Interreality in the Management of Psychological Stress: a Clinical Scenario

The term “psychological stress” describes a situation in which a subject perceives that environmental demands tax or exceed his or her adaptive capacity. According to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the best validated approach covering both stress management and stress treatment is the Cognitive Behavioral (CBT) approach. We aim to design, develop and test an advanced ICT based solution for the assessment and treatment of psychological stress that is able to improve the actual CBT approach. To reach this goal we will use the “interreality” paradigm integrating assessment and treatment within a hybrid environment, that creates a bridge between the physical and virtual worlds. Our claim is that bridging virtual experiences (fully controlled by the therapist, used to learn coping skills and emotional regulation) with real experiences (allowing both the identification of any critical stressors and the assessment of what has been learned) using advanced technologies (virtual worlds, advanced sensors and PDA/mobile phones) is the best way to address the above limitations. To illustrate the proposed concept, a clinical scenario is also presented and discussed: Paola, a 45 years old nurse, with a mother affected by progressive senile dementia

PELAKSANAAN PERJANJIAN BAGI HASIL TANAH PERTANIAN BERDASARKAN UNDANG-UNDANG NO. 2 TAHUN 1960 TENTANG PERJANJIAN BAGI HASIL (Studi di Desa Wangunharja Kecamatan Lembang Kabupaten Bandung Barat)

Fokus tesis ini adalah mengenai pelaksanaan perjanjian bagi hasil tanah pertanian yang banyak terjadi. kajian tesis ini penting untuk dilakukan penelitian sebab dalam kenyataan prakteknya di masyarakat banyak ditemui pelaksanaan perjanjian bagi hasil tanah pertanian yang tidak sesuai dengan yang terdapat dalam UU no 2 tahun 1960 tentang perjanjian bagi hasil. Tesis ini membahas berdasarkan 2 (dua) permasalahan pertama , bagaimana pelaksanaan perjanjian bagi hasil tanah pertanian di Desa Wanguharja telah di dasarkan atau sesuai dengan UU no 2 tahun 1960?dan yang kedua, apakah perjanjian bagi hasil tersebut sudah memenuhi rasa keadilan bagi para pihak Untuk menganalisis 2 (dua) permasalahan tersebut, dilakukanlah penelitian di wilayah Desa Wanguharja Kecamatan Lembang Kabupaten Bandung Barat. Penulis melakukan jenis penelitian deskripstif, dengan metode pendekatan yuridis empiris (socio legal). Ini artinya tesis ini menggunakan 2(dua) pendekatan sekaligus normatif dan empirik. Teori yang digunakan adalah teori bekerjanya hukum , teori the living law dan nilai keadilan. Kesimpulan dari data yang diperoleh dianalisis secara kualitatif. Dari penelitian yang dilakukan diperoleh beberapa temuan bahwa perjanjian bagi hasil tanah pertanian di Desa Wanguharja berlangsung menggunakan hukum kebiasaan/adat secara tidak tertulis , karena memberikan rasa nyaman yang didasarkan pada rasa percaya dan keinginan untuk saling tolong menolong. Proses yang tidak rumit serta keterbatasan biaya. Sehingga UU no 2 tahun 1960 tidak efektif digunakan di Desa Wanguharja, mereka merasa bahwa perjanjian bagi hasil yang mengacu pada UU no 2 tahun 1960 terlalu rumit. Perjanjian yang dibuat tidak tertulis menyebabkan kekuatan hukumnya tidak kuat. Dari temuan-temuan tersebut diatas diajukan beberapa rekomendasi yakni pertama untuk dapat melaksanakan UU No. 2 tahun 1960 dengan baik perlu adanya sosialisasi kembali dari Pemerintah bukan hanya kepada masyarakat sebagai Adriset (sasaran) tapi kepada pihak-pihak terkait yakni aparat Kecamatan dan Desa. Dan kedua, hendaknya Pemerintah melakukan pembaharuan mengenai peraturan tersebut sesuai dengan kebutuhan dan perkembangan zaman untuk lebih menjamin peningkatan taraf hidup masyarakat

Being-in-the-world-with: Presence Meets Social And Cognitive Neuroscience

In this chapter we will discuss the concepts of “presence” (Inner Presence) and “social presence” (Co-presence) within a cognitive and ecological perspective. Specifically, we claim that the concepts of “presence” and “social presence” are the possible links between self, action, communication and culture. In the first section we will provide a capsule view of Heidegger’s work by examining the two main features of the Heideggerian concept of “being”: spatiality and “being with”. We argue that different visions from social and cognitive sciences – Situated Cognition, Embodied Cognition, Enactive Approach, Situated Simulation, Covert Imitation - and discoveries from neuroscience – Mirror and Canonical Neurons - have many contact points with this view. In particular, these data suggest that our conceptual system dynamically produces contextualized representations (simulations) that support grounded action in different situations. This is allowed by a common coding – the motor code – shared by perception, action and concepts. This common coding also allows the subject for natively recognizing actions done by other selves within the phenomenological contents. In this picture we argue that the role of presence and social presence is to allow the process of self-identification through the separation between “self” and “other,” and between “internal” and “external”. Finally, implications of this position for communication and media studies are discussed by way of conclusion

The Composite Higgs and Light Resonance Connection

Weinberg sum-rules have been used in the past to successfully predict the electromagnetic contribution to the charged-pion mass as a function of the meson masses. Following the same approach we calculate in the minimal composite Higgs model (MCHM) the Higgs mass as a function of the fermionic resonance masses. The simplicity of the method allows us to study several versions of the MCHM and show that a Higgs with a mass around 125 GeV requires, quite generically, fermionic resonances below the TeV, and therefore accessible at the LHC. We also examine the couplings of the Higgs to the SM fermions and calculate their deviation from the SM value.Comment: Version to be published in JHE

Towards the Ultimate SM Fit to Close in on Higgs Physics

With the discovery of the Higgs at the LHC, experiments have finally addressed all aspects of the Standard Model (SM). At this stage, it is important to understand which windows for beyond the SM (BSM) physics are still open, and which are instead tightly closed. We address this question by parametrizing BSM effects with dimension-six operators and performing a global fit to the SM. We separate operators into different groups constrained at different levels, and provide independent bounds on their Wilson coefficients taking into account only the relevant experiments. Our analysis allows to assert in a model-independent way where BSM effects can appear in Higgs physics. In particular, we show that deviations from the SM in the differential distributions of h->Vff are related to other observables, such as triple gauge-boson couplings, and are then already constrained by present data. On the contrary, BR(h-> Z+gamma) can still hide large deviations from the SM.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures, v2: typos corrected. JHEP versio

Bernardino Ramazzini, three hundred years after his death, Padua (Italy), October 18th, 2014

open2noThe year 2014 has marked the tercentenary from the death of Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714), universally credited as the founder of Occupational Health (5, 9, 10, 11). Indeed, the renowned physician died on November 5th 1714 in Padua, where he had been appointed as Professor of Practical Medicine at the local prestigious University from the year 1700. To commemorate this anniversary, the professors of Occupational Health of the University of Padua, the Italian Society of Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene (Società Italiana di Medicina del Lavoro eIgiene Industriale, SIMLII), the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) and the University of Padua organized a conference in the wonderful location of Palazzo Bo (Main Hall) under the patronage of the Padua Municipality, the Workers' Compensation Authority (INAIL), the Venetian Region and the Societas Internationalis Historiae MedicinaopenRiva, Michele Augusto; Zampieri, FabioRiva, Michele Augusto; Zampieri, Fabi