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Foreword
No full textBrief preface to the volume which includes some of the articles selected from the first issue of Socioscapes. International Journal of Societies, Politics and Cultures (2019
Un disegno per Isola delle Femmine. Indagini digitali su Gianni Pirrone
No full textPer tentare un primo approccio alla lettura del pensiero architettonico del periodo è sembrato utile prendere spunto proprio dal primo ‘lavoro’ di Gianni Pirrone, la sua tesi di laurea del 1950 di cui sono stati relatori Edoardo Caracciolo e Luigi Epifanio. Il ridisegno critico non solo fa prendere corpo al pensiero del giovane Pirrone ma evidenzia, attraverso la schedatura dei disegni, l’approccio, a quel tempo, della Scuola di Architettura di Palermo ai temi della progettazione architettonica e urbana
Architetti in Sicilia. Edoardo Caracciolo e Gianni Pirrone
No full textIl saggio riguarda due importanti figure della Scuola di Architettura di Palermo: Eduardo Caracciolo e Gianni Pirrone, il maestro e l'allievo. Figure dimenticate di cui il saggio delinea gli aspetti disciplinari dei professori e i contenuti comuni, riconducibili agli aspetti culturali del tempo
Pandemia e capitalismo del XXI secolo. Gestione securitaria della crisi tra individualizzazione neoliberista e ristrutturazione delle forze produttive
No full textIl contributo propone una riflessione sul Sars-Cov-2 quale epifenomeno del modo di produzione capitalistico ed in particolare della sua fase neoliberista. La pandemia, accelerando dinamiche e contraddizioni del capitale già preesistenti, è indubbiamente correlata agli aspetti più predatori del modo di produzione capitalistico, particolarmente nei confronti della natura e della biodiversità. Il saggio cerca anche di far riflettere su altri due aspetti emersi durante la pandemia: la gestione della pandemia, non solo in termini sanitari, è profondamente legata ai processi di individualizzazione, visti quali esiti delle trasformazioni sociali indotte dal neoliberismo; inoltre, il modo in cui si è affrontata l’emergenza sanitaria appare come un alibi per celare le ragioni della crisi economica capitalistica, precedente la pandemia, e la via per procedere ad una ulteriore accelerazione della ristrutturazione delle forze produttive, fenomeno ciclico e inevitabile del modo di produzione capitalistico, in vista di nuovi processi di accumulazione del capitale.The contribution proposes a reflection on Sars-Cov-2 as an epiphenomenon of the capitalist way of production and in particular of its neoliberal phase. The pandemic, accelerating pre-existing dynamics and capital contradictions, is undoubtedly related to the more predatory aspects of the capitalist way of production, particularly with regard to nature and biodiversity. The essay also tries to make us reflect on two other aspects that emerged during the pandemic: the management of the pandemic, not only in health terms, is deeply linked to the processes of individualization, seen as the results of the social transformations induced by neoliberalism; Moreover, the way in which the health emergency has been dealt with appears to be an alibi for concealing the reasons for the capitalist economic crisis, prior to the pandemic, and the way to proceed with a further acceleration of the restructuring of production forces, a cyclical and inevitable phenomenon of capitalist production, with a view to new processes of capital accumulation
Développement territorial soutenable: l'approche des libertés et ses conséquences pour les politiques d'attractivité
No full textMoving from the concepts of territory as a social construct and of development as the progressive, dynamic fulfilment of self-established goals, the paper aims to show how a genuine strategy of development helps building up a sustainable attractiveness. To achieve this goal, the paper first investigates the accuracy of the Nation Brand Index as a signal of the territorial attractiveness, positive or negative, in a long term perspective. Second, the pertinence of the freedom approach to development in order to fully integrate the sustainability issues is enlightened. Finally, the two models are tied together, thus allowing the mutual links and synergies to appear and corroborating the idea that appropriate development strategies make a selective attractiveness, based on the territorial values and choices, to emerge
La Sicilia tra frontiera della periferia e periferia essa stessa
No full textIn questo contributo cercheremo di analizzare la situazione della Sicilia quale esempio paradigmatico delle migrazioni contemporanee. La Sicilia infatti, proprio in virtù di quella “questione meridionale” che ha caratterizzato il ‘900, è segnata ancora oggi da assenza di sviluppo, carente crescita produttiva e occupazionale, ed è divenuta sia meta di immigrazione poco qualificata e di lavoratori irregolari o clandestini sfruttati soprattutto nelle campagne, sia fonte di una nuova e importante ripresa di emigrazione, soprattutto giovanile, verso altre parti d’Italia o verso l’estero, come testimoniato per l’ultimo decennio dai rapporti Svimez
SAIApp: a web application of the university of palermo dedicated to children with autoinflammatory syndromes
No full textIntroduction: The recent epidemic strongly evidenced the necessity of reorganizing physician work, patients’ access to clinics and patient support, especially for chronic diseases. In this field, a good strategy must consider the integration between department pediatricians, multidisciplinary specialists and pediatricians in private practice. Besides, adequate standards of care must be ensured especially for children affected by chronic diseases, as Autoinflammatory syndromes.
