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Relazione tra disfunzioni del pavimento pelvico femminile e attività lavorativa
Full text linkLe disfunzioni del pavimento pelvico femminile (DPPF) sono purtroppo molto diffuse e possono compromettere la salute e/o peggiorare la qualità di vita delle donne. La spesa sanitaria per le DPPF supera la spesa per l’osteoporosi, per i tumori ginecologici e della mammella; infatti l’incidenza delle più comuni DPPF sulla popolazione femminile è molto elevata (30% per il prolasso genitale, 22% per l'incontinenza urinaria, 12% per l’incontinenza fecale e 20% per i disordini della defecazione). Nonostante ciò e sebbene la necessità di investigare il rapporto tra DPPF e attività lavorative sia stata evidenziata da diversi autori, in pratica non esistono studi sufficientemente approfonditi su questo argomento. Le difficoltà nell’analisi della patofisiologia è dovuta ai molteplici fattori eziologici.
L’International Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Society ha pianificato il presente lavoro multicentrico con lo scopo di studiare sia gli effetti del lavoro sulle DPPF, sia gli effetti delle DPPF sul lavoro, confrontando il rischio lavorativo con gli altri fattori di rischio conosciuti.
Questa tesi contiene i primi risultati dell’IPFDS Work-Related DPPF Multicenter Study su una popolazione italiana di lavoratrici.
Oltre ad aver rilevato la correlazione tra il carico di lavoro movimentato manualmente (CLMM) e lo sviluppo di DPPF, sono state evidenziate altre importanti associazioni che giustificano ulteriori indagini. Il CLMM si correlava anche alla severità delle DPPF mentre la stazione prevalentemente assunta sul luogo di lavoro non era un fattore di rischio per DPPF, ma ne peggiorava l’impatto sull’attività lavorativa avvertito dalla donna
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
Prevalenza e fattori di rischio dell'incontinenza urinaria nelle lavoratrici del settore alberghiero
No full textThe International Continence Society defines urinary incontinence (UI) as "a condition in which involuntary loss of urine is a social or hygienic problem and is objectively demonstrable". There are three different jorms of UI. stress urinary incontinence, urge urinary incontinence and mixed incontinence. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of UI in a group of female workers in the hotel sector. The International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Urinary Incontinence short form (ICIQ-UI Short Form) was administered to all female workers and data were collected about age, body mass index, number of vaginal and Caesarean delivery. Results showed a prevalence of UI widely bigger in the plans waitress than in video display terminal workers and suggest the hypothesis that manual handling of loads representing a possible occupational risk for UI
T2 mapping in acute myocarditis: advancing quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging for precision medicine
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