Francesca Vella
Biographic Data
| ID | 3833137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Vella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Vella |
| SIGNATURE | VELLA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Catania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4307-0928 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Application of large language models as decision support tools in occupational health and safety management: A cohort study of industrial workers
Background Occupational health and safety (OHS) risk assessment is a core preventive process aimed at identifying workplace hazards, estimating risks, and implementing control measures to reduce occupational injuries and diseases. Recent evidence indicates that AI-based systems may assist hazard identification, risk prioritization, and preventive planning, improving efficiency and standardization. Objectives This study compared AI outputs with oc…
Driving in emergency medical service settings: A cross-sectional study of clinical psychological factors and perceived stress in a sample of ambulance drivers
Introduction Ambulance drivers represent a critical yet understudied component of emergency healthcare systems, exposed to high levels of occupational stress. Despite their essential role in patient transport and emergency response, this population has received limited attention compared to other healthcare professionals. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate perceived stress levels and associated factors among professional ambulance dr…
Violence and harassment against healthcare workers: A psychological-clinical perspective on a survey in a Policlinic Hospital
Objective The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and psychological impact of workplace violence (WPV) among healthcare workers (HCWs) in a large university hospital in Southern Italy, and to identify occupational and demographic risk factors. Methods A cross-sectional observational study was conducted from January to December 2023. A total of 997 HCWs voluntarily completed a validated, anonymous questionnaire based on the “Workplace V…
Before and Besides Werktreue: (Re)inventing Operatic Staging at the 1930s Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
This article examines the role played by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a kind of cultural laboratory for experiments in operatic staging in 1930s Italy. Founded in 1933, Florence's opera and arts festival was a key testing ground for ‘modern’ approaches both to set and costume design and to opera direction, two areas in which northern Europe (especially Germany) is normally held to have led the way, and through which the Maggio helped to rein…
Between Art and Craft: Operatic Set Design in 1930s Florence
Ever since the beginning of opera, the scenografo ’s role has fluctuated between invention and execution, conceptual creation and manual realisation. Initially considered an art in the old, Latin sense of the word – a craft or trade – the profession gradually gained social and aesthetic respectability, shedding its associations with the technical skills of artisans and acquiring the prestige of modern artistic expression. By the early 1800s, prom…
Sars-CoV-2 Transmission Prevention Model Application in a Large Retail Company Before the Vaccine Introduction
On 11 March 2020, following the spread of SARS-CoV-2, WHO declared a pandemic status. The impact on national health and economic systems has been huge. Therefore, many countries took measures to restrict the spread of the virus. Many work activities have been subjected to lockdown measures. However, some production activities, continued to remain open, i.e., large-scale food distribution, food industry, pharmacies, hospitals, etc. In order to con…
Work Ability after Breast Cancer: Study of Healthcare Personnel Operating in a Hospital of South Italy
Breast cancer (BrC) treatment can produce disabilities that often impact the quality of daily life and impact the social and working relationships of the patient. This paper looked into the remaining work ability in a group of female healthcare personnel (HCPs) with BrC in Southern Italy. Each HCP was subjected to a medical check, routine blood tests, and a questionnaire on the work ability index (WAI). Of 980 (100%) HCWs undergoing health contro…
Broadcasting the Italian voice’s broadcasting: Opera and Italy on the air, 1920s–1930s
Within the early twentieth-century Italian radiophonic imagination, opera occupied a complex position. The overriding ‘voice’ of Italy and its radio empire under Fascism, opera supported the new technology as a political and cultural tool, even as it challenged it as a geographical and perceptual fantasy. This article has two aims. First, drawing on materials from 1920s and ‘30s radio magazines, it sketches a history of early radio listening that…
London Voices, 1820–1840: Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories . Ed. by Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford
London Voices, 1820–1840: Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories. Ed. by Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford London Voices, 1820–1840: Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories. Ed. by Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford. Pp. 293. ( University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2019. Hard cover $65. ISBN 978-0-226-67018-X; ebook $10.00–65.00. ISBN 978-0-226-67021-8.) Francesca Vella Francesca Vella University of Cambridge Email: [email protected] Searc…
