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Book Review: Anna Re, Americana Verde (Milano: Edizioni Ambiente, 2009), 351 pp.
No full textBook Review: Anna Re, Americana Verde (Milano: Edizioni Ambiente, 2009), 351 pp
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Mutilazioni genitali femminili
Get PDFPer Mutilazioni Genitali Femminili (MGF) si fa riferimento ad una serie di pratiche culturalmente radicate in talune popolazioni, specialmente africane, volte alla modificazione degli organi genitali della donna in nome di tradizioni che vedono nell’organo clitorideo una sorta di reminiscenza dell’organo sessuale maschile e che come tale va escisso affinché una donna possa diventare tale ed essere desiderata dagli uomini del proprio popolo. Questa descrizione del fenomeno è tuttavia riduttiva poiché diversi sono i tipi di intervento mutilatorio che le donne possono subire e varie le motivazioni a sua giustificazione.
Sono riconosciute dall’OMS le seguenti tipologie di mutilazioni genitali femminili:tipo: escissione del prepuzio con o senza escissione di parte o di tutto il clitoride; Tipo: escissione del prepuzio e del clitoride assieme all’escissione parziale o totale delle piccole labbra; Tipo: escissione di parte o di tutti i genitali esterni e sutura/ restringimento dell’apertura vaginale (infibulazione);
Tipo: puntura, foratura, incisione, allungamento del clitoride e/o delle labbra, cauterizzazione tramite ustione del clitoride e dei tessuti adiacenti, raschiamento dell’orifizio vaginale o incisione della vagina, introduzione di sostanze corrosive in quest’ultima al fine di causarne il sanguinamento o di erbe con l’intento di provocarne il restringimento o la chiusura ed ogni altra procedura che rientri nella suddetta definizione di MGF.
La ricerca dopo un'attenta analisi ed una puntuale mappatura del fenomeno, individua le strategie più appropriate per il contenimento dell'abuso.
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Gender differences in the interoceptive awareness: a pilot study on Italian people
Get PDFBackground: Bodily self-recognition requires the individual to be able to refer to himself through a
reflexive representation, typically a schema or an image of one’s own body. Body ownership results
from an interplay between exteroception and interoception (i.e., the ability to perceive one’s own body
from the inside). It has been demonstrated that perceiving sensations inside the body could be
associated with better regulation of emotions. Also, it has been reported that interoceptive awareness
may be affected by gender. Therefore, this pilot study aimed to investigate gender differences in the
interoceptive awareness among Italian people.
Methods: 114 Italian volunteers (57 males and 57 females) completed the 32-item Multidimensional
Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) questionnaire to measure the multiple dimensions of
interoceptive awareness.
Results: The findings showed higher scores among females than among males for the ability to notice
interoceptive input and the awareness of the relationship between bodily sensations and emotional
states.
Conclusions: Results suggested that women could be more inclined to notice and focus on internal cues.
Also, the gender differences could be related to physical and hormonal changes that women experience
during development. Future research on the relationship between gender and physiological responses
(e.g., heartbeat, skin conductance) for a specific ethnographic sample is recommended
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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