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Postmortem diagnosis of 21-hydroxylase deficiency congenital adrenal hyperplasia: Medico-legal issues
No full textAccidental death in autoerotic maneuvers: Case series
No full textLiterature describe relatively few studies about accidental death in autoerotic maneuvers. Authors report
three new cases on this topic that involved adult male individuals. The purpose of the paper is to increase the knowledge and
the classification of the phenomenon and give a contribution for the forensic medicine and psychiatric implications. The
dynamics of the investigation of the scene, the autopsy finding and the examination of the medical history are particularly
important for forensic professionals that must classify the event as a suicide, homicide or as an accidental event. The Authors
describe the phenomenon also from the epidemiological point of view that shows a high prevalence of men, even if in Italy
there are not official estimates. Last but not least the Authors and take in consideration and discussed about the existence in the
subject of a para-physiological habitude or a real type of pathology as paraphiliac disorders (masochism, fetishism, travestic
fetishism)
Newborn screening of inherited metabolic disorders: the Italian situation
No full textStarting from an international overview of the current status of screening programs, the present paper focuses on the legal situation in Italy and the great differences among Italian regions. Since the introduction of tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) in the 90s the paradigm one spot-one disease changed. Only recently, some regions issued legislative acts to promote expanded newborn screening with MS/MS. This approach raises medico-legal and ethical issues because a fast neonatal diagnosis of an inborn error of metabolism (IEM) could increase chances of an early treatment and reduce disabilities, therefore citizens ought to have the same access to care countrywide. Enacting a mandatory standard for a disease screening panel using MS/MS and a few centers specialized in diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients affected by IEM (inborn errors of metabolism) can reduce legal and ethical issues
"On air" diagnosis of sudden cardiac death with dynamic Holter ECG in glycogen storage disease type III young female
No full textIncreased expression of iNOS by Langerhans cells in hanging marks
No full textRecent studies show that Langerhans cell density increases in vital lesions and ligature marks when compared with post-mortal wounds. The enzyme, iNOS, has been established as a marker for estimating time of agony and serves in the regulation of dendritic cell behaviour. It is the aim of this paper, therefore, to evaluate the expression of this enzyme by Langerhans cells and the possible consequences that may be related to the production of nitric oxide by these cells in other types of lesions, including hanging furrows. The results show a greater expression of iNOS by Langerhans cells at the level of the hanging furrow when compared with other examined groups. Apart from an increase in the expression of iNOS, a large fraction of the mast cell population in the class II MHC molecules was observed in the hanging furrow. This corroborates that interactions between mast cells and dendritic cells are critical for the differentiation of these latter cellular types. Hence, the results suggest that iNOS plays a crucial role in the forensic practice of establishing the time interval in defining the vitality in hanging marks
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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