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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Scambio di informazioni e mercato assicurativo: analisi economica del diritto antitrust in Italia e Usa
No full textConcorrenza e mercato.
Rassegna degli orientamenti dell'Autorita' Raccolti da Gustavo Ghidini, Berardino Libonati, Piergaetano Marchetti. Anno XV (2007)
Effectiveness of a toll-free telephone hotline for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. A 5-year study
No full textA. Belyj, A. Čechov, V. Majakovskij, B. Pasternak, A. Puškin, I. Turgenev
No full textVoci di enciclopedi
Authors’ Moral Rights in the Berne Convention
No full textThe statement of moral rights represents the great innovation of the 20th century concerning the protection of intellectual property rights. As it is known, in 1928 in the Review Conference of the Convention of Bern, held in Rome, on proposal of the Italian delegation, art. 6 bis was introduced, which for the first time protects at an international level the moral (or ‘personal’) component of copyright. In this article the authors propose a renewed analysis of Art. 6 bis history, rationale, and scope-including the fact that the ‘‘other’’ moral rights, besides paternity and integrity of the work, were not acknowledged in Rome, nor in the following Berne revisions.
This essay ends with a proposal of modification for a future revision of the Convention, a ‘‘leap in quality’’ with the introduction of a general clause conceived in terms of ‘‘burden of valorization’’ of the work on the part of the publisher at the request of the author and according to the concrete circumstances of the case
Evaluating the presence of human pathogens in commercially frozen, biologically appropriate raw pet food sold in Italy
No full textBackground: Biologically appropriate raw food (BARF) diet is becoming more and more popular among pet owners in Europe. However, there are documented microbiological risks associated with raw feeding, and this study aimed to determine the presence of human pathogens in commercially frozen BARF products sold in Italy. Methods: Salmonella species, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes and Campylobacter species were identified. The general microbiological quality of BARF products and hygiene were also evaluated. Sample size was limited and therefore the study may not be representative of a larger sample. Results: None of the tested samples showed total bacterial count (TBC) higher than the limit set to consider a sample unacceptable. However, 14 out of 21 samples showed TBC higher than the limit set to consider a sample marginally acceptable. A high percentage of samples were contaminated by the aforementioned pathogens, highlighting the need for pet owners to be aware of the risks of this feeding strategy both to themselves and to their pets. Conclusions: Considering that BARF diet meals can be prepared at home using the hands, as well as tools and spaces that could be shared, guidelines on safer handling of these pet food products should be recommended by veterinarians and nutritionists
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