34 research outputs found
Against the Stream: Ajit Singh and His Battles
No full textThis book pays homage to Ajit Singh, economist and intellectual fighter for
many causes. It does so through intertwined narratives including, among the
major strands, Singh’s life and works, the Faculty of Economics and Politics
in Cambridge, and the Punjab and Sikhism — all of which the author manages
to weave together with rich prose, fine scholarship and passionate commitment
to the subject
Review of G. Fletcher, Understanding Dennis Robertson. The Man and His Work
No full textThis book is likely to be received with mixed feelings by readers, who may
be attracted or repelled by its approach. The methodological position
defended by the author is that biography expresses a point of view and is
more akin to presenting and developing an argument, than collecting and
recording facts. The way the main argument is pursued is at times fascinating,
at times contorted, leaving the reader now convinced, now puzzled
Sraffa and his arguments against 'marginism'
No full textThe subtitle of Sraffa's most celebrated work, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, is prelude to a critique of economic theory. Given that no later work was ever published by Sraffa, we are left to wonder what would have come after the prelude. This paper suggests that the core of the critique might have been the marginal method itself. By carefully distinguishing between published and unpublished work, we shows that Sraffa's opposition to the marginal method follows several threads, some of which were developed over a period of nearly 35 years, such as the belief that economic theory should use only measurable and observable magnitudes, the critique of the 'fundamental' symmetry between production and consumption, and the disagreement with the Marshallian concept of equilibrium. Although none of the arguments reached a stage that Sraffa considered satisfactory enough to be worth publishing, our reconstruction sheds light on his research programme and on otherwise rather obscure passages in his works. Copyright The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.
Il Festival dell’Architettura di Parma come sistema integrato di ricerca, didattica e trasmissibilità del progetto di architettura
No full textJoan Robinson through the lenses of sixty years of book reviews
No full textIn this paper, we discuss Joan Robinson’s views through the lenses of her 127 book reviews, an activity which she engaged in throughout her life. A complete list of them—so we hope—is presented with full reference to the original place of publication, in the form of tables arranged by decade. We follow her work in chronological order, taking each decade as the framework to analyse what she was working on at the time and show how her reviews were—at times loosely, at times closely—connected with her scientific and political concerns. In some cases, the reviews amounted to review essays, which she reprinted in her Collected Economic Papers, but even in the short reviews she managed to give full expression to her views on the topic or author, and thus they offer us additional insights into her mode of thought, examples of her crisp prose and forceful style of argument. Her reviews ranged over a great variety of topics, reflecting over 60 years of the development of economics, or at least those aspects and topics which she deemed relevant at the time, and so they come to form part of her intellectual legacy, as much as her published work
Neurofilament light chain: a promising diagnostic biomarker for functional motor disorders
No full textFunctional motor disorders (FMDs) are disabling neurological conditions characterized by abnormal movements which are inconsistent and incongruent with recognized neurological diseases. Aim of this study is to investigate whether FMDs are related to structural axonal damage
Prevalence and prognostic impact of retropharyngeal lymph nodes metastases in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: Meta-analysis of published literature.
No full textBACKGROUND: This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to estimate the prevalence and prognostic impact of retropharyngeal lymph node metastases (RLNMs) in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC). METHODS: This meta-analysis was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines. INCLUSION CRITERIA: studies with more than 20 patients reporting the prevalence or prognostic impact of RLNMs in OPSCC. Whenever available, data on HPV status and subsites were extracted. RESULTS: Twenty-two articles were included. The overall prevalence of RLNMs in OPSCC was 13%, with no significant differences depending on HPV status. The highest prevalence was observed for posterior pharyngeal wall SCC (24%), followed by soft palate (17%), palatine tonsil (15%), and base of tongue (8%). RLNMs were associated with a significantly higher risk of death (HR:2.54;IC95%1.89-3.41) and progression (HR:2.44;IC95%1.80-3.30). CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of RLNMs in OPSCC was 13%, being higher in tumors of the posterior pharyngeal wall. RLNMs were associated with unfavorable outcomes
Improvement in Survival Rates and Quality of Life Among Patients Surgically Treated for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity
No full textPurpose
The study aimed to assess if outcomes for oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients have improved, and if so, whether these improvements correlate with changes in diagnostic and therapeutic methods over time.
