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I teatri puri impazziscono: scene di sconfinamento teatrale dal Giappone e ritorno
No full textIl titolo del contributo cita apertamente, nella sua parte iniziale, quello della versione italiana del fortunato libro di James Clifford "I frutti puri impazziscono. Etnografia, letteratura e arte nel XX secolo". Tra le più raffinate e acute critiche all’antropologia classica e alla sua retorica narrativa, l’ossatura portante dell’opera cliffordiana si snoda –semplificando alquanto – lungo la disamina dell’asse identità-autenticità-autorità applicate al concetto di cultura.
Nel convulso frangente di mutamento socio-culturale avvenuto con la restaurazione Meiji (1868) anche il Giappone, apertosi all’Occidente e lanciato nella costruzione di un moderno stato nazionale, sentì l’esigenza di dotarsi di simboli e linguaggi capaci di incarnare e comunicare – tanto ai giapponesi quanto agli stranieri, ossia l’Altro – i nuovi valori fissando, al contempo, un’immagine distillata e istituzionale della cultura autoctona che ricalcasse il profilo ideale e fisico dei confini dell’arcipelago.
I teatri di tradizione – nō, kabuki, bunraku e kyōgen – in tempi e modi diversi furono parte integrante di tale meccanismo di costruzione identitaria, un’identità sentita tanto più autentica quanto più capace di raccontare all’Altro il ‘vero’ Giappone: la natura composita e al tempo stesso sintetica dei teatri classici, unitamente alla loro antica tradizione, li resero linguaggi assai adatti allo scopo.
La sempre maggiore frequenza dei contatti con l’Altro, però, creò anche i presupposti per forme di negoziazione culturale in senso bilaterale. Tali presupposti portarono alla nascita, nell’ambito dei teatri giapponesi classici, ‘puri’, di creazioni sceniche ibride, ‘impazzite’ se confrontate col modello tradizionale. Rispetto alla più ampia scena teatrale mondiale, invece, condussero all’emersione di infinite ipotesi e realizzazioni creative volte a tradurre la lezione giapponese secondo paradigmi e orizzonti estetici altri. Un esempio, credo, che può ben testimoniare la sublimazione di un preteso confine culturale in un più ampio e poroso orizzonte interculturale
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
Deciphering the molecular profile of lung cancer: New strategies for the early detection and prognostic stratification
No full textRecent advances in radiological imaging and genomic analysis are profoundly changing the way to manage lung cancer patients. Screening programs which couple lung cancer risk prediction models and low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) recently showed their effectiveness in the early diagnosis of lung tumors. In addition, the emerging field of radiomics is revolutionizing the approach to handle medical images, i.e., from a “simple” visual inspection to a high-throughput analysis of hundreds of quantitative features of images which can predict prognosis and therapy response. Yet, with the advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) and the establishment of large genomic consortia, the whole mutational and transcriptomic profile of lung cancer has been unveiled and made publicly available via web services interfaces. This has tremendously accelerated the discovery of actionable mutations, as well as the identification of cancer biomarkers, which are pivotal for development of personalized targeted therapies. In this review, we will describe recent advances in cancer biomarkers discovery for early diagnosis, prognosis, and prediction of chemotherapy response
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
Timeless Link Between Circadian Patterns and Disease
No full textThe Timeless (Tim) gene, originally identified in Drosophila melanogaster and subsequently in mammals, is involved in the molecular clockwork that drives 24. h periodicity in physiology and behavior. The Tim protein is involved not only in circadian rhythmicity but also in embryonic development, cell cycle progression, DNA replication, and the DNA damage response (DDR). It is thus a multifaceted factor implicated in the maintenance of many cellular processes, tissue functions, and ultimately homeostasis of various organisms, from insects to humans. This review highlights the current knowledge of Tim functions, especially the most recent achievements, and illustrates the possible roles that this factor plays in the physiological preservation of health, as well as in the pathogenic mechanisms of related diseases. The Timeless (Tim) gene is evolutionarily conserved from insects to mammals. The Drosophila melanogaster Tim gene is involved in circadian rhythmicity, but the role mammalian Tim plays in this process is still debated.Tim, however, has been implicated in additional and distinct cellular processes comprising DNA replication and the DDR, telomere length and integrity maintenance, as well as cell cycle progression.The precise mechanisms of action of Tim in these processes, or Tim interactions with various protein partners, however, have not been completely elucidated.Tim plays a role in embryonic development and developmental apoptosis, suggesting a potential involvement in mechanisms of tissue regeneration, which could be exploited in translational research and regenerative medicine.Owing to the wide range of functions, Tim has drawn attention for its possible involvement in the pathogenesis of diverse diseases ranging from tumors to psychiatric conditions hallmarked by genetic mutations, alterations of circadian rhythmicity, and other so far unidentified events. Thus, Tim may well represent a therapeutic target in such conditions
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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