47 research outputs found
La comunicazione pubblica degli Urp per l’empowerment dei cittadini: il caso di Roma Capitale.
No full textIl contributo presentato si inserisce all’interno di un filone di ricerche, che in occasione del trentennale della primissima istituzione dell’Urp (D.LGS 29/93) ha avviato alcune riflessioni critiche sullo stato dell’arte di questa struttura professionale che ha rivestito un ruolo chiave nella comunicazione della P.A.
Il decreto 29/93 rendeva questa struttura professionale un elemento chiave nella gestione della relazione tra utenti e pubblica amministrazione, mentre la successiva L.150/00 ne sanciva l’obbligatorietà, estendendo le sue funzioni, per di avvicinare ancora di più le amministrazioni al cittadino, ascoltare, rispondere ad una domanda differenziata di servizi da parte del pubblico, stabilendo così il dovere delle istituzioni di informare e comunicare, con democrazia e imparzialità (Faccioli 2000; Zémor 2008; Rovinetti 1997).
Lo scenario attuale ci consegna ad oggi poche ricerche strutturali sul ruolo agito, di fatto, dagli Urp, e sulle caratteristiche che lo rendono ancora un punto di riferimento interno alle P.A. Risulterà importante, dunque, esaminare con un focus dedicato le attività degli Urp, il loro livello di istituzionalizzazione nei contesti cittadini, operare una ricostruzione dell’immagine che essi detengono sia all’interno delle pubbliche amministrazioni (con l’opinione di chi lavora negli Urp e dei vertici politici) che nella visione di autori che analizzano il più ampio campo di indagine della comunicazione pubblica. Inoltre, elementi di ricerca saranno l’uso delle piattaforme digitali e, contestualmente, la verifica delle nuove funzioni degli Urp nella comunicazione pubblica digitale.
Il contesto della ricerca è quello di Roma Capitale, peculiare caso di gestione degli Urp, che per dimensioni e ramificazione rappresenta una P.A. particolarmente ampia e foriera di servizi essenziali per il cittadino. Accanto all’analisi delle funzioni istituzionali consolidate, si intende analizzare quali strumenti innovativi sono stati introdotti nella gestione dei rapporti con gli utenti, sia per processare le informazioni che per elaborare un nuovo modello di relazione, in linea con il recente approccio “multilivello” (Lovari, Ducci 2022). Allo stesso tempo, si analizzeranno anche alcuni casi di Urp municipali, per capire come il contesto locale e le sue spiccate eterogeneità influenzino l’attività degli Urp.
La ricerca muove da alcune questioni essenziali, in primis la comprensione del perché queste strutture, spesso trascurate dalla comunicazione della P.A., siano ancora un elemento di sicurezza e mantenimento della fiducia delle istituzioni pubbliche verso i cittadini, elementi intangibili per una amministrazione nel rapporto con i suoi interlocutori (Canel & Luoma-Aho 2019). La pandemia (Lovari et al. 2020; ) e la platformization della società (Van Dijck et al 2018; Sorice 2020) stanno imponendo la rapida introduzione di nuovi modelli di relazione tra istituzioni e cittadini, con l’obiettivo di tenere fede ai principi guida della comunicazione pubblica (Faccioli 2000; 2002). La pluridirezionalità dei nuovi modelli di relazioni avvia così una destrutturazione e disintermediazione nel rapporto cittadini-amministrazioni, in cui la comunicazione di relazione riacquista importanza alla luce del nuovo ruolo dei cittadini (Lovari, Ducci 2022).
