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The EU’s potential for promoting an ecosocial agenda
Full text linkReport prepared for the project “Sustainable welfare societies: Assessing linkages between social and environmental policies”, coordinated by NOVA Norwegian Social Research at Oslo Metropolitan University and funded by the Research Council of Norway (grant no. 236930/H20)
The right to energy for all Europeans coalition : A case of green-red mobilization
Full text linkThis paper explores the potential for “environmental” (green) and “social” (red) European NGOs and trade unions to jointly mobilize, pursuing synergies between ecological/environmental and social goals, as well as to drive bottom-up policy change at the European Union level. The main research question is thus the fol-lowing: do European NGOs and trade unions conflict or cooperate on ‘eco-social’ challenges? To answer such question, the research focuses on the case of the ‘Right to Energy for All Europeans’ coalition. The coalition is an advocacy-oriented alliance of European social and green NGOs, as well as trade unions, aimed at eradicating energy poverty in Europe, mostly by exerting influence EU’ institutions concern-ing the “Clean Energy for All Europeans” legislative package. From a methodo-logical point of view, we rely on literature review and qualitative research methods, notably document analysis complemented by several semi-structured interviews with the members of the Coalition. We draw two main conclusions. First, bottom-up coordination is undermined by structural constraints (such as limited resources and compartmentalized policymaking), as well as by interest groups’ commitment to specific and potentially divergent interests. Indeed, coalition-building is always a strategic move and it is more likely to take the form of ad-hoc cooperation, than formalized coordination. Nevertheless, European green and social NGOs and trade unions display a cooperative attitude towards each other. This is coherent with our second finding, according to which these organizations have an incentive to cooperate, since they frequently endorse a ‘just transition’ paradigm. Con-trasting both powerful economic interests and the approach followed by Europe-an institutions, NGOs and trade unions are promoting a vision for Europe where social and environmental goals are harmoniously combined. Green-red alliances can thus be seen as bottom-up actions aimed to effectively mainstream ‘just transi-tion’ into policy demands and political strategies, hence giving their members an incentive to join
ALLERGIA ALLE PROTEINE DEL LATTE VACCINO E IMPIEGO DELLE FORMULE SOSTITUTIVE. IMPATTO SULLA CRESCITA E PROFILO PLASMATICO DELLE PROTEINE.
No full textBackground:
Extensively hydrolyzed formula (eHF) is the first-line therapy in cow’s milk protein allergy.
Aims of the study:
We studied growth and plasmatic protein profile, depending on the different formula employed.
Materials and methods:
We selected 40 children with cow’s milk protein allergy. Diagnosis was made by skin prick test and double-blind placebo-controlled food challenge. Children were fed with soya protein-based or hydrolyzed rice protein-based or extensively hydrolyzed casein formula. The sample was analyzed at the 6th (t0) and 12th (t1) months of life: anthropometric parameters, plasmatic levels of total proteins, albumin, prealbumin, and retinol binding protein were collected.
Results:
The comparison among the groups fed with the different formulas didn’t show a gap of weight z-score, length z-score and BMI z- score at t0 and t1. We found a positive trend of growth in children fed with rice protein-based formula. The plasmatic protein profiles among the three groups weren’t statistically different (p<0,05). The mean of plasmatic level of pre-albumin of the two groups fed with eHF is higher than the one of the group fed with soya protein-based formula, especially rice protein-based formula at t0.
