Search results for "Pisa"
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Research on Pisa University student's life style and health
2004
Surveys on life and health conditions of university students besides providing useful epidemiologic data partly related to the young population. They are potentially useful for the intervention planning aimed to remove possible environmental or behavioural risk factors. Following these purpose a survey sample about 1200 student attending the University of Pisa was carried out through an anonymous questionnaire about 41 questions focused on behaviours and lifestyles of young people, possible health problems, self-perception of the health state, the use of public health services, and the more commonly used (or preferred) sources of information on health topics. The results suggest that althou…
Dal rilievo alla ricostruzione del progetto: la torre Pisana nel Palazzo Reale di Palermo
2017
The paper focuses the survey and representation of the Pisana Tower in the Royal Palace of Palermo. The tower, which has recently been inserted in the UNESCO World Heritage List, was built in the XII century under the patronage of Norman kings. Along the centuries, the tower has undergone several transformations, to fit ever-changing uses. The coexistence of such heterogeneous elements, combined with the fragmentation of the passages connecting the levels of the tower, conceal the original unity and the typology of this historical building. Researches focusing the study of monuments deeply transformed along their history, even when based on the cooperation of multidisciplinary scholarships,…
Organisation and Context, Efficiency and Equity of Educational Systems: what PISA tells us
2005
05065http://www.wwwords.co.uk/eerj/; International audience; After describing both average scores, dispersion, and social inequalities in achievement in the various countries included in the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, this article relates those ‘products' to country economic and cultural characteristics. It then explores relations between student scores and a number of institutional characteristics of countries' educational systems. Results show that relations exist between average scores and certain institutional or pedagogical practices such as grade repeating or tracking. A high degree of social inequality in achievement proves to be associated wi…
The Impact of Student Diversity in Secondary Schools : An Analysis of the International PISA Data and Implications for the German Education System
2006
While increased heterogeneity in schools (diversity) leads to reduced segregation and greater equity for students from different family backgrounds, it is often expected to have a negative impact on overall performance, and on student well-being and motivation. In this study, neither cross-country comparisons nor student-level analysis confirm this hypothesis. In some countries, students' overall achievement as well as their interest and engagement even appear to be positively influenced by diversity, notably by socio-economic and cultural diversity. In Germany, socio-economic diversity has a positive impact on student achievement, and ability related and cultural diversity positively affec…
Le mécénat artistique des confréries dans la Palerme du Moyen-Âge
2010
Lo studio individua il ruolo di alcune importanti confraternite palermitane medievali che si definiscono "reali" o "imperiali" come committenti di opere d'arte legate al culto e al decoro delle loro chiese ad artisti come il Maestro delle Incoronazioni, Antonio di Francesco da Venezia, Jacopo di Michele da Pisa, Matteo Felice da Napoli, Stefano Giordano da Messina, Tommaso de Vigilia da Palermo. The study identifies the role of some important medieval Palermo confraternities calling themselves "royal" or "imperial" as commissioning works of art related to worship and the decoration of their churches to artists such as the Master of the Coronations, Antonio di Francesco from Venice, Jacopo d…
L'orafo Piero di Martino e il reliquiario di San Bartolo di Geraci
2009
La Real Casa dei Matti di Palermo: storia di un'innovazione terapeutica tra architettura e letteratura
2016
La storia di questa struttura psichiatrica rappresenta uno straordinario esempio di come innovazione medica, letteratura e architettura si intreccino formando un’unica trama storica che merita di essere letta e tenuta in considerazione
Early cognitive predictors of PISA reading in children with and without family risk for dyslexia
2018
Abstract This study examined language skills and pre-literacy skills (phonological awareness, rapid naming, and letter knowledge) before school-age as predictors of PISA reading at age 15 in two groups of children, with (n = 88) and without (n = 70) family-risk for dyslexia . Moreover, effects of family-risk on these early predictors, reading fluency , and PISA reading were examined while controlling the effect of gender. Children were followed from age 2 to 15. Family-risk had a significant effect on early language and pre-literacy skills, reading fluency and PISA reading. A similar model predicting PISA reading fitted the data well in the Family-risk and the No family-risk group. Languag…
Do Country Stereotypes Exist in PISA? A Clustering Approach for Large, Sparse, and Weighted Data
2015
Certain stereotypes can be associated with people from different countries. For example, the Italians are expected to be emotional, the Germans functional, and the Chinese hard-working. In this study, we cluster all 15-year-old students representing the 68 different nations and territories that participated in the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2012). The hypothesis is that the students will start to form their own country groups when clustered according to the scale indices that summarize many of the students’ characteristics. In order to meet PISA data analysis requirements, we use a novel combination of our previously published algorithmic components to reali…
Spider cues stimulate feeding, weight gain and survival of crickets
2014
1. To avoid predation, prey often change their behaviour upon encountering cues of predator presence. Such behavioural changes should enhance individual survival, but are likely to be energy-demanding. This should deplete energy reserves of the prey, unless it increases food intake. 2. These hypotheses were studied by conducting two microcosm experiments. In the first, crickets were kept on plants previously occupied by a spider or on control plants. After 3 days leaf consumption and weight gain of the crickets were quantified. In the second experiment, crickets were kept in the presence or absence of spider cues for 3 days. Spiders were then added and predation of the crickets was recorded…