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Storia di una missione. Antonino Ventimiglia, un teatino palermitano nel Borneo (1688-1691)

2021

The essay focuses on the first mission to southern Borneo carried out by the Theatine priest Father Antonino Ventimiglia, whose biographical profile is reconstructed, following his traces, retracing the steps of his journey through an extensive use of narrative and archival sources. Through such sources the contextual complexity of Father Ventimiglia’s mission emerges, far beyond the circumstances in which it had been originally planned.

Settore M-STO/02 - Storia ModernaTheatine missions Borneo Banjarmasin Goa Ventimiglia family
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Scritti in onore di Pellegrino Capaldo

2014

La qualità dei servizi è stata riconosciuta come un rilevante aspetto caratterizzante la performance dell’azienda pubblica, analogamente alla capacità di operare secondo criteri di efficienza e nel rispetto dei vincoli di bilancio. Sebbene sia possibile riscontrare alcuni significativi casi di adozione di politiche di customer satisfaction nelle amministrazioni pubbliche italiane, a tutt’oggi il tema presenta significative criticità, specialmente in ordine agli aspetti metodologici e agli strumenti operativi che consentano di integrare dette politiche nel sistema di programmazione e controllo delle aziende che erogano tali servizi. Il presente lavoro adotta una diversa prospettiva di analis…

Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia AziendaleQuality in delivering public services has been recognised as a major issue challenging performance in the public sector as well as the ability to operate effectively and within budget constraints. Empirical findings shown by the literature demonstrate that concrete efforts have been produced towards the evaluation and improvement of satisfaction levels of citizens and other Public Administration’s ‘customers’. However still today this issue portrays many unresolved criticalities particularly concerning the methodological approaches and operative tools to adopt in order to integrate ‘customer satisfaction’ programs with the wider organisational control system in each public administration. This paper adopts a non-conventional view of the ‘customer satisfaction’ concept. This is currently meant as a matter of social reporting or even statistical analysis based on the users’ perceptions on the level of provided services by a given (front office) unit in the public sector. Here an inter-institutional perspective is adopted with a view to map the overall value chain leading to the final product delivered to citizens or the community. Inside this chain tracking the underlying administrative products delivered by back-office units to their ‘internal clients’ in the public administration is recommended as a fundamental step to understand how to improve performance in satisfying citizens’ needs. This should also require a proper link between the administrative units’ goals and performance measures to the desired efficiency and effectiveness of processes leading to the attainment of administrative products providing the basis of the final services delivered to the private sector. Based on first empirical findings from field analysis in the Italian context the paper aims to outline an approach which could assist both politicians and managers to better assess and improve performance according to a customer satisfaction perspective.
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Missense and nonsense mutations in melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene of different goat breeds: association with red and black coat colour phenotype…

2009

Abstract Background Agouti and Extension loci control the relative amount of eumelanin and pheomelanin production in melanocytes that, in turn, affects pigmentation of skin and hair. The Extension locus encodes the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) whose permanent activation, caused by functional mutations, results in black coat colour, whereas other inactivating mutations cause red coat colour in different mammals. Results The whole coding region of the MC1R gene was sequenced in goats of six different breeds showing different coat colours (Girgentana, white cream with usually small red spots in the face; Maltese, white with black cheeks and ears; Derivata di Siria, solid red; Murciano-Granad…

Silent mutationCoatlcsh:QH426-470GenotypeMolecular Sequence DataNonsense mutationPopulationMutation MissenseMELANISMBiologyPolymorphism Single NucleotideAGOUTI PROTEINSettore AGR/17 - Zootecnica Generale E Miglioramento GeneticoMSH RECEPTORBREEDSMC1RGeneticsAnimalsMissense mutationGenetics(clinical)Amino Acid Sequencecoat colour; MC1R; goatAlleleHair ColoreducationAllele frequencyPOPULATIONPOLYMORPHISMSAllelesGenetics (clinical)Geneticseducation.field_of_studySTIMULATING-HORMONE-RECEPTORGoatsgoatCATTLE BREEDSSequence Analysis DNAMolecular biologyCOAT COLORlcsh:GeneticsPhenotypeCodon NonsensePIGMENTATIONWHITEReceptor Melanocortin Type 1EXTENSIONcoat colourResearch ArticleMelanocortin 1 receptorBMC Genetics
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Cross-lagged relations between math-related interest, performance goals and skills in groups of children with different general abilities

2015

Abstract This study examined the longitudinal relations among math-related interest, performance goals, and math skills in different ability groups. The participants were 790 Estonian children who were assessed at Grade 2 and Grade 3. The results of SEM analysis showed that previous math skills predicted positively math interest and negatively performance-avoidance goals at Grade 3. Also, Grade 2 performance-avoidance goals were negatively related to subsequent interest towards math. Comparing low-ability students with other students indicated that Grade 3 interest was positively predicted by previous skills, and negatively by performance-approach and -avoidance goals specifically in low-ab…

Social PsychologyGeneral abilitySem analysisEducationDevelopmental psychologyPrimary gradesMath skillsCross laggedPerformance goalsDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyInterestta516Math skillsPsychologyValue (mathematics)Learning and Individual Differences
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Changes in achievement values from primary to lower secondary school among students with and without externalizing problems

2017

This study examined the effect of students' externalizing problems on changes in values that they attach to math across the transition from primary to lower secondary school. Data pertaining to externalizing problems and to intrinsic, attainment, and utility values in math were gathered using the self-ratings of students in Grades 6 and 7. The analysis involved a comparison between students who reported persistent high externalizing problems before and after the transition (n = 63; 59% boys) and those who had low or non-existent externalizing problems before and after the transition (n = 1352; 50% boys). The results of a mixed-design analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) showed uniformly that stu…

