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Patient engagement in online community: a mediation path.
No full textThis work intends to verify how online communities affect the intention to use a medical centre (MC). Adopting a mediation model, we found that participation to a MC’s blog develops into trust toward the web platform determining intentions to choose the MC.
In the field of public services, we are witnessing significant changes both on the regulatory and on the managerial levels. The factor that pushed the most towards change was probably the technological innovation that allows low-cost solutions not previously available. An example in this sense are the online platforms used to involve citizens in collective decisions. In the case of medical services, the problem becomes more complicated due to the distance from the information point of view between the doctor and the patient. In this sector, online communities play a very important role because they increase the amount of information available to the patient, allow to tell the stories of those who have already gone in the same situation, make more transparent the relationships between the various players involved
Managing Demand in Higher Education: the Voucher as a Market Oriented Tool
No full textIt is widely recognised that pressure on today’s public systems is leading them to adopt functioning models that are better suited to current conditions.
In the context of Higher Education (HE), the tendency in recent years in many European countries has been to organize the university sector as a quasi-market, characterised by a considerable degree of autonomy of universities but with the State both financing and regulating the sector.
The Voucher may be an effective way of introducing market mechanisms into HE
This paper identifies any preliminary relationship between the method of financing, course prices and the opinions of the students
Cooperation between Local Actors in Infrastructure Projects. Evidence from Italian Utilities
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La collaborazione tra attori locali nei progetti di investimento
No full textLe infrastrutture sono un elemento essenziale nella erogazione dei SPL. In mancanza di un ampliamento delle reti, della loro modernizzazione e rinnovo, la qualità del servizio e la sostenibilità dell’erogazione è destinata a peggiorare determinando un impatto negativo sull’intero sistema economico e sociale locale. Il modello della collaborazione tra attori locali è già presente nella pratica gestionale di molti manager, e, in questo capitolo, si è cercato di mettere in evidenza i costi e benefici di questa pratica; allo stesso tempo, sempre attraverso il paragone con l’esperienza dei manager intervistati, si è cercato di evidenziare quali siano gli aspetti di struttura e organizzazione vincenti nei casi di collaborazione tra attori locali personalmente vissuti. I risultati del questionario confermano la positività dei manager verso questo strumento, soprattutto in relazione alla sua capacità di sviluppare e diffondere conoscenza tra gli stakeholder e quindi incentivare la public acceptance di queste infrastrutture. Seppur il consenso sia diffuso, è nelle public utilities piccole che si registra la maggiore propensione alla collaborazione tra attori locali
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
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