69,197 research outputs found

    Peppa Pig e Masha e Orso: modelli educativi a confronto

    No full text
    inevitabilmente e spesso inconsapevolmente, i cartoon sono educativi; a prescindere dalla connotazione delle proposte: anche un pessimo cartone animato, infatti, propone un modello educativo nel quale i piccoli spettatori e le piccole spettatrici possono rispecchiarsi, se assomiglia a quello sperimentato in ambito famigliare, o immedesimarsi conoscendo situazioni altre, nel caso se ne discosti. Si tratta di prospettive significativamente diverse. Le serie animate Peppa Pig e Masha e Orso rappresentano in maniera esemplare le due tipologie – quella confermativa e quella “divergente” – rispetto al modello educativo in uso nella generalità delle famiglie italiane. La scelta di prendere in considerazione queste serie tv è dettata dalla notorietà di entrambe: anche chi non ha a che fare con l’infanzia conosce Peppa Pig e Masha attraverso le pubblicità, i gadget, gli accessori che ne garantiscono la permanenza nell’immaginario

    Online health information seeking behavior, healthcare access, and health status during exceptional times

    No full text
    Online health information seeking behavior (e-HISB) is becoming increasingly common and the trend has accelerated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic when individuals strongly relied upon the Internet to stay informed by becoming exposed to a wider array of health information. Despite e-HISB having become a global trend, very few empirical investigations have analyzed its potential influence on healthcare access and individuals’ health status. In this paper, we try to fill this gap. We use data from the second SHARE Corona Survey, supplemented with data from the previous 8th wave of SHARE, and estimate a recursive model of e-HISB, healthcare access, and individuals’ health status that accounts for individuals’ unobserved heterogeneity. Our findings suggest that e-HISB can empower individuals to better understand health concerns, facilitating improved health condition management. However, e-HISB can also trigger a chain reaction, as navigating vast amonts of online health information can heighten fear and anxiety. This increased anxiety may lead to higher utilization of medical services, adversely affecting individuals' perceptions of their health

    Diversidade de minhocas e atributos químicos em sistemas de plantio direto e integração lavoura-pecuária do oeste catarinense.

    No full text
    Resumo também apresentado no CONGRESSO DE INICIAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA E PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO, 2., 2012, São Leopoldo. Mostra de iniciação científica da UNISINOS. São Leopoldo: Casa Leiria, 2012. e-book. II CICPG. Disposição dos autores: ORSO, R.; BARTZ, M. L. C.; BROWN, G. G.; KLAUBER FILHO, O.; ROSA, M. G. da; LOCATELLI, M.; ZORTÉA, T.; CASAROTTO, K.; DECÄENS, T.; BARETTA, D

    Adverse childhood experiences and unhealthy lifestyles later in life: evidence from SHARE countries

    No full text
    This paper investigates whether exposure to adverse experiences during childhood, such as physical and emotional abuse, affects the likelihood of unhealthy habits later in life. The novelty of our approach is twofold. First, we exploit the recently published data on adverse childhood experiences in 19 European countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE), which enables us to account for country-specific heterogeneity and investigate the long-term effects of exposure to adverse early-life circumstances (such as smoking, drinking, excess weight and obesity) on unhealthy lifestyles later in life. Second, we estimate the effect of childhood trauma on unhealthy lifestyles separately for European macro-regions using a clustering of countries emphasising cultural differences. Our results highlight the positive effect of exposure to adverse childhood experiences on the probability of unhealthy lifestyles in the long run. Harm from parents is associated with a higher probability of smoking in adulthood, while child neglect and a poor relationship with parents increase the probability of smoking later in life

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

    No full text
    The 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

    Memorandum from A. E. Demaray to E. C. Finney

    No full text
    Four letters of correspondence about the purchase of Bright Angel Trail between A. E. Demaray, Acting Director of the Grand Canyon National Park; E. C. Finney, Department of the Interior First Assistant Secretary; Carl T. Hayden, Representative (AZ); and Stephen T. Mather, Director of the National Park Service

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

    No full text
    We 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

    “Visiting Parents in Times of Covid-19: The Impact of Parent-adult Child Contacts on the Psychological Health of the Elderly”

    No full text
    Using the 8th wave of the SHARE and the SHARE Corona Survey, we investigated whether the disruption of parent–adult child contacts due to social distancing restrictions increased the symptoms of depression among old age individuals during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We model the relationship between the disruption of parent–adult child contacts and the mental health of the elderly using a recursive simultaneous equation model for binary variables. Our findings show that the likelihood of disruption of parent–adult child contacts was higher with adult children who do not live with or close to their parents (i.e., in the same household or in the same building) for whom contact disruption increases about 15 %. The duration of restrictions to movement and lockdowns also has a positive and significant effect on parent-child contact disruption: an additional week of lockdown significantly increases the probability of parent-child contact disruption, by about 1.5 %. The interventions deemed essential to reduce the spread of the pandemic, such as the “stay-at-home” order, necessarily disrupted personal parent–child contacts and the social processes that facilitate psychological well-being, increasing the probability of suffering from a deepening depressed mood by about 17 % for elderly parents

    Considerazioni preliminari per una bio-algoretica

    No full text
    This article aims at suggesting some preliminary remarks on Bio-algorethics, that is, the sub-field of the ethics of IA specifically addressed to the ethical problems raised by algorithms-based procedures in the field of bioethics. After a general overview on the relationship between the ethics of IA and bioethics, four specific areas are highlighted: the multifactorial assessment of health conditions; physical health data collection and management; effects of algorithms-based applications and programmes on individual mental health; the physician-patient relationship in the age of generative AI age
    corecore