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Immigrants, cronies, clients. Incomers of carnic origin: Lending networks and spiritual kinship in Istria (17th and 18th centuries)
No full textThe author studies the ways in which immigrants coming from the mountains of Carnia – mainly weavers, tailors and shoemakers – settled in the peninsula of Istria during the 18th century. He locates the type of relationships they created with the local people, and the systems of transmission of heredity. More particularly, the inquiry is based on a systematic analysis of notarial archives from Friuli, on the notary protocols from Grisignana (Grožnjan) and on the parish birth registers kept in the State Archive of Pazin (Pisino). The confrontation between these documents with documents of other types and coming from different archives (held in Trieste, Udine and Venice), allowed the study of small-scale lending, the different forms of capital accumulation, as well as processes of social and economic advancement of some families. Finally, the study explains how, in just a few generations, the people from Friuli were able to create a tight network of patronage relationships and spiritual kinship with the locals
The role of false-belief understanding in preschoolers’ development of metamemory: A training study
No full textThe study herein investigated the mechanisms that may account for the relationship between theory of mind (ToM) and metamemory, adopting a dynamic approach that combined a focus on individual differences with the rigorousness of a training design. Sixty-six 4- to 5-year-old children were recruited and assigned to one of two training conditions: a ToM and a control condition. Intervention and control groups were equivalent at pretest for age, verbal ability, working memory, ToM and metamemory. Results showed that following the intervention children in the ToM group were better than those in the control group in their first-order, second-order false belief understanding, and metamemory. Crucially, improvements in first-order false belief understanding, but not in second-order false belief understanding, mediated the positive effect of the training program on metamemory
The Mediating Role of Binding Moral Foundations and Perceived Realistic and Symbolic Threats on the Relationship Between Need for Cognitive Closure and Prejudice Against Migrants
No full textIn this study we explore how endorsing binding moral foundations and the perception of realistic and symbolic threat mediate the relationship between need for cognitive closure (NCC) and prejudice against migrants in Italy. We hypothesized that individuals with a high NCC are more prone to endorse binding moral foundations and also to perceive high realistic and symbolic threats and, consequently, they are more prejudiced against migrants. Data were collected through a questionnaire (N=351). Results explain the relationship between need for cognitive closure and prejudice against migrants through a complex sequence of mediation effects of binding moral foundations and perceived threats
La Scuola di Scienze corporative dell'Università di Pisa. Studenti, editoria, strumenti
No full textL’elaborazione di una “scienza del corporativismo” costituisce il pilastro portante del tentativo fatto dal regime fascista per proporsi come “terza via” alternativa al liberalismo e al socialismo. Sul versante ideologico-culturale la soluzione corporativa ha comportato l’articolarsi di una ampia riflessione intorno al superamento dello Stato liberale e dell’economia di mercato, mentre sul versante politico-istituzionale ha dato luogo a complesse linee di dibattito e di intervento per la radicale rivisitazione del diritto pubblico, della disciplina giuridica riguardante i rapporti di lavoro e delle modalità di intervento nell’economia. Come è stato osservato da un’ampia storiografia, la questione del corporativismo si collega direttamente al problema centrale della politica moderna: come conciliare la pluralità di interessi presenti nella società con la costruzione dell’unità di indirizzo dello Stato contemporaneo. Proprio la risposta a questa domanda ha conferito una centralità assoluta alla necessità di predisporre istituzioni finalizzate alla creazione di un nuovo ceto dirigente e alla formazione del personale che avrebbe dovuto operare nello Stato e nelle istituzioni corporative.
La creazione all’Università di Pisa, nel 1928, della prima “Scuola di Scienze corporative”, la quale, peraltro, costituì il modello al quale si ispirarono le esperienze successivamente replicate in numerose università italiane rappresentò una delle più rilevanti applicazioni di un disegno più generale chiamato a dare risposta alle esigenze sopra accennate: destinata ai laureati in Giurisprudenza, Scienze politiche, Scienze sociali e Scienze economiche, aveva lo scopo di perfezionare i giovani nelle discipline attinenti all’ordinamento corporativo italiano, e di fornire loro la preparazione specifica per gli uffici direttivi dell’organizzazione corporativa e sindacale. Il volume – che costituisce un primo risultato di una ricerca di più ampio respiro – raccoglie e presenta un insieme di strumenti e di approfondimenti che consentono di pervenire a una ricostruzione meno approssimativa della complessa proposta scientifico-culturale della Scuola pisana, la quale, peraltro, costituì uno dei canali attraverso i quali il dibattito italiano si raccordò alla riflessione che si svolgeva in Europa tra le due guerre sui problemi, le trasformazioni e le contraddizioni delle moderne società industriali
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
Preventing transmission among operating room staff during COVID-19 pandemic: the role of the Aerosol Box and other personal protective equipment
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic is highly challenging for the operating room staff and healthcare workers in emergency departments. SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA beta-coronavirus that primarily targets the human respiratory system, with fever, cough, myalgia, and pneumonia as the most common manifestations. However, since SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in stool specimens much more attention has been paid to gastrointestinal symptoms such as loss of appetite, nausea, and diarrhea. Furthermore, the expression of ACE-2 receptors in absorptive enterocytes from ileum and colon suggests that these organs should also be considered as a potential high risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection. During aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMP; e.g. intubating and extubating patients or any surgical procedures), the production of both airborne particles and droplets may increase the risk of infection. In this situation, the surgical staff is strongly recommended to wear personal protective equipment (PPE). A transparent plastic cube, the so-called “Aerosol Box” (AB), has been recently designed to lend further protection against droplets and aerosol exposure during the AGMP
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
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