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A Fatal Bloodstream Infection byStaphylococcus pettenkoferiin an Intensive Care Unit Patient

2011

Coagulase negative staphylococci are increasingly recognized as leading pathogens in bacteremia, with incidence peaking in intensive care units. Interpretation of blood cultures that are positive for CoNS is often doubtful. We describe a fatal case of bacteremia by a newly recognized species of CoNS,Staphylococcus pettenkoferi, in an ICU patient.

Settore MED/07 - Microbiologia E Microbiologia Clinicamedicine.medical_specialtyIntensive Care UnitCase ReportCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicinelaw.inventionlawBloodstream infectionIntensive caremedicineStaphylococcus pettenkoferiIntensive care medicinebiologybusiness.industryBloodstream InfectionIncidence (epidemiology)conslcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aidlcsh:RC86-88.9biology.organism_classificationmedicine.diseaseIntensive care unitBacteremiaCoagulasebusinessStaphylococcus pettenkoferiCase Reports in Critical Care
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Female age at first pregnancy and work task: finding correlation and evolution over the past two decades in a Sicilian province

2015

Background: the entrance of women in the workforce, due to a their growing cultural and, accordingly, social commitment, changed many aspects of their lives; the research or the maintenance of a job, especially during periods of severe economic crisis, leads to a delay of many physiological stage, maternity at first. The aim of this study is to verify and, if it really happened, to quantify an increasing age of first-time mothers in a sample of mothers in the province of Agrigento in the last 20 years, correlating any positive response to the work task performed. Material and Methods: we have enrolled all primiparous women who gave birth in a hospital in the province of Agrigento, from Janu…

Settore MED/44 - Medicina Del Lavoroaging first pregnancy infant occupation unemployed
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Teodoro D’ippolito: The First Writer of Treatises on Economia Aziendale

2008

In 1926 Mr. Gino Zappa established Economia aziendale (Concern Economics) in Italy, a discipline synthesizing the conditions and modes of the economic production of goods and services every azienda (concern) carries out. And Mr. Teodoro D’Ippolito, who was one of the most prominent of his disciples, highly contributed with his work Le discipline aziendali • L’azienda corporativa, written in 1940, to the theoretical strengthening of the new discipline. This book had five editions until 1966, each of them with different contents conflation or titles. The present paper deals mainly with the edition of 1940 since it is the progenitor of all other editions, and it even was the first ‘institution…

Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia AziendaleD'Ippolito First Treatise Economia aziendale
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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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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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Electromagnetically generated extracorporeal shock waves for gallstone lithotripsy: in vitro experiments and clinical relevance.

1989

. First generation shock wave sources have been proved to disintegrate gallstones effectively, but they require the immersion of the patient's body in a tank of water. A recently developed second generation shock wave source (Siemens-Lithostar, Erlangen, FRG) generates shock waves electromagnetically. It presents several novel features. In particular the waterbath can be omitted and due to lower shock wave pressure general anaesthesia is not required. In vitro studies showed that 36 out of 38 gallstones (11–30 mm in diameter) could be disintegrated. Two concrements resisting lithotripsy were pure white cholesterol stones. Independent of shape, size, and composition (cholesterol or pigment) …

Shock wavemedicine.medical_specialtyMaterials sciencemedicine.medical_treatmentClinical BiochemistryGeneral MedicineGallstonesLithotripsyIn Vitro Techniquesmedicine.diseaseBiochemistryExtracorporeal shock wave lithotripsyExtracorporealFirst generationSurgeryMaximum diameterCholelithiasisLithotripsymedicineHumansTomography X-Ray ComputedElectromagnetic PhenomenaBiomedical engineeringEuropean journal of clinical investigation
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Site symmetry approach applied to the supercell model of MgAl2O4 spinel with oxygen interstitials: Ab initio calculations

2018

This study has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium and has been provided funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement No 633053. The authors are indebted to E.A. Kotomin, A.I. Popov and R. Vila for stimulating discussions. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission. Calculations have been performed using both the Marconi supercomputer system at the Computational Simulation Centre (Italy) and the Computer Center of St. Petersburg State University.

Single neutral oxygen interstitialMaterials scienceGeneral Computer ScienceBand gapSite symmetryGeneral Physics and Astronomy02 engineering and technologyengineering.material010402 general chemistry01 natural sciencesMolecular physicsPhysics::GeophysicsCrystalCondensed Matter::Materials ScienceLattice constantPerfect crystalAb initio quantum chemistry methods:NATURAL SCIENCES:Physics [Research Subject Categories]General Materials ScienceBulk modulusSpinelMgAl2O4 spinelGeneral Chemistry021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology0104 chemical sciencesComputational MathematicsMechanics of MaterialsengineeringWyckoff positions0210 nano-technologyFirst principles calculations
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Predictive value of the Merrill-Palmer-R Scale applied during the first year of live

2016

Resumen basado en el de la publicación Títulos, resumen y palabras clave en inglés y español El valor predictivo de una escala de desarrollo utilizado durante el primer año de vida es de gran interés en la planificación de las intervenciones tempranas. El valor predictivo de un instrumento es la probabilidad de acertar el diagnóstico de trastorno o retraso en el desarrollo de un niño. Se analizaron las puntuaciones de escala Merrill-Palmer-R (MP-R) en una muestra de 291 niños menores de un año de la Comunidad Valenciana. A pesar de que no se distribuyen normalmente las puntuaciones de la escala MP-R en esta muestra, los resultados predichos eran buenos. Además, las puntuaciones de desarroll…

Social PsychologyScale (ratio)Validez diagnósticaDevelopmental disorderFirst year of lifeSample (statistics)Trastorno del desarrolloValencian communitydesarrollo del niñoDevelopmental psychologyNormal distribution03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineMerrill Palmer R030225 pediatricsStatisticsCut-off pointDevelopmental and Educational Psychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesDiagnostic validityRasch model05 social sciencesniño de primera infanciaPredictive valuePunto de cortetest de diagnósticoPsychology050104 developmental & child psychologyplanificación
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Review of Skoll (2016) Globalization of American Fear Culture: the empire in the Twenty-First Century

2017

Social sciences (General)H1-99GlobalizationHistoryAnthropologymedia_common.quotation_subjectAZ20-999Twenty-First CenturyGeneral Social SciencesEmpireHistory of scholarship and learning. The humanitiesAncient historymedia_commonAthenea Digital. Revista de pensamiento e investigación social
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Educación y equidad en la primera infancia : el caso de las aulas de 2 años en los centros públicos de la Comunidad Valenciana

2022

En este trabajo analizamos la evolución de la provisión de educación y atención de la primera infancia (EAPI) en el primer ciclo de la Educación Infantil en el contexto de la Comunidad Valenciana, con particular atención al caso de la implantación de las aulas de 2 años en centros públicos. Durante las últimas dos legislaturas, la Comunidad Valenciana ha pasado de estar en la vanguardia del fomento y desarrollo del modelo de oferta privada a ser de las regiones pioneras en el desarrollo de las aulas de 2 años en la enseñanza pública. Enmarcamos estos cambios en el contexto español, y discutimos su alcance para la equidad del sistema educativo en esta etapa desde el enfoque de los derechos h…

Sociology and Political ScienceClassrooms for two-year-oldsEquityEquidadEquitatEducació infantilEducació i atenció de la primera infànciaFirst cycle of pre-school educationAulas 2 añosEducación y atención de la primera infanciaPrimer cicle d'educació infantilEarly childhood education and careAules 2 anysEducació Finalitats i objectiusPrimer ciclo de educación infantilSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)
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