7 research outputs found
La comunicazione economico-finanziaria via web delle piccole e medie imprese italiane
No full textQuesto contributo fa parte di una più vasta ricerca, condotta a livello nazionale e finanziata dal MIUR, avente ad oggetto la comunicazione economico-finanziaria delle aziende italiane.
In particolare, il contributo focalizza l'attenzione sulla comunicazione via web delle aziende di dimensione medio-piccol
Consequences of the religious affiliation of young students in the daily life of educational institutions
No full textNeste texto apresento os resultados da pesquisa de mestrado que teve como objetivo contribuir com os estudos educacionais sobre as decorrências do pertencimento religioso de jovens-estudantes dentro e fora dos espaços educacionais. A investigação foi realizada contando com aportes teóricos e conceituais oferecidos por obras das áreas das Ciências Sociais e da Educação. A pesquisa é de abordagem qualitativa e teve como atividades de campo a) busca, leitura e seleção de produções acadêmicas das Ciências Sociais e Educação que abordassem questões relacionadas à temática da pesquisa; b) elaboração de um questionário como instrumento de coleta de dados com questões objetivas e dissertativas; c) aplicação do instrumento de coleta junto a um conjunto de estudantes, homens e mulheres, de ensino médio e ensino superior, com idades entre 18 e 29 anos de idade, que participaram através de um link de acesso online ao instrumento e que voluntariamente responderam às perguntas nele contidas. Ao final desta etapa, foi possível interagir com respostas oferecidas por quarenta e um (41) jovens-estudantes, dos setenta e quatro (74) sujeitos que colaboraram inicialmente com a investigação. As respostas elaboradas pelos quarenta e um (41) interlocutores dão conta de que eles têm vínculo com uma confissão religiosa ou crença sagrada pessoal, um laço que eles têm construído por variados processos de socialização, por vezes desde a infância. Eles declinaram sobre as decorrências do pertencimento religioso no que diz respeito à participação em grupos ou coletivos de participação social, sobre os impactos de seus pertencimentos religiosos na dinâmica social e cotidiana de contextos de escolarização - básica ou superior. Diante das questões formuladas, os sujeitos discorreram sobre temas como o reconhecimento, o (des)respeito e as práticas de silenciamento que vivenciam no mundo escolar em virtude da filiação religiosa que constroem, assim como a relevância da filiação e do exercício de uma prática religiosa quando se defrontaram com situações de crise pessoal ou com os desafios da própria vida.In this text I present the results of the master\'s research that aimed to contribute to educational studies on the consequences of religious belonging of young students inside and outside educational spaces. The investigation was carried out relying on theoretical and conceptual contributions offered by works and authors in the fields of Social Sciences and Education. The research adopts a qualitative approach, and its field activities included: a) searching, reading, and selecting academic productions from Social Sciences and Education addressing issues related to the research theme; b) developing a questionnaire as a data collection instrument comprising objective and open-ended questions; c) administering the data collection instrument to a group of students, both male and female, from high school and higher education, aged between 18 and 29 years old, who participated through an online access link to the instrument and voluntarily responded to the questions it contained. At the end of this stage, it was possible to interact with responses provided by forty-one (41) young students, out of the initial seventy-four (74) subjects who collaborated with the research. The responses elaborated by the forty-one (41) interlocutors indicate that they have an connection with a religious confession or personal sacred belief, a bond they have built through various socialization processes, sometimes since childhood. They discussed the consequences of religious belonging about participation in groups or collectives of social participation, about the impacts of their religious belonging on the social and daily dynamics of schooling contexts - basic or higher. Faced with the questions asked, the subjects discussed topics such as recognition, (dis)respect and the silencing practices they experience in the school world due to the religious affiliation they construct. As well as the relevance of affiliation and the exercise of a religious practice when faced with situations of personal crisis or the challenges of one\'s own life
Studying bloat control and maintenance of effective code in linear genetic programming for symbolic regression
No full textLinear Genetic Programming (LGP) is an Evolutionary Computation algorithm, inspired in the Genetic Programming (GP) algorithm. Instead of using the standard tree representation of GP, LGP evolves a linear program, which causes a graph-based data flow with code reuse. LGP has been shown to outperform GP in several problems, including Symbolic Regression (SReg), and to produce simpler solutions. In this paper, we propose several LGP variants and compare them with a traditional LGP algorithm on a set of benchmark SReg functions from the literature. The main objectives of the variants were to both control bloat and privilege useful code in the population. Here we evaluate their effects during the evolution process and in the quality of the final solutions. Analysis of the results showed that bloat control and effective code maintenance worked, but they did not guarantee improvement in solution quality. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Fed Univ Sao Paulo UNIFESP, Inst Sci & Technol ICT, Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, BrazilFed Univ Sao Paulo UNIFESP, Inst Sci & Technol ICT, Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, BrazilWeb of ScienceFundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)Comissao Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq Universal)Coordenadoria de Apoio a Pesquisa e Ensino Superior (CAPES Science without Borders)FAPESP: 2013/20606-0CNPq Universal: 486950/2013-1CAPES: 12180-13-
A multi-element psychosocial intervention for early psychosis (GET UP PIANO TRIAL) conducted in a catchment area of 10 million inhabitants: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial
No full textBackground
Multi-element interventions for first-episode psychosis (FEP) are promising, but have mostly been conducted in non-epidemiologically representative samples, thereby raising the risk of underestimating the complexities involved in treating FEP in ‘real-world’ services.
