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Introduction. The humanities and medicine: why do they need each other?
No full textHumanities and medicine have the same goal: the study of human beings. A collection of essays and experiences on the value of humanities to train better physicians
Eliciting, antimicrobial and film-forming properties of chitosan applied on fresh fruit and vegetables.
No full textEssere transdisciplinare: la relazione tra Pedagogia, Medicina e Scienze della vita
No full textNel XX secolo la ricerca scientifica ha permesso di realizzare progressi scientifici e tecnologici senza precedenti nell’evoluzione della storia umana. Tuttavia, allo stesso tempo, ha contribuito a far sì che alcune discipline approfondissero conoscenze sempre più specialistiche, favorendo un pensiero frammentato e frammentario che, nel caso della medicina, ha privilegiato la malattia e non il soggetto malato come oggetto di osservazione. Il caso delle scienze della vita, invece, insieme di discipline scientifiche che studiano organismi e microrganismi, dimostra come sia possibile una “contaminazione” disciplinare per comprendere in profondità i diversi meccanismi della vita e le loro implicazioni sociali ed etiche che vanno oltre una comprensione frammentaria della realtà. Secondo gli Autori, la conoscenza derivante da questa contaminazione è rilevantemente connessa agli obiettivi della formazione in campo medico e delinea una nuova prospettiva epistemologica di integrazione delle conoscenze per la salute
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
BlogForever D5.5: Case Studies Comparative Analysis and Conclusions
No full textThis report presents the analysis and conclusions of the BlogForever Case Studies based on internal and external testing results, as well as recorded system logs. The case studies are paramount for the evaluation of the performance and the impact of the BlogForever platform
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
BlogForever D5.3: User Questionnaires and Reports
No full textThis report presents the feedback gathered from third party users during the BlogForever Case Studies. Therefore, the research framework is defined and the case studies results are presented, followed by a summary of conclusions and remarks
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Genetic profile of total body energy content of Holstein cows in the first three lactations
No full textWeekly total body energy content (TBEC) was calculated for 444 Holstein cows in their first 3 lactations. These calculations were based on body lipid and protein changes predicted from weekly changes in body condition score and live weight of each cow. In first lactation, cows lost TBEC during the initial 8 wk, regained it by wk 22, and continued to build up their reserves until wk 37. Cows started lactations 2 and 3 with considerable reserves from the dry period that they used during the first 13 wk of lactation. Variance components for TBEC were estimated using random regression analysis allowing for heterogeneous residual variance. The genetic variance increased within each lactation, suggesting that the genetic component becomes more important as lactation progresses. The genetic correlations between very early ( wk 1 to 4) and later stages of first lactation were near zero but they increased considerably between later lactation stages. Genetic correlations between TBEC on wk 5 of first lactation and the remainder of this lactation ranged from 0.64 for the more distant weeks to 0.99 for the immediately subsequent weeks. Genetic correlations with TBEC in second lactation were moderately high (0.68 to 0.70) for the early weeks ( 1 to 8) and decreased gradually to 0.56 for weeks at the end of lactation. For third lactation, these estimates ranged from 0.53 to 0.63. Genetic correlation estimates of TBEC in wk 12 of first lactation with subsequent first-lactation weeks varied from 0.79 to 0.99, whereas they ranged from 0.65 to 0.77 and from 0.57 to 0.68 in second and third lactations, respectively. The genetic correlation between TBEC in later weeks of first lactation and the rest of productive life increased as first lactation progressed, but the improvement diminished. Weekly genetic evaluations for first-lactation TBEC were used to predict second- and third-lactation energy content. The accuracy of these predictions increased with progressing weeks in first lactation, but about three-fourths of the improvement occurred by wk 5. Our results suggest that TBEC calculated after a month from the first calving may give useful information about the future energy content of a cow.</p
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