Loredana Cerbara

• Italian National Research Council

We conducted a study in an ecological setting to evaluate the heart rate variability (HRV) of expert communicators during a live national primetime video interview. The study involved 32 expert science communicators, all with mid- to long-term experience in public speaking and outreach work, who were evaluated by an external jury to assess their co...

This contribution aims to discuss the administrative data relevance in the analysis of intersectional and gender dimensions in research organizations. In the last decade, data-driven policies in research organisations have gained momentum thanks to four pushing factors: EU policy on gender equality (including the gender equality plans –GEP- design)...

The increase in screen time observed in recent years has exposed adolescents to a heightened risk of involvement in cyberbullying, negatively affecting their relational and psychological well-being. This study analyses data from a 2022 representative survey of Italian adolescents employing an interdisciplinary approach. Through bivariate analyses a...

Social withdrawal is a widespread phenomenon among adolescents, presenting significant challenges in understanding its aetiology and dynamics. This study, drawing on data from two cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2019 and 2022 on students in public upper secondary schools, investigates the trend of self-isolation among Italian adolescents befor...

Background and Objectives: Axillary lymph node (ALN) staging is crucial for the management of invasive breast cancer (BC). Although various radiological investigations are available, ultrasound (US) is the preferred tool for evaluating ALNs. Despite its immediacy, widespread use, and good predictive value, US is limited by intra- and inter-operator...

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase in screen time and hyperconnection on social media is raising significant concerns, with particular emphasis of their effects on the relational and psychological well-being of children and adolescents. The present study analyses data from two representative cross-sectional surveys conducted among Italia...

This study focuses on the risks that tourists would face during a tsunami on the island of Stromboli and discusses how to best inform and prepare them. Tsunamis affect coastal regions, where many of these are leisure destinations for tourists who often don’t have adequate knowledge of the region's risks. Due to their proximity to the affected areas...

Background Surgical management of large ventral hernias (VH) has remained a challenge. Various techniques like anterior component separation and posterior component separation (PCS) with transversus abdominis release (TAR) have been employed. Despite the initial success, the long-term efficacy of TAR is not yet comprehensively studied. Authors aime...

The preparation and implementation of multimodal interviews requires the availability of a complex application capable of interfacing with different types of users: system administrators, users with access authorisation for field monitoring, interviewers and interviewees. The latter are put in contact with the system through a dedicated application...

Suicidal ideation is a multifactorial phenomenon that is increasingly prevalent among adolescents, especially following the impact of Covid 19 pandemic on their mental health. Its analysis necessitates an interdisciplinary approach that simultaneously considers sociological and psychological perspectives, especially looking at the role of interpers...

This contribution aims to analyse the presence of women in two Italian public research organisations, the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and the National Institute of Nucleare Physics (INFN). Although they are different in size, structure and mission, both institutions share a decades-long history of actions to achieve gender equality wit...

Due to the increasing trend in the use of pornography recorded in recent years, along with the decreasing age of its consumers, many studies have investigated its potential negative effects on adolescents, who are developing their social and sexual identity, often producing inconsistent results. With the present study, which is based on a large rep...

Gli studi di scenario planning costituiscono un filone consolidato di ricerca nell’ambito del CNRIRPPS, e nel tempo hanno trovato applicazione in campo nazionale e internazionale su tematiche che hanno riguardato aspetti sociali, culturali, demografici e sanitari della popolazione. Il presente studio, realizzato nell’ambito del progetto Osservatori...

L’indagine nazionale sullo stato dell’adolescenza 2023 è stata realizzata nell’ambito del progetto Osservatorio sulle Tendenze Giovanili ed è parte di un consolidato filone di studi sociopsicologici condotti dal gruppo di ricerca Mutamenti Sociali, Valutazione e Metodi (MUSA) del CNRIRPPS. L’indagine, di tipo campionario, ha coinvolto 4.288 student...

