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La sostenibilità è un tema ampio che non riguarda solo le politiche istituzionali e le scelte aziendali, ma anche persone qualunque e comportamenti di acquisto e di consumo. Per esempio, il cibo è un tema fortemente connesso alla sostenibilità. Avendo a che fare con la salute e la sensibilità ambientale, la sostenibilità influenza spesso scelte dietetiche, anche se non è ancora chiaro quanto sia forte il condizionamento della sostenibilità sulle persone, se queste siano effettivamente condizionate dal problema, e se il condizionamento provenga da processi diretti e coscienti o da scelte economiche o inconsce. Allo stesso tempo, ciò che emerge è una contraddizione generale tra conoscenze, convinzioni, opinioni, valori professati e comportamenti effettivi: i consumatori agiscono in modo diverso e incoerente rispetto alle loro intenzioni e dichiarazioni. Le loro opinioni e i loro atteggiamenti sono spesso contraddittori, e la coscienza della sostenibilità professata (anche nelle indagini) non corrisponde alle abitudini e comportamenti come consumatori (Biel e Dahlstrand, 2005). Lo scopo di questo lavoro è indagare il rapporto tra sostenibilità e consumo di cibo dal punto di vista dei processi di scelta dei consumatori (De Luca, 2006). Si tenta anche di capire se le scelte dei consumatori siano influenzate dai valori di sostenibilità e se e come questa relazione sia influenzata dalla rappresentazione mediatica della sostenibilità. Per raggiungere tali obiettivi abbiamo condotto diversi tipi di studio: una ricerca qualitativa – interviste con opinion leader e consumatori (giovani e adulti); una ricerca qualitativa con focus group nel Nord e nel Sud Italia; due indagini quantitative condotte nel 2010 e nel 2011 con il coinvolgimento, nel primo caso di circa mille persone di età compresa tra i 18 e i 65 anni e nel secondo di 1.000 giovani di età compresa tra i 18 e i 28 anni; un test sull'impatto della comunicazione sui processi di scelta del consumatore attraverso un esperimento di prefigurazioni di gusto. Il progetto è stato realizzato con il coinvolgimento di gruppi di ricerca dell'Università IULM di Milano, che ha coordinato l'intero progetto, e di gruppi di ricerca delle Università Statali di Milano, Catania e Palermo. ; Sustainability is a broad subject which concerns not only institutional policies and corporate choices, but also ordinary people purchase and consumption behaviors. For instance, food is an issue strongly connected to sustainability. Concerning health and environmental sensitivity, sustainability often influences diet choices, although it is still not clear how much people are actually conditioned by this issue, and whether such conditioning comes from direct and conscious processes or from profitable or unconscious choices. At the same time, what emerges is a general contradiction between knowledge, beliefs, opinions, professed values and actual behaviors; consumers act differently and inconsistently with respect to their intentions and declarations. Their opinions and attitudes are often contradictory, and the professed sustainability consciousness (in surveys too) doesn't match with their habits and behaviors as consumers (Biel e Dahlstrand, 2005). The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between sustainability and food consumption from the perspective of consumer choice processes (De Luca, 2006). It is also to understand if these consumer choices are influenced by the values of sustainability and whether, and how this relationship is influenced by media representation of the issue of sustainability. To achieve these objectives we conducted several types of study: qualitative research interviews with opinion leaders and consumers (youth and adults); qualitative research with focus groups in northern and southern Italy, two quantitative surveys conducted in 2010 and 2011 with involvement (in the first survey) about one thousand people aged between 18 and 65 years and (in the second survey) of 1.000 young people aged between 18 and 28 years; a survey on the influence of communication on the perception of taste and investigation techniques for implicit confirmation of the data collected using traditional methodology (the questionnaire). The project was implemented with theinvolvement of research teams from the IULM University of Milan, from the State University of Milan, Catania and Palermo.

During the first months of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected several countries all over the world, including Italy. To prevent the spread of the virus, governments instructed employers and self-employed workers to close their offices and work from home. Thus, the use of remote working increased during the pandemic and is expected to maintain high levels of application even after the emergency. Despite its benefits for both organizations and workers, remote working entails negative consequences, such as technostress. The present study had a double aim: to test the psychometric characteristics of the Italian translation of the brief version of the technostress creators scale and to apply the scale to investigate technostress during the Covid-19 emergency. The research involved 878 participants for the first study and 749 participants for the second one; they completed a self-report online questionnaire. Results confirmed the three-factor structure of the Italian technostress creators scale and highlighted positive relationships between workload, techno-stressors, work–family conflict and behavioural stress. The role of remote working conditions has been analysed as well. The study provided a useful tool for the investigation of technostress in the Italian context. Moreover, it provided indications for practice in the field of remote working and workers' wellbeing

The field of regenerative medicine is moving toward clinical practice in veterinary science. In this context, placenta-derived stem cells isolated from domestic animals have covered a dual role, acting both as therapies for patients and as a valuable cell source for translational models. The biological properties of placenta-derived cells, comparable among mammals, make them attractive candidates for therapeutic approaches. In particular, stemness features, low immunogenicity, immunomodulatory activity, multilineage plasticity, and their successful capacity for long-term engraftment in different host tissues after autotransplantation, allo-transplantation, or xenotransplantation have been demonstrated. Their beneficial regenerative effects in domestic animals have been proven using preclinical studies as well as clinical trials starting to define the mechanisms involved. This is, in particular, for amniotic-derived cells that have been thoroughly studied to date. The regenerative role arises from a mutual tissue-specific cell differentiation and from the paracrine secretion of bioactive molecules that ultimately drive crucial repair processes in host tissues (e.g., anti-inflammatory, antifibrotic, angiogenic, and neurogenic factors). The knowledge acquired so far on the mechanisms of placenta-derived stem cells in animal models represent the proof of concept of their successful use in some therapeutic treatments such as for musculoskeletal disorders. In the next future, legislation in veterinary regenerative medicine will be a key element in order to certify those placenta-derived cell-based protocols that have already demonstrated their safety and efficacy using rigorous approaches and to improve the degree of standardization of cell-based treatments among veterinary clinicians.