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Quality of Life After Restorative Proctocolectomy for Ulcerative Colitis
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Quality of life after restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis - Different questionnaires lead to different interpretations
Author(s): Scarpa, M (Scarpa, Marco); Ruffolo, C (Ruffolo, Cesare); Polese, L (Polese, Lino); Martin, A (Martin, Alessandro); D'Inca, R (D'Inca, Renata); Sturniolo, GC (Sturniolo, Giacomo C.); D'Amico, DF (D'Amico, Davide F.); Angriman, I (Angriman, Imerio)
Source: ARCHIVES OF SURGERY Volume: 142 Issue: 2 Pages: 158-165 DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.2.158 Published: FEB 2007
Times Cited: 15 (from Web of Science)
Cited References: 34 [ view related records ] Citation Map
Abstract: Background: According to some researchers, health-related quality-of-life scores for patients who undergo restorative proctocolectomy (RPC) for ulcerative colitis (UC) are comparable to those of healthy control subjects. Other studies show evidence that patients who undergo RPC experience a health-related quality of life similar to patients with mild UC or UC in remission.
Hypothesis: The discrepancy in health-related quality of-life scores among studies may be due to different health-related quality-of-life analyses.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: Outpatient clinic of a tertiary care center.
Patients: In the first phase of the study, we consecutively enrolled 24 patients with UC, 24 patients with Crohn disease, and 24 healthy controls. In the second phase of the study, 40 patients who underwent RPC, 43 patients with UC, and 44 controls were consecutively enrolled.
Interventions: We administered an Italian version of the Cleveland Global Quality of Life (CGQL) instrument, the Padova Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life instrument, and the Italian 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey.
Main Outcome Measures: We evaluated the construct. validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, sensitivity to change, and discriminant ability of the Italian CGQL instrument. We compared its discriminative ability with that of the Padova Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life instrument.
Results: The Italian CGQL instrument obtained good construct validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and sensitivity to change. The Italian CGQL score did not distinguish patients who underwent RPC from healthy controls and those with mild UC or UC in remission, while the Padova Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life instrument reported similar scores for patients who underwent RPC and those with mild UC or UC in remission, and showed a difference vs healthy controls.
Conclusions: We validated an Italian version of the CGQL score. The different results obtained with the CGQL and the Padova Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life instruments can be attributed to the different discriminative ability of the 2 questionnaires
A imagem de Alessandro Baricco no Brasil
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2013.Com a intenção de delinear o modo pelo qual o escritor italiano Alessandro Baricco se inseriu no sistema literário brasileiro e os caminhos percorridos pelos seus livros traduzidos, esta dissertação dá voz às experiências tradutórias de seus tradutores. A inserção de Bariccono Brasil tem seu início em 1997, através de uma proposição da Profa. Dra. Roberta Barni à editora Iluminuras da tradução de Oceano Mare. A partir daí, outras sete obras foram publicadas no Brasil, sendo três delas traduzidas por Roberta Barni e as outras quatro por quatro tradutores diferentes. De um lado, considera-se o tradutor como figura principal namediação entre culturas, e, de outro, se analisa a realidade desta figuradentro do sistema literário, sua invisibilidade, seus limites e o exercíciode sua profissão. A pesquisa conta, ainda, com críticas e resenhas referentes ao autor italiano publicadas em jornais consagrados no Brasil, considerando estas como parte constituinte da imagem de Baricco refletida em território nacional. Abstract : Intending to delineate the way the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco has been inserted in the Brazilian literary system and the paths his translated books have followed, this thesis gives voice to the