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[rec. di] I. Bonomi, V. Coletti, "L'italiano della musica nel mondo", Firenze, Accademia della Crusca-goWare, 2015-2016
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I. Bonomi, V. Coletti, "L'italiano della musica nel mondo", Firenze, Accademia della Crusca-goWare, 2015-2016, 203 pp.
(«La lingua italiana nel mondo», Nuova serie e-book)
ISBN 978-88-6797-423-
Mediating governance goals with patients and nurses satisfaction: a multi-actor multi-objective problem including fairness
No full textBalancing conflicting goals among different stakeholders is a challenging problem in various application domains. In this paper, we analyse it in the context of home healthcare. Fairness objective functions for nurses and patients are combined with system-level governance goals of the territorial centers in charge of the assistance service. From the solution of several multi-objective problems including one objective for each actor hierarchically ordered, the best goal for each stakeholder is identified and interesting managerial conclusions are drawn. To efficiently solve large-size instances, we introduce a parallel Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search algorithm with destroy and repair operators customised to solve multi-objective multi-actor problems. The algorithm proves to be highly efficient and effective when compared to a commercial Mixed Integer Programming solver, either in its plain form or enforced by a mild start and a primal heuristic. Additionally, we devise a metaheuristic method to generate the Pareto frontier of an instance
Mechanisms of WHIM syndrome
No full textWHIM syndrome is a genetically inherited disease that is characterized by chronic neutropenia, myelokathexis, hypogammaglobulinemia, recurrent infections and warts. The discovery of heterozygous mutations of CXCR4, a G-protein-coupled receptor that is required for normal hematopoiesis and lymphoid homeostasis, as a major cause of WHIM syndrome has revealed the pathogenesis of this rare disorder. The recent availability of drugs that inhibit CXCL12 binding to its receptor CXCR4 has provided an attractive pathogenesis-driven therapeutic option for this disease. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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
Optimizing Attended Home Delivery: Multiple recovery options and customer availability profiles to face synchronization failures
Full text linkIn the growing sector of Attended Home Delivery, unsynchronized deliveries between couriers and recipients affect both customers’ satisfaction and companies’ costs. Hence, reducing such failures improves companies’ service quality and logistics efficiency. To address this issue, we study an Attended Home Delivery Problem with Recovery Options (AHDPRO) in which customers specify their probability of being at home during different timeslots of the day and their preferred recovery option in case of a synchronization failure. The options include leaving the package in a predefined safe location, bringing it to a generic collection point, or scheduling a second delivery attempt. Each alternative involves different costs and, in most cases, additional operational decisions. The AHDPRO aims to complete all customer deliveries while minimizing overall routing times as well as the overall penalty due to the recovery actions implemented and weighted by the probability of a synchronization failure to occur. We propose a branch-and-cut algorithm, including valid inequalities and heuristic procedures, to solve a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming model based on an expanded graph. Using the developed method as a tool for evaluating costs and operations, we conduct an experimental campaign on scenarios adapted from the literature involving lexicographic-based optimization procedures able to address the multiple attributes of the solutions. The results obtained allow us to assess the impact of the different recovery options on the optimal solutions and their values. Additionally, the results yield several managerial insights for companies operating in the Attended Home Delivery sector, such as the timeslot length, perceived service quality, and other key operational factors contributing to efficient planning and improved customer satisfaction
Dynamically dealing with requests in a stochastic multi-period home healthcare problem with consistency constraints
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