Impact of COVID-19 emergency on the psychological well-being of susceptible individuals

The current pandemic has exerted an unprecedented psychological impact on the world population, and its effects on mental health are a growing concern. The present study aims to evaluate psychological well-being (PWB) during the COVID-19 crisis in university workers with one or more diseases likely to increase the risk of severe outcomes in the event of SARS-CoV-2 infection, defined as susceptible. 210 susceptible employees of an Italian University (aged 25-71 years) were recruited during the COVID-19 second wave (October-December 2020). A group comprising 90 healthy university employees (aged 26-69 years) was also recruited. The self-report Psychological General Well Being Index (PGWBI) was used to assess global PWB and the influence on six sub-domains: anxiety, depressed mood, positive well-being, self-control, general health, and vitality. We applied non-linear dimension-reduction techniques and regression methods to 45 variables in order to assess the main demographic, occupational, and general-health-related factors predicting PWB during the COVID-19 crisis. PGWBI score was higher in susceptible than in healthy workers, both as total score (mean 77.8 vs 71.3) and across almost all subscales. Age and jobs involving high social interaction before the pandemic were inversely associated with the PWB total score, general health, and self-control subscores. The current data suggest no decline in PWB during the second wave of COVID-19 health emergency in susceptible individuals of working age. Critically, higher risk for mental-health issues appears to be inversely related to age, particularly among individuals deprived of their previous level of social interaction at work

Pandemic and right to university study in prison

The article n°34 of the Italian Constitution establishes that the school is open to all, without any reference to the personal conditions of the student that can be deprived of his freedom.This right to education is inviolable.The education is an es- sential element to reach the re-educational function of the sentence.The article n°17 of the Norms for the Penitentiary Sy- stem establishes the important role of the in the external community and of private and public subjects to help in re-educating and re-socializing prisoners. In normal conditions there are often contradictions between the principle and the reality of prison condition so in a condition of crisis such as the covid-19 pandemic there is a high risk to break important achievements in this part. Our article starts from thoughts on the right to study in prison and on the history of Criminology’s attention to the treatment of the offender and from studies on the sector of sentence execution.Then our article presents the results of surveys carried out by the National Conference of Delegates of Rectors for the Prison University Centers at the prison facilities where they are established, during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Essere Genitori In Carcere

Being an inmate in prison is an experience that implies emotional, relational and cultural isolation. This contributes to the damage on family relationships. Maintaining social relationships with restrictions implied by the detention is not easy. In literature is shown that the sentence execution has effects on the fundamental right of personality protection and parenting. Parents often experience a feeling of failure and inadequacy because the detention prevent from practicing and experiencing the parenting. The inter-relation between family dynamics and phases of the sentence execution are extremely complex. The former represent a critic moment for the inmate but also for their family. According to the authors practicing and safeguarding the parenting of inmates are important additional values for the programs of re-education and treatment of inmates

Progress of tool condition monitoring in drilling

The capability of drill status monitoring has a strong economic potential, since large benefits can be obtained when exploiting tools up to their real end-of-life; this can be done once the decay mechanism is clearly defined and understood. A large amount of research activities has been devoted so far in the last decades, particularly for drilling operations, since tool management, usually, relies on a conservative evaluation of tool-life, because of the empirical approach in evaluating the effects of failure mechanisms bringing to sudden failures or decay; this fact leads to an unnecessarily high number of changes and to increase of cost impacts. For this reasons, particularly in automated production systems, efforts in research should be devoted on the measurement of drill-status, which reflects directly on surface features and indirectly on the quality of the holes manufactured. This paper presents a benchmark of a large number of existing drill-decay measurement techniques (DDMT) proposed so far in scientific papers and contributions, providing an up-to-date analysis of main factors which characterized the applicability of DDMT to automated production systems as well as the pro and cons of principal technologies available. The outcome of the work is thus a technical requirement specification useful to provide new hints for realising a reliable wear monitoring system for drilling operations, potentially applicable to automated production system

Environmental benchmarking analysis using AHP: spreading best practices between italian and albanian SME'S

The article presents the results of an environmental benchmarking activity performed within the ADA project "positive actions for the diffusion of good environmental practices in Albania" financed within the INTERREG UE program. After an initial analysis of the state of the art in Albania on environmental benchmarking analysis is described whthin a selected sample. A new benchmarking model was adapted to this aim for the diffusion of good environmental practices in Albania. The model use was supported by the AHP, for prioritizing the perceptions of stakeholders on their relative severity of environmental routines