Straining at Work and Its Relationship with Personality Profiles and Individual Consequences in Healthcare Workers (HCWs)
Straining is an attenuated form of mobbing, in which the continuity of vexatious actions is not driven by a discriminatory intent. With the objective of testing the possible moderating role of personality in the relationship between perceptions about straining at work and individual consequences, a correlational design research involved 374 healthcare workers (HCWs) from two Italian hospitals. The following questionnaires were administered: (1) S…
Not in their Minds
A History of the Idea of Communication, John Durham Peters sketches a picture of human interactions at once reassuring and ethically exacting. While a number of the once habitual media practices that he describes are swiftly becoming anachronistic (such as 'twist[ing] a radio dial or rustl[ing] a newspaper'), his overarching argument continues to hold significance. 1 Peters's 1999 volume examines shifting understandings of communication at the in…
Jenny Lind, Voice, Celebrity
Jenny Lind, Voice, Celebrity
Voice has a long history in modern Western culture as a transparent signifier of subjectivity and presence. This ideology of immediacy has meant that exploration of singing voices as mediated has mostly been confined to classic technological turns marked by specific sound devices. This article examines voice in connection with the mid-nineteenth-century soprano Jenny Lind and the broader London context of contemporary Lind mania. Mediation lends …
Bridging Divides: Verdi's Requiem in Post-Unification Italy
This article addresses the early Italian reception of Verdi's Messa da Requiem (1874), premièred in Milan on the first anniversary of the death of the novelist Alessandro Manzoni. Previous literature has focused on issues of musical genre and the work's political implications (particularly its connections with Manzoni and with late nineteenth-century Italian revivals of ‘old’ sacred music). The article examines, instead, the curiously pluralistic…
Laughter between Two Revolutions: Opera Buffa in Italy, 1831-1848. By Francesco Izzo
Journal Article Laughter between Two Revolutions: Opera Buffa in Italy, 1831–1848. By Francesco Izzo Get access Laughter between Two Revolutions: Opera Buffa in Italy, 1831–1848. By Francesco Izzo. pp. xiii + 304. Eastman Studies in Music. ( University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, 2013. $90. ISBN 978-1-58046-293-8.) Francesca Vella Francesca Vella University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Jenny Lind, Voice, Celebrity
Voice has a long history in modern Western culture as a transparent signifier of subjectivity and presence. This ideology of immediacy has meant that exploration of singing voices as mediated has mostly been confined to classic technological turns marked by specific sound devices. This article examines voice in connection with the mid-nineteenth-century soprano Jenny Lind and the broader London context of contemporary Lind mania. Mediation lends …
Laughter between Two Revolutions: Opera Buffa in Italy, 1831-1848. By Francesco Izzo
Journal Article Laughter between Two Revolutions: Opera Buffa in Italy, 1831–1848. By Francesco Izzo Get access Laughter between Two Revolutions: Opera Buffa in Italy, 1831–1848. By Francesco Izzo. pp. xiii + 304. Eastman Studies in Music. ( University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, 2013. $90. ISBN 978-1-58046-293-8.) Francesca Vella Francesca Vella University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Bridging Divides: Verdi's Requiem in Post-Unification Italy
This article addresses the early Italian reception of Verdi's Messa da Requiem (1874), premièred in Milan on the first anniversary of the death of the novelist Alessandro Manzoni. Previous literature has focused on issues of musical genre and the work's political implications (particularly its connections with Manzoni and with late nineteenth-century Italian revivals of ‘old’ sacred music). The article examines, instead, the curiously pluralistic…
Jenny Lind, Voice, Celebrity
Jenny Lind, Voice, Celebrity
Voice has a long history in modern Western culture as a transparent signifier of subjectivity and presence. This ideology of immediacy has meant that exploration of singing voices as mediated has mostly been confined to classic technological turns marked by specific sound devices. This article examines voice in connection with the mid-nineteenth-century soprano Jenny Lind and the broader London context of contemporary Lind mania. Mediation lends …
Straining at Work and Its Relationship with Personality Profiles and Individual Consequences in Healthcare Workers (HCWs)
Straining is an attenuated form of mobbing, in which the continuity of vexatious actions is not driven by a discriminatory intent. With the objective of testing the possible moderating role of personality in the relationship between perceptions about straining at work and individual consequences, a correlational design research involved 374 healthcare workers (HCWs) from two Italian hospitals. The following questionnaires were administered: (1) S…
Not in their Minds
A History of the Idea of Communication, John Durham Peters sketches a picture of human interactions at once reassuring and ethically exacting. While a number of the once habitual media practices that he describes are swiftly becoming anachronistic (such as 'twist[ing] a radio dial or rustl[ing] a newspaper'), his overarching argument continues to hold significance. 1 Peters's 1999 volume examines shifting understandings of communication at the in…
