Aim Research into social networking addiction has greatly increased over the last decade. However, the number of validated instruments assessing addiction to social networking sites (SNSs) remains few, and none have been validated in the Italian language. Consequently, this study tested the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS), as wel...

In this paper we discuss how a mathematical approach can be used to solve a serious drawback in the current Italian electoral system for the election of representatives at the Chamber of Deputies and suggest a methodology which is close to the one traditionally adopted in the Italian electoral history, but able to guarantee a more transparent, logical and fairer solution to the problem of trans...

pected number from a general population of the same age and sex was not done. This might have affected the trend assessment , because age-related residual confounding might have partially determined the increase in non–AIDS-defining cancers (ie, the median age of HIV-infected people was 46 years in 2005 and 41 years in 2000) [1]. Taking advantage of population-based data used for assessing post...

The findings from a number of recent studies indicate that, even in cases of successful bilingual first language acquisition, the possibility remains of a certain degree of crosslinguistic influence when the choice between syntactic options is affected by discourse pragmatics. In this study we focussed on the use of referring expressions, prime candidates to test the interaction between syntax ...

BACKGROUND Charges for health services help contain healthcare costs. Despite showing that medicine consumption decreases when charges are increased there is little research that illuminates how doctors 'manage' the charge system to help patients who cannot afford treatment. This paper describes how the charge system influences the prescribing decisions of Italian and UK physicians. METHODS T...

After the approval of the law on voluntary abortion in Italy, the Italian health care system started to practice voluntary abortion before the third month of pregnancy. Since 1980, the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) began to collect data on the abortion frequency per month and per administrative local areas. Although a preliminary analysis of the data showed that, after an initial incr...

Irreality and modality often converge in the literature. Nevertheless, there are grounds to keep the two notions separate. The effort of defining irreality in non-modal terms leads to redefine irreality as a supercategory encompassing three close conceptual domains concerned with the non-actualization of a SoA: counterfactuality, non-exclusion of factuality and non-referentiality. This article ...