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Coping styles in individuals with different severity of hypertension.
No full textThe strategies that usually people adopt to cope with stressful events, namely coping (C) style, may affect blood pressure. Generally, hypertension (H) is positively related to emotion-oriented maladaptive C strategies and negatively related to task-oriented C styles. However, no author investigated the relationship between C strategies and H severity. This study was aimed to assess whether the severity of the cardiovascular health status of the participants is associated with specific C strategies. Participants were recruited at the Center for the Treatment of Hypertension (H) of the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome. Seven hundred sixty-one individuals (M/F: 330/431; mean age: 60.83±11.63 years) agreed to participate in the study (65% of the contacted people). The study took place over the period 2014-15. Participants were split into five groups: 1) healthy people (N=158); 2) individuals with untreated H (N=160); 3) individuals under antihypertensive drug treatment (N=157); 4) individuals with H resistant to drug therapy (N=159); individuals suffering from both H and heart diseases (N=127). To assess the C strategies, the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation was used. One-way ANOVAs considering the Group as the independent variable was carried out on each of the C strategies (emotion-oriented C, task-oriented C, avoidance-oriented C). The results showed a significant effect for the task-oriented C (F4,745=4.03; p<.003), indicating that individuals affected by both H and heart diseases make less use of task-oriented C strategies compared to the healthy group (p<.01), the individuals under antihypertensive drug treatment (p<.01), and the group with H resistant to drug therapy (p<.03). These findings confirm the relationship between C and H, underlining how patients with a greater severity of H make less use of appropriate C strategies. These results suggest the importance of implementing interventions aimed at promoting appropriate C strategies in patients with H
A Generalized Heckmann-Schucking cosmological solution in the presence of a negative cosmological constant
No full textAn exact solution of the Einstein equations for a Bianchi-I universe in the presence of dust, stiff matter and a negative cosmological constant, generalising the well-known Heckmann-Schucking solution is presented. This solution describes a universe existing during a finite period of cosmic time, where the beginning and the end of its evolution are characterized by the presence of Kasner type cosmological singularities
Supporto emotivo e consapevolezza di sé nei bambini in età scolare: effetti sulla relazione con l’insegnante.
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The relevance of social dreaming for action research: exploring jail workers’ unconscious thinking of the changes in the prison organization
No full textThe contribution focuses on how dreams can be investigated as social phenomena in a manner which illuminates the role of the individual in a particular group and elucidates unconscious group processes in an organization. The article presents an experience of adopting Lawrence’s social dreaming (SD) matrices in a new a specific field: an Italian prison which has shifted in the last two decades from a punitive to a rehabilitative mission. The aim of the experience was twofold: i) to help jail workers, through a formative experience, gaining a deeper understanding of how the new prison environment influences their emotional experience and work functioning; ii) to collect the emotional climate, the feelings, and the critical issues among the prison staff, in order to gain insights for the authorities responsible for the regulation of correctional facility. The experience of SD included 4 matrices, involving a total of 12 participants: 7 prison officers and 5 educators. The main thematic areas emerged from the matrices are related to: trust, competence, professional identity, separateness and privacy, safety, and to the gender differences. All the themes are presented and discussed, along with dreams and free associations. The present work is, to our knowledge, the first attempt to apply the tool of social dreaming to the context of correctional facility all over the world. The described experience might serve as an example of the applicability of this mode of analytic exploration to institutions or organizations, and the contribution opens to reflection and some implications
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
Adattamento Italiano degli Standard di Servizio delle Comunità Terapeutiche per l’Infanzia e l’Adolescenza
No full textIl Community of Communities (C. of C.) è un programma di miglioramento della qualità e di accreditamento tra pari per le Comunità Terapeutiche (CT), attivo nel Regno Unito, ma aperto anche a partecipazioni internazionali, avviato nel 2002 dal Royal College of Psychiatrist su iniziativa dell’Association of Therapeutic Communities (ATC). Il Community of Communities, in questi dieci anni di attività, ha costruito un network scientifico-professionale fondato su di una sere di programmi di miglioramento di qualità e di accreditamento tra pari e sviluppato dal College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI) del Royal College of Psychiatrist, che rappresenta una delle più importanti matrici socio-organizzative delle Best Practices sviluppate a livello internazionale sulle Comunità Terapeutiche. Fino ad oggi, il C. of C. ha prodotto diverse edizioni di Service-Standard per comunità terapeutiche specializzate nella cura in diversi setting istituzionali tra i quali due edizioni di Service-Standard per minori ed adolescenti. La seconda edizione curata da John O’Sullivan & Sarah Paget è quella qui tradotta ed adattata alla cultura italiana, con l’approvazione, nella sua stesura finale, del Community of Communities Project Team e del Community of Communities Children and Young People’s Reference Group
Complex rearrangement of chromosomes 7q21.13-q22.1 confirms the ectrodactyly-deafness locus and suggests new candidate genes
No full textComplex chromosomal rearrangements with more than
two breakpoints are rare. We report on a 5-year-old girl,
evaluated because of psychomotor delay, ectrodactyly of
right hand and feet, craniofacial dysmorphic features, cleft
palate, deafness, and tetralogy of Fallot. A standard karyotype
suggested a small intrachromosomal duplication of
chromosome 7q. The chromosomal rearrangement was
characterized by mBAND, which disclosed a reciprocal
interstitial translocation t(7;8)(q21q22;q23q24). FISH analysis
and array-CGH analysis showed a paracentric inversion of 7q
and a microdeletion of 7q21.13. The parents had normal
chromosomes. The deletion found in the present patient
confirms that candidate region of ectrodactyly-deafness (OMIM 220600) maps to 7q21 and suggests new candidate
genes for that disorder. This patient also had facial features
reminiscent of tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome and one
chromosome breakpoint involved band 8q24, a locus for this
disorder. In addition, FOG1 gene maps to 8q23 and has been
implicated in a subset of subjects with tretralogy of Fallot. We
suggest that the aberration of 8q may have contributed to her
facial and cardiac findings
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
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