Indeterminate follicular thyroid lesions (Thyr 3A and 3B) account for 10% to 30% of all cytopathologic diagnoses, and their unpredictable behavior represents a hard clinical challenge. The possibility to preoperatively predict malignancy is largely advocated to establish a tailored surgery, preventing diagnostic thyroidectomy. We analyzed the role...

The increase in the use of the Internet, strongly boosted by the spread of COVID-19, has amplified the risk of involvement in cyberbullying and online grooming among minors. To date, most research on these phenomena has focused on middle and high school students, with fewer studies on younger children. The present study aims to fill this knowledge...

In occasione del progetto sull'attività dei CAV abruzzesi, è stata effettuata una valutazione dell'impatto sociale del nodo della rete più attivo in termini di copertura dei fabbisogni di intervento a protezione e supporto delle vittime di violenza. Si è svolto uno studio di caso nel Comune di Pescara realizzato secondo un approccio valutativo che...

This document aims at describing activity 4.1 concerning the analysis of the requirements for designing a panel management system. In this deliverable we identity high-level requirements (HLRs) for a panel management system. Then, we provide scenarios and use cases for such HLRs. Finally, for each use case we identify functional as well as non-func...

Preparation and implementation of multimodal interviews requires two blocks of preliminary intervention: a list of use cases and reference scenarios-necessary for the final design of the product-and a review of the available open source product offering including the features already available covering the identified use cases. The deliverable is c...

The Tsunami Alert Centre of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (CAT-INGV) has been promoting, since 2018, the study of tsunami risk perception in Italy. Between 2018 and 2021 a semi-structured questionnaire on the perception of tsunami risk was administered to a sample of 5842 citizens residing in 450 Italian coastal municipalitie...

The Tsunami Warning Center of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (CAT-INGV) has been promoting, since 2018, the study of tsunami risk perception in Italy. Between 2018 and 2021 the semi-structured questionnaire on the perception of tsunami risk was administered to a sample of 5,842 citizens residing in 450 Italian coastal municipa...

La diffusione del Covid-19 nel corso del 2020 ha comportato cambiamenti epocali nei comportamenti dei cittadini di tutto il mondo. Per cercare di comprendere e anticipare le reazioni indotte in particolare dal lockdown sull’agire umano, il gruppo di ricerca Mutamenti Sociali, Valutazione e Metodi (MUSA) del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Isti...

Lo scenario europeo evidenzia i tratti di un declino demografico dovuto allo strutturale calo delle nascite che potrà ormai al più essere arginato. A tal fine, le possibili misure da porre in atto dovranno riguardare sia il piano sociale e culturale sia quello organizzativo, ovvero l’erogazione di un welfare sempre più efficace ed efficiente, che p...

CNR Gender Budget: Update of key figures as of 31 December 2020

Background: The internalisation of gender stereotypes has long-term impacts on the aspirations, opportunities and psychosocial well-being of people. The main objective of this study is to measure the adherence to gender roles among children, analysing the link between their roles' internalisation, the family context and the socioeconomic environme...

Background: Studying prosociality in children is a complex but relevant issue related to the qualitative development of human interactions. The main objective of the present study is to identify the psychosocial factors that most promote or inhibit the adoption of prosocial behaviours among children. Method: In Spring 2021, a survey was conducte...

This paper investigates migrant representation patterns according to media political orientation, analyzing the coverage of key-events by liberal/con-servative online newspapers of France, Greece, Italy, UK. From our textual and visual analysis, it is possible to recognize slight specificities between liberals and conservatives, but not indicative...

Background and Objectives: Vision impairments and related blindness are major public health problems. The prevalence of eye disease and barriers to optimal care markedly vary among different geographic areas. In the Abruzzo region (central Italy), an epidemiological surveillance on the state of ocular health in the population aged over 50 years was...

La diffusione del Covid-19 è stata accompagnata da misure di contenimento che hanno imposto un ripensamento dell’organizzazione del lavoro. A partire dal lockdown nazionale della primavera del 2020 il lavoro da casa è diventato una realtà diffusa in tutto il Paese, generando in molti casi una sovrapposizione, e non una conciliazione, tra tempi di v...

