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Ripensando l'"eccezione" portoghese. (Post)memorie traumatiche nel contesto post-coloniale lusofono.
No full textThis paper reflects on Portuguese “subaltern colonialism" as a condition that perturbs the dichotomy affecting colonial archive. Portuguese colonial archive still fuels a "lusotropical" collective imaginary omitting violence from official discourses. Focusing on the idea of “postmemory”, this work considers the contribution of private and family memories of decolonization to the deconstruction of the contemporary dimension of “Lusophony” as a problematic neocolonial concept
eHealth: uno strumento di prevenzione cardiovascolare
No full textSintesi delle prosepttive future della eHealth e delle sue possibili applicazioni in campo preventivo pubblicata su riviste italiane destinate a Medici di Medicina Generale e Specialistica - Si riporta l'impatto potenziale della eHealth per il contenimento dell'epidemia di obesità e malattie metaboliche nei giovani (progetto ISACCO) e in altri settori della medicina preventiv
Noninvasive ventilation in pediatric emergency care: a literature review and description of our experience
No full textNoninvasive ventilation (NIV) refers to a kind of mechanical respiratory support used in order to avoid the progression of respiratory failure to endotracheal intubation. Even though if this method is widely known in patients affected by chronic diseases and in children admitted in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, few data are actually available on its use in intermediate care units. The present review focuses on the efficiency of NIV performed in children with acute respiratory failure due to different conditions. Moreover, the authors have described their experience with NIV in pediatric patients admitted to their acute and emergency room where NIV was started, well tolerated and led to an improvement of gas exchanges, decreasing the muscular respiratory work and endotracheal intubation avoidance in most of the patients.Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) refers to a kind of mechanical respiratory support used in order to avoid the progression of respiratory failure to endotracheal intubation. Even though if this method is widely known in patients affected by chronic diseases and in children admitted in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, few data are actually available on its use in intermediate care units. The present review focuses on the efficiency of NIV performed in children with acute respiratory failure due to different conditions. Moreover, the authors have described their experience with NIV in pediatric patients admitted to their acute and emergency room where NIV was started, well tolerated and led to an improvement of gas exchanges, decreasing the muscular respiratory work and endotracheal intubation avoidance in most of the patients
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
«Women aren't funny»: lotte e strategie per il riconoscimento della comicità femminile a Saturday Night Live
No full textL'esperienza storica di Saturday Night Live (SNL), popolare trasmissione americana di sketch-comedy, testimonia come la comicità femminile sia riuscita a ritagliarsi un ruolo in un ambiente monopolizzato da una prospettiva di genere maschile. La necessità delle comiche di esistere come soggetti autonomi è emersa nel tempo grazie ad un’invasione delle sfere tradizionalmente riservate agli uomini, come la comicità ad argomento politico. Nei primi anni di vita di SNL (1975-1980) vi erano i segni di un protagonismo femminile crescente, in uno show visto come ultima sponda della contro-cultura giovanile. Tuttavia, nel quindicennio successivo il ruolo femminile fu ridimensionato e anche la comicità politica assunse toni misogini e una visione stereotipata della "femminilità”. Esempi di questa tendenza sono i trattamenti riservati alla candidata vicepresidenziale Geraldine Ferraro nel 1984, alla deputata Pat Schroeder nel 1988 e ad Hillary Clinton negli anni novanta. Tutte e tre furono dipinte come isteriche, doppie, maliziose e furono bersaglio di battute a sfondo sessuale. Allo stesso tempo, il ruolo ancillare di attrici e autrici portò anche ad un clima conflittuale con la produzione, tanto che diverse comiche denunciarono il clima maschilista del backstage e abbandonarono in protesta la trasmissione. Dopotutto, la tensione era latente sin dalle origini del programma: a John Belushi, uno dei primi membri del cast, viene attribuita la frase: «le donne non sono divertenti». Tuttavia, all’inizio degli anni duemila, il pubblico di SNL si è abituato ad un commento articolato della politica da parte di autrici e attrici comiche, una scelta accolta con favore dalla stampa e dall’opinione pubblica. SNL può essere un esempio fruttuoso per riflettere storicamente sui ruoli di genere, sul loro carattere conflittuale, identitario, e sui significati attribuiti loro in diversi contesti socioculturali (in questo caso l’industria culturale statunitense). Soprattutto, è un caso che può far convergere e dialogare assieme gli studi culturali sui media, la storia di genere e la storia politica
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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