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Comment on 'The European Union building from Public Choice to Ordo, Röpke's and Einaudi's ideas of Europe' by Francesco Forte The 'limping' Europe and the 'new' institutional framework
No full textIn his very elaborate analysis, Forte takes on several issues regarding the European integration process, offering an original insight into the foundations of European economic governance. In particular, the author looks to expand current results in the relevant literature in several directions. On the theoretical front, Forte departs from James Buchanan’s economic theory of clubs to provide a club-theoretic template to both the European Union and European Monetary Union. He arrives at the belief of ‘the incompleteness of the European institutional construct and the misunderstandings about its basic principles’. His argument relies on the similarities that he recognises between Buchanan’s view of European federalism and the German ordoliberalism roots of the European integration process, which can be traced from the founding of the European Community onward. On the empirical front, Forte identifies a potential polarisation among countries within the euro area during the crisis that occurred over the last ten years. According to him, this dualism within the euro club is due to a ‘violation’ of the ideals and the operational suggestions proposed by Buchanan, Ordo, Röpke and Einaudi. In this comment, we briefly describe what became for most member states of the European Union the worst economic and social crisis since the Second World War that led to a new architecture of European economic governance. Subsequently, we highlight significant results presented by Forte and elaborate how these results fit into the existing literature
Strategia terapeutica nei tumori retroperitoneali. Introduzione al simposio.
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Impact of severe infections on the outcome of major liver surgery: a pathophysiologic and clinical analysis.
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Although major progress has been achieved, particularly in the field of patient selection and postoperative intensive care, morbidity and mortality rates after major liver surgery are still significant. In fact, the mortality rate in major series reaches 30% of patients undergoing complex liver procedures, mostly related to postoperative septic events. Among these, although extra-abdominal infectious localizations are also frequently reported, intra-abdominal sepsis and abscess formation are probably the most frequent infective clinical presentations. The literature reports that the magnitude of the resection and duration of surgery are associated with a significantly higher postoperative morbidity and mortality rate. Severe postoperative infectious events cause a high proportion of this morbidity and in the presence of a septic evolution of the clinical picture the mortality rises dramatically. Such a tight association between severe infections and mortality after major hepatic surgery gives account to the fundamental role played by the liver in the metabolic homeostasis of the patient and also to the central hepatic function in the immune response to microorganisms of gastroenteric origin. After major liver surgery these central hepatic functions may by significantly impaired, thus leading to higher susceptibility to infections, in particular in the elderly. On these bases the improvement in prophylaxis protocols, in the early diagnosis and in the treatment of these postoperative infectious events can help optimize clinical results after major hepatic surgery
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
Allodynia in migraine: frequent random association or unavoidable consequence?
No full textAllodynia, the perception of pain induced by a non-painful stimulus, is frequently associated with migraine, especially when chronic, and mainly in the aura subtype. Among migraineurs, allodynia is thought to be caused by the headache and the activation of nociceptors with the development of central sensitization in subjects with an altered regulation of the central nociceptive pathway. The persistence of pain sensation seems to be able to induce central sensitization in the caudal nucleus of the trigeminal nerve by lowering the neuronal pain threshold. Different pathogenetic mechanisms may be involved and genetic, environmental and psychological elements should be considered. The complaint of allodynia is more frequent during the headache attack (acute allodynia) than in-between attacks (interictal allodynia). Acute allodynia is generally referred to the painful region but may diffuse to other areas, cephalic or even extracephalic. Extracephalic allodynia could not be mediated by nucleus caudalis as its neurons do not express whole-body receptive fields. The likely mechanism is thalamic sensitization. This symptom must be carefully assessed because it may be as annoying and limiting in daily activities as pain itself, and because its presence seems to reduce the efficacy of drugs used for migraine attacks. Instrumental measures may be applied, and clinical questionnaires to assess the presence of allodynic symptoms have also been developed and validated
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
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