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Il diritto sulle successive vendite dell'originale di un'opera d'arte figurativa nella legge italiana e nella direttiva 84/2001/CE
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THE CLINICAL AND BIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF A SERIES OF IMMUNOPHENOTYPIC VARIANT OF B-CLL
No full textWe described the clinical and biological features of 63 cases of immunophenotypic variant of B-CLL (v-CLL) characterised by intermediate RMH score, in absence of t(11;14)(q13;q32) in FISH analysis in comparison with 130 cases of typical CLL.
We observed significant differences in terms of age <70 yrs (p <.001), lymphocytosis <20 x 109/l (p <.001), lymphocyte doubling time <12 months (p = .02), high serum beta2-microglobulin levels (p <.001) and splenomegaly (p = .002); CD38, CD49d, CD1c were more expressed in v-CLL, CD43 in CLL (p <.001). IgVH mutation and trisomy 12 were more frequent in v-CLL group (p = .001; p<.001); del13q14 in CLL (p=.008). Gene expression profiling of nine v-CLL and 60 CLL indicated that the atypical group presented a specific molecular pattern. After a median follow-up of respectively 55 (4-196) and 60 months (6-180), 25/42 v-CLL (48%) and 55/93 CLL patients (59%) were treated. Time to treatment was significantly shorter in v-CLL when IgVH mutational status was considered (p= .006). The median overall survival was worse in v-CLL mutated cases (p= 0.062).
In conclusion, v-CLL should be identified and dealt with separately from classic CLL. In particular, the prognostic markers that are routinely used to characterise classical B-CLL should not be interpreted as having the same meaning
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Outbreeding and asymbiotic germination in the conservation of the endangered Italian endemic orchidOphrys benacensis
No full textThe Insubric bee orchid, Ophrys benacensis (Reisigl) O.&E. Danesch & F. Ehrend, occurs in fragmented populations only in northern Italy, and suffers from inbreeding depression. We found that pollen from a depressed population at Monte Barro, Lecco, did not fertilise plants of the same population, nor of a larger population at nearby Valmadrera. Fertilisation was successful at both sites when pollen from Valmadrera was used, although the proportion of seeds containing embryos was almost six times greater at Valmadrera. Embryos produced by both populations were equally likely to develop in vitro Sowing seed on medium enriched with 50 mL L -1 coconut milk more than doubled the germination rate with respect to a non-enriched control (i.e. from 14.5% to 39.8%; p = 0.024, Student's t-test), whereas other complex organic media inhibited germination. We conclude that both pollen and ovules have inherent developmental problems that can be partially overcome by outbreeding with larger populations. Once seed is produced propagation is relatively easy: sufficient plantlets were produced to enlarge the Monte Barro population to 195 times its current size
The effect of metasomatism on the Cr-PGE mineralization in the Finero Complex, Ivrea Zone, Southern Alps
Full text linkThe magmatic metasomatism that was responsible for producing chromitite-dunite bodies in the unusual phlogopite peridotite of the Finero Complex in Permian to Triassic times also influenced the Cr-platinum group elements (PGE) mineralization. At least the end stages of this metasomatism are recorded in compositional zoning of chromite grains in the podiform chromitite. Metasomatic melt, with or without vapor, reacted with chromite to produce core-to-rim Cr enrichment of extant chromite grains and was concurrent with pyroxene crystallization. Under conditions of lower melt/rock ratio, metasomatism resulted in core-to-rim Al enrichment in chromite and crystallization of amphibole between chromite and clinopyroxene. This early, high-temperature metasomatism is unrelated to the later and pervasive K-metasomatism that crystallized phlogopite and was associated with the intrusion of clinopyroxenite dikes that cut the peridotite. Much later, serpentinization of olivine locally depleted chromite in Al and enriched it in Fe and formed minor amounts of magnetite. The PGE, which are present mainly as laurite inclusions in chromite, were remobilized by the early metasomatism. This resulted in substantial variation in the PGE contents of chromitites and imposed a characteristic PGE pattern in which chondrite-normalized Os, Ir, Ru and Rh contents are high but Pt and Pd contents are low. The slopes of PGE chondrite-normalized concentration patterns are systematically related to absolute PGE abundance and to rock mode. Chromitites with low modal orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, and amphibole exhibit negative PGE slopes and contain relatively high PGE concentrations, whereas chromitites rich in these silicate minerals have positive slopes and low PGE contents
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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