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Studying communities at high environmental risk: the case of Gela
No full textResearch activities that aim to redevelop areas that present a risk may be carried out in different ways, using various methods developed by the social sciences. Among the methods that take on a particular meaning when applied to these areas are focus groups, qualitative analysis and participant observations. Which work tools to choose, what to investigate, what to look at and for how long, and how to communicate the results of the research are among the issues that need to be addressed at the beginning of research. Research in areas that present risks implies a clear commitment to issues of development, to relationships with the environment, to the perception of well-being and the definition of risk. Through an example of research and observations carried out in Gela, the chapter provides some useful clues for social scientists working in these areas. The events analysed started in the early 1950s, when oil was discovered in Sicily and the populations enthusiastically welcomed the petrochemical plants. Then, many people thought of Sicily as Texas. Half a century later, the bright dream has turned to dark reality: congenital malformations, diseases related to industrialization, natural resources depleted, and organized crime. The chapter discusses redevelopment plans and describes the socioeconomic impact of the petrochemical industry, of which Gela is one of the Italian capitals
Gli Esquilini: Contributi Al Dibattito Sulle Trasformazioni Nel Rione Esquilino Di Roma Dagli Anni Settanta Al Duemila. [The Esquilini: Notes on the Transformations of the Esquilino Area in Rome From 1970s to 2000]
No full textPierpaolo Mudu GLI ESQUILINI: CONTRIBUTI AL DIBATTITO SULLE TRASFORMAZIONI NEL RIONE ESQUILINO DAGLI ANNI SETTANTAAL DUEMILA Punti di discussione Questa raccolta ed elaborazione di informazioni che riguardano l’Esquili- no è organizzata intorno a tre punti fondamentali: 1) le trasformazioni sociali contemporanee dell’Esquilino1 ; 2) il concetto di degrado e la sua applicazione all’attuale situazione del- l’Esquilino; 3) il significato che ha assunto lo spazio dell’Esquilino. La nascita e lo sviluppo dell’Esquilino Sviluppo urbanistico Osservando la carta di Roma si nota come l’Esquilino si trovi al confine est del Centro storico, nella I circoscrizione (cfr. figura 1). Secondo la suddi- visione toponomastica il rione Esquilino si estende per circa 158 ettari, con- tiene tutta la stazione Termini e piazza dei Cinquecento, aree di “confine” in- sieme a via Gioberti con il rione Castro Pretorio; la via Merulana lo separa dal rione Monti e le Mura Aureliane lo dividono poi dai quartieri di sudest della città (figura 2b). I suoi confini sono così segnati da grandi strutture ur- bane, sia moderne, come la stazione Termini, che religiose come le basiliche 1 La prospettiva storica di questo intervento, nonostante una breve digressione, è limitata agli ultimi trent’anni e rimando per considerazioni sull’evoluzione storica del rione allo scritto di M.R. PROTASI contenuto nel presente volume. L’analisi svolta è parzialmente basata sui risultati pubblicati nella tesi di dottorato (P. MUDU, Gli immigrati stranieri a Roma: aspet- ti distributivi e relazionali, tesi di dottorato in Geografia economica / XII ciclo. Roma, Uni- versità “La Sapienza” – Facoltà di Economia/Dipartimento di Studi geoeconomici, statistici, storici per l’analisi regionale, 2000). Per il lavoro sono stati utilizzati come fonte di informa- zione ed indagine 700 articoli, riguardanti l’Esquilino, che coprono per lo più gli ultimi 20 anni, il cui nucleo è costituito dallo spoglio completo di «Il Messaggero», «Il Tempo», «Cor- riere della Sera» e «Repubblica» nel triennio 1997-99 (in tutto 573 articoli). Infine si è svolto un lavoro sul campo, in particolare nei mesi di settembre e ottobre 2001, preceduto da nume- rosi sopralluoghi
Colmare il buco della povertà. Le occupazioni come oggetto di analisi sociale
No full textReview article of Freia Anders, Alexander Sedlmaier, eds, Public Goods versus Economic Interests. Global Perspectives on the History of Squatting, London, Routledge, 2016, pp. 318; Pierpaolo Mudu, Sutapa Chattopahyay, eds, Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy, London, Routledge, 2017, pp. 294.Nota critica di Freia Anders, Alexander Sedlmaier, eds, Public Goods versus Economic Interests. Global Perspectives on the History of Squatting, London, Routledge, 2016, pp. 318; Pierpaolo Mudu, Sutapa Chattopahyay, eds, Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy, London, Routledge, 2017, pp. 294
Intervento multifamiliare di gruppo e schizofrenia: uno studio randomizzato controllato
No full textObjectives
To assess the efficacy of a group intervention for relatives of patients with schizophrenia. To explore the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial of a psychosocial treatment in daily practice.
Methods
The relatives of patients with DSM-III-R schizophrenia were randomized to receive either the experimental intervention plus standard treatment or standard treatment alone. The group intervention for relatives was carried-out in the absence of patients and lasted 22 biweekly sessions. It included giving information on schizophrenia and the stress-vulnerability model, defining realistic objectives, training in communication skills, effective coping strategies, and structured problem-solving. Role playing techniques and homework assignment were widely used, with an emphasis on active learning. In each family, a key relative was asked to complete a baseline and immediately after treatment two validated instruments: the QPF on family burden and perceived support, and the QCV on the patient’s social functioning and psychological conditions.
Results
Initially, the two groups were similar on all outcome measures. After treatment, in the control group, we did not observe a decrease on any measure, while in the experimental group we observed a significant decrease or a statistical trend toward a decrease on all measures. We also observed a significant difference or a statistical trend toward a difference between groups on all measures.
Conclusions
This study suggests that randomized controlled trials are feasible also in routine practice. It supports the controversial claim that family group interventions in the absence of the patient may be effective in reducing family burden and in improving patients’ conditions, if carried out intensively and with an emphasis on active learning principles
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Studying communities at high environmental risk: the case of Gela
No full textResearch activities that aim to redevelop areas that present a risk may be carried out in different ways, using
various methods developed by the social sciences. Among the methods that take on a particular meaning
when applied to these areas are focus groups, qualitative analysis and participant observations. Which
work tools to choose, what to investigate, what to look at and for how long, and how to communicate the
results of the research are among the issues that need to be addressed at the beginning of research. Research
in areas that present risks implies a clear commitment to issues of development, to relationships with the
environment, to the perception of well-being and the definition of risk.
Through an example of research and observations carried out in Gela, the chapter provides some
useful clues for social scientists working in these areas. The events analysed started in the early 1950s, when
oil was discovered in Sicily and the populations enthusiastically welcomed the petrochemical plants. Then,
many people thought of Sicily as Texas. Half a century later, the bright dream has turned to dark reality:
congenital malformations, diseases related to industrialization, natural resources depleted, and organized
crime. The chapter discusses redevelopment plans and describes the socioeconomic impact of the
petrochemical industry, of which Gela is one of the Italian capitals
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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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