EMOTIONAL ANALYSIS OF SAFENESS AND RISK PERCEPTION OF DIFFERENT PAYMENT SYSTEMS IN ITALY AND THE UK DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Public safety, security and risk perception is an important aspect considered in opinion mining and sentiment analysis typically carried out on social networks. This involves considering each individual's opinion and determining a sense of what the public feels about an incident, event or place. In that sense, social networks play an important role in capturing the emotions of people. Security and safety managers can employ opinion mining and sentiment analysis as a tool to discover any unforeseen vulnerabilities in a precise manner and thereby plan and manage any associated risks. Furthermore, a continuous evaluation of risk perception can be carried out for timely and planned interventions in a seamless, effective manner to reduce or avoid any panic amongst communities. Without such advance techniques, safety and security of people, infrastructures and specific contexts can be easily compromised. Recent work in this direction has shown promising results in managing risks, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the perception of risk associated with different payment systems, in Italy and the UK, during the COVID-19 pandemic, from 10 November 2020 to 13 May 2021, by means of the semantic analysis of the textual contents existing in Twitter. © 2022 WIT Press.

Material flow and economic cost analysis of the Italian artisan bread production before and during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

The Russia-Ukraine conflict represents a humanitarian crisis and causes several socio-economic consequences, being Russia a key supplier of energy and food commodities. After a few weeks of war, the prices of the essential goods, already increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, have continued to boost. The present research applies the material flow analysis to assess the sustainability of the artisan bread production, comparing a baseline and a war scenario, before and during the aforementioned conflict, and estimates the economic costs associated with natural and energy resources. The analysis is based on primary data collected through semi-structured interviews among nine artisan bakeries and secondary data collected before and during the conflict. The economic assessment, which is applied to enhance the environmental management of sociometabolic systems, is conducted on the entire artisan bread produced in Italy in 2021 and the system boundaries consider a cradle-to-gate approach. The highest upsurge in input costs has been estimated in electricity (+400%), N fertilizer (+233%) and K2O (+152%). The average input cost variation has been evaluated at +232%. Possible opportunities to support production costs include the adoption of an alternative bread recipe, which reduces the supply of impacting resources without affecting the quality of the finished product, as well as the introduction of structural interventions to lower energy costs. The research could help both artisan bakers, to better manage resources, waste and related impacts under the economic and the environmental perspective, and public authorities, to define appropriate strategies to sustain the bread sector. Last, the research provides scholars with an original analysis of the economic costs in the artisan bread production, highlighting its suitability to evaluate the supply chain sustainability from cradle to gate. © 2023 Elsevier Inc.

Emotional analysis of safeness and risk perception of cybersecurity attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic

The assessment of perceived safeness and risk by persons is especially valuable for security and safety managing. Each person is founded on the opinion of other people to make a selection and the Internet embodies the place where these opinions are mostly pursued, taken, and estimated. From this point of view, social networks are characterized by a considerable influence. Due to this reason, Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis have found outstanding employs in diverse environments and one of the most remarkable is expressed by public security and safety.The purpose of the present work is to investigate the perception of safeness and risk of cybersecurity attacks during COVID-19 pandemic by means of the semantic analysis of the textual contents existing in Twitter. © 2022 IEEE.

Informed Deep Learning for Epidemics Forecasting

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has galvanized the interest of the scientific community toward methodologies apt at predicting the trend of the epidemiological curve, namely, the daily number of infected individuals in the population. One of the critical issues, is providing reliable predictions based on interventions enacted by policy-makers, which is of crucial relevance to assess their effectiveness. In this paper, we provide a novel data-driven application incorporating sub-symbolic knowledge to forecast the spreading of an epidemic depending on a set of interventions. More specifically, we focus on the embedding of classical epidemiological approaches, i.e., compartmental models, into Deep Learning models, to enhance the learning process and provide higher predictive accuracy. © 2022 The authors and IOS Press.

Influence of the Total Consumption of Households on Municipal Waste Quantity in Romania

Sustainable development is a worldwide concern. This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the final consumption expenditure on the total consumption of households in Romania. The regression function of the association between "the amount of municipal waste" and "the total consumption of households" has a direct linear relationship. The regression variable "total household consumption" (X) has a regression coefficient of -0.03031, which indicates that the amount of municipal waste decreases by one unit as household consumption increases by 30.31 units. Therefore, this regression coefficient indicates that the volume of municipal waste decreases by 30.31 tons to an increase in the final consumption expenditure of households of EUR 1 million. The influence of the final consumption expenditure of households by consumption purpose on the quantity of municipal waste is in the following order: health;housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels;clothing and footwear;miscellaneous goods and services;recreation and culture;food and non-alcoholic goods;restaurants and hotels;furnishing and household equipment and routine household maintenance;alcoholic and tobacco goods;communications;and education. The value of the Significance F must be less than 0.05. In the case of the model, it is found that this value exceeds the threshold of 0.05 in the case of consumption generated by health services, recreation and culture, restaurants and hotels, alcohol and tobacco goods, and communications. Regarding the high value of Significance F in relation to consumption, we find the sectors that generate the least amount of waste (services). In the case of all of the independent variables, we can note that the relationship is a negative one, which proves that an increase in the quantity of any expenditure of the households generates a decrease of the municipal waste quantity.

