Cross-border mobility, European identity and participation among European adolescents and young adults

Cross-border mobility is one of the most important factors that are assumed to strengthen young people’s commitment as European citizens. However, the existing empirical evidence does not provide consistent support. In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that cross-border mobility is associated with a stronger European identification, more positive attitudes toward the EU, and with specific visions of the EU, and that these factors, in turn, have a positive effect on engagement at EU level. Data were collected as part of the multinational research project CATCH-EyoU. Analyses were performed controlling for gender, income, country, and migrant status. Results mostly confirmed the hypotheses among both adolescents and young adults, and for both short-term and long-term mobility. EU level participation and EU voting intentions appeared to be influenced by partly different factors. The implications of the findings, both at theoretical level and for the development of international mobility programs, are discusse

Il Sistema Traduco nel Progetto Traduzione del Talmud Babilonese

Nell’ambito del Progetto Traduzione del Talmud Babilonese, l’Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR ha sviluppato Traduco, uno strumento web collaborativo con alcune caratteristiche che lo rendono particolarmente adatto alla traduzione di testi che pongono problemi interpretativi. Ad oggi, gli strumenti per la traduzione assistita (in inglese, Computer-Assisted Translation, o CAT) sono utilizzati tipicamente per la traduzione di manuali tecnici, testi legislativi o siti Web e hanno principalmente lo scopo di accelerare il processo di traduzione. Traduco riprende la maggior parte dei componenti standard di uno strumento di traduzione assistita tradizionale, ma li estende con caratteristiche specifiche necessarie per supportare l’interpretazione e la traduzione di testi complessi che pongono particolari problemi di comprensione. In questo articolo presenteremo un caso di studio specifico, relativo a un testo con queste caratteristiche: il Talmud Babilonese. Traduco include funzionalità per l’aggiunta di note, riferimenti bibliografici, annotazioni semantiche e creazione di glossari. Traduttori, revisori, redattori, supervisori e utenti finali che accedono al Sistema sono supportati nell’intero processo di traduzione, che va dall’interpretazione del testo originario alla fase editoriale per la stampa delle traduzioni, attraverso l’uso di tecnologie di traduzione assistita, l’annotazione semantica del testo, l’arricchimento delle traduzioni con informazioni esplicative, l’esportazione delle traduzioni in XML e in TEI e l’integrazione di tecniche per il trattamento automatico della lingua. La progettazione e lo sviluppo di Traduco ha richiesto l’adozione di un approccio multidisciplinare che combina aspetti di ingegneria del software, linguistica computazionale, ingegneria della conoscenza ed editoria digitale

When Translation Requires Interpretation: Collaborative Computer--Assisted Translation of Ancient Texts

This paper introduces the main features of Traduco, a Web-based, collaborative Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tool developed to support the translation of ancient texts. In addition to the standard components offered by traditional CAT tools, Traduco includes a number of features designed to ease the translation of ancient texts, such as the Babylonian Talmud, posing specific structural, stylistic, linguistic and hermeneutical challenges

Italian Young People Through the Lens of Youth Policies

Previous attempts to classify youth policies emphasised the importance of the underlying“concept of youth”, which sustains and legitimises specific policy measures. The aim of this study is toidentify, through a bottom-up approach, the main orientations which characterise recent youth policiesin Italy. Twelve documents (published from 2012 to 2016) at the national, regional and local levels areanalysed through content analysis. Four main policy orientations emerge, each characterised by a differentrepresentation of young people and solutions/aims. Representing young people as talents often impliesan orientation toward skill development; seeing youth as a resource is often associated with the promotionof their possible contribution to the society. Negative representations of youth (as vulnerable and asproblems) characterise protective solutions. Each approach is characterised as well by specific risks,strengths and supporting institutions. A useful framework for the analysis of youth policies at the nationaland international levels is discussed

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 < .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 < .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

Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2018

On behalf of the Program Committee, a very warm welcome to the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-­‐it 2018). This edition of the conference is held in Torino. The conference is locally organised by the University of Torino and hosted into its prestigious main lecture hall “Cavallerizza Reale”. The CLiC-­‐it conference series is an initiative of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC) which, after five years of activity, has clearly established itself as the premier national forum for research and development in the fields of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, where leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry meet to share their research results, experiences, and challenges

Promuovere la cittadinanza europea a scuola: un\u2019esperienza di ricerca partecipata con i giovani

Il capitolo presenta nei dettagli il progetto di promozione della cittadinanza promosso dal progetto catch-EyoU, della durata di due anni, realizzato a Parma presso il Liceo \u201cA. Bertolucci\u201d nella cornice dell\u2019alternanza scuola-lavoro. Verranno illustrati il modello di intervento, le fasi procedurali, le attivit\ue0 proposte, i risultati e le riflessioni maturate dagli attori coinvolti (ricercatori, insegnanti, studenti) nel percorso di valutazione sistematico che ha accompagnato il progetto

The use of T-LAB in health psychology. A literature review

In the last decades, the psychological research has increased the use of informatic instruments for statistical textual analysis. T-LAB represents an example of modular software, made of a set of linguistic, statistical, and graphical instruments for textual analysis. The software includes a large number of tools and in the last years has become quite popular in different academic fields. However, precise and definite guidelines for its use in health psychology are still missing, because its use mostly depends on the research question, on the theoretical approach and from the data under analysis. The aim of the present study was to investigate praxis of application of this software in health psychology. Through a literature review of the articles which were published between 2004 and 2016 in important scientific journals (Psicologia della Salute, Journal of Health Psychology, Psychology Health & Medicine, Health Psychology Open), 17 contributions (full-text) using T-LAB were identified. Results showed a great variability in the textual materials under analysis. Many studies shared an exploratory aim (consistent with a qualitative approach) and adopted only few “popular” tools from the list that is available in T-LAB. The discussion of results provides useful implications about the possible advantages deriving from the use of statistical textual analysis and suggestions for the future