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Oggetti e immagini. Esperienze di ricerca etnoantropologica
No full textIl volume Oggetti e immagini. Esperienze di ricerca etnoantropologica, è l’esito della fruttuosa collaborazione scientifica e didattica tra la Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, e il Museé National des Arts et Traditions Populaires, Parigi. I saggi qui pubblicati rappresentano i risultati delle due giornate di studio che si sono tenute
a Parigi, presso la sede del prestigioso museo nazionale, nel gennaio 2001 e nel marzo 2002.
Durante i seminari sono stati affrontati due temi antropologici di notevole interesse e attualità: il primo “Noi e gli oggetti”, il secondo “Immagini e scienze umane”. I contributi scientifici hanno trattato i due argomenti aprendo ad una visione per molti versi interdisciplinare, superando i rigidi confini che solitamente contraddistinguono i dibattiti accademici. Gli interventi hanno cercato, inoltre, di far dialogare fattivamente i quadri teorici con le questioni pratiche
Three cases of imported neurocysticercosis in Northern Italy.
No full textNeurocysticercosis (NCC) is an important cause of adult-onset seizures in endemic areas, whereas it is emerging in some nonendemic areas as well because of extensive immigration.We describe three cases of imported NCC recently admitted to San Bortolo Hospital in Vicenza, located in Northern Italy.All patients were immigrants. One patient was human immunodeficiency virus positive with severe immunosuppression. The diagnosis of NCC was made on the basis of magnetic resonance results; failure of anti-Toxoplasma, antitubercular, and antifungal therapy; and regression of the cystic lesions after empiric therapy with albendazole. Serology was positive in only one case. In one patient, NCC was diagnosed by biopsy of the brain lesion.In nonendemic countries, NCC should be included in the differential diagnosis of all patients coming from endemic areas with seizures, hydrocephalus, and compatible lesions on brain imaging. Long-term follow-up is required but may be difficult to implement because these patients tend to move in search of employment. Screening of patient's household contacts for Taenia solium infection should always be carried out
Acceptance of standardized ultrasound classification, use of albendazole, and long-term follow-up in clinical management of cystic echinococcosis : a systematic review
Full text linkCystic echinococcosis is a chronic, complex, and neglected disease. The need for a simple classification of cyst morphology that would provide an accepted framework for scientific and clinical work on cystic echinococcosis has been addressed by two documents issued by the WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis in 2003 (cyst classification) and in 2010 (Expert consensus for the diagnosis and treatment of echinococcosis).; Here we evaluate the use of the WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis classification of hepatic cystic echinococcosis, the acceptance by clinicians of recommendations regarding the use of albendazole, and the implementation of the long-term follow-up of patients with hepatic cystic echinococcosis in the scientific literature since the WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis recommendations were issued.; Of the publications included in our review, 71.2% did not indicate any classification, whereas 14% used the WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis classification. Seventy-four percent reported the administration of peri-interventional albendazole, although less than half reported its modality, and 51% the length of patient follow-up. A joint effort is needed from the scientific community to encourage the acceptance and implementation of these three key issues in the clinical management of cystic echinococcosis
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
Résumé F. TAMAROZZI
No full textL'ascendance thermale du tourisme balnéaire contemporain. Anthropologie comparée des constructions mythologiques de la pratique thermale française, espagnole et italienne Federica TAMAROZZI Ethnologue au Musée des Civilisations de Europe et de la Méditerranée - Chargé de Recherches et de Collectes - ITALIE Type de contribution : communication longue Pour les curistes, comme pour les exploitants thermaux, le problème des origines du thermalisme, surtout dans ses formes locales et particulière..
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
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