Emotional analysis of safeness and risk perception of drones during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

The estimation of perceived safeness and risk by individuals is very significant for security and safety managing. Every person is based on the judgments of other persons to do a choosing and the Internet personifies the location where these judgments are mostly tracked, obtained, and assessed. From this point of view, social networks have a significant influence. For this reason, Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis have found remarkable utilizes in a multiplicity of circumstances and one of the most notable is represented by public safety and security. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the perception of safeness and risk of drones during COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. It was considered the period from Aprile 15 to December 10, 2020, properly divided into 4 significant phases, highlighting the emotional components using the semantic analysis of the textual contents present in Twitter. © 2021 IEEE.

Emotional analysis of safeness and risk perception of London and Rome railway stations during the COVID-19 pandemic

The evaluation of perceived safeness and risk by persons is particularly valuable for safety and security handling. Each individual is influenced by others’ opinions on safety and security and the Internet embodies the place where these opinions are mostly pursued, acquired, and estimated. From this point of view, social networks play a considerable influential role. For this reason, Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis have found noteworthy uses in a variety of situations and one of the most interesting is embodied by public safety and security. The goal of this work is to examine the perception of safety and risk within the railway stations of London (UK) and Rome (Italy) during COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, the railway stations of London Victoria and Waterloo and the railway stations of Rome Termini and Tiburtina were considered, from March 23 to July 9, 2020, highlighting the emotional components in three distinct pandemic phases of the considered period in the two countries, by means of the semantic analysis of the textual contents present in Twitter. © 2021 IEEE.

Emotional analysis of safeness and risk perception of London and Rome airports during the COVID-19 pandemic

The evaluation of perceived safeness and risk by individuals is really useful for security and safety managing. Every individual is founded on the opinion of other individuals to get a selection and the Internet personifies the location where these judgments are mainly sought, obtained, and evaluated. From this point of view, social networks are characterized by a significant effect. Due to this reason, Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis have found remarkable uses in various environments and one of the most interesting is embodied by public security and safety. The aim of this work is to study the perception of risk of aircraft passengers and users of airports of London (UK) and Rome (Italy) during COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, the airports of London Heathrow and Gatwick and the airports of Rome Fiumicino and Ciampino were studied, from March 23 to July 9, 2020, highlighting the emotional components in three distinct pandemic phases of the considered period in the two countries, by means of the semantic analysis of the textual contents existing in Twitter. © 2021 IEEE.

Emotional analysis of safeness and risk perception of transports and travels by car and motorcycle in London and Rome during the COVID-19 pandemic

The estimation of perceived safeness and risk by people is especially invaluable for security and safety managing. Everyone is based on the opinion of other persons to do selections of any kind and the Internet personifies the location where these opinions are primarily tracked, obtained, and assessed. From this point of view, social networks are considered of huge impact. For this reason, Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis reached remarkable applications in a diversity of circumstances and one of the most remarkable is expressed by public security and safety. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the perception of risk with transports and travels by car and motorcycles in London (UK) and Rome (Italy) during COVID-19 pandemic, from March 23 to July 9, 2020, underlighting the emotional components in three distinct pandemic phases of the considered period in the two countries, via the semantic analysis of the textual contents existing in Twitter. © 2021 IEEE.

