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Self-Perceived Health, Objective Health, and Quality of Life among People Aged 50 and Over: Interrelationship among Health Indicators in Italy, Spain…

2020

It is well known that self-perceived health (SPH), even if it is a subjective health indicator, is significantly associated with objective health and quality of life (QoL) in the general population. Whether it can be considered an indicator of cognitive functioning and quality of life in the elderly is still an open issue. This study used a data-driven approach to investigate the interrelationship among SPH, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), QoL, and cognitive functioning to answer this question. The study sample included information about 12,831 people living in Italy, Spain, and Greece, extracted from the Survey on Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe, in the year 2015. The additive Ba…

Settore M-PSI/01 - Psicologia GeneraleMaleHealth Toxicology and MutagenesisHealth StatusPopulationlcsh:MedicineChronic diseases cognitive measureArticleSettore MED/01 - Statistica Medica03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineQuality of lifeEnvironmental healthCredibilitychronic diseases cognitive measuresHumans030212 general & internal medicineCognitive skillself-perceived healtheducationAged2. Zero hungereducation.field_of_studyGreeceSettore SECS-S/02 - Statistica Per La Ricerca Sperimentale E Tecnologica030503 health policy & serviceslcsh:R1. No povertyPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthSelf perceived healthBayes TheoremMiddle AgedHealth indicatoradditive Bayesian network3. Good healthEuropeHealth promotionItalyquality of lifeSpainFemaleSelf Report0305 other medical sciencePsychologyBody mass indexInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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A Lebesgue-type decomposition on one side for sesquilinear forms

2021

Sesquilinear forms which are not necessarily positive may have a dierent behavior, with respect to a positive form, on each side. For this reason a Lebesgue-type decomposition on one side is provided for generic forms satisfying a boundedness condition.

Settore MAT/05 - Analisi Matematicasesquilinear forms Lebesgue decomposition regularity singularity complex measures bounded operators
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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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Improving the Traditional Measures of Agglomeration with Neighbouring Effects

2009

The traditional measures of concentration are based on the hypothesis that agglomeration forces among plants appear only inside of a single area and they do not have any effect outside of it. Instead, it is reasonable thinking to the existence of factors exerting their effects not only within the territory where they were originated but, in the meantime, producing spillovers into neighbouring areas. Building on this assumption, this paper contributes to the agglomeration literature by proposing an extension of the traditional agglomeration measures that account for externalities that cross the barriers of the geographical units under analysis. So, we want to examine the spatial dependence a…

Settore SECS-S/03 - Statistica EconomicaGeographic concentration agglomeration economies spatial measures.
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Distance Measures for Portfolio Selection

2017

The classical Markowitz approach to the portfolio selection problem (PSP) consists of selecting the portfolio that minimises the return variance for a given level of expected return. By solving the problem for different values of this expected return we obtain the Pareto efficient frontier, which is composed of non-dominated portfolios. The final user has to discriminate amongst these points by resorting to an external criterion in order to decide which portfolio to invest in. We propose to define an external portfolio that corresponds to a desired criterion, and to assess its distance from the Markowitz frontier in market allowing for short-sellings or not. We show that this distance is ab…

Settore SECS-S/06 - Metodi mat. dell'economia e Scienze Attuariali e FinanziarieMathematical optimizationSettore INF/01 - InformaticaComputer sciencePareto principleEfficient frontierMetaheuristicVariance (accounting)Financial modelPortfolio selectionDistance measuresMultiple criteriaDecision aidSettore SECS-S/06 -Metodi Mat. dell'Economia e d. Scienze Attuariali e Finanz.Order (exchange)PortfolioExpected returnMarkowitzSettore MAT/09 - Ricerca OperativaSelection (genetic algorithm)Distance measureIndex tracking
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La riabilitazione extramuraria e il donum-munus del tempo restituito

