Journal articles: 'Italian Campaign'

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Kozina, Mateusz. "Narses’ Italian Campaign." Res Historica 45 (September 6, 2018): 45–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/rh.2018.45.45-70.

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Mistry, Kaeten. "Re-thinking American intervention in the 1948 Italian election: beyond a success–failure dichotomy." Modern Italy 16, no. 2 (May 2011): 179–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2011.557224.

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American intervention in the 1948 Italian national election campaign has long been a source of contention. Most scholarship has assessed the Truman administration's activities in binary terms that revolve on simplistic notions of ‘success’; the idea that American efforts did or did not affect the outcome. The subsequent tendency has been to celebrate or critique US intervention. This article traces the difficulties experienced by the American government in post-war Italy, which laid the platform for an improvised effort in support of non-communist forces. The mobilisation was neither unified nor coherent and, moreover, was influenced by Italians. The final result nevertheless masked problems with the campaign. Rather than a normative critique of American efforts, this article argues that the outcome fostered a ‘perception of success’ that reframed US conceptualisation of the post-war Italian case and considers the wider ramifications of this mind-frame for future US–Italian relations and broader American approaches in the Cold War.

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Besagni, Giorgio, Lidia Premoli Vilà, and Marco Borgarello. "Italian Household Load Profiles: A Monitoring Campaign." Buildings 10, no. 12 (November 27, 2020): 217. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings10120217.

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The increasing share of renewable energy sources on the supply side, as well as the so-called electrification pathways on the demand side, has led to peculiar challenges for electrical systems: Indeed, the increasing load demand has to be balanced from the supply-side viewpoint. In particular, the residential sector contributes to nearly 26% of the final energy consumption in Europe, suggesting that a further understanding of households’ consumptions and load profiles is needed to support an energy transition. In this context, this paper contributes to the existing discussion by proposing a sociodemographic analysis of Italian households’ load profiles using a smart metering experimental study, while also considering the households in energy poverty conditions. For the sake of generality, results are presented based on a previously proposed household segmentation of the Italian residential sector. The outcomes point out three prominent peaks on load profiles for all the identified clusters, with a notable distinction in intensity. Where children are present, a higher load profile is noted, reaching a maximum value of 600 W of absorbed power between 19:30 and 22:30. Conversely, households in an energy poverty condition show a relatively regular load profile, ranging from a minimum of 110 W of absorbed power in baseload conditions at night time to a maximum of 280 W in the evening hours. The findings in this paper are in agreement with existing research in the field, and accordingly the study proposes a better focus on domestic appliances and sociodemographic parameters.

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Hill, John S. "Sideshow War: The Italian Campaign, 1943–1945." History: Reviews of New Books 26, no. 1 (October 1997): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1997.10525291.

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Weinberg, Gerhard L., and George F. Botjer. "Sideshow War: The Italian Campaign, 1943-1945." American Historical Review 103, no. 2 (April 1998): 550. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2649858.

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Cook, Bernard, and George F. Botjer. "Sideshow War: The Italian Campaign, 1943-1945." Journal of Military History 61, no. 3 (July 1997): 639. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2954065.

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Modenese, Alberto, Tom Loney, and Fabriziomaria Gobba. "COVID-19-Related Mortality amongst Physicians in Italy: Trend Pre- and Post-SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Campaign." Healthcare 10, no. 7 (June 24, 2022): 1187. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071187.

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Globally, there has been a high burden of COVID-19-related mortality amongst physicians and other healthcare workers during the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Fortunately, anti-COVID-19 vaccination campaigns have helped to protect frontline workers and reduce COVID-19-related mortality amongst this occupational group. We analyzed COVID-19-related mortality data for doctors in Italy and compared the crude mortality rate between March–May 2020 (i.e., the beginning of the pandemic in Italy, with the highest rates of COVID-19-related deaths) and the same time period in March–May 2021 (high vaccination coverage amongst Italian physicians). The mortality rate was 12 times higher in March–May 2020 compared to the same time period after the start of the Italian vaccination campaign. Moreover, there was a strong inverse correlation between the number of deaths and the cumulative number of vaccine doses administered in the Italian population. Although non-pharmaceutical interventions, virus evolution and environmental factors probably had an effect, our analysis clearly supports the hypothesis that the vaccination campaign helped to protect Italian physicians and reduce COVID-19-related mortality. The latest available death trends from September to October 2021 for both physicians and the general population are also in favor of the need for the third vaccine dose, currently underway for the majority of the population at risk.

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Troise, Ciro. "Marketing Strategies in Equity Crowdfunding: A Comparative Study of Italian Platforms." International Journal of Marketing Studies 11, no. 4 (September 29, 2019): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v11n4p16.

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This paper explores equity crowdfunding platforms from a marketing perspective. The present exploratory study attempts to make a double contribution to the current literature on equity crowdfunding. Firstly, it analyzes the marketing strategies of the platforms by focusing on the well-known 4Ps marketing mix framework, i.e. product, price, promotion and placement. Each dimension presents three types of categories. Second, the study investigates the marketing strategies of both large platforms and small platforms, then the differences between these two types of platforms are examined in terms of campaigns’ outcomes, i.e. funding collected (in %), funding amount (in €) and number of investors. Platforms adopt a standardization strategy for pricing and placement, while a differentiation strategy is mainly adopted for promotion and products. Large platforms offer a wider range of services (in particular ongoing campaign services and post-campaign services) and promotional activities (in particular leverage many communication channels). The analyses disclose significant statistically differences between these two types of platforms. Projects posted on large platforms are more likely to get higher campaigns’ outcomes. In literature, little is known about marketing strategies in equity crowdfunding platforms, thus this study tries to fill this gap. The paper is the first to analyze the 4Ps of platforms and to conduct a comparative empirical study to determine the differences of campaigns’ outcomes between large and small platforms. The Italian context represents a significant case of developed country in theme of equity crowdfunding. The results are useful for platform managers, entrepreneurs, investors and authorities.

