Venera Tomaselli
Biographic Data
| ID | 4165580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Venera Tomaselli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Venera |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomaselli |
| SIGNATURE | TOMASELLI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Catania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2287-7343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Estimation of disciplinary similarity with large language models
The parameter that captures the similarity among disciplinary categories is a key quantity of many measures of interdisciplinarity. This study evaluates the feasibility of using large language models to estimate this parameter rather than using traditional methods based on citational networks among disciplines. An experimental procedure tested the precision, agreement, resilience, robustness, and explainability of estimates from OpenAI’s ChatGPT,…
Uncovering socioeconomic disparities in European regions
This study presents a multidimensional analysis of socioeconomic disparities across European regions between 2019 and 2023, focusing on key Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators related to poverty (SDG 1), quality education (SDG 4), gender equality in employment (SDG 5), and decent work and economic growth (SDG 8). Using a dataset at the NUTS-2 regional level, the research adopts a three-dimensional analytical framework to examine how the…
Special Issue
Theory and methods of the multiverse
Multiverse analysis involves systematically sampling a vast set of model specifications, known as a multiverse, to estimate the uncertainty surrounding the validity of a scientific claim. By fitting these specifications to a sample of observations, statistics are obtained as analytical results. Examining the variability of these statistics across different groups of model specifications helps to assess the robustness of the claim and gives insigh…
A Multiversal Model of Vibration of Effects of the Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being (BES) on Fertility
This study checks the hypothesis that sustainable well-being is a determinant factor of fertility through the application of a multiversal method based on the assumptions of Vibration of Effects (VoE) model of multiversal sampling on the Italian Equitable and Sustainable Well-being (BES) dataset. For 48 social indicators of well-being, adopting the Province as statistical unit, the estimate of linear effect has been systematically sampled 1024 ti…
Attitudes towards no-European Immigrants in EU
Many studies in different scientific fields offer controversial results on the media’s role to influence attitudes towards immigration. In the present paper, the attitude that European public opinion has towards no-European immigration is analysed through data from Eurobarometer in the 3 waves starting in 2017 until the latest updated in 2019 with the aim to estimate the relationship with new and legacy media use. Specifying repeated measures mul…
Methods, Developments, and Technological Innovations for Population Surveys
This article reviews contemporary issues in survey research, connecting established methods to innovative tools and technologies like real-time sensors and computer vision. This link takes into account the idea about the “organical” nature of Big Data, which represents a challenge toward a modernization of population studies in the light of technological innovations. The adopted dominant paradigm of data gathering is web survey (computer-assisted…
Building Well-Being Composite Indicator for Micro-Territorial Areas Through PLS-SEM and K-Means Approach
In the analysis of the difference in the distribution and profiles of the equitable and sustainable well-being, the territorial dimension is a fundamental reading-key for local policies since it allows the areas of advantage or relative deprivation to emerge more accurately. Specifically, in Italy the provincial level coincides with the administrative area of metropolitan cities, which are the subject of growing attention from European and nation…
Evaluating Rank-Coherence of Crowd Rating in Customer Satisfaction
Crowd rating is a continuous and public process of data gathering that allows the display of general quantitative opinions on a topic from online anonymous networks as they are crowds. Online platforms leveraged these technologies to improve predictive tasks in marketing. However, we argue for a different employment of crowd rating as a tool of public utility to support social contexts suffering to adverse selection, like tourism. This aim needs …
Building Decision-making Indicators Through Network Analysis of Big Data
Le donne alle primarie
This contribution aims at analyzing voters’ characteristics and their preference motivations at the first Italian national primary elections in 2005 and the Sicilian regional primary elections in 2006. This analysis mainly focuses on gender differences and is based on a sample of face-to-face interviews. In 2005 the primary elections were called in order to select the centre-left coalition candidate for the following parliamentary elections, whil…
Le elezioni regionali del 2006 in Sicilia
Struttura del territorio e comportamento elettorale Primarie ed esito elettorale La funzione politica delle primarie: quale rilevanza? Misure sintetiche per l'analisi comparativa degli aggregati territoriali Le elezioni primarie nei comuni della Sicilia: la localizzazione del voto La relazione tra primarie ed elezioni regionali: il quoziente di ubicazione La territorializzazione della dinamica politica
Partecipazione alle primarie dell'Unione
L’alto grado di mobilitazione è il vero elemento di novità e di interesse delle primarie dell’Unione. Se è vera l’ipotesi che esse abbiano coinvolto una quota di elettori, al di là delle capacità di mobilitazione delle strutture di partito e collaterali, è verosimile considerare l’elevata affluenza come espressione della volontà di ‘sentirsi parte’ di un progetto politico o quantomeno di manifestare approvazione verso questa nuova modalità di coi…
Building Well-Being Composite Indicator for Micro-Territorial Areas Through PLS-SEM and K-Means Approach
In the analysis of the difference in the distribution and profiles of the equitable and sustainable well-being, the territorial dimension is a fundamental reading-key for local policies since it allows the areas of advantage or relative deprivation to emerge more accurately. Specifically, in Italy the provincial level coincides with the administrative area of metropolitan cities, which are the subject of growing attention from European and nation…
Methods, Developments, and Technological Innovations for Population Surveys
This article reviews contemporary issues in survey research, connecting established methods to innovative tools and technologies like real-time sensors and computer vision. This link takes into account the idea about the “organical” nature of Big Data, which represents a challenge toward a modernization of population studies in the light of technological innovations. The adopted dominant paradigm of data gathering is web survey (computer-assisted…
