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Sublimare le emozioni: il sacro Monte della devozione (Palermo, secc. XVII-XX)

2021

Il caso di studio presentato è incentrato su Monte Pellegrino, luogo sacro dall’antichità, dove furono rinvenute le reliquie attribuite a S. Rosalia, mentre la città era flagellata dalla peste (1624). Il saggio intende evidenziare come emozioni individuali e collettive abbiano inciso sui processi decisionali e contribuito alla riconfigurazione degli spazi di riferimento. The case study presented focuses on Monte Pellegrino, a sacred place since ancient times, where the relics attributed to St. Rosalia were found, while the city was plagued by the plague (1624). The essay intends to highlight how individual and collective emotions have affected decision-making processes and contributed to th…

Monte PellegrinoemotionSettore M-STO/02 - Storia ModernaSanta Rosaliaspaziospaceluoghi urbaniemozioniurban places
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Temporal variability analysis reveals biases in electronic health records due to hospital process reengineering interventions over seven years

2019

[EN] Objective To evaluate the effects of Process-Reengineering interventions on the Electronic Health Records (EHR) of a hospital over 7 years. Materials and methods Temporal Variability Assessment (TVA) based on probabilistic data quality assessment was applied to the historic monthly-batched admission data of Hospital La Fe Valencia, Spain from 2010 to 2016. Routine healthcare data with a complete EHR was expanded by processed variables such as the Charlson Comorbidity Index. Results Four Process-Reengineering interventions were detected by quantifiable effects on the EHR: (1) the hospital relocation in 2011 involved progressive reduction of admissions during the next four months, (2) th…

Multivariate analysisData managementPsychological interventionElectronic Medical Records02 engineering and technologyGeographical locationsDatabase and Informatics Methods0302 clinical medicineMathematical and Statistical TechniquesHealth care0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringCIENCIAS DE LA COMPUTACION E INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIALMedicine and Health Sciences03.- Garantizar una vida saludable y promover el bienestar para todos y todas en todas las edadesElectronic Health Records030212 general & internal medicineData ManagementMultidisciplinaryQStatisticsRHospitalsPatient Discharge3. Good healthEuropePhysical SciencesMedicineEngineering and TechnologyMedical emergencyRelocationMATEMATICA APLICADAManagement EngineeringResearch ArticlePatient TransferComputer and Information SciencesScienceMEDLINESurgical and Invasive Medical ProceduresHealth InformaticsResearch and Analysis Methods03 medical and health sciencesBias020204 information systemsmedicineHumansEuropean UnionStatistical MethodsQuality of Health CareProtocol (science)Business Process Reengineeringbusiness.industrymedicine.diseaseHealth CareHealth Care FacilitiesSpainData qualityFISICA APLICADAMultivariate AnalysisPeople and placesbusinessMathematicsPLoS ONE
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Serological prevalence of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women in Luanda (Angola): Geospatial distribution and its association with socio-demographic and …

2020

We report a study on toxoplasmosis in pregnant women in Luanda, Angola, determining the seroprevalence, geospatial distribution and its association with socio-economic features, dietary habits and hygiene and health conditions. Anti-Toxoplasma gondii IgG and IgM were quantified in serum samples of women attended at the Lucrecia Paim Maternity Hospital between May 2016 and August 2017. The IgG avidity test and qPCR assay were used for dating the primary infection. Data were collected by questionnaire after written consent, and spatial distribution was assessed through a Kernel Density Function. The potential risk factors associated with Toxoplasma infection were evaluated using bivariate and…

Multivariate analysisEpidemiologyMaternal HealthAntibodies ProtozoanMiscarriageToxoplasma GondiiSerologyGeographical LocationsMedical ConditionsPregnancySeroepidemiologic StudiesPrevalenceMedicine and Health SciencesLongitudinal StudiesProtozoansMammalsMultidisciplinaryGeographybiologyCoinfectionObstetricsLiver DiseasesQRObstetrics and GynecologyEukaryotaMiddle AgedHepatitis BPopulation SurveillanceVertebratesMedicineFemaleToxoplasmaToxoplasmosisMaternal AgeResearch ArticleAdultmedicine.medical_specialtyAdolescentScienceGastroenterology and HepatologyLower riskYoung AdultParasitic DiseasesmedicineHumansAnimalsSeroprevalenceLiver Disease and PregnancyPregnancyProtozoan Infectionsbusiness.industryOrganismsBiology and Life SciencesToxoplasma gondiimedicine.diseasebiology.organism_classificationParasitic ProtozoansToxoplasmosisPregnancy ComplicationsCross-Sectional StudiesLogistic ModelsAngolaPregnancy Complications ParasiticMedical Risk FactorsPeople and PlacesAfricaAmniotesCatsWomen's HealthbusinessZoologyPLoS ONE
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Viaggi nell’immaginario: il turismo virtuale nel sito UNESCO di Tarragona

