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    L'attendibilità delle misure osservative in psicologia clinica dello sviluppo

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    Systematic observation of behavior is a technique widespread in development clinical psychology. However, the issues concerning a reliable coding are barely described in a clear and systematic way. This contribution proposes a review that, without neglecting the corrected psychometrics bases, organizes the traditional knowledge and on it built an up-to-date and critical picture of the state of art on the observer reliability. Along with the reference concepts (agreement, calibration, reliability, precision, stability, accuracy, etc.), it treats the main coefficients proposed in the literature i first of all the Cohen's K i and show their advantages and limitations

    Sequential accommodation in Italian courtroom examinations

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    The present contribution aims at analyzing the sequential process characterizing the interaction between legal professionals and witnesses during courtroom examinations. The theoretical frame is provided by the Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) that assumes that interactants use strategic behaviours, mainly based on language and communication, to negotiate social distance between themselves and the others through convergent, divergent and maintenance strategies. One hundred forty eight examinations (82h 19m) were coded for question coerciveness and answer pertinence, and their sequential occurrence was analyzed considering four steps (question-answer-question-answer or answer-question-answer-question). The results showed that coercive questions are more frequent than non coercive ones and, among them, both the Declaration and the Yes-no questions are the most frequently asked, whereas, among answers, Pertinent answers and Elaborations are the most recurrent. Furthermore, the speaker’s turn-taking is mainly affected by his own prior turn (rather than by the interlocutor’s preceding turn) and turns are determined mainly by maintenance (a self-directed strategy) rather than by convergence or divergence (other-directed strategies). However, other-directed strategies are based mainly on convergence: Witnesses accommodated to the lawyers’ questions while the Legal Professionals accommodated to the witnesses’ answers. Both answers and questions resulted to be affected by contingent behaviours in the same way (67%), since answers were influenced by three preceding steps (question-answer-question) and the following questions were influenced by two previous steps (question-answer). Our findings lead to the conclusion that, in courtroom interactions, any communicative act is determined not only by the last linguistic event, but by a longer chain, including previous behaviour exerted by both the lawyer and the witness

    WGS of carbapenem-resistant Proteus mirabilis causing an outbreak

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    Whole-genome sequencing revealed a resistome comprising 25 resistance genes, including blaNDM-5 and rmtB, as well as the presence of a replicon IncQ1 associated to multiple resistance determinants. MLST analysis classified this clone as belonging to ST135.Fil: Ghiglione, Barbara. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Bacteriología y Virología Molecular; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay; ArgentinaFil: Di Conza, José Alejandro. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Bacteriología y Virología Molecular; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay; Argentin

    MCR-1: rethinking the origin

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    Fil: Di Conza, José Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica; ArgentinaFil: Radice, Marcela Alejandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica; ArgentinaFil: Gutkind, Gabriel Osvaldo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica; Argentin
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