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Hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy for a splenic hamartoma: a clearcut,though rare, indication
No full textLa Moda come Lebensform nell'analisi di Georg Simmel
No full textPer chiunque si occupi di moda, da qualsiasi prospettiva disciplinare, Die Mode di Georg Simmel rappresenta un testo imprescindibile, che a un secolo di distanza non smette di sorprendere il lettore per la lucidità con cui coglie alcuni caratteri fondamentali del fenomeno moda. Apparso in forma definitiva nel 1911 all’interno di Philosophische Kultur, dopo due precedenti redazioni (1895 e 1905), il breve saggio mostra che la riflessione simmeliana sulla moda è già ampiamente avviata quando viene pubblicata la prima edizione di Soziologie, nel 1908.
Quali sono le ragioni della fortuna di Die Mode? Simmel non è né il primo né l’unico autore a riflettere sul meccanismo imitativo insito nella moda, che egli descrive secondo un modello di emulazione sociale in cui le classi subalterne rincorrono le innovazioni stilistiche introdotte dalle élite. Radicalmente nuova, invece, è l’attenzione dedicata alla moda come luogo di interazione sociale in cui la superficialità dell’oggetto-vestito non determina un facile giudizio di valore (l’equivalenza tra frivolezza e moda, che dunque non merita l’attenzione del sociologo): Simmel supera la barriera del contenuto e approda alla forma, riconoscendo nella moda il luogo di una duplice tendenza all’eguaglianza sociale e alla differenziazione individuale.
La complessità del testo sulla moda è spesso liquidata dalla manualistica con una facile associazione tra Simmel e il cosiddetto trickle-down effect, espressione creata a posteriori per indicare un modello verticale di diffusione della moda, in cui l’innovazione di moda ha origine al vertice della piramide sociale e si diffonde per «gocciolamento» lungo la gerarchia di status, facendo leva su un processo imitativo che spinge le classi inferiori ad adottare gli stili di quelle superiori nel tentativo di elevarsi socialmente. È da questo modello imitativo che possiamo prendere le mosse per capire il rapporto di Simmel con i suoi contemporanei e la sua eredità teorica e approdare al vero elemento di originalità della proposta simmeliana: la lettura della moda come Lebensform, forma di vita in cui prendono corpo le relazioni tra individuo e società, tra cultura soggettiva e cultura oggettiva
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
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