Methods/Design
The Psychosis early Intervention and Assessment of Needs and Outcome (PIANO) trial is part of a larger research program (Genetics, Endophenotypes and Treatment: Understanding early Psychosis - GET UP) which aims to compare, at 9months, the effectiveness of a multi-component psychosocial intervention versus treatment as usual (TAU) in a large epidemiologically based cohort of patients with FEP and their family members recruited from all public community mental health centers (CMHCs) located in two entire regions of Italy (Veneto and Emilia Romagna), and in the cities of Florence, Milan and Bolzano. The GET UP PIANO trial has a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled design. The randomized units (clusters) are the CMHCs, and the units of observation are the centers’ patients and their family members. Patients in the experimental group will receive TAU plus: 1) cognitive behavioral therapy sessions, 2) psycho-educational sessions for family members, and 3) case management. Patient enrolment will take place over a 1-year period. Several psychopathological, psychological, functioning, and service use variables will be assessed at baseline and follow-up. The primary outcomes are: 1) change from baseline to follow-up in positive and negative symptoms’ severity and subjective appraisal; 2) relapse occurrences between baseline and follow-up, that is, episodes resulting in admission and/or any case-note records of re-emergence of positive psychotic symptoms. The expected number of recruited patients is about 400, and that of relatives about 300. Owing to the implementation of the intervention at the CMHC level, the blinding of patients, clinicians, and raters is not possible, but every effort will be made to preserve the independency of the raters. We expect that this study will generate evidence on the best treatments for FEP, and will identify barriers that may hinder its feasibility in ‘real-world’ clinical settings, patient/family conditions that may render this intervention ineffective or inappropriate, and clinical, psychological, environmental, and service organization predictors of treatment effectiveness, compliance, and service satisfaction
A multi-element psychosocial intervention for early psychosis (GET UP PIANO TRIAL) conducted in a catchment area of 10 million inhabitants: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial
No full textMulti-element interventions for first-episode psychosis (FEP) are promising, but have mostly been conducted in non-epidemiologically representative samples, thereby raising the risk of underestimating the complexities involved in treating FEP in 'real-world' services
Language production impairments in patients with a first episode of psychosis
No full textLanguage production has often been described as impaired in psychiatric diseases such as in psychosis. Nevertheless, little is known about the characteristics of linguistic difficulties and their relation with other cognitive domains in patients with a first episode of psychosis (FEP), either affective or non-affective. To deepen our comprehension of linguistic profile in FEP, 133 patients with FEP (95 non-affective, FEP-NA; 38 affective, FEP-A) and 133 healthy controls (HC) were assessed with a narrative discourse task. Speech samples were systematically analyzed with a well-established multilevel procedure investigating both micro- (lexicon, morphology, syntax) and macro-linguistic (discourse coherence, pragmatics) levels of linguistic processing. Executive functioning and IQ were also evaluated. Both linguistic and neuropsychological measures were secondarily implemented with a machine learning approach in order to explore their predictive accuracy in classifying participants as FEP or HC. Compared to HC, FEP patients showed language production difficulty at both micro- and macro-linguistic levels. As for the former, FEP produced shorter and simpler sentences and fewer words per minute, along with a reduced number of lexical fillers, compared to HC. At the macro-linguistic level, FEP performance was impaired in local coherence, which was paired with a higher percentage of utterances with semantic errors. Linguistic measures were not correlated with any neuropsychological variables. No significant differences emerged between FEP-NA and FEP-A (p≥0.02, after Bonferroni correction). Machine learning analysis showed an accuracy of group prediction of 76.36% using language features only, with semantic variables being the most impactful. Such a percentage was enhanced when paired with clinical and neuropsychological variables. Results confirm the presence of language production deficits already at the first episode of the illness, being such impairment not related to other cognitive domains. The high accuracy obtained by the linguistic set of features in classifying groups support the use of machine learning methods in neuroscience investigations
A multi-element psychosocial intervention for early psychosis (GET UP PIANO TRIAL) conducted in a catchment area of 10 million inhabitants: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial
No full textMulti-element interventions for first-episode psychosis (FEP) are promising, but have mostly been conducted in non-epidemiologically representative samples, thereby raising the risk of underestimating the complexities involved in treating FEP in 'real-world' services