Conclusions:
Children fed with eHF show a positive trend of weight z-score rise. So hydrolyzed proteins could give a nutritional qualitative benefit. Each formula ensures a good growth, but no one is the best, in spite of a positive trend of eHF, especially the rice-based one
Il trilemma dei sindacati : Prospettive e ostacoli per una transizione giusta a Taranto
No full textLa presenza dell’industria pesante, portato economico-produttivo del
‘900, ha plasmato territori, definito le traiettorie esistenziali di grandi
gruppi di persone. Dopo aver affrontato i processi di deindustrializzazione
a cavallo degli anni ’80 e ’90, i settori cosiddetti hard to abate
(acciaio, cemento, petrolchimico, carbone) sono ora al centro degli impegni
espressi nell’European Green Deal. Nella strategia dell’Unione
Europea per il passaggio ad un’economia a emissioni zero (carbon-neutral)
al 2050 e verso una transizione giusta (just transition), insieme alla
produzione energetica, l’industria è al centro della decarbonizzazione,
ovvero all’insieme di processi che ridurranno fino ad azzerare sia l’utilizzo
di carbone come materia prima che le emissioni di CO2.
I territori e le città che ospitano queste produzioni ci si aspetta che
affronteranno – e già il processo è in atto – una gamma complessa e
stratificata di sfide, sociali, economiche e ambientali, da noi definite
come “trilemma eco-social-growth”.
Partendo dagli studi sull’ambientalismo sindacale (labour environmentalism),
questo contributo si concentra sui sindacati e sul loro approccio
al trilemma nel contesto di Taranto. È necessario sottolineare
l’importanza dell’azione del lavoro organizzato in questi processi, che
interessano direttamente i mezzi con cui i lavoratori traggono il loro
sostentamento. E ciò è in particolare rilevante in un contesto come quello di Taranto,
che Ferdinando Cotugno, giornalista del Domani, ha definito come
la “capitale mondiale del conflitto tra ambiente e lavoro”. La città è
infatti sede della più grande acciaieria d’Europa, l’ex-ILVA e in sé coagula
le contraddizioni del capitalismo industriale.
Da un lato, l’economia di Taranto e del suo territorio dipende fortemente
dalla fabbrica, in particolare per redditi e occupazione; dall’altro,
le emissioni che questa produce sono stati accertati essere causa di
morte e malattia. Negli anni si è quindi stratificata una crisi ecologica,
sociale ed economica, che rende difficilmente praticabile la prospettiva
di una decarbonizzazione e transizione giusta.
L’obiettivo di queste pagine è quindi ricostruire gli obiettivi sociali,
economici e ambientali delle diverse organizzazioni sindacali; a mappare
e valutare le loro possibili proposte per conciliare (o non conciliare)
questi obiettivi; e infine, vuole comprendere se e come i sindacati
promuovano approcci riconducibili al paradigma della transizione
giusta.
Dopo una breve recensione della letteratura che si occupa di ambientalismo
sindacale, verranno ricostruiti i principali snodi storici
della crisi di Taranto; successivamente verranno mappate e valutate,
attraverso il trilemma, le posizioni e le proposte dei sindacati per superare
la suddetta crisi. Per questa ricerca, è stata adottata una metodologia
prettamente qualitativa, con una combinazione di desk research
(analisi di documenti, stampa locale e nazionale, rassegna della
letteratura) e lavoro di campo. In riferimento a quest’ultimo, gli autori
hanno condotto cinque interviste semi-strutturate tra gennaio e febbraio
2022, con i rappresentanti di quattro sindacati: le tre federazioni
metalmeccaniche appartenenti ai tre principali sindacati confederali
italiani – la Federazione Italiana Operai Metalmeccanici (FIOM), l’Unione
Italiana Metalmeccanici (UILM) e la Federazione Italiana Metalmeccanici
(FIM) – e un sindacato di base, l’Unione Sindacale di Base
(USB). Questo lavoro intende contribuire alla letteratura sull’ambientalismo
sindacale, applicando un nuovo quadro analitico – il trilemma
“eco-social-growth” – per cogliere la complessità delle posizioni degli
attori sindacali. Inoltre, l’obiettivo è di aggiornare gli studi finora condotti
sul caso dei sindacati a Taranto, basando l’analisi sulle opzioni
concrete in discussione circa il futuro dello stabilimento
The Socio-Ecological Dimension of the EU Recovery From the European Green Deal to the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Full text linkGoing 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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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