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Robotic and virtual World Programming labs to Stimulate Reasoning and visual-spatial Abilities
2013
Abstract The individuals’ cognitive skills, academic performance and their relationship with programming of robots or virtual learning environment is a topic of particular interest in the area of human-robot interaction. This paper presents a pilot study performed on a group of 36 lower secondary school students involved in a 32-hours laboratory based on the combination of LEGO Mindstorm NXT and Microsoft Kodu Game Lab (KGL) and aimed at programming first a robot and further a more complete virtual world based on a narrative-designed scenario. The findings of the research will be discussed in the light of the effectiveness of using robotics and virtual world programming as a meaningful and …
The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and intention to get vaccinated. The serial mediation roles of existential anxiety and conspiracy beliefs
2021
Abstract Today, we witness the progress toward global COVID-19 vaccinations organized by countries worldwide. Experts say a mass vaccination plan is the only effective antidote against the spread of SARS-COV-2. However, a part of the world population refuses vaccination. The present study aimed to understand the impact of some individual variables on the intention to get vaccinated. Through a serial mediation model, we tested the influence of fear of COVID-19 on the intention to get vaccinated and the serial mediating effect of existential anxiety and conspiracy beliefs. Via a cross-sectional design this research was conducted with the participation of 223 French adults (Female: 69.5%; Male…
Come è piccolo il mondo in rete: una ipotesi small-world sulla topologia di Facebook
2010
Il contributo descrive una prima ipotesi di modellizzazione della struttura comunicativa e sociale di Facebook, effettuata assimilando tale network sociale a una rete con topologia small-world di tipo scale free. La topologia small-world presenta una struttura analoga alle strutture dei sistemi biologici e sociali, alle reti di associazioni tra idee e concetti e ad alcuni network artificiali (quali internet e le rotte aeree), e consente di spiegare l’evoluzione di questi sistemi in termini di aggiunta, rimozione e modifica di parti. Per testare la nostra ipotesi abbiamo analizzato i profili di 1001 utenti Facebook selezionati su base volontaria (F = 70%; M = 30%; età media = 25.5; DS = 7.0;…
Come è piccolo il mondo in rete: una ipotesi small-world sulla topologia di Facebook
2009
In questo lavoro viene presentata una prima ipotesi di modellizzazione della struttura comunicativa e sociale di Facebook a partire dalle risposte fornite da un totale di 1001 utenti Facebook ad un questionario di self-report 1 appositamente predisposto. Oltre a fornire una serie di elementi sui meccanismi cognitivi, comunicativi e sociali nonché sulle motivazioni all’uso di Facebook, i suddetti dati hanno offerto la possibilità di verificare se la struttura topologica di Facebook può essere assimilabile ad una rete small-world.
Intelligence and Courage for the Development of Family Business. Theory, Practice, Policy.
2011
Filippo Meda entre neutralisme et interventionnisme. L'activité parlementaire durant les années de la"Grande guerre"
2015
Filippo Meda (Milan 1869-1939), lawyer, journalist and leading member of the Lombard Catholic movement, was the first Catholic deputy to enter the Parliament in the Kingdom of Italy. Elected for the first time in 1909, re-elected in 1913, 1919 and 1921, was minister of finance during the government of national unity, under the leadership of Paolo Boselli, and during the following government under Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. At the beginning of World War I, Meda opted for neutrality, but soon he changed his position for strictly political reasons. During his parliamentary and governmental terms, his thoughts, his writings and his speeches took part in the long debate about the crisis of the I…
Pensieri sulla democrazia: Res Publica (Parigi 1945-1947) e il dibattito politico-istituzionale all'indomani della seconda Guerra mondiale
2014
The international journal Res Publica, founded in Bruxelles in 1931 - under the impulse of Luigi Sturzo - by Francesco Luigi Ferrari, formidable opponent of fascist regime, in 1933 suspended its publications after its young founder's premature death. According to Ferrari and Sturzo, Res publica represented the instrument to spread democratic culture and to allow Italian people, as soon as they got rid of Fascist dictatorship, to renovate institutions. In October 1945, Res publica resumed publications with renewed goals. The end of war, of Nazism, of fascism, encouraged editors to reclaim European Union, federalism, spirit of brotherhood and international peace. The essay aims to analize the…
Mafiosi, politici, pentiti
2007
La ricerca sociologica in tema di criminalità organizzata di tipo mafioso, si caratterizza per un vuoto teorico che riguarda la figura dei collaboratori di giustizia. Personaggi ingombranti per tutti – per i magistrati, per i politici, per i mafiosi irriducibili, per i loro stessi familiari – sembra che per gli ex-uomini d’onore non vi siano possibilità di reinserimento in una condizione di vita normale. Nonostante la loro riconosciuta utilità, difficilmente si riesce a non considerarli ancora come mafiosi e a non nutrire nei loro confronti perplessità e sospetti. Questo, e altro, emerge dai risultati di una indagine sulla percezione sociale dei collaboratori di giustizia in Sicilia, che me…
Benralizumab Effectiveness in Severe Eosinophilic Asthma with and without Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps: A Real-World Multicenter Study
2021
Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) affects around 60% of patients with severe eosinophilic asthma (SEA). Benralizumab was recently approved for SEA add-on treatment. Objective: To assess the real-world effectiveness of benralizumab in SEA with or without CRSwNP. Methods: We conducted a multicenter observational study, including patients with SEA treated with benralizumab for 24 weeks in 12 Italian specialized facilities. Asthma exacerbations, Asthma Control Test (ACT), lung function, oral corticosteroid (OCS) dosage, and eosinophil and basophil count in peripheral blood were recorded at baseline and after 4, 12, and 24 weeks. The 22-item Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (S…
An Introduction to Maltreatment of Institutionalized Children
2017
This chapter serves as an introduction to the concept of maltreatment of children and provides a very brief overview of published research that has been pivotal in the development of defining and describing this concept. First, we provide an understanding of how maltreatment has been defined historically and how definitions have changed over time, leading to current definitions used by researchers and child welfare organizations. Maltreatment is also described within the context of trauma and sociocultural issues that are associated with it. We also provide a brief review of the consequences of various types of childhood maltreatment on biological, psychological, academic, and social functi…