procurement
policy, of Health Technology Assessment, and of the Government’s call for a more managerial-type
approach by public health authorities. In this scenario, it became necessary to analyse investments in medical
devices and to assess their contribution not only to the health of patients, but also to – if any – the whole
economy and to the nation’s economic growth. Public health authorities must now also assess the effect of
investments on profitability by evaluating investment regenerations based on the diagnosis-related group
revenue for inpatients and on the Regional tariffs established by the Italian National Health Service for
outpatients. Knowledge of the medical device sector, and planning and control systems, will enable public
health authorities to improve their internal decision-making processes, which in turn will enable them to
reach their objectives of long-term economic balance and of quality of health care services to citizens
Predators-parasitoids and beneficial insects in fields sorrounded by hedgerows in North Eastern Italy
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