Riflessioni metodologiche relative a una ricerca empirica nei servizi educativi dell’Emilia-Romagna

In questo contributo si propone una riflessione critica sotto la lente metodologica di una ricerca conclusa e focalizzata sulle relazioni tra bambini e bambine dagli 0 ai 6 anni e di questi con gli adulti educativamente e affettivamente significativi presenti in famiglia e nei sevizi educativi e scolastici dell’Emilia-Romagna, secondo la prospettiva dell’educazione di genere. A partire da tale problema di ricerca il team interdisciplinare che ha ideato e sviluppato l’indagine si è posto numerosi interrogativi anche inerenti le scelte metodologiche da compiere. L’esigenza da un lato di ottenere risultati generalizzabili all’intera regione Emilia-Romagna (attraverso la messa a punto di un campione rappresentativo e l’impiego di approcci e strumenti quantitativi) e quella dall’altro di approfondire qualitativamente un tema sensibile come quello in oggetto hanno portato a scegliere un approccio mixed method con disegno sequenziale. Tale approccio misto ha riguardato sia la scelta e il modo di impiego degli strumenti, sia l’interpretazione dei dati

Dynamics and conceptual model of the Rossena castle landslide (Northern Apennines, Italy)

In the Northern Apennines there are many historical villages and castles, which are of great value and represent a cultural heritage of great importance. Their presence within a territory greatly affected by landslide hazards creates, in many circumstances, the need to solve problems of land management and to act for the preservation of historical monuments. </p><p style='line-height: 20px;'> This paper describe an interesting landslide, failed during the night of 28 February 2004, that involved the village of Rossena: the failure damaged the village (Fig.&nbsp;1), the road and the fields down to the stream but, fortunately, the castle just upslope the village was not involved at all. </p><p style='line-height: 20px;'> The 10th century massive castle of Rossena stands on the top of a cliff at about 500 m a.s.l., on the border between the provinces of Parma and Reggio Emilia, and it is surrounded by a small ancient village. The castle of Rossena is the best preserved stronghold of the Longobard times, enlarged and reinforced in the tenth century and partially rebuilt by Bonifacio, the father of Matilda of Canossa (the Vice-Queen of Italy and probably the most important woman in the Middle Ages) as a defensive structure guarding the Enza Valley. In addition, at Conossa, very close to Rossena, there was the meeting between Pope Gregory VII and the Emperor of Germany Henry IV, during the historical event known as 'fight for the investitures'. For these reasons, the area of Rossena is one of the most relevant from a historical point of view in the entire western part of the Emilia Romagna Region and it also has a high value as a geosite (Coratza et al., 2004). </p><p style='line-height: 20px;'>&nbsp;</p

Kriteriji za ocjenu sposobnosti za rad u zdravstvenih radnika inficiranih virusima hepatitisa B i C

The aim of this study was to propose a protocol for assessment of markers of infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in exposed health care professionals and to define criteria for evaluation of fitness for the job of the infected personnel. The study comprised 800 persons involved in operative procedures, including 414 surgeons, 275 nurses, and 111 anaesthetists. A graduated protocol was created for monitoring markers of HBV and HCV infection. A well-defined combination of markers of antigenantibody systems enabled identification of four groups of persons with HBV infection differing in fitness for work: 1) HBsAg-positive, HBeAgpositive, HBV DNA-positive; 2) HBsAg-positive, anti-HBe-positive, HBV DNA-positive; 3) HBsAgpositive, anti-HBe-positive, HBV DNA-negative; and 4) anti-HBs-positive, anti-HBc-positive, anti-HBe-positive group. For HCV infection, two groups with different job fitness were identified: 1) anti-HCV-positive, HCV RNA-negative and 2) anti-HCV-positive, HCV RNA-positive. Screening of hospital personnel at risk to HBV and HCV infection requires a well-defined protocol which may help to evaluate the fitness of the infected personnel for a specific job.U priopćenju je predložen stupnjevani protokol za procjenu pokazatelja infekcije virusom hepatitisa B (HBV) i virusom hepatitisa C (HCV) u profesionalno izloženih zdravstvenih radnika kao i za utvrđivanje kriterija za ocjenu sposobnosti za rad inficiranog osoblja. U istraživanju je obuhvaćeno 800 zdravstvenih radnika koji sudjeluju u operativnim zahvatima: 414 kirurga, 275 medicinskih sestara i 111 anesteziologa. Prema definiranim kombinacijama ispitivanih pokazatelja u sustavima antigen-antitijelo, ispitanici inficirani virusom hepatitisa B razvrstani su u četiri skupine s različitom sposobnošću za rad, prema ovim nalazima: 1) HBsAg pozitivan, HBeAg pozitivan, HBV DNK pozitivan; 2) HBsAg pozitivan, anti-HBe pozitivan, HBV DNK pozitivan; 3) HBsAg pozitivan, anti-HBe pozitivan, HBV DNK negativan; 4) anti-HBs pozitivan, anti-HBc pozitivan, anti-HBe pozitivan. Slično su razvrstane osobe inficirane virusom hepatitisa C u dvije skupine, prema ovim nalazima: 1) anti-HCV pozitivan, HCV RNK negativan; 2) anti-HCV pozitivan, HCV RNK pozitivan. Zaključeno je da, budući da u Italiji Služba medicine rada nema u nadležnosti nadzor medicinskog osoblja koje je u povećanom riziku od infekcije HBV-om i HCV-om, valja usvojiti jasno definirani protokol za utvrđivanje pokazatelja infekcije u profesionalno izloženih osoba. Takav protokol mogao bi poslužiti za donošenje kriterija za ocjenu sposobnosti za rad inficiranog osoblja

