La recherche en dehors de l’Université dans l’Italie des années soixante et soixante-dix : le cas des sciences sociales

Research outside the University in italy in the 1960s and 1970s : the case of the social sciences The Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (CNR) was created just after the First World War so that Italy could be represented in plans for new international organizations. Presided over by the mathematician Vito Volterra, the CNR was dedicated to the development of technological research. Confirmed in these priorities since the end of the war, considerable development occurred at the beginning of the 1960s under the presidency of Giovanni Polvani. The question of the place of the social sciences in the research university arose with urgency at this time. In particular, there was the question of the development of economic and administrative sciences. This interest appeared to bring together intellectuals and industrialists who, like Adriano Olivetti, had worked in the immediate post-war years to open the Italian debate to ideas being developed in other countries. At the initiative of the Olivetti Foundation, with the aid of American foundations, in particular the Ford Foundation, education and research institutes were created to train young people in social science research methodology, in order to « fertilize » the University training, which remained prisoner to theoretical and/or ideological debates. The CNR was considered an organization that could, by close liaison with the world of the university, to promote change from within universities. The opposition of academics was strong and caused serious obstacles to the development of cooperation between CNR's committees and the committees on social and political sciences created by the Olivetti and the Ford Foundations

Desarrollo de una aplicación mHealth para el relevamiento de datos sociosanitarios en el primer nivel de atención de la salud

En el primer nivel de atención de la salud se pueden abordar los problemas más frecuentes de la salud de las comunidades implementando estrategias de prevención basadas en el trabajo en el territorio. Los equipos de salud del primer nivel de atención generalmente recolectan datos de las visitas domiciliarias en planillas que suelen ser procesados de forma manual con lápiz y papel. Una complicación extra es la obtención de la ubicación de las familias en los mapas (georreferencia) en las urbanizaciones no planificadas, donde no hay calles sino pasillos, o las calles no tienen nombre ni las viviendas número, lo que dificulta programar futuras visitas en caso de ser necesario. En respuesta a este problema se desarrolló la aplicación mHealth RelevAr para los equipos de salud y para las organizaciones sociales que desarrollan actividades de prevención en el territorio. La misma está disponible para teléfonos móviles con sistema operativo Android de forma gratuita y permite la recolección de datos georreferenciados sin necesidad de acceso a internet. El uso de la aplicación Relevar en el registro de datos elimina la necesidad de utilización de planillas en papel, que provocan retrasos y errores en la transferencia de los datos a un formato digital para su procesamiento.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

Clinical features and outcomes of elderly hospitalised patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure or both

Background and objective: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart failure (HF) mutually increase the risk of being present in the same patient, especially if older. Whether or not this coexistence may be associated with a worse prognosis is debated. Therefore, employing data derived from the REPOSI register, we evaluated the clinical features and outcomes in a population of elderly patients admitted to internal medicine wards and having COPD, HF or COPD + HF. Methods: We measured socio-demographic and anthropometric characteristics, severity and prevalence of comorbidities, clinical and laboratory features during hospitalization, mood disorders, functional independence, drug prescriptions and discharge destination. The primary study outcome was the risk of death. Results: We considered 2,343 elderly hospitalized patients (median age 81 years), of whom 1,154 (49%) had COPD, 813 (35%) HF, and 376 (16%) COPD + HF. Patients with COPD + HF had different characteristics than those with COPD or HF, such as a higher prevalence of previous hospitalizations, comorbidities (especially chronic kidney disease), higher respiratory rate at admission and number of prescribed drugs. Patients with COPD + HF (hazard ratio HR 1.74, 95% confidence intervals CI 1.16-2.61) and patients with dementia (HR 1.75, 95% CI 1.06-2.90) had a higher risk of death at one year. The Kaplan-Meier curves showed a higher mortality risk in the group of patients with COPD + HF for all causes (p = 0.010), respiratory causes (p = 0.006), cardiovascular causes (p = 0.046) and respiratory plus cardiovascular causes (p = 0.009). Conclusion: In this real-life cohort of hospitalized elderly patients, the coexistence of COPD and HF significantly worsened prognosis at one year. This finding may help to better define the care needs of this population

AmericanInfluence on European Management Education: The Role of the Ford Foundation

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Sirinelli (Jean-François) - Génération intellectuelle. Khâgneux et normaliens dans l'entre-deux-guerres.

Gemelli Giuliana. Sirinelli (Jean-François) - Génération intellectuelle. Khâgneux et normaliens dans l'entre-deux-guerres.. In: Revue française de science politique, 39ᵉ année, n°4, 1989. pp. 589-590

Networks as drivers of Innovation and Scientific Integration. The Role of the Ford Foundation in the Late Sixties and early Seventies in B. Unfred and Altri. Transnational Networks in the 20th Century. Ideas and practices. Individuale and Organizations

The article analyses the grant- making policies of the Ford Foundation in generating excellence research network in social and political science

From Imitation to Competitive-Cooperation. Ford Foundation and Management Education in Western Europe (1950's-1970's), Vol. I

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Manlio Rossi Doria: imprenditore scientifico in un contesto inospitale

Il saggio ha come scopo quello di illustrare l'imprenditorialit\ue0 scientifica in un ambito usualmente trascurato dagli studi sul tema, quello delle scienze sociali. Il caso di studio prescelto riguarda un'istituzione il Centro di specializzazione e ricerche economiche-agrarie di Portici e il suo fondatore, l'imprenditore di idee e strategie scientifiche Manlio Rossi Dori