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Significato del PNI per la valutazione del paziente chirurgico: risultati di uno studio multicentrico
No full textPrognostic Nutritional Index, PNI,valutazione nutrizionale paziente chirurgic
Conservative Treatment of rectum postoperative fistulas with Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
No full textConservative Treatment rectum postoperative fistulas,Conservative Treatment Parenteral Nutrition, Conservative Treatment Enteral Nutrition
The sour grapes of the digital-divided people: information and communication technologies and the costruction of trust.
No full textThis paper presents the first results of an ongoing research project on the construction of trust and social capital in the “network society”.
Contemporary society is characterized by an information overload which makes it crucial to have high skills –both cognitive and technical– of information selection and processing. The new media are co-responsible for a situation where people are daily confronted with (and depend on) a massive amount of information coming from technological “black boxes” upon which they have little or no control. Technologies have come to be part of people’s everyday life as an “unproblematic presence” – the Trusted Computing device being an example – whose genealogical history and functioning mechanisms are mostly unknown to common people. In this paper we want to argue that a constructivist perspective could reveal the discursive nature of technology and technology-related notions such as “risk”, “trust”, “security”.
We started our research from a theoretical questioning of the construction of trust between social actors and the new media. Initially we made a preliminary analysis of the notion of trust within the different rational choice theories. Eventually we carried out a first empirical phase where, through the use of qualitative techniques, we profiled six typical social actors with regards to relationship with the new media. These profiles became, in the second empirical phase of our research, the protagonists of a multi-agent computer-assisted simulation in order to verify the role of trust and critical media education both in increasing the agents’ willingness to question mainstream notions and practices and adopt a more critical attitudes with regards to new media, but also in reinforcing and radicalizing the exclusion of the excluded (via a “sour grapes” effect)
Religion in the television-mediated sphere. Transformations and paradoxes,
No full textStefano Martelli wrote the paragraphs 1,2,3,4,8,9 and Gianna Cappello the paragraphs 5,6,7.
This study suggests to look at the audiences of religious television programmes as a possible common field of interest for both the sociology of religion and communication research. The current visibility of religion on Italian television, amplified by the Jubilee 2000 and confirmed by the repeated successes of fictions dedicated to religious characters, put unusual questions to sociological theory. We argue here that such visibility must be interpreted within the «process of de-secularization», i.e. one of the many processes which are currently de-constructing modernity and confusing the distinction between the public and the private sphere. The “mediated” religion is the result of the ambiguous rediscovery of religion in the post-modern society. From this point of view, the Jubilee 2000 appears as a media event typical of the global media society in that religion is spread throughout the world but within the limits of media (and especially television) formats
Practices of leisure and life projects among young students in Palermo
No full textPractices of leisure and life projects among young students in Palermo
The recent sociological literature on leisure time has pointed out practices of leisure faceted and ambivalent that help to explain some of the main contradictions of modernity. (Lo Verde, 2009, 2011; Roberts, 2006). The interweaving between the practices for the self-realization and the practices characterized by collective and common uses of the leisure time puts in evidence the crucial role that in their structuring have the framework conditions in which social actors live. The existence of social contexts characterized – as already included by Eisenstadt (Eisenstadt, 1973) – by forms of de-differentiation makes more interesting the contextual study of leisure practices. In this contexts, in which the individualization processes have been less intense and less general, the current leisure practices facilitate the individualization practices or contribute to more general processes without undermining the collective legitimacy of individual actions? And in addition to, the contextual conditions, for instance the working ones, characterized by recent processes of de-differentiation, how do they affect local leisure practices? Drawing on the sociology of youth in Italy (Cesareo, 2005; Lo Verde 2005; Cavalli 2007; Garelli, Polmonari, Sciolla, 2006) and using concepts from the sociology of action we suggest an analysis among the youth leisure practices in a city in southern Italy, like Palermo; particularly, through detailed interviews with young students, wanting to investigate how their expectations of personal fulfilment are influenced by the leisure practices and vice versa how the leisure practices consolidate or accommodate their ideas and their expectations in life
Pratiche partecipative e educational commons per contrastare le disuguaglianze: il caso di studio del progetto SMOOTH in contesti multiculturali
No full textQuesto capitolo presenta i risultati preliminari del primo ciclo di attuazione di un caso di studio incluso nel progetto SMOOTH di Horizon 2020. L'obiettivo principale del progetto è quello di introdurre e studiare il paradigma emergente dei beni comuni educativi come sistema alternativo di valori e azioni per la promozione del dialogo interculturale e intergenerazionale e la creazione di spazi di cittadinanza democratica che supportino lo sviluppo delle comunità locali.This chapter presents the preliminary findings of the first round of implementation of a case study included in the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH. The project's main objective is to introduce and study the emergent paradigm of the educational commons as an alternative system of values and actions for promoting intercultural and intergenerational dialogue and establishing spaces of democratic citizenship that support the development of local communities. 
Imprese nel quotidiano. Il lavoro autonomo dei migranti a Palermo: una ricerca esplorativa
No full textQuesto studio analizza l’esperienza di alcuni migranti che svolgono un lavoro autonomo a Palermo, inquadrandola in una realtà più vasta, attraverso il riferimento non solo ai principali studi sociologici, ma anche ai dati quantitativi sull’argomento. In tal modo, si mira ad integrare la prospettiva macro-sociale con quella micro
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
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