A Multiversal Model of Vibration of Effects of the Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being (BES) on Fertility
This study checks the hypothesis that sustainable well-being is a determinant factor of fertility through the application of a multiversal method based on the assumptions of Vibration of Effects (VoE) model of multiversal sampling on the Italian Equitable and Sustainable Well-being (BES) dataset. For 48 social indicators of well-being, adopting the Province as statistical unit, the estimate of linear effect has been systematically sampled 1024 ti…
Evaluating Rank-Coherence of Crowd Rating in Customer Satisfaction
Crowd rating is a continuous and public process of data gathering that allows the display of general quantitative opinions on a topic from online anonymous networks as they are crowds. Online platforms leveraged these technologies to improve predictive tasks in marketing. However, we argue for a different employment of crowd rating as a tool of public utility to support social contexts suffering to adverse selection, like tourism. This aim needs …
Partecipazione alle primarie dell'Unione
L’alto grado di mobilitazione è il vero elemento di novità e di interesse delle primarie dell’Unione. Se è vera l’ipotesi che esse abbiano coinvolto una quota di elettori, al di là delle capacità di mobilitazione delle strutture di partito e collaterali, è verosimile considerare l’elevata affluenza come espressione della volontà di ‘sentirsi parte’ di un progetto politico o quantomeno di manifestare approvazione verso questa nuova modalità di coi…
Le elezioni regionali del 2006 in Sicilia
Struttura del territorio e comportamento elettorale Primarie ed esito elettorale La funzione politica delle primarie: quale rilevanza? Misure sintetiche per l'analisi comparativa degli aggregati territoriali Le elezioni primarie nei comuni della Sicilia: la localizzazione del voto La relazione tra primarie ed elezioni regionali: il quoziente di ubicazione La territorializzazione della dinamica politica
Le donne alle primarie
This contribution aims at analyzing voters’ characteristics and their preference motivations at the first Italian national primary elections in 2005 and the Sicilian regional primary elections in 2006. This analysis mainly focuses on gender differences and is based on a sample of face-to-face interviews. In 2005 the primary elections were called in order to select the centre-left coalition candidate for the following parliamentary elections, whil…
Evaluating Rank-Coherence of Crowd Rating in Customer Satisfaction
Crowd rating is a continuous and public process of data gathering that allows the display of general quantitative opinions on a topic from online anonymous networks as they are crowds. Online platforms leveraged these technologies to improve predictive tasks in marketing. However, we argue for a different employment of crowd rating as a tool of public utility to support social contexts suffering to adverse selection, like tourism. This aim needs …
Building Decision-making Indicators Through Network Analysis of Big Data
Methods, Developments, and Technological Innovations for Population Surveys
This article reviews contemporary issues in survey research, connecting established methods to innovative tools and technologies like real-time sensors and computer vision. This link takes into account the idea about the “organical” nature of Big Data, which represents a challenge toward a modernization of population studies in the light of technological innovations. The adopted dominant paradigm of data gathering is web survey (computer-assisted…
Building Well-Being Composite Indicator for Micro-Territorial Areas Through PLS-SEM and K-Means Approach
In the analysis of the difference in the distribution and profiles of the equitable and sustainable well-being, the territorial dimension is a fundamental reading-key for local policies since it allows the areas of advantage or relative deprivation to emerge more accurately. Specifically, in Italy the provincial level coincides with the administrative area of metropolitan cities, which are the subject of growing attention from European and nation…
Attitudes towards no-European Immigrants in EU
Many studies in different scientific fields offer controversial results on the media’s role to influence attitudes towards immigration. In the present paper, the attitude that European public opinion has towards no-European immigration is analysed through data from Eurobarometer in the 3 waves starting in 2017 until the latest updated in 2019 with the aim to estimate the relationship with new and legacy media use. Specifying repeated measures mul…
Theory and methods of the multiverse
Multiverse analysis involves systematically sampling a vast set of model specifications, known as a multiverse, to estimate the uncertainty surrounding the validity of a scientific claim. By fitting these specifications to a sample of observations, statistics are obtained as analytical results. Examining the variability of these statistics across different groups of model specifications helps to assess the robustness of the claim and gives insigh…
A Multiversal Model of Vibration of Effects of the Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being (BES) on Fertility
This study checks the hypothesis that sustainable well-being is a determinant factor of fertility through the application of a multiversal method based on the assumptions of Vibration of Effects (VoE) model of multiversal sampling on the Italian Equitable and Sustainable Well-being (BES) dataset. For 48 social indicators of well-being, adopting the Province as statistical unit, the estimate of linear effect has been systematically sampled 1024 ti…
Estimation of disciplinary similarity with large language models
The parameter that captures the similarity among disciplinary categories is a key quantity of many measures of interdisciplinarity. This study evaluates the feasibility of using large language models to estimate this parameter rather than using traditional methods based on citational networks among disciplines. An experimental procedure tested the precision, agreement, resilience, robustness, and explainability of estimates from OpenAI’s ChatGPT,…
Uncovering socioeconomic disparities in European regions
This study presents a multidimensional analysis of socioeconomic disparities across European regions between 2019 and 2023, focusing on key Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators related to poverty (SDG 1), quality education (SDG 4), gender equality in employment (SDG 5), and decent work and economic growth (SDG 8). Using a dataset at the NUTS-2 regional level, the research adopts a three-dimensional analytical framework to examine how the…
Special Issue
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Data mining (4 works) · Data science (4 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Regional science (4 works) · Statistics (4 works)