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Psychiatric admission among migrants: a retrospective study in acute psychiatric ward in Bologna, Italy
- M. Galatolo, R. Biagini, G. D’Andrea, M. Farruggio, A.L. Carloni, G. Iuzzolino, D. Allegri, C. Descovich, R. Muratori, I. Tarricone
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- European Psychiatry / Volume 65 / Issue S1 / June 2022
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- 01 September 2022, p. S547
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Introduction
Numerous evidences point out how migrants use health services differently than the natives. Migrants turn more frequently to the ED for psychiatric problems and less to territorial psychiatric services than the native population. Other differences can be found in terms of diagnosis, type of discharge, type of hospitalization.
ObjectivesOur study has the objective of evaluating the incidence of psychiatric hospitalizations of migrant patients compared to natives in a well-defined area of the metropolitan city of Bologna and evaluate the effect of the Covid 19 pandemic on the incidence of psychiatric hospitalizations among migrants and on their clinical characteristics.
MethodsThe study conducted is of an observational and retrospective type on migrant and native patients admitted to the psychiatric unit “SPDC-Malpighi” of the DSM-DP of Bologna AUSL between 01/01/2018 and 31/12/2020.
ResultsMigrants were more likely to be admitted via ED and less likely to be referred from a CMHC or from non-psychiatric hospital unit compared with natives. Most migrants were discharged at home while natives more frequently chose to self-discharge. With regard to diagnosis, migrants were more likely to be admitted due to a SSD, while natives were more likely to be diagnosed with a MD or SUD.
ConclusionsWe confirm the presence of differences in access to care, type of discharge and type of diagnosis between migrants and natives. Further studies to investigate changes in pre and post Covid admissions in migrants would be needed.
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P03-300 - Correlates Of Non-Fatal Suicidal Behaviors In Patients Admitted To An Acute Psychiatric Unit: A Control-Case Study
- F. Moretti, S. Biagini, R. Bonafede, V. Bernabei, D. De Ronchi, A.R. Atti, M. Bellini
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- European Psychiatry / Volume 25 / Issue S1 / 2010
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- 17 April 2020, 25-E1354
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To investigate the prevalence of non-fatal suicide behaviors (NFSBs) among patients admitted to an acute psychiatric ward in Bologna, Northern Italy.
Methods30 attempters (mean age 45.10±16.12 years) consecutively hospitalized (May-July 2009) were compared to 117 controls randomly selected among patients admitted in the same ward for other reasons than NFSBs. Socio-demographical and clinical information were collected through the retrospective consultation of case-histories. Attempters were clinically interviewed and the Suicide Intent Scale (SIS) was administered. Clinical diagnoses were achieved using the International Classification of Disease-10th Revision (ICD-10) criteria. Associations between non-fatal suicide behaviors and covariates were evaluated by logistic regression analyses, estimating Odds Ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI).
ResultsCases were more often women (63.3%), Italians (83.3%), unemployed (63.3%) and had a lower education (70.8%) than controls. Among attempters, most frequent diagnoses were personality disorders (56.7%) and mood disorders (50%); the 56.7% of cases was affected by concomitant organic disease (OR compared to controls:2.58; 95%CI=1.13-5.85). Stressful life-events were three-fold more frequent in cases than in controls; incongruous drugs assumption was the most common suicidal behaviours. A previous NFSB was highly prevalent in cases (46.7% p< 0.001) with a significantly association (OR:9.01; 95%CI=3.42-23.71) independent from socio-demographic features and diagnoses. SIS mean score was 11.6 ± 7.3 (low intention=53.3%, moderate intention=40%, high intention=6.7%. Increasing intention was associated with a longer duration of hospitalisation (p=0.005).
ConclusionsNFSBs are associated with distinct socio-demographic and clinical profiles. Routine assessment of intentionality might help to identify subjects at higher risk of relapse.
6 - Protestants
- from PART I - Geography, Occupations and Social Classes
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- By Andrew R. Holmes, Lecturer in Modern Irish History, Queen's University Belfast, Eugenio F. Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge
- Edited by Eugenio F. Biagini, University of Cambridge, Mary E. Daly, University College Dublin
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- The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland
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- 09 August 2018
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- 27 April 2017, pp 88-111
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Introduction
The Protestants of Ireland are a complex community, made so by social, denominational, political, economic and geographical factors. Since the early seventeenth century, there have been tensions between, on the one hand, Church of Ireland Protestants in the south, the self-styled natural leaders of Ireland with their ties to the land and the state, and, on the other, Presbyterian-dominated Ulster with its tenant farmers, industrial character and often cantankerous disposition. Of course, this simplistic dichotomy obscures social and economic divisions within both communities and the numerically small but dynamic subculture of Protestant churches and sects that have contributed much to the development of the island. Given its often bewildering variety, historians have struggled to describe the complexity of this group.
Confessional State, Enlightenment and Rebellion, 1740–1800
Ireland in the 1740s, according to S. J. Connolly, was an ancien régime society in which religious inequalities were inseparable from social hierarchy and landownership. The dominance of the members of the established episcopal Church of Ireland was predicated on the rights of landed property, not the rights of numbers. The religious allegiance of the Irish population had been determined in the previous century by population movements rather than conversion. Three-quarters to four-fifths of the population were Catholic and though various Protestants were at certain times compelled to make common cause, Irish religious divisions were not simply binary – tensions between Protestants were as important and contributed to the remarkable events of 1798 when Presbyterian rebels in Ulster joined with Catholic insurgents in the south to overthrow in part the political, social and economic ascendancy of episcopal Protestants. The confessional divisions expressed during the Williamite wars had largely subsided by the 1740s. The Age of Reason had cooled somewhat the religious temperature of the previous century, though it was the ‘good behaviour’ of Irish Catholics during the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745 that is perhaps more important. The penal laws played their part, but those against Catholic religious practice quickly entered abeyance whereas those concerned with landownership were rigorously enforced.