London Voices, 1820–1840: Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories . Ed. by Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford
London Voices, 1820–1840: Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories. Ed. by Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford London Voices, 1820–1840: Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories. Ed. by Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford. Pp. 293. ( University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2019. Hard cover $65. ISBN 978-0-226-67018-X; ebook $10.00–65.00. ISBN 978-0-226-67021-8.) Francesca Vella Francesca Vella University of Cambridge Email: [email protected] Searc…
Sars-CoV-2 Transmission Prevention Model Application in a Large Retail Company Before the Vaccine Introduction
On 11 March 2020, following the spread of SARS-CoV-2, WHO declared a pandemic status. The impact on national health and economic systems has been huge. Therefore, many countries took measures to restrict the spread of the virus. Many work activities have been subjected to lockdown measures. However, some production activities, continued to remain open, i.e., large-scale food distribution, food industry, pharmacies, hospitals, etc. In order to con…
Work Ability after Breast Cancer: Study of Healthcare Personnel Operating in a Hospital of South Italy
Breast cancer (BrC) treatment can produce disabilities that often impact the quality of daily life and impact the social and working relationships of the patient. This paper looked into the remaining work ability in a group of female healthcare personnel (HCPs) with BrC in Southern Italy. Each HCP was subjected to a medical check, routine blood tests, and a questionnaire on the work ability index (WAI). Of 980 (100%) HCWs undergoing health contro…
Broadcasting the Italian voice’s broadcasting: Opera and Italy on the air, 1920s–1930s
Within the early twentieth-century Italian radiophonic imagination, opera occupied a complex position. The overriding ‘voice’ of Italy and its radio empire under Fascism, opera supported the new technology as a political and cultural tool, even as it challenged it as a geographical and perceptual fantasy. This article has two aims. First, drawing on materials from 1920s and ‘30s radio magazines, it sketches a history of early radio listening that…
Violence and harassment against healthcare workers: A psychological-clinical perspective on a survey in a Policlinic Hospital
Objective The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and psychological impact of workplace violence (WPV) among healthcare workers (HCWs) in a large university hospital in Southern Italy, and to identify occupational and demographic risk factors. Methods A cross-sectional observational study was conducted from January to December 2023. A total of 997 HCWs voluntarily completed a validated, anonymous questionnaire based on the “Workplace V…
Before and Besides Werktreue: (Re)inventing Operatic Staging at the 1930s Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
This article examines the role played by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a kind of cultural laboratory for experiments in operatic staging in 1930s Italy. Founded in 1933, Florence's opera and arts festival was a key testing ground for ‘modern’ approaches both to set and costume design and to opera direction, two areas in which northern Europe (especially Germany) is normally held to have led the way, and through which the Maggio helped to rein…
Between Art and Craft: Operatic Set Design in 1930s Florence
Ever since the beginning of opera, the scenografo ’s role has fluctuated between invention and execution, conceptual creation and manual realisation. Initially considered an art in the old, Latin sense of the word – a craft or trade – the profession gradually gained social and aesthetic respectability, shedding its associations with the technical skills of artisans and acquiring the prestige of modern artistic expression. By the early 1800s, prom…
Application of large language models as decision support tools in occupational health and safety management: A cohort study of industrial workers
Background Occupational health and safety (OHS) risk assessment is a core preventive process aimed at identifying workplace hazards, estimating risks, and implementing control measures to reduce occupational injuries and diseases. Recent evidence indicates that AI-based systems may assist hazard identification, risk prioritization, and preventive planning, improving efficiency and standardization. Objectives This study compared AI outputs with oc…
Driving in emergency medical service settings: A cross-sectional study of clinical psychological factors and perceived stress in a sample of ambulance drivers
Introduction Ambulance drivers represent a critical yet understudied component of emergency healthcare systems, exposed to high levels of occupational stress. Despite their essential role in patient transport and emergency response, this population has received limited attention compared to other healthcare professionals. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate perceived stress levels and associated factors among professional ambulance dr…
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