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Severe Respiratory and Skeletal Muscles Involvement in a Carrier of Dysferlinopathy With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Full text linkThe natural course of progressive neuromuscular diseases can be complicated by respiratory muscle involvement. In muscular dystrophies such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and myotonic dystrophy, respiratory muscle involvement is common. In others such as Becker, limb-girdle, and facioscapulo-humeral dystrophies, respiratory muscle involvement is infrequent and generally occurs in the more severe cases. Recently, it was reported that a mutation in the dysferlin gene and/or dysferlin deficiency causes proximal and distal forms of muscular dystrophy, which are known by the term dysferlinopathy. We describe a case of severe weakness of both limb-girdle and respiratory muscles in a patient who was carrier of the dysferlin gene mutation and who also had COPD. We suggest that the systemic inflammatory response of COPD and the dysferlin deficit interact and are responsible for both the skeletal and respiratory muscle impairment
A self-adaptive sim neural network model for an integrated industrial plants management.
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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
Su alcuni aspetti di patologia disgenetica e malformativa dell'apparato riproduttivo femminile
No full textNel presente lavoro, gli Autori riportano la loro esperienza, relativa alla patologia disgenetica e malformativa, in quattro anni di attività del Servizio di Ginecologia dell'Infanzia e dell'Adolescenza della II^ Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica dell'Università degli Studi di Roma.Vengono esaminati, inoltre, i vari problemi relativi al trattamento medico e chirurgico dei singoli casi di tale patologia, soprattutto alla luce dell'incerta normativa ancora vigente in tema di assegnazione del sesso reale, pur essendo in corso proposte di modifiche legislative tendenti a regolamentare il trattamento chirurgico di tali casi
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
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