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Health problems, mental disorders and cross-cultural aspects of developing effective rehabilitation procedures for refugees of war-affected countries: preliminary results on an Italian sample
No full textThough to a lesser extent than other Italian regions, in recent years Apulia, from being exclusively an area through which immigrants passed, has become more and more an area which hosts immigrants. In all five provincial capitals the Albanians and Moroccans are without doubt the most numerous communities. Each province is, however, characterized by the tendency of immigrant communities to settle almost exclusively there. The aim of this study is to consider the consequences of the migration, evaluating the effects such as psychological vulnerability resulting from the distance from one's normal context, and which is all a consequence of an attempt to adapt to a new and difficult reality. The research is part of a European project, and particular attention is dedicated to the “refugee” adolescents (whose migration occurred after traumatic socio-political and economic events in their country of origin), for understanding the psychological risks and the protective factors linked to the socio-cultural integration and contributing to the implementation of programmes that favour the psycho-physical recovery of these adolescents from South-East Europe. Migratory stress may, in fact, easily cause the explosion of latent conflicts or lead to physical or psychological disturbances (manias, depression, paranoia), or even to deviant or criminal behaviour
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
Adolescenti immigrati in Puglia: fattori protettivi e di rischio
No full textIl Dossier Statistico Immigrazione è un sussidio nato per favorire la conoscenza del fenomeno migratorio. Centinaia di tabelle, 60 capitoli, 512 pagine descrivono la situazione attuale dell'immigrazione nel nostro paese.
Cinque le parti in cui si articola il volume: Il contesto europeo e internazionale, Gli stranieri soggiornanti in Italia, L'inserimento socio-culturale, Il mondo del lavoro, I contesti regionali. Inoltre un inserto speciale dedicato ai rifugiati.
Lo slogan "Società aperta, società dinamica e sicura" sottolinea che l'immigrazione può essere governata solo nel contesto di una società che sia in grado di valorizzarne le opportunità nel reciproco interesse, salvaguardando un senso di sicurezza sia negli italiani che nei nuovi venuti.
Il Dossier stima tra il 2000 e l'inizio del 2004 il raddoppio delle presenze regolari, che arrivano a 2 milioni e 600 mila. Un dato superiore a quello delle persone registrate dal Ministero dell'Interno (circa 2,3 milioni), perché comprensivo anche dei 400.000 minori, aumentati al ritmo di 65.000 l'anno.
La Presidenza del "Dossier" (Caritas Italiana, Fondazione Migrantes e Caritas diocesana di Roma), a commento di questa sorta di enciclopedia annuale sull’andamento del fenomeno migratorio, sostiene che spesso manca l'atteggiamento di incontro e di valorizzazione dell'altro per cui, come si rileva da diverse indagini, i "nuovi cittadini" si sentono inquadrati come persone necessarie nel sistema produttivo ma scarsamente apprezzati.
La politica migratoria va inquadrata in un’ottica europea, fatta non solo di controlli e di prevenzione ma anche di effettiva collaborazione con i paesi di partenza e con politiche più efficaci di inserimento, come auspicato dal segretario generale dell’Onu Kofi Annan e confermato anche dai dati del "Dossier".
«Per quanto riguarda il rapporto tra le religioni – affermano i direttori dei tre organismi curatori del rapporto, mons. Vittorio Nozza, mons. Luigi Petris e mons. Guerino Di Tora - l'esempio di Giovanni Paolo II ci conferma nella speranza che la convivenza può diventare una grande opportunità spirituale e societaria a condizione che tutti invochino Dio come fonte di pace»
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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