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Stracqualursi, Luisa, and Patrizia Agati. "Covid-19 vaccines in Italian public opinion: Identifying key issues using Twitter and Natural Language Processing." PLOS ONE 17, no. 11 (November 17, 2022): e0277394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277394.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed society and people’s lives. The vaccination campaign started December 27th 2020 in Italy, together with most countries in the European Union. Social media platforms can offer relevant information about how citizens have experienced and perceived the availability of vaccines and the start of the vaccination campaign. This study aims to use machine learning methods to extract sentiments and topics relating to COVID-19 vaccination from Twitter. Between February and May 2021, we collected over 71,000 tweets containing vaccines-related keywords from Italian Twitter users. To get the dominant sentiment throughout the Italian population, spatial and temporal sentiment analysis was performed using VADER, highlighting sentiment fluctuations strongly influenced by news of vaccines’ side effects. Additionally, we investigated the opinions of Italians with respect to different vaccine brands. As a result, ‘Oxford-AstraZeneca’ vaccine was the least appreciated among people. The application of the Dynamic Latent Dirichlet Allocation (DLDA) model revealed three fundamental topics, which remained stable over time: vaccination plan info, usefulness of vaccinating and concerns about vaccines (risks, side effects and safety). To the best of our current knowledge, this one the first study on Twitter to identify opinions about COVID-19 vaccination in Italy and their progression over the first months of the vaccination campaign. Our results can help policymakers and research communities track public attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines and help them make decisions to promote the vaccination campaign.

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Brookes, Andrew. "Air power and the Italian campaign, 1943–1945." RUSI Journal 141, no. 6 (December 1996): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071849608446094.

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Koprivica-Lelicanin, Marija. "Italianicity is in the eye of a beholder: Analysis of audience reception to the Italian tourist campaign Italia. Open to Meraviglia." Bulletin de l'Institut etnographique 72, no. 1 (2024): 201–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/gei2401201k.

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In April 2023, the Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Italy launched the Italia. Open to Meraviglia (Italy. Open to Wonder) campaign with the intention of promoting the beauty of Italy abroad. The Ministry introduced Botticelli?s Venus as a virtual and modern influencer at Lake Como, in front of the Colosseum, and on St. Mark?s Square in Venice. The first advertisements sparked controversy in Italian society, and Eco characterized such phenomena as divisions between apocalyptic thinkers and integrated intellectuals as early as 1964. The aim of this work is to uncover the reasons for such polarization through the content analysis of more than 3000 public comments on the Ministry?s Instagram profile?s most popular posts/images. The study establishes connections between audience reactions and the posts, as well as between the audience and the Ministry (as the senders of this advertising campaign). The analysis also includes a study of the news discourse of the campaign author?s responses in Corriere della Sera, the most circulated daily newspaper in Italy. The harshest criticisms tend to lean towards Eco?s apocalyptic view of popular culture and Hall?s (2017) oppositional reading. On the other side, the authors responded that there was no such thing as bad publicity and pointed to Italian identity as a global phenomenon.

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Bolt, Valentina. "Anthropology of the Italian and Swiss Campaigns of A. Souvorov: Historiography of the Theme." ISTORIYA 14, no. 1 (123) (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840023839-1.

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The article is a review of the works of Russian historians studying the events of the Italian and Swiss campaigns of A. V. Suvorov in the military-anthropological context. Among the numerous works on the campaign of 1799, the topic of the everyday life of soldiers is revealed only by individual authors, relying on a number of personal sources published as early as the 19th century. Other aspects of the life of Suvorov soldiers during campaigns: relations with the local population and with military personnel of other contingents, attitudes towards assigned military tasks, illnesses, women — all these topics, if they were touched upon by Russian authors, were only in passing.

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Gualano, Maria Rosaria, Paolo Emilio Santoro, Ivan Borrelli, Maria Francesca Rossi, Carlotta Amantea, Antonio Tumminello, Alessandra Daniele, Flavia Beccia, and Umberto Moscato. "Employee Participation in Workplace Vaccination Campaigns: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Vaccines 10, no. 11 (November 10, 2022): 1898. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10111898.

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To reduce vaccine-preventable diseases in workers, workplace vaccination campaigns can be implemented on-site. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate adherence to workplace vaccination campaigns. Three databases, PubMed, ISI Web of Science, and Scopus, were screened systematically for articles in English or Italian addressing participation in an on-site vaccination program by employees. The following data was extracted: authors, year, country, type of vaccine, type of workplace, sample size, vaccination rate. Data on the prevalence of flu vaccination were calculated and pooled using a random-effects model. Thirteen articles were included in the review, ten in the meta-analysis. Most studies were conducted in the USA (30.7%) and most vaccination campaigns were against influenza (69.2%), with a pooled estimate of 42% (95% CI: 0.25–0.60%); participation rate was highly variable, ranging from 88.9% for an influenza vaccination campaign to 5.7% for a Lyme disease vaccination campaign. Offering free on-site vaccination can be a successful tool to ensure adherence to vaccination campaigns and administration of all required doses according to the vaccine administration scheme. The occupational physician can play a key role in implementing workplace campaigns for employee mandatory vaccinations.

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Cacciatore, Nicola. "Missed connection: relations between Italian anti-fascist emigration and British forces in Egypt (1940–1944)." Modern Italy 24, no. 3 (February 14, 2019): 265–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2019.3.

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Italian anti-fascists started to emigrate from the moment that Mussolini seized power. These émigrés, or fuorusciti, tried to organise themselves to put an end to Mussolini’s regime, but found themselves confronting a number of unexpected difficulties in their host countries. Among them, Giustiza e Libertà (GL) was one of the most active organisations. One of the problems they had to face was the issue of how best to deal with their hosts without compromising their integrity as Italians, and as patriots. The case of Paolo Vittorelli (Raffaele Battino), who is the subject of this article, presents a clear case study of this issue and shows how close collaboration between Italian anti-fascists and western democracies (in this case, the United Kingdom) was hindered by ideological problems. The study of such episodes helps us to shed light not only on the mentality of the GL émigrés, but also on the way the Italian Resistance would later approach the issue of working together with the Allies during the Italian campaign of 1943–1945.

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Scalia, Antonino. "The Manifold Partisan." Radical History Review 2020, no. 138 (October 1, 2020): 11–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8359235.

