Ricerc@Sapienza

Subjective tests for the assessment of the quality of experience (QoE) are typically run with a pool of subjects providing their opinion score using a 5-level scale. The subjects? Mean Opinion Score (MOS) is generally assumed as the best estimation of the average score in the target population. Indeed, for a large enough sample we can assume that the mean of the variations across the subjects approaches zero, but this is not the case for the limited number of subjects typically considered in subjective tests.

In this paper, a new model describing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-acquired immuno deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic spread is proposed. The improvement with respect to the known models has been driven by recent results obtained from historical data collection and the suggestions given by the World Health Organization: the characteristics of the virus diffusion, mainly by body fluids, imply the trivial fact that wise behaviors of healthy subjects and fast timely recognition of a new positive diagnosis should reduce the spread quite fast.

This article advances a new model for family law to address emerging non-conventional family formations, particularly between parents and children. We contend that the conventional model of kinship categories as static, predefined statuses should be replaced with a model whereby the state accommodates kinship categories the law users themselves produce within their fluid and nomadic family assemblages and that they actively revise when negotiating state recognition. We claim that this model would better reflect and govern the emerging kinship system.

Understanding Islamic fundamentalism of today requires the frame of a clash not between
civilizations, but between different forms of psychological organization. It is therefore a matter of
sociology, explainable through the innovative approach of dynamic sociology. The term jihad is for
fundamentalists an armed revolution, both against those regimes of Islamic world guilty of apostasy, and
against all non-Islamic countries. At the root of nowadays’ fundamentalism it is not the opposition

Robert K. Merton defines a self-fulfilling prophecy as a false definition of a situation, which causes a behavior that, in turn, makes the initial false conception come true. As a general representation of a specific relation between beliefs and reality, the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy is useful to describe and analyzemanifoldkinds of psychological and social phenomena.

Aims of the contribution
Our paper aims at contributing to the debate on the promotion of gender awareness among undergraduate students by presenting the outcome of a multi-year workshop carried out within two courses in Sociology of Culture and Communication at Sapienza University.
Based on the evidence from this activity, we put forward some reflections on the following aspects of the inclusion of gender education at university level:

The more global disorder progresses, the more important it is to remember the initiatives, large and small, that contribute to fueling that public sphere of knowledge that is naturally inclusive and transnational. IASSR Congresses, the first source for the following essays, are part of these initiatives, and behind their apparent lack of structure, there is the opportunity to broaden the comparison between disciplines and especially between the looks that characterize them in sometimes very different national contexts.