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Principi e finalità dei Piani di salute
No full textDescrizione delle principali fasi della costruizione di un Piano Per la Salute: analisi dei bisogni; fissazione degli obiettivi di salute; selezione degli interventi; implementazione; verifica/valutazione e azioni correttive eventuali.
Enucleazione delle basi teoriche sociologiche su cui riposa l'assunto del Piano Per la Salute (determinanti non sanitari della salute; stili di vita; attività preventiva; promozione della salute; importanza della coersione sociale).
Descrizione del lavoro svolto sul campo nella Asl di Venosa (Basilicata
A Computer Program for fast Determination of Thin Films Thickness and Optical Constants
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A computer simulation program for processing transmission spectra of amorphous optical thin films deposited on weakly absorbing substrates and evaluation of the refractive index n, extinction coefficient k and thickness d was developed. The computer code is the implementation of an optical characterisation algorithm based on the determination of the upper and lower envelopes of the transmission spectrum interference fringes. Inhomogeneities in the thickness of the analysed films, which are responsible of a shrinking in the fringes amplitude, can be considered in the program. Relative errors in the calculated values of n, k and d have been determined using simulated transmission spectra in both cases of homogeneous and inhomogeneous films.
The thickness and the refractive index of uniform films are calculated with an accuracy <0.5%, while the accuracy in the case including inhomogeneities is <2%. Simulation results for chalcogenide thin films deposited by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on microscope slabs and glass slides are reported
Addition and intersection of linear time-invariant behaviors
Full text linkWe define and analyze the operations of addition and intersection of linear time-invariant systems in the behavioral setting, where systems are viewed as sets of trajectories rather than input–output maps. The classical definition of addition of input–output systems is addition of the outputs with the inputs being equal. In the behavioral setting, addition of systems is defined as addition of all variables. Intersection of linear time-invariant systems was considered before only for the autonomous case in the context of “common dynamics” estimation. We generalize the notion of common dynamics to open systems (systems with inputs) as intersection of behaviors. This is done by proposing trajectory-based definitions. The main results of the paper are (1) characterization of the link between the complexities (number of inputs and order) of the sum and intersection systems, (2) algorithms for computing their kernel and image representations and (3) a duality property of the two operations. Our approach combines polynomial and numerical linear algebra computations
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
B-RAD: a radiation survey meter for operation in intense magnetic fields
Full text linkB-RAD is a hand-held radiation survey meter, specifically designed for operation in regions of strong magnetic field. The instrument has been jointly developed by CERN Radiation Protection group and the Department of Energy of the Polytechnic of Milan (POLIMI), originally to perform measurements of the residual radioactivity (radiation surveys) in the experimental areas of CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and inside the ATLAS detector without switching the magnetic field off. B-RAD is based on a scintillating crystal coupled to Silicon Photomultipliers, and its operation is unaffected by magnetic field intensity up to 3 T. Five engineered prototype units were built and made available for routine use at CERN. The design of the instrument has subsequently been licenced to a company in order to industrialise it. This paper describes the CERN-POLIMI engineered version of the instrument, discusses its characterization in details and provides an overview of the commercial unit
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
Distance problems in the behavioral setting
Full text linkMotivated by the distance to uncontrollability problem, we define a distance between finite-length linear time-invariant behaviors. The method proposed in this paper for computing the distance exploits the principal angles associated with structured matrices representing the systems
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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