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Valutazione dell’influenza degli aspetti tipologici e tecnologici sull’efficienza energetica di un edificio residenziale in Italia
No full textLa resilienza : una risorsa da valorizzare
No full textDuring the last few years, the term resilience has become popular in common language and public discourse within a variety of domains, from psychology to medicine, from economics to ecology. However, its meaning is often misunderstood and generalized as an unspecific tendency to resist life upheavals and problems. Through theoretical models and empirical studies researchers have attempted to define resilience more rigorously, investigating its relationship with personal growth, mental health and successful adjustment in suboptimal health conditions or disadvantaged social circumstances. This article addresses these issues from the research and clinical perspectives, specifically focusing on the role of resilience in coping with chronic disease during childhood and adolescence. Based on Giulio D'Angio's claim that "cure is not enough", the need for a new paradigm in paediatrics, centred on the support and promotion of patients' psychological and relational strengths and resources is discussed and documented through clinical evidence and research findings
Environmental Performance and Social Inclusion in Informal Settlements. A Favela Project Based on the IMM Integrated Modification Methodology
No full textThis book discusses how a scientific methodology can be used to support design decisions to transform and improve environmental performances of a very dense context lacking formal planning rules, showing the potential of a shift from occasional interventions to an integrated, multidisciplinary approach where systemic effects are correlated by nonlinear links (the final effect is larger than the sum of its parts). The topic is particularly significant since, by 2050, 75% of the world population will be urban, with 60% of it living in informal settlements. The rapid urbanization of last decades has contributed to increasing poverty, inequality and social exclusion conditions in slums and shantytowns surrounding large cities (between 5 and 10 million inhabitants) and megacities (10 million or more inhabitants) in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Most megacities are located in developing countries, and several large cities are projected to become megacities by 2030. In most instances, attempts to address the issues of informal settlements have been concentrated on specific problems, often on the basis of emergency situations, with a strong focus on social aspects. Physical transformation actions often lack a systemic assessment of their impact on the wider built environment, with a siloed approach that is reflected on the limited consideration of the profound inter-goal relationships of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The work presented in this book is based on a multidisciplinary and integrated design methodology named Integrated Modification Methodology (IMM), developed at the ABC Department of Politecnico di Milano, to support the upgrade process of the existing built environment and the improvement of its environmental performances. The methodology is based on a systemic and multidisciplinary design approach, encompassing, in an integrated way, several of the aspects defining the environmental performances of urban settlements
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
Atypical Hereditary Ovalocytosis Associated With Defective Dyserythropoietic Anemia
No full textThe cases of a child and his mother affected by chronic anemia with atypical elliptocytosis are reported. When adolescent the mother underwent splenectomy, with an incomplete response. Anemia was characterized by a morphological picture of ovalocytosis associated with a significant percentage of spherocytes in the peripheral blood of the child and spiculated red cells in that of the splenectomized mother. Bone marrow aspirates of the child showed a striking erythropoietic hyperplasia with marked decrease of mature cells and dyserythropoietic features. Reticulocyte count was rather low. Ferrokinetics showed ineffective erythropoiesis. Biochemical studies on red blood cell membrane cytoskeleton showed that beta-spectrin, alpha-spectrin and protein 4.1, which are usually altered in hereditary elliptocytosis (HE), were normal in our cases. This report confirms the hypothesis of Torlontano who postulated the existence of a distinct atypical form of HE associated with ineffective and dysplastic erythropoiesis
Surviving Childhood Leukemia In A Latin Culture : An Explorative Study Based On Young Adults' Written Narratives
No full textThis study investigated memories of childhood leukemia conveyed by survivors belonging to a Latin culture, exploring whether benefit findings was spontaneously reported, as by non-Latin survivors. Three hundred patients previously treated for leukemia were contacted by post/e-mail and asked to write freely about their illness experience. The 106 letters received were analysed for narrative structure and content, according to a grounded theory approach. Participants expressed most of the themes conveyed by childhood cancer survivors in non-Latin countries, and benefit finding was spontaneously reported. To the latter, the usefulness of creating and maintaining personal narratives on cancer experience, sustained by healthcare professionals, is discussed
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