Search results for " Gender"

Consumer attitude toward using smart shopping carts: a comparative analysis of Italian and Croatian consumer attitudes

2016

This paper aims to explore consumer attitudes toward using smart shopping cart, considering country of origin, gender, age, and intentions to use smart shopping carts while purchasing. Moreover, it investigates the influence of extracted factors on consumers' attitudes toward using smart shopping carts and the users' levels of digital competence. The data was collected through survey questionnaires using a purposive sample of 313 Croatian and Italian respondents. To this end, we applied statistical methodologies such as binary logistic regression, factor analysis, and analysis of variance. We found that, compared with Croatians, Italian respondents have a more positive attitude toward using…

Gender differences in the immune system activities of sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus

2013

In the immune system of vertebrates, gender-specific differences in individual immune competence are well known. In general, females possess more powerful immune response than males. In invertebrates, the situation is much less clear. For this purpose we have chosen to study the immune response of the two sexes of the echinoderm Paracentrotus lividus in pre- and post-spawning phases. The coelomic fluid from the echinoderms contains several coelomocyte types and molecules involved in innate immune defenses. In this article we report that the degree of immune responses in the P. lividus differs according to sex in both pre- and post-spawning phases. We found in all tests that females were mor…

Marcella Romeo, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Racconti di silenzi e di anarchie, Quattrosoli, Palermo 2008

2009

Does Childhood Psychological Abuse Contribute to Intimate Partner Violence Victimization? An Investigation Using the Childhood Experience of Care and…

2018

International audience; Although psychological abuse is recognized as a particularly insidious form of child abuse, research on the impact of this type of abuse related to intimate partner violence (IPV) is scant. This study examined the contribution of childhood psychological abuse to IPV in female victims and non-victims. Furthermore, it investigated the role of cumulative abuse in predicting IPV. The study included 38 women victims of IPV and 40 non-IPV women. All participants were investigated using the Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse Interview (CECA); the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS2) and the IPV History Interview were used to assess IPV in the last year and lifetime, re…

La conciliación: dilemas abiertos. Malestares latentes, pactos incumplidos, incoherencias y desencuentros.

2014

El origen de las políticas de conciliación hemos de situarlas en los años 90 del pasado siglo. Nacen como un mecanismo para ayudar a las mujeres a superar el handicap de tener que cargar con los 'deberes domésticos' al tiempo que desarrollan iniciativas para insertarse o mantenerse en el empleo (Torns, 2005). Este trabajo se plantea como objetivos clave el estudio, desde una perspectiva de género, de la conciliación como herramienta para afrontar las necesidades derivadas de las transformaciones experimentadas en la sociedad. El abandono progresivo de los modelos tradicionales de división sexual del trabajo, los cambios sociales en las expectativas individuales de hombres y mujeres, las tra…

Pobreza en España: jóvenes y mujeres en los espacios sociales de la vulnerabilidad

2011

This number of Quaderns presents the results of two research projects of the program I+D+i financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education for the period 2008 to 2011. The first project is called 'New poverty and social exclusion among youth in Spain' and was supervised by Ph. D. Ignasi Brunet. The second project was developed under the name of 'Poverty, social exclusion and gender inequality in Spain' and was supervised by Ph. D. Ángel Belzunegui. Both projects counted with a group formed by researchers from six Spanish universities from different regions where field work was carried out: Andalucía, Aragón, Cataluña, Comunidad Valenciana, Murcia y País Vasco. The first project has analyzed p…

LGBTQI+ icons between resistance and normalization: looking for mediatization of emotions in hashtags

2020

The mediatization of emotions emerges as an affordance of social media, the study of which involves paying attention to digital practices and to the construction and expression of public affection. This happens both for the great events and for the daily demonstrations of support or its denial. In this article we work on the phenomenon of the mediatization of emotions linked to two LGBTQI+ icons and expressed in hashtags on Twitter. Placing it in a specific context – the one of well-known television characters who have declared their homosexual orientation or transgender identity. The objective is to understand if the cloud of feelings they have created on Twitter is to be attributed to a t…

The genre repertoires of Norwegian beauty and lifestyle influencers on YouTube

2021

Abstract YouTube represents an increasingly popular cultural phenomenon in the contemporary Norwegian media landscape. Since the inception of the digital video platform over 15 years ago, personal videoblogging has emerged as one of its dominant types of user-generated content. In this article, I draw from New Rhetoric genre theory and netnographic approaches to explore the beauty and lifestyle sphere on YouTube, in which several emergent genres are situated within a new media ecosystem. Through a qualitative content analysis of seven established Norwegian YouTube channels, a total of 17 individual genres were identified. Furthermore, I elaborate upon how informational, instructional, and c…

Communicative Method and Paradigms of Gender and (Post-)colonial Studies in the Foreign Language and Literature Class as Activators of Cognitive Dece…

2009

Prevalence and risk factors of actinic keratosis in patients attending Italian dermatology clinics

2017

Background: Actinic keratosis (AK) is a common keratinocyte intraepidermal neoplasia. Objective: To assess AK prevalence and potential risk factors in patients attending Italian general dermatology clinics. Materials & methods: This retrospective study was conducted on clinical data from consecutive white outpatients aged ≥30 years, attending 24 general dermatology clinics between December 2014 and February 2015. AK prevalence (entire population) and multivariate risk factor analysis (patients with current/previous AK and complete data) are presented. Results: AK prevalence in 7,284 patients was 27.4% (95% CI: 26.4-28.4%); 34.3% in men and 20.0% in women (p<0.001). Independent AK ris…