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Prenatal psychological or metabolic stress increases the risk for psychiatric disorders: the “funnel effect” model
No full textAdverse stressful experiences in utero can redirect fetal brain development, ultimately leading to increased risk for psychiatric disorders. Obesity during pregnancy can have similar effects as maternal stress, affecting mental health in the offspring. In order to explain how similar outcomes may originate from different prenatal conditions, we propose a “funnel effect” model whereby maternal psychological or metabolic stress triggers the same evolutionarily conserved response pathways, increasing vulnerability for psychopathology. In this context, the placenta, which is the main mother-fetus interface, appears to facilitate such convergence, re-directing “stress” signals to the fetus. Characterizing converging pathways activated by different adverse environmental conditions is fundamental to assess the emergence of risk signatures of major psychiatric disorders, which might enable preventive measures in risk populations, and open up new diagnostics, and potentially therapeutic approaches for disease prevention and health promotion already during pregnancy
Modelli innovativi di welfare: il progetto individuale come strumento di inclusione sociale e lavorativa di persone con autismo
No full textLa transizione dall’infanzia all’età adulta pone importanti problematiche legate ai temi del lavoro, della vita indipendente e della realizzazione personale. Nel caso di ragazzi con disturbi dello spettro autistico (Autism Spectrum Disorders, ASD) questa fase di passaggio è particolarmente critica e richiede sostegni e strategie in grado di promuovere l’autonomia e migliorare la qualità di vita della persona. Il rapporto descrive l’esperienza della Cooperativa Garibaldi, un modello di micro-impresa nata per volontà di un gruppo di genitori di ragazzi con ASD con bisogno di supporto intensivo, come un tentativo di affrontare il momento critico della transizione all’età adulta attraverso una rete partecipativa tra genitori, professionisti sanitari e sociali, microimprese private e istituti di ricerca. Il volume raccoglie i risultati di un progetto finanziato dal Fondo Sociale Europeo che ha avuto lo scopo di facilitare l’apprendimento di competenze finalizzate all’avviamento professionale e all’inclusione sociale di ragazzi con ASD attraverso l’utilizzo di interventi evidence-based
The experience of special qualifying courses (PAS) at the University of Foggia: an example of blended learning approach for the training of teachers
No full textThe University of Foggia offered for the academic year 2013-2014 special qualifying courses (PAS). The PAS training courses are aimed at obtaining teaching qualification for non-tenured teachers and for teachers of technical and practical subjects. The training involved the creation of an eLearning environment through the use of a Learning Management System and the integration between online and in presence teaching
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
Effects of perinatal exposure to PBDE 99 and A 1254 on mouse neurobehavioral development
No full textProgettazione, pianificazione dei percorsi di Agricoltura Sociale
No full text1. Introduzione
2. Percorsi e motivazioni per l’ingresso delle imprese agricole nelle pratiche di agricoltura sociale
3. Progetto di ricerca-azione per la modellizzazione delle pratiche di agricoltura sociale
3.1. Metodologia di lavoro partecipata
3.2 Articolazione dei modelli proposti in una guida
4. Conclusion
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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