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Educazione morale e democrazia. Richard Rorty e l'ironista-liberale
Full text linkLa mia ricerca si propone di indagare a fondo la figura dell'Ironista-Liberale,
esaminata da Richard Rorty nel suo Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (1989), focalizzandosi
sulle modalità in cui viene ripensato il rapporto tra pubblico e privato nei termini di una
ri-descrizione del liberalismo in chiave non-razionalista e non-universalista. Attraverso il
confronto con due autori quali John Dewey e Stanley Cavell si intende porre l'accento sul
legame che intercorre tra educazione in contesti democratici e un certo approccio
filosofico; tale approccio individua i suoi punti di forza nello sviluppo creativo
dell'immaginazione per mezzo del linguaggio e nella capacità dell'individuo di sapersi
reinventare. In questo senso si affronterà la proposta metodologica di Gianni Rodari,
contenuta nell Grammatica della Fantasia (1976), la quale costituisce un esempio di
ridescrizione ironica in ambito pedagogico caratterizzata da un comune atteggiamento
utopico che conferisce costante elasticità allo scopo sociale. L'obiettivo della ricerca è
quello di sviluppare una linea interpretativa che faccia luce su un certo modo di intendere
la pratica ridescrittiva e la proposta rortiana nel suo complesso, mostrando come essa sia
in grado di fornire le indicazioni per lo sviluppo di un progetto non solo filosofico, ma
anche politico e culturale, in relazione all'educazione degli individui in società complesse e
dinamiche come quella liberal-democratica
ARE SUSCEPTIBILITY to INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS and EFFECTIVENESS of ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS LINKED to FLUCTUATIONS of the IMMUNE SYSTEM? A NOVEL HYPOTHESIS
Full text linkIntroduction: An amendment incorporated into the 2007 AHA and 2009 ESC guidelines on infective endocarditis led to a substantial restriction in indications for the administration of antibiotic prophylaxis. This may have resulted in a subsequent steady increase in the number of cases of infective endocarditis worldwide. Methods: It has been hypothesised that susceptibility to infective endocarditis, together with effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis, may be linked to fluctuations of the immune system. Throughout a person’s lifetime, individual susceptibility to infective endocarditis may vary in an identical situation of risk. As a consequence, a personalised targeted approach should be adopted when prescribing antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent onset of endocarditis, taking into account a series of factors including age, comorbidities, cortisol levels, and ethnicity. Children affected by bicuspid aortic valve and injection drug users are amongst the newly-emerging higher risk populations. Conclusion: This up-to-dated narrative review summarizes all the available scientific evidence concerning the variable influence of the immune system on susceptibility to infective endocarditis
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
Insights on Kawasaki disease and multisystem inflammatory syndrome: Relationship with COVID-19 infection
No full textIl rilascio della certificazione di idoneità agonistica: la valutazione cardiologica con ecg a riposo e dopo sforzo
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