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COGNITIVE PROCESSING OF SENSORY STIMULI IN CERVICAL DYSTONIA

2015

Objective: Investigation of spatial and temporal recognition in Cervical Dystonia (CD). Methods: Four neuropsychological tasks, based on perception in time and space domains of visual and acoustic stimuli, were given to twenty-two CD patients and twenty-two age-matched healthy controls (C). Repeated measure ANOVA was run on group (CD, C), either pooling type of task (spatial, temporal) and type of stimuli (visual, acoustic) factors coming from all tasks either investigating single tasks. Results: In pooled analysis we found that CD were less accurate than C (F¼6.080, p¼0.018). In particular CD were worse in spatial-acoustic task (F¼5.839, p¼0.020). Significant differences were detected, eva…

Settore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia E Psicologia Fisiologicaspatial and temporal recognition
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Reducing Visuospatial Pseudoneglect in Healthy Subjects by Active Video Gaming

2023

Pseudoneglect phenomenon refers to a condition in which healthy subjects tend to perceive the left side of exactly bisected lines as being slightly longer than the right one. However, behavioural data showed that athletes practising an open-skill sport display less pseudoneglect than the general population. Given the fact that so-called exergames (also known as active video games) are platforms designed to fully mimic sport activity, this work intends to investigate whether and how a one-week training period of exergame open-skill sport can determine a similar decrease in pseudoneglect. Fifteen healthy participants (non-athletes) responded to a visuospatial attention task and a control memo…

Settore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia E Psicologia Fisiologicavideo gamingGeneral NeuroscienceSettore MED/26 - Neurologiapseudoneglect; visuospatial attention; exergaming; video gamingvisuospatial attentionexergamingSettore BIO/09 - FisiologiapseudoneglectBrain Sciences
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Distribution of Visuospatial Attention in "Open-Skill Sport" Athletes

2009

Settore MED/26 - NeurologiaVisuospatial Attention Open-Skill SportSettore M-EDF/01 - Metodi E Didattiche Delle Attivita' Motorie
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A spatially-filtered mixture of beta-convergence regressions for European regions, 1980-2002

2009

Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia PoliticaRegional growth - Convergence patterns - Mixture regression - Spatial effects
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Geographical Distribution of Crime: A Spatial Econometric Analysis

2007

Since long time social sciences have focused their attention on the causes of crime activities and this attention evolved over time. The sociological school emphasised the role of neighbourhood in delinquency activities, their stability over time and the existence of a negative relation between crimes and business centres (Shaw and McKay, 1942). This perspective stimulated the analysis of the existing nexus between crime activities and their geographical proximity. The economics approach moved differently. Since late 60s the economic analyses devoted their attention to the detection of mechanisms affecting the choice and behaviour of criminals (Becker, 1968; Stigler, 1970; Ehrlich, 1973). B…

Settore SECS-S/03 - Statistica EconomicaCrime Spatial Econometrics
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A Spatial Origin-Destination Analysis of International Tourism Demand. The Case of Italian Provinces

2021

Settore SECS-S/03 - Statistica EconomicaDynamic Spatial Panel Data models Origin-Destination Spatial Durbin model common factors Origin-destination Tourism demandTourism competitiveness Tourist resilience
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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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Firm demography and regional development: evidence from Italy

2017

This article contributes to the literature on firm demography and regional development in at least three different ways. First, consumption, rather than employment, which is the most common variable seen in literature, is used to measure the impact of firm demography on regional development. Second, while the literature is mainly focused on the relationship between new business formation and regional development, we investigate both entry and exit flows of firms. Third, we decompose each of these flows into spatial and sectoral components. The empirical investigation looks at the Italian regions with reference to the period 2004–2009. Results seem to be substantially divergent between the S…

Settore SECS-S/03 - Statistica Economicafirm demography regional development consumption spatial shift-share Italian regions
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A Proposal to estimate the roaming–dog Total in an urban area through a PPSWOR spatial sampling with sample size greater than two

2018

Settore SECS-S/05 - Statistica SocialeDogs roaming in urban areas constitute an issue for public order hygiene and health. Proper planning of actions for health and security control and allocation of financial funds require the knowledge of the roaming–dog–population size in a given urban area. Unfortunately a reliable statistical procedure aimed to measure such population is not available yet in literature. This paper presents a simple reproducible survey sampling procedure to estimate the number of roaming dogs in an urban area through the description of a real study carried out on a restricted area of the city of Palermo in southern Italy. A sample of areas is drawn by means of a drawn–by–drawn spatial sampling with probabilities proportional to size and without replacement (PPSWOR). As inclusion probabilities are not available in closed form they are estimated by Monte Carlo approach which is of simple implementation and permits design–based variance estimation even when first–order inclusion probabilities are unknown.
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Recent benthic foraminiferal assemblages and their relationship to environmental variables on the shoreface and inner shelf off Valencia (Western Med…

2014

The environmental variables that determine the distributions of benthic foraminiferal assemblages on the shoreface and inner shelf of the north of Valencia province (Western Mediterranean) are identified. The possible influence of variables such as water depth, distance from shore, hydrodynamics, substrate type, carbonate content, organic matter content and human activity is evaluated. Multivariate cluster-Q-type analysis and redundancy analysis (RDA) are used to identify the environmental variables that have the greatest influence on the assemblage distribution. The spatial distribution of the assemblages is closely associated with water depth and substrate. The diversity and abundance of …

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