189 research outputs found
Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States
No full textPoliticians appear to overestimate how conservative public opinion is in the U.S. and other Western democracies. Whether this “conservative bias” extends to voters remains unclear but has important implications for belief formation and behavior. I examine this in the context of abortion access after the Dobbs decision. Despite the salience of the topic, original survey data collected post-Dobbs reveal consistent underestimation
of public support for abortion access. Individuals identifying as “pro-life” drive most of this underestimation, suggesting the presence of egocentric biases in which “pro-life” Americans overestimate the commonality of their views. Conservative biases among voters may contribute to a skewed information environment for politicians, potentially providing leverage for further restrictions on abortion access
Redazione delle recensioni per il blog teatrale IT Festival 2017, Milano, Fabbrica del Vapore 9/10/11 giugno
No full textBLOG IT!
Come raccontare un festival teatrale? In che modo descriverne l’atmosfera, le immagini, gli artisti, gli spettacoli e il pubblico? Proprio per rispondere a queste (e molte altre) domande Stratagemmi, progetto dell’Associazione Culturale Prospettive Teatrali (tra le imprese culturali vincitrici del bando Funder 35 nel 2015), da anni organizza osservatori critici, laboratori di scrittura, monitoraggio di festival e stagioni della scena milanese e nazionale. (www.stratagemmi.it).
BlogIT è un diario quotidiano in diretta dalla Fabbrica del Vapore, dove la nostra redazione racconta le pazze giornate del festival attraverso approfondimenti, interviste, immagini e (perché no?) anche critiche.
Coordinamento: Maddalena Giovannelli, Camilla Lietti, Corrado Rovida, Francesca Serrazanetti
Redazione: Giulia Alonzo, Alessandra Cioccarelli, Camilla Fava, Nicola Fogazzi, Sotera Fornaro, Chiara Marsilli, Carmen Pedullà, Raffaella Viccei
Redazione #factory: Gianmarco Bizzarri, Elisabetta Cantone, Daniela Di Carlo, Miriam Gaudio, Chiara Mignemi, Veronica Polverelli, Vanja Vasiljevic
Racconto fotografico a cura di DissolvenzeLab: Rosalba Amorelli, Helga Bernardini, Diego Cantore, Daniela Clerici, Antonella Lodedo, Gianluca Riva, Cristian Agostoni, Pedro Almeida, Alice Bellati, Lorenzo Bolzani, Andrea Mancuso, Giuseppina “Jo” Marino, Valeria Ferraro, Laura Pezzenati, Bianca Vignato. Coordinamento di Helga Bernardini
Cost-saving effect of early less invasive surfactant administration versus continuous positive airway pressure therapy alone for preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome
No full textObjectives: Early rescue surfactant therapy using less invasive surfactant administration (LISA) can reduce the need for mechanical ventilation and avoid complications in preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome. The purpose of this study was to estimate the budget impact of LISA compared with management based on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) alone and rescue surfactant therapy in case of CPAP failure. Methods: A budget impact model was built comparing LISA with CPAP alone in order to estimate the potential resource consumption and budget impact from the perspective of the National Health Service in England. A literature review was conducted to populate the model. Deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were conducted to characterise the existing uncertainty and to explore the contribution of individual model parameters to the overall budget impact. Results: Early rescue with LISA is expected to reduce resource consumption and costs compared with conservative therapy based on CPAP alone for preterm infants born at 25-32 weeks gestation. Savings are higher for preterm infants of 25-28 weeks (expected budget impact-£5146 per case, 95% credible interval (CrI)-£22 403 to £13, probability of being cost saving 97.4%) than for preterm infants of 29-32 weeks (-£176, 95% CrI-£4279 to £339, probability of being cost saving 85%). The impact of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and intraventricular haemorrhage on resource consumption and the expected reduction in the incidence of BPD with LISA are the most influential parameters on the budget. Conclusions: Early rescue with LISA used in preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome and fraction of inspired oxygen ≥0.3 is expected to be cost saving compared with management based on CPAP alone, particularly in those born at 25-28 weeks gestation
Demetrius Author of the treatise 'On style'
No full textBadian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA), Schütrumpf, Eckart E. (Boulder, CO), Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich), Meier, Mischa (Bielefeld), Strothmann, Meret
(Bochum), Mehl, Andreas (Halle/Saale), Will, Wolfgang (Bonn), Eck, Werner (Cologne), Makris, Georgios (Bochum), Rist, Josef (Würzburg) et al.,
“Demetrius”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider. Consulted online on 13 May 2017
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 2011051
The value of hearing aids for the Italian NHS: a cost-utility analysis
No full textObjective: Hearing loss (HL) prevalence in Italy is expected to increase due to population aging. Hearing aids (HAs) are the main tool for HL rehabilitation; however, cost-utility analyses of HAs are limited. Our objective was to estimate the cost-utility of HAs use.
Study Design: Cost-utility analysis.
Setting: Italian National Healthcare Service, societal perspective.
Patients, Intervention(s), and Main Outcome Measure(s): A multistate Markov model was developed to model a cohort of 55-year-old individuals starting from normal hearing and moving across HL states to compare cost-utility and net monetary benefit of HA use accompanied by post-purchase service, HA use alone, and no treatment. Parameters were estimated using secondary data. Incremental cost-utility ratio (ICUR) and incremental net monetary benefit (INMB) were computed against a €16,625/quality-adjusted life year (QALY) willingness-to-pay (WTP) threshold. Deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analysis (DSA, PSA) was implemented to assess how uncertainty affected results. Scenario analysis was performed on different assumptions on costs, dropout and compliance rates.
Results: The model suggests HAs use is a cost-effective strategy compared to no treatment (in the base case: incremental costs €429–€476, incremental QALY gain 0.18 and 0.19, ICUR €2‚404/QALY–€2‚450/QALY, INMB €2‚476–€2‚682 for male and female cohort, respectively). By assuming no dropout, INMBs increase up to €10,643–€10,728. DSA highlights that utility weights contribute the most to model uncertainty, PSA shows that the treatment has 97.8%–97.3% probability of being cost-effective at the WTP threshold considered.
Conclusions: We proposed an original model to assess the cost-utility of HAs use; the application to the Italian setting suggests the treatment is cost-effective, reinforcing the importance of early uptake
Demetrius Author of the treatise 'On style'
No full textBadian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA), Schütrumpf, Eckart E. (Boulder, CO), Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich), Meier, Mischa (Bielefeld), Strothmann, Meret
(Bochum), Mehl, Andreas (Halle/Saale), Will, Wolfgang (Bonn), Eck, Werner (Cologne), Makris, Georgios (Bochum), Rist, Josef (Würzburg) et al.,
“Demetrius”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider. Consulted online on 13 May 2017
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 2011051
Le emozioni dei robot, l’arte, la letteratura. Qualche considerazione
No full textCan we say that artificial intelligence systems express emotions? And what are the emotions they arouse? To what extent can artificial intelligence change our concepts of ‘art’, ‘creativity’, ‘literature’, ‘author’? The article asks these questions, starting with Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun (2021) and Daniel Kehlmann’s essay, Mein Algorithmus und ich (2021)
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