I metodi di indagine adotteranno un approccio qualitativo, basato su due distinte fasi di ricerca: inizialmente, verranno effettuate interviste in profondità (Cardano 2003) a testimoni privilegiati (vertici delle P.A., dipendenti, collaboratori) con l’obiettivo di compiere un focus sui contesti di ricerca; successivamente, con analisi approfondite del contenuto (Faggiano 2016) dei siti web e dei canali social degli Urp con lo studio di documenti strategici e/o piani di comunicazione realizzati con la partecipazione degli Urp, con l’obiettivo di verificare la dimensione dell’empowerment per i cittadini e gli sviluppi futuri alla luce della crescente digitalizzazione (Boccia Artieri et. al 2022)
I cittadini al centro. L’Ufficio relazioni con il pubblico tra ascolto, partecipazione e intelligenza artificiale
No full textCitizen Empowerment. The Role of the Public Relations Office in Listening, Participation and Artificial Intelligence
This study investigates the perspectives of Public Relations Office (Urp) managers, in Italy, to evaluate the activation level of this structure
and its ongoing transformations, including the use of digital tools and artificial intelligence. Even after 30 years, the Urp continues to play a
significant role in public communication. Recognized for their strategic importance by communicators, particularly in promoting listening and
participation, innovative practices are emerging from both central and local government administrations, reshaping the role of Urp. More than
a third of administrations have implemented social listening through technological monitoring systems, while others have embraced artificial
intelligence and new technologies for dialogue with citizens. However, despite many administrations demonstrate dynamism and receptivity
to innovation, limitations and vulnerabilities arise, often linked to resistance to change and the limited visibility of these structures within
the organization
Peripheral blood immune response elicide by beta-lactoglobulin in childhood cow's milk allergy.
No full textAnthony Braxton and His Two Musical Traditions, the Meeting of Concert Music and Jazz. (Volumes I and II) (Avant-Garde, Free Jazz).
No full textThe dissertation examines the musical life of black composer-saxophonist Anthony Braxton, a leading jazz innovator of the 1970s. During this decade, Braxton aroused a critical controversy that grew out of his stance as an artist who straddles two musical traditions. The first, jazz, is a personal vernacular from which his principal musical learning stems; the second, avant-garde concert music, is an acquired realm that has re-shaped his perception of himself as an artist. Together they have produced a musical approach and an aesthetic theory that st and unprecedented in the history of jazz. The dissertation consists of four sections, all of which draw from ten interviews conducted by the author. The first observes the changes in Braxton's musical perception after he encountered the music of Schoenberg. It also analyzes the journalistic formula that critics invented in order to portray Braxton. This formula, while diverting and entertaining, did not correspond to the reality of Braxton as a musician. Part Two analyzes Braxton's music for improvising ensembles. It explains how he employed the sound world of the avant-garde in composing jazz forms. The analyses are based on transcriptions made by the author and manuscripts supplied by the composer. Part Three examines Braxton's approach to composition. It shows how methods first conceived independently later evolved into a comprehensive system of "language music" stemming from his saxophone improvisations. The section also discusses Braxton's spatial conception of sound and his mystical beliefs, showing how they influenced his notations, his non-verbal titles, and his underst and ing of musical meaning. The dissertation concludes with a discussion of Braxton's "Tri-Axiom Position," a three-volume treatise on history and aesthetics and the first philosophical writing by a jazz musician. The section outlines the basic tenets of Braxton's writing. It also argues that the book is above all a defense of Braxton's black-nationalist views and taste for avant-garde art.PhDMusicUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/160711/1/8520964.pd
Transcatheter repair of functional mitral regurgitation in heart failure patients: A meta-analysis of 23 studies on mitraclip implantation
