scholarly journals Cycling for a Sustainable Touristic Mobility: A Preliminary Study in an Urban Area of Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 13375
Author(s):  
Gabriella Mazzulla ◽  
Maria Grazia Bellizzi ◽  
Laura Eboli ◽  
Carmen Forciniti
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Degree Of Protection ◽  
Latent Constructs ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Physical Comfort ◽  
Critical Aspects

This study wants to give a contribution for the investigation of sustainable mobility with positive consequences on public health implementing policies starting from cyclists’ perceptions. Data were collected by interviewing cyclists along three bike lanes of an urban area of southern Italy through a face-to-face survey. The survey was conducted in Autumn 2019, interviewing a sample of 129 cyclists. In order to identify the critical aspects of the bike paths, both an importance-performance analysis (IPA) and a gap-IPA were performed. The average values of the cyclists’ perceptions of each aspect have been considered as performance values. The importance values have been obtained by performing a principal component analysis (PCA), which was helpful also for better defining the service quality phenomenon. From the PCA, six latent constructs can be identified as: “Physical Nuisance”; “Non-physical Nuisance”; “Physical Comfort”; “Non-physical Comfort”; “Protection”; and “Ambience”. The results of Gap-IPA confirmed that the criticalities of the bike paths relate to the degree of protection in relation to accidents, and to the degree of nuisance caused by pollution and opposing pedestrians along the path. Based on the conducted analyses, sustainable tourism implementing policies should be oriented in solving the emerged criticalities of the existing bike paths. The results of Gap-IPA are very intuitive and can certainly be helpful for identifying the most convenient strategies.

scholarly journals Distress Regulates Different Pathways in the Brain of Common Carp: A Preliminary Study

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 585
Author(s):  
Alexander Burren ◽  
Constanze Pietsch
Keyword(s):  
Gene Regulation ◽  
Common Carp ◽  
Binding Protein ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Point Estimation ◽  
Early Gene ◽  
Important Species ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Brain

In this study, a stress trial was conducted with common carp, one of the most important species in aquaculture worldwide, to identify relevant gene regulation pathways in different areas of the brain. Acute distress due to exposure to air significantly activated the expression of the immediate early gene c-fos in the telencephalon. In addition, evidence for regulation of the two corticotropin-releasing factor (crf) genes in relation to their binding protein (corticotropin-releasing hormone-binding protein, crh-bp) is presented in this preliminary study. Inferences on the effects of due to exposure to air were obtained by using point estimation, which allows the prediction of a single value. This constitutes the best description to date of the previously generally unknown effects of stress in different brain regions in carp. Furthermore, principal component analyses were performed to reveal possible regulation patterns in the different regions of the fish brain. In conclusion, these preliminary studies on gene regulation in the carp brain that has been influenced by exposure to a stressor reveal that a number of genes may be successfully used as markers for exposure to unfavourable conditions.

Sharing Geophysical Data for Seismic Characterization of the Matera (Southern Italy) Urban Area

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Tragni ◽  
G. Calamita ◽  
L. Lastilla ◽  
V. Belloni ◽  
R. Ravanelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Geophysical Data ◽  
Seismic Characterization

scholarly journals Latent constructs underlying sensory subtypes in children with autism: A preliminary study

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1364-1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittany N. Hand ◽  
Simon Dennis ◽  
Alison E. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Children With Autism ◽  
Latent Constructs ◽  
Preliminary Study

scholarly journals The effects of educational media on children’s language development: A case study

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 433-443
Author(s):  
Malini Ganapathy ◽  
Amareena Jayabalam
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Educational Media ◽  
Negative Part ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
One Year

The descriptive  research examines the effects of educational media on children’s language development . It aims to answer the following questions; a) To what extend does the educational media influences the children’s language development? b)  Do parents interact with their children during co-viewing ? Since many of the children in this era are exposed to educational media programs/apps/ games at a very young age, it is important for the researcher to find out the extend educational media influences children’s language development and  do parents co-view and interact with the children.  Five parents with children from age one year of age to pre-school were interviewed face to face. The research is carried out at Seberang Perai Urban Area targeting parents who send their children to middle income kindergartens. Face to face interviews were carried out to find out to what extend educational media  influences on children’s language development and to find out whether parents co-view and interact with their children. Upon completion of the data collection , the results will be used to determine the positive and negative part of educational media on children’s language development and how parents co-view and interactions can  benefit them.

scholarly journals Regional Seismic Characterization of Shallow Subsoil of Northern Apulia (Southern Italy)

Geosciences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 416
Author(s):  
Enrico Paolucci ◽  
Giuseppe Cavuoto ◽  
Giuseppe Cosentino ◽  
Monia Coltella ◽  
Maurizio Simionato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Carbonate Platform ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Ambient Vibration ◽  
Resonance Effects ◽  
Resonance Phenomena ◽  
Single Station ◽  
Seismic Characterization

