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Italian gay fathers for surrogacy and research visibility
No full textHomoparenting is now a widespread reality that requires
continuous investigations and in-depth studies. It is also
an area of psychosocial interest in Italy, where, howev er, the analysis of homosexual parental and coparenting
constructs tends to be very difficult. This, although gay
families with children make an essential contribution to
the pluralization of family-related meaning
PRECOCIOUS DIAGNOSTIC ELEMENTS IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
No full textIntroduction: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a condition characterized mainly by the presence of disorders and alterations
in some specific behavioral domains, such as social development, communication and restricted and repetitive behaviors. This
retrospective study aimed to identify the early symptoms and clinical features in a group of ASD children.
Materials and methods: A sample of 79 children participated in the study (68 males and 11 females; age ranged between
13 months and 8.3 years). All participants were administered the ADOS-2, a clinical and standardized assessment tool, based on
behavioral observation of ASD subjects.
Results: Frequency analysis of the results evidenced significant impairments in some specific areas investigated, such as eating
and sleeping disorders, deficits in the language and in social communication, delay in motor development, autonomic and executive
dysfunctions.
Conclusion: Detecting these deficits and the knowledge of these diagnostic elements at a very early stage of development could
therefore have a significant impact on clinical practice for planning of the efficient rehabilitation programs and suitable interventions
for ASD children
Noli Me Tangere: Social Touch, Tactile Defensiveness, and Communication in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Full text linkAbstract: Tactile defensiveness is a common feature in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Since the first studies, tactile defensiveness has been described as the result of an abnormal response to sensory stimulation. Moreover, it has been studied how the tactile system is closely linked to socio-communicative development and how the interoceptive sensory system supports both a discriminating touch and an aective touch. Therefore, several neurophysiological studies have been conducted to investigate the neurobiological basis of the development and functioning of the tactile system for a better understanding of the tactile defensiveness behavior and the social touch of NDDs. Given the lack of recent literature on tactile defensiveness, the current study provides a brief overview of the original contributions on this research topic in children with NDDs focusing attention on how this behavior has been considered over the years in the clinical setting
SUNCT/SUNA in Pediatric Age: A Review of Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Options
Full text linkThe International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition (ICHD3) defines Shortlasting
Unilateral Neuralgiform Headache Attacks (SUNHA) as attacks of moderate or severe, strictly
unilateral head pain lasting from seconds to minutes, occurring at least once a day and usually
associated with prominent lacrimation and redness of the ipsilateral eye. Two subtypes of SUNHA
are identified: Short-lasting Unilateral Neuralgiform headache attacks with Conjunctival injection
and Tearing (SUNCT) and Short-lasting Unilateral Neuralgiform headache attacks with cranial
Autonomic symptoms (SUNA). These pathologies are infrequent in children and difficult to diagnose.
The authors reviewed the existing literature on SUNCT and SUNA, especially in the developmental
age, which describes the pathophysiology in detail and focuses on the therapeutic options available
to date. SUNHA-type headaches must be considered on the one hand, for the possibility of the onset
of forms secondary to underlying pathologies even of a neoplastic nature, and on the other hand, for
the negative impact they can have on an individual’s quality of life, particularly in young patients.
Until now, published cases suggest that no chronic variants occur in childhood and adolescents. In
light of this evidence, the authors offer a review that may serve as a source to be drawn upon in the
implementation of suitable treatments in children and adolescents suffering from these headaches,
focusing on therapies that are non-invasive and as risk-free as possible for pediatric patients
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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