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On-line testing of permanent radiation effects in reconfigurable systems
No full textCassano L, Cozzi D, Korf S, Hagemeyer J, Porrmann M, Sterpone L. On-Line Testing of Permanent Radiation Effects in Reconfigurable Systems. In: Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2013. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE; 2013: 717-720
Risky,early, controversial. Puberty in medical discourses
Full text linkThis article comes within the compass of a research program (entitled CorAge. Bodily Experiences and
AgePassages among 9e13 year-olds (ANR-09-ENFT-017) conducted between 2009 and 2013 about the
emergence of a “new” age in life -“preadolescence”- as instanced in France (Alsace, Lorraine) and Italy
(Venetia). The impressive amount of references to “early puberty” and “precocious puberty”, in a context
of feeling of a premature end of childhood, led us to make an in-depth study of this issue: first, through
an analysis of international and French and Italian medical journals; second, through interviews with
health professionals. Following the thesis of Foucault, we assume that the discourses on puberty timing
participate of classifications of the child body drenched with moral representations of childhood,
especially on gender and age issue. Our results: the question of whether a secular trend in puberty timing
even exists continues to be debated between American and European scientists. Second, the terms
“puberty”, “precocious puberty”, “early puberty” have been used to indicate a variety of puberty markers,
increasing confusion. A controversy has focused on early breast development in girls, because this
attribute is questioning the order of ages and gender. Moreover, psychosocial factors presented as
accelerating early puberty, do not demonstrate the relation between earliness and risk behavior. The
literature, as it is moved by the female precocity, creates a medical category to objectify the complex and
flexible process of puberty and invent female child precocity. These differences between American and
European scholars and the interviews with French and Italian health professional show a gap between
the international literature and practitioners, clinicians and nurses who regularly work with children:
they neither find pubertal advancement, nor increase of “true precocious puberty”, although they share
concerns about premature feminization of girls (France) or environmental toxicity (Italy) on children
Gesti di cura. Elementi di metodologia della ricerca etnografica e di analisi socioantropologica per il nursing
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Extra-abdominal cryptorchidism associated with gastroschisis and impacted urethral calculus: two uncommon urologic conditions in one patient
Full text linkThe testis is rarely encountered within the organs prolapsed outside the abdominal wall defect of patients with gastroschisis. Optimal treatment strategy of this unusual type of cryptorchidism remains undefined, with less than 30 cases reported to date. We describe a new case where simple relocation of the testis into the abdomen was followed by spontaneous testicular descent. Additionally, he developed a urinary calculus impacted in the navicular fossa 4 years later. Given the rarity of the 2 conditions, the probability of their co-occurrence is exceptionally rare, especially considering that they seem to be causally and temporally unrelated to one another
Unilateral Wilms tumor: the relevance of pre- and postnephrectomy evaluation of renal function
No full textComment on: Long-term renal function after treatment for unilateral nonsyndromic Wilms’ tumor - A personal perspective
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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
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