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Abstract This article examines how the Italian Communist Party and the Italian revolutionary Left connected internationalism to anti-fascism in the main internationalist campaigns that marked the high point of internationalist mobilizations between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, and considers to what extent this tradition is still relevant today. In particular, this article focuses on the movements of solidarity with the Vietnamese and Palestinian national liberation struggles and against the Greek and Chilean dictatorships. At various moments in time and depending on the particular campaign, multiple leftist actors bridged the gaps between anti-fascism and anti-imperialism in a variety of ways by relying on their peculiar relationships with the anti-fascist tradition. Furthermore, the actions of international and foreign individuals and organizations, the activities of anti-fascist veterans and neofascists, and the specific context of Italian and international political conjunctures influenced the nature of such “bridging” and the resonance between these frames of anti-fascism and anti-imperialism.

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Kendall, Chad, Tommaso Nannicini, and Francesco Trebbi. "How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign." American Economic Review 105, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 322–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20131063.

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In a large-scale controlled trial in collaboration with the reelection campaign of an Italian incumbent mayor, we administered (randomized) messages about the candidate's valence or ideology. Informational treatments affected both actual votes in the precincts and individual vote declarations. Campaigning on valence brought more votes to the incumbent, but both messages affected voters' beliefs. Cross-learning occurred, as voters who received information about the incumbent also updated their beliefs on the opponent. With a novel protocol of beliefs elicitation and structural estimation, we assess the weights voters place upon politicians' valence and ideology, and simulate counterfactual campaigns. (JEL D12, D72, D83)

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Marcus, Harold G., and Anthony Mockler. "Haile Selassie's War: The Italian-Ethiopian Campaign, 1935-1941." International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 2 (1987): 366. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219878.

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Montano, Nicola, Giorgio Costantino, Giovanni Casazza, Rodolfo Sbrojavacca, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Lorenzo Falsetti, Annasanta Guzzo, Raffaele Majo, Francesco Perticone, and Gino Roberto Corazza. "The Italian Society of Internal Medicine choosing wisely campaign." Internal and Emergency Medicine 11, no. 8 (November 1, 2016): 1125–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11739-016-1560-1.

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Basile, Michele, Eugenio Di Brino, Filippo Rumi, and Americo Cicchetti. "PP85 The Cost-Effectiveness Of The Anti-COVID Vaccination Campaign In The Italian Healthcare Setting." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 38, S1 (December 2022): S68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462322002148.

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IntroductionCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Symptoms of COVID-19 are variable, but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, and loss of smell and taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and small airborne particles containing the virus. The present analysis aims to define the cost-effectiveness profile of the anti-COVID vaccination campaign in the Italian healthcare setting.MethodsThe analysis was based on the collection and analysis of data regarding the number of hospitalizations (ordinary regime and intensive care) and infections recorded by the Italian Ministry of Health in vaccinated and unvaccinated patient cohorts. The acquisition costs of the available vaccine alternatives were considered as well as the cost of the personnel involved in the vaccination campaign. The reduction in hospitalizations was considered as a measure of effectiveness. We have compared the current scenario of campaign vaccination versus a scenario in which the total of the eligible population would be vaccinated. Results are reported in terms of Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio (ICER). Deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were carried out in order to test the robustness of the results.ResultsThe vaccination campaign allowed for savings amounting to EUR 9,398,012.10 (EUR 60,499,053.25 vs EUR 69,897,065.35) and 6,647 hospitalizations avoided (715 and 5,932 in the intensive care and ordinary regimen, respectively), thus resulting a dominant strategy as compared with the alternative (no vaccination). As the cost-effectiveness profile of the campaign improves, we should consider the period (May-July 2021), during which the daily threshold of 500,000 doses administered on a national basis was consistently exceeded.ConclusionsThe analysis underlined how the vaccination campaign represents a cost-saving alternative in the Italian healthcare setting.

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Maci, Stefania M. "GHD advertising campaign across cultures. A case study." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 19 (November 15, 2006): 211. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2006.19.12.

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The type of advertisements addressed to young people seem to reinforce values conveyed by music, films and fashion. In this new cultural trend, GHD advertising apparently proceeds in an opposite direction, as the visual element of the new GHD advertising campaign is strongly interrelated with religion. Yet the new religious values GHD is offering appear to be more in line with urban trends than with asceticism. It is the aim of this paper to illustrate how the GHD advertising campaign in the UK establishes the identity and success thanks to intertextuality. I will further compare the same ad as it appeared in the Italian press and will point out how the GHD Italian version not only loses its grasp of religion but is also less incisive in style than the English advertisement text. The result is a text in strong opposition to the visual it is linked with.

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Mattiuzzi, Camilla, and Giuseppe Lippi. "Efficacy of the Second COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Dose in the Elderly." Vaccines 11, no. 2 (January 18, 2023): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11020213.

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Background: We analyzed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine efficacy in older persons who received the second booster compared to unvaccinated people and those receiving only a single COVID-19 vaccine booster. Methods: We collected information on vaccine efficacy from the ongoing Italian nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign in subjects aged 80 years or older from official data published by the Italian National Institute of Health. Results: The second vaccine booster maintained high effectiveness against adverse COVID-19 outcomes such as hospitalization, intensive care unit admission and death (i.e., between 77 and 86%), and also showed around 10% higher efficacy than the single booster. Nonetheless, the efficacy of the second vaccine booster declined over time, decreasing by 33–46% when assessed at >120 days from administration. Conclusions: The results of our ad interim analysis of the ongoing Italian nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign suggest that regular boosting with COVID-19 vaccines may be advisable in older persons.

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Kusenko, Olga I. "Evgenij Anan’in and the problem of the Italian Renaissance." Philosophy Journal 14, no. 2 (2021): 138–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/2072-0726-2021-14-2-138-152.

