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L'evoluzione dei Paesi dell'ESt dal 1945 ad oggi
No full textQuadro complessivo del periodo 1945-1989 per quanto concerne i Paesi dell'Europa centro-oriental
Note sulla partecipazione italiana a corpi di spedizione multinazionali
No full textUna rassegna delle principali partecipazioni delle Forze armate italiana e missioni multinazionali dall'unità agli anni novanta del secolo scors
Studio dei fattori che modulano la risposta all'assotomiain neuroni AP di Hirudo medicinalis
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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
The impact of physical activity on the quality of life of a sample of Italian people with physical disability
No full textPhysical activity promotes psychophysical health; however, to date, only few studies have investigated the association between regular physical activity and the quality-of-life perception and satisfaction in disabled persons. Our aim was to compare the quality and satisfaction for life, self-efficacy, and personal wellbeing of two samples of Italian people with physical disability (amputation, spinal cord dysfunction, neurological disability): one group with people who practiced regular physical activity (active group, n = 33) and the other group consisting of sedentary individuals (inactive group, n = 26). We compared the mean scores of the groups in the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQoL-BRIEF), the Personal Wellbeing Index, and the Satisfaction With Life and General Self-Efficacy scales. We also compared the impact of rehabilitation, sport, family support, income, job/school, and raising a family on social life and life quality by means of separate MANOVAs. Results of the WHOQoL showed better quality of life in the active than in the inactive group (overall QOL, 4.09 ± 0.7 vs. 3.50 ± 0.9; psychological domain, 72.09 ± 12.7 vs. 62 ± 21.6; social relationships domain, 76.54 ± 16.4 vs. 59.52 ± 24.2). No difference was found for satisfaction with health and life, personal wellbeing, and self-efficacy. The impact of sport on social life and quality of life was greater in active than in inactive individuals. Findings suggest positive effects of physical activity on the perception of quality of life in disabled people. However, they do not allow disentangling whether physical activity is practiced by patients with good quality of life or whether physical activity is responsible for better quality of life
Ethical Fashion as Post-postmodern Phenomenon
No full textPostmodern era has often been described as ruled by aesthetic imperatives, that is by the image culture. It means that emotion and taste, which modernity confined to the margins of its rational and productive world view, gain new force and consideration. Clothing does not respond to fixed hierarchies any longer, but to a dream of beauty or a masquerade.
The recent debate about cultural economy and aesthetic markets though has clearly shown that economic rationality and aesthetic taste are inescapably intertwined when producers and consumers make their choices. Further on, the ethical/slow/ sustainable fashion movement proves that our social imaginary can be enriched with an unexpected ethically driven capacity, through which we can combine aesthetic innovation with the inescapable need to think up rationally planned solutions for a global social justice and healthier life. Postmodern aestheticism is overcome but not totally denied. Post-postmodern imagination appears to be able to challenge modern dichotomies, as well as the one opposing modern to postmodern, and even some gender bias
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