Benessere psicologico e regolazione emotiva all’università: emergenza soggettiva e comunitaria

La sensibilizzazione e la formazione delle diverse componenti della comunità universitaria sul tema del diritto allo studio con pari opportunità e dell’inclusione piena degli studenti con situazioni di disagio costituisce al contempo un traguardo e uno strumento strategico di sviluppo nella direzione della qualità di sistema. A questo proposito, è fondamentale privilegiare interventi volti a sostenere la dignità personale, il successo formativo e l’autonomia dello studente. Scopo di questo studio è stato quello di valutare la relazione tra la presenza/rischio/assenza di Disturbi Specifici dell’Apprendimento (DSA) e l’ansia di stato e di tratto, il benessere psicologico percepito e la difficoltà nella regolazione emotiva in un campione di studenti universitari composto da 593 soggetti di età compresa tra 16 e 64 anni, al fine di promuovere l’accesso alla formazione, in ottica inclusiva e -dunque- rispettosa nonché valorizzante delle diversità, nella convinzione che la conoscenza, la cultura superiore e la partecipazione alla ricerca favoriscano il pieno sviluppo umano, l’ingresso nel mondo del lavoro e una comprensione favorevole ad una buona qualità di vita. I risultati mostrano correlazioni significative e positive con le due scale della STAI (r = 0.340; p < .05) (r = 0.405; p < .001); nelle scale del PWB la correlazione è significativa e negativa per la scala del Controllo Ambientale (r = -0.126; p < .01); nelle scale della DERS si osserva una correlazione significativa e positiva tra l’aumentare del rischio DSA e una scala relativa alla mancata comprensione della risposta emotiva (Clarity r = 0.086; p < .05). Concludendo, all’aumentare del rischio DSA si evidenziano significativi aumenti degli indici dell’ansia di stato e di tratto; una maggiore difficoltà nel comprendere le proprie risposte emotive mentre diminuiscono i punteggi relativi al controllo dell’ambiente circostante.Awareness and training of the different components of university community on the issue of the right to education, with equal opportunities and full inclusion, of students in situations of distress is at the same time a goal and a strategic tool in the development of system quality. In this regard, it is important to favor interventions aimed to supporting students’ personal dignity, educational success and autonomy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between presence/risk/absence of Specific Learning Disability (SLD) and the state and trait anxiety, perceived psychological well-being and difficulty in emotional regulation, in order to promote access to training, in an inclusive perspective of respect and appreciation of diversity. Knowledge, higher culture and participation in research foster full human development, participation in employment and a favorable understanding of a good life quality. The analysis focused on a sample of university students consisting of 593 subjects between 16 and 64 years of age. The results show significant and positive correlations with the two STAI scales (r = 0.340; p <.05) (r = 0.405; p <.001); in PWB scales correlation is significant and negative for Environmental Control scale (r = -0.126; p <.01); in DERS scales we observe a significant and positive correlation between the increase in SLD risk and a scale related to the failure to understand emotional response (Clarity r = 0.086; p <.05). In conclusion, when SLD risk increases, significant increases in state and trait anxiety indices occur, as well as a greater difficulty in understanding one's emotional responses, while decreasing the scores related to surrounding environment control

Prosody and synchronization in cognitive neuroscience

We introduce our methodological study with a short review of the main literature on embodied language, including some recent studies in neuroscience. We investigated this component of natural language using Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA). RQA is a relatively new statistical methodology, particularly effective in complex systems. RQA provided a reliable quantitative description of recurrences in text sequences at the orthographic level. In order to provide examples of the potential impact of this methodology, we used RQA to measure structural coupling and synchronization in natural and clinical verbal interactions. Results show the efficacy of this methodology and possible implications

