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Utilizzo degli archivi elettronici sanitari nella stima dell’associazione tra danno renale acuto e mezzo di contrasto iodato
No full textLe amputazioni non traumatiche degli arti inferiori associate alla patologia diabetica in Italia durante il 2005-2014: studio dell’andamento temporale e della variabilità geografica basato sull’utilizzo dei database amministrativi sanitari.
No full textMethods in childhood health: Chronic disease epidemiology and age estimation
No full textThis review reports the main results concerning two of the principal research topics of the Centre of Epidemiology, Biostatics and medical Information technology: epidemiology of type 1 diabetes, and statistical methods of age estimation. Our studies investigated the disease incidence, the time trend, the geographical patterns, the role of environmental factors, contributing to increase the knowledge of type 1 diabetes occurrence. Studying the determinants of disease management, the use of new technologies, patients’ quality of life and disease awareness, have provided useful information improving disease management. Statistical methods of age estimation were studied evaluating the performance of regression-based models assessing age in children. To overcome bias in age estimation of these models, a full Bayesian calibration method was developed. On-going research is developing aspects related to dietary intake, glycaemic variability, evaluation of therapeutic diagnostic paths and appropriateness of care in type 1 diabetes. Future studies will assess ethnic and racial differences in skeletal growth pattern and incorporation of multiple age predictors in the Bayesian calibration method to improve accuracy
Andamento temporale e distribuzione geografica delle amputazioni non traumatiche degli arti inferiori nei soggetti con diabete in Italia durante il 2005-2014
No full textIs there an Association between Clinical, Metabolic, Socio-economic Features and Eating Disorders in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes?
No full textQuality of life in children with celiac disease: A paediatric cross-sectional study
No full textBackground: Few studies investigated factors influencing the quality of life of children with celiac disease on a gluten-free diet. Aims: To investigate the impact of the gluten-free diet on the psycho-physical well-being of celiac children. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we interviewed 76 celiac and 143 non-celiac children (2-18 years) by using a non-disease specific questionnaire (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Test) and we explored the impact of the diet on social life with an open-ended questionnaire. Scores were compared by Wilcoxon rank-sum test. A quantile regression analysis was used to evaluate the impact of celiac disease on score distribution. Results: No significant differences in quality of life were found between the two groups (total score: 84.1 (81.1-87.2) vs 81.5 (79.7-83.4), median (95% CI), patients and controls respectively, p=0.4). Treatment positively affected quality of life in children that showed "intermediate" scores in the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Test. Lowest scores were observed in children reporting a higher number of diet difficulties or co-morbidities. Conclusions: Although celiac patients showed an overall good quality of life in comparison with a control group, by using appropriate analytical methods we elicited specific factors contributing to a lower quality of life in patients, such as co-morbidities and difficulties with the diet
Time trend and geographical pattern of diabetic lower-extremity amputations incidence in Italy during 2005-2014
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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
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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