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Organisierte Kriminalität. Die Mafia: globale Szenarien und internationale Connections

2012

Lo studio dei fenomeni criminali di tipo mafioso rende necessaria una costante attività di confronto, verifica e aggiornamento dei paradigmi di analisi; è normale, del resto, che ogni fenomeno sociale letto ed esaminato entro uno specifico universo di significazione, meriti una nuova attenta ricognizione per verificare se siano cambiate o meno le sue peculiari caratteristiche, quando il contesto di riferimento muta e l’oggetto di studio assume connotazioni differenti. Il saggio analizza in chiave diacronica e comparativa i processi di trasformazione che hanno interessato le principali organizzazioni criminali italiane, proiettando le loro attività all'interno di uno scenario globale. Nel co…

Reliable clinical assessment of stroke patients' postural control and development of physiotherapy in stroke rehabilitation

2007

The main goal of the long-standing clinical research project in the district of East-Savo was to develop an active role in physiotherapy for patients with stroke. A novel assessment instrument, the Postural Control and Balance for Stroke (PCBS) test, was developed side by side with the activating treatment. Present physiotherapy for stroke patients the emphasis is on the physiotherapist’s role, leaving no room for independent participation by the patient. In clinical work there are no systematically used methods either for the evaluation or follow-up of functional capacity, or for balance in stroke patients. This thesis includes reliability and validity studies of the Postural Control and B…

Parent of origin effects in attention/deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): analysis of data from the international multicenter ADHD genetics (IMAGE…

2008

Contains fulltext : 71540.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) There are conflicting reports suggesting that the parental origin of transmitted risk alleles may play a role in the etiology of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A recent report by Hawi and colleagues observed a generalized paternal over-transmission of alleles associated with ADHD. This was not replicated in more recent studies. Using data from a large multicenter study we examined the overall and gene-specific parent of origin effect in 554 independent SNPs across 47 genes. Transmission disequilibrium and explicit parent of origin test were performed using PLINK. Overall parent of origin effect was tested…

Physical Activity Among Children With Congenital Heart Defects in Germany: A Nationwide Survey

2020

Objective: In children with congenital heart defects (CHD), a sedentary lifestyle should be avoided and usually WHO recommendations on physical activity (PA) are supposed to be followed. In order to obtain representative data of the actual amount of PA (and potential influencing factors) in children with CHD we performed a nationwide online survey.Methods: All patients aged 6–17 years registered in the German National Register for CHD were contacted by email and asked to participate in the survey using the comprehensive questionnaire of the “Motorik-Modul” from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS), thus allowing the comparison with a repres…

UNESCO’s cinematic multiverse and the best of all possible worlds

2020

Pohjoismaiden ja Keski- ja Itä-Euroopan uusien demokratioiden journalistien roolikäsitykset

2017

Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan journalistien tehtäväkäsitysten kautta, miten Pohjoismaiden ja Keski- ja Itä-Euroopan uusien demokratioiden journalistien roolikäsitykset nykyään eroavat toisistaan, sekä näkyvätkö länsimaisen journalismin ihanteet journalistien roolikäsityksissä. Analysoinnin apuna on käytetty Thomas Hanitzschin (2011) luomia roolimiljöitä. Teoreettisena viitekehyksenä toimivat journalistinen kulttuuri, journalistinen identiteetti, professionaalistuminen sekä journalistien roolikäsitykset. Tuloksissa ilmeni, että Pohjoismaiden journalistit ovat melko yhteneväinen ryhmä ja niitä voisi kuvailla Hanitszschin puolueeton vahtikoira -roolimiljöön alla. Suomen ja Norjan toimittajat ero…

Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment as a Challenge to Research Ethics

2016

This article analyzes the ethical discussion focusing on the Facebook emotional contagion experiment published by the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> in 2014. The massive-scale experiment manipulated the News Feeds of a large amount of Facebook users and was successful in proving that emotional contagion happens also in online environments. However, the experiment caused ethical concerns within and outside academia mainly for two intertwined reasons, the first revolving around the idea of research as manipulation, and the second focusing on the problematic definition of informed consent. The article concurs with recent research that the era of social med…

Intelligence in DSM-IV combined type attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is not predicted by either dopamine receptor/transporter genes or other…

2008

Contains fulltext : 69677.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) A major goal of genetic studies of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is to identify individual characteristics that might help segregate the disorder's inherent heterogeneity. [Mill et al. (2006); Arch Ger Psychiatry 63:462-469] recently reported a potentially important association between two dopamine-related risk polymorphisms (DRD4 variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) in exon 3 and DAT1 VNTR in the 3' UTR) and lowered IQ in ADHD. The objective of the current study was to replicate the [Mill et al. (2006); Arch Ger Psychiatry 63:462-469] findings in a clinical sample and to extend the analysis to a large ra…

Genetic heterogeneity in ADHD: DAT1 gene only affects probands without CD

2008

Contains fulltext : 70183.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) Previous studies have found heterogeneous association between DAT1-3'-UTR-VNTR and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Various proportions of conduct disorder (CD) comorbidity in their ADHD samples may partially explain the observational discrepancies. Evidence for this comes from family and twin studies which found ADHD probands with CD (ADHD + CD) are genetically different from those without CD (ADHD - CD). Genotypes of 20 DAT1 markers were analyzed in 576 trios, consisting of 141 ADHD + CD and 435 ADHD - CD. In addition to the classical TDT test, a specific genetic heterogeneity test was performed to identi…

The impact of study design and diagnostic approach in a large multi-centre ADHD study: Part 2: Dimensional measures of psychopathology and intelligen…

2011

Contains fulltext : 97437.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) BACKGROUND: The International Multi-centre ADHD Genetics (IMAGE) project with 11 participating centres from 7 European countries and Israel has collected a large behavioural and genetic database for present and future research. Behavioural data were collected from 1068 probands with ADHD and 1446 unselected siblings. The aim was to describe and analyse questionnaire data and IQ measures from all probands and siblings. In particular, to investigate the influence of age, gender, family status (proband vs. sibling), informant, and centres on sample homogeneity in psychopathological measures. METHODS: Conners' Questionnaires, St…