Psychometric test for blind adults and children, critical issues and perspectives

In literature a paucity of issues to measure cognitive functioning in the blinds is available (Rich, Anderson, 1965; Pichot, 1968; Newland, 1969; Vander Kolk, 1977; Nelson, Joyce, Dias, 2002) but in these reviews it is clear that they are not yet widely available without further support for research and development. This is particularly true for blind children. The purpose of the current study is to provide a proposal version of some of the Visual Performance Subtests adapted to blind children

Estudio de la inteligencia y habilidades emprendedoras en líderes políticos y sociales. Casos de éxito en Extremadura (España)

. The present work tries to analyze the relation that exists between the intelligences and the entrepreneurial abilities of influential leaders in the society. We study different cases of success of people from the region of Extremadura (Spain) who are and have been responsible in different social areas. The results will allow you to know in detail your personal profiles to see how they affect your skills, and how they can influence the decision making that affect your environmen

A psicobiologia do autismo. Reflexão sobre promessas terapêuticas

This study relies on the systematic review of approximately fifty scientific articles on autism, allowing us to consider still a lot to explore in this sensitive matter, as the literature indicates. However, the vital importance of the oxytocin system and vasopressin is fundamentally recognized. We also emphasize the reinforcement of the therapeutic success verified with therapies such as music therapy, theater and therapies of training of emotions and expression of affectivit

Un modelo genetico-ambiental para un estudio prospectivo del estado de salud de los ciudadanos italianos en la Argentina Parte 1. Descripción del método y estadísticas generales sobre poblaciones

The project is born from the hypothesis, today quite accredited, that many diseases are the result of the interaction of genetic and environmental factors.From this hypothesis is born the idea of studying through a natural model the different impact that the environment can have on the modification of the natural history of some diseases. The natural model that most easily meets the methodological requirement is that of the emigrated population and established in an environment very different from that of origin. In a quick analysis emerges that the model of the Italians emigrated to Argentina can respond to this pretension: environment and seasons inverted, different food lifestyle, diverse social structure, low rate of return, significant migratory flow between the years 1920 and 1960 which guarantees a sufficiently long environmental exposure perio

Attività internazionali di ricerca tra Ucadh-Sapienza-ISalud

In questo articolo vengono descritte le recenti attività di ricerca internazionale attivate tra UCADH, Sapienza e Isalud rivolte alle buone pratiche e indicazioni per quanto riguarda il “patient empowerment” e l’uso delle tecnologie, nell’ottica tracciata dai vent’anni di tradizione scientifica realizzata dai precedenti progetti Colombo 2000, COMOESTAS e ALFAFUNDA Enfermeria. In questi recenti studi è presente in maniera molto importante l’uso della tecnologia Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sia per la formazione a distanza sia per la formulazione/sperimentazione di modelli per la gestione efficace, sostenibile ed equa delle risorse dedicate all’Health Care Management

On Suggesting Entities as Web Search Queries

The Web of Data is growing in popularity and dimension, and named entity exploitation is gaining importance in many research fields. In this paper, we explore the use of entities that can be extracted from a query log to enhance query recommendation. In particular, we extend a state-of-the-art recommendation algorithm to take into account the semantic information associated with submitted queries. Our novel method generates highly related and diversified suggestions that we as- sess by means of a new evaluation technique. The manually annotated dataset used for performance comparisons has been made available to the research community to favor the repeatability of experiments

Learning Micromanipulation, Part 1: An Approach Based on Multidimensional Ability Inventories and Text Mining.

In the last decades, an effort has been made to improve the efficiency of high-level and academic education players. Nowadays, students’ preferences and habits are continuously evolving and so the educational institutions deal with important challenges, such as not losing attractiveness or preventing early abandonment during the programs. In many countries, some important universities are public, and so they receive national grants that are based on a variety of factors, on which the teaching efficiency has a great impact. This contribution presents a method to improve students commitment during traditional lessons and laboratory tests. The idea consists in planning some activities according to the students’ learning preferences, which were studied by means of two different approaches. The first one was based on Gardner’s multiple intelligence inventory, which is useful to highlight some peculiar characteristics of the students on the specific educational field. In the second method, direct interviews, voice recognition, and text mining were used to extract some interesting characteristics of the group of students who participated in the projects. The methods were applied in May 2018 to the students attending the course of Micro-Nano Sensors and Actuators for the postgraduate academic program dedicated to Industrial Nanotechnologies Engineering of the University of Rome La Sapienza. The present paper represents the first part of the investigation and it is dedicated essentially to the adopted methods. The second part of the work is presented in the companion paper dedicated to the presentation of the practical project that the students completed before the exam

The Wocah Project. A innovative Web-based System for the Study of Headache in Children and Adolescents. A Preliminary Study of Methodological Issues.

Our aim is to take account of the methodogical opportunities offered by a web-based model for of the study of epidemiology features of headache in a large population of children and adolescents from multiple countries all over the world, taking into account the co-occurring comorbid conditions and the correlations with disability