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Riflessioni sulla ricerca di un metodo per la conoscenza e la cura della realtà mentale umana
If we look at the history of medicine we realize that there has never been a real separation and autonomy
between the science of psychiatry and the medicine of the body: mental illnesses have always been
and are still considered organic illnesses of the brain. What follows is that most people afflicted with
mental illnesses are considered incurable and are merely given a form of assistance including of a
pharmaceutical type. One of the causes of this difficult research into mental illnesses and their dynamics
can be put down to the lack of a study method (given that the mind and its thoughts constitute a
reality which cannot be perceived by the five senses, in contrast to all the other organs of the body),
which can see beyond the obvious realities of our waking lives, behaviour and articulate language.
This study can only take place if we overcome two thoughts which are culturally deep-seated in common
thinking. One is that human identity lies in reason and therefore a person who is mentally ill is
someone who has lost his reason thus allowing the irrational to emerge, which coincides with the animality
and the innate wickedness that lies within; the second is complementary to the first and it too
derives from a religious thought that views everything in man which is not reason as spiritual soul,
pertaining to the realm of faith and credence. In conclusion, the possibility of paving a way to knowledge
and curing mental illnesses emerges once we have overcome these never before questioned dogmas
and embark on a method of research that has as its principle focus the non-conscious or irrational
reality present in each one of us, linked to but autonomous from our biological realit
Viaggio a Colonia. Un breve confronto con la psichiatria internazionale sugli esordi psicotici.
Evaluation of secondary school teacher's knowledge about psychosis: a contribution to early detection.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
We 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
We 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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