COVID-19 pandemic increased advance care planning demand

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Advance care planning (ACP) enables competent patients to define goals and preferences for future treatments and care, to discuss these goals and preferences with relatives, and if appropriate to record these preferences. After many years of political and social debates, in December 2017 the first advance directive and care planning legislation was approved in Italy. Nevertheless, citizens' awareness of these issues is scarce as well as the integration of the advance care planning process into clinical routine. The latest data reported to the Italian Parliament by the Ministry of Health indicated that advance directives have been completed by 62030 people, approximately 1.1% of Italian adult population. However, during the last months, the COVID-19 pandemic solicited taking steps towards promoting an advance care planning culture. Indeed, the need of proposing ACP to patients have been recently stressed both by medical associations and national and local institutional documents. METHOD: Since November 2020, our nephrology unit adopted a protocol approved by Ethical committee by Physician Order of Florence, aimed to conduct ACP interventions with dialysis patients. Firstly, all patients were informed about the possibility to taking part in one or more advance care planning conversations with their nephrologist. Secondly, a semistructured guide to the conversation was created in order to support physicians in conducting the ACP intervention. Finally, patients along with nephrologist and their relatives, could documented their preferences for future treatments and care. RESULTS: From November to March only one patient asked to receive an ACP intervention. However, since COVID-19 spread in Italy last March, the number of patients who demanded ACP raised up. In the period from April to July, 15 out of 110 hemodialysis patients treated in our center asked for an ACP intervention and filled-in an advance directive. Specifically, no patients required an immediate discontinuation of dialysis, nevertheless 80% of them stated that would not like to continue with dialysis in case he/she was no longer able to self-determine (e.g. permanent loss of capacity to communicate with others). All patients except one have appointed a personal representative (usually their partner). In the eventuality of cardiac arrest, 60% of patients asked for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Finally, all patients expressed the wish to spend the last days of life at home. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic raised up the number of dialysis patients who required to taking part in a advance care planning intervention. In this sense, the pandemic can be an opportunity for consolidate advance care planning in Italy as well as in other countries, where these interventions are not well known by people and not yet regularly offered in the clinical routine. Using a semi-structured interview for the ACP interview can help the nephrologist to discuss future care and end-of-life topics with their patients.

Support oncologic patient care during covid 19: Experience with telemedicine

Background: After the first weeks in which all efforts were concentrated to prevent contagion and treat Covid-19 patients, it is now increasingly important to secure assistance to ordinary patients suspended from outpatient activity until today and still struggling with the quota policy and precautions required by 'phase 2'. As established by recent regional resolutions (cf. Tuscany, Veneto, Lombardy), telemedicine is 'the strategy' to meet and fulfill the needs. It permits remote assistance to particularly fragile, chronic patients with long term pathologies giving a rapid, practical and economical response through the use of common, free instruments, readily available and already known to patients. These instruments must be structured within a legislative and regulatory organic framework that permits: a) the integration in existing clinical welfare processes without requesting organizational variations;b) the use of existing IT systems already in use, without determining additional fragmentation of necessary data for the treatment of the patient, between archives and distinct clouds, owners and those not connected;c) personal data protection according to that required by GDPR both under a technological profile and an organizational one;d) the registration and the traceability of carried-out activity, both in the perspective of safety of the patient and in the administrative reports. Material and methods: From April 2020, our center started a telemedicine project in partnership with ALTEMS. The manual is available for downloading at www.dati-sanita.it . Through this project we were able to continue to assist oncologic patients in follow-up or in therapy with oral drugs. Results: Between 28th April 2020 and 5th June 2020 thirty patients were enrolled with the median age 59.6 years (range 42-85), 20 women and 10 men with residence throughout the whole province of Foggia. Fifteen of 30 patients used a mobile phone, fifteen pc. The average length of the visit was 17.5 minutes (range 10-30 minutes). A customer satisfaction survey was collected at the end of each visit: 100% of patients expressed maximum value of approval. Conclusions: A virtual surgery will never be able to substitute a clinical exam of the patient, although in certain circumstances like Covid-19 emergency, difficulty in reaching hospital or in situations that require frequent patient monitoring, technology certainly represents a valid arm in the healthcare setting.

Installing oncofertility programs for common cancers in limited resource settings (Repro-Can-OPEN Study): An extrapolation during the global crisis of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

PURPOSE: The state of limited resource settings that Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created globally should be taken seriously into account especially in healthcare sector. In oncofertility, patients should receive their fertility preservation treatments urgently even in limited resource settings before initiation of anticancer therapy. Therefore, it is very crucial to learn more about oncofertility practice in limited resource settings such as in developing countries that suffer often from shortage of healthcare services provided to young patients with cancer. METHODS: As an extrapolation during the global crisis of COVID-19 pandemic, we surveyed oncofertility centers from 14 developing countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Brazil, Peru, Panama, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Nigeria, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and India). Survey questionnaire included questions on the availability and degree of utilization of fertility preservation options in case of childhood cancer, breast cancer, and blood cancer. RESULTS: All surveyed centers responded to all questions. Responses and their calculated oncofertility scores showed different domestic standards for oncofertility practice in case of childhood cancer, breast cancer, and blood cancer in the developing countries under limited resource settings. CONCLUSIONS: Medical practice in limited resource settings has become a critical topic especially after the global crisis of COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the resources necessary to provide oncofertility treatments is important until the current COVID-19 pandemic resolves. Lessons learned will be valuable to future potential worldwide disruptions due to infectious diseases or other global crises.