420 research outputs found
Prevalence of chronic venous pathology in healthcare workers and the role of upright standing
No full textBackground: Chronic venous disease (CVD) affects around 25% of adult population in developed countries and it often represent a health problem for different kind of workers, in particular for who spend much of the working time in upright standing.
Methods: The study was carried out on a population of 173 nonmedical workers of a midsize hospital in Italy (91 nurse, 31 support staff workers and 51 employees). The study protocol was taken from a previous study of our group and included a clinical examination and a questionnaire.
Results: From the analysis of data it emerged a particular importance ofupright standing as major risk factor for CVD. The prevalence of venous pathology seems to be greater among nurses and auxiliaries than the administrative staff and, as expected, it was significantly higher among female workers than in males.
Conclusions: The results obtained show that the clinical-diagnostic protocol described can be used by doctors far screening venous pathology at workplaces.
(Cite this article as: Rosati MV, Sacco C, Mastrantonio A, Giammichele G, Buomprisco G, Ricci P, et al. Prevalence of chronic venous pathology in healthcare workers and the role of upright standing. Int Angiol 2019;38:201-10. DOI: 10.23736/S0392-9590.19.04040-9
Fashion Culture: Power In Fashion with Stefano Tonchi and Grazia d'Annunzio
No full textStefano Tonchi, global chief creative officer for L’Officiel Group, and Grazia d’Annunzio, former deputy director of Vogue Italia, discuss the power of military uniforms and their influence on high fashion. Tonchi is co-author of the book "Uniform: Order and Disorder.
Wor(l)d-making Libraries: Fantastic Libraries as Creators of Alternative Realities
No full textFantasy fiction often appropriates the topos of the library to reflect upon the generative power of literature and on our ability to tap into it. Since the publication of Jorge Luis Borges’ influential short story, The Library of Babel (1941), the image of the library as a universe in itself, as a repository of virtually boundless (if unfathomable and labyrinthine) knowledge has become a recurring feature in fantasy literature. This essay seeks to investigate how British author Genevieve Cogman and American author Scott Hawkins refer to this tradition in their respective novels The Invisible Library (2014) and The Library at Mount Char (2015), through an analysis of some specific elements. In both texts, the structure of the library is represented as an interdimensional core, a macrocosm from which other dimensions may develop (including our own): each alternative reality hinges upon the library, which is in itself boundless, albeit rigorously arranged. While Cogman chooses to highlight the library’s function as a portal to other worlds, thus staging a traditional quest consistent with the informing paradigms of fantasy fiction, Hawkins stresses its metaphysical quality, reflecting upon the idea of God and its viability in our contemporary culture. Furthermore, these conceptions are equally associated with an understanding of language which enhances the tropes of words as “speaking” things into existence. Whether enchanting or emanating from the library’s ordering force, the verbal tools devised by Cogman and Hawkins revolve around the idea that language is power, and that through language reality can be reshaped
Grazia Deledda’s autobiographical masks
No full textAll’interno della produzione di Grazia Deledda, Cosima è il personaggio più autobiografico, come si può notare dagli esempi riportati. È anche possibile scorgere assonanze tra l’autrice ed altre tre figure femminili protagoniste delle sue opere: Regina, protagonista di Nostalgie, Nina di Il Paese del Vento e Maria Concezione di La chiesa della solitudine.Among Grazia Deledda’s characters, Cosima is the most autobiographical one, as we can notice from the examples. Concordance can be noticed between the author and the female characters of her works: Regina is the main character of Nostalgie, Nina in Il Paese del Vento and Maria Concezione in La chiesa della solitudine
AGGRESSIONI E VIOLENZA NEL COMPARTO SANITÀ: STUDIO TRASVERSALE SU INFERMIERI E STUDENTI DI INFERMIERISTICA. DATI PRELIMINARI
No full textLE MASCHERE AUTOBIOGRAFICHE DI GRAZIA DELEDDA
No full textWithin the production of Grazia Deledda, Cosima is the most autobiographical character, as can be seen from the examples shown. It is also possible to see similarities between the author and three other female figures protagonists of her works: Regina, protagonist of Nostalgie, Nina of The Country of the Wind and Maria Concezione of The church of solitude.All’interno della produzione di Grazia Deledda, Cosima è il personaggio più autobiografico, come si può notare dagli esempi riportati. È anche possibile scorgere assonanze tra l’autrice ed altre tre figure femminili protagoniste delle sue opere: Regina, protagonista di Nostalgie, Nina di Il Paese del Vento e Maria Concezione di La chiesa della solitudine.
Abstract
Within the production of Grazia Deledda, Cosima is the most autobiographical character, as can be seen from the examples shown. It is also possible to see similarities between the author and three other female figures protagonists of her works: Regina, protagonist of Nostalgie, Nina of The Country of the Wind and Maria Concezione of The church of solitude
Dataset: Using taxonomic treatments to assess an author's taxonomic range: the impactful career of Jocelia Grazia
No full textHere we present the dataset of the descriptive analysis of the bibliographic production of the world renowned heteropterist Dr. Jocélia Grazia. We analyzed a total of 220 published documents, including scientific papers, scientific notes, and book chapters. Additionally, we applied the Plazi workflow to extract taxonomic treatments, images, tables, and references from 75 different documents in accordance with the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse). The extracted treatments are available on TreatmentBank.
grazia-festschrift-basic_metadata.csv: this file contains basic metadata information about all 219 publications published up to 2020 (not inclusive), such as: File, Authors, Journal, Year, Volume, Issue, Pagination, doi.
grazia-festschrift-coauthors_data.csv: this file contains information on the co-authors, separated in different columns, with the country of their affiliation as well. Includes: filename, title, Author 1, Author 1 Country... Author 7, Author 7 Country.
