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Is the First Cut Always the Deepest?
No full textA wonderful song by the great British singer Cat Stevens suggests that when you face the problems of life and love “the first cut is the deepest,” but this is probably not always the same, particularly in cardiovascular medicine. Arterial hypertension is probably the most important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Its prevalence is still progressively increasing particularly in the low-income countries where almost two-third of the hypertensive population is currently living
Trans-affirming Policies and Educational Contexts Opinions, Experiences, and Attitudes of an Italian College Student Community
No full textTrans and nonbinary (TNB) individuals experience disproportionate health disparities compared to their cisgender counterparts. These disparities extend to the educational sphere, where TNB individuals may face lower academic performance and higher dropout rates due to discrimination and a lack of affirmative policies. The effectiveness of trans-affirming policies relies on long-term policy integration, alignment with anti-discrimination efforts, and continuous staff development to meet evolving community needs. This study aimed to understand the opinions, expectations, and experiences of a group of TNB students regarding various affirmative tools and policies within two Italian Universities. Fifteen trans students (Mage = 23,3; 6 trans men; 2 trans women; 7 nonbinary people) were involved in a semistructured interview aimed at investigating experiences and opinions concerning the following policies: Alias Career (i.e., the possibility of being affirmed in one’s chosen name and gender), Safe Zone training, and gender-neutral bathrooms. This study provided a platform for TNB youth to share their experiences within university settings, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the current Italian university system. We hope this research will guide improvements to existing policies and suggest new measures to be implemented
Sudden Fall in the Lipid- Lowering Effect of Evolocumab: The Butler Is Not Always Guilty
Full text linkA 78-year-old man came to our attention after undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography documenting multivessel coronary artery disease. He was started on treatment with the proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitor evolocumab 140 mg subcutaneously every 2 weeks. Treatment-emergent changes in lipids and lipoproteins were long-lasting, and the medication was well tolerated by the patient in the long-term. Unexpectedly, after 2 years of continuous treatment with evolocumab, serum lipids increased, apparently without any reasonable explanation. During the follow-up visit, the patient was found to have habitually injected evolocumab into his right thumb instead of into the appropriate injection sites (i.e., abdomen, thighs or upper arms) after turning the injector upside down
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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