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Immigrants and Occupational Injuries: A Survey Conducted on Victims toward a Better Understanding of their Over-Representantion
No full textLa tesi si occupa degli infortuni sul lavoro degli stranieri: essa approfondisce il tema della presunta maggiore vulnerabilità agli infortuni sul lavoro degli immigrati rispetto agli italiani e mira ad identificare quali fattori influiscono sull’accadimento degli infortuni degli italiani e degli stranieri, al fine di capire meglio le ragioni della loro differente vulnerabilità. Sebbene fin dagli anni Settanta diverse ricerche abbiano cercato di dimostrare se gli immigrati siano o meno più vulnerabili degli autoctoni rispetto agli infortuni sul lavoro e di capirne le cause, la presenza di molti limiti sia metodologici che di contenuto, ha impedito di accettare i risultati delle ricerche esistenti come definitivi. Il presente studio ha cercato di superare alcuni dei limiti delle ricerche precedenti attraverso la raccolta diretta di dati. È stata infatti realizzata una survey, attraverso la somministrazione di un questionario, su due campioni, uno di vittime italiane di infortuni sul lavoro (300 rispondenti) e uno di vittime straniere (200 rispondenti). L’area locale interessata è il Trentino. Il lavoro sul campo ha permesso di raggiungere i seguenti obiettivi: verificare se gli stranieri siano o meno più vulnerabili degli Italiani rispetto agli infortuni sul lavoro; stilare un profilo dell’infortunato straniero e di quello italiano ed individuare, attraverso l’analisi statistica, quali fattori possono aiutare a spiegare la sovra-rappresentazione degli stranieri nel fenomeno.This thesis deals with the issue of occupational injuries among migrants: it delves deeper into the problem of their supposed higher vulnerability to occupational injuries in respect to Italians and aims to identify which factors influence the occurrence of work injuries in each of the two groups, in order to better understand the reasons of their different vulnerability.
Even though since the Seventies researchers have attempted to demonstrate whether non-natives are more vulnerable than natives to occupational injuries and to explain the reasons for this alleged over-representation, the presence of many limits related both to the content and to the methodology
of extant studies prev ented the reader from accepting these results as definitive. This research attempts to overcome some of the limitations of previous studies collecting first-hand data. A survey, though the administration of a questionnaire, has been carried out on two samples, one of Italian victims (300 respondents) and one of immigrant victims (200 respondents) of work injuries in a local Italian area (Trentino). The work on the field has allowed, then, to gain the following objectives: verify whether migrants are more vulnerable to occupational injuries than Italians; depict a profile of the injured migrant and of the injured Italian and finding out, though statistical analysis, the factors that help to explain migrants’ over-representation in the phenomenon
La questione della cittadinanza tra educazione e politica: riflessioni critiche e proposte costruttive per il dibattito pedagogico
No full textCitizenship education is a core topic of all transformative pedagogies. In this article, we build on the phenomenological and critical schools of pedagogical thought in order to highlight some key theoretical issues that remain unaddressed in both the academic discourse and in the educational practices and policies aimed at fostering a new paradigm of citizenship education that can really fit with the political needs of the twenty-first century globalised society. Even the Intercultural and GCE approaches, in fact, fail to highlight the need to develop a critical awareness of the contradictions and unsustainability of today institutional framework with regards to State sovereignty and the peoples’ right to self-determination, two major obstacles to the birth of multiscale citizenship and democracy.L’educazione alla cittadinanza è un tema chiave per ogni pedagogia trasformativa. In questo articolo, prendiamo spunto dalla pedagogia fenomenologica e critica per evidenziare alcune importanti questioni teoriche che rimangono misconosciute tanto nel discorso accademico quanto nelle pratiche e politiche educative che mirano a sviluppare un nuovo paradigma di educazione alla cittadinanza, realmente adeguato ai bisogni politici della società globalizzata del XXI secolo. Persino gli approcci interculturali e l’Educazione alla Cittadinanza Globale, infatti, non riescono a mettere a fuoco la necessità di formare una specifica consapevolezza critica del contraddittorio e insostenibile assetto ideologico-istituzionale odierno, che facendo ancora perno sui dispositivi della sovranità statuale e della autodeterminazione dei popoli ostacola la maturazione di una cittadinanza democratica realmente multi-scalare
Going 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
Does intraoperative platelet-rich plasma improve clinical and structural outcomes after arthroscopic repair of isolated tears of the supraspinatus tendon?
No full textVariations 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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