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Global Citizenship Education from an Intercultural Perspective
No full textAll over the world, societies are becoming increasingly multiethnic and multicultural. The presence of citizens with diverse backgrounds within the same nation-state necessitates a rethinking of the concept of citizenship, which in many countries is still rooted in the nationalistic theories of the 19th century. Acknowledging people's multiple identities and senses of belonging has become essential in shaping a new understanding of citizenship. In this context, the reflections of the Council of Europe and UNESCO—particularly their promotion of Global Citizenship Education (GCE)—are especially relevant. This article aims to stimulate reflection on GCE by integrating an intercultural approach. The research findings and practical programmes on citizenship education and intercultural competence developed by the Centre for Intercultural Studies at the University of Verona, Italy, offer further impetus for this reevaluation. Finally, the author advocates for the adoption of Intercultural Citizenship Education (ICE) as a means to transcend nationalistic, Western-centric and neoliberal frameworks and to foster global dialogue and scholarly exchange
Islet xenotransplantation: Current status of preclinical studies in the pig-to-nonhuman primate model
No full textPURPOSE OF REVIEW: Porcine islets are a major focus of current research in nonhuman primate xenotransplantation models. Major advances have been obtained recently and these are briefly described. RECENT FINDINGS: Reports by three independent centres have described 6-month porcine islet xenograft survival in nonhuman primates. Two of these have obtained such results by interfering with the CD40/CD154 co-stimulatory pathway. While these results are groundbreaking, the immunosuppressive regimens used are not viewed as clinically applicable and will need to be modified before islet xenotransplantation can be considered for clinical trials. In contrast, preliminary results by Gianello and colleagues have demonstrated 6-month survival of diabetic nonhuman primates transplanted subcutaneously with encapsulated porcine islets, in the complete absence of immunosuppression. The confirmation and full assessment of these results are eagerly awaited. Importantly, to date, no evidence of xenozoonoses has been observed following porcine islet xenotransplantation to nonhuman primates. SUMMARY: Of the possible organ candidates for xenotransplantation, porcine islets are the closest to a possible clinical application. Prior to the initiation of ethical and safe clinical trials, however, further efforts to generate additional efficacy and safety data in the nonhuman primate model will be indispensable. © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc
Gianfranco de Bosio e Luigi Squarzina: la sceneggiatura per Il terrorista
No full textIl saggio indaga il rapporto trai due registi che hanno scritto la sceneggiatura de Bosio e Squarzin
La "Bottega" mozartiana
No full textGianfranco de Bosio e il teatro musicale: Mozart, Da Ponte e la Trilogia italiana
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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