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Il disturbo dello sviluppo della coordinazione
No full textIl disturbo dello sviluppo della coordinazione (DCD) è un disturbo del neurosviluppo che coinvolge le competenze motorie e prassiche e che comporta la difficoltà a svolgere alcune attività scolastiche e di vita quotidiana come scrivere, ritagliare, correre e fare sport. Il volume ne presenta le caratteristiche partendo dallo sviluppo motorio tipico e dalle sue basi neurofisiologiche, e descrive gli strumenti di valutazione maggiormente utilizzati e le proposte d’intervento secondo le recenti linee guida europee, fornendo così ai clinici suggerimenti sia per gli aspetti diagnostici sia per quelli riabilitativi. Vengono inoltre indicati alcuni strumenti di osservazione per gli insegnanti e la normativa di riferimento in merito ai bisogni educativi speciali (BES)
Handwriting readiness e abilità motorie: quale contributo nell’apprendimento della scrittura
No full textLo studio ha come obiettivi: (a) analizzare le caratteristiche grafo-motorie di bambini con sviluppo tipico e con sospetto Disturbo di coordinazione motoria di età prescolare e di I classe primaria b) individuare la relazione tra abilità motorie, grafo-motorie e scrittura a mano in bambini di I e II classe primaria seguiti longitudinalmente. Hanno partecipato 50 bambini di 5 anni anni e 39 bambini di I e di II classe primaria. Sono state proposte: una prova di Handwriting Readiness, il questionario DCDQ (Caravale e Baldi, 2014), le prove di velocità di scrittura (BVSCO-2, Tressoldi, Cornoldi e Re) e la copia di una frase in corsivo (DGM-P) per i bambini di I classe. I dati sono stati analizzati attraverso una serie di analisi correlazionali (Pearson) e di analisi di regressione semplice. I risultati mostrano una relazione significativa tra abilità motorie e scrittura a mano, sia rispetto a criteri di leggibilità che di velocità di scrittura
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
Daily motor characteristics in children with developmental coordination disorder and in children with specific learning disorder
No full textAn association between learning disorders and coordination problems has been reported in several studies over the last few decades. In this study, we have investigated daily motor characteristics in children with a diagnosis of specific learning disorder (SLD) and compared them with those of children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and those of typically developing controls. Ninety-six children aged 5 to 12 years were included: 29 with a diagnosis of SLD, 33 of DCD, and 34 controls. The Italian version of the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire 2007 (DCDQ-Italian) was used to measure children's coordination in everyday functional activities. The mean DCDQ-Italian total score was significantly lower in both SLD and DCD groups as compared with controls. Regarding subscores, both clinical groups scored significantly lower than controls on “Fine motor/handwriting” skills and on “General coordination.” The DCD group scored also significantly lower than controls on “Control during movement.” Moreover, clinical groups differed from each other, with SLD children scoring significantly higher on “Control during movement” and “General coordination” subscores. SLD children diverged from typically developing children in some motor skills during ordinary activities, and although this discrepancy was not as severe as in DCD children, it could have an impact on self-esteem and sport inclusion
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
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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