Search results for "working"

Training of Attention in Children With Low Arithmetical Achievement

2014

This study focuses on the role of attentional processes in arithmetical skills and examines if training of basic attentive skills may improve also working memory abilities reducing arithmetic difficulties. In order to study the efficacy of attentional treatment in arithmetic achievement and in enhancing working memory abilities a test-treatment-retest quasi experimental design was adopted. The research involved 14 children, attending fourth and fifth grades, with Arithmetical Learning Disabilities (ALD) assigned to experimental and control conditions. The numerical comprehension and calculation processes were assessed using the ABCA battery (Lucangeli, Tressoldi, & Fiore, 1998). Attenti…

The assessment and training of working memory for prevention and early intervention in case of reading, writing and arithmetical difficulties in chil…

2010

Metamemoria

2019

La memoria ha una rilevanza indiscutibile nei processi di apprendimento, in quanto ci permette di assimilare, ritenere e richiamare ciò che abbiamo appreso tramite l’esperienza e, su questa base, organizzare le nuove informazioni e conoscenze. In particolare, la memoria di lavoro (ML), in stretta connessione con quella a breve termine, ci permette di usare le informazioni immagazzinate temporaneamente per l’esecuzione di compiti cognitivi complessi. La ricerca ha inoltre dimostrato che buoni livelli di ML si correlano a un apprendimento efficace.Rivolto a bambini e ragazzi dai 6 ai 13 anni, Metamemoria rappresenta una proposta efficace e accattivante per il potenziamento della memoria nelle…

Working memory e jumping to conclusions

2017

Differenti studi hanno riscontrato nei pazienti con diagnosi di disturbo psicotico una diffusa compromissione delle funzioni esecutive, in particolare della Working Memory, e una tendenza a prendere decisioni rapidamente dovuta ad errori nel processamento di raccolta delle informazioni presenti nel contesto (Jumping To Conclusion, JTC). Obiettivo del presente studio é quello indagare la presenza di una possibile correlazione tra Working Memory e Jumping To Conclusions in un campione di pazienti al primo episodio psicotico. Per il presente studio sono stati valutati 41 pazienti all’esordio psicotico (58,5% M), di età media 29,63 (DS=10,285) e 89 controlli sani (47,2% M), di età media 33,31 (…

Enhancing repopulation in a decaying historical neighborhood through collaborative networking: A Dynamic Performance Governance approach

2022

Historic centers, as the internationally recognized heritage of the cities, and among the most valuable assets in urban Italy, have been underutilized, devitalized, and wasted (Pellegrini & Micelli, 2019). In fact, urban degradation has been pervasive and remaining also in other industrialized countries (Serrano et al., 2016). Many historic centers have been affected by urban deterioration and depopulation for the past two centuries (Pough & Wan, 2007), and the problem persists today. This research underlines the importance of employing a collaborative governance perspective in designing policies, in terms of not only fostering effective local governments' agendas but also promote active ci…

The Legal Framework Behind Biocultural Rights. An Analysis of their Pros and Cons for Indigenous Peoples and for Local Communities

2022

The idea of biocultural rights strives to address the overall issues of indigenous peoples and local communities in relation to the environment and to conflate together the different rights needed to promote their self-government and conservation of cultural identity. Indeed, biocultural rights place themselves in the Anthropocene debate as powerful tools able to provide answers to both human rights and environmental issues. But their environmental focus might raise some issues. This chapter will explore the pros and cons of choosing the path of claiming biocultural rights for, separately, indigenous peoples and local communities. They appear, in fact, as different subjects in international…

Competenze professionali e smart working: il caso della Regione Siciliana

2021

The contribution focuses on the analysis of the distribution of skills in the Sicilian Region and the effects of smart working. The objective are: 1) the analysis of the distribution of implicit competences; 2) the evaluation they themselves attribute to the quality of these competences; 3) the relationship existing between these competences, the awareness of them, the evaluation of them and SW.

Does SARS-CoV-2 Trigger Stress-InducedAutoimmunity by Molecular Mimicry? A Hypothesis.

2020

Viruses can generate molecular mimicry phenomena within their hosts. Why shouldsevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) not be considered one of these?Information in this short review suggests that it might be so and, thus, encourages research aimingat testing this possibility. We propose, as a working hypothesis, that the virus induces antibodiesand that some of them crossreact with host’s antigens, thus eliciting autoimmune phenomena withdevasting consequences in various tissues and organs. If confirmed, by in vitro and in vivo tests,this could drive researchers to find effective treatments against the virus.

Iconic framework for cooperative coding

2018

The description of an innovative framework built on top of Web-based visual programming environment is the primary aim of this contribution. In the last decade, many frameworks oriented to visual languages have been introduced in literature to improve the skill on programming languages, but at the best of our knowledge, no framework has been specially designed to support collaborative work on heterogeneous distributed environments. Therefore, SIRENE introduces a new framework in which beginners and experts can cooperate to develop algorithms by using a visual and iconic paradigm. Students, in the classroom or connected from everywhere, can be involved into the definition of the algorithm, c…

The effects of using participatory working time scheduling software on working hour characteristics and wellbeing : a quasi-experimental study of irr…

2020

Background: Studies in the health care sector indicate that good work time control is associated with better perceived wellbeing but also with non-ergonomic work schedules, such as compressed work schedules. Participatory working time scheduling is a collaborative approach to scheduling shift work. Currently, there is a lack of information on whether working hour characteristics and employees' wellbeing in irregular shift work change after implementing participatory working time scheduling. Objective: To investigate the effects of using digital participatory working time scheduling software on working hour characteristics and well-being among Finnish hospital employees. Participants and met…