DEBRIS FLOWS IN VAL PARMA AND VAL BAGANZA (NORTHERN APENNINES) DURING THE 12-13TH OCTOBER 2014 ALLUVIAL EVENT IN PARMA PROVINCE (ITALY)

During the 13 October 2014 rainstorm event that affected the Val Parma and Val Baganza area, several debris flows affected the Mt. Cervellino relief (northern Apennines, Italy), causing severe and widespread damages to check-dams, roads and other infrastructures. Such event, together with the Piacenza province event of 2015, has generated the perception of debris flows as a breaking new potential cause of widespread damages in the Emilia-Romagna. The meteorological event of October 2014, reconstructed by means of rain gauges and radar data, reached intensities as high as 80 mm/hour, which is well above any debris flow triggering thresholds presented in literature. However, data show that debris flows have occurred in any location where 30 mm/hour were exceeded. The result was the occurrence of tens of debris flows, which were triggered in zones of failure of slope debris coverage along the streams, and that remobilized and scoured debris along the track and destroyed several check dams and damaged roads that were overflown by debris. This paper is aimed to document the distribution and characteristics of the debris flow events that occurred during such event. By doing so, it also warns against this potentially destructive events that, in a changing meteorological framework, might result much more frequent and widespread than expected also in the northern Apennines

Investigation and monitoring in support of the structural mitigation of large slow moving landslides: an example from Ca' Lita (Northern Apennines, Reggio Emilia, Italy)

International audienceThe Ca' Lita landslide is a large and deep-seated mass movement located in the Secchia River Valley, in the sector of the Northern Apennines falling into Reggio Emilia Province, about 70 km west of Bologna (Northern Italy). It consists of a composite landslide system that affects Cretaceous to Eocene flysch rock masses and chaotic complexes. Many of the components making up the landslide system have resumed activity between 2002 and 2004, and are now threatening some hamlets and an important road serving the upper watershed area of River Secchia, where many villages and key industrial facilities are located. This paper presents the analysis and the quantification of displacement rates and depths of the mass movements, based on geological and geomorphological surveys, differential DEM analysis, interpretation of underground stratigraphic and monitoring data collected during the investigation campaign that has been undertaken in order to design cost-effective mitigation structures, and that has been conducted with the joint collaboration between public offices and research institutes

A wireless crackmeters network for the analysis of rock falls at the Pietra di Bismantova natural heritage site (Northern Apennines, Italy)

The Pietra di Bismantova (Northern Apennines, Italy) is a large calcareous sandstone rock slab which is distinctively bordered by sub-vertical cliffs that are affected by rock falls, a risk for people visiting the area and for key assets located at the foot of this natural heritage site. A wireless sensor network based on wireless nodes, crack meters and thermometers has been made operative in January 2015 in order to study the response of fractures to changing environmental conditions and support the spatial and temporal zonation of rock fall hazard in this natural heritage site. Results from the first eight months of monitoring show that intense snowfall and low temperatures can determine short-term pulses of fracture opening while the increase of temperature throughout summer determines long-term fracture closing trends. Moreover, as soon as February 2015 one of the crack meters monitored the rapid trend of crack opening that occurred prior to the failure of a large rock slab of about 200 cubic meters