Studio delle Modificazioni Morfo-Funzionali delle Cellule Endoteliali in Gravidanze Gemellari
- R. Staffolani, G. Biagini, A. Pugnaloni, E. Salvolini, N. Cester, C. Romanini
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- Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research / Volume 43 / Issue 1-2 / April 1994
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- 01 August 2014, p. 116
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- April 1994
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Le gravidanze gemellari sono caratterizzate da riduzioni delle dimensioni del feto accompagnati dai corrispondenti riduzioni placentari, come precedentemente riportato. Anche modificazioni sono state evidenziate a carico degli altri annessi embrionali, mentre varie sono le problematiche non risolte. Pertanto noi abbiamo voluto valutare le caratteristiche morfofunzionali delle vene ombelcali cordonali di gemelli dicoriali confrontandoli con quelle di gravidanze normali a termine. Sono stati analizzati i cordoni ombelicali di gravidanze a termine e da una gravidanza gemellare dicoriale recisi dalla placenta subito dopo il parto. È stata utilizzata la microscopia elettronica a trasmissione (TEM) e a scansione (SEM). Per l'indagine immuno istochimica è stata impiegata la tecnica del complesso avidina-biotina perossidasi. Le cellule endoteliali sono state ottenute con il metodo di Jaffe e per gli studi di fluorescenza è stata utilizzata la sonda l-(4 trimetilaminofenil) 6 fenil-1,3,5 — esatriene (TMA-DPH).
Nei cordoni ombelicali ottenuti da gravidanze normali a termine esse presentano una completa fase di differenziamento. Abbiamo infatti osservato: 1) elementi modicamente appiattiti, 2) protrusioni citoplasmatiche, 3) vescicole di pinocitosi e citoplasmatiche, 4) aggregati di lisomi, 5) corpi di Weibel e Palade, 6) nucleo lenticolare, 7) nucleo evidente con predominante eucromatina. La tonaca media appare ricca di fibrocellule muscolari lisce ricche di filamenti di tipo contrattile. Nei gemelli le celule endoteliali appaiono globose con aspetti di attività cellulare come anche confermato dagli studi biochimici. Le cellule muscolari sottostaminali risultano assai ricche di reticolo ergastoplasmatico e con fenotipo sintetico.
In conclusione per quanto concerne il cordone ombelicale quanto da noi osservato istochimicamente ultrastrutturalmente biochimicamente pare sottolineare uno stato di minor maturità delle gravidanze gemellari rispetto ai controlli normali a termine.
The SPARC/X SASE-FEL Projects
- D. ALESINI, S. BERTOLUCCI, M.E. BIAGINI, R. BONI, M. BOSCOLO, M. CASTELLANO, A. CLOZZA, G.. DI PIRRO, A. DRAGO, A. ESPOSITO, M. FERRARIO, V. FUSCO, A. GALLO, A. GHIGO, S. GUIDUCCI, M. INCURVATI, C. LIGI, F. MARCELLINI, M. MIGLIORATI, C. MILARDI, A. MOSTACCI, L. PALUMBO, L. PELLEGRINO, M. PREGER, P. RAIMONDI, R. RICCI, C. SANELLI, M. SERIO, F. SGAMMA, B. SPATARO, A. STECCHI, A. STELLA, F. TAZZIOLI, C. VACCAREZZA, M. VESCOVI, C. VICARIO, M. ZOBOV, F. ALESSANDRIA, A. BACCI, I. BOSCOLO, F. BROGGI, S. CIALDI, C. DE MARTINIS, D. GIOVE, C. MAROLI, V. PETRILLO, M. ROMÈ, L. SERAFINI, P. MUSUMECI, M. MATTIOLI, L. CATANI, E. CHIADRONI, S. TAZZARI, F. CIOCCI, G. DATTOLI, A. DORIA, F. FLORA, G.P. GALLERANO, L. GIANNESSI, E. GIOVENALE, G. MESSINA, L. MEZI, P.L. OTTAVIANI, L. PICARDI, M. QUATTROMINI, A. RENIERI, C. RONSIVALLE, A. CIANCHI, C. SCHAERF, J.B. ROSENZWEIG
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- Laser and Particle Beams / Volume 22 / Issue 3 / July 2004
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- 01 July 2004, pp. 341-350
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SPARC and SPARX are two different initiatives toward an Italian Free Electron Laser (FEL) source operating in the Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission (SASE) mode, in which several national research institutions are involved. SPARC is a high gain FEL project devoted to provide a source of visible and VUV radiation while exploiting the SASE mechanism. An advanced Photo-Injector system, emittance compensating RF-gun plus a 150 MeV Linac, will inject a high quality e-beam into the undulator to generate high brilliance FEL radiation in the visible region at the fundamental wavelength, (∼500 nm). The production of flat top drive laser beams, high peak current bunches, and emittance compensation scheme will be investigated together with the generation of higher harmonic radiation in the VUV region. SPARX is the direct evolution of such a high gain SASE FEL toward the 13.5 and 1.5 nm operating wavelengths, at 2.5 GeV. To get the required value for the bunch peak current, Ipeak ≈ 2.5 kA, the “hybrid” scheme, RF-compression stage plus magnetic chicane, is analyzed and compared with the more standard double stage of magnetic compression. The two options are reviewed considering the tolerance to the drive laser pulse phase jitter.
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