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Geography & the Web
No full textCommunication weaves the connections between new spatial relations, and creates new meanings and new imaginaries. The contemporary process of communication is giving substance to a model of society which identifies itself in the vast multimedia sea where space and cyberspace meet and combine in a dualism centred on place. In every area, there are forms and ways of life being mediated by social media, which impact on experience in the area and narration in recounting perception, acting on the imaginary and creating new expectations. This narration is present in every individual and is sustained by everyday actions.
The scheme of content related by story, and more generally by forms of textualism, particularly texts mediated in virtual space, is increasingly incorporated into everyday actions. It is made up of shared fragments of ordinary life which are accessible to all. Online communication is becoming more pervasive thanks to a common experiential design helped by user-friendly interfaces and which link images of daily life to a series of images which the public recognise as common aesthetic forms . This uniformity of aesthetic experience is reached through pre-set background patterns and frames in terms of colour and layouts which can be found online all over the world. This uniformity impacts on individual sensitivity because through common frames, colours and codes it standardizes and captures ordinary and experiential individual content so that it can be channelled through online media. The more online information is considered important, in other words, independent, unstructured and spontaneous, the more individuals will incorporate it into their everyday experience. Online word of mouth is thus a substantial part of expressing of opinions in the daily life of networked users
La comunicazione con l'utenza nelle strutture sanitarie: il ruolo della Carta dei Servizi
No full textLa comunicazione con l'utenza nelle strutture sanitarie: il ruolo della Carta dei Servizi
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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
Can the balloon expulsion test be used to exclude the diagnosis of'"dyssynergic defecation"?
No full textBACKGROUND: Fimctional constipation (FC) is a common disorder, particularly frequent m women. The aim of our study was to compare the results of balloon expulsion test with the manometry and defecography findings to exclude dyssynergic defecation (DD) in patients with chronic constipation. METHODS: From January 2005 to December 2011, 127 patients with the diagnosis of functional constipation were recruited retrospectively. They were divided into three groups: 24 with DD, 54 with descending perineum syndrome (PDS), 49 without DD/PDS. Diagnosis of DD was established by manometnc and defecographic fmdmgs according to Rome EH criteria. RESULTS: The balloon expulsion test was abnormal m 11 out of 24 patients with DD, 19 out of 54 with PDS and 13 of 49 without both. Hie specificity and negative predictive value of the test for excluding dyssynergic defecation were 73% and 77%, respectively. There was no statistically significant association between the balloon expulsion test and findings in defecografy (P=0.31). There was a relevant association between mean resting pressure (MRP) and balloon expulsion test (P=0.002) on anorectal manometry. CONCLUSIONS: The balloon expulsion test is a simple and useful screening procedure to identify constipated patients who do not have DD. However, the balloon expulsion test cannot be used alone as a golden standard for the diagnosis of "dyssynergic defecation" and should be integrated with other anorectal tests mamly with anorectal manometry and secondly defecography. (Cite this article as: Inviati A, Scerrino G, Sckifano D, Di Giovanni S, Lo Greco V, Bonventre S. Can the balloon expulsion test be used to exclude the diagnosis of "dyssynergic defecation'? Gazz Med Ital - Arch Sci Med 2016;175:59-67)
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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