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L'“ékphrasis” oltre l'“ékphrasis”: due ragionamenti sul saggismo di Roberto Longhi
No full textIl presente contributo sul saggismo di Roberto Longhi, nonostante l’evidente divaricazione tra le due parti di cui si compone, possiede un carattere profondamente unitario. L’idea centrale che sta alla base delle sue due sezioni è che l’ékphrasis longhiana travalichi i limiti e le forme consuete di questo genere di scrittura, pur
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senza stravolgerne del tutto statuti e finalità.The idea of the paper is that Roberto Longhi’s ékphrasis goes beyond the usual limits and forms of this kind of writing, but without altering the statutes and all purposes. This need originates from a basic problem: the unbridgeable gap between image and word that describes it
The HSE Indicator Tool, psychological distress and work ability
No full textBackground
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) indicator tool is one of the most commonly used tools for
assessing the risk of work-related stress. Few studies, however, have investigated whether and how its
scales are related to psychological distress or other work-related health outcomes.
Aims
To investigate the relationship between the HSE indicator tool, psychological distress, as measured by
the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)-12, and work ability, assessed by the Work Ability Index
(WAI).
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Methods
All the employees of a mid-sized bank in Italy were asked to fill in an anonymous cross-sectional ques-
tionnaire. The questionnaire was structured in four sections: the first one comprised socio-
demographic questions and the other three corresponded, respectively, to the Italian translations
of the GHQ-12, the HSE and the WAI questionnaires.
Results
Four hundred and thirteen employees completed the questionnaire. The response rate was 99%. Con-
trolling for age and gender, the indicator subscales were negatively associated with the adopted meas-
ures of psychological distress and work ability. The GHQ score was also highly correlated with the
WAI score and able to explain $47% of its variance. The only subscale that was still significantly
associated with the WAI after removing the effect of psychological distress was ‘control’.
Conclusions
The study presents new evidence for the validity of the HSE indicator tool to estimate the risk of work-
related stress and suggests that most but not all the effects of psychosocial conditions on work ability
might be mediated by the level of psychological distress induced by these conditions
Variabilità morfologica e ultrastrutturale dei semi nel gruppo di Allium cupanii (Alliaceae, Sez. Cupanioscordum)
Full text linkA practical integrated radiomics model predicting intensive care hospitalization in COVID-19
Full text linkGoing 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
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