Social Psychologygeneral upper secondary schoolImplicit TheoriessukupuolierotkoululaisetoppimistuloksetalakouluEducationDevelopmental psychologyupper comprehensive schoolAchievement GoalsDevelopmental and Educational Psychologyta516achievement valuessiirtymävaihe0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesta515schools (educational institutions)school transitionlearning resultsAnalysis of covariancematematiikkaexternalizing problems05 social sciences050301 educationgender differencesMindsetyläkouluPsychology0503 education050104 developmental & child psychologyLearning and Individual Differences
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The SDGS and Human Rights Key Instruments in the Response and Recovery from the Pandemic

2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is a valuable opportunity to draw a series of important lessons that may be key to turning the tide and laying the foundations to face the new and unprecedented challenges that humanity will face in the coming years. After analysing the differences between this crisis and the two previous ones experienced in the 21st century, a series of lessons that should be considered stand out. Next, the Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights are presented as key instruments to guide the construction of a new model that leaves no one behind and increases our resilience. Finally, it concludes by collecting a series of theoretical reflections that could be used as a methodolo…

Sociology and Political SciencepandemicPolitical Science and International Relationschallengeshuman rightssustainable development goalsCiències polítiquesLawThe Age of Human Rights Journal
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Defining user experience goals to guide the design of industrial systems

2015

The key prerequisite for experience-driven design is to define what experience to design for. User experience (UX) goals concretise the intended experience. Based on our own case studies from industrial environments and a literature study, we propose five different approaches to acquiring insight and inspiration for UX goal setting: Brand, Theory, Empathy, Technology, and Vision. Each approach brings in a different viewpoint, thus supporting the multidisciplinary character of UX. The Brand approach ensures that the UX goals are in line with the company's brand promise. The Theory approach utilises the available scientific knowledge of human behaviour. The Empathy approach focuses on knowing…

Sociology of scientific knowledgeEngineeringKnowledge managementEmerging technologiesmedia_common.quotation_subjectindustrial systemsecperience-driven designEmpathyArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)User experience designMultidisciplinary approachuser experienceDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyGoal settingmedia_commonta113business.industryGeneral Social Sciencesta6132user ecperience goalViewpointsHuman-Computer InteractionStrategic designexperience-driven designuser experience goalbusinessBehaviour & Information Technology
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The Education Production Function reviewed in the framework of Education For All in Sub-Saharan Africa: from theoretical and methodological bounds to…

2007

The Coleman report (1966) was the first of numerous researches exploring quality of learning determinants analysis. With the Education Production Function (EPF), economists have greatly contributed to the extension of this research domain. Actually, empirical works are leading the field with important methodological debates which have fuelled controversies (Hanushek, 2003; Krueger, 2003). Thus, methodological issues have particularly rallied researchers' interests on empirical estimations, while academic researches on the renewal of the theoretical framework have remained scarce despite obvious bounds. Without contesting the validity of miscellaneous estimation problems and the necessity of…

Sub-Saharan AfricaEconomie de l'éducationAnalyse coût-efficacité[ SHS.ECO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and financesEconomics of EducationEfficacité de la gestionCost–Benefit AnalysisMillennium Development Goals[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinanceAllocative EfficiencyAfrique subsaharienneObjectifs du millénaire
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Dzīves mērķu, pašefektivitātes saistība ar subjektīvās labklājības rādītājiem sievietēm

2020

Bakalaura darba pētījuma mērķis ir izprast dzīves mērķu pašefektivitātes saistību ar subjektīvās labklājības rādītājiem sievietēm. Pētot konstruktu teorētisko bāzi tika izvirzīts, ka iekšējā satura dzīves mērķiem ir saistība ar subjektīvo labklājību, un balstoties uz personīgo vērtību izvirzītajiem dzīves mērķiem un indivīda pašefektivitātes līmeni, izvirzīto mērķu sasniegšana ietekmē subjektīvās labklājības līmeni. Pētījuma respondentu izlasi veido 60 sievietes vecuma grupā no 20-50 gadiem , kuru vidējais vecums ir 33,83 gadi. Dzīves mērķu, pašefektivitātes un subjektīvās labklājības noteikšanai tika pielietotas Dzīves mērķu skala (Aspirations Index; Kasser & Ryan, 1996), Latvijā aptauju a…

Subjektīvā labklājībaself efficacylife goalsPašefektivitāteDzīves mērķiPsiholoģija
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The challenge for school-based teacher educators : establishing teaching and supervision goals

2019

School-based teacher educators (SBTEs) should be able to set goals in two roles – as a teacher and as a supervisor of student teachers. The purpose of the study was to investigate school-based teacher educators’ teaching and supervising goals and to identify how teachers in the role of supervisors perceived university expectations. Thematic analysis indicated that teachers have difficulty establishing goals for themselves as teachers and supervisors. Their teaching goals proceeded from curricula and focused on their pupils’ cognitive development, whilst their perceptions about supporting pupils’ social development were vague. Teachers were unaware of what exactly universities expected of th…

SupervisorGoal orientationTeaching methodStudent teacherteacher-university cooperationthematic analysisschool-based teacher educatorsopettajatyhteistyöEducationopettajaopiskelijattavoitteetopetustavoitteetMathematics educationComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONohjaus (neuvonta ja opastus)School basedFaculty developmentThematic analysisPsychologySet (psychology)opettajankoulutusyliopistotteaching goalssupervising student teachers
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