2023

Le nuove tecnologie hanno trasformato in modo radicale non solo la geografia come disciplina, ma anche le geografie del mondo. Il digitale ha assunto, infatti, un ruolo di mediazione sempre più pervasivo nella produzione dello spazio, come delle conoscenze e degli immaginari geografici. Le possibilità offerte dal virtuale, in particolare, offrono oggi un contributo decisivo nella comunicazione dei significati attribuiti ai luoghi e rispondono in modo sempre più efficace ai bisogni emergenti del settore turistico. Le esperienze di visita mediate dal digitale mirano a coinvolgere i sensi e risultano efficaci quando promuovono immersioni rigorosamente realistiche. Nel quadro di queste riflessi…

New technologies have radically transformed not only geography as a discipline but also the geographies of the world. Indeed the digital has assumed an increasingly pervasive mediating role in the production of space as of geographic knowledge and imaginaries. The possibilities offered by the virtual in particular now offer a decisive contribution in communicating the meanings attributed to places and respond increasingly effectively to the emerging needs of the tourism sector. Digitally mediated visitor experiences aim to engage the senses and are effective when they promote rigorously realistic immersions. Within the framework of these reflections the paper highlights the renewed relevance of authenticity both of the tourism experience and of cultural heritage in relation to its potential for attraction and proposes a contextualization of the theme in light of the unprecedented opportunities granted by technologies for the creation of virtual and augmented spaces. The proposed discussion is therefore also a journey aimed at exploring authenticity as a tool through which new technologies can effectively mediate a sense of place and foster brand communication of a destination. The case study is the UNESCO site of Tarragona whose most relevant image for urban policies is presented. This shared figuration spatially defined and rooted in a precise historical moment is reconstructed on the one hand through the analysis of functional documentation for the candidacy and on the other by means of a review of mobile applications developed for the promotion of the city's cultural heritage. The proposed journey and exploration of the place return in light of the research data and in conclusion the central role played by digital technologies in mediating the UNESCO imaginary. The forms of virtual tourism in Tarragona confirm that to travel is to experience a text enveloped in time and inscribed in space.Settore M-GGR/01 - Geografia
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Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo

2022

Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…

Olsen 2018Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaSettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSacco and Blessi 2009). In the current (post-) pandemic context and through the lens of a southern European perspective the purpose of this article is to critically reflect about the role of culture as possible vehicle of urban and community regeneration. In particular we will focus on the activities of the no profit organization «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in ZEN2 one of the last large popular and peripheral neighborhoods built in Palermo at the end of 80s in order to explore and understand how cultural practices work as agent of urban and social transformation capable of addressing emerging issues especially in the pandemic scenario we are experiencing. Thecasestudy has been conducted through analysis of documents participative observations (Honer and Hitzler 2015) and qualitative in-depth interviews with key actors involved in the conception organization and management of the activities carried out by Laboratorio Zen Insieme with representatives of local institutions and non-formal conversations with participants of the workshops heldin the neighborhood. The experience we narrate finds that cultural practices have re-conceptualized their design and functions as strategies of urban and community regeneration and at the same time have contributed to answer to emergent issues in developing proximity and local based strategies facing up to problems inherent civil rights educationalpoverty socio-spatial justice and have changed the image and identity of urban places they inhabit.In this sense the research provides a framework for development of strategies and legitimization for cultural practices and a point of discussionabouttheirrolein urban development.Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic its impacts on the territories yet to be understood are unevenly distributed revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space planning public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by cultural institutions that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of political institutions. Far from the idea of entertainment and divertissement it is in fact increasingly clear how the practices of cultural innovation experimenting with various forms of action and participation can in some cases play a fundamental role in the processes of social cohesion and community building representing an antidote to the worsening of the phenomena of marginalization and socio-spatial inequalities within cities and territories (Colantonio and Dixon 2011
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Predicting the environmental suitability for onchocerciasis in Africa as an aid to elimination planning

