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Consumare memoria: la Shoah, tra mito commerciale e sconfitta dell'io
No full textLa “sineddoche Auschwitz”, così abusata nel discorso pubblico dopo anni di inflazione memoriale, s’intreccia oggi con la crescente incapacità di usare l’apprendimento storico come strumento per la comprensione del presente, materia viva di conoscenza, sfondo sul quale, malgrado il distanziamento storico e fattuale rispetto a quegli eventi, far risaltare le contraddizioni, le aporie, la violenza della contemporaneità. In tal senso, la “monumentalizzazione” (letterale e non) della Shoah funziona troppo come metafora politica unificante e troppo poco come antidoto concreto al fascismo, al razzismo, alla possibilità sempre attuale di un ritorno della barbarie.
Operare una vera e propria decostruzione dell’“industria della memoria”, che può realizzarsi soltanto mettendo in luce e analizzando le forme di socializzazione della Shoah che sono oggi al centro dell’attenzione pubblica e della produzione culturale seriale, è uno dei compiti di questo saggio. Infatti, svelare i meccanismi di appropriazione-manipolazione della storia, nonché l’uso pubblico-politico spregiudicato che sempre più spesso si fa di essa, rappresenta un’urgenza epistemologica non solo per coloro che si occupano di storia, ma anche di didattica, di filosofia, di estetica, di mass-media, di studi culturali.
Decostruire, allora, significa riappropriarsi degli strumenti culturali che consentano di distinguere la spettacolarizzazione rispetto alla riflessione critica, dopo che per troppo tempo si è lasciato che la prima prendesse ad occupare uno spazio eccessivo nell’opera di elaborazione della memoria collettiva intorno allo sterminio degli ebrei d’Europa
Colorectal Resection during Peritonectomy plus HIPEC in Patients with Diffuse Ovarian Carcinomatosis: our experience and a review of the literature.
No full textAbstract:
Objective: To identify a reasonable surgical strategy and to discuss the benefits and morbidity of and indications for colorectal resections in ovarian carcinomatosis.
Methods: From a series of 70 patients treated with peritonectomy and HIPEC for diffuse ovarian carcinomatosis 52 patients had colorectal resections. We considered techniques for colorectal resection, histopathological features of resected specimens, postoperative risk factors and prognostic variables in univariate and multivariate analyses.
Literature regarding cytoreductive surgery with colon resection was then reviewed.
Results: Peritonectomy procedures included as well as colorectal resection various other visceral resection (mean 7.5 per patient). Optimal cytoreduction rate was 86% (CC0 and CC1). A total 13.4% of patients had Grade IV complications requiring reoperation or intensive care. Multivariate analysis identified as the main risk factor for postoperative complications a blood loss of ≥ 2000 ml. In all 52 patients ovarian implants deeply infiltrated the colorectal wall usually (67.3%) up to the muscular layer. Lymph-node metastases, detected in 50% of the cases, involved colorectal regional nodes in 42.3%. The 5-year survival rate was 44.4% and 5-year disease-free survival was 32.6%. Cox regression identified as the main prognostic factors, depth of colorectal wall invasion and degree of cytoreduction. Some of the literature regarding colon resection is conflicting and all data are retrospective, however, most of papers supports a benefit in terms of survival when cytoreduction is clearly optimal.
Conclusions: In patients with ovarian diffuse peritoneal carcinomatosis colorectal resections are essential in achieving maximal cytoreduction. Colorectal resections in ovarian carcinomatosis should follow the oncologic rules for primary colorectal cancer. The literature review suggests that colon resection to achieve optimal cytoreduction has a positive impact on survival
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
‘Pop Shoah?’: imaginaries of the Jewish genocide in contemporary Italian culture
No full textReview of: Francesca Recchia Luciani, Claudio Vercelli (eds.), Pop Shoah? Immaginari del genocidio ebraico, Genova, Il Melangolo, 2016, 187 p., ISBN: 9788869830143, € 16,00
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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