translating experiences of his translators. Baricco's insertion in Brazil began in 1997, through a personal project of Dr. Roberta Barni, with her translation of Oceano Mare. Since then, seven other of his works have been published in Brazil, three of which were translated by Roberta Barni and the other four by four different translators. On the one hand,the translator is considered as the main figure in mediation betweencultures and, on the other, this figure's reality is analyzed within theliterary system: its invisibility, its limits and its professional practice. Criticisms and reviews of this Italian author published in well established Brazilian newspapers are also considered, with the understanding that they are part of Baricco's image reflected here
La maturità di Alessandro Fei del Barbiere, in bilico tra Maniera e Riforma
No full textThis article studies the mature career of the Florentine painter Alessandro Fei del Barbiere (1537-1592), beginning with the rediscovery of the 'Ascension' altarpiece formerly in the Albizi Chapel in the destroyed church of San Pier Maggiore, Florence. Studying this painting and others recorded in 1584 by the biographer Raffaello Borghini, such as the two altarpieces for Santa Maria delle Grazie and the Madonna dell'Umiltà in Pistoia, the author reconstructs a body of works showing how in the 1580s Fei gradually went beyond the archaic style of his apprenticeship - he had been trained by Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio and Pierfrancesco Foschi, but was also marked by the Maniera of Vasari - evolving towards naturalism in both mimesis and pictorial handling. In Florence, his development partly parallels that of Santi di Tito and his circle, but Fei was also influenced by a probable sojourn during the early part of that decade in Rome, where he could have been inspired by Girolamo Muziano and the painters working for Pope Gregory XIII. Among other proposals, the author suggests that the artist was responsible for decorating the chancel of Fiesole Cathedral (c. 1584-1589), which consisted of an altarpiece, only rarely discussed by scholars, and a cycle of frescoes hitherto attributed to Nicodemo Ferrucci
Come cambia il modo di competere nella sharing economy: una rilettura in ottica ASV
No full textNello scenario economico degli ultimi anni si sta assistendo a cambiamenti di vario tipo (più o meno radicali) in tutti i settori; l’avanzamento e la diffusione delle nuove tecnologie, l’evoluzione delle strategie e delle tecniche manageriali, la proposizione di
modelli di business innovativi, una più attenta partecipazione dell’utenza finale e una maggiore consapevolezza sui consumi sono solo alcuni degli esempi del continuo mutamento in corso.
L’incertezza crescente che ne deriva spinge molte imprese, o gruppi di imprese, a trovare forme di organizzazione sempre più snelle, a volte anche modulari; la necessità di dover fronteggiare le contingenze negative conseguenti obbliga chiunque sia coinvolto in un capitale di rischio, ed interessato alle sorti di un’impresa, ad immaginare sempre delle strade alternative per mantenere la propria competitività, spesso ipotizzando nuove forme di aggregazione e/o collaborazione.
La condizione stessa di incertezza stimola verso continui processi vitali di aggiornamento e innovazione, allo scopo spesso anche di anticipare possibili mutamenti futuri, in un ciclo di retroazione costante e virtuoso di rinforzo e ri-equilibrio (Stermann, 2000).
L’Approccio Sistemico Vitale (ASV) (Golinelli, 2005; Barile, 2008) può, in questo senso, supportare la formazione di nuovi e più adeguati modelli interpretativi e di supporto alle decisioni, in aiuto a quelle imprese, intese come sistemi, che intendono mantenere competitiva nel tempo la propria proposta di valore.
Il presente lavoro cerca di approfondire il tema della competitività delle imprese che vivono in contesti particolarmente turbolenti e tendenti al cambiamento; in particolare, lo studio si concentra sul business emergente e ancora poco definito della sharing economy, al fine di capire come oggi è possibile, grazie alla lente ASV, ri-leggere e re-interpretare le strategie e le performances di maggiore successo, sapendo che l’incertezza è sempre più frequente e la necessità di adeguarsi alle cangianti condizioni di contorno ormai una è una cosa cui abituarsi per restare competitivi, sopravvivere nel lungo periodo e quindi mantenersi
vitali.
