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La dirigenza della Regione Campania e i "fondi strutturali europei""
No full textI differenti cicli di programmazione dei ‘fondi strutturali’, con i
percorsi di attuazione da cui sono stati caratterizzati, hanno contribuito
in maniera crescente a problematizzare il rapporto tra gli apparati
politici e burocratici di livello regionale preesistenti e le nuove
esigenze organizzative imposte dalla loro gestione operativa. La
partita dei fondi si è giocata attraverso la ricerca di un equilibrio tra
i compiti di amministrazione ordinaria già espletati dall’ente regionale
e le altre attività scaturite dall’implementazione delle politiche
sovranazionali. A seconda delle originarie dotazioni di risorse umane
e finanziarie, della qualità della classe politica e burocratica, della
capacità di intraprendere e di introiettare processi di modernizzazione
nella struttura organizzativa, queste ultime sono state percepite
come un’opportunità, come un vincolo, oppure come
un’ulteriore incombenza, per l’azione amministrativa. Nelle Regioni
del Mezzogiorno il ruolo che esse hanno ricoperto sin dal loro avvio
è risultato cruciale. Se è vero che la loro gestione è talvolta sembrata
un ulteriore aggravio all’interno di un quadro dell’amministrazione
ordinaria per se stesso già critico, è altrettanto indubbio che per le
Regioni del Sud dell’Italia si sia trattato di una prova (sfida) importante,
che le ha costrette a rivedere i precedenti assetti organizzativi
nel tentativo di raggiungere gli obiettivi prefissati dall’Unione. A riformare,
cioè, modelli e logiche di azione in uno scenario che, a
causa della crescente riduzione di trasferimenti pubblici provenienti
dai governi nazionali, ha reso indispensabile intercettare i fondi
comunitari, divenuti ad un certo punto sostitutivi e non più aggiuntivi
alle risorse pubbliche nazionali
Tremor, sensory-motor polyneuropathy and cerebral gliosis in klinefelter's syndrome
No full textKlinefelter's syndrome (KS) represents one of the most frequent sexual chromosome abnormalities, with an extra-X chromosome added to the normal karyotype (XXY). Clinically, it is characterized by tall body habitus, infertility, gynecomastia, small penis and testes. Neurological involvement is usually present and tremor is frequently described as postural and kinetic tremor that resembles an essential tremor. Polyneuropathy is another neurological problem described in KS. It is an axonal neuropathy with the involvement of sensory-motor fibers. It may represent a complication or alternatively a coexisting morbidity. Cerebral gliosis in magnetic resonance images (MRI) was also described, with lesions in deep white matter (white matter lesions -WMLs). Sexual chromosome alterations with an increased number of chromosomes (XXXY, XXYY, etc.) more often present these MRI abnormalities. We describe three cases of KS patients carrying these alterations: tremor, sensory-motor polyneuropathy and leukoencephalopathy. These three abnormalities should be considered in all patients with KS
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
Consensus recommendations of the Italian Association for Neuroimmunology for immunochemical cerebrospinal fluid examination.
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