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Analisi delle dinamiche di infortunio come strumento per la programmazione di interventi di prevenzione in agricoltura
Full text linkPiù di 4.000 eventi infortunistici, archiviati nel database regionale dalle ASL della Regione Lombardia, sono stati elaborati al fine di individuare le principali dinamiche di infortunio in agricoltura. Il monitoraggio annuale degli infortuni e l’analisi dell’evoluzione delle dinamiche di accadimento consentono una programmazione mirata degli interventi di prevenzione e risultano nello stesso tempo un utile strumento di verifica dell’efficacia delle misure di sicurezza intraprese
The Analysis of Work Accident Dynamics As Planning Toolfor Preventive Policies in Agriculture
No full textHealth and safety in the work premises are important aims of public health policies.
A long time ago the Lombardy region implemented prevention programmes to reduce the number of work accidents, in particular in agriculture, one of the most dangerous productive sector, which is, at the same time very important for the regional economy.
As significant example of prevention activities in agriculture, is the regional project carried out with aim to find out and prevent work accidents which frequently occur and cause considerable injuries. So in 2001 a “regional register of agricultural work accidents” was set up with the purpose to describe in details the dynamics of work accidents by collecting and sharing different information of the event.
The regional register results is more useful than INAIL database, because, through an epidemiological analysis, the collected information makes it possible to point out the recurring accident dynamics and so to find out strategies aimed at preventing in particular the ones most dangerous ones the basis of the characteristics of the territory, the importance of the injuries and the predictability of the event.
The know-how of accident dynamics becomes the starting point to plan from time to time operative programs of health and safety prevention on the basis of the highlighted emergencies.
In this context, the aim of this paper is to illustrate the main dynamics of agricultural work accidents and their evolution in relation to the years 2001-2007.
The yearly comparison of accident dynamics is a useful tool to test the effectiveness of the preventive measures implemented in the region
Lodi Declaration on Healthy Villages: adopted by the 16th International Congress of Agricultural Medicine and Rural Health, Lodi, Italy, 18 - 21 June 2006
No full textIdentifying physical hazard for intensive pig and cattle breeding operators and defining prevention measures
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to highlight the main objectives and achievements of the project "Identifying chemical, physical and biological hazards for intensive pig and cattle breeding operators and defining prevention measures", carried out by the Lombardy Region with the aim of enhancing the effects of the programme “preventive interventions in agriculture”. The project has therefore strongly affected preventive policies at local and regional levels.
Since primary production is "a complex system", a systematically integrated approach has been necessarily adopted, therefore different bodies and levels of government have been involved in the project in order to devise a regional integrated agricultural policy.
The characteristic of the regional plan and its implementation at local level is to pursue integrated objectives in many fields:
• information (registers of accidents and occupational hazards, analysis of the prevention at farm level and its evolution);
• measures (definition of priorities and information campaigns);
• training (production and dissemination of educational materials and manuals, setting up of communication strategies with all those involved, systematic training for public officials);
• development (devising of guidelines, promotion and validation of crop and/or sector exposure/risk profiles, promotion of farm management systems taking into account prevention measures).
This research project was perfectly in tune with the broader context of activities, providing essential information and contributing to the drafting of the guidelines on hygiene and safety in rural buildings "(BURL of 10/02/2006, 3 ° suppl. Overtime) and to the promotion of farm management systems taking into account prevention measures.
The project activities have analysed all preliminary aspects necessary to describe the production, and provide a framework to define risk factors and to identify a representative sample of the main breeding and production techniques in order to assess, even by quantitative measures, chemical, physical, biological risk factors. In particular, and to be concise, this work quantifies the main physical hazards (lighting, microclimate, noise) with detailed measurements and explains the main prevention measures put forward for intensive dairy cattle and pig farming
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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