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Analisi delle conoscenze sulla donazione delle cornee popolazione adulta residente in una provincia della Puglia = Knowledge on the corneas donation in the adult population in a province of Apulia Region
No full textINTRODUZIONE E SCOPO: La diffusione della cultura della donazione è un elemento cruciale nella promozione di idee solidaristiche e altruistiche necessarie per soddisfare le necessità di trapianto di tessuti presenti sul territorio. Lo studio intende valutare le conoscenze, valori, attitudini e la volontà degli adulti residenti nella Provincia di Barletta – Andria – Trani (BT) nel donare le cornee. METODO: Il campione dello studio, composto da 815 persone di età compresa tra i 18 ed i 70 anni, è stato selezionato con randomizzazione semplice tra la popolazione residente nella Provincia di Barletta – Andria – Trani. Tutti i partecipanti sono stati intervistati attraverso l’utilizzo di un questionario formulato e inviato tramite Google moduli. Sono state valutate le loro conoscenze, valori e attitudini, per pesare la loro volontà nel donare le cornee. RISULTATI: Il tasso di partecipazione è stato del 64,4% (525/815). Il 68,4% (359/525) dei partecipanti acconsentirebbe a donare le proprie cornee. L’89% (467/525) degli intervistati ha sentito parlare della donazione corneale. Sottoponendo ai partecipanti domande specifiche sul percorso di donazione, le risposte corrette sono in media pari all’80%. Tale percentuale si incrementa all’86,2% considerando solo coloro che sono disposti a donare. L’analisi condotta mostra come una maggiore conoscenza e un aumento dei valori altruistici sono associabili ad un incremento della disponibilità alla donazione. CONCLUSIONI: Una buona percentuale di partecipanti, pari al 68,4% (359/525), è disposta a donare le proprie cornee. La consapevolezza a tale riguardo risulta essere molto alta, ma la conoscenza specifica dell’intero percorso dovrebbe essere comunque ulteriormente incrementata.INTRODUCTION AND AIM: The spread of the donation culture is a crucial element in promoting solidarity and altruistic ideas necessary for meeting the needs of tissue transplants present on the territory. The research intends to assess the knowledge, the values, the attitude and the willingness to donate their corneas of adults, residents in the Province of Barletta - Andria - Trani (BT). METHOD: The sample was composed of 815 adults aged between 18 and 70 years and it was selected with simple random sampling among population residents in the Province of Barletta – Andria – Trani. All participants were interviewed by means of a questionnaire formulated and sent via Google modules. Their knowledge, values and attitudes were evaluated to determine their willingness to donate their corneas. RESULTS: The participation rate was 64.4% (525/815). 68.4% (359/525) of participants would agree to donate their corneas. 89% (467/525) of participants know the theme of donation. Asking specific questions to the participants on the donation path, the correct answers are on average 80%. This percentage increases to 86.2% considering only those who are willing to donate. Greater knowledge and an increase in altruistic values can be associated with an increase in willingness to donate. CONCLUSION: A good percentage of participants, about at 68,4% (359/525), is willing to donate their corneas. The awareness in this regard turns out to be very high, but the specific knowledge of the entire process should be further increased anyway
Covid-19 e implicazioni sull’attività di donazione di cornee nella Asl Barletta-Andria-Trani
No full textLa diffusione della malattia da Coronavirus (COVID-19) ha raggiunto una
dimensione pandemica in poche settimane. L’Italia è stata uno dei primi Paesi, con la
Cina, ad affrontare l’epidemia e ad adottare misure severe per limitarne la
trasmissione. La diffusione del virus, denominato , può avere diverse implicazioni
nell’attività di procurement e trapianto di tessuti oculari, di cui i professionisti
sanitari dovrebbero essere a conoscenza. L’esperienza iniziale acquisita durante la
pandemia mostra che circa il 10% dei pazienti infetti in Italia ha bisogno di una
terapia intensiva per superare la sindrome da distress respiratorio acuto. A causa
dell’aumento esponenziale dei pazienti contagiati, stiamo affrontando un rischio reale
di saturazione dei potenziali donatori di tessuti che può condizionare sfavorevolmente
l’attività complessiva di donazione e ridurre il numero dei trapianti. I dati preliminari
italiani mostrano, nel mese di marzo 2020, una diminuzione complessiva del 40%
delle donazioni. L’obiettivo del presente articolo è mostrare in che modo la pandemia
abbia influenzato l’attività di procurement dei tessuti corneali, attraverso un’analisi
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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
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
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