Objectives: These children need to monitor clinical manifestations, attacks-free intervals, treatment adherence and response, onset of short- and long-term complications. This surveillance is a fundamental step to guarantee the best and personalized therapeutic choice,
to update the therapeutic plan and to monitor adverse events. In this framework, a cutting-age strategy must adopt web applications, running on personal devices as tablet or smartphone.
Methods: SAIApp is a web application written in Python using the Django framework. The app’s data layer relies on a relational DBMS implemented in SQLite, while its presentation layer makes use of Bootstrap to guarantee full responsiveness even for small-screen devices.
The mobile version has been designed just as a “webapp” that is a mobile app that simply shows a frame where HTML browsing still takes place. This choice is due to the very low computational load involved in SAIApp: it does not use any sensor of the mobile device, and no particular time constraints are required for the user interaction thus allowing for the use of web GUI widgets. The application considers three main actors: the patient or her/his family, the department pediatrician, and the pediatrician in private practice that has been appointed by the patient as her/his reference physician. All of them are registered users of the application but with different roles and grants on the database. The patient can only specify her/his health status by answering a series of simple Yes/No questions about the presence of some symptoms like fever, headache, vomit, constipation, and so on. Moreover, the patient can provide a qualitative evaluation of the overall health status through an easy GUI made by a list of emoj expressing increasing levels of satisfaction. Each health status report has a timestamp, and it is the main source of information to be stored in the database.
Results: The department pediatrician acts as the administrator of the system. He registers the new users belonging to the other two groups and inserts the clinical data. The department pediatrician fills the records related to the first diagnosis, to therapy along with the results of clinical examinations. Finally, the department pediatrician owns a GUI to perform search in the patients list according to several criteria. The result can be exported as a csv file for further analysis.
Conclusion: The pediatrician in private practice supports the work of the department pediatrician as she/he can insert and search for all the clinical data, related only to her/his patients. In this way, we want virtually extend the assistance to children with Autoinflammatory syndromes and guarantee adequate standards of care
Dealing with preference uncertainty in contingent willingness to pay for a nature protection program: A new approach
No full textIn this paper, we propose an alternative preference uncertainty measurement approach where respondents have the option to indicate their willingness to pay (WTP) for a nature protection program either as exact values or intervals from a payment card, depending on whether they are uncertain about their valuation. On the basis of their responses, we then estimate their degree of uncertainty. New within this study is that the respondent's degree of uncertainty is "revealed", while it is "stated" in those using existing measurement methods. Three statistical models are used to explore the sources of respondent uncertainty. We also present a simple way of calculating the uncertainty adjusted mean WTP, and compare this to the one obtained from an interval regression. Our findings in terms of determinants of preference uncertainty are broadly consistent with a priori expectations. In addition, the uncertainty adjusted mean WTP is quite similar to the one derived from an interval regression. We conclude that our method is promising in accounting for preference uncertainty in WTP answers at little cost to interviewees in terms of time and cognitive effort, on the one hand, and without researcher assumptions regarding the interpretation of degrees of uncertainty reported by respondents, on the other. © 2013 Elsevier B.V
The dog–owner relationship : Refinement and validation of the Italian C/DORS for dog owners and correlation with the LAPS
Get PDFThe Cat/Dog–Owner Relationship Scale (C/DORS) can be administered to both dog and cat owners. However, the scale as a whole has never been validated on a sample of dog owners. Furthermore, it has never been translated into Italian. The aim of this study was to translate the C/DORS into Italian, modify its response scale in order to improve the degree of response variability, and test its validity and reliability on a sample of dog-owners. Exploratory factor analysis revealed the same three-factor structure (Perceived Emotional Closeness = PEC, Pet–Owner Interactions = POI, Perceived Costs = PC) as the original English version, although some items had to be removed because of low-or cross-loadings. The validity of the construct was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis, by the correlations between each of the subscales and the C/DORS total score, and by the correlations with the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale. Cronbach’s α values for each subscale were above acceptable levels. Student owners scored higher on PEC and POI than owners with other occupations. Owners of dogs with behavioural problems scored lower on PEC and higher on PC. Keeping the dog outdoor was associated with lower POI. Finally, pet dog owners scored higher on PEC than AAI dog owners
Evoluzione della componente polifenolica in vino rosso affinato mediante tecnologie innovative
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