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Robin Hood nelle fonti medievali: un caso di archeologia transmediale?
No full textThe notion of ‘transmedia storytelling’ is usually linked to the recent development of digital technologies and computer network. Technological enhancement is assumed to have led to an enlarged area of communication forms as a result of media convergence, a process which transformed modern culture into an interactive multimedia space. In the present paper, on the basis of Middle English Robin Hood narratives, it is argued that well-crafted narratives with compelling characters are not new and have traversed media platforms throughout the ages
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
Clip-based arterial haemostasis after antegrade common femoral artery puncture.
No full textBACKGROUND: Given the frequent involvement of infra-popliteal arteries, an ipsilateral antegrade common femoral artery puncture (ACFAP) is usually preferred to a contralateral retrograde femoral access for percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI). Because of the frequent difficulty to get a sufficient manual pressure on the puncture site, ACFAP is burdened by a high number of bleeding local complications, including retroperitoneal haematoma. We report a series of patients who consecutively received a clip-based arterial closure device after ACFAP and ipsilateral PTA for CLI.
METHODS: Thirty patients (73+/-6 years; 18 men; 100% diabetes) admitted to our hospital because of CLI consecutively underwent peripheral PTA after an ACFAP and received a clip-based arterial closure device. Time to haemostasis was defined as the interval elapsed between clip deployment and first observed haemostasis. All patients were mobilized after 6 h. Follow-up was 30 days.
RESULTS: All patients were on double anti-platelet therapy. At the end of the procedure, Activation Clotting Time was 226+/-37 s. Procedural success in delivering the clip was 100%. Time to haemostasis was 21+/-19 s. No major local vascular complications and in particular no retroperitoneal bleeding were documented. All patients could be discharged within the following 3 days. No major complications were noted during a 30 days follow-up.
CONCLUSIONS: The use of a clip-based arterial closure device after ACFAP for peripheral PTA in CLI seems to be safe and effective
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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