Toward a centralized data management center for integrated landslide monitoring in Emilia Romagna Region (Italy)

In Emilia Romagna Region, slope monitoring systems have become more widely used for hazard and risk management. However, they are generally non-interoperable. Moreover dispersion of monitoring data in several local databases have made data sharing among the involved institutional actors quite laborious and often untimely. A centralized database and a web-based portal that integrate infor- mation derived by different types of slope monitoring systems has been developed. The paper illustrates the specific features of the developed “SensorNet” and provides examples of its use for visualizing and analyzing in an integrated manner data from different monitoring systems. In perspective it could serve as an every-day operational tool for a timely reporting of landslide monitoring data for surveillance and warning purposes

Unusual becoming Usual: recent persistent-rainstorm events and their implications for debris flow risk management in the northern Apennines of Italy

The alluvial events of Parma (13 October 2014) and Piacenza (13-14 September 2015) in the northern Apennines of Italy have had significant effects in terms of flooding and morphological changes along the main and secondary rivers of the affected areas. The paper presents a summary of the characteristics of the rainstorm events, as well as of the triggered debris flows and their consequences on infrastructures. In the perspective of an extremization of rainfall regimes as a consequence of ongoing climate changes, these phenomena might become quite usual in the future and should be further studied in order to define regional-specific triggering thresholds, analyse precursors from weather radar datasets and assess susceptibility on a regional scale basis

El macrolenguaje del derecho italiano

In this article we define legal language as a macrolanguage of law, as a play on words to refer to a reality which is made, quantitatively, by a multiplicity of linguistic characteristics and, qualitatively, by the heterogeneity of the sector. In fact, in its macrostructure coexist different types of languages (normative, administrative, ordinary, jurisprudential, notarial, judicial, etc.) and in its microstructure, on the one hand, coexist the language of public and private law (civil, criminal, commercial, etc.), and on the other, the language of national and community rights, without taking into account all the influences coming from other disciplines (economic, technical, bio-sanitary, etc.). Therefore, when we talk about macrolanguage of law we use two terms that in themselves represent two systems that are giving life to a reality that survives and is nourished thanks to the rules of the first (language) and the contents and structures of the second (law). This article aims to merge previous studies on the Italian legal language, still current, with the linguistic elements extracted from a more contemporary corpus of legal texts relating to different textual typologies (regulatory, judicial and administrative texts). As a result of this study, we propose two compilation schemes in which we try to present the main lexical-semantic and morphosyntactic characteristics of the macrolanguage of Italian law.En este artículo definimos el lenguaje jurídico como un macrolenguaje del derecho, como juego de palabras para referirnos a una realidad caracterizada, cuantitativamente, por una multiplicidad de características lingüísticas y, cualitativamente, por la heterogeneidad del sector. De hecho, en su macroestructura conviven distintos tipos de lenguajes (normativo, administrativo, ordinario, jurisprudencial, notarial, judicial, etc.) y en su microestructura confluyen, por un lado, el lenguaje del derecho público y privado (civil, penal, mercantil, etc.), y por otro, el lenguaje de los derechos nacional y comunitario, sin contar todas las influencias procedentes de disciplinas adyacentes (económicas, técnicas, biosanitarias, etc.). Por ende, cuando hablamos de macrolenguaje del derecho utilizamos dos términos que en sí mismos representan dos sistemas que se encuentran dando vida a una realidad que sobrevive y se nutre gracias a las reglas del primero (lenguaje) y a los contenidos y estructuras del segundo (derecho). El presente artículo pretende fusionar estudios anteriores sobre el lenguaje jurídico italiano, todavía actuales, con los elementos lingüísticos extraídos de un corpus más contemporáneo de textos jurídicos relativos a diferentes tipologías textuales (textos normativos, judiciales y administrativos). Como resultado de este estudio, proponemos dos esquemas recopilatorios en los que intentamos presentar las principales características léxico-semánticas y morfosintácticas del macrolenguaje del derecho italiano