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Mindfulness and coaching to improve learning abilities in university students: A pilot study
No full textThis pilot study investigated the effects of a short 10-module intervention called MEL (Mindful Effective Learning), which integrates mindfulness, coaching, and training on study strategies, to improve learning abilities among university students. Inspired by ample research on the learning topics that points out how effective learning and good academic results depend simultaneously on self-regulation while studying combined with emotional and motivational factors, the intervention aimed to train students simultaneously in these three aspects. The intervention group participants (N = 21) and the control group participants (N = 24) were surveyed pre- and post-intervention with the Italian questionnaire AMOS (Abilities and Motivation to Study) and the Italian version of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS). The results showed that, regarding self-regulation in study, trained students improved their self-awareness, self-evaluation ability, metacognition skills, and organizational and elaborative ability to manage study materials; regarding emotional aspects, they improved their anxiety control; regarding motivation they developed an incremental theory of Self and improved their confidence in their own intelligence. Moreover, two follow-up self-report surveys were conducted, and trained students reported positive assessments of the MEL intervention. Findings suggest that a short intervention based on mindfulness and coaching and training on study strategies may improve students’ effective learning
Generazione di flussi elicoidali finalizzata all’incremento dello scmbio termico convettivo per fluidi non-newtoniani in condotti anulari
No full textDefending behavior in school bullying: The role of empathic self-efficacy, social preference, and student-teacher relationship
Full text linkBeing able to defend victims of school bullying is central in any intervention; thus, it seems paramount to investigate which factors may contribute to defending behavior. The present report aims to investigate whether empathic self-efficacy is associated with helping behavior and whether interpersonal factors (i.e., social preference and student-teacher relationship) may interact with it. The sample comprised 249 middle-school students (47.80% boys) aged 11–14 years, who received peer nominations on defending behavior and social preference. Self-reports were used to assess empathic self-efficacy and the relationship with the teachers. Results highlight a positive association between empathic self-efficacy and defending behavior when social preference and a positive relationship with teachers were average or high but not when they were low. Results are discussed in light of the importance of considering individual and interpersonal factors to understand defending in bullying situations and to develop intervention programs
RECELLULARIZED ABDOMINAL WALL FREE FLAP BIOINTEGRATION: PROSPECTIVE OF AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL
No full textINTRODUCTION: Synthetic or semi-synthetic scaffold are often insufficient to allow a satisfactory bio integration.
In our experience a decellularized tissue from cadaver could provide a 3d scaffold with performed vascular network that could allow a long term survival of the graft once implanted in vivo.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Rabbits abdominal wall samples were decellularized with a modified protocol for adipose tissue. At each step samples were collected for histological and immunohistochemical assessment of the protocol effectiveness.
RESULTS: Histological and IHC samples showed effective cell removal with preservation of ECM structure and composition. Integrity of vascular channels was maintained.
CONCLUSIONS: In the future we hope to be able to prepare different kinds of homo-autologous free flaps ,suitable for microsurgery anastomosis, derived from homologous tissue and recellularized with autologous stem cells, solving the problem of comorbidity, rejection and about the number (bank concept)
BIOINTEGRAZIONE DI LEMBO LIBERO DELLA PARETE ADDOMINALE RICELLULARIZZATO: STUDIO SPERIMENTALE, RISULTATI PRELIMINARI
No full textLA RICOSTRUZIONE DEI DIFETTI DEL LABBRO INFERIORE: COME ORIENTARSI TRA RICOSTRUZIONI MICROCHIRURGICHE E LEMBI LOCALI
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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
Aesthetic Outcome After Breast Reconstruction Using Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery Perforator Flap
No full textAesthetic Outcome After Breast Reconstruction Using Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery Perforator Flap is described
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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