187 research outputs found
Investigating Engagement of Public, Academic, and Medical Libraries with Community-based Health and Wellness Activities in Diverse Urban Communities: Final Report
No full textCommunity residents conceive of their health and wellness priorities and concerns differently, often based on their cultural, socio-economic, ethnic, and racial characteristics. As public libraries and other information organizations seek to build healthier communities by improving access to information and health literacy, they are well-served by focusing first on engaging their communities so they can better align their programs and services to reflect their specific health-related aspirations and concerns.
In the Middlesex/Somerset County region of central New Jersey, area health care organizations have developed a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP); among their top priorities is access to health care and health information (Middlesex/Somerset County, 2016). The regional CHIP has turned to libraries for assistance, especially since one of the country’s premier consumer health programs, Just for the Health of It, located at the East Brunswick Public Library, has demonstrated how certifying librarians as consumer health information specialists can help improve health literacy. Nevertheless, this model may not fit all libraries in the region, particularly in the adjacent communities of New Brunswick and Franklin Township/Somerset, where many immigrant and African American residents belong to demographics that experience persistent disparate health outcomes.
Our research investigated underlying reasons why the residents of these three communities differ in their approach to health and wellness. We used community engagement tools to listen to local citizens talk about their aspirations and concerns, then themed these conversations, and created community narratives that represent great variation in approaches to health and wellness, and ways that health care and information organizations might respond. We then met with librarians from each of the three communities to review the narratives, considered their aspirations and concerns, and discussed ways to move forward in providing meaningful health information programs to their communities.this was submitted previously (June 18), but no record was produced. Thanks
Sedimentation and time-of-transition techniques for measuring grain-size distributions in lagoonal flats: comparability of results
No full textA comparative study was performed of three instruments used to measure the grain-size distribution of thirty sediment samples from shallow lagoonal flats: the hydrometer, the Sedigraph 5100 and the CIS-1. The hydrometer and Sedigraph are based on sedimentation whereas the CIS-1 uses the time of
transition. The percentage of the samples accounted for by the <8 µm fraction was not affected by the technique used, but this was not the case with the clay fraction (<2 µm). Due to its relative independence from the analytical method applied, the <8 µm fraction can be used in ternary diagram classifications. This fraction also has an environmental significance in coastal lagoons in terms of hydrodynamics, organic enrichment and macrozoobenthos assemblages. The linear relationships obtained in this study may provide useful operational
indications for similar studies
Evaluation of trace metal fluxes to soils in hinterland of Porto Marghera, industrial zone: comparisons with direct measurements in the Lagoon of Venice
No full textTrace metal (As, Cd, Cr, Ni, Hg, Pb) concentrations in soil samples collected around the Porto Marghera (Italy) industrial district (2-40 km) near the city of Venice were compared with direct measurements of atmospheric deposition measured at comparable distances from the same source. Concentrations of Cd and Pb in soils decreased exponentially with increasing distance from the source; less clear signals were detected for As, Cr and Ni. Significant differences were found among the soils, which were partially resolved when applying normalisation to their clay contents. Preliminary comparisons of fluxes of Cd and Pb derived from soil with direct deposition measurements show increasing values with longer integration times. Annual Cd and Pb flux values of one year of direct deposition were 5 to 10 times lower than mean annual fluxes derived from soils, integrating 50 to 100 years. Values range from ~ 0.1-0.4 to 1-2 mg m -2 yr -1 for Cd, and from 3-18 to 50-100 mg m -2 yr -1 for Pb. These results fit information on “historical” emission trends as recorded in sediments of the lagoon
Comparative genomic hybridization identifies 17q11.2 approximately q12 duplication as an early event in cutaneous T-cell lymphomas
No full textSediments of shallow lagoonal flats analysed by settling grain size analysis, stream-scanning laser system and settling tube system: can we compare the results?
No full textA further twist towards centralisation and uniformity. Governance and public sector reforms in the italian recovery and resilience plan
No full textThis article examines the implementation of the EU Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) in Italy. By analysing and discussing the governance of the plan and the reform agenda it sets out, it aims to determine its political-constitutional background from the viewpoint of the regional and local authorities. The author purports that the logic and political inspiration of the plan is traceable to a longer trajectory of the political direction of executive power that results in the side-lining of both parliamentary and devolved powers. In particular, four factors are detected that justify this claim: the Prime Minister’s hegemony within the governance of the RRP; a considerable injection of technical/bureaucratic expertise within the Cabinet Office; the attempt to rearticulate the so-called multilevel governance around this hegemony by resorting to uniformity and concentration in the implementation process; and the adherence to a new public management (NPM)-like ideology
Breaking the Isolation? Italian Perspectives on the Dialogue Between the European Court of Justice and Constitutional Courts
No full textThis article focuses on the relationships between the Italian Constitutional Court (ICC) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) when the necessity of managing policies affecting delicate constitutional issues is at stake. The mechanisms which govern the use by national courts and particularly constitutional courts of the preliminary reference are put under scrutiny. The author claims that for the dialogue between the two courts to work is important to review the legal premises on which the involvement of a constitutional court in matters of European Union (EU) law is based. In Italy in principle only when EU law lacks direct effect would there be room for the ICC to intervene in the process of adaptation of the domestic legal system to the European, irrespective of the matter at stake. In this way the role of a constitutional court is barely distinguishable from regular courts.
The article purports that this situation is unsatisfactory from a normative point of view according to which constitutional courts should take part – using preliminary reference to the ECJ – in a broader European constitutional discourse and that a concept of ‘sensitive constitutional issues’ should instead inspire the mechanism by which constitutional courts deal with the area covered by Article 267 TFEU
Evidence of sedimentological changes on decadal scale in the national interest site of the Lagoon of Venice due to anthropogenic factors
No full textComparison of loss-on-ignition and CHN-analyser methods for measuring sedimentary organic matter
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