PixFEL: development of an X-ray diffraction imager for future FEL applications

A readout chip for diffraction imaging applications at new generation X-ray FELs (Free Electron Lasers) has been designed in a 65 nm CMOS technology. It consists of a 32 × 32 matrix, with square pixels and a pixel pitch of 110 µm. Each cell includes a low-noise charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) with dynamic signal compression, covering an input dynamic range from 1 to 104 photons and featuring single photon resolution at small signals at energies from 1 to 10 keV. The CSA output is processed by a time-variant shaper performing gated integration and correlated double sampling. Each pixel includes also a small area, low power 10-bit time-interleaved Successive Approximation Register (SAR) ADC for in-pixel digitization of the amplitude measurement. The channel can be operated at rates up to 4.5 MHz, to be compliant with the rates foreseen for future X-ray FEL machines. The ASIC has been designed in order to be bump bonded to a slim/active edge pixel sensor, in order to build the first demonstrator for the PixFEL (advanced X-ray PIXel cameras at FELs) imager

The track finding algorithm of the Belle II vertex detectors

The Belle II experiment is a high energy multi purpose particle detector operated at the asymmetric e+e-- collier SuperKEKB in Tsukuba (Japan). In this work we describe the algorithm performing the pattern recognition for inner tracking detector which consists of two layers of pixel detectors and four layers of double sided silicon strip detectors arranged around the interaction region. The track finding algorithm will be used both during the High Level Trigger on-line track reconstruction and during the off-line full reconstruction. It must provide good efficiency down to momenta as low as 50 MeV/c where material effects are sizeable even in an extremely thin detector as the VXD. In addition it has to be able to cope with the high occupancy of the Belle II detectors due to the background. The underlying concept of the track finding algorithm, as well as details of the implementation are outlined. The algorithm is proven to run with good performance on simulated Y (4S) â\u86\u92 BB events with an efficiency for reconstructing tracks of above 90% over a wide range of momentum

Acute Delta Hepatitis in Italy spanning three decades (1991–2019): Evidence for the effectiveness of the hepatitis B vaccination campaign

Updated incidence data of acute Delta virus hepatitis (HDV) are lacking worldwide. Our aim was to evaluate incidence of and risk factors for acute HDV in Italy after the introduction of the compulsory vaccination against hepatitis B virus (HBV) in 1991. Data were obtained from the National Surveillance System of acute viral hepatitis (SEIEVA). Independent predictors of HDV were assessed by logistic-regression analysis. The incidence of acute HDV per 1-million population declined from 3.2 cases in 1987 to 0.04 in 2019, parallel to that of acute HBV per 100,000 from 10.0 to 0.39 cases during the same period. The median age of cases increased from 27 years in the decade 1991-1999 to 44 years in the decade 2010-2019 (p &lt; .001). Over the same period, the male/female ratio decreased from 3.8 to 2.1, the proportion of coinfections increased from 55% to 75% (p = .003) and that of HBsAg positive acute hepatitis tested for by IgM anti-HDV linearly decreased from 50.1% to 34.1% (p &lt; .001). People born abroad accounted for 24.6% of cases in 2004-2010 and 32.1% in 2011-2019. In the period 2010-2019, risky sexual behaviour (O.R. 4.2; 95%CI: 1.4-12.8) was the sole independent predictor of acute HDV; conversely intravenous drug use was no longer associated (O.R. 1.25; 95%CI: 0.15-10.22) with this. In conclusion, HBV vaccination was an effective measure to control acute HDV. Intravenous drug use is no longer an efficient mode of HDV spread. Testing for IgM-anti HDV is a grey area requiring alert. Acute HDV in foreigners should be monitored in the years to come

Bottomonium spectroscopy and radiative transitions involving the chi(bJ)(1P, 2P) states at BABAR

