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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION IN BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH: UNIVERSITY TEXTBOOK REVIEW
No full textThe University of Mostar recently published the university textbook "Znanstvena komunikacija u biomedicini i zdravstvu" ("Scientific Communication in Biomedicine and Health") by Professor Josip Šimić and Professor Branko Krišto.The authors have been noted for many years as excellent and renowned experts in the scientific and professional fields they deal with, and this textbook is the result of the need to professionally and scientifically process and present all the most important concepts of scientific communication with a focus on the field of biomedicine and health in one place and at the University of Mostar.The reviewers of the textbook were: Professor Miro Leventić from the University of Mostar, Professor Sonja Špiranec and Professor Slobodan Mihaljević from the University of Zagreb.In the author\u27s preface and introductory part, the authors discuss science and bring into context the entire system of scientific information whose development cannot be separated from the development of scientific activity and modern science in the field of biomedicine and health. The textbook consists of a total of nine chapters – “Science”, “Scientific Communication”, “ScientificCommunication Systems”, “Scientific Productivity”, “Information Literacy as a Basis for the Implementation of Scientific Communication”, “Characteristics of Scientific Information in Biomedicine and Healthcare”, “Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Publishing in Medicine”, “The Role of Libraries in Strengthening Scientific Research Infrastructure"
13TH GASTROENTEROLOGY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN MOSTAR: NEW CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN GASTROENTEROLOGY
No full textFrom 22 to 24 November 2024, Mostar hosted the 13th Gastroenterology International Symposium, one of the most important events in the field of gastroenterology in the region. This prestigious gathering brought together eminent experts and scientists in the field of gastroenterology, who exchanged the latest research, clinical approaches and innovations in the diagnostics and treatment of digestive system diseases
INTEGRATIVE BIO/GEOMEDICINE AND HEALTH FOR ALL IN THE AI AGE
No full textBio/Geomedicine with AI represents a powerful intersection between geography, medicine, and technology to improve medical understanding, prediction, decision-making and therapeutic effectiveness as well as health promotion and diseases prevention. This intersection provides a holistic transdisciplinary understanding of how life, environment, and health affect each other in order to promote health at all levels and predict, prevent, and manage diseases through an eco-geographical model. Human health is significantly influenced by the places where people live and work, including natural, man-made and social environments. Bio/geomedicine involves environmental epidemiology, public health planning and precision medicine and gives a hope for integrative holistic health care
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: COMORBIDITY AND MULTIMORBIDITY BRING SEPARATED BRANCHES OF MEDICINE CLOSER TO EACH OTHER
No full textEditorial - Medicina Academica Integrativa, Vol. 1., No. 2., 2024.
The simultaneous presence of multiple diseases and illnesses in the form of multi-comorbidity and comorbidity is more a rule than an exception, particularly in the elderly (see Jakovljevic & Ostojic 2012). According to some authors 60-80% of adults over 65 years suffer from two or more diseases. Comorbidity, multi-morbidity and multisystem diseases represent huge problems and challenges to contemporary medicine in theory and practice. Medical specialization and specialist fragmentation, disease-centered approach, clinical guidelines developed for single diseases and fragmentary approach reducing complex disease problems to their biological aspects demand holistic approaches thatoffer a promising framework for increasing effectiveness and efficiency in contemporary medicine. Trans-disciplinary integrative medicine addresses the challenges, problems and complications posed by multi-morbidity and comorbidity in a new way. It also offers all health scientists and practitioners a common language that may bridge epistemic gaps and facilitates the exchange of insights and paradigms across academic borders
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: BETWEEN WISHFUL THINKING AND REALITY
No full textIntegrative concepts of medicine and health have manifested in various forms through the history of medicine. There have been major transformations in understanding health care and integrative medicine in the past decades. Comorbidities and multimorbidities are indifferent to professional specialties and ever growing subspecialization in medicine so integrative medicine bringing separated branches of medicine close to each other is more and more important. Integrative medicine as a conceptual scientific frame and practical approach attempts to bring coherence to theory and practice of health care. There exists a lack of consensus regarding a clear and precise definition of integrative medicine. We suggest here a holistic definition which emphasizes transdisciplinarity of the field with aims of restoring body, cognitive, affective and behavioral functions, and the most varied methods that can contribute to achieving these aims. A clear definition of integrative medicine could help to unify the field of medicine and is very important for better understanding among policy makers, funding agencies and the general public, as well as from academic and clinical disciplines. Integrative medicine is a transdisciplinary holistic approach to healthcare that combines integrated conventional Western medicine with evidence-based complementary concepts therapeutic methods to provide optimal and person-centered care. The scientific background for integrative medicine includes a research physiological, psychological, social and spiritual factors that contribute to health and disease through processes of salutogenesis and pathogenesis
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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