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Rappresentazioni del rapporto fra alimentazione e salute in diverse fasi della vita: norme e funzioni di un cibo che fa bene
No full textLa ricerca indaga le rappresentazioni del rapporto fra alimentazione e salute in tre fasi della vita. I risultati discussi riguardano un campione rappresentativo di italiani suddivisi in tre fasce di età. E’ stato somministrato un questionario finalizzato a cogliere la percezione del controllo sul mantenimento della salute, con un particolare accento sulla rilevanza delle norme implicite che governano il comportamento alimentare sano e sulle funzioni del cibo.I risultati mostrano che i più giovani riconoscono, al pari degli altri, l’importanza degli alimenti per il mantenimento della salute, ma esprimono una rappresentazione della alimentazione scarsamente centrata sugli aspetti normativi. Fra le funzioni dell’alimentazione privilegiano quella del piacere, mentre quelli della fascia intermedia esprimono una rappresentazione molto ancorata alle esigenze di una vita frenetica. Dagli intervistati ultrasessantenni emerge una rappresentazione molto normativa del rapporto con il cibo, centrata sia sulla selezione attenta e critica degli alimenti, sia sull’osservanza di una certa ritualità dei contatti quotidiani con il cibo. Questa rappresentazione si riflette in un livello elevato di soddisfazione circa le proprie abitudini alimentari e la qualità del cibo consumato
Pressure factors affecting Lombardy agricultural system : the environmental cconsequences of the Fischler Reform
No full textRosannah C. Denny, Funeral service bulletin,October 17, 1985
No full textBulletin for the funeral service of Rosannah C. Denny held at the Church of the Holy Trinity in West Chester, P.A. on October 17, 1985. The Reverend William J. Fischler presided
Acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children: Should we move the discussion from a purely infectious origin also to other plausible causes?
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Is paracetamol a missing piece of the severe acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology jigsaw?
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Next Stage of Responsible Business
No full textThis paper analyzes the concept of a business’ “holistic development,” paying particular attention to the importance of “territorial” (or territory-based) firms in such a model. The work develops the concepts of a “territorial” business, its rootedness, cohesion, and social capital both theoretically and empirically, and, in highlighting the interconnectedness of the links between holistic development of the firm and its territory, posits a new analytical framework through which researchers can examine the relationships between businesses and their surroundings.
Methodologically, the paper utilizes multiple case studies of two “territorial” firms located in the Marche region of central Italy. The empirical analysis helps formulate propositions that synthesize the attributes of “territorial” companies and the model of holistic development. The study also helps identify the bi-directionality of the links between the holistic development of a business and of its surrounding territory
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
The political economy of the 2003 reform of the common agricultural policy.
No full textThe 2003 reform of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) under Commissioner Fischler was the most radical in the history of the CAP. This paper analyzes the causes and constraints of the reform. The paper argues that an unusual combination of pro-reform factors came together in the first years of the 21st century, making this reform possible.
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