Chapters in this book
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Chapter Are Italian youngsters adequately equipped for an after-pandemic upswing?
(2023)
Are Italian youngsters adequately equipped for an after-pandemic upswing?All over the world young people seem to be particularly dazed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Indeed, they were touched just lightly by the disease, though ...
Chapter On the utility of treating a vineyard against Plasmopara viticola: a Bayesian analysis
(2023)
Plasmopara viticola is the causal agent of the downy mildew, the most severe disease of grapevines. In order to prevent and/or mitigate the plant disease, fungicide treatments are often required, despite the presence of ...
Chapter The Land Cover/Use Code of the new Istat Census cartography
(2023)
ISTAT census layers, realized by ISTAT since 1991, are in update; this kind of digital cartography divides the entire national territory in very small enumeration areas to which are linked all the variables gathered during ...
Chapter Assessing intimate partner violence in African countries through a model-based composite indicator
(2023)
Violence against women has been recognised to affect all dimensions of women’s lives and health, involving both the physical and mental conditions of victims and their general well-being. Intimate partner violence (IPV) – ...
Chapter Individual and social aspects of after-Covid-19 pandemic depression
(2023)
How did individual and social aspects influence depression feelings during the pandemic? In this paper, we analyse the data collected through a survey conducted in the second half of 2021 among a convenience sample of ...
Chapter Access to emergency care services and inequalities in living standards: Some evidence from two Italian northern regions
(2023)
Rapid access to emergency medical care is crucial in reducing the implications of negative health events in terms of both mortality and disability. Thus, in a well-designed health system the geographical distribution of ...
Chapter Cultural and sensorial correlates of Trebbiano wine consumption
(2023)
In this paper we highlight the sensorial and cultural correlates of the consumption of Trebbiano wine produced in the Abruzzo region, Italy. The data have been collected through a questionnaire survey on a sample of 48 ...
Chapter On the use of auxiliary information in spatial sampling
(2023)
Technology development has led to a growing availability of low-cost data ready-to-use, frequently derived from large scale observations (i.e. data from pervasive systems like GPS sensors, or remote sensing data from earth ...
Chapter Educational mismatch and productivity: evidence from LEED data on Italian firms
(2023)
This study aims at evaluating the impact of educational mismatch onto firm-level productivity for a large set of Italian firms. In particular, over (under)-education refers to situations where individual’s educational ...
Chapter Professional choices and personal values: Similarities and differences between Schein’s career anchors and Schwartz basic values
(2023)
Consistency between personal values and career choices is essential to achieve job satisfaction and to attain positive career outcomes and self-realization. Schwartz and Bilsky (1987) propose ten basic values, measured ...