(English) More than a decade after the publication of the Science and Society report by the House of Lords, which introduced concepts such as dialogue and public engagement that significantly contributed to change theories and practices of science communication, it seemed reasonable to take some...

(English) This paper examines the issue of participatory processes in the waste management, particularly its integration into planning and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) processes. The attention is focused on the dialogic aspects of the public participation: after an analysis of the...

(English) In this paper we present the trends over the last decade of some of the most significant indicators regarding the attention dedicated to scientific research by the EU member countries. In particular, we consider the number of researchers, both as total number and full-time equivalent,...

(English) The Italian population is ageing at a considerable pace and will continue so even more intensively in the next decades, when the more crowded generations of the baby boom of the sixties of the last century will be entering old age. The impact of this growing number of elderly is an...

(English) The report presents data from a survey carried out by the Irpps-CNR in the context of its participation with the Accademia delle Scienze to the project funded by the Ministry of Education, L.6/2000 "Biodiversity: an essential resource of nature. Knowledge and appreciation through...

(English) The article afford the issue of human resources in Italy and the contribution that its development might have to a sustainable recovery of the Italian economy. With the start of the new seven-year program of the European Social Fund (ESF), there is a concrete opportunity of consistent...

(English) One of the recurrent criticisms to the cosmopolitan democracy project has been that it has not highlighted which are the political and social forces that will have an interest to pursue this agenda. This criticism is addressed in this paper, showing that there are a variety of actions...

(English) Aim of this paper is to investigate into the differences in the first treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) among Italian regional health care systems, by focusing on the regional distribution of in-hospital deaths. Starting from the theoretical care pathway (from the onset of...

(English) This paper proposes the analysis and design of a data warehouse based on the Italian Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) infrastructure. In particular, it outlines the benefits in the use of the EHR as a Business Intelligence tool, focusing on the system administration and governance...

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