Methods
Retrospective study including patients surgically treated for OSCC between 2002 and 2020.
Results
Among the 193 consecutive patients with primary OSCC who met the inclusion criteria (median age 66; 60.4% male), 80 (41.4%) were treated between 2002 and 2011, and 113 (58.6%) between 2011 and 2020. Multivariate analysis showed a significant improvement in overall survival rates from 2012 to 2020, compared with the period from 2002 to 2011 (HR for death, 0.33; 95% CI 0.17–0.67). Similar observations have emerged in progression-free and disease-specific survival. When stratified by stage, the improvement was found to be significant only for advanced stages. The use of NBI during both preoperative and operative setting as well as margin mapping significantly increased over the time. Both patients with early and advanced-stage OSCC treated between 2012 and 2020 exhibited improved pain scores.
Conclusions
Despite the shift to less invasive surgeries, our analysis shows significant improvement over time, especially in advanced-stage diseases, highlighting the impact of evolving strategies on challenging cases
Defining business activity monitoring: understanding a real-time event-driven infrastructure
No full textTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Engajamento e redução do espaço dialógico no gênero notícia de popularização científica
No full textScience popularization (SP) involves a complex process of recontextualization, through which scientific discourse, produced by specialists, is recontextualized by journalists to a non-specialized audience in mass media discourse genres. Recent research has indicated an effect of monologism in SP News in Portuguese (MOTTA-ROTH; LOVATO, 2011 in accordance with MOIRAND, 2003) and in English (MOTTA-ROTH; MARCUZZO, 2010), in which there is predominance of the voice of science and delition of other possible voices such as the government and the public as already identified in the French SP media (BEACCO et al., 2002; MOIRAND, 2003). Based on previous studies, the objective of the present article is to present an analysis of the discursive engagement and the interplay between dialogic expansion and contraction in 45 SP news texts in English. To do so we consider the Transitivity and Modality Systems (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004) and the Appraisal System (MARTIN; WHITE, 2005) from Systemic-Functional Linguistics for the analysis. Our results indicate that, apart from a major recurrence of linguistic exponents which suggest dialogic expansion through acknowledgement, there is no clear indication of debate between different points of view in our corpus, except from those associated with specialists/scientists. In that respect, the journalist/news author contracts the dialogic space in discourse by emphasizing the voice from science and at the same time by limiting the participation of other sectors of society in the potential debate about the popularized research (MARCUZZO, 2011), thus reinforcing the hegemony of the scientific voice in the mass mediaA popularização da ciência (PC) envolve um processo complexo de recontextualização, no qual o discurso científico, produzido por especialistas, é recontextualizado por jornalistas para uma audiência não especializada, em gêneros discursivos da mídia de massa. Pesquisas recentes têm apontado um efeito de monologismoem notícias de PC em português (MOTTA-ROTH; LOVATO, 2011 conforme MOIRAND, 2003) e inglês (MOTTA-ROTH; MARCUZZO, 2010), nas quais há um predomínio da voz da ciência e um apagamento de outras vozes possíveis como o governo ou o público, já identificados na mídia de PC francesa (BEACCO et al., 2002; MOIRAND, 2003). Com base em estudos prévios, o objetivo do presente artigo é apresentar uma análise engajamento discursivo e do jogo entre expansão e contração dialógica em 45 notícias de PC em inglês. Para tanto, consideramos os Sistemas de Transitividade e de Modalidade (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004) e o Sistema de Avaliatividade (MARTIN; WHITE, 2005) da Linguística SistêmicoFuncional para a análise. Nossos resultados indicam que, apesar da maior recorrência de expoentes linguísticos que sugerem expansão dialógica por meio de reconhecimento, não há indicação clara de debate entre pontos de vista diferentes em nosso corpus, a não ser aqueles associados a especialistas/pesquisadores. Nesse sentido, o jornalista/autor da notícia contrai o espaço dialógico do discurso ao enfatizar a voz da ciência e, ao mesmo tempo, restringir a participação de outros setores da sociedade no debate em potencial sobre a pesquisa popularizada (MARCUZZO, 2011), reforçando, assim, a hegemonia da voz da ciência na mídia de massa