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A reevaluation of the dogmas and canons rooted in the Renaissance historiography was а сommon trend in the studies in this field in the first half of the 20th century. At that time, there appeared many original concepts that corrected or completely refuted the previous ones. The present article is devoted to the participation of the Russian historian Evgenij Anan’in, who lived and worked in Italy, in the debates around the notion of the Italian Renaissance and to his attempts to contribute to the elimination of various cliché from the field of Renaissance studies (primarily to abolish the postulated opposition of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and the idea of the Renaissance as the revival of antiquity). A significant part of Anan’in’s publications in Italian scientific journals consists of polemic articles and reviews that reveal a panorama of Renaissance concepts in Europe in 1920–1930s. The Russian researcher was strongly opposed to foreign historians who denied the originality of the Italian Renaissance. He was also against all kinds of attempts to use the concept of the Renaissance ad usum proprium (national, ideological, etc). The article focuses on the concepts of the Renaissance and their authors (Burkhard, Burdach, Papini, Walser, Zabughin, Neumann, Nordström), which Anan’in analized (or, conversely, сlearly ignored) in his texts as well as on his own views that are hidden inside his critical remarks. The publication also deals with a campaign that began in Italy in the mid-1930s against a foreign “occupation” of the Renaissance field (according to that campaign, the primacy in the Renaissance studies belonged to Italians). Finally, the paper explores the case of an open confrontation between Anan’in and Giovanni Papini, who became the head of the National Institute of the Renaissance studies established in Florence in 1937.

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Marcuzzi, Stefano. "From the Adriatic to the Mediterranean: Italy in the Allied Naval Strategy (1915–1918)." War in History 27, no. 3 (December 13, 2018): 456–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344518778307.

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The First World War in the Mediterranean was a largely frustrating experience for the Allies. Their strategic and political differences hindered mutual cooperation. In this context, the Italian role has been badly overlooked by non-Italian historians. Italian historians, on their part, essentially focused on the Adriatic campaign, largely ignoring Italy’s war outside the Adriatic, as well as the Allied contribution to it. I aim to offer a fresh perspective of the war in the Mediterranean by looking at Italy’s role in the Allied naval strategy with a comparative approach, using new material made available by the Italian Navy Archive.

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Richardson, R. Dan, and Witold Madeja. "The Polish 2nd Corps and the Italian Campaign 1943-45." Military Affairs 50, no. 1 (January 1986): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1988550.

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Reid, Brian Holden. "The Italian campaign, 1943–45: A reappraisal of allied generalship." Journal of Strategic Studies 13, no. 1 (March 1990): 128–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402399008437404.

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Mecarelli, Oriano, Paolo Messina, Giuseppe Capovilla, Roberto Michelucci, Antonino Romeo, Ettore Beghi, Roberto De Simone, et al. "An educational campaign toward epilepsy among Italian primary school teachers." Epilepsy & Behavior 32 (March 2014): 84–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2014.01.009.

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Zerbini, Cristina, Donata Tania Vergura, and Beatrice Luceri. "How fair-trade claims and emotional empathy affect the consumer’s propensity to buy fair chocolate?" British Food Journal 121, no. 7 (July 1, 2019): 1605–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-07-2018-0417.

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Purpose Concerns related to the ethical issues are evident in the increasingly socially conscious marketplace. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of fair-trade communication activities in the buying decision-making process of chocolate. The role of emotional empathy in influencing the willingness to pay and the purchase intention was also explored. Design/methodology/approach A mail survey with a sample of 199 Italian chocolate consumers was conducted. Respondents were equally and randomly distributed among the four print advertising stimuli: conventional brand with conventional campaign; conventional brand with pro-social campaign; pro-social brand with conventional campaign; and pro-social brand with pro-social campaign. A between-subjects factorial design was used to test the hypotheses. Findings Results showed the effectiveness of pro-social marketing campaigns in increasing consumers’ willingness to pay and purchase intention for fair-trade chocolate. Contextually, consumers with a high level of emotional empathy showed a greater purchase intention as opposed to those with a low level. Research limitations/implications As the ethical nature of the product should be communicated in several ways, the effect of different types of textual information on the dependent variables should be considered. Originality/value The study enriches the literature on ethical consumption and provides some guidance to manufacturers and product managers for understanding the role of pro-social marketing communication in influencing consumer behaviour.

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Capasso, Miriam, Marcella Bianchi, and Daniela Caso. "Psychosocial Factors Influencing Parents’ Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccination for Their Children: An Italian Cross-Sectional Study." Vaccines 12, no. 3 (March 17, 2024): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines12030317.

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Vaccine hesitancy poses a significant threat to the health of individuals across all age groups, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this cross-sectional study, an extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was applied to investigate psychosocial variables predicting intention to vaccinate children under 12 against COVID-19 in a sample of 420 Italian parents (Mean age = 40.4, SD = 5.9; Women = 78.1%). Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that, among the TPB variables, cognitive attitude, descriptive norms, and perceived behavioral control significantly predicted parents’ vaccination intention. Furthermore, including trust in the institutions’ ability to manage the vaccination campaign in the model significantly increased the explained variance in intention. These findings suggest that campaigns promoting childhood COVID-19 vaccination should not only emphasize the safety and effectiveness of vaccines for children but also focus on reducing barriers to vaccination. Additionally, attention should be given to enhancing the perception that this behavior is widespread among other parents, thus leveraging the power of social influence. Finally, and not less important, significant efforts should be directed toward building and reinforcing trust in the system of actors promoting and managing the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

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Dragišić, Petar. "Yugoslavia and General Election in Italy in 1948." Tokovi istorije 29, no. 3 (December 31, 2021): 71–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.31212/tokovi.2021.3.dra.71-88.

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The paper deals with Yugoslav perceptions of the 1948 general election in Italy. The research focuses primarily on reports of the Yugoslav legation in Rome, which closely monitored the election campaign as well as the consequences of this watershed in the Cold War phase of Italian history. The Yugoslav sources cast a light on the strategies of the principal protagonists in the Italian political turmoil in April 1948.

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Giudici, Giancarlo, Massimiliano Guerini, and Cristina Rossi-Lamastra. "Elective affinities: exploring the matching between entrepreneurs and investors in equity crowdfunding." Baltic Journal of Management 15, no. 2 (March 31, 2020): 183–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bjm-08-2019-0287.

