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La cura dei bambini nell'Europa moderna attraverso le collezioni librarie dell'Università di Padova
No full textQuesto capitolo presenta una ricostruzione della cura dei bam- bini nell’Europa moderna attraverso le collezioni librarie dell’Uni- versità di Padova. Tale scelta si basa su una serie di considerazioni. Innanzitutto, ho voluto mettere in evidenza il ruolo dello Studio patavino in quanto uno dei centri medici più importanti sia in Euro- pa sia nel mondo in età moderna. Per apprezzare il livello di ricerca e formazione di generazioni successive di brillanti medici, si devono considerare non solo la produzione scientifica a Padova, ma anche le acquisizioni di opere significative apparse in altri centri d’eccel- lenza coevi. Questo secondo fattore è indicativo della volontà della comunità scientifica padovana di insegnare il meglio; senza questa attitudine, non si sarebbero prodotte conoscenze innovative
La salute dei bambini tra diritto e medicina
No full textIl contributo descrive alcuni progetti attuati in ambito sanitario e finalizzati a garantire processi educativi e di socializzazione dei bambini ricoverati in ospedale al fine di rendere concreto il diritto all'istruzione, in armonia con quanto previsto dall'art. 34 della Costituzione
Intraventricular astroblastoma: Case report
No full text√Astroblastoma is a rare primary brain neoplasm that accounts for 0.45-2.8% of brain gliomas. Intraventricular localization is extremely rare. The authors report a case of well-differentiated completely intraventricular astroblastoma in a 6-year-old girl and review the relevant literature. Their patient presented with a 5-week history of progressive nausea and vomiting. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed a large, well-demarcated, solid-cystic mass in the left temporooccipital ventricular horn. Macroscopic radical resection of the tumor was performed via the superior temporal sulcus. The postoperative course was uneventful and no adjuvant therapy was administered after surgery. No recurrence was detected at 9-months follow-up. Gross-total resection has the greatest impact on patient survival. In differentiated tumors, recurrence is usually local, and adjuvant therapy is recommended after repeated resection for the treatment of recurrence. In patients harboring anaplastic astroblastoma, gross-total resection and adjuvant therapy after the initial surgery seems to be the best choice. It is important to distinguish astroblastoma from ependymoma in clinical practice because of the differences in therapeutic approaches
Evaluation of health status and health-related quality of life in a cohort of Italian children following treatment for a primary brain tumor
No full textAbstract
Background. This study is a pilot experience aiming to investigate the compliance of an institutional cohort of Italian children treated for a malignant disease and their families in completing the health utilities index2, (HUI2) and the effectiveness of this measured ill terms of their health Status (HS) and health-related quality of life (HRQL). It specifically, it aimed to compare the HS and the HRQL, as expressed by the HUI2 global utility score, in cohorts of patients who had brain tumors, extra-cerebral solid tumors, or leukemia/lymphoma. Procedure. Fifty Survivors of brain tumors, between 8 and 30 years at the time of the assessment ("self") and/or their parents ("proxy"), attending the Pediatric Oncology Out Patient clinic of Padua, Italy, completed the HUI2 questionnaire. Eighty-nine children with acute leukemia/lyrnphoma and 74 with extra-cerebral solid tumors and/or their parents were also assessed. Results. The mean "self" and "proxy" HUI2 global utility scores in the brain tumor patients were 0.87 and 0.84, respectively, while in the cohorts of children with other solid tumors and leukemia/lymphoma, there were 0.94, 0.91, 0.96, and 0.92, respectively. The differences between the HUI2 global utility scores in the "self" and "proxy" assessment within each cohort of children were not statistically significant. In decreasing order of frequency, the attributes affected most commonly were: "emotion," " pain," "sensation," and "cognition" both by "self" and "proxy" assessment. Conclusions. In this Italian population of childhood cancer survivors the HUI2 questionnaire proved to be a user-friendly tool, which provided information regarding HS and HRQL. A larger cohort of cancer children is needed to confirm the efficacy of the HUI2 questionnaire in distinguishing groups of children on this basis by disease category
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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