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Il funzionamento individuale autopercepito in anziani sani e con deterioramento cognitivo tramite somministrazione dell'WHODAS II
No full textDopo una recente validazione italiana dell’WHODAS II (Federici et al., 2009a; 2009b) si intende valutare il comportamento dello strumento su un campione di 300 soggetti (100 anziani con deterioramento cognitivo, 100 anziani sani e 100 caregiver) in relazione a tre obiettivi: (i) misurare l’affidabilità dell’WHODAS II all’aumentare della gravità del declino cognitivo; (ii) stabilire se le risposte ottenute dai caregiver risultino attendibili e predittive delle diagnosi cliniche dei pazienti; (iii) comprendere la relazione che intercorre tra risposte all’WHODAS II da parte dei tre gruppi considerati e il livello di stress percepito dai caregiver misurato con il “Brief Symptom Inventory” e il “Caregiver Burden Inventory”. Il presente studio esporrà i dati relativi ad un primo campione pilota di 60 soggetti (20 anziani con deterioramento cognitivo, 20 anziani sani e 20 caregiver).
Federici, S., Meloni, F., et al. (2009a). WHODAS II: A contribution to the Italian validation. Disabil Rehabil, 31(7), 553-564.
Federici, S., Meloni, F., et al. (2009b). International Literature Review on WHODAS II. Life Span and Disability, 12(1), 1-35.
Derogatis, L.R., Melisaratos, N. (1983). The Brief Symptom Inventory: An introductory report. Psychol Med, 13(3) 595-605.
Novak, M., Guest, C. (1989). Application of a Multidimensional Caregiver Burden Inventory. Gerontologist, 29(6), 798-803
Making Decisions and Judgments on Disability: The Disability Representation of Parents, Teachers, and Special Needs Educators
No full textRepresentations of disability, shaping the opinions, attitudes, and behaviour of parents, teachers and special needs educators were investigated. Two experiments were carried out: in the first one the disability representations of 90 participants were investigated through both qualitative analyses – consisting of textual interpretation of the data gathered by 17 focus groups, assisted by the Atlas.ti software – and by quantitative analyses, consisting of Chi-square statistical testing. In the second experiment, the disability representations were investigated by administering the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to 36 participants. The results obtained demonstrated that, on an implicit level, disability is strongly and stereotypically associated with a negative and unpleasant dimension of existence, compared to the richness of scripts showed in explicit explanatory disability opinions, attitudes and behaviour of the participants in different contexts
Chua's periodic table
No full textAn interdisciplinary analysis is presented in this paper on the relationship between the bifurcation behavior of chaotic systems, specifically Chua's circuit, and the quantized energy level of atoms. We show that it is possible to associate special capacitance values in Chua's circuits with the electronic energy levels En of atoms calculated from Bohr's Law. In particular, these particular capacitance values correspond to the bifurcation points αn of Chua's circuits. We found a functional relation associating a specific Chua's circuit to the Hydrogen atom and obtained a map of "Atom" to "Chua's Circuit". This map can be extended to other elements in the Periodic Table, thereby demonstrating an almost universal relation between the two different physical systems. With this map we can calculate the energy levels of different atoms from bifurcation diagrams (or vice-versa) and express the analytical relations in terms of the two variables αn and En
WHODAS II: Disability self-evaluation in the ICF conceptual frame
No full textThe World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHODAS II) is an instrument developed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in order to assess behavioural limitations and restrictions to participation experienced by an individual, independently from a medical diagnosis (WHO 2004). The conceptual frame of reference of this instrument is the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) (WHO 2001a), endorsed by 191 countries as the normative system to classify the health status of individuals (WHO 2001b). The ICF belongs to the Family of International Classifications of the WHO, and is directly related to the ICD-10 (International statistical classification of diseases and health problems) (WHO 1992)
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
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