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Hercules, silenus and the fly : Lucian's rhetorical paradoxes in Erasmus' ethics
No full textStarting from the fierce conflict between Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther, my contribution aims to show the rhetorical genesis of Erasmus' reflection on ethics. Specifically, I will focus on the fact that some of the most significant and recurrent metaphors in Erasmus' moral and theological meditation (e.g. Hercules, Silenus and the fly) trace their roots back to the work of Lucian of Samosata. Against this background, it will be possible to investigate the fundamental role of the Lucianic attitude in defining some key-concepts of Erasmus' thought, such as the rhetorical concepts of festivitas and persona. Moreover, I will demonstrate how these concepts become the starting point of Erasmus' silenic moral, modelled on the sophistic ability to transform relations and proportions between things by using words
Non sum Oedipus sed Morus : a portrait of Erasmus' Moria
No full textThis article aims to investigate the representative strategies of Moriae Encomium by taking into account the link between Erasmus' Moria and Thomas More's portrait as it emerges both from the Encomium Moriae and from the Utopia. Specifically, I will focus on the crucial role of Erasmus' concept of omnium horarum homo as an ethical and aesthetic model applied to the definition of More's nature. This approach, which explores the intertextual construction of Morus-Moria's identity, shall allow me to stress the relevance of the metaphor of mundane masking in Erasmus' Encomium and More's Utopia. By considering Erasmus and More's paradoxical combination of Plato, Cicero and Lucian of Samosata, I will show how the image of the world theatre becomes the symbol of Erasmus' philosophia civilior based on the rhetorical and moral idea of decorum
Effetti dell’esercizio fisico in prevenzione e terapia del diabete.
No full textIl diabete, nelle sue diverse forme, è una patologia variegata e di grande rilevanza, con elevati costi individuali e collettivi. Chiare evidenze mostrano che l’esercizio fisico è uno strumento fondamentale di prevenzione del diabete tipo 2 e, probabilmente, anche del diabete gestazionale. In termini di cura tutte le forme di diabete possono beneficiare, in modo diverso, da un’attività fisica regolare. Questo è particolarmente vero per il diabete tipo 2, patologia in cui l’esercizio fisico è a tutti gli effetti uno strumento di terapia, dato che agisce sui meccanismi patogenetici della malattia, sull’eccesso ponderale, sui livelli circolanti del glucosio e sull’insieme dei fattori di rischio cardiovascolare, quindi sul controllo metabolico e sul rischio di complicanze croniche. Nel complesso, sia il training aerobico che quello di forza hanno azioni benefiche in questa forma di diabete e la loro combinazione dovrebbe essere prescritta ogniqualvolta sia possibile. In questi pazienti anche l’interruzione della sedentarietà protratta ha effetti metabolici positivi e dovrebbe essere raccomandata, laddove questo sia appropriato, accanto all’esercizio strutturato
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
Monitoring exercise intensity in diabetes: applicability of "heart rate-index" to estimate oxygen consumption during aerobic and resistance training
No full textPURPOSE: Accurate quantification and monitoring of exercise "dose", described by oxygen consumption (VO2), is necessary for exercise prescription and individualization. However, due to the complexity and elevated cost of direct, gold-standard methods, this is rarely done outside research laboratories. Heart rate-index (HRindex) is a new simple method to estimate VO2 in healthy and clinical populations. We tested the performance of HRindex to estimate VO2 in diabetic patients during aerobic (AT) and isotonic training (IT). METHODS: Data from 12 males (age: 64 ± 5 years; BMI: 26 ± 12) with type 2 diabetes were analysed. VO2 and heart rate were measured during one AT and one IT session. Furthermore, VO2 was indirectly estimated based on HRindex. Then, the correspondence between measured and estimated VO2 was evaluated by two-way RM-ANOVA, correlation and Bland-Altman analysis. RESULTS: Estimated average VO2 values during AT (1292 ± 366 ml/min) were not different from (p = 0.243) and highly correlated with (r = 0.87, p < 0.001) the measured values (1369 ± 417 ml/min), with a small bias and imprecision. Conversely during IT, HRindex overestimated VO2 compared to the actual measures (1048 ± 404 vs 667 ± 230 ml/min, p ≤ 0.001) and only a moderate correlation was found between values (r = 0.43, p ≤ 0.001), with a large bias and imprecision. CONCLUSION: VO2 of aerobic exercises can be accurately estimated in diabetes patients using HRindex. During isotonic exercise, this method is not recommended for monitoring metabolic intensity due to large overestimation and imprecision. In aerobic exercise, HRindex offers a simple and valid alternative to the direct VO2 determination and may favour the applicability of time-resolved measures of exercise "dose"
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
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