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PurposeThe authors investigate whether matchings in equity crowdfunding are more likely to happen if homophily exists between investors and investees. They focus on gender, age and geographical proximity as crucial dimensions of similarity among individuals and thus of homophily. Furthermore, they investigate whether the effect of homophily depends on the risk of opportunism, which investors allegedly attribute to proponents basing on their area of residence.Design/methodology/approachThe authors analyze a hand-collected database of 13 equity crowdfunding campaigns launched by Italian innovative start-ups from January 2013 to June 2016, which includes information about 384 equity crowdfunding investments carried out by 361 different investors.FindingsThe authors find a significant effect of geographical proximity and age similarity in explaining the probability that an investor finances a campaign. Moreover, these effects are particularly relevant if the proponent is located in areas characterized by a high risk of opportunistic behavior. Interestingly enough, they do not detect any significant effect related to gender.Originality/valueIn this paper, the authors have the unique opportunity to analyze a whole market (the Italian market) during three years, from inception (2013–2016), and to collect the identities of the investors in all successful campaigns.

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Pannacci, Raffaello. "Sex, Military Brothels and Gender Violence during the Italian Campaign in the USSR, 1941–3." Journal of Contemporary History 55, no. 1 (February 28, 2019): 75–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009418810788.

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During the Italian occupation in the USSR, the soldiers of Italian Armed Forces often had relationships with Soviet women, opposed by the authorities for motives of politics and security. Some of the officers openly practised concubinage, in contrast to the racism expressed on that campaign. The authorities in situ also decided to open brothels for the troops, filled with local women, in order to avoid both enemy espionage and the spread of venereal disease. As for the Germans in the USSR, the organization of brothels was difficult from the start due to the absence among the civilians of a ‘prostitution outlook’ and to the inexperience of the women, who at best offered to work out of hunger. Sexual crimes were also committed then, facilitated by the conflict’s climate and often disregarded by military justice, which had other priorities. Such aspects of the Italian occupation in the USSR have been superficially studied, in part because they are at odds with the collective imagination and a national awareness based on war memoirs and military publications, often reticent on the more inconvenient aspects of the Italian presence abroad during the Second World War.

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Gaudiosi, Massimiliano. "‘Lembi di patria di là dall’oceano’: Incom newsreels and emigration in Argentina." Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 10, no. 2 (March 1, 2022): 249–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00125_1.

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This article investigates the ways in which the newsreel La Settimana Incom portrayed emigration in Argentina during the post-Second World War era, when Latin America opened its borders wide to European workers. At the end of the 1940s, the Italian government signed bilateral agreements with Argentina and sponsored migratory practices ‐ a dramatic solution for widespread unemployment ‐ through an unprecedented promotional campaign. La Settimana Incom played a crucial role in this campaign: items on Argentina offer special insight into the rhetorical methods used for the representation of emigration through the growth of a modern Italy. The main argument of this article is that by analysing La Settimana Incom ‐ and using some models proposed by Michail Bakhtin for this purpose ‐ an ideological ‘mission’ behind the attention paid to emigration, a topic previously identified with traditional Italian values, can be discerned.

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Piffer, Tommaso. "Office of Strategic Services versus Special Operations Executive: Competition for the Italian Resistance, 1943–1945." Journal of Cold War Studies 17, no. 4 (October 2015): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00596.

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This article explores the relationship between the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Italian campaign during World War II. Drawing on recently declassified records, the article analyzes three issues that prevented satisfactory coordination between the two agencies and the impact those issues had on the effectiveness of the Allied military support given to the partisan movements: (1) the U.S. government's determination to maintain the independence of its agencies; (2) the inability of the Armed Forces Headquarters to impose its will on the reluctant subordinate levels of command; and (3) the relatively low priority given to the Italian resistance at the beginning of the campaign. The article contributes to recent studies on OSS and SOE liaisons and sheds additional light on an important turning point in the history of their relations.

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Seixas, Xosé M. Núñez. "Unable to Hate? Some Comparative Remarks on the War Experiences of Spaniards and Italianson the Eastern Front,1941–1944." Journal of Modern European History 16, no. 2 (May 2018): 269–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17104/1611-8944-2018-2-269.

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Unable to Hate? Some Comparative Remarks on the War Experience of Spaniards and Italians on the Eastern Front, 1941-44 The article addresses the similarities and differences between the Spanish and the Italian war experiences on the Eastern front (1941–1945) from a comparative perspective. Although both contingents, when seen from the German perspective, might have been considered to share similar characteristics, and they implemented relatively benevolent practices of occupation towards Soviet civilians, prisoners of war and Jews, there was also a huge imbalance regarding the figures of soldiers deployed on the East, as well as the numbers of prisoners of war. The Spaniards and the Italians fought on different sectors of the front, and were subject to quite diverse combat conditions, which set the condition for different degrees of brutalisation. Finally, the Italian withdrawal of 1942 left a tragic imprint on the memory of the Russian campaign of the survivors, while a comparable event did not exist in the Spanish case. Yet, the main similarity between the Spaniards and the Italians lies in the narratives and politics of memory regarding their participation at the Eastern front, which were developed by war veterans and the states of both countries during the post-war years. Regardless of the political differences between the Francoist regime and the Italian democracy, an enduring legend in the two countries emerged that presented the invading soldiers as «nice occupants», which were supposedly cleaner than the «clean Wehrmacht», while they attempted to detach themselves from the German war crimes in the East.

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Faravelli, L., A. Celano, V. Corazza, and S. Tonolo. "OP0192-PARE GENERE DONNA – THE COMMUNICATION PROJECT ON GENDER MEDICINE AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, SUPPORTING WOMEN WITH RHEUMATIC AND DERMATOLOGIC AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 82, Suppl 1 (May 30, 2023): 127.2–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2023-eular.2040.

