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Education and Training in St.Lucia: A Partially Annotated Bibliography
No full textThis bibliography on “Education and Training in St. Lucia” has been specifically prepared for the UWI School of Continuing Studies’ St. Lucia Country Conference. An attempt has been made to be as comprehensive as possible, but because of the weak bibliographical coverage of the literature of the region, important items may have been omitted. This is especially true for policy documents emanating from official sources. It covers all aspects of education and training in St.Lucia including distance education, educational finance,health and family life education and educational reform
Development of a User-friendly Health Promotion Website to Spread Evidence-based Information in Italy: A new digital platform to enhance health literacy
No full textIntroduction
Appropriate communication models are crucial in order to strengthen preventive and health promotion interventions via digital platforms. Today, 52.23% of the Italian population use the Internet as a source of health-related information. The aim of the “Insegna Salute” project was to create a website that would enable people to satisfy their health needs and increase their awareness in the field of prevention.
Methods
To create the website, a literature search was carried out to obtain an overview of online health communication before, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Results
The investigation resulted in 26 sources regarding health communication, vaccine hesitancy, online health information seeking, visual identity, current digital and social trends and mis/disinformation. Our findings led to the definition of insegnasalute.it according to the one-to-many (screen-to-face) communication model and a user-centred design. The website will be organised in sections dedicated to the University Department\u27s projects and preventive health issues. Tools such as Google Analytics and questionnaires will provide further insights and enable the platform to be updated.
Conclusions
In line with the preventive guidelines issued by the Italian Ministry of Health, new tools, such as “Insegna Salute”, integrate health knowledge with communication strategies. Addressing vaccine hesitancy and health prevention issues necessitates the use of effective strategies that foster trust-based relationships
Columbus Square, St. Lucia
No full textLandscape, black & white, 4 x 6 in.No. 18.
Columbus Square, St. Lucia.
Columbus Square, St. Lucia, located in the heart of the capital city, Castries was formerly the site of the Place D’Armes, which was renamed Promenade Square before being renamed the Columbus Square. The Square is currently named after a St. Lucian author Derek Walcott. This spot also pays respect to residents who lost their lives in battle.
On the Postcard; “Columbus Square, St. Lucia.” people can be seen congregating in the Square under the trees.
Information at the back of the Post Card:
Union Postale Universelle
Sarah Cameron, 2013. Footprint Focus. St Lucia & Dominica with Fort-de-France
The language of the cataloguer (part 1). The author
No full textThe paper analyses the evolution of the language of cataloguing, focusing on the concept of authorship. It evaluates cataloguing principles, rules and theory, from Cutter to ICP 2016, in order to study the modification of the idea of author in cataloguing and the emerging importance of non-authorial responsibilities as access points for the organization of catalogues
The causes and the effects of the deficiency in the Pre-Legislative and Legislative scrutiny processes in St. Lucia
No full textThis dissertation argues that there is a significant deficiency in the pre-legislative and legislative scrutiny processes in St. Lucia, caused by the failure of Parliament to utilize the Standing Orders in the manner in which they were intended and develop and follow a more systematic scrutiny process. The author explains how this has hindered St. Lucia’s ability to gain more benefit from the legislative process and improve the quality of legislation produced with less likelihood of amendments
Export Processing in the Caribbean: Lessons from Four Case Studies
No full textThe author reviews case studies of four Caribbean countries-the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Saint Lucia and Trinidad-and briefly discusses an African country, Mauritius. He compares labour legislation, nationality of investors, technology transfer, and linkages with the rest of the economy. Of these five cases, only Trinidad failed to develop a significant export processing sector. Explanations rooted in government policy are suggested for this result. United Nations ECLAC Working Paper No. 42 (September 1996).export processing zones, export promotion, Dominincan Republic, Saint Lucia, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, transnational corporations
A Mobile App to Enhance Awareness of Vaccination in Adults With Psoriasis and Atopic Dermatitis: Development and Preliminary Evaluation Study (Preprint)
No full textBackground: Patients with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis are at increased risk of several vaccine-preventable diseases. Despite this increased susceptibility to infections, vaccination uptake in adults with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, especially if treated with biologics and other systemic immunomodulators, is insufficient. As mobile health technologies may support behavior change, a mobile app called DermatoVax was developed to raise awareness of immunization in adult patients with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.
Objective: This paper aims to describe the processes of development of the DermatoVax app and its initial evaluation in terms of technical verification and physicians' quality rating.
Methods: The app was conceived in a user-centered fashion. Its core component was the vaccine checker, which allows the app to produce a sharable list of recommended vaccines, immunization timings, and eventual precautions from a short set of input data. App prototypes were extensively piloted, and feedback from potential end users was obtained to refine the app content. The readability of the textual narratives was measured using the Italian-specific Gulpease index, which ranges from 0 to 100, where 100 indicates the best readability. The quality of the final version was evaluated by 46 medical doctors (n=29, 63% dermatologists and n=17, 37% public health physicians) using a validated Italian user version of the Mobile App Rating Scale (uMARS).
