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One-year surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in health-care setting, Palermo, Italy
2010
Background: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an emerging cause of infections outside of health care settings. We carried out a survey to determine the prevalence and characteristics of MRSA isolates (CA-MRSA, HA-MRSA) identified among in- and outpatients by the clinical microbiology laboratories of four general hospitals in Palermo, Italy during the period February-January 2010. Methods: Participating laboratories performed isolation, confirmed methicillin-resistance by their routine method and weekly sent their strains to the coordinating laboratory at the Department of Sciences for Health Promotion “G. D’Alessandro”, University of Palermo, Italy. The isolates were tes…
The role of a monthly active surveillance programme for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in a neonatal intensive care unit: impact evaluati…
2020
Background: Antimicrobial resistance is a public health threat. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) patients are particularly at risk, due to the large use of invasive devices and antimicrobial treatment. Since 2014 an active surveillance program of multidrug-resistant organisms is in place in the five NICUs of Palermo, Italy. High prevalence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB) carriage observed in one NICU suggested the need of a long-lasting approach to achieve effective control of MDR-GNB circulation. Materials/methods: Rectal swabs were obtained every month from each hospitalized new-born. Samples were enriched in liquid cultures, plated in McConkey Agar with three a…
Applying the Goal Setting Practice in the Dynamic Balance Scorecard Learning and Growth Perspective
2010
Teoria e tecniche del giornalismo nel cangiante sistema dei media
2017
Il volume ricostruisce criticamente le tecniche del giornalismo secondo le indicazioni del Newsmaking trattando temi di effetti a lungo termine come l'effetto Agenda. It is a critic reconstruction of journalistic techniques with indications of Newsmaking and study of themes of long term effects as Agenda setting.
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…
La standardizzazione e le Standard Setting Organizations
Il presente lavoro ha ad oggetto il fenomeno della standardizzazione tecnica, con specifico riferimento al ruolo svolto in tale ambito dalle c.d. Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) e alle regole dalle stesse predisposte al fine di evitare possibili rischi anticoncorrenziali derivanti dal fenomeno in questione.
The conditional censored graphical lasso estimator
2020
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. In many applied fields, such as genomics, different types of data are collected on the same system, and it is not uncommon that some of these datasets are subject to censoring as a result of the measurement technologies used, such as data generated by polymerase chain reactions and flow cytometer. When the overall objective is that of network inference, at possibly different levels of a system, information coming from different sources and/or different steps of the analysis can be integrated into one model with the use of conditional graphical models. In this paper, we develop a doubly penalized inferential procedure for…
Unbeatable Value Low-Price Guarantee: Collusive Mechanism or Advertising Strategy?
2006
This paper investigates the effects of a low-price guarantee (price-beating guarantee) on the patterns of price setting of three supermarkets using micro-level price data. Following recent theoretical developments, the paper analyzes the ability of low-price guarantees to sustain anticompetitive prices. My empirical analysis suggests instead that this low-price guarantee may serve as an advertising device to signal low prices. The supermarket offering the low-price guarantee, aware of its price advantage in a subset of products, uses it to signal low prices to induce consumers to switch supermarkets.
Difusión online de las agendas partidistas en campaña electoral. El uso de internet en las Elecciones Locales de 2015 en la ciudad de Valencia
2015
Los objetivos de la investigación son, por una parte, analizar el uso que los partidos políticos y sus candidatos realizan de las posibilidades de interacción y difusión del mensaje brindadas por las principales redes sociales en una campaña electoral y, por otra, estudiar la composición y la transmisión de las agendas partidistas durante dicho periodo a través de las páginas web de los partidos y candidatos, de las redes sociales y de los principales cibermedios, tanto ediciones online de diarios impresos como nativos digitales. En concreto, el trabajo se centra en la actividad que desarrollaron durante la campaña de las Elecciones Locales de 2015 en la ciudad de Valencia cinco formaciones…
Protocolo técnico para la fotografía de fuentes filológicas primarias
2014
con fines documentales, proyectado para garantizar la máxima fidelidad posible al motivo original representado. Tras una descripción detallada del material necesario, seleccionado específicamente en función de las necesidades particulares de la fotografía de textos manuscritos o impresos, se desarrolla un procedimiento adaptado a las nuevas circunstancias de la fotografía digital, concebido en dos fases: la captación de la imagen en formato RAW, y su posterior edición. En este estudio se trata la primera parte, describiendo sistemáticamente, paso a paso, las decisiones técnicas relativas a los ajustes fotográficos de la toma en diferentes situaciones lumínicas, encaminadas a maximizar la ca…