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Big data in occupational medicine: The convergence of omics sciences, participatory research and e-health
No full textBackground: New occupational hazards and risks are emerging in our progressively globalized society, in which ageing, migration, wild urbanization and rapid economic growth have led to unprecedented biological, chemical and physical exposures, linked to novel technologies, products and duty cycles. A focus shift from worker health to worker/ citizen and community health is crucial. One of the major revolutions of the last decades is the computerization and digitization of the work process, the so-called “work 4.0”, and of the workplace. Objectives: To explore the roles and implications of Big Data in the new occupational medicine settings. Methods: Comprehensive literature search. Results: Big Data are characterized by volume, variety, veracity, velocity, and value. They come both from wet-lab techniques (“molecular Big Data”) and computational infrastructures, including databases, sensors and smart devices (“computational Big Data” and “digital Big Data”). Conclusions: In the light of novel hazards and thanks to new analytical approaches, molecular and digital underpinnings become extremely important in occupational medicine. Computational and digital tools can enable us to uncover new relationships between exposures and work-related diseases; to monitor the public reaction to novel risk factors associated to occupational diseases; to identify exposure-related changes in disease natural history; and to evaluate preventive workplace practices and legislative measures adopted for workplace health and safety
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
La guida AISM-SIMLII "Idoneità alla mansione e sclerosi multipla. Orientamenti per i medici del lavoro – competenti"
No full textLa diagnosi di sclerosi multipla (SM) è posta frequentemente tra i 20 e i 30 anni, cioè durante gli anni di vita in cui si entra o si è attivi nel mondo del lavoro. La progressione della malattia, sintomi quali fatica, alterazioni dell'equilibrio, disturbi cognitivi, difficoltà di deambulazione e di manipolazione impattano fortemente sulla possibilità di inserimento o sul mantenimento del lavoro. In assenza di un’adeguata valutazione di tali aspetti da parte del Medico Competente, può accadere che le persone con SM incontrino difficoltà a svolgere le proprie mansioni perché poco compatibili con la malattia o perché non vengono adottati quegli accorgimenti/adattamenti ragionevoli del posto o dell'organizzazione del lavoro che potrebbero consentire di mantenere il più a lungo possibile l'attività lavorativa e quindi la propria autonomia ed inclusione sociale. Aspetti quali tipo di lavoro, accessibilità, orari, atteggiamento dei colleghi sono fondamentali e molti miglioramenti sono ottenibili con piccoli accorgimenti ma anche con un'attenta consulenza sugli ausili adatti alla singola persona.
Ad oggi molte persone si rivolgono all’AISM per chiedere chiarimenti sulle visite di idoneità alla mansione. Inoltre molti neurologi esprimono il desiderio di approfondire il confronto con i medici competenti per conoscere quali aspetti della malattia possano interessare maggiormente i colleghi e come sia meglio evidenziarli in certificati e relazioni; nel contempo i medici del lavoro necessitano di specifici strumenti informativi e di protocolli da utilizzare in sede di visita, per evitare giudizi di idoneità orientati in senso troppo o troppo poco cautelativo.
Pertanto AISM ha promosso in collaborazione con SIMLII la stesura di una Guida, alla quale hanno contribuito medici del lavoro, neurologi, riabilitatori, assistenti sociali, consulenti legali. La Guida è costituita da tre parti:
- aspetti clinici della sclerosi multipla (diagnosi, disturbi, strumenti diagnostico-valutativi, farmacoterapia);
- idoneità alla mansione specifica in lavoratori con SM e ruolo del Medico Competente (con un approfondimento sui deficit funzionali, le consulenze specialistiche ed i test utilizzabili, le limitazioni lavorative conseguenti, nonché un accenno agli aspetti medico-legali nei diversi ambiti dell'idoneità, dell'invalidità, del collocamento mirato, dell'handicap);
- riabilitazione e consulenza ergonomica ai fini lavorativi, con esempi di interventi sulla persona, sugli ambienti e l’impiego di ausili.
E' inoltre presente un'appendice con le principali norme di riferimento, le procedure degli accertamenti medico-legali, gli strumenti di classificazione e certificazione per la diagnosi funzionale, un breve glossario
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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