(English) Nell’ultimo mezzo secolo, gli studi di popolazione hanno conosciuto un’evoluzione profonda per ampiezza del campo d’interesse e per livello d’approfondimento delle matrici socioeconomiche e culturali dei comportamenti demograficamente rilevanti. Alla crescente esigenza di...

(English) More than 500 students from upper secondary schools in Rome and Provincia of Rome have been questioned about science: from information channels to the science policy decision making, from scientific path at school (including textbooks and laboratories) to scientific profession and...

(English) Cancer prevalence is the proportion of people in a population diagnosed with cancer in the past and still alive. One way to estimate prevalence is via population-based registries, where data on diagnosis and life status of all incident cases occurring in the covered population are...

(English) To reduce costs and enhance the research quality in clinical trials (CT) a more systematic approach is needed for CT automatization as well as for enhancing interoperability at various levels of the research process. To this aim a conceptual model of CTs should be developed. At the...

(English) Within the European Union important steps towards convergence have been nowadays taking place as regards two different dimensions of migratory policies: immigration policies (entry and stay, asylum and border controls) and immigrant policies (integration process). In this context the...

(English) An important aspect of science education is represented by textbooks. Textbooks provide a context for understanding the relationship between knowledge and values, and to observe how the research results are presented to the society. In this working paper we analyze how the phenomenon...

(English) In this work the Delphi participative methodology is analyzed, considering and critically discussing the most relevant literature. The main results are reorganized in a strengths and weaknesses scheme. The analysis of Delphi methodology is preceded by a general introduction on the...

(English) This article questions the increasing use of “happiness” or “subjective well-being” in order to evaluate public policies and social conditions. In more scientific words, can the blossoming economics of happiness revive the economics of welfare, which is said to be dying? The...

(English) This paper explores two research projects, the Farm Scale Evaluation (FSE) in the UK and GMOs in Agriculture in Italy. It asks what political, social or economic factors contributed to scientific responses to negative public opinion. The data I use for this paper range from mass media...

(English) Brain drain is a phenomenon that Greece has experienced since late 1950, which has continued in subsequent decades and intensified over the 1990s. Although there was, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a political and economic situation more stable than in the past, the...