2021

Recent evidence suggests that, in some foci, elimination of onchocerciasis from Africa may be feasible with mass drug administration (MDA) of ivermectin. To achieve continental elimination of transmission, mapping surveys will need to be conducted across all implementation units (IUs) for which endemicity status is currently unknown. Using boosted regression tree models with optimised hyperparameter selection, we estimated environmental suitability for onchocerciasis at the 5 × 5-km resolution across Africa. In order to classify IUs that include locations that are environmentally suitable, we used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis to identify an optimal threshold for suitabil…

OncocercosisDecision AnalysisRC955-962Onchocerciasislaw.inventionGeographical LocationsMedical Conditions0302 clinical medicinelawArctic medicine. Tropical medicineMedicine and Health Sciences030212 general & internal medicineOnchocerca11 Medical and Health SciencesData ManagementbiologyPharmaceuticswc_695Enfermedades ParasitariasOnchocerciasi3. Good healthInfectious DiseasesGeographyTransmission (mechanics)Helminth InfectionsEngineering and TechnologyMass Drug AdministrationOnchocercaPublic aspects of medicineRA1-1270Management EngineeringCartographyHumanResearch ArticleNeglected Tropical DiseasesComputer and Information SciencesDrug Administration030231 tropical medicineDecision treewa_395Dermatologywc_765Environmentwc_885Research and Analysis MethodsSkin Diseases03 medical and health sciencesDrug TherapySDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingDiagnostic MedicineTropical MedicineParasitic DiseasesmedicineHumansDisease EradicationSpatial analysisIvermectinData collectionReceiver operating characteristicData VisualizationDecision TreesPublic Health Environmental and Occupational Health06 Biological SciencesOnchocerciasis ; Elimination planning ; Africa ; Implementation units ; Public healthTropical Diseasesmedicine.diseasebiology.organism_classificationHealth CareROC CurvePeople and PlacesAfricaHealth StatisticsMorbidityOnchocerciasisScale (map)ForecastingPLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Development and Validation of a New Prognostic System for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma

2016

Background Prognostic assessment in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains controversial. Using the Italian Liver Cancer (ITA.LI.CA) database as a training set, we sought to develop and validate a new prognostic system for patients with HCC. Methods and Findings Prospective collected databases from Italy (training cohort, n = 3,628; internal validation cohort, n = 1,555) and Taiwan (external validation cohort, n = 2,651) were used to develop the ITA.LI.CA prognostic system. We first defined ITA.LI.CA stages (0, A, B1, B2, B3, C) using only tumor characteristics (largest tumor diameter, number of nodules, intra- and extrahepatic macroscopic vascular invasion, extrahepatic metas…

OncologyMaleTime FactorsDatabases FactualCancer Treatmentlcsh:MedicinePredictive Value of TestPediatricsBiochemistryGeographical locationsNeoplasms Multiple PrimaryDecision Support Technique0302 clinical medicineInterquartile rangeRetrospective StudieMultiple PrimaryRisk FactorsNeoplasmsMedicine and Health SciencesEthnicitiesPublic and Occupational HealthLiver DiseasesLiver NeoplasmsChild HealthGeneral MedicineMiddle AgedPrognosisItalian PeopleTumor BurdenQuartileOncologyCirrhosisItalyLiver Neoplasm030220 oncology & carcinogenesisPredictive value of testsCohortPerspectiveHong Kong030211 gastroenterology & hepatologyFemaleSurvival Analysialpha-FetoproteinsHumanBiotechnologymedicine.medical_specialtyCarcinoma HepatocellularAsiaTime FactorSettore MED/12 - GASTROENTEROLOGIAAged; Carcinoma Hepatocellular; Databases Factual; Decision Support Techniques; Female; Humans; Italy; Liver Neoplasms; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Invasiveness; Neoplasm Staging; Neoplasms Multiple Primary; Predictive Value of Tests; Reproducibility of Results; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Survival Analysis; Taiwan; Time Factors; Tumor Burden; alpha-Fetoproteins; Biotechnology; Biochemistry; Molecular Biology; Cell BiologyTaiwanReproducibility of ResultGastroenterology and HepatologyCarcinomasRisk AssessmentDecision Support Techniques03 medical and health sciencesDatabasesDiagnostic MedicinePredictive Value of TestsInternal medicineGastrointestinal TumorsmedicineHumansNeoplasm Invasivenessalpha-FetoproteinMolecular BiologySurvival analysisFactualAgedNeoplasm StagingRetrospective StudiesNeoplasm InvasivenePerformance statusbusiness.industryRisk Factorlcsh:RCarcinomaCancers and NeoplasmsReproducibility of ResultsRetrospective cohort studyHepatocellularHepatocellular CarcinomaCell BiologySurvival AnalysisBCLC StageSurgeryPeople and PlacesPopulation Groupingsbusiness
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Does optimal partitioning of color space account for universal color categorization?

