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Multidisciplinary treatment of malignant thymoma
No full textPURPOSE OF REVIEW: Thymomas are the most common tumors of the anterior mediastinum. Although surgery remains the only curative treatment, the use of multimodality therapy for primary unresectable thymomas has led to change the clinical management of these tumors. RECENT FINDINGS: Nowadays Masaoka stage, WHO, and radical surgical resection are considered by many authors as independent prognostic factors for long-term survival. Radiotherapy may be useful as adjuvant therapy in cases of incomplete surgical resection with microscopic or macroscopic residual disease, or for those patients with locally advanced or metastatic unresectable disease. Chemotherapy is considered a valid option in selected patients with residual disease after local treatments or as a neoadjuvant approach to improve resectability in Masaoka stages III or IV-a thymomas. Currently, no standardized regimen for chemotherapy or agreed timing exists. SUMMARY: So far, multimodality treatment has been related to low morbidity and long survival rate, but there are still many concerns regarding a different regimen of therapy and the correct timing. © 2012 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
The International Politics of Logos. Colours, Symbols, Cues, and Identities
No full textThe International Politics of Logos provides the first systematic analysis of logos and the role they play in international politics.
Whilst there is growing scholarly interest in visual politics, logos have largely remained hidden in plain sight despite being the most important symbol of a variety of organizations. Visual artefacts, such as logos, play an increasingly central role in politics. Candidates running for office carefully choose the images they share on social media, political parties devise effective brands, and NGOs use visual artefacts for advocacy and advertisement. Visual artefacts are also vital for violent non-state actors, ranging from private military and security companies (PMSCs) to terrorists. This book provides a wealth of data on the logos chosen by a variety of organizations, examining how they vary between actors, across types of organizations, and over time. It offers methodological innovations to the study of logos and visual politics, highlighting the potential of combining quantitative and qualitative methodologies to study the colours, symbols, and types of logos and other visual artefacts. The book examines the role of colours as cues and the causal connection between chromatic choices and ideology, the influence of socialization and norm diffusion dynamics in the choice to showcase (or scrap) specific symbols, and the relationship between branding decisions and the structure and strategies of specific organizations.
This book will appeal to students and scholars of visual politics and visual communication, as well as those researching political parties, PMSCs, and terrorist groups. It will also be of interest to political, security, and marketing professionals
Dalla biologia alla mente sociale. Interpretazioni darwiniane.
No full textFascicolo speciale della rivista Paradigmi, n. 3-2012, "Dalla biologia alla mente sociale. Interpretazioni darwiniane", a cura di A. Attanasio e T. Pievani. Presentazione dei curatori: pp. 7-10. Contributi di: A. Attanasio, M. Casiraghi, M. Di Gregorio, A. Oliverio, T. Pievani, M. Pigliucci, I. Tattersall
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
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