Nel lavoro viene analizzato il modello di business comune a quasi tutti i casi-studio più conosciuti e vincenti della sharing economy di oggi, rivisitato in ottica sistemica; l’insolita composizione eco-sistemica degli attori, le dinamiche tipicamente non lineari e la continua evoluzione delle normative rendono, infatti, obsoleti molti degli strumenti attualmente a disposizione dei decision-makers impegnati nella crescita delle imprese vecchie e nuove che risultano coinvolte. Per questo motivo si è cercato di applicare alcuni dei concetti fondamentali (FCs) dell’ASV, per provare a comprendere ed inquadrare meglio il fenomeno (così come appare oggi) e ad immaginarne eventuali scenari futuri, fornendo anche possibili schematizzazioni grafiche di sintesi delle principali determinanti sistemiche individuate e investigate
Tra socialdemocrazie e Perestrojka. Le relazioni internazionali del Pci attraverso le carte di Alessandro Natta
No full textThis essay reconstructs the foreign policy of the Italian Communist Party during the four
years of Alessandro Natta’s secretariat (1984-1988) through largely original archival documentation,
from the Alessandro Natta Fonds of the Historical Archive of the Chamber of
Deputies. Natta’s papers are also cross-referenced with those kept in the PCI Archive at the
Gramsci Foundation. The author analyses the relationship that the PCI establishes with
Gorbachev’s Perestroika, Deng’s China, and European social democracies during the last
years of the Cold War
ZZOLCHESTRA (cd)
No full textZZOLCHESTRA è un progetto d’insieme che nasce dall’equanime e appassionato apporto di musicisti di diversa estrazione e collaborazioni (Mariposa, Orchestrautomatica, I Quattrocentocolpi, Moorder, Teatro delle Macerie, Le Tremende, Marco Parente, Beatrice Antolini, Alessandro Grazian, Samuel Katarro, I Germogli, ZZOLC e molti altri ancora).
Il repertorio è costituito di brani originali ora evocativi, ora stralunati, non scevri di una sana vena garzonesca e uccellatoria. Vi pulsano melodie emozionanti, groove sghembi, solennità, low-fi.
Nell'album omonimo, uscito nell'ottobre 2010 per Trovarobato, esplodono sgargianti fanfare zappiane, emergono anche timide canzoni come piccoli racconti minimali di quartiere; l'orchestra si muove ora compatta come un "Pacific 231" ora sfrangiata e persa in mille rivoli free.
Colophon:
cornetta, bombardino | alberto polese
sax alto | andrea rigatti
sax alto, sax soprano | elena maestrini
sax tenore | giovanni gonano
sax baritono | massimiliano gollini
vibrafono, ukulele | antonio sodano
piano | paolo bottacin
chitarra elettrica, tuba, ukulele | alberto danielli
theremin, basso, glockenspiel | valerio canè
basso, violoncello, canto | giambattista tornielli
batteria di custodie, percussioni | enzo cimin
Triggering a patient-driven service innovation to foster the service ecosystem well-being: a case study
No full textPurpose – The aim of this paper is to understand if service innovation (Helkkula et al., 2018), based on artificial intelligence (AI) systems, may guarantee healthcare service ecosystem (H-SES) well-being (Frow et al., 2019; Beirao et al., 2017), taking into account that many doubts relieved in terms of transparency may compromise the patients’ perceived quality of health services provided through AI systems.
Design/methodology/approach – A literature review on service innovation, detected in terms of value co-creation, and service ecosystem, investigated in terms of well-being, is drawn. To analyze the implications of service innovation on a H-SES well-being, through the technology acceptance degree and predisposition to use by actors, a case study based on TAM-model 3 determinants as categories is carried out.
Findings – AI-based service innovation archetypes in healthcare may be considered as antecedents of the service ecosystemwell-being conditions as long as they enable actors to co-create value.Tomake it possible, a patient-driven
service innovation is necessary in order to mitigate the risks of its inactivity due to fears in terms of transparency.
Originality/value – Service innovation and service ecosystem well-being may be studied in an integrated way, with a multidisciplinary approach, and are linked by value co-creation, because only thanks a patient-driven service innovation is possible to foster service ecosystem well-being in healthcare
Volta Alessandro
No full textThe New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (extension and updating of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography) is one of the most substantial reference works in the field of the history of science. An up-to-date overview on Alessandro Volta's science with new perspectives offered by the author. Information and critical analysis is also provided on the main secondary literature produced on this main protagonist of enlightenment science after the 1976 entry "Volta Alessandro" in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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