2017

A 2007 study by Regier, Kay, and Khetarpal purports to show that universal categories emerge as a result of optimal partitioning of color space. Regier, Kay, and Khetarpal only consider color categorizations of up to six categories. However, in most industrialized societies eleven color categories are observed. This paper shows that when applied to the case of eleven categories, Regier, Kay, and Khetarpal's optimality criterion yields unsatisfactory results. Applications of the criterion to the intermediate cases of seven, eight, nine, and ten color categories are also briefly considered and are shown to yield mixed results. We consider a number of possible explanations of the failure of th…

OptimizationOptimality criterionColor visionmedia_common.quotation_subjectCulturelcsh:MedicineSocial SciencesColorColor space050105 experimental psychology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineSociologyPhoneticsPerceptionStatisticsEthnicitiesPsychologyHumans0501 psychology and cognitive scienceslcsh:ScienceVowelsLexiconsmedia_commonMathematicsMultidisciplinarylcsh:R05 social sciencesCognitive PsychologyBiology and Life SciencesLinguisticsCategorizationPhysical SciencesPeople and PlacesLanguagesCognitive Sciencelcsh:QPopulation GroupingsPerceptionNavajo PeopleNatural LanguageMathematicsColor Perception030217 neurology & neurosurgeryNatural languageResearch ArticleNeurosciencePLOS ONE
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Cinema e turismo a Palermo: una prospettiva geografica

2022

Il capitolo, con un approccio geografico culturale, esplora il posizionamento della città di Palermo come location per produzioni cinematografiche al fine di indicare potenzialità e criticità dei nessi tra cinema e turismo. The chapter, with a cultural geographical approach, explores the positioning of the city of Palermo as a location for film productions in order to indicate the potential and criticality of the links between cinema and tourism.

Palermo Film Tourism Cinema Tourism Film Places Space Urban spacesPalermo Cineturismo Location Geografia culturale Cinema Turismo Film Città
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Cumbersome but desirable—Breaking the code of everyday cycling

2020

IntroductionCycling for transport could integrate physical activity (PA) into daily routines and potentially increase total PA levels. However, for parents with young children, most factors affecting transport mode choice tend to facilitate car use. Greater insight is necessary into reasons for (not) using sustainable transport modes in parents with young children. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore the experiences, including motives, perceptions, attitudes, and norms, of parents of young children by using an e-bike, a longtail bike, and a traditional bike for everyday travel to the workplace, kindergarten, and the grocery store during the autumn, winter, and spring, in n…

ParentsPERCEPTIONSApplied psychologyCHILDHOODSocial SciencesTransportationPHYSICAL-ACTIVITY ACTIVE TRAVEL TRACKING PERCEPTIONS EXPERIENCES CHILDHOOD TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR MOTIVES HEALTHFamiliesHabitsTRACKING0302 clinical medicineResidence CharacteristicsMedicine and Health SciencesPsychologyPublic and Occupational Health030212 general & internal medicineMode choiceChildrenmedia_commonMultidisciplinaryCross-Over StudiesSchoolsGeographyNorwayQ05 social sciencesRACTIVE TRAVELFocus GroupsMiddle AgedEXPERIENCESPeer reviewSpringData AccuracyVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800Child PreschoolMedicineFemaleSeasonsHEALTHCyclingPsychologyBEHAVIORResearch ArticleAdultAutomobile DrivingSciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectMOTIVESeducationHuman Geography03 medical and health sciencesYoung AdultPerception0502 economics and businessAutumnHumansCitiesExerciseAged050210 logistics & transportationBehaviorMotivationWinterBiology and Life SciencesPhysical ActivityFocus groupTRANSPORTBicyclingSustainable transportPHYSICAL-ACTIVITYAttitudeAge GroupsFacilitatorPeople and PlacesEarth SciencesHuman MobilityFeasibility StudiesPopulation GroupingsTracking (education)
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