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Francesco Musumeci, Protezione pretoria dei minori di 25 anni e ius controversum nell'età imperiale, Torino 2013
No full textEvolution of anaesthesia in transapical aortic valve
No full textEvoluzione del management anestesiologico nei pazienti sottoposti ad impianto di valvola transapicaleThe Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) had emerged more and more in the last twenty
years. According to the scientifi c literature, this is an approved, suitable and alternative therapeutic choice
to conventional surgery for aortic valve disease in high risk patients. The most of patients are octogenarians
or nonagenarians, with multiple comorbidities (neurological,vascular,oncologic, haematological, etc). The
evolution of TAVI techniques and its devices have improved the quality of results and reduced the peri- and
post-procedural complications. Cardiac anaesthesia and analgesia in TAVI patients is very important and
fundamental to a quickly and complete clinical restoring after the procedure. An optimal balance of drugs and
peri-procedural management could reduce the neurological events (such as delirium), the days of hospitalization
and the admission of intensive care unit. According to our experience in transapical approach, the low dose
of propofol and desfl urane allowed to optimal cardiac anaesthesia and rapid mechanical ventilation weaning
in complex patient undergone to transcatheter valve implantation with transapical approach. Moreover, our
protocol reduced considerably the incidence of perioperative delirium
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
Strategies for Dedicated Path Protection in Filterless Optical Networks
Full text linkEnabling Dedicated Path Protection (DPP) in Filterless Optical Networks (FONs) poses specific design challenges, as FONs require dividing the network topology in non-overlapping fiber trees, and lightpaths cannot cross from one tree to another unless additional devices are installed. In this study, we consider the possibility to deploy three type of devices, namely InterTree Transceivers (ITTs), Wavelength Blockers (WBs) and Colored Passive Filters (CPFs) to achieve DPP in FON, and we compare the three resulting DPP strategies, called P-ITT, P-WB and P-WBC. More specifically, we formulate three Integer Linear Programming (ILP) models for DPP in FON with the objective to minimize additional device cost and minimize total wavelength consumption. Numerical results over two realistic topologies show that P-WBC achieves cost savings up to 33% in comparison to P-WB and up to 97% in comparison to P-ITT. However, even if it is the costliest approach, P-ITT ensures up to 7% savings in wavelength consumption and up to 23% savings in resource overbuild compared to P-WB and P-WBC, making it a possible candidate in spectrum-scarce deployments
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
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