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Well-being at school
No full textWell-being is a multidimensional construct, and refers to a set of objective (economic, cultural, environmental, physical) and subjective (psychological, emotional, affective, socio-relational) conditions that the individual experiences, and several studies have confirmed the existence of a close positive relationship between class climate and well-being and between well-being and learning (Govorova et al., 2020).
From the perspective of an action-research path, this research was carried out on 553 children attending the third, fourth and fifth grades of some primary schools in north-eastern Italy, and explored the conditions that make children feel good or bad at school, especially in the relationship with classmates and teachers. The relationships that bring well-being are first and foremost affective, and concern sharing one's time and space with friends, but also social and cognitive. The well-being of children is not a selfish well-being, because they are also attentive to what happens to their classmates, and if one of them manifests difficulties, they work to help him or her overcome the difficult moment and, implicitly, to re-establish a good emotional climate in the classroom. In the relationship with the teacher, what produces greater well-being is the possibility that the children carry out activities that they enjoy, but also the recognition and appreciation for what the children do. Finally, a fundamental role is assigned to the teacher in intervening when pupils behave badly, in order to bring back a good climate in the classroom and promote everyone's well-being
Il telefonino tra utilità e necessità
Full text linkYou need to have adequate communication skills to make phone calls. Communication is very fast, it can be done anywhere and anytime, and this can cause stress but also reassurance. From the survey it appears that people have their mobile phone first and foremost to be accessible everywhere, because they can receive messages, respond to work needs and security reasons. From the factorial analysis applied to the scale of opinion it emerges that for cellular owners the first factor describes it as "antidote to solitude" and the second is related to its instrumental function. The cell phone is therefore an object not only useful for its communicative function but it becomes necessary to respond to security and to psychological tranquility
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
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
Foreigners and emotional relations with the welcoming community
Full text linkIt is estimated that in 2016 there were about 5,4 million foreigners in Italy, including those with regular residence permits, and about 22% comes from Africa. A lot is written about foreigners present in Italy but it is more difficult to know something about their lives in the community that welcomes them; hence the goal of this research was to interview a sample of foreigners from different African countries, present in some municipalities in northern Italy.
There have been many difficulties in finding people to interview, so this work can be considered only exploratory.
A brief questionnaire wad administered to a non probabilistic sample of 60 foreigners: 50,0% are students and only 10,0% are unemployed.
The three main reasons that led them to our country are study reasons (51.7%), the fact that they know someone (26.7%) or because they came to know that Italy is a country that welcomes foreigners (16.7%).
65.0% feel welcome in the community in which they live and to support integration 25.0% believes that the first step should be taken by foreigners while for 61.7% there should be a mutual approach. On the other hand, only 35.0% of respondents share the desire to integrate.
The factor analysis applied to 17 bipolar scale referring to the perception of Italians by foreigners, brought out a very positive profiles. There are extracted five factors, with 71,6% of observed variability. The first factor suggests a fully positive and reassuring representation of Italians: it is the factor of goodness. The second is a factor associated with human warmth. The third is the factor of industriousness, the fourth of the personal dimension, and finally the factor of beauty
Famiglie fragili nel Friuli di oggi. Emozioni, valori e progetti dei figli di genitori separati.
No full textDispelling 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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