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Law Enforcement Activities in Italy
No full textDespite the fact that no one nourishes doubts about their importance, we know little or nothing about the forces of order in Italy, about how they are organized, about their daily activities, about the difficulties they encounter in their work. The greater part of the available studies of the police go back to the 1960s and 1970s, and many of these had denunciation rather than understanding as their end. Unlike what has happened in the United States and Great Britain, and more recently in France and Germany, rigorous and systematic studies in this field had never been done in our country. With this article, in which we present the results of our research from the last three years, we propose to fill (even if only in minimal part) this noticeable gap. Naturally, the forces of order perform numerous tasks. But, in the following pages, we will principally be concerned with the activities they undertake to prevent and repress criminality, and we will analyze how they have changed in recent decades. To what degree, we ask, do Italian police forces, with their particular history and the specificity of their organization, succeed in reaching this objective? How much have they known and do they know how to reduce or contain the number of crimes? More analytically, the principal questions we pose are two. First, has the degree of efficiency of law enforcement changed in the last twenty or thirty years, and if so (as has been frequently said), has it diminished? Secondly, has there been up until now a relationship between the number of police and the number of crimes, and is it true (as many citizens believe) that the increase of the one usually provokes the diminution of the other
Recensione al volume La prassi del giurisdizionalismo negli Stati italiani. Premesse, ricerche, discussioni, a cura di D. Edigati e L. Tanzini, Roma 2015
No full textRecensione al volume di L. Maione, Gli antichi statuti dei collegia dei dottori giureconsulti e dei notai di Brescia (sec. XIV) e della Riviera di Salò (sec. XVI). Edizione critica, Brescia 2009
No full textC'è ancora posto per l'onore?
No full textThe essay analyzes the meaning of honor in contempory society shedding light on the differences of the meaning of honour in traditional societie
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Retrospective outcome analysis of urethroplasties performed for various etiologies in a single South African centre
No full textThis is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication of the article: African Journal of Urology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in African Journal of Urology, VOL 18, Issue 3, 2012, DOI: 10.1016/j.afju.2012.03.001.Objectives: To compare the results of anastomotic versus augmentation urethroplasty (buccal mucosa graft (BMG) onlay), as well as dorsal versus ventral BMG techniques. Methods: A retrospective audit of 69 patients who underwent urethroplasty at Eersteriver Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa between October 2004 and July 2011 was undertaken. Analysis included stricture etiology, location and length, type of surgery performed as well as complication rates over the follow-up period. Results: The predominant stricture etiologies were traumatic and infective causes (55%), with a mean stricture length of 3 cm (0.5–15 cm). Forty two patients had bulbar urethra strictures (61%), with 8 (11%) located in the posterior, and penile & bulbar regions, respectively. The remaining strictures were located in the penile urethra (16%). Surgery performed included bulbar (12) and membranous anastomotic (8) urethroplasty, ventral (13) and dorsal (22) buccal mucosa onlay grafts (BMG), and 2-stage urethroplasty (14). Overall stricture recurrence was seen in 9 patients (13%), including 1 patient (8%) of the anterior end-to-end anastomotic group compared to 2 patients (6%) of the onlay BMG group (p = 0.77). The re-stricture rates were 5% and 8% in the dorsal (1/22) and ventral BMG onlay groups (1/13), respectively (p = 0.72)
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Some aspects of the evolution with age of arterial lesions in Watanabe heritable hyperlipidemic rabbits: Morphological and morphometrical observations of aortic thoracic lesions
No full textCharacterization of the WHHL rabbits as model to study atherogenesi
Susceptibility Differences in Atherosclerotic Involvement of Different Arterial Districts in WHHL Rabbits
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