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La SWAP-200: un ponte tra ricerca e clinica
No full textAnche le nuove revisioni del DSM e dell’ICD lasciano insoddisfatti i clinici, particolarmente quelli di orientamento psicoanalitico. L’articolo passa in rassegna i principali problemi dei più diffusi metodi di diagnosi della personalità e presenta un nuovo strumento, la SWAP-200 (Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure-200), che sembra riuscire a superare i bias cognitivi e la visione solo parziale del funzionamento individuale, unico della personalità, caratteristici di molti metodi. I principali obiettivi della SWAP-200 sono: arrivare ad una diagnosi funzionale dei pazienti adulti e adolescenti, per colmare la frattura tra diagnosi psichiatrica e presentazione psicodinamica di un caso clinico; elaborare una diagnosi sia categoriale sia dimensionale sia funzionale; superare la limitata affidabilità dei self-report; arricchire le categorie dell’Asse II del DSM-IV; fornire un quadro di riferimento alternativo ed empiricamente fondato per la categorizzazione dei disturbi di personalità. La SWAP-200 è basata su una procedura Q-sort ed è formata da 200 items, scritti in un linguaggio quotidiano e che quindi traduce concetti complessi nei loro correlati fenomenologici. I clinici valutano con un punteggio da (da 0 a 7 per ciarcun item, con una distribuzione fissa dei punteggi) la somiglianza tra il pattern descritto da ciascun item e il loro paziente; poi si procede per via statistica (“matching prototype”) a trovare la correlazione tra il profilo SWAP del singolo paziente e il “paziente prototipico” dei singoli disturbi (ossessivo, narcisistico ecc.) previsiti dall’Asse II del DSM. Segue un esempio di applicazione della procedura SWAP a materiale clinico
The knowledge and skill content of production complexity
No full textIn this paper we investigate the labour content of complex products. By exploiting O*NET information on the skill and knowledge required by occupations, we find that the product complexity measure suggested by Hausmann and Hidalgo (2009) is highly intensive in STEM knowledge and in Science, Mathematics and Critical Thinking skill requirements. We then propose a new measure of occupational complexity based on these occupational features. Among other advantages, this indicator has the merit to measure complexity for service industries that, so far, has never been measured. In an empirical model of the growth of USA Metropolitan Areas (MSAs), we find that MSAs whose initial industrial structure embeds a higher level of occupational complexity experience higher real per capita GDP growth over the 2001–2017 period. The occupational complexity measure is a stronger predictor of growth than other metrics of industries’ occupational and task content as well as compared to indicators of local occupational and industrial composition. When we separately compute occupational complexity of service and manufacturing industries and delve into their specific role for long run growth, we find a prominent role of the occupation complexity embedded in local services with respect to the one embedded in local manufacturing. Our baseline evidence is corroborated in the context of the NUTS3 regions of France over the period 2010–2017
Dissecting the impact of innovation on exporting in Turkey
Full text linkDoes innovating promote firms’ export probability? By separately modelling – theoretically as well as empirically – the impact of process and product innovation, we show that the joint adoption of both innovation strategies fosters Turkish firms’ first time export entry in rich destination markets. Nevertheless, innovation strengthens firms’ export probability. As predicted by our theoretical sketch, product innovation matters in particular for exporting to developing economies, while process innovation reinforces the role of product innovation for exporting to richer markets
Imports, Exports and the Firm Product Scope: Evidence From Turkey
Full text linkBy exploiting an original firm-product level dataset for Turkish manufacturing, -way trading on firm product scope and innovation in a multiple treatment setting. Our evidence points at the prominent role of exporting, while no effect is found for importing only. Nonetheless, we corroborate existing evidence on the virtuous nexus between the two international activities and add to the literature by showing that joint firm involvement in exporting and importing fosters product innovation and quality upgrading
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
On tariff changes and firm-production evolution: Insights from Turkish manufacturing
Full text linkWe contribute to the yet limited evidence on the relationship between trade liberalisation and a firm’s product mix and diversification strategies for an emerging economy, Turkey. Lower import barriers foster firms’ specialisation in their core products. A drop in import tariffs, indeed, enhances a firm’s propensity to drop fringe varieties and favours production growth of core products. More importantly, it favours firms’ specialisation in more sophisticated goods. Export tariff cuts, instead, by relaxing competitive pressure at home and lowering the cost to export, only reduce the firms’ incentive to innovate
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