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Colored Greening
No full textdesigning [in] greenfield a cura di Marino Borrelli e Agrippino Graniero WORKSHOP_LABORATORIO DI PROGETTAZIONE INTENSIVA INTENSIVE DESIGN WORKSHOP INTENSIVE DESIGN WORKSHOP I lavori presentati sono il risultato del secondo Workshop/Laboratorio di progettazione intensiva “designing [in] greenfield” svolto nel Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale della Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli nel corso di Laurea in Architettura a ciclo unico. La diffusione dei risultati della sperimentazione progettuale nell’ambito dell’attività didattica e della ricerca progettuale e la sua divulgazione gratuita in ambiti scientifici ed accademici garantita da un marchio libero come AOS sembra allo stato un meccanismo vincente, così come dimostra l’alto numero di download delle pubblicazioni prodotte e dell’ibook del primo Workshop della facoltà di Architettura della seconda Università di Napoli e la buona qualità del lavoro di questo secondo anch’esso prodotto nel formato ibook della apple, dotato di un comitato scientifico internazionale e distribuito gratuitamente in italiano e in inglese in 51 paesi
Trans-anal irrigation and intestinal transit time in children with myelomeningocele
No full textAims: Myelomeningocele (MMC), among others functions, affects colorectal motility and bowel emptying, and often leads to constipation, faecal incontinence, or a combination of both. We investigated the benefits of transanal irrigation (TI) in children with MMC through the radiological study of intestinal transit time.
Material and Methods: 16 patients aged 4 to 17 years with chronic constipation secondary to MMC resistant to conventional treatment were treated with transanal irrigation. The patients took radiopaque markers on three consecutive days. Seventy-two hours after ingestion of the first markers, the patients received abdominal X-rays before and after TI.
Results: The abdominal X-ray carried out before and after the procedure revealed a significant improvement in the progression of the intestinal bolus. The reduction in the number of markers present in the intestinal lumen after the procedure was significant (from 30+/-7,37 to 10.62+/-6,29, t=6,4323, P=0.0344).
Conclusions: In patients with bowel dysfunction secondary to MMC resistant to conventional treatments, TI has proven to be safe and effective in promoting intestinal emptying showing an improvement of the progression of the intestinal bolus
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
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