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IMPRONTE: Breast Cancer Women: Innovative Model for Processing Traumatic Experience
No full textThe onset of early breast cancer is a traumatic experience that holds the risk of impairing the quality of life of women even years after the end of treatments. Despite medical advances to reduce the mortality rate, clinical health psychology is still researching for solutions to address the psychological impact caused. Narrative meaning-making processes of the traumatic experience are key elements to promote psychic elaboration and well-being.
Narrative Research and PI studies highlight significant markers of the transformative narrative process at the end of treatment. In this case, the narrative is a re-constructive and re-elaborative device for an already passed experience. Nowadays, narrative and diachronic markers of psychic elaboration of the traumatic experience related to the medical treatment do not exist. This project aims to fill this gap. The aim is to overturn, in an innovative way, the view of the literature, studying the narrative as a device to promote a psychic elaboration process in a diachronic way to the illness experience. This agrees with an personalized healthcare.
These markers, as functions of connection and narrative transformation, are clues of risk and/or resilience of the psychic elaboration process. These markers allow the construction of a diachronic map of the functioning flow of the traumatic elaboration related to breast cancer (Diachronic flow of Illness Narrative Elaboration Markers - DINEM). DINEM is a precious tool for health operators in order to orient them in supporting the different phases of oncological treatment. The identification of these markers also allows us to build a theoretical model of Narrative Processing of Traumatic Experience (NAPTE) of women with early breast cancer, which is still absent in the literature. This model will be able to positively impact the quality of life of women, hospitals, and health operators
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
Teen Mum: uno studio esplorativo sul divenire madre in adolescenza come “condizione di rischio”
No full textSecondo l’Istat (2012) il 2,1% delle gravidanze italiane coinvolge adolescenti (90% figlie di madri adolescenti) spesso provenienti da realtà socioeconomiche a rischio. La gravidanza, che comporta trasformazioni mentali e corporee da elaborare (Monacelli, 2011), è interpretabile come spinta regressiva o emancipativa (Ferraro e Nunziante-Cesàro, 1985) e può essere agita, laddove l’acting rappresenta una dimensione fase-specifica dell’adolescenza (Margherita, 2009; Blos, 1993,). Diventare madri-teen assume connotazioni rischiose dove più sfide evolutive si sovrappongono con la probabilità che non siano affrontate adeguatamente (Salerno e Tosto, 2012; Marcheggiani e Grasso, 2007; Zampino, 2005; Zani e Cicognani, 1999; Ammaniti et al., 1997), ed in cui si concretizza la presenza di “due minori a rischio” (Riva Crugnola, 2011). Inoltre, in gravidanza le condizioni di rischio possono caratterizzarsi come difficilmente rappresentabili( Margherita, Gargiulo e Martino, 2015; 2014).
Lo studio esplora la ricostruzione dell’esperienza della maternità in adolescenza. Partendo dalla Teen Mother Interview (Bohr, 2005) è stata creata un’intervista semi-strutturata che indaga le aree adolescenza, esperienza di gravidanza, relazione con il figlio, relazione con la madre, relazione con il partner. Sono state intervistate 18 donne (età media 20), utenti di una Onlus che offre sostegno alla relazione madre-bambino, che hanno vissuto una gravidanza in adolescenza. Da un’analisi del contenuto emergono categorie di significato che rimandano alle dimensioni: “percezione del corpo”, “centralità del parto”, “adolescenza interrotta”, “confusione dei ruoli” (figlio/fratello, figlia/mamma, madre/nonna).
L’esperienza di gravidanza appare inaspettata (99%), centrata sul parto e su un vissuto negativo dei cambiamenti del corpo, più visto che sentito. L’adolescenza è vissuta tra il rimpianto e la negazione. I ruoli appaiono confusi: il figlio assume tratti fraterni e la nonna si sostituisce alla madre, nella sovrapposizione tra identità non ancora elaborate: essere madre-essere figlia.
Considerando la centralità degli aspetti concreti e poco mentalizzati, in un’ottica preventiva, ci si domanda quanto la gravidanza dia spazio al dispiegarsi di una maternità interiore (Bydlowski, 2004)
Complex carbohydrates occurring in the digestive apparatus of the Umbrina cirrosa (L.) fry
No full textThe glycosoaminoglycans in the digestive apparatus of immature fish have important biological functions and are involved in morphofunctional differentiation. The aim of this study was to investigate the glycoconjugate histochemistry in the different parts of the digestive apparatus (oesophagus, stomach, intestine) of Umbrina cirrosa (L.) fry using classical histochemical reactions (periodic acid-Schiff, Alcian blue pH 2.5, Alcian blue/periodic acid-Schiff, high iron diamine, low iron diamine) in conjunction with glycolytic digestions that degrade different classes of glycosoaminoglycans. No differences were observed in the reactivity to conventional histochemical staining of the oesophagus, stomach or intestine among 27-, 34- or 44-day-old fry. In the oesophagus, the mucopolysaccharides contained chondroitin sulphates B and A and/or C, heparan sulphate and chondroitin. In the stomach, only neutral glycoconjugates were revealed, whereas in the intestine there were only chondroitin sulphates. Some differences in the type and content of glycoconjugates were found in Umbrina cirrosa (L.) fry compared to those of adult subjects, probably related to different dietary habits and to changes in the environmental conditions
N-acetyl –β-d-exosaminidase activity levels and cytochemical localization in intact and regenerating planarian dugesia lugubris
No full textWhich Space to Think? Diachronic Narrative Functions for Processing Breast Cancer Experience In Underfifthy Women
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