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    Lavoratori digitali, unitevi! Spunti di un rinnovamento sindacale.

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    Già in Labor in the Global Digital Economy del 2014, Ursula Huws descriveva gli effetti della globalizzazione e della standardizzazione del lavoro e della conoscenza come un processo di trasformazione spaziale e temporale: «Lo spostamento di posti di lavoro verso le persone, e di persone verso i posti di lavoro». La rapida diffusione delle piattaforme digitali realizza una ulteriore e urgente accelerazione di quel processo e la mutazione di un lavoro mai così informale e precario. Nel perdurante vuoto regolativo la sostenibilità del lavoro digitale può trovare risposta solo nel vecchio adagio del contropotere collettivo, che l’Autore analizza attraverso le strategie organizzative innovative messe in atto da nuovi fenomeni sindacali così come dal sindacato tradizional

    Condizioni di lavoro trasparenti, prevedibili e giustiziabili: quando il diritto di informazione sui sistemi automatizzati diventa uno strumento di tutela collettiva

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    The recent decision of the Employment Tribunal of Palermo, recognising the anti-union nature of the refusal of a food delivery platform to provide information on the automated systems used in the relationship with its riders, offers the cue to reflect on Article 1-bis of Legislative Decree No. 152/1997, introduced by Legislative Decree No. 104/2022, and on the relationship between individual and collective information rights. Finally, the article offers some reflections on the amendments made to the Article 1-bis by the so-called Work Decree of May 2023.La reciente decisión del Tribunal de Palermo, que reconoció el carácter antisindical de la negativa de una plataforma de reparto de comida a domicilio a facilitar información sobre los sistemas automatizados utilizados en la relación con sus riders, ofrece la ocasión de reflexionar sobre el artículo 1-bis del Decreto Legislativo nº 152/1997, introducido por el Decreto Legislativo nº 104/2022, y sobre la relación entre los derechos de información individuales y colectivos; por último, el artículo ofrece algunas reflexiones sobre las modificaciones introducidas en el mismo artículo por el denominado Decreto Laboral de mayo de 2023.La recente decisione del tribunale di Palermo, che ha riconosciuto l’antisindacalità del rifiuto di una piattaforma di food delivery di fornire le informazioni sui sistemi automatizzati utilizzati nel rapporto con i propri riders, offre lo spunto per riflettere sull’art. 1-bis del d. lgs. 152/1997, introdotto dal d.lgs. n. 104/2022, e sulla relazione tra i diritti di informazione individuali e collettivi; infine, l’articolo offre alcune riflessioni sulle modifiche apportate allo stesso articolo dal c.d. Decreto Lavoro del maggio 2023. &nbsp

    Not So Easy, Riders: The Struggle For The Collective Protection of Gig-Economy Workers

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    The contribution aims at critically analyze the Labour Tribunal of Florence decision, which in February 2021 stated that Art. 28 of the Italian Workers’ Statute could be actioned only in relation to anti-trade unions practices arising from employment relationships and identifying the employer as the counterpart, exempting a similar protection to gig-economy riders and their trade unions. On the one hand, in fact, the ruling moves along the increasingly numerous disputes on the qualification of the work relationship of platform workers, and on the other hand it offers the chance to assess the legal relevance of the collective interests of platform workers, and more in general of those who fall outside of the employment relationship’s scope

    Digital Therapeutics in Perspective: From Regulatory Challenges to Post-Marketing Surveillance

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    Digital therapeutics (DTx) are innovative therapeutic interventions, in which the therapeutic activity is carried out by algorithms and software. They represent a new opportunity especially for the treatment of chronic pathologies associated with dysfunctional lifestyles and behaviors, where conventional drug therapy is not fully effective. DTx are highly customizable therapeutic tools, allowing a better involvement of the patient in the management of the disease. To date, the clinical use of DTx in Europe is still generally limited. One of the main issues related to DTx is the general lack of education of healthcare professionals in this sector that leads to a knowledge gap between data scientists, and physicians, who should identify all those clinical needs that could be better addressed through the use of DTx. From a regulatory perspective, DTx are classified as Medical Devices. However, their research and development process is similar to that of conventional drugs, since they are tested in clinical trials and their approval refers to specific therapeutic indications. For this reason, precise criteria for marketing approval, for the health technology assessment and for the reimbursement of these therapies need to be defined. Moreover, as for conventional drugs, it is also fundamental to conduct postmarketing studies on DTx, aiming at re-evaluating the benefit-risk profile and collecting information related to large-scale use in real world setting. The aim of this review is to describe the main challenges for DTx development, regulation and widespread clinical use

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    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

    Variations on the Author

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    “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

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    We 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
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