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Gobierno abierto (GA) refiere a un paradigma sustentado por una diferente relación Estado-Ciudadano, donde se promueve la creación de espacios de encuentro y diálogo que favorezcan el protagonismo, involucramiento y deliberación en los asuntos públicos, ayudando a mejorar la representación democrática, aumentar la eficiencia gubernamental y reducir los niveles de corrupción. Actualmente, para llevar a cabo la implementación de acciones de GA, varios países se basan en los lineamientos generales dados por la organización mundial OGP (Open Government Partnership – Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto). Si bien bajo esta óptica se sugieren herramientas de auditoría, la propuesta de este estudio se basa en complementar e integrar a las ya existentes, el modelo de calidad empleado para evaluación de procesos CMMI-SVC (Capability Maturity Model Integration for Services). Este modelo provee un ordenamiento lógico orientado a la mejora, expresado en niveles de madurez, permitiendo la implementación de pequeños cambios incrementales en las organizaciones. En este trabajo se brinda un instrumento de análisis donde se clasifica la totalidad de los requerimientos sugeridos por CMMI-SVC en función de los principios de GA. Así, la herramienta propuesta facilita tanto la identificación de la situación actual como del diseño de políticas de Gobierno Abierto y su implementación. ; Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativa

The European Parliament's Report focuses on the integration processes for a particular category of refugees, considered as belonging to "vulnerable groups", namely women seeking international protection and female refugees. Women seeking international protection or refugees, in fact, are bearers of demands and needs which, in part, are specific to all those people who, often forced to abruptly abandon their countries of origin, seek protection in host countries, bringing with themselves a heavy burden of persecution, war, violence and poverty. The humanitarian response along the routes of the eastern Mediterranean and the western Balkans has set as a priority the introduction of measures to prevent sexual and gender violence in all humanitarian activities. In all reports there is an emphasis on the urgent need to make operators aware of the risks inherent in the standard reception procedures, and to ensure urgently the specific training of staff in order to put in place specific procedures to prevent, identify and respond to sexual and gender violence. This last point, in particular, will be the subject of the in-depth examination, as follows: how (and whether) the recommendations and regulations are changing the reception conditions on the southern borders of Italy; whether and to what extent the institutions responsible for reception (first or second) are equipped to deal with this emergency; how training and professional development may intervene to ensure that operators in the field are able to cope adequately with this emergency.

The olive quick decline syndrome (OQDS) is a novel disease recently emerged in southern Italy and currently threating the Mediterranean olive-growing area. The disease was found to be associated with infections caused by the exotic bacterium X. fastidiosa, well known in the Americas as the causal agent of severe diseases of important crops, i.e. grapevine and citrus. In these species, looking for resistance is regarded as one of the most promising long term control strategies. In olives, cultivars displaying differential phenotypes have been observed in the field, with symptoms ranging from virtually no decline and limited desiccation in Leccino and FS-17® to severe decline and death cvs Cellina di Nardo and Ogliarola Salentina. However, the large variability of olive genetic resources, including both cultivated and wild olives remains to be explored. Several experiments are currently ongoing aiming at detecting new sources of resistance in plant materials representative of the genetic and geographical variability of the species, including commercial cultivars, genotypes from other Olea europaea subspecies, and selections from breeding programs. Identified resistant sources could serve as parental for breeding programs, as currently underway for other vascular diseases such as Verticillium wilt. The status and challenges of the currently ongoing activities will be presented. ; Acknowledgment This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N. 727987 "Xylella fastidiosa Active Containment Through a multidisciplinary-Oriented Research Strategy XF-ACTORS".

Abstract. Distinction between drought and aridity is crucial to understand water scarcity processes. Drought indices are used for drought identification and drought severity characterisation. The Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) and the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) are the most known drought indices. In this study, they are compared with the modified PDSI for Mediterranean conditions (MedPDSI) and the Standardised Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). MedPDSI results from the soil water balance of an olive crop, thus real evapotranspiration is considered, while SPEI uses potential (climatic) evapotranspiration. Similarly to the SPI, SPEI can be computed at various time scales. Aiming at understanding possible impacts of climate change, prior to compare the drought indices, a trend analysis relative to precipitation and temperature in 27 weather stations of Portugal was performed for the period 1941 to 2006. A trend for temperature increase was observed for some weather stations and trends for decreasing precipitation in March and increasing in October were also observed for some locations. Comparisons of the SPI and SPEI at 9- and 12-month time scales, the PDSI and MedPDSI were performed for the same stations and period. SPI and SPEI produce similar results for the same time scales concerning drought occurrence and severity. PDSI and MedPDSI correlate well between them and the same happened for SPI and SPEI. PDSI and MedPDSI identify more severe droughts than SPI or SPEI and identify drought occurrence earlier than these indices. This behaviour is likely to be related with the fact that a water balance is performed with PDSI and MedPDSI, which better approaches the supply-demand balance.

Information on state-level health information technology (HIT) adoption will become increasingly important with the implementation of incentive payments to accelerate uptake. Recognizing this, the Rhode Island Department of Health selected physician HIT adoption as a subject for its legislatively mandated quality reporting program. This article discusses the state's process for developing HIT adoption measures, including the importance of stakeholder involvement in the development of a survey and the difficulty of accurately defining electronic medical record (EMR) adoption. This article describes the challenges in defining "true" EMRs, which may be addressed, in part, by ensuring local consensus about EMR measures and by piloting the survey and measures, prior to public reporting or the calculation of a statewide baseline. It also presents results from the 2009 administration of this survey to all 3,883 Rhode Island–licensed physicians providing direct patient care.

