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    Editorial: New Perspectives on Pediatric Acute Leukemia

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    The scenario of pediatric acute leukemia has changed extremely rapidly over these last decade and the pediatric hematologists are now facing new challenges related to the biology of the disease, the prognostic classifications of patients, and the consequent risk-based targeted approach. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children has always represented a paradigm of success, and the recent advent of large-scale genomic studies and novel immunotherapy-based approaches have further revolutionized the perspective on this disease. Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) still suffers from a lower cure rate if compared to ALL, due to a still high incidence of recurrence and of severe and dose-limiting short- and long-term toxicities. Nevertheless, much has been learned about the biology of the disease through studies of specific recurrent genetic lesions and the outcomes for these children are progressively improving thanks to the great collaborative efforts of the main pediatric AML groups worldwide

    Editorial: Recent Advances in Pediatric Cancer Predisposition Syndromes

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    Cancer predisposition syndromes (CPSs) are an important cause of tumors in pediatric patients. Although a significant number of cancer predisposition genes have already been described, there are many pediatric patients with cancer in whom inherited cancer predisposition syndromes have yet to be detected. The prevalence of childhood cancer attributable to genetic predisposition is difficult to be estimated but recent reports suggest that at least 10% of pediatric cancer patients harbor a germline mutation in a cancer-predisposition gene. The advent of large-scale genome sequencing studies has profoundly helped our understanding of the biology of cancer predisposition, leading to better and earlier identification of individuals at high risk of cancer, selection of new molecular targets, and, in some cases, development of tailored approaches

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    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

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    “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

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    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
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