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A law on the end of life, emerging from ideological conflicts
No full textAfter years of debates, the Chamber of Deputies approved in Italy the possibility of accepting, under certain conditions, to assisted suicide.
The issue of physician-assisted suicide is considered among the most controversial of the current bioethical debates in our Country.
Efforts are needed to overcome ideological extremisms, to welcome the different sensitivities that exist in the country and to reconcile the various options
Doctor’s responsibility and end of life: the right to negotiate “time”
No full textThe end of life continues to be at the center of a lively debate that involves complex and heterogeneous ethical issues (palliative care, pain therapy, the freedom to refuse treatment, therapeutic obstinacy, advance treatment provisions) and that, today, are polarized on access to the request to end one's existence affected by an illness with a poor prognosis and source of suffering.
An aspect of great importance, still little explored on the ethical level, concerns the right of persons suffering from intreatable pathologies to live their time in accordance with their own demands.
The work aims to investigate the person’s right to self-determination and to plan in the way deemed most appropriatethe last years or months of his life, as a distinct and autonomous right with respect to that pertaining to the loss of chances of healing. This instance recognizes the patient's active and aware capacity to organize materially and spiritually his remaining time within his own personal option of value.
The authors comment on a ruling by the Supreme Court of Cassation that has emphasized that the system must not be at all indifferent to the need of the human being "to enter death with open eyes"
Ethical and political issues in healthcare choices in the pandemic era: The right to visit hospitalized
No full textThe question on the moral admissibility of a medical practice implemented with morally questionable methods, in relation to the goodness of the purpose, has arisen again in times of Covid, drawing attention to various ethical issues, including those relating to physical and emotional proximity to hospitalized people by family members
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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