Aims The educational program implemented at the Pratola Serra (Avellino, Italy) facility of the company FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles), had as its goal to raise awareness among people to adopt behaviors inspired by the principles of a Mediterranean diet, physical activity and prevention of the main cardiovascular risk factors. Methods The educati...

Stereotyping is a recurrent mind process through which our brain easily stores a large amount of information synthesising them through simplifications and generalisations. Stereotypes, particularly those related to gender, are internalised during growth, offering a rigid perspective on male and female roles within a society. Two nationwide surveys...

Background and Objectives: Vision impairments and related blindness are major public health problems. Prevalence of eye disease and barriers to optimal care markedly vary among different geographic areas. In the Abruzzo region (Central Italy), an epidemiological surveillance on the state of ocular health in the population aged over 50 years was per...

Il continuo miglioramento delle banche dati anagrafiche del CNR consente un monitoraggio puntuale delle differenze di genere degli addetti di quello che può essere ritenuto il più rappresentativo ente di ricerca nazionale, sia per la sua estensione territoriale che per la copertura di innumerevoli settori della ricerca. Questo consente già una prez...

La programmazione del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche è definita dal Piano Triennale di Attività (PTA), che costituisce il documento di programmazione a breve e medio termine che definisce gli obiettivi strategici dell’Ente per il periodo di riferimento, sia dal punto di vista scientifico sia da quello gestionale. Tali obiettivi generali vanno p...

Background: The study of adolescents' behaviours and attitudes is crucial to define interventions for the containment of deviance and social discomfort. New ways of social interaction are crystallising violent behaviours which are moving more than ever on a virtual sphere. Bullying and cyberbullying share a common behavioural matrix that has been...

This article is based on scientific evidence from a national survey carried out in Italy in 2017 on a sample of 4011 students. The results of the statistical analysis show that the potential educational role of sports is not an explicit value embedded in its practice. In these terms, today the causal link between sports and education appears to be...

Objective: Social distancing, as experienced by the Italian population during the COVID-19 outbreak, generated the long-term activation of stress-response in individuals. This has been a crucial opportunity to study the coping strategies that people put in place to adapt their lives and habits to such a unique condition. For this reason, we have i...

Objective: Social distancing is crucial in order to flatten the curve of COVID-19 virus spreading. Isolation, scarcity of resources and the lack of social contacts may have produced a negative impact on people's emotions and psychological well-being. This study aims to explore the reasons and the ways through which social distancing generates nega...

Se attraverso i dati ufficiali (ISTAT, MIUR e altre Istituzioni) si può analizzare dal punto di vista statistico il fenomeno della povertà educativa, costruendo graduatorie territoriali, na-zionali e internazionali, sono le indagini direttamente rivolte ai ragazzi, o anche agli educa-tori, a dare completezza al quadro complessivo del rischio di mar...

Il web è ormai uno strumento informativo di primaria importanza che veicola molteplici immagini della realtà sociale che incidono sull'opinione pubblica. Le migrazioni, che rappresentano un fenomeno importante e largamente percepito come critico, costituiscono un oggetto di dibattito quotidiano a livello sia mediatico che politico, molto presente s...

Questa ricerca indaga le modalità di rappresentazione dei migranti e delle migrazioni nei quotidiani online di diversi paesi europei con l’obiettivo di evidenziare le principali dimensioni tematiche affrontate e gli atteggiamenti nei confronti dei migranti e delle migrazioni che emergono dai testi degli articoli, nonché le caratteristiche iconograf...

The paper presents the results of the survey “Fratelli di Sport” (Brothers of Sport) carried out by the IRPPS in the framework of an agreement between the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies and CONI finalizing the promotion of integration policies by sport. The study aims to understand the role of the sport practice in the process of social inte...

La partecipazione dei giovani alla società comprende molteplici aspetti della vita, tra i quali le relazioni, la formazione e la strutturazione delle opinioni che condizionano gli atteggiamenti e orientano i comportamenti. Il progetto "Giovani alla Prova" (Gap) del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Cnr) - Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e...

