149 research outputs found
sj-sav-2-ips-10.1177_01925121211049106 – Supplemental material for Gendered patterns in candidates’ campaign fundraising: The case of Italy
No full textSupplemental material, sj-sav-1-ips-10.1177_01925121211049106 for Gendered patterns in candidates’ campaign fundraising: The case of Italy by Francesca Feo, Chiara Fiorelli and Daniela R Piccio in International Political Science Review</p
sj-docx-1-ips-10.1177_01925121211049106 – Supplemental material for Gendered patterns in candidates’ campaign fundraising: The case of Italy
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ips-10.1177_01925121211049106 for Gendered patterns in candidates’ campaign fundraising: The case of Italy by Francesca Feo, Chiara Fiorelli and Daniela R Piccio in International Political Science Review</p
Gendered patterns in candidates’ campaign fundraising. The case of Italy
No full textThe lack of financial resources is an often-cited hurdle for women pursuing political careers. However, empirical analysis of the dynamics of the private funding of women candidates and its potential implications for their political careers is still scant, particularly for countries outside the anglophone regions. This paper contributes to the scholarly debate by focusing on the gendered patterns in campaign fundraising in Italy, where radical changes to the party funding regime and multiple reforms to the electoral laws may have changed the structure of opportunity for fundraising by women candidates. We analyse patterns of private funding for men and women candidates in four national elections between 1996 and 2018. Our analysis, triangulated with semi-structured interviews with women candidates, shows that differences exist in fundraising patterns between male and female candidates in Italy. It reveals differences in the quality of candidates’ fundraising networks and confirms that political affiliation (to right-wing parties) and incumbency have an effect on the amount of donations received, thus granting women candidates greater access to private donations
Teaching percutaneous procedures in critical care: the effect of model fidelity on training skills to perform in patient care
No full textSistema Museale dell’Università di Pisa: accessibilità e inclusione sociale
No full textA welcoming museum is an accessible museum. An accessible museum is an inclusive museum. Making a museum accessible and inclusive is making it available to society. The concept of accessibility must not be limited to the removal of architectural barriers: the museum must remove sensory, cognitive but also cultural, emotional and even economic barriers, so that every user can feel an active part in the museum experience. An accessible and inclusive museum is an empathic place: the active participation is the first strategy for the involvement in such experience. The destination of these projects to all audiences offers an important and delicate opportunity to formulate and re-formulate museum educational strategies. The Museum System of the University of Pisa, including ten museums, promotes inclusion initiatives. Three examples: 1) “Museums and Alzheimer”: since 2014 specific initiatives were dedicated to people suffering from mild Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias and their caregivers, with the aim of encouraging creative expression. 2) “Touch this button”: in 2017, thanks to a collaboration with the Italian Association of People Down of Pisa, the Computer Museum activated a laboratory dedicated to the creation of objects with disused electronic materials. The objects were included in the assortment of gadgets of the museum bookshop. 3) “Botanical Garden in LIS”: an audio-video guide is available in LIS (Italian Sign Language) in 2019. The insertion of subtitles, audio tracks, music and supporting images, make the audio-video guides “for all”: deaf, visually impaired, blind and deaf
Thoracoscopic Management of Chylothorax by Application of a Fibrin Sealant Patch
No full textThoracic duct ligation is a demanding procedure when the chyle leak and/or the duct itself are not identified. This report describes a new procedure using thoracoscopic closure of the chyle leak by application of a fibrin sealant patch. This strategy was successfully applied for closing (i) a small fistula due to a postoperative lesion of the lymphatic tributary vessels in one case, and (ii) a large fistula due to idiopathic rupture of the thoracic duct in another case
Myasthenia gravis in the elderly: A hospital based study
No full textTo evaluate clinical characteristics and outcome of myasthenia gravis (MG) in aged patients (>60yrs), we retrospectively reviewed a continuous series of 122 myasthenic patients observed from January 1968 through December 1994. Patients with congenital, neonatal, of penicillamine-induced myasthenia were excluded. Twenty-five subjects (20%) were >60yrs. The male/female ratio was 3.2; 20% of patients had an ocular form and 86% were seropositive. Mediastinum CT scan revealed thymic changes in 14%. During the first five years of disease, 60% of patients with ocular form progressed towards a generalized form and 15% had clinical relapses. At the time of their last visit, 40% of patients were asymptomatic and 60% had improved on medication. No patient died because of myasthenia-related causes. This study shows that MG in aged patients is characterized by prevalence in males, low frequency of ocular forms, low frequency of positive mediastinum CT which suggests low frequency of thymomas, high frequency of progression of ocular forms, and good response to corticosteroid therapy
Political party funding and private donations in Italy
No full textDespite any evidence against it, political parties still represent the most important collective actor in a democratic political system. Their role in representing pluralism and their electoral centrality is not undermined, even when it is strongly questioned. As long as political parties can be understood as representative actors articulating political demands, this book focuses on the capacity of Italian political parties to mobilize resources and financial resources in particular. Through the analysis of private financial donations to political parties, a neglected source of information that will be fundamental in the near future, the author assesses their connective capability with specific interests’ representatives in the last decades in order to provide evidence of their changing representational role as collective actors
Quando l’architettura parla di rovine: nuovi modelli museali per l’archeologia
No full textThe paper explores the architectural design for archaeological museums as a process of knowledge and critical reading of the territory, in order to create a more coherent and immersive experience for visitors and also as an effective research tool for the construction of the New in the Ancient, of the New for the Ancient. The study starts from a comparison of archaeological museums, narrowing it to the Andalusia region and to the decade 1999-2010. Secondly, the paper shows the project for the new entrance to the Roman Forum-Palatine Hill, commissioned by MIBACT - Parco Archeologico di Roma and designed by the Department of Architecture and Project of Sapienza, University of Rome, of which the author was part of the work team. The design becomes a tool for the theoretical investigation, capturing the common aspects and divergences between the Spanish and Italian realities, to codifying possible strategies on the archaeological heritage
Quando l’architettura parla di rovine. Nuovi modelli museali per l’archeologia
No full textThe paper explores the architectural design for archaeological museums as a process of knowledge and critical reading
of the territory, in order to create a more coherent and immersive experience for visitors and also as an effective
research tool for the construction of the New in the Ancient, of the New for the Ancient.
The study starts from a comparison of archaeological museums, narrowing it to the Andalusia region and to the decade
1999-2010. Secondly, the paper shows the project for the new entrance to the Roman Forum-Palatine Hill,
commissioned by MIBACT - Parco Archeologico di Roma and designed by the Department of Architecture and Project
of Sapienza, University of Rome, of which the author was part of the work team. The design becomes a tool for the
theoretical investigation, capturing the common aspects and divergences between the Spanish and Italian realities, to
codifying possible strategies on the archaeological heritage
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