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Analisi dei resti scheletrici delle tombe della chiesa di San Giovanni a Prata di Pordenone: aspetti antropologico - forensi
No full textNel corso di una campagna di scavi nel 2007 nella Chiesa di San Giovanni a Prata di Pordenone sono stati rinvenuti diversi reperti osteologici provenienti da numerose sepoltuire risalenti al XIII - XIV secolo. L'interesse medico - legale era rivolto essenzialmente al riscontro di lesioni di natura traumatica. Sulle ossa sono state riscontrate lesioni contusive, da arma da punta, da arma da punta e tagli, da fendente. Ciò consente di ottenere importanti informazioni riguardo ad eventi ordinari ed accidentali dell'epoca, sulle attività occupazionali e sui rischi ad esse correlati
Un caso di decesso dopo manipolazione cervicale in paziente affetta da osso odontoideo: utilizzo dell'autopsia virtuale a scopi forensi
No full textL’osso odontoideo è una malformazione congenita del rachide cervicale, la cui eziologia è caratterizzata da una incompleta ossificazione del dente dell’epistrofeo alla quale consegue la genesi di una formazione ovalare ossificata posta in stretto contatto con l’arco anteriore della prima vertebra cervicale e fonte di nota instabilità della giunzione cranio-vertebrale. Nell’effettuazione di manovre fisioterapiche di manipolazione vertebrale bisogna tenere conto anche della possibile presenza di detta malformazione, posto che le manipolazioni vertebrali possono cagionare lesioni, anche gravi. Gli autori descrivono il caso di una donna di 82 anni, sottopostasi a manipolazioni vertebrali presso uno studio fisiatrico di Trieste, manipolazioni che hanno comportato una successiva evoluzione clinica in “tetraparesi spastica da contusione midollare” attribuita a “frattura del dente dell’epistrofeo” e successivo esito letale per tromboembolia massiva dell’arteria polmonare. Il decesso della donna, avvenuto ad alcune settimane di distanza dalla diagnosi, ha fatto insorgere il sospetto che ci potesse essere ragionevolmente un nesso di causa o concausa tra i due eventi, manipolazione e frattura seguita da decesso, con ipotesi di possibile responsabilità professionale colposa sanitaria per avere effettuato detta pratica in una paziente anziana in cui possono sussistere note controindicazioni, relative o assolute, e quindi potenziali rischi di gravi complicanze di detta manipolazione. L’autopsia virtuale, in supporto e prima dell’esame autoptico tradizionale, effettuata tramite TC multistrato, ha messo in luce, oltre a un’altra malformazione non descritta in precedenti esami radiologici, non la ipotizzata frattura del dente dell’epistrofeo bensì la presenza dell’osso odontoideo. Si instaurava comunque un procedimento giudiziario penale a carico del personale sanitario che aveva effettuato le manipolazioni stesse e gli autori ritengono che l’effettuata autopsia virtuale, con i suoi risultati, potrà fornire un determinante contributo alla risoluzione di una complessa vicenda giudiziaria ancora in corso
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
A case of "positional Asphyxia" in Trieste; virtopsy with multi-slice computed tomography
No full textIn the field of post mortem forensic investigations multi slice tomography (MSCT) is acquiring an increasinngly important role.
The authors illustrate a case of an obes man, in a severe state of agitation, who died after fight with the police and who was handcuffes in a prone position on the floor. he died after several minutes. The MSCT, a repeatable act, performed on the corpse before conventional autopsy and all forensic investigations lead to clissify the death as a positional ashyxia due to restriction
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
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