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BackgroundThe World Health Organization (WHO) defines Gender-specific Medicine as the study of how biological and socioeconomic and cultural differences influence people’s health. (1) In autoimmune diseases (AD), particularly rheumatic and dermatologic ones, Gender makes the difference. Among millions of people affected worldwide, 80% are Women. (2) AD can arise more frequently in childbearing age, can impact female fertility and pregnancy outcomes, with consequences on the overall quality of life, both for the people affected and their families and caregivers.ObjectivesGenere Donna is a project aimed at setting up an awareness campaign on Gender Medicine focused on rheumatic and dermatologic autoimmune diseases. It spreads and updates a clear information, validated by experts, about Gender Medicine and rheumatic and dermatologic ADs, to improve knowledge, promoting patients’ empowerment and the importance of a gender approach in Public Health.MethodsGenere Donna has been launched in July 2021. The websitewww.generedonna.itand the social media profiles are the heart of the project, raising awareness also through adv campaigns (SEM and social media) and ad-hoc content marketing. The close teamwork of the main Italian patients’ associations ANMAR (Associazione Nazionale Malati Reumatici Onlus), APMARR (Associazione Nazionale Persone con Malattie Reumatologiche e Rare aps) and APIAFCO (Associazione Psoriasici Italiani Amici della Fondazione Corazza) and some authoritative experts KOLs in AD (5 physicians and a welfare expert) is the key for success. Genere Donna is supported by a digital communication agency.ResultsOver 16 months of activity, there were about 160K website users (70% female, 56% of them are 18-44 years old), over 6.6Mln reach and over 220K interactions on social media, and a strong social community of around 27K people was developed. Over 210 questions received through the “Ask the Expert” service. Genere Donna recently received the patronage from SIR-Società Italiana di Reumatologia (Italian Society of Rheumatology) and SIDeMaST, Società Italiana di Dermatologia e Malattie Sessualmente Trasmesse (Italian Society of Dermatology).ConclusionThe strong need of clear and verified information around Gender Medicine is testified by the wide number of social media interactions and website visits. The good results reached by Genere Donna up to now and many positive comments coming from the community push the project ahead in the future, to be more and more near to the patients affected by rheumatic and dermatologic ADs.Reference[1] Istituto Superiore di Sanità, EpiCentro. Gender Medicine. Available at:https://www.epicentro.iss.it/en/gender-medicine/Last Access: January 2023. 2) Carlo Selmi, Fortissime per natura. Piemme, 2020.Figure 1.AcknowledgementsGenere Donna counts on an educational grant from UCB Pharma Italy, main sponsor, Laboratoires Bailleul and Terme di Comano, other sponsors.Disclosure of InterestsNone Declared.

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Lugoboni, Fabio, Luigi Stella, Lorenzo Zamboni, Simone Campagnari, Francesca Fusina, and Ernesto De Bernardis. "COVID-19 vaccination and drug users: Past, present, and future." Journal of Public Health Research 11, no. 3 (July 2022): 227990362211053. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/22799036221105314.

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Vaccination against COVID-19 is crucial in the attempt of containing the virus’ spread, but facing a viral pathogen with such a high prevalence means that vaccination strategies are facing an unprecedented situation. People that use illicit drugs may have elevated risk of adverse outcomes from COVID-19 given their high prevalence of underlying medical conditions, including respiratory and pulmonary disease, chronic liver disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular conditions, diabetes, and compromised immune systems. Despite a widespread distribution on the Italian territory, a large presence of health personnel and a long-standing experience in vaccinations, addiction clinics have yet to be involved in the vaccination campaign against COVID-19. The aim of this study was to investigate the beliefs of drug users attending some Italian addiction clinics, in order to envisage any vaccine administration strategies involving the services themselves. A questionnaire used for the Italian general population to investigate the relative importance of some factors in influencing the propensity to vaccinate against COVID-19, was administrated to drug users in a multicenter survey. The majority of respondents expressed general confidence in vaccines and a good willingness to undergo vaccination. Given strong peer networks, high coverage of treatment and harm reduction interventions, Italian public addiction clinics could play a strategic role in administering the vaccine in this hard-to-reach population, usefully aiding the global campaign against the virus.

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Milano, Marianna, Giuseppe Agapito, and Mario Cannataro. "Application of CCTV Methodology to Analyze COVID-19 Evolution in Italy." BioTech 11, no. 3 (August 11, 2022): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biotech11030033.

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Italy was one of the European countries most afflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. From 2020 to 2022, Italy adopted strong containment measures against the COVID-19 epidemic and then started an important vaccination campaign. Here, we extended previous work by applying the COVID-19 Community Temporal Visualizer (CCTV) methodology to Italian COVID-19 data related to 2020, 2021, and five months of 2022. The aim of this work was to evaluate how Italy reacted to the pandemic in the first two waves of COVID-19, in which only containment measures such as the lockdown had been adopted, in the months following the start of the vaccination campaign, the months with the mildest weather, and the months affected by the new COVID-19 variants. This assessment was conducted by observing the behavior of single regions. CCTV methodology allows us to map the similarities in the behavior of Italian regions on a graph and use a community detection algorithm to visualize and analyze the spatio-temporal evolution of data. The results depict that the communities formed by Italian regions change with respect to the ten data measures and time.

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Willson, Perry R. "Cooking the Patriotic Omelette: Women and the Italian Fascist Ruralization Campaign." European History Quarterly 27, no. 4 (October 1997): 531–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026569149702700404.

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Lisi, Marco. "Campaign Effects in a Changing Environment: The 2006 Italian Legislative Elections." Journal of Political Marketing 10, no. 4 (October 2011): 328–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15377857.2011.614534.

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Ziello, Antonio, Cristina Scavone, Maria Elena Di Battista, Simona Salvatore, Daniele Di Giulio Cesare, Ornella Moreggia, Lia Allegorico, et al. "Influenza Vaccine Hesitancy in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Monocentric Observational Study." Brain Sciences 11, no. 7 (July 5, 2021): 890. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11070890.