We use (121 +/- 1) million Upsilon(3S) and (98 +/- 1) million Upsilon(2S) mesons recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e(+)e(-) collider at SLAC to perform a study of radiative transitions involving the chi(bJ)(1P, 2P) states in exclusive decays with mu(+)mu(-)gamma gamma final states. We reconstruct twelve channels in four cascades using two complementary methods. In the first we identify both signal photon candidates in the electromagnetic calorimeter (EMC), employ a calorimeter timing-based technique to reduce backgrounds, and determine branching-ratio products and fine mass splittings. These results include the best observational significance yet for the chi(b0)(2P) -> gamma Upsilon(2S) and chi(b0)(1P) -> gamma Upsilon(1S) transitions. In the second method, we identify one photon candidate in the EMC and one which has converted into an e(+)e(-) pair due to interaction with detector material, and we measure absolute product branching fractions. This method is particularly useful for measuring Upsilon(3S) -> gamma chi(b1,2)(1P) decays. Additionally, we provide the most up-to-date derived branching fractions, matrix elements and mass splittings for chi(b) transitions in the bottomonium system. Using a new technique, we also measure the two lowest-order spin-dependent coefficients in the nonrelativistic QCD Hamiltonian

Search for a light Higgs resonance in radiative decays of the (1S) with a charm tag

A search is presented for the decay (1S)→γA0, A0→cc¯, where A0 is a candidate for the CP-odd Higgs boson of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. The search is based on data collected with the BABAR detector at the (2S) resonance. A sample of (1S) mesons is selected via the decay (2S)→π+π-(1S). The A0→cc¯ decay is identified through the reconstruction of hadronic D0, D+, and D∗(2010)+ meson decays. No significant signal is observed. The measured 90% confidence-level upper limits on the product branching fraction B((1S)→γA0)×B(A0→cc¯) range from 7.4×10-5 to 2.4×10-3 for A0 masses from 4.00 to 8.95GeV/c2 and 9.10 to 9.25GeV/c2, where the region between 8.95 and 9.10GeV/c2 is excluded because of background from (2S)→γχbJ(1P), χbJ(1P)→γ(1S) decays

Psicologia clinica e università: l’importanza del counseling specializzato per studenti dislessici

L’intento del presente contributo è quello di evidenziare la condizione emergente degli studenti dislessici nel contesto accademico. I nuovi orientamenti della Conferenza Nazionale Universitaria dei Delegati per la Disabilità (CNUDD) tendono verso una reale didattica inclusiva che migliori la qualità di vita degli studenti e aumenti la possibilità di accesso al mondo accademico. Il counseling psicologico come strumento preferenziale e di approccio specifico nell’azione comunicativa (sia individuale sia di gruppo), che si propone di affrontare i momenti critici presenti nel percorso universitario, è parte di una gamma di servizi offerti al fine di promuovere e rafforzare le competenze e le capacità di sviluppo degli studenti, in sinergia con le attività di accoglienza, orientamento, tutoraggio e mediazione didattica, in un'ottica di piena inclusione e tutela delle pari opportunità di studi

Well being and emotional regulation at the university: a work in progress

National and european university are quickly implementing their services for students, in order to reduce the phenomenon of dispersion university and increase the inclusion (active participation, a sense of belonging, etc.). In Italy, the law 170/2010 makes it possible to adopt in schools of every order and degree measures to facilitate the achievement of success at school (Guidelines CNUDD, 2014). The purpose of this study will be to evaluate the association between the presence/risk/non attendance LD, anxiety psychological wellbeing perceived and the difficulties in emotional regolation in a sample of adolescents and young adults between the ages of 16 and 35 years in order to promote access to training, in the belief that knowledge, higher culture and participation in research promote the full human development, entry into the world of work and the embodiment of freedom, designed as an opportunity to realize their individual aspirations. The sample, recruited in accidentally, will be composed of approximately 1000 subjects who have completed the following scales: - Adult Dislexia Check List (ADCL) of Vinegrad - State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAY-Y) of Spielberger - Psychological Well-Being Scales (PWB) of Ryff - Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) of Giromini Starting from the Cluster Analysis results, will be conducted correlation analysis to study the relationships between the dipendent variables. Moreover, will be conducted a MANOVA to verify the presence of statistically significant differences between the groups identified by Cluster Analysis compared to the levels of anxiety, psychological wellbeing perceived and the emotional dysregulation. Expected Results: significant and positive correlation among the variables. Statistically significant differences between group LD, risk group LD and non attendance LD. Specifically, the group with LD could obtain scores significantly higher in the STAY-Y and in the DERS and significantly lower values in the PWB