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Letter to the Editor on “A Worldwide Internet Study Based on Implicit Association Test Revealed a Higher Prevalence of Adult Males’ Androphilia than Ever Reported before”
No full textThe recent study by Colledani and Camperio Ciani titled “A
Worldwide Internet Study Based on Implicit Association Test
Revealed a Higher Prevalence of Adult Males’ Androphilia than
Ever Reported Before” will be likely considered a landmark of the
research on sexual orientation and its different expression among
societies.1 The authors collected and evaluated an online sample
through a specular assessment methodology using the Sexual
Preference-Implicit Association Test and the Kinsey Scale, 2
tools assessing sexual orientation in implicit and explicit manner,
respectively. This strategy appears sound to increase the understanding
of male homosexuality, particularly. The authors found
a mismatch in the prevalence of sexual preferences, such as
androphilia, and male homosexual orientation. The results of the
Sexual Preference-Implicit Association Test revealed a percentage
of androphilia ranged from 14.4% to 17.6%, while the explicit
or self-disclosure of male nonheterosexuality in the Kinsey Scale
ranged from 6.3% to 11.4%. In this regard, the authors
confirmed the findings of their previous pilot study on an Italian
sample.2 On the whole, the relevant mismatch between explicit
and implicit assessment of male sexual orientation and the
prevalence of androphilia is mainly explained through the
antagonist sexually selection theory.
However, their findings and explanations induce a further
reflection in line with a well-known parallelism between
evolutionism and psychoanalysis. Is it possible to interpret these
findings in the light of the latent homosexuality theory? Is it
possible to establish an epigenetic trait d’union linking
evolutionism, psychoanalysis, and psychosocial aspects? In other
words, the genetic motive of antagonist sexually selection in
terms of reproduction and fecundity explaining male sexual
orientation could also interface with environmental factors, as the
psychodynamic elements, homophobic societies, and related
issues of internalized homophobia.3,4
In this regard, it is possible to consider the individual and
collective homophobic attitude as the real modifiable aspect to
improve sexual health, social rights, psychological and physical
health. The gap reduction between implicit and explicit sexual
orientation, often related to discrimination and homonegativity,
could positively impact public health.
For these reasons, the article by Colledani and Camperio Ciani
should be considered a starting point to further discuss the
concept of sexual orientation and its phenomenology through an
epigenetic and multidisciplinary perspective involving genetic,
medical, psychological, and cultural factors
Ethical aspects of sexual medicine. Internet, vibrators, and other sex aids: toys or therapeutic instruments?
No full text""""""\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"INTRODUCTION: . . Sexual health is the result of a complex interplay between social, relational, intrapsychic, and medical aspects. Sexual health care professionals (SHCP) may face several ethical issues. Some SHCP prescribe Internet pornography for both diagnosis and therapy and some others directly sell vibrators and sex aids in their offices.. . METHODS: . . Five scientists, with different perspectives, debate the ethical aspects in the clinical practice of the SHCP.. . MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: . . To give to the Journal of Sexual Medicine's reader enough data to form her\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/his own opinion on an important ethical topic.. . RESULTS: . . Expert #1, who is Controversy's Section Editor, together with two coworkers, expert psycho-sexologists, reviews data from literature regarding the use of the Internet in the SHCP. Expert #2 argues that licensed professionals, who treat sexual problems, should not sell sexual aids such as vibrators, lubricants, erotica, and instructional DVDs to their clients. On the other hand, Expert #3 is in favor of the possibility, for the patient, to directly purchase sexual aids from the SHCP in order to avoid embarrassment, confusion, and non-adherence to treatment.. . CONCLUSION: . . Evidence and intelligence would suggest that both the Internet (in selected subjects) and the vibrators (in the correct clinical setting), with the due efforts in . \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\""""""
Procreazione medicalmente assistita e maternità surrogata: stato dell’arte e prospettive future della genitorialità nelle coppie omosessuali
No full textLa genitorialità per le coppie omosessuali spesso
può transitare attraverso prassi e tecniche mediche che
includono la procreazione medicalmente assistita (PMA) o
la gravidanza surrogata (surrogacy). Il presente lavoro ha lo
scopo di riportare, attraverso una breve rassegna della letteratura,
i principali articoli riguardanti l’omogenitorialità e le
biotecnologie della riproduzione. Le significative differenze
riscontrate tra le pubblicazioni esaminate riguardano le
norme di legge che variano tra Stati, evidenziando l’attuale
contrarietà legislativa dell’Europa alla surrogacy
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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