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Background. The so-called “vaccine hesitancy” still represents a common phenomenon that undermines the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns. In 2020, the Italian Medicines Agency recommended to bring forward the flu vaccination campaign, whose importance was also emphasized for patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). We aimed to assess vaccination behavior in patients with MS to prepare for the upcoming SARS-CoV-2 vaccination challenge. Methods. This is an observational study carried out in one MS clinical Centre that enrolled all MS patients who were eligible for any of the flu vaccines recommended by the Italian medicines Agency. Results. 194 patients were enrolled. Patients’ mean age was 43.9 years and 66% were female. Comorbidities, mainly represented by non-autoimmune diseases, were identified in 52% of patients. Almost all patients were receiving a DMT during the study period, mainly dimethyl fumarate, natalizumab, teriflunomide, and interferon. Out of 194 patients, 58.2% accepted to be vaccinated. No statistically significant differences were found, except for the use of natalizumab, which was higher among vaccinated patients. Conclusion. The results of our study emphasize the importance of education and communication campaigns addressed both to healthcare providers and patients with MS, especially considering that MS patients are currently receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.

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Barbara, Andrea, Daniele Ignazio La Milia, Marcello Di Pumpo, Alessia Tognetto, Andrea Tamburrano, Doriana Vallone, Carlo Viora, et al. "Strategies to Increase Flu Vaccination Coverage among Healthcare Workers: A 4 Years Study in a Large Italian Teaching Hospital." Vaccines 8, no. 1 (February 13, 2020): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines8010085.

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Flu vaccination is recommended among healthcare workers (HCWs). The low vaccination coverage registered in our hospital among HCWs called for new engaging approaches to improve flu vaccination coverage. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of different strategies implemented during the last four years (2015–2019). A quasi-experimental study was conducted, involving almost 4000 HCWs each year. Starting from the 2015–2016 campaign, new evidence-based strategies were progressively implemented. At the end of each campaign, an evaluation of the vaccination coverage rate reached was performed. Moreover, during the last three campaigns, differences in coverage among job category, wards involved or not in on-site vaccination (OSV) intervention, age classes and gender were analyzed. An increasing flu vaccination coverage rate was registered, from 6% in 2015–2016 to almost 22% at the end of 2018–2019. The overall number of vaccinated HCWs increased, especially at younger ages. OSV strategy always leads to better results, and physicians always show a higher vaccination coverage than nurses and other HCWs. The implemented strategies were effective in achieving higher flu vaccination coverage among HCWs in our hospital and therefore can be considered valuable examples of good prevention practices in hospital settings.

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Stella, Manuel, Lucia Zeni, Luca Nichelini, Nicolas Bellomo, Daniele Pavarin, Mario Tindaro Migliorino, Marco Fabiani, et al. "Experimental Investigation of a H2O2 Hybrid Rocket with Different Swirl Injections and Fuels." Applied Sciences 14, no. 13 (June 27, 2024): 5625. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app14135625.

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Hybrid rockets have very interesting characteristics like simplicity, reliability, safety, thrust modulation, environmental friendliness and lower costs, which make them very attractive for several applications like sounding rockets, small launch vehicles, upper stages, hypersonic test-beds and planetary landers. In recent years, advancements have been made to increase hybrid motor performance, and two of the most promising solutions are vortex injection and paraffin-based fuels. Moreover, both technologies can be also used to tailor the fuel regression rate, in the first case varying the swirl intensity, and in the second case with the amount and type of additives. In this way, it is possible not only to design high-performing hybrid motors, but also to adjust their grain and chamber geometries to different mission requirements, particularly regarding thrust and burning time. In this paper, the knowledge about these two technical solutions and their coupling is extended. Three sets of experimental campaigns were performed in the frame of the Italian Space Agency-sponsored PHAEDRA program. The first one investigated a reference paraffin fuel with axial and standard vortex injection. The second campaign tested vortex injection with low values of swirl numbers down to 0.5 with a conventional plastic fuel, namely polyethylene. Finally, the last campaign tested another, lower regressing, paraffin-based fuel with the same low swirl numbers as the second campaign.

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Mancuso, Maria Catena, and Valentina Signorelli. "Heroes or criminals? The legitimacy of humanitarian organizations rescuing lives in the Central Mediterranean Sea after 2017." Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 37–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00101_1.

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Since late 2016, NGOs operating in the Mediterranean have been at the centre of a campaign of delegitimization and criminalization culminating with former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s 2018 NGO ban, which de facto erased the presence of humanitarian search and rescue operations and left the national coastguards to deal with an unprecedented migration crisis. Drawing upon discourse analysis of Italian and international news media articles and informed by semi-structured interviews with NGO representatives, this study investigates the implications of such media-driven public hostility. The results are threefold: first, the climate of suspicion surrounding NGOs has damaged them profoundly and led to a dramatic increase in deaths. Consequently, second, NGO’s ability to present themselves publicly as legitimate has been heavily limited. Last, it is fundamental to investigate the range of legitimation strategies all organizations can use when victims of a media-led scandal or a smear campaign are legitimized by political institutions.

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Anaya, Lauren A. "Policymaking in the Italian Courts." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 23, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 40–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2014.230103.

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In this article, I use the current struggle over recognition of rights for same-sex couples in Italy as a window on larger policymaking processes. Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti is leading the charge for the recognition of rights for same-sex couples in Italy with its innovative national campaign Affermazione Civile that seeks to obtain marriage equality for same-sex couples in Italy through the deployment of judicial initiatives. Through the Affermazione Civile project, Italian LGBTI rights activists successfully circumvent national politics and advance recognition of same-sex couples' rights in Italy. I argue that recent policy changes with respect to the treatment of this group are direct products of the EU's influence on the national judicial system and demonstrate a continuing trend towards increased judicial activism at the expense of national politics. This article illustrates how the EU influences the making of national public policy outside the economic realm in unanticipated and unintended ways.

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Collatuzzo, Giulia, Riccardo Melloni, Chiara Zanotti, Giulio de Simone, Danila Pilastro, Vittorio Lodi, and Paolo Boffetta. "Comparing the Attitude toward the COVID-19 and the 2020/21 and 2019/20 Flu Vaccination Campaigns among Italian Healthcare Workers." Vaccines 9, no. 11 (November 11, 2021): 1312. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9111312.