No full textBackground: The aim of this study was to investigate long-term survival, clinical status, and echocardiographic findings of patients with severe functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) undergoing MitraClip (MC) treatment and to explore the role of baseline features on outcome. Methods and Results: Randomized and observational studies of FMR patients undergoing MC treatment were collected to evaluate the overall survival, New York Heart Association (NYHA) class and echocardiographic changes after MC treatment. Baseline parameters associated with mortality and echocardiographic changes were also investigated. Across 23 studies enrolling 3,253 patients, the inhospital death rate was 2.31%, whereas the mortality rate was 5.37% at 1 month, 11.87% at 6 months, 18.47% at 1 year and 31.08% at 2 years. Mitral regurgitation Grade <3+ was observed in 92.76% patients at discharge and in 83.36% patients at follow-up. At follow-up, 76.63% of patients NYHA Class I–II and there were significant improvements in left ventricular (LV) volume, ejection fraction, and pulmonary pressure. Atrial fibrillation (AF) had a significant negative effect on 1-year survival (β=0.18±0.06; P=0.0047) and on the reduction in LV end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes (β=−1.05±0.47 [P=0.0248] and β=−2.60±0.53 [P=0.0024], respectively). Conclusions: MC results in durable reductions in mitral regurgitation associated with significant clinical and echocardiographic improvements in heart failure patients. AF negatively affects LV reverse remodeling and 1-year survival after MC treatment
Meta-Analysis Comparing Outcomes After Everolimus-Eluting Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds Versus Everolimus-Eluting Metallic Stents in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes
No full textAcute coronary syndromes (ACS) may represent an intriguing clinical scenario for implantation of bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BRS). Nevertheless, the knowledge about the performance of these devices in patients with ACS is limited. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis of clinical studies aiming to assess the safety and efficacy of everolimus-eluting-BRS versus everolimus-eluting-metallic stents (EES) in ACS patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Six studies enrolling 2,318 patients were included and analyzed for the risk of primary safety outcome (stent or scaffold thrombosis [ST/ScT]), primary efficacy outcome (target lesion revascularisation [TLR]), and secondary outcomes (myocardial infarction, cardiac death, all-cause death). Median follow-up was 9.5 (6 to 19.5) months. Patients treated with BRS had a significantly higher risk of definite ST/ScT compared with those receiving EES (2.3% vs 1.08%, odds ratio [OR] 2.22, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.10 to 4.45, p = 0.03, I2 = 0%). Similarly, the risk of TLR was significantly higher in the BRS compared with EES group (3.5% vs 2.5%, OR 1.79, 95% CI 1.02 to 3.16, p = 0.04, I2 = 0%). When TLRs due to thrombosis were excluded, the difference in risk estimates between the 2 groups was no longer significant (OR 1.19, 95% CI 0.48 to 2.98, p = 0.71, I2 = 25%). Risk for secondary endpoints did not differ between the 2 groups. Results were confirmed when clinical and procedural variables were tested as potential effect modifiers in the meta-regression analysis for both primary endpoints. In conclusion, compared with those receiving EES, patients with ACS treated with BRS had increased risk of definite device thrombosis and TLR at mid-term follow-up
Survey of a Woven Landscape
No full textThis research project consists of a portfolio of musical compositions and an accompanying commentary on these works. It was undertaken from the fall of 2009 to the summer of 2012. I am concerned in this project with developing a wide range of musical materials to serve as a pool of resources that I may draw upon when composing. I engage with these materials in a painterly fashion, repeatedly reworking them with respect to their physical reality much like a painter reshapes an image on canvas. I cultivate different emphases within materials ― such as the tac)lity of sound produc)on, superimposed rhythmic layers, and stasis ― to explore diverse musical functionalities. I interweave common source materials to create extensive networks of relationships within and across individual pieces. These relationships lead to composite and multipartite structures built from material inter references. Transferring materials into different contexts allows me to develop the same musical idea in multiple directions, leading to a diversity of forms and durations, from five-second solos isolating a specific gesture to twenty-plus minute pieces incorporating a range of instrumental groupings and material combinations. This diversity is most evident in An Incomplete Survey of the Act of Impingement, an extended project integrating a variety of materials, structures, and independent compositions into a composite whose interconnections allow for multiple programming possibilities. My understanding of such interconnection between heterogeneous elements is extended through resonance with the work of other artists and philosophers: for instance, Gilles Deleuze's and Felix Guattari's concept of the rhizome, Anthony Braxton's interwoven musical system, Ben Marcus's approach to organizing and categorizing his writings, and Matthew Ritchie's multimedia installations. The materials and methodologies cultivated in this project provide a foundation for future developments in my work
Long-term outcome in patients with Takotsubo syndrome presenting with severely reduced left ventricular ejection fraction
No full text<i>Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique</i>, edited by Ronald Radano and Tejumola Olaniyan
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