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The impact of genetic data on Medicine and Insurance practice
No full textThe extrordinary progresses achieved over the past decades in the field of human genetics and genomics have undoubtedly identified novel frontiers both in medical research and in clinical practice. Indeed, this innovation has significantly contributed to medical treatment of several human disorders and paved the way to personalized medicine approaches.
At the same time, progresses in human genetics and genomics also raised delicate issues related to the collection and treatment of genetic data and to their use, particularly when one comes to their adoption in medicine and in the insurance field.
Germany has already demonstrated considerable interest in this area by early approaching the field through a regulatory act, the Gendiagnostikgesetz. The discipline contained in the Gendiagnostikgesetz is strongly oriented toward the respect of the basic rights of the human being and of his dignity.
Since discussion about this legislation has more recently started in Italy as well, it seemed appropriate to have a closer look at the existing German statute from a multidisciplinary perspective and draw conclusions from the experiences made and from the criticisms this legislation had to face. This volume assembles the contributions offered by Italian and German senior and junior scholars to an International Workshop, jointly organized in Naples by the Università di Napoli “Federico II” and the Freie Universität Berlin and held in May 2014
Diversità, equità e inclusione sociale. Percorsi di ricerca a confronto.
No full textIl carattere multietnico assume nel nostro contesto continentale modalità completamente nuove rispetto al passato in relazione alle diverse peculiarità dell'immigrazione accentuando la complessità delle questioni poste dal confronto tra culture e tradizioni diverse che evolvono al loro interno differentemente, rendendo indispensabile una riflessione volta a favorire le condizioni per un modello di società più inclusiva, quale contenitore dinamico aperto alle differenze religiose e culturali con un atteggiamento di "reciprocità" basato sul dialogo interculturale sulla conoscenza dell'"altro", per individuare la struttura e l'idea stessa di una comunità autenticamente cosmopolita, capace di conciliare i caratteri identitari delle popolazioni immigrate e di quelle ospitanti, nel rispetto reciproco dei valori di entrambe
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
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