grazia-festschrift-manual_counts.csv: contains manual counts on all of the 219 publications considered in this dataset: filename, title, number of treats, number of new species, number of genera, number of new family.
grazia-festschrift-preanalyses.csv: contains parameters assessed during the pre-analyses of the 219 publications considered in this dataset, including: File, Title, PDF Status, PDF Origin, OCR Quality, Was open-access?, Extracted, Has treatments, Includes Taxonomy?, Description of?, Species name as header?, Has keys, Has tables, Has materialCitation?, Has treatmentCitation?
grazia-festschrift-tb_stats-collecting_country.csv: results from the API call described in the paper, on 2020209: Number of Treatments, Number of Materails Citation, Collecting Country.
grazia-festschrift-tb_stats-collecting_year.csv: results from the API call described in the paper, on 2020209: Number of Treatments, Number of Materials Citations, Collecting Year. This wasn’t used in the dashboards included in the paper.
grazia-festschrift-tb_stats-collector_name.csv: results from the API call described in the paper, on 2020209: Number of Treatments, Number of Materials Citations, Collector Name.
grazia-festschrift-tb_stats-overall.csv: results from the API call described in the paper, on 2020209, including general stats on the liberated data for the project: Number of Articles, Document Author, Number of Treatments, Number of Treatment Citations, Number of Materials Citations, Number of Figures, Number of Tables, Number of Bibliographic References.
grazia-festschrift-tb_stats-taxon_authority_names.csv: results from the API call described in the paper, on 2020209: Number of Treatments, Taxon Authority Name.
grazia-festschrift-tb_stats-taxonomic_ranks.csv: results from the API call described in the paper, on 2020209: Number of Treatments, Document UUID, Rank of Taxon.
grazia-festschrift-tb_stats-taxonomic_status.csv: results from the API call described in the paper, on 2020209: Number of Treatments, Document UUID, Taxonomic Status.
grazia-festschrift-tb_stats-treatCit_cited_authors.csv: results from the API call described in the paper, on 2020209: Number of Treatments, Number of Treatment Citations, Cited Authors.
grazia-festschrift-to_Zenodo.csv: this was the file used to batch upload publications to Zenodo, including the resulting DOI, minted in case of absence of this PID. Includes: filename, motivation, upload_type, publication_type, publication_date, title, original_doi, journal_title, journal_volume, journal_issue, journal_pages, part_of_title, partof_pages, thesis_supervisor_01, thesis_01_affiliation, thesis_university_01, language, creator_1_name, creator_1_affiliation… creator_8_name, creator_8_affiliation, description, access_right, license, Keyword_1… Keyword_16, contributor_1_name, contributor_1_type, community_1, doi
Benzene and lipid asset
No full textBackground: In relation to the medico-social and medico-legal aspects of urban pollution we studied the effects of benzene present in urban pollution on outdoor workers exposed to physical, chemical, and psychosocial stressors. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the possible correlation between the levels of benzene and its urinary metabolites in the blood (Trans muconic acid and S-phenylmecapturic acid) and the parameters of the lipid structure: Total cholesterol, High Density Lipoprotein (HDL), Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), triglycerides and blood sugar. Materials and methods: From an initial group 1,500 we selected a group of 199 subjects. A blood sample was taken for each worker to assess blood benzene levels and urinalysis to determine the levels of trans, trans-muconic acid and S-phenyl mercapturic acid. We compared the mean and standard deviation of the following lipid parameters: Total Cholesterol, HDL, LDL, Triglycerides and glycemia with benzene and urinary metabolites; we excluded the workers with confounding factors and performed the Pearson’s correlation between lipid parameters and urinary metabolites in the total sample and also among age, seniority, sex and BMI; multiple linear regression was performed for the evaluation of the main confounding factors. Results: We did not find a statistically significant alteration between the values of the lipid structure between the two groups of workers and the parameters of benzene. Triglycerides and HDL are statistically significantly influenced by sex (p=0.001) and (p=0.00) and BMI (p=0.00) and (p=0.001) as well as total cholesterol is influenced in a statistically significant way from age (p=0.003) and blood glucose from BMI (p=0.002) A statistically significant difference was found among the averages of phenylmercapturic S acid values of traffic policeman and police drivers (p<0.05), where higher values were among drivers. Conclusions: The results suggest that occupational exposure to levels of benzene, present in urban pollution, would appear not to influence the values of the lipid parameters in traffic policeman
Maria Grazia Turri, Gli oggetti che popolano il mondo. Ontologia delle relazioni, Roma, Carocci, 2012, pp. 239
No full textThe text offers a Critical Review of "Gli oggetti che popolano il mondo. Ontologia delle relazioni" by Maria Grazia Turri. The author critically reflects on the book by considering its methodologies, its arguments, and its relation with other books of the same type and on the same subject.Il testo propone una Lettura Critica del libro "Gli oggetti che popolano il mondo. Ontologia delle relazioni" di Maria Grazia Turri. L'autrice riflette criticamente sul libro considerandone le metodologie, gli argomenti e il nesso con altri libri dello stesso tipo e sullo stesso argomento
Grazia Basile, La conquista delle parole. Per una storia naturale della denominazione, Roma, Carocci, 2012, pp. 225
No full textThe text offers a Critical Review of "La conquista delle parole. Per una storia naturale della denominazione" by Grazia Basile. The author critically reflects on the book by considering its methodologies, its arguments, and its relation with other books of the same type and on the same subject.Il testo propone una Lettura Critica del libro "La conquista delle parole. Per una storia naturale della denominazione" di Grazia Basile. L'autrice riflette criticamente sul libro considerandone le metodologie, gli argomenti e il nesso con altri libri dello stesso tipo e sullo stesso argomento
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