The paper presents the results of the study carried out by the IRPPS in the framework of an agreement between the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies and the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) for the promotion of integration policies through sports. So far, two surveys have been conducted. The first one (2016-2017) involved a sample of secondary s...

Sport e integrazione sociale rappresentano un binomio apparentemente solido. L'articolo di Tintori e Cerbara propone alcune considerazioni derivanti da recenti ricerche condotte dal CNR sugli adolescenti in Italia che invece confutano l'esistenza di una relazione diretta tra pratica sportiva , interiorizzazione di valori socialmente positivi e abba...

This report has been produced during the three years activity of the H2020 GENERA project as a deliverable of the Italian working group coordinated by CNR. The report addresses the analysis of the present status of activities towards gender equality in physics research in the project partner organisations and the conceptualization of the Gender-in-...

Alla fine dell’a.s. 2016/2017 è stata effettuata un’indagine su tutte le scuole secondarie superiori di Latina. Lo studio è stato realizzato nell’ambito del progetto GAP del CNR, con lo scopo di monitorare la condizione giovanile in Italia. Il risultato della ricerca evidenzia alcune peculiarità della città di Latina, che trovano un riscontro nella...

Le dinamiche migratorie e i processi di integrazione sono ormai diventate un elemento costitutivo della società italiana. A questi temi i ricercatori e gli associati dell ' Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche hanno dedicato il presente volume, analizzando i due fenomeni dai seguenti p...

It is a case study about Women Physicists at National research Council.

While the literature continues to list the positive values conveyed by sport, the sports world and schools, which are the fundamental place where young people are confronted with peers also through the rules, they are often subject of news about deviance and violence that have nothing to do with the sporting values. With this paper the authors are...

Primi risultati di un'analisi dei quotidiani online più diffusi in Italia, Grecia, Francia e Regno Unito svolta relativa alla copertura mediatica di 8 eventi-chiave del 2016 con l'obiettivo di indagare le modalità di rappresentazione mediatica dei migranti

In the light of changes occurred in gender roles over the years, it seems useful to investigate whether the new generations adopt more equal gender roles at home and if the parents’ daily organization affects the participation of their children to domestic chores. Using data from the Istat survey on Time Use carried out in 2008-9, the paper examine...

In the light of changes occurred in gender roles over the years, it seems useful to investigate whether the new generations adopt more equal gender roles at home and if the parents' daily organization affects the participation of their children to domestic chores. Using data from the Istat survey on Time Use carried out in 2008-9, the paper examine...

Il Centro Studi e Ricerche IDOS e l’Istituto di ricerche sulla popolazione e le politiche sociali (IRPPS) del CNR hanno condotto un’indagine denominata ISS - International Student Survey, svolta nell’ambito di un progetto di ricerca comunitario sulla presenza in Europa degli studenti internazionali facente capo alla rete European Migration Network....

http://www.planning4adaptation.eu/Docs/papers/08_Working_Paper_Activity_1.1.pdf

IRPPS/CNR finalised, in 2001, a questionnaire designed to mine information about foreigners engaged in research in Italy. We found that the numerical presence of foreign researchers was not proportionately negligible with respect to the total number of researchers in Italian public research institutes. This survey therefore demonstrates that Italia...

A telephone survey dedicated to collect information concerning the opinions of Italians on the Eastern European skilled immigration, performed in January 2010, shows a country mainly concerned by unemployment, where just a minority, but not a negligible one, believes that immigration is a serious problem and Eastern Europe is only superficially kno...

Within the framework of the National Research Council project launched in 2009 on the subject Job insertion of skilled immigrants from the Eastern European countries in the province of Roma, a qualitative survey was performed on the current situation of graduate immigrants (mainly residents in Roma and Torino) coming from Eastern European countries...

Considering that the collection policy is one of the most important elements in the development of Institutional Repositories (IR), the general aim of this study is to contribute to the development of a future CNR's IR Identifying and proposing GL collections and related metadata. In this paper the results of a qualitative analysis of a sample of G...