Il fenomeno migratorio del periodo contemporaneo ripropone la questione dell'integrazione, della parità dell'accesso ai diritti fondamentali e ai diritti sociali. Per i migranti che arrivano nel nostro Paese pone altresì la questione dell'accesso alla conoscenza della lingua italiana come presupposto di integrazione. Esiste, infatti, una relazione tra conoscenza della lingua ed inclusione sociale: le parole che abbiamo, ma soprattutto le parole che ci mancano, sono la misura della nostra capacità di essere cittadini. Le capacità di leggere e scrivere possono essere considerate le competenze minime necessarie per poter intraprendere un percorso di inclusione sociale (Favaro, 2011). Le parole che si conoscono, quindi, ma soprattutto quelle che non si conoscono, definiscono il campo di opportunità che ogni individuo ha a disposizione per far valere i propri diritti e doveri (De Mauro e Camilleri, 2014). La conoscenza della lingua diventa uno strumento con cui decifrare la realtà circostante, traslando la grammatica dal campo della nozione a quello dell'opportunità democratica. Per tale ragione, l'alfabetizzazione alla lingua italiana è condizione di possibilità per l'inclusione sociale, non solo perché condiziona l'accesso all'istruzione e al lavoro, ma soprattutto perché vincola le possibilità di esercitare pienamente i propri diritti civili, politici e sociali, ovvero di essere inclusi a pieno titolo all'interno della società (Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche sociali, 2016); ciò vale per tutti i migranti, ma soprattutto per coloro che tra costoro sono i più vulnerabili, i Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati (d'ora in poi denominati con l'acronimo MSNA). L'accesso a percorsi scolastici si considera, dunque, lo snodo attraverso cui i minori hanno la possibilità di acquisire diritti di partecipazione alla vita pubblica da nuovi cittadini di un Paese che prova ad accoglierli (Augelli, Lombi e Triani, 2018). Perché ciò si traduca in reale opportunità di integrazione si rende necessario garantire loro una esperienza di apprendimento in un contesto di istruzione pronto ad accogliere la sfida della loro presenza e ad offrire percorsi adeguati ai loro profili sociolinguistici.

Knowledge about the language of the country of arrival or living, is the basic for the access to citizenship rights and social rights. Knowledge of language becomes an instrument with which to decipher the surrounding reality, translating the grammar from the field to democracy. Equality also passes through the possession of the word.Starting from the hypothesis that exists a strong link between Italian language speaking, listening, comprehension capacities and in general multilingual skills and the social inclusion of young migrants, the research aims to explore two dimensions of the Life Project of Uams. The research analyses the attendance in CPIAS (Italian language teaching and learning) and the integration in the reception system, together with the interconnection between them and their interaction that characterize social inclusion perspectives of Uams. The main objective is to analyze Uams educational needs, language (illiterates, but multilingual), digital or job skills, social and family conditions both in their country of origin and in Italy in order to define UAMs socio-linguistic profile. Moreover, a goal of the research plan is to find out potential paths to base an adequate educational offer, with attention to LESLLA (Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition.

Under a Creative Commons license. ; [EN]: [Objective]: The aim of this study was to test the effects on blood pressure of a single bout of low-intensity resistance exercise combined with moderate aerobic walk-based exercise performed by active, controlled hypertensive elderly women. [Method]: Forty-two participants were randomized in two types of sessions: exercise session (n = 21), that performed a single bout of combined exercise and control session (n = 21) that keep in rest during the bout. Pre-session, post-session and post-24-hour systolic, diastolic and mean pressure values were evaluated and compared between groups. [Results]: Statistical significant reductions were achieved just after the performed bout (7% of reduction) and 24 hours after the bout (9% of reduction) on the diastolic blood pressure values in the exercise session group. [Conclusions]: In this population, a single bout of combined session is feasible and safe and has a hypotensive effect on diastolic blood pressure in both immediately and after 24 hours post exercise. ; [ES]: [Objetivo]: Comprobar el efecto hipotensivo que una sola sesión de ejercicio combinado puede tener sobre la presión arterial de mujeres hipertensas controladas y mayores de 65 años. [Método]: Cuarenta y dos participantes fueron asignadas aleatoriamente a dos grupos de sesiones: sesión de entrenamiento (n = 21) que realizó una sola sesión de ejercicios combinados y sesión control (n = 21) que mantuvo reposo durante la misma. Antes, después y tras 24 horas desde la sesión, los valores de presión sistólica, diastólica y medios fueron evaluados y comparados entre grupos. [Resultados]: Se encontraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre los grupos tras la realización de la sesión (7% de reducción) y tras 24 horas (9% de reducción) en los valores de presión arterial diastólica media del grupo experimental. [Conclusiones]: En esta población una sola sesión de ejercicio combinado se propone como aplicable y segura y tiene un efecto hipotensivo en la presión diastólica tanto inmediatamente después como pasadas 24 horas de la intervención. ; The present study was supported by grants from the Government of Andalusia. Andalusia Center for Development Biology provided human and infrastructure resources. Jesús del Pozo-Cruz was awarded a predoctoral fellowship funded by the proyect IMD2010-SC002 from the Andalusia Center of Sport Medicine on behalf of the Government of Andalusia. ; Open Access funded by Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía. ; Peer Reviewed

Abstract. In this paper, we report the observation of a significant decrease of the vertical component of the atmospheric electrical field in the Évora region (Portugal) during the M = 4.1 Sousel earthquake of 27 March 2010. The epicentre of the earthquake was 52 km from the observation site, which falls within the theoretical earthquake preparation radius. A simple interpretation based on hypothetical radon emissions is presented, and future experiments required to elucidate these observations are outlined. To our knowledge, this is the first reported observation of a decrease of the atmospheric electrical field preceding an earthquake.