Results: Iterative steps during the app development process allowed us to increase its user-friendliness and comprehensibility. Proper functioning of the checker was confirmed through the correct and complete generation of recommended vaccine lists for 50 mock patients with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. An overall Gulpease index of 41.0 was observed for the final textual narratives, suggesting acceptable readability properties for patients with a high school diploma. Of a maximum of 5 points, the average uMARS score was 4.22 (SD 0.49). Ratings provided by dermatologists (mean 4.28, SD 0.48) were similar (P=.33) to those provided by public health physicians (mean 4.12, SD 0.51). However, the mean uMARS scores for the quality dimensions of aesthetics (3.88, SD 0.78) and engagement (3.89, SD 0.68) were lower than those for information (4.64, SD 0.42) and functionality (4.47, SD 0.46), suggesting margins for improvement. The app's perceived impact was notably high, with over 80% of physicians agreeing that its use would significantly improve patient awareness (39/46, 85%) and knowledge (41/46, 89%) of vaccination, leading to increased vaccination uptake (37/46, 80%).
Conclusions: DermatoVax is a promising tool to raise awareness of immunization in adult patients with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. Further assessment of the app, such as its effectiveness in increasing vaccination uptake, is warranted
Séquence 3, La rencontre entre Ivaldo et Lucia, raconté par Ivaldo
No full textCette séquence fait partie du corpus vidéo de Langue des Signes Emergentes utilisé lors de la thèse d'Ivani Fusellier-Souza : le locuteur Ivaldo raconte avec Lucia leur première rencontre.00:00:00>00:00:14 Lucia demande à Ivaldo de raconter leur rencontre, ou du moins la première fois qu'il l'a vu dans la rue. 00:00:14>00:00:18 Ivaldo raconte que Lucia passait dans la rue et qu'il l'a regardé marcher. 00:00:18>00:00:20 Lucia lui rappelle qu'elle marchait dans la rue et avait un air hautain. 00:00:20>00:00:24 Ivaldo raconte qu'il lui a offert une glace qu'elle a mangée. 00:00:24>00:00:26 Lucia lui dit qu'il la regardait de loin. 00:00:26>00:00:31 Ivaldo raconte qu'il l'a vu passée et qu'il lui a offert une glace qu'elle a accepté. 00:00:31> 00:00:42 Lucia se rappelle qu'il lui a offert une glace. 00:00:42>00:00:52 Ivaldo demande à son fils de ne pas passer devant la caméra. 00:00:52>00:00:58 Lucia lui rappelle comment elle était belle avec ses cheveux longs. 00:00:58>00:01:20 Ivaldo raconte qu'il n'aimait pas ses cheveux longs, qu'il préfère Lucia avec des cheveux courts, et qu'elle a bien fait de les couper. 00:01:20>00:01:23 Lucia raconte qu'après ils se sont mariés. 00:01:23>00:01:32 Ivaldo dit qu'ils se sont mariés à Fortaleza
Literary translations in a sample of anarchist periodicals of the Atlantic space (1890-1910)
No full textDataset of the Anarchist Translation Flows and World Literature Project (ARGOT)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 101065157, 2023-2025 (Main researcher: Lucia Campanella).
This dataset, consisting of various collections of structured data in diverse formats, presents the results of the ARGOT project.
Below, there is a list and brief description of the four interconnected subdatasets, each representing a distinct phase in the data processing pipeline. Information on each subdataset is to be found in a Readme document included in each collection.
Subdataset I contains metadata on the selected periodicals used as the primary data sources.
Subdataset II consists of the digitized and transcribed content from these periodicals.
Subdataset III includes all extracted text lines in which author entities have been identified using Named Entity Recognition (NER) and cross-referenced with VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) identifiers.
Subdataset IV contains manually validated literary translations, with enriched metadata providing additional contextual and bibliographic information
Introducition : Veritas in dicto, veritas in re
No full textThe present Introduction is the joint work of two authors: Paolo Di Lucia is the author of §§ 1., 2., and 5.; Lorenzo
Passerini Glazel is the author of §§ 3. and 4. The authors of the Introduction are grateful to the Editorial Board of
“Phenomenology and Mind”, especially to the Editors in chief Roberta De Monticelli and Francesca De Vecchi, as well
as to Francesca Forlé and Sarah Songhorian, for the invitation to edit this special issue, as well as for their precious
assistance in the publication process. We also thank the Faculty of Philosophy and the PhD School in Philosophy of
the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, as well as the research centre PERSONA, the centre of studies CeSEP, and the
centre for interdisciplinary studies CISEPS, for their contribution to the organization of the 2022 San Raffaele School
of Philosophy
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