Il presente Working Paper contiene il rapporto di ricerca dell’indagine Policy Delphi realizzata per contribuire alla definizione di un modello di Valutazione di Impatto Sanitario (VIS). L’esigenza di condurre questa indagine è nata per validare i contenuti teorici e metodologici della VIS proposta nell’ambito del Progetto Moniter, monitoraggio deg...

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The paper presents the results of a survey aiming at identifying documentation, organization as well as technological resources that could be the basis for a future development of a CNR IR. The survey makes use of a semi-structured questionnaire submitted to all CNR research units. Results show that, despite a limited number of OAI complaint reposi...

The paper presents the results of a survey aiming at identifying documentation, organization as well as technological resources that could be the basis for a future development of a CNR IR. The survey makes use of a semi-structured questionnaire submitted to all CNR research units. Results show that, despite a limited number of OAI complaint reposi...

Considering that the collection policy is one of the most important elements in the development of Institutional Repositories (IR), the general aim of this study is to contribute to the development of a future CNR's IR identifying and proposing GL collections and related metadata. In this paper the results of a qualitative analysis of a sample of G...

La rivista presenta i risultati di una ricerca sulla la qualita della vita di uomini e donne con piu di 65 anni che non lavorano e vivono in 6 citta italiane. le citta sono scelte sulla base della graduatoria delle province italiane per Ecosistema Urbano costruita da Legambiente nel 2006, che sintetizza alcuni indicatori sulla qualita ambientale at...

The image and perception of science and of scientists is a crucial topic, above all with regards to younger generations, the human capital of the future. For this reason, the National Research Council (CNR), in 2004, asked the IRPPS institute (Istituto di ricerche sulla popolazione e le politiche sociali) to carry out a sample survey of 800 people...

The side of social research that uses small samples for the production of micro data, today finds some operating difficulties due to the privacy law. The privacy code is a really important and necessary law because it guarantees the Italian citizen’s rights, as already happens in other Countries of the world. However it does not seem appropriate to...

We present the analysis of the data gathered by a survey of the foreign presence in the Italian public research institutions, trying to understand the actual push and pull factors that originate such a flow from abroad. Our analysis demonstrates that these institutes are securely connected to the international circuit of scientists. The Italian sci...

Using data for 94 provinces, three periods (1971–1973, 1981–1983 and 1991–1993), and for men and women, we present an interesting picture of the geography of adult and elderly mortality by cause of death in Italy. This picture brings into focus the North/South gap that has yet again emerged, this time in gender differences in mortality. Particular...

The project “Public understanding of Science” realized by CNR with the cooperation of the British Council aimed to promote a public debate between students - of school and university – and specialists on scientific themes of public interest; a first experiment had as subject the issue of the genetically modified organisms. The primary aim of this p...

This work describes the hierarchical classification procedure called ‘fuzzy average linkage’ which provides a fuzzy partition of a group of units. The basic principle is that the average similarity of units linked to the same group must be greater than or equal to a certain pre-set similarity level. This method is applied to mortality rates by caus...

The general attitude of local population toward immigration is one of the main variable in the process of immigrants' integration. It has a significant effect on political debate and policies themselves. The Institute for Population Research (IRP) of the National Research Council (CNR) has included this subject in three of its surveys on the attitu...

"This study analyses provincial differences in adult mortality (separately for men and women, aged 30-64 years) in Italy between 1984 [and] 1987.... By applying the fuzzy clumping method to mortality rates by cause...groups of provinces can be identified where mortality profiles (irrespective of the intensity) are not only similar for all or only f...

Il problema del rispetto della legge sulla privacy nella selezione di piccoli cam-pioni è piuttosto rilevante perché oggi non sembra pensabile di poter fare a meno di indagini campionarie per supportare la ricerca sociale. Esse sono molto utiliz-zate, per l'immediatezza con cui forniscono dati, in relazione a molti fenomeni sociali contingenti o pe...