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Survey_questions – Supplemental material for Ethical and research governance approval across Europe: Experiences from three European palliative care studies
No full textSupplemental material, Survey_questions for Ethical and research governance approval across Europe: Experiences from three European palliative care studies by Nancy Preston, Johannes JM van Delden, Francesca Ingravallo, Sean Hughes, Jeroen Hasselaar, Agnes van der Heide, Lieve Van den Block, Lesley Dunleavy, Marieke Groot, Agnes Csikos and Sheila Payne in Palliative Medicine</p
COVID-19 PANDEMIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INSURANCE AGAINST ACCIDENTS AT WORK [PANDEMIA COVID-19: RICADUTE IN AMBITO ASSICURATIVO INAIL]
No full textLa pandemia COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease 19) sta sollevando importanti questioni etiche e medico-legali. L’ambito previdenziale INAIL è uno dei più coinvolti, in considerazione della elevata esposizione di alcune categorie di lavoratori, inclusi gli operatori sanitari. L’INAIL riconosce l’infezione in occasione di lavoro come infortunio del lavoro e sta già garantendo la tutela assicurativa per il periodo di quarantena/permanenza domiciliare fiduciaria del lavoratore esposto o in caso di morte dello stesso a seguito di COVID-19. Meno attenzione è stata per il momento prestata ad altri eventi tutelati, come le possibili menomazioni fisiche conseguenti alla COVID-19, nonché i disturbi psichici potenzialmente riconducibili alla pandemia nei lavoratori esposti. È stata pertanto effettuata una breve revisione della letteratura focalizzata su questi aspetti, accompagnata da alcuni spunti di riflessione sulle possibili ricadute medicolegali in ambito assicurativo INAIL. Nonostante le scarse evidenze sulle conseguenze fisiche a lungo termine della COVID-19, le attuali conoscenze suggeriscono la necessità di realizzare protocolli di valutazione delle funzioni respiratoria, cardiaca, renale ed epatica al fine di valutare eventuali sequele della malattia soprattutto nei lavoratori sopravvissuti a COVID-19 grave/critica e/o con patologie preesistenti. L’impatto psicologico della pandemia può essere rilevante sia per i lavoratori infettati che per quelli solo esposti. È possibile anche l’insorgenza di disturbi psichici cronici (come disturbo da stress post-traumatico, ansia, e depressione), che pongono questioni medico-legali complesse. Sarà necessario un monitoraggio a lungo termine dei lavoratori infetti ed esposti che potrebbe essere un’occasione straordinaria per seguire nel tempo le conseguenze della pandemia e capire come prevenire, o almeno ridurre, l’impatto di analoghi eventi sulla salute psicofisica dei lavoratori in futuro
The impact of ACP on patient's relationships
Full text linkBackground: In the period 2013-2018 an important European
study (ACTION) involving six countries, financed according
to the 7° European framework, has been performed. The
ACTION study dealt with the issue of advance care planning
(ACP) in oncology and searched for evidence of its impact on
patient and family
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
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