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COVID-19 PANDEMIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INSURANCE AGAINST ACCIDENTS AT WORK [PANDEMIA COVID-19: RICADUTE IN AMBITO ASSICURATIVO INAIL]
No full textLa pandemia COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease 19) sta sollevando importanti questioni etiche e medico-legali. L’ambito previdenziale INAIL è uno dei più coinvolti, in considerazione della elevata esposizione di alcune categorie di lavoratori, inclusi gli operatori sanitari. L’INAIL riconosce l’infezione in occasione di lavoro come infortunio del lavoro e sta già garantendo la tutela assicurativa per il periodo di quarantena/permanenza domiciliare fiduciaria del lavoratore esposto o in caso di morte dello stesso a seguito di COVID-19. Meno attenzione è stata per il momento prestata ad altri eventi tutelati, come le possibili menomazioni fisiche conseguenti alla COVID-19, nonché i disturbi psichici potenzialmente riconducibili alla pandemia nei lavoratori esposti. È stata pertanto effettuata una breve revisione della letteratura focalizzata su questi aspetti, accompagnata da alcuni spunti di riflessione sulle possibili ricadute medicolegali in ambito assicurativo INAIL. Nonostante le scarse evidenze sulle conseguenze fisiche a lungo termine della COVID-19, le attuali conoscenze suggeriscono la necessità di realizzare protocolli di valutazione delle funzioni respiratoria, cardiaca, renale ed epatica al fine di valutare eventuali sequele della malattia soprattutto nei lavoratori sopravvissuti a COVID-19 grave/critica e/o con patologie preesistenti. L’impatto psicologico della pandemia può essere rilevante sia per i lavoratori infettati che per quelli solo esposti. È possibile anche l’insorgenza di disturbi psichici cronici (come disturbo da stress post-traumatico, ansia, e depressione), che pongono questioni medico-legali complesse. Sarà necessario un monitoraggio a lungo termine dei lavoratori infetti ed esposti che potrebbe essere un’occasione straordinaria per seguire nel tempo le conseguenze della pandemia e capire come prevenire, o almeno ridurre, l’impatto di analoghi eventi sulla salute psicofisica dei lavoratori in futuro
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
The Ethics of Autofictional War Writing: Representing Crime and Addiction in Nico Walker’s Cherry
No full textGeographies of Terror: Homecoming and Displacement in GWOT Literature
No full textAbout ten years before the September eleventh attacks, in the opening pages of the autobiographically inspired novel An Afghanistan Picture Show, William T. Vollman noted the captivating draw that war has on the protagonist’s mind and identified it as the primary reason for his journey to a distant land: “once upon a time there was a Young Man who wanted to be more than he really was. This made him unhappy. He decided to go to Afghanistan and take pictures of the bullets whizzing past his ears.” As in this case, war has always been inextricably linked to travel, whether it be an attraction for young and hopeful reporters, desperate civilians seeking refuge, or soldiers stationed in foreign lands. The last statement is even more true for Americans soldiers, since the last war fought on American soil dates back to the nineteenth century.
This paper analyzes some of the recent literature of the War on Terror—such as Elliot Ackerman’s aptly titled memoir Places and Names (2019) and Phil Klay’s ironically named novel Missionaries (2020)—and explores the spatial dynamics, cultural encounters, and dislocations caused by the series of interrelated conflicts that have characterized the first two decades of the twenty-first century. In doing so, I argue that these narratives unveil, through both formal and plot devices, like the juxtaposition of different toponyms at the beginning of an episode in Ackerman’s memoir or the use of different focalizers (and therefore diverse geographical settings) in fragmented narratives, the global network of power and violence that underlies modern warfare. The characters of these stories are then depicted as nomadic individuals doomed to perpetually look for their metaphorical home, war itself, across the globe, travelling from one warzone to the next and constituting the threads of a web of smaller conflicts that take place simultaneously, in a seemingly never-ending cycle, around the world
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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