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Unaccompanied foreign minors: the Novara experience as a reference center of Eastern Piedmont (Italy)
Get PDFBackground: 20% of migrants who reach Italy are minors, often Unaccompanied Foreign Minors (UFM). If they are minors, they have the right to remain on EU territory, but in case of doubt, the authorities ask to ascertain their age. This is currently done through different procedures. Methods: The aim of this study was to understand the validity of the protocol adopted by the ‘Maggiore della Carità hospital in Novara (Italy), reference center for Eastern Piedmont, for ascertaining the age of self-proclaimed minors by comparing the results with those of other European realities. A cross-sectional study was conducted by analyzing the final reports of UFM examined at this hospital between January 1st, 2018, and December 31st, 2023. Socio-demographic, clinical, radiological and forensic data were collected. Results: Three hundred and one migrants were evaluated: 97% was male with an average age reported of 16.32 years ± 1.35. The estimated age by wrist X-ray was 17.81 ± 1.52. The physical examination of sexual maturation was not statistically correlated with the age estimated by X-rays (r = 0.36). No migrant was certified as an adult. Pathologies and injuries were frequently described. Conclusion: Comparing these results with those of similar European studies, it seems that the Piedmont protocol is unable to accurately estimate the age, even though it is one of the most complete Italian one. The effort to assign an age as close as possible to the actual one is a prerequisite for recognizing the rights of these individuals, but the method must achieve concrete and decisive results without violating their integrity
La necrosi della testa del femore da traumatismo contusivo minore. Stato dell’arte e considerazioni medico-legali
No full textTaking care of women living with female genital mutilation or cutting: Characteristics of the pool of users of two healthcare facilities in Turin, Northern Italy
Get PDFFemale genital mutilation (FGM) is a form of gender-based violence (GBV) that may lead to adverse consequences on the physical and psychological health of survivors. Patients living with FGM have unique health needs, which have to be addressed from the perspective of human rights and sexual and reproductive health. The aim of this study was to understand the characteristics of the pool of users of two services targeting this population in Turin, given the significance this may have due to the high migratory flows from countries were FGM is performed. A retrospective review of medical records of patients who accessed FGM-C related care in two healthcare facilities in Turin was performed. The most represented type of FGM was IIb. All patients were of African origin. Many presented psychological sequelae, while a smaller group presented uro-gynaecological symptoms. A high number of survivors were subjected to other forms of GBV during their lifetime. These findings highlight the need for an integrated and multidisciplinary service for the management of survivors of FGM
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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