2014

Il saggio in oggetto, dopo aver fatto riferimento alla letteratura sociologica contemporanea, analizza e ai dati statisti degli ultimi anni (fonti Istat) relativi alla presenza dei detenuti nei 206 istituti penitenziari del territorio italiano, si sofferma sulla funzione delle «misure alternative» alla detenzione. Queste ultime fanno riferimento a un insieme di istituti che attraverso il reinserimento la cosiddetta «esecuzione penale esterna», offrono un’alternativa al sistema di giustizia penale ordinario, caratterizzato dall’impiego del processo penale e della detenzione, e mirano, per convesso, ad evitare la permanenza delle persone negli Istituti penitenziari o a ridurre la durata della…

Settore SPS/12 - Sociologia Giuridica Della Devianza E Mutamento SocialeSettore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generaleprobation extramural rehabilitation social reintegration prison“donated time” "work outiside" alternative measuresriabilitazione extra-muraria reintegrazione sociale prigione "tempo donato" lavoro all'esterno misure alternative
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Victim to Victimizer: The Psychology of Isomorphism in a Case of a Recidivist Pedophile in Finland

1999

ABSTRACT An extreme case of a six victim, 38-year-old recidivist sex offender was selected for examining the isomorphic relationships between child sexual abuse trauma and adult sex offenses. This sex offender had victimized children of both sexes and an adult woman. Life history, letter, file, and the Adult Attachment Interview information were analyzed to seek the relations between childhood abuse experiences and adult offending. Both subjective reports and file data revealed that the man had experienced severe physical, psychological, and sexual abuse in childhood. His pattern of sexual offending against children was similar to his own experiences of sexual abuse by his father. The age o…

Sex offenderPathology and Forensic MedicineDevelopmental psychologyCompliance (psychology)Psychiatry and Mental healthClinical PsychologyPedophiliaSexual abuseChild sexual abusePediatrics Perinatology and Child HealthSex offensePsychologyPsychological abuseAttachment measuresJournal of Child Sexual Abuse
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The effects of using participatory working time scheduling software on working hour characteristics and wellbeing : a quasi-experimental study of irr…

2020

Background: Studies in the health care sector indicate that good work time control is associated with better perceived wellbeing but also with non-ergonomic work schedules, such as compressed work schedules. Participatory working time scheduling is a collaborative approach to scheduling shift work. Currently, there is a lack of information on whether working hour characteristics and employees' wellbeing in irregular shift work change after implementing participatory working time scheduling. Objective: To investigate the effects of using digital participatory working time scheduling software on working hour characteristics and well-being among Finnish hospital employees. Participants and met…

Shift workIMPACTComputer scienceNursesCAREER SATISFACTIONLogistic regressionwork time controlScheduling (computing)Work time controlShift work0302 clinical medicinenursingWork Schedule ToleranceHealth care030212 general & internal medicinehospital employeesGeneral NursingFinlandosallistuminenself-rostering030504 nursingShift Work ScheduleASSOCIATIONWorking timehealth carevuorotyöBALANCE8. Economic growthworking time autonomySelf-rosteringHEALTHHospital employees health care316 Nursing0305 other medical scienceEMPLOYEE CONTROLtyöhyvinvointiStaffingPersonnel Staffing and SchedulingNursing03 medical and health sciencesHumansOperations managementajanhallintaGeneral linear modelbusiness.industryWorking time autonomySLEEP DISTURBANCESRepeated measures designtyöaikashift workhoitohenkilöstöbusinessSoftwarehoitotyö
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University students’ feedback regarding effective measures to prevent bullying

2022

SAV file ad analysis using SPSS

Social SciencesBullying prevention measures
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European Union Protection of Human Rights through its global policy

2022

The Regime of Restrictive Measures against Serious Violations and Abuses of Human Rights launched at the end of 2020 by the European Union is part of the Commission's objective to reaffirm the Union's firm commitment to promoting universal values and strengthening its leadership in this field. However, the first year of implementation of the regime casts doubt on its effectiveness, given the existence of legal loopholes that tarnish it.

Sociology and Political Sciencerestrictive measuresPolitical Science and International Relationsserious violations and abusesEuropean UnionUNESCO::CIENCIAS JURÍDICAS Y DERECHOhuman rightsLawThe Age of Human Rights Journal
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