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Commitment to community and political involvement: A cross-cultural study with Italian and American adolescents

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Crocetti E., Jahromi P., Buchanan C.
Human Affairs
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2012
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vol. 22
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issue 3
375-389
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The purpose of this study was to test whether personal commitment to community was related to political involvement in two cultural contexts: Italy and the USA. Participants were 566 adolescents (48.2% males) aged 14–19 years (M = 16 years; SD = 1.29): 311 Italians and 255 Americans. Participants filled out a self-report questionnaire. Analyses of variance revealed that American high school students reported higher levels of personal commitment to community than did their Italian peers and that many forms of political involvement were significantly more common among American adolescents. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that personal commitment to community was strongly and positively associated with involvement in political activities in both adolescent samples. Thus, fostering personal commitments to community could potentially lead youth to political engagement.
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Liminal Lives: Navigating In-Betweenness in the Case of Bulgarian and Italian Migrants in Brexiting Britain

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Genova E., Zontini E., Genova E., Zontini E.
Central and Eastern European Migration Review
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2020
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vol. 9
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issue 1
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Italians in the City of Cracow’s Authorities in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

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Noga Z.
Acta Poloniae Historica
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2019
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vol. 119
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The article discusses the participation of Italians in the town council and the judicial bench being local government authorities of the city of Cracow in the early modern period. As many as seventy-four Italians (this standing for 14 per cent of all the councillors and 8 per cent assessors or lay judges) are identifiable for the period in question; nineteen of them concluded their careers with the office of assessors, never getting ranked to councillor. While most of them were merchants by profession, as many as five councillors held a doctor’s degree. Italians were the most influential ethnic group in the council in the latter half of the seventeenth century and in the former half of the eighteenth, when in certain years the council-in-office, elected annually and consisting of eight members, featured as many as four Italians at the same time. Similarly, a considerable share of Italians in the judicial bench (almost 50 per cent) is observed for the first half of the eighteenth century; the detailed statistics is featured in the tables appended. Over 20 per cent of the families that accepted the municipal law in the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries obtained at least one of these offices. The share of Italians in Cracow’s local-government administration at that time, incommensurate with the actual size of local Italian population, is explainable by their larger interest in pursuing municipal career opportunities. In the medieval period, and even under the reign of Queen Bona Sforza, a number of Italians demonstrated different economic strategies. They satisfied themselves with the royal privilege of servitoriate, counted on fast moneymaking and expected to return home sooner or later. In the later years, most of the Cracow-based Italians were well assimilated and preferred to settle down in the city.
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ACTN-3 and ACE genotypes in elite male Italian athletes

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Massidda M., Corrias L., Scorcu M., Vona G., Calò M. C.
Anthropological Review
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2012
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vol. 75
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issue 1
51-59
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The ACE I/D and the ACTN-3 R577X polymorphisms are the most studied genes associated with elite athlete status, even if this association has been often conflicting. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between the ACE and the ACTN3 genotypes and elite performance in Italian male athletes. The ACTN-3 R577X and the ACE I/D genotype distributions of 59 elite male Italian athletes practicing gymnastics (G; n = 17), 100 m-400 m running (R; n = 12), and playing soccer (S; n= 30) were compared with controls from Italian (C; n = 31) populations. For ACE distribution, athletes did not differ from controls (G, χ2 = 0.37, df = 2, p = 0.82; R, χ2 = 1.90, df = 2, p = 0.45; S, χ2 = 1.48, df = 2, p = 0.47) and the DD genotype was at very high frequency in all groups (G = 53%, R= 50%, S = 60%, C = 45%). For ACTN-3 distribution, elite gymnasts showed a significant difference from controls (χ2 = 6.57, df = 2, p = 0.03), showing an absence of XX genotype. Soccer players and runners did not differ from controls in ACTN-3 genotype distribution (R, χ2 =0.43, df = 2, p = 0.80; S, χ2 = 1.25, df = 2, p = 0.53). Even if the ACE DD genotype is often positively associated with elite sprint/power athlete status, its high frequency in Italian populations eliminates the possibility of its exclusive association in Italian athletes. The results of ACTN3 genotypes suggest that RR genotype of ACTN-3 gene is a determinant of elite gymnasts status but it is not the key factor for achieving a top-level performance in soccer or track events.
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AMOR EM TEMPO DE GUERRA E A IMIGRAÇÃO DE 58 ESPOSAS PA-RA O BRASIL

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PELLEGRINO FERES C. d. L.
Revista del CESLA. International Latin American Studies Review
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2018
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issue 22
95-114
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O artigo analisa os aspetos que envolveram a migração para o Brasil de 58 mulheres italianas que se casaram com membros da Força Expedicionária Brasileira durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Baseado em testemunhos e documentos pessoais (cartas, diários, fotos, artigos de jor-nais) pretende-se entender porque o tema careceu de interesse bibliográfico. Para tanto, são teci-das considerações acerca das motivações pessoais dessa migração como parte de um projeto de família, a interferência do Estado para viabilização do mesmo e o papel que a ausência de redes migratórias teve na adaptação à sociedade de adoção, bem como a relação entre público e priva-do contribuiu para o silenciamento das vozes femininas no contexto da guerra.
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This paper analyses the factors involved in the immigration of 58 Italian women to Brazil. They were married to soldiers of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. Based on biographical research on the interviewees, the analysis intends to determine the reason why this subject has lacked bibliographical interest. For this purpose, there are some considera-tions upon the personal motivation for immigrating as part of a family project, the State interfer-ence to enable it and the role that the inexistence of a migration network played in assimilation into society, as well as how the relation between public and private contributed to muting wom-en’s voices in the context of war.
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