A first-order seismic characterization of Northern Apulia (Southern Italy) has been provided by considering geological information and outcomes of a low-cost geophysical survey. In particular, 403 single-station ambient vibration measurements (HVSR techniques) distributed within the main settlements of the area have been considered to extract representative patterns deduced by Principal Component Analysis. The joint interpretation of these pieces of information allows the identification of three main domains (Gargano Promontory, Bradanic Through and Southern Apennines Fold and Thrust Belt), each characterized by specific seismic resonance phenomena. In particular, the Bradanic Through is homogeneously characterized by low frequency (<1 Hz) resonance effects associated with relatively deep (>100 m) seismic impedance, which is contrasting corresponding to the buried Apulian carbonate platform and/or sandy horizons located within the Plio-Pleistocene deposits. In the remaining ones, relatively high frequency (>1 Hz) resonance phenomena are ubiquitous due to the presence of shallower impedance contrasts (<100 m), which do not always correspond to the top of the geological bedrock. These general indications may be useful for a preliminary regional characterization of seismic response in the study area, which can be helpful for an effective planning of more detailed studies targeted to engineering purposes.

scholarly journals Text Relationship dalam Jejaring Sosial di Kalangan Dewasa Muda (Studi Awal dengan Pendekatan Fenomenologis)

Humaniora ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 518
Author(s):  
Esther Widhi Andangsari
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Interaction Pattern ◽  
Online Interaction ◽  
The Real ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Preliminary Study

This study is a preliminary study about social networking and text relationship among young adulthood. The purpose of this study is to get information or description about text relationship through social networking. Method of this study is qualitative method with phenomenology approach. The phenomenon of using social networking to build relationship with others is growing popular especially among young adulthood. Observing this phenomenon accurately, there is a changing in interaction pattern. It was a physically interaction or face to face interaction. But as growing popularity of technology or internet access, today interaction can do through online and without face to face interaction. Surprisingly, this online interaction and without face to face interaction is very popular at the present. From this preliminary study, the findings are social networking become a media to share emotion, opinion openly among people. Text relationship through social networking also need emotional setting which is substituted electronically and it is virtual emotional and not the real emotional. Social networking still give a chance to people to gather face to face, not only virtual gathering. 

Dimensioni e direttrici del mutamento socio-economico in prospettiva territoriale dal 1951 a oggi

2013 ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Domenico Maddaloni ◽  
Fiorenzo Parziale
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Italian Provinces ◽  
History Of

In this study we go back to examine the economic and sociological changes throughout the local contexts and divisions of our country. The instrument used is a research strategy that combines a two-phase principal component analysis developed by Di Franco and Marradi with multiple linear regression. From data inherent to four key moments in the recent history of Southern Italy and the whole country - 1951, 1971, 1991 and 2007 - we obtain four «photographs» of dimensions that clarify the structure of the selected variables. We then propose two models of path analysis that underline the causal links between the factors emerged from the PCA, in order to reconstruct the socio-economic changes in the Italian provinces from 1951 to 2007.

scholarly journals Sociodemographic and Regional Determinants of Dietary Patterns in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Maksimov ◽  
Natalia Karamnova ◽  
Svetlana Shalnova ◽  
Oksana Drapkina
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Patterns ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Russian Population ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Posteriori Analysis

An empirical assessment of diets using a posteriori analysis allows us to define actual dietary patterns (DPs) in the food consumption structure of a population. This study represents an a posteriori assessment of DPs for the Russian population in general as well as their dependence on socio-demographic and regional parameters. The data were obtained from 21,923 individuals aged 25–64 years old from a Russian multicenter study of “Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Regions of the Russian Federation” conducted in 2013–2014. Cross-sectional study subjects were interviewed face-to-face in order to obtain data on their diet. DPs were defined using principal component analysis. Four DPs were specified as “Rational”, “Salt”, “Meat”, and “Mixed”; all these variants together accounted for 55.9% of variance. Diets in gender and age groups corresponded to those for an all-Russian population; in several regions, the defined diets differed from the all-Russian ones. More favorable diet trends were observed among women, people with no family, people not working, and urban dwellers, and diet trends were more favorable with an increase in age, level of education, and material wealth. Thus, a posteriori DPs were defined for the Russian population, which were stable in sex/age groups and were mediated by the socio-demographic characteristics of the population.

scholarly journals Application of field surveys and multitemporal in-SAR interferometry analysis in the recognition of deep-seated gravitational slope deformation of an urban area of Southern Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1327-1345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Bentivenga ◽  
Salvatore I. Giano ◽  
Beniamino Murgante ◽  
Gabriele Nolè ◽  
Giuseppe Palladino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Slope Deformation ◽  
Sar Interferometry ◽  
Field Surveys
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