Nazionalismo, cosmopolitismo e provincialismo nella tradizione letteraria della Sardegna (secc. XV-XVIII).

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Il più antico catechismo in sardo

Il saggio fornisce l'edizione del più antico catechismo in sardo, redatto nella variante campidanese, che contiene le prime traduzioni dell’Ave Maria, del Credo e del Salve Regina, nonché la seconda, in ordine di tempo, del Padre Nostro, dopo quella del 1549 di Sigismondo Arquer. Vengono evidenziati i modelli testuali di riferimento e le principali caratteristiche linguistiche

Nuovi documenti per la storia della corruzione e dell’abigeato in Sardegna

Il saggio propone l’edizione dell’unico esemplare sopravvissuto (ad oggi) di una Bolla di composizione pubblicata per l’ultima volta in Sardegna nel 1773. Unitamente al testo si dà conto dell’intenso lavoro sviluppato dal ministro Bogino per porre fine a questo istituto che tutelava e promuoveva notevolmente i crimini di corruzione tipici della Pubblica Amministrazione. The essay proposes the edition of the only surviving copy (to date) of a Composition Bull last published in Sardinia in 1773. Together with the text it gives account of the intense work developed by Minister Bogino to put an end to this institute which greatly protected and promoted corruption crimes typical of the Public Administration

Il contatto linguistico e le conquiste della Sardegna: i fenomeni di lunga durata = Linguistic contact and the conquests of Sardinia: The longue durée phenomena

The essay analyses, trying to provide a new interpretation, three long durée phenomena that no conquest has altered: cantonalisation, bilingualism (multilingualism) and the dialectalization of Sardinian

Main features and control strategies to reduce overcrowding in emergency departments. A systematic review of the literature

Purpose: Overcrowding is a problem that affects emergency departments (ED) all over the world; it occurs due to a disproportion between user demand and the physical, human and structural resources available. Essential prerequisites to assessing and managing the phenomenon are its accurate measurement and an understanding of its impact. The objective of this systematic review is to identify the characteristics of the problem, analyzing the proposed strategies aimed at improving patient flow, delay in services provided and overcrowding of emergency departments. Methods: To achieve our objectives, a manual computerized search was performed in the bibliographic databases using as keywords “Emergency Department”, “Overcrowding”, “Emergency Room”, “Emergency Service”, “Emergency Unit”“,Emergency Ward”, “Emergency Outpatient Unit”, “Emergency Hospital”, “Crowding”, “Mass Gathering”, “Management” and “Comprehensive Health Care”. Two independent reviewers analyzed abstracts, titles and full text articles for admissibility, according to the selected inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results: The process lead to include 19 articles. It was possible to group the solutions proposed in five categories: work organization, investment in primary care, creation of new dedicated professional figures, work and structural modifications and implementation of predictive simulation models using mathematical algorithms. Conclusion: The most effective measures to guarantee an improvement in the flow of patients are represented by both improving the efficiency of human resources and by developing predictive mathematical models, regardless of the type of hospital and its location. Considering the complexity of EDs and the multiple characteristics of overcrowding and that the causes of crowding are different and site-specific, a careful examination of the specifics of each ED is necessary to identify improving fields

Inter-evaluator and Intra-evaluator Reliability of a Software Program Used to Extract Kinematic Variables Obtained by an Extremity-Mounted Inertial Measurement Unit System in Sound Horses at the Trot Under Soft and Hard Ground Conditions and Treadmill Exercise.

Objective: To assess the inter-evaluator and intra-evaluator reliability of a software program used to extract kinematic variables by a commercially available extremity-mounted inertial measurement unit system in sound horses at the trot under soft and hard ground conditions and treadmill exercise. Animals: Thirty adult, sound and healthy French Montagne stallions. Procedures: Data collection was performed with six IMUs strapped to the distal, metacarpal, metatarsal and tibial regions of every horse. Per surface (treadmill, soft and hard ground) 10 stallions were trotted three times. Prior to the analysis done by six evaluators (three experienced, three inexperienced) the data was blinded and copied three times. For every analysis a minimum of five strides had to be selected. To assess the intra- and inter-evaluator reliability a selection of gait variables was used to calculate intra and inter correlation coefficients (ICCs) as well as variance partitioning coefficients (VPCs). Results: All of the tested gait variables showed high levels of reliability. There was no mentionable difference considering the correlation coefficients between the intra and inter reliability as well as between the three different surfaces. VPCs showed that the factor horse is by far the most responsible for any appearing variance. The experience of the evaluator had no influence on the results. Conclusions and Clinical Relevance: The software program tested in this study has a high inter- and intra-evaluator reliability under the chosen conditions for the selected variables and acts independent of the ground situation and the experience of the evaluator. On the condition of a correct application it has the potential to become a clinically relevant and reliable gait analysis tool