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G. Cavalli, L 'imposizione delle mani nella tradizione della Chiesa latina. Un rito che qualified il sacramento, 1999
No full textRoland Minnerath. G. Cavalli, L 'imposizione delle mani nella tradizione della Chiesa latina. Un rito che qualified il sacramento, 1999. In: Revue des Sciences Religieuses, tome 76, fascicule 1, 2002. p. 119
Lo sviluppo di sistemi di gestione del cliente pubblico nelle imprese farmaceutiche: il ruolo dei regional affairs e dei key account managers
No full textIl decentramento regionale, l’introduzione di sistemi di management nelle aziende sanitarie e l’aumento della quota di farmaci da queste direttamente acquistati implica che l’accesso al mercato per i medicinali dipenda sempre di più dalla capacità delle imprese di gestire le relazioni con le regioni e le aziende sanitarie. L’obiettivo della ricerca è quello di analizzare (i) su un pool di imprese farmaceutiche, l’organizzazione dell’attività dei public affairs a livello regionale e l’applicazione di logiche di key account management nelle relazioni con le aziende sanitarie, e (ii) su un gruppo di regioni, la percezione che i referenti delle regioni per la farmaceutica hanno del valore aggiunto e delle criticità generati dalle relazioni con le imprese. L’indagine è stata condotta sulla base di due questionari semistrutturati somministrati per tramite di intervista ai responsabili dei public affairs regionale e key account manager ed ai referenti regionali per la farmaceutica. A partire dai risultati della ricerca vengono discussi alcuni fattori che potrebbero aumentare nelle imprese le potenzialità di tali nuove funzioni, per rendere più efficace la gestione delle relazioni con il cliente pubblico
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
Pharmaceutical companies and Italian Regional Governments: Managing relationships in an increasing institutional complexity
No full textIn Italy, the process of power decentralization to Regional Governments has particularly affected pharmaceutical care policies.
Regions are experimenting with various strategies to govern drugs utilization and expenditure, and differentiating their
approaches, leading to an ever-changing and complex institutional scenario.
Pharmaceutical companies have created new professional roles, the Regional Affairs Managers (RAM), with the mandate
to monitor the different regional contexts and measures, and to establish relationships with the public actors in charge of
pharmaceutical policies.
This analysis shows how public affairs/lobbying actions at regional level and the creation of a solid political competence
within companies are still in an early phase. The activities carried out by RAMs remain limited to an exchange of information
and only rarely are perceived by Regional public servants (RRs) as giving support to their work or influence decisions.
The interaction with RAMs is often seen as little relevant and still too concentrated on products and a marketing/commercial
approach rather than on broader issues of interest to RRs who need to manage the pharmaceutical care system at large. The
level of acceptance of this type of activity is also variable and RRs’ attitudes alternate between diffidence, polite tolerance, and
openness to a constructive dialogue about pharmaceuticals and their management in a regional healthcare syste
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
Role of acupuncture in the management of severe acquired brain injuries (sABIs)
Full text linkAcupuncture therapy has been used to treat several disorders in Asian countries and its use is increasing in Western countries as well. Current literature assessed the safety and efficacy of acupuncture in the acute management and rehabilitation of patients with neurologic disorders. In this paper, the role of acupuncture in the treatment of acute severe acquired brain injuries is described, acting on neuroinflammation, intracranial oedema, oxidative stress, and neuronal regeneration. Moreover, beneficial effects of acupuncture on subacute phase and chronic outcomes have been reported in controlling the imbalance of IGF-1 hormone and in decreasing spasticity, pain, and the incidence of neurovegetative crisis. Moreover, acupuncture may have a positive action on the arousal recovery. Further work is needed to understand the effects of specific acupoints on the brain. Allegedly concurrent neurophysiological measurements (e.g., EEG) may help in studying acupuncture-related changes in central nervous system activity and determining its potential as an add-on rehabilitative treatment for patients with consciousness disorders
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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