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La coordinazione degli arti inferiori prima e dopo la ricostruzione del legamento crociato anteriore
No full textThe anterior cruciate ligament rupture determines a knee proprioceptive deficit which may cause the loss of motor coordination in the injured limb. In this study, the authors have verified before and after ACL reconstruction the functional capability of the injured limb, through an appropriate device. The main results underline a motor incoordination in all patients with a chronic lesion of ACL. However the significant improvement at 8 weeks after surgery suggests the knee proprioceptive recovery is possible also at a long distance from the lesion
Valutazione funzionale dell'instabilita post-traumatica di caviglia
No full textL’incoordinazione motoria che segue i traumi distorsivi di caviglia non dipende solo dalla lesione legamentosa ma anche e soprattutto da deficit propriocettivi.
In tal senso la corretta diagnosi deve essere fatta con le manovre cliniche, le correnti metodiche radiografiche ed una valutazione funzionale oggettiva.
La pedana posturale ad equilibrio instabile può essere considerata un utile strumento per tale scopo.The motor incoordination following ankle sprains is due not only to the injury of the ligaments but especially to proprioceptive deficits as well. Therefore the correct diagnosis must be achieved by clinical tests, the current radiographic methods and an objective functional evaluation. The unsteady postural footboard can be considered as an useful instrument for this aim
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
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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