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Dalla gravidanza alla maternità . Indagine esplorativa sui fattori di influenza dell'interazione madre-bambino nei primi mesi di vita
No full textAccording to Belsky's (1984) multifactorial model of parenting, the aim of the research is to study the individual, relational and contextual determinants in the transition from pregnancy to 2degrees-3degrees months of child's life. The participants were 19 women at 7degrees month of pregnancy and the methods of collecting data were: (a) at pregnancy: Adult Attachment Interview (George, Kaplan, Main, 1985), Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976), Support Expectation Index (Levitt et al., 1994); (b) at post-partum: Expectancy Confirmation Scale (Levitt et al., 1994), Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (Cox, Holden, Sagovsky, 1987), Check-list for the observation of breast-feeding (Armstrong, 1992). At pregnancy, the results not highlight statistically significant association between the quality of maternal representations of attachment and the support expectations and the level of adjustment in the couple relationship. At post-partum, the quality of social support perceived from the mother is associated to significant positive behaviours in breast-feeding session. At longitudinal level, the results evidence a significant association between mother's Secure (F) representations of attachment and positive behaviours in breast-feeding session; otherwise, mother's Entengled-Preoccupaied (E) representations of attachment are associated to ambivalent behaviours in breast-feeding session. The data highlight an important relationship between the quality of maternal representational organization with respect of attachment and the quality of interactive exchanges with child in the first months of life, stimulating new researches in this context
Controllo di qualità in anatomia patologica: un'eperienza di 10 anni
No full textThe quality assurance scheme in use at the Section of Anatomic Pathology of the University of Bologna-Bellaria Hospital is described. Since 1992 a quality assurance (QA) scheme has been set up in this Institution. The scheme and results have been reported in this same Journal previously: here are reported the changes to the scheme that have intervened in the last four years. All data collected from January 1999 to December 2002 have been reviewed for monitoring the laboratory performance. Emphasis has been given to changes that have been introduced recently to improve QA
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
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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