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Background: While the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine among healthcare workers (HCWs) is suboptimal, vaccine hesitancy has not been characterized in detail in this population. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of health-related conditions reported by HCWs during the COVID-19, 2020/21 flu, and 2019/20 flu vaccination campaigns, so to test the hypothesis that HCWs were more prone to report health conditions during the COVID-19 campaign. Methods: We analyzed vaccination questionnaires of 176 hospital-based HCWs who underwent the COVID-19 and the 2020/21 flu vaccinations; 2019/20 flu vaccination questionnaires were available for 130 of them. Outcomes included self-reported allergies, chronic diseases, and use of medications. We tested for prevalence equality, analyzed differences using the kappa statistics and concordance correlation, and explored factors associated with differences in reporting. Results: There was no difference in the proportion of HCWs reporting allergies in the three questionnaires, while chronic diseases were more frequently reported in the COVID-19 than in both 2020/21 (p = 0.04) and 2019/20 flu questionnaires (p = 0.02). Furthermore, a higher proportion of HCWs reported medications use in the COVID-19 vaccination questionnaire, compared to both the 2020/21 and the 2019/20 flu vaccination questionnaires (p < 0.001 for both). In each vaccine campaign, women reported more conditions than men, and the difference between chronic disease reports was greater for women than for men. Conclusions: Our results show more frequent reporting of health conditions during the COVID-19 than the flu vaccination campaigns, providing quantitative evidence of hesitancy of HCWs towards the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Lotti, Virginia, Gianluca Spiteri, Gulser Caliskan, Maria Grazia Lourdes Monaco, Davide Gibellini, Giuseppe Verlato, and Stefano Porru. "SARS-CoV-2 Positivity in Foreign-Born Adults: A Retrospective Study in Verona, Northeast Italy." Life 14, no. 6 (May 22, 2024): 663. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life14060663.

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We compared SARS-CoV-2 positivity between the foreign-born adult working population and Italians living in the Verona area to investigate whether being a foreign-born adult could confer an increased risk of infection or lead to a diagnostic delay. The present study included 105,774 subjects, aged 18–65 years, tested for SARS-CoV-2 by nasopharyngeal swabs and analyzed at the University Hospital of Verona between January 2020 and September 2022. A logistic regression model was used, controlling for gender, age, time of sampling, and source of referral. A higher proportion of SARS-CoV-2 positivity in Italian (30.09%) than in foreign-born (25.61%) adults was reported, with a higher proportion of SARS-CoV-2 positivity in men than women in both cohorts analyzed. The difference in swab positivity among Italian and foreign-born adults was the highest in people aged 18–29 years (31.5% vs. 23.3%) and tended to disappear thereafter. Swab positivity became comparable between Italian and foreign-born adults during the vaccination campaign. Multivariable analysis confirmed the lower risk of swab positivity among foreign-born adults (OR = 0.85, 95%CI 0.82–0.89). In the Verona area, foreign-born adults showed a lower rate of SARS-CoV-2 positivity than the native population, likely because of underdiagnosis. Hence, public health should increase attention toward these particularly vulnerable populations.

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ISSEL, WILLIAM. ""Still Potentially Dangerous in Some Quarters"." Pacific Historical Review 75, no. 2 (May 1, 2006): 231–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2006.75.2.231.

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The charges that led Gen. John L. DeWitt to deport Sylvester Andriano from the Western Defense Region in 1942 were bogus, the product of an anti-Catholic campaign by Communist Party activists, Masonic anti-Catholics in the Italian community, and recent Italian anti-Fascist exiles (fuorusciti). This wartime abuse of civil rights in the name of national security grew from a discourse of demonizing the religious, not solely the racial and ethnic, Other. The article makes several arguments about ethnicity and religion on the Pacific Coast: Faith-based political activism played a significant role in the region's urban political culture, as did cultural politics between Catholics and anti-Catholics. Irish American Catholic clergy welcomed, rather than excluded, Italian American laymen into the Church's highest councils in San Francisco,where the Irish had long dominated civic life. However, Italian Americans were bitterly divided between devout Catholics and disaffected anti-clericals.

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Porta, Massimo, Francesco Boscia, Paolo Lanzetta, Edoardo Mannucci, Ugo Menchini, and Francesca Simonelli. "Systematic Screening of Retinopathy in Diabetes (REaD Project): An Italian Implementation Campaign." European Journal of Ophthalmology 27, no. 2 (November 21, 2016): 179–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5301/ejo.5000912.

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Purpose To evaluate the use of telemedicine retinal screening in Italy and to identify potential elements of implementation of this system. Methods Patients with either new-onset diabetes or no ophthalmologic visit over the previous 2 years and attending 33 referral diabetic centers between mid-April 2013 and mid December 2015 were screened. Two partially overlapping nonstereoscopic 45° digital color images were captured from each eye using a fully automated nonmydriatic digital fundus camera. Factors limiting the assessment of retinopathy were explored. Results Out of 24,473 eligible individuals, 22,466 had complete data. Among them, good-quality images enabling appropriate evaluation of at least one eye were obtained from 19,712 patients (both eyes, n = 18,887). Although nonmydriatic retinographs were provided, 39% of patients were evaluated using mydriasis. The rate of low-quality images in each center was inversely associated with the number of patients assessed. This was more evident for screening in mydriasis: adjusted odds ratio (OR) 0.79 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.76-0.82) (p<0.001) vs 0.96 (95% CI 0.94-0.97) (p<0.001). Finally, both the number of patients assessed and use of mydriasis were inversely related to the presence of diabetic retinopathy (DR): adjusted OR 0.93 (95% CI 0.92-0.93) (p<0.001) and 0.88 (95% CI 0.82-0.96) (p<0.001), respectively. Conclusions This program confirmed a role for teleophthalmology in the systematic screening of DR and provided important suggestions to improve the system deployed. A high level of training is required for operators to optimize imaging. The role of mydriasis should be evaluated further.

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Page, Andrew, Stephen Morrell, Richard Tewson, Richard Taylor, and Ann Brassil. "Mammography screening participation: effects of a media campaign targeting Italian-speaking women." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 29, no. 4 (August 2005): 365–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842x.2005.tb00208.x.

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Bolt, Valentina. "“He could conquer Paris…” (The Italian Historians on Souvorov’s Campaign of 1799)." Annual of French Studies 55 (2022): 379–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.32608/0235-4349-2022-1-55-379-388.

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