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Queer intimacies and structural violence: The case of the Italian adoption pathway in special cases
No full textAlthough a significant transformation in personal life has occurred in the last decades, queer forms of
intimacies – including conjugality, sexuality, parenthood, and care – are still subject to prejudice and
institutionalized forms of discrimination. In Italy, despite the recent recognition of same-sex couples,
heteronormativity continues to be hegemonic, and discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals persists in
every area of life, including health and social care services. With regard to parenting, the law in force denies
LGBTQ+ persons (single or couples) access to full adoption, while the partner of the biological parent can be
legally recognized only through the so-called “adoption in special cases” (Art 44 of Law No 184/1983), a
process that requires an assessment by health and social care professionals (HSCPs) and the court.
To understand the experiences of same-sex parents who have resorted to adoption in special cases, we
interviewed a group of lesbian mothers who have completed the adoption procedure on how they dealt
with the evaluation process and the relationship with the HSCPs involved.
Discourse analysis highlighted that the process was experienced as intrusive, unfair, and paradoxical,
generating concern and uncertainty in parents and their children also due to the lack of LGBTQ+ cultural
competence among the professionals involved. However, the data also show discursive strategies used by
the mothers to resist the heteronormative ideologies and social practices embedded in the adoption
process.
The findings shed light on the structural and systemic barriers that limit same-sex parents' recognition when
accessing health and social care services, thus limiting the exercise of their intimate citizenship, as well as
the resources and strategies they use to address them. Implications for the implementation of specific
affirmative health and social services to meet the needs of persons in queer intimacies will be discussed
Hairy cell leukemia without splenomegaly nor myelofibrosis in a patient with gastric adenocarcinoma: early phase of the disease or a variant?
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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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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