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Valutazione Epidemiologica Sulla Distribuzione Delle Vulnerabilità Sociali E Sue Ripercussioni Sullo Stato Di Salute Orale
No full textDental caries and periodontal disease pose a significant health challenge for the entire population, particularly affecting socio-economically disadvantaged individuals who are more vulnerable to these diseases. The inadequacy of the current healthcare response to the oral health needs of vulnerable individuals has led to the development of a new dental approach with economically sustainable and health-effective interventions. The aim of this project was to evaluate a diagnostic-therapeutic pathway designed to prevent and manage carious disease.
A prevention and treatment protocol for carious disease (protocol-AQ) was developed for socially vulnerable individuals and gradually implemented at the Dental Clinic of the University of L'Aquila. The sample included 150 patients aged between 4 and 14 years who were monitored at T0 (initial visit) and T1 (one year post-treatment). Clinical data including DMFT/dmft index, caries prevalence and incidence as well as socioeconomic information were collected. The percentage ratio between the sub-indices DMT/dmt, MT/mt, and the entire DMFT/dmft was compared, and the percentage of restoration failures following minimally invasive treatments were assessed.
At T0, the mean DMFT/dmft was 3.2, with a DMT/dmt of 3.07 (93.7% of the total) and a low FT/ft of 0.11 (6.3%). At T1, the DMFT/dmft decreased to 1.06, showing a 60.1% reduction compared to T0. Among 284 minimally invasive treatments, 17.2% experienced restoration failure. Participants with higher caries indices were more likely to come from low-income families, consume high-sugar diets, practice poor oral hygiene, and have irregular visits to dental healthcare services.
The findings of this project highlight the effectiveness of continuous patient management and repeated educational interventions over an occasional treatment approach. Furthermore, minimally invasive treatments such as Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART), Interim Therapeutic Restoration (ITR), and the use of fluoride varnishes resulted in a 60.1% reduction in caries, showing results superior to those reported in the literature (27% vs. 38.7%-53%)
Adolescents’ mental health in school setting: trans-cultural validation of an Italian version of the School Well-Being Scale
No full textBACKGROUND. Mental health is one of the leading health concerns for adolescents in Europe (morbidity rate 25%). In the framework of Health Promoting School (HPS) it is a major dimension, but a recent Cochrane review (2015) didn’t detect it among significant outcomes of HPS. School wellbeing is clearly part of mental health and several scales have been proposed for measurement.
METHODS. In 2010, 16 high schools were enrolled in Abruzzo region (Middle Italy) and 476 students (aged 16.8 ± 0.9 ys; 53.3 % females) filled in an Italian version of the Konu & Rimpela’s School Well-Being Scale, drawn up by means of translation-back translation method.
Four Likert’s scales assess the domains concerning school experience/health: School Conditions, Social Relationships, Means of self-fulfillment, Health Status.
A validation analysis has been performed about : 1) the scales’ internal consistency (Cronbach’s Alpha) and 2) the equivalence of the factor structure with the original version (Confirmatory Factor Analysis, CFA).
RESULTS. The Cronbach’s alfa resulted always ‘acceptable’ (>0.70) except than for the Social Relationship domain (0.661).
Moreover, the CFA highlighted an acceptable goodness-of-fit with the theoretical structure both for the four separate scales and for the entire model: the GFI and AGFI indices are good (>0.90) in 8 comparisons out 10. The RMR index, even below 0.05 only in one domain, is little, so the residual correlation between items unexplained by the model is low.
CONCLUSIONS. The Italian version of questionnaire is adherent to the theoretical model used by Konu and Rimpela. Therefore, it will be used to evaluate the impact of HPS network’s implementation at local level, in the context of Abruzzo’s Regional Prevention Plan 2015-2018.
MAIN MESSAGES. 1) Adolescents’ mental health is a priority in public health. 2) It’s desirable to standardize a European surveillance system on school wellbeing consistent with HPS’s model based on validated tools
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Il percorso della conoscenza: applicazioni in archeologia tra ricerca e divulgazione
No full textSono sempre più frequenti le presentazioni e le discussioni sul ruolo dell’archeologo e sul percorso che può seguire nella ricerca. L’attenzione ai processi e ai metodi teorici e lo sviluppo degli strumenti informatici ha infatti ha dato la possibilità di osservare e documentare il record archeologico in modo dinamico e interdisciplinare con una prospettiva di conoscenze più ampia e più strutturata. La complessità dell’oggetto della ricerca impone un lavoro di équipe fondato su una reale collaborazione di esperti differenziati per competenza o per affidamento di incarico che vengono messi nella condizione di collaborare condividendo dinamicamente i dati e i risultati della ricerca e fungendo da continuo stimolo per aumentare le capacità di elaborazione.
Nei diversi progetti che il Dipartimento di Archeologia dell’UniBo sta affrontando sono comprese alcune sperimentazioni di gestione del percorso della conoscenza dedicate sia alla ricerca sul campo al trattamento del dato e alla divulgazione
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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