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Filling data for tool-path optimisation in 3D printing
No full textData for the test instances in the paper: Volpato, N.; Galvão, L. C ; Nunes, L. F. ; Souza, R. I.; Oguido, K. Combining heuristics for tool-path optimisation in material extrusion additive manufacturing. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2019.159013
Santa Caterina da Siena, Opera omnia. Testi e concordanze. (CD-Rom). Editore: Centro Riviste, Pistoia.
No full textDr Antonio Volpato provided a critical text of Catherine of Siena's Letters, based upon the main families of manuscripts, that represents a stage towards the elaboration of the critical edition that he's preparing for the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo.For late 14th century and Catherine's work scholars, this text completely substitutes N. Tommaseo's 19th century edition. Previously, Prof. E. Dupré Theseider's 1940 work, that included just 88 letters, was the only one available.Each form and lemma of the corpus, that, besides the Letters, is composed of Prof.a G. Cavallini's edition of the Dialogue and the Orations, has been recorded by Mr F. Sposini in the list of the forms and lemmas of the CD-ROM.As the letters were dictated to different secretaries, who reproduced Catherine's language with many graphic and phonetic variations, and as the preserved manuscripts retain the elements of the Sienese dialect to different degrees, the correspondence between the standard form of the lemma and the other allotrope forms has been recorded on a list called "Lemmas with variations", that will result valuable for research on History of the Italian Language.This text of the letters, in a pre-print form, has been used by Sister S. Noffke for the English translation: The Letters of Catherine of Siena, Translated with introduction and notes by S. Noffke O.P., Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Arizona, voll. I-II, 2000-2001 (Letters 1 to 212, further volumes are to be published)
The Relationship Between Anxiety, Depression and Treatment Adherence in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review
No full textEleonora Volpato,1,2 Stefania Toniolo,1 Francesco Pagnini,1,3 Paolo Banfi2 1Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy; 2Heart-Respiratory Rehabilitation Unit, IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, Italy; 3Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USACorrespondence: Eleonora Volpato Email [email protected]: Almost half of the people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) do not adhere to the prescribed treatments and report anxiety and depression as comorbidities, resulting in higher rates of exacerbations, hospitalizations, and worse clinical outcomes.Objective: This systematic review provided a synthesis of studies about the relationships between anxiety, depression, and adherence in people affected by COPD.Methods: English language publications were searched in the PUBMED, SCOPUS, PsycInfo, Web of Science, PsycArticles, and Cochrane Library databases from December 2020 to March 2021, following PRISMA guidelines. The reference lists of eligible studies and other relevant systematic reviews were also searched. Data extraction and critical appraisal were undertaken by two reviewers working independently. The reference lists of eligible studies and other relevant systematic reviews were also searched. Data extraction and critical appraisal were undertaken by two reviewers working independently.Results: A total of 34 studies (23 quantitative and 2 qualitative studies, 9 reviews) were included. The relationship between depression and treatment adherence was significant and negative. Adherence to both rehabilitation, psychological, and antidepressant pharmacological treatments in depressed patients was linked to a decreased risk of hospitalization. Moreover, depressed patients compliant with an antidepressant were more likely to adherent to COPD maintenance inhalers. On the other hand, the associations between anxiety and adherence were poorly investigated and high heterogeneity characterized the studies, leading to a weak and variable relationship as well as too few interventions.Conclusion: The systematic review highlights the variability in estimates of the relationship between depression, anxiety, and treatment adherence in COPD. It could be explained by methodological differences across the included studies. This suggests that standardization is critical to improving the precision of the estimates. Recommendations for future research include attention to causal inferences, an exploration of mechanisms to explain the relationships between both anxiety and depression and adherence in COPD, and a comprehensive, systematic approach.Keywords: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, adherence, compliance, anxiety, depression, systematic revie
The subject/object relative clause asymmetry in hearing-impaired children: evidence from a comprehension task.
No full textWe investigated the comprehension of subject and object relative clauses in
hearing-impaired (HI) children using a cochlear implant compared to that
of hearing children, by using an agent selection task. We show that HI
children performed significantly poorer than their typically-developing
peers. Despite their low performance, HI children show nonetheless a
typical gradient of difficulty, with subject relatives (OS) easier to
comprehend than object relatives with preverbal subject (OO) and these
latter are easier than object relatives with postverbal subject (OOp). These
asymmetries are explained in terms of some recent minimalist proposals on
locality theory and on the fragility of Agreement occurring with postverbal
subjects. A correlation between performance on OOp and digit span tasks
was found only in the HI group
Clitic pronouns and past participle agreement in Italian in three hearing-impaired bilinguals Italian/LIS.
No full textThe aim of this study is to assess the comprehension and to elicit the production of clitic pronouns in sentences with left-dislocation, in three adult hearing impaired bilinguals Italian/LIS and in four hearing speakers of Italian. The occurrence of clitic pronouns and the presence of past participle agreement in Italian are investigated through sentence completion and grammaticality judgement tasks. Results suggest that, in spite of late exposure to the oral language due to hearing impairment, the linguistic competence of the hearing impaired individuals is quite intact and the syntactic information is correctly projected in the syntactic tree. Because of a very selective impairment in the morphology of clitic pronouns, only a qualitative analysis of the errors is possible. The non-standard forms are discussed within the framework of the recent research on Φ-features from a syntactic, morpho-phonological and psycholinguistic point of view. The statistically significant better performance on plural clitic pronouns as opposed to singular ones confirms the findings of previous studies on gender and number features and proves once again that number information is retrieved earlier than gender information
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