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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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Cancer: New Needs, New Models. Is It Time for a Community Oncologist? Another Brick in the Wall

2021

Simple Summary Community care activity in the oncology field does not exist. This unmet need contrasts with the increasing number of patients with a previous diagnosis of cancer. Abstract Over the last few decades, thanks to early detection, effective drugs, and personalized treatments, the natural history of cancer has radically changed. Thanks to these advances, we have observed how survival of cancer patients has increased, becoming an ever more important goal in cancer care. Effective clinical governance of survivorship care is essential to ensure a successful transition between active and post-treatment life, identifying optimization of healthcare outcomes and quality of life for patie…

OncologyCancer Researchmedicine.medical_specialtySettore MED/06 - Oncologia MedicaEarly detectionSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E Applicataclinical governance03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineQuality of life (healthcare)Internal medicineSurvivorship curveIntervention (counseling)Health caremedicine030212 general & internal medicineRC254-282Clinical governancebusiness.industryCancerNeoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogensmedicine.diseasecommunity oncologyNatural historycancer survivorshipOncology030220 oncology & carcinogenesisPerspectivebusinessPsychologyCancers
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The GERMELATOX DeCOG-trial: Attitude of German melanoma patients towards toxicity during adjuvant interferon treatment-Differences between the patien…

2015

e20099 Background: Although trials of adjuvant interferon alfa-2b (IFNa-2b) in high-risk melanoma patients suggest improvement in disease-free survival (DFS), metaanalyses showed only a marginal ov...

OncologyCancer Researchmedicine.medical_specialtybusiness.industrymedicine.medical_treatmentMelanomaPerspective (graphical)medicine.diseaselanguage.human_languageGermanOncologyInterferonInternal medicineToxicityImmunologymedicinelanguagebusinessneoplasmsAdjuvantmedicine.drug
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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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An international consortium proposal of uniform response criteria for myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN) in adults

2015

Abstract Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are hematologically diverse stem cell malignancies sharing phenotypic features of both myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative neoplasms. There are currently no standard treatment recommendations for most adult patients with MDS/MPN. To optimize efforts to improve the management and disease outcomes, it is essential to identify meaningful clinical and biologic end points and standardized response criteria for clinical trials. The dual dysplastic and proliferative features in these stem cell malignancies define their uniqueness and challenges. We propose response assessment guidelines to harmonize future…

Oncologymedicine.medical_specialtyInternational CooperationImmunologyMEDLINEMedical OncologyBiochemistryMyeloproliferative DisordersSurveys and QuestionnairesInternal medicinehemic and lymphatic diseasesmedicineHumansResponse criteriaCell ProliferationClinical Trials as TopicMyeloproliferative DisordersAdult patientsSurrogate endpointbusiness.industryStandard treatmentMyelodysplastic syndromesfood and beveragesCell BiologyHematologymedicine.diseaseClinical trialPhenotypeTreatment OutcomeHematologic NeoplasmsMyelodysplastic SyndromesMutationPractice Guidelines as TopicDisease ProgressionPhysical therapybusinessAlgorithmsPerspectives
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Transplantation in follicular lymphoma: not "yes or no" but "whom and when".

2013

After years of debate, the question as to what is the optimal use of transplantation strategies in indolent lymphoma remains controversial. In the July issue of Haematologica, a study was published by the EBMT Lymphoma Working Party that aims to define indications for hematopoietic stem cell

Oncologymedicine.medical_specialtyPathologybusiness.industryPatient SelectionFollicular lymphomaHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHematopoietic stem cellEditorials and PerspectivesHematologymedicine.diseaseTransplantation AutologousLymphomaIndolent lymphomaTransplantationmedicine.anatomical_structureimmune system diseaseshemic and lymphatic diseasesInternal medicinemedicineHumansbusinessLymphoma FollicularHaematologica
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Disentangling the Process of Work–Family Conflict

2016

Abstract. The purpose of this conceptual article is to deliver a new framework model for research on work–family conflict (WFC), which overcomes existing limitations. By adopting an organizational stress perspective on WFC we show that WFC should be conceptualized as a process. By disentangling its components we point out several problems of WFC research and how our new approach can help to avoid them. Research on WFC often does not comply with the current standards of organizational stress research. Common WFC measures bear the potential of content that overlaps with determinants and outcomes, which might spuriously inflate correlations. To avoid measurement overlap, we propose to operati…

OperationalizationArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Risk analysis (engineering)Process (engineering)Work–family conflictRole performancePerspective (graphical)Work–life balanceOrganizational stressPsychologyAffect (psychology)Social psychologyGeneral PsychologyZeitschrift für Psychologie
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Monitoring managerial efficiency in the performing arts: A regional theatres network perspective

2006

Managerial efficiency within the performing arts programming can be understood as the technical efficiency of transforming the resources cultural managers have available into a determined cultural output. Through this explanation different conceptions on the finished performance product it leads us to select two different output variables (number of performances, and number of attendances). In this way, three different models are considered regarding those conceptual points of view. Data on the Circu¨ıt Teatral Valencia`, a Spanish regional theatres network, is used to develop empirically the concept of Managerial Efficiency and set up a framework to allow us to monitor it. Publicaciones Ec…

Operations researchComputer scienceeconomíaPerspective (graphical)General Decision SciencesUNESCO::CIENCIAS ECONÓMICASManagement Science and Operations Researchcultura:CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS [UNESCO]Product (business)EconcultData envelopment analysisPerforming artsSet (psychology)
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Multicriteria-Oriented Optimization of Building Energy Performances: The Annex 72 IEA-EBC Experience

2021

International audience; This chapter describes the research experience of the International Energy Agency-Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme Annex 72 members on the application of multi-objective optimization processes for the selection of design or retrofit actions that allow for improving different aspects (energy, environmental, economic, etc.) of buildings in a life cycle perspective. Thirteen case studies were examined focussing on methodologies, applications and results and deriving generic conclusions and guidelines for building designers and decision-makers.

OptimizationArchitectural engineeringSettore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica AmbientaleComputer science020209 energyLife cyclePerspective (graphical)Energy agencyEnergy performanceBuilding energy02 engineering and technology010501 environmental sciencesEnvironmental impactsEnergy performance01 natural sciences7. Clean energy[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics]11. Sustainability0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringBuildings Energy performance Environmental impacts Life cycle OptimizationBuildingsEnergy (signal processing)Selection (genetic algorithm)0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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A methodology for developing evidence-based optimization models in humanitarian logistics

2022

AbstractThe growing need for humanitarian assistance has inspired an increasing amount of academic publications in the field of humanitarian logistics. Over the past two decades, the humanitarian logistics literature has developed a powerful toolbox of standardized problem formulations to address problems ranging from distribution to scheduling or locations planning. At the same time, the humanitarian field is quickly evolving, and problem formulations heavily rely on the context, leading to calls for more evidence-based research. While mixed methods research designs provide a promising avenue to embed research in the reality of the field, there is a lack of rigorous mixed methods research …

OptimizationCOORDINATIONMixed methodsCase studyGeneral Decision SciencesManagement Science and Operations ResearchHumanitarian logisticsVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210OPERATIONSField researchFACILITY LOCATIONDEFINITIONDESIGNResearch designRELIEF DISTRIBUTIONQUALITYSUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTNETWORKPERSPECTIVE
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