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BINGE DRINKING: CONSUMPTION PRACTICES AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE. ANALYSIS OF THE QUESTIONNAIRES COMPILED BY STUDENTS OF PALERMO CITY AND PROVINCE INVOLVED IN THE PREVENTION AND INFORMATION PROJECT
No full textThe term binge drinking is used in the northern countries of Europe, to point out the consumption of great intoxicating quantities of alcohol, until feel bad, for the pure and simple desire to get drunk. Conventionally, binge drinking is the consumption
of at least six glasses of alcoholic drinks, different
ones as well, in a single occasion and one after the other. A
survey has been conducted through administration of questionnaires
with the purpose to have an idea about the territorial diffusion
of such practice among the students of Palermo and province. In the months of April and May 2014, this survey
affected 30 classes of different schools in 10 cities and
province, involving about 740 students. The number of the students
was inferable from the questionnaires compiled before the formative action. The sample results representative enough among teenagers (14/18 y.o.), and the female part is predominant.
36% declared to spend Saturday night in pubs, while 18% in discotheques. 25% of consulted people replied to connect the time spent in pubs to alcohol. Other important factors
are: 36% abuse of alcohol just in the week-end (factor confirming
the alarming Binge practice); 30% declare to get in the car
with a bit drunk driver (13% with a totally drunk driver). 65%
declare to have an adequate knowledge of potential alcohol
effects. The question about motivations convincing a teenager
to take drugs gave the following result: 40% desire of transgression;
30% desire to conform with the group; 23% the research of an easy wellness. This data convince more and
more to understand the importance of the prevention and information
role. All this to avoid that trends and lifestyles sacrifice
teenagers for the enormous economic interests staying behind
the sale of alcohol, and prepare as society more and more
salve of consumption and abuses even lethal such as alcohol
Advanced Low-Voltage System-in-Package Half-Bridge MOSFET with Added Protection Features
Get PDFThis paper deals with a smart System in Package (SiP) synchronous MOSFET half-bridge with internal current and thermal sensing circuits devoted to low-voltage supplies for autonomous driving applications. This kind of advanced application requests that Buck, Boost, or Buck-Boost converters can supply and stabilize the voltage. Furthermore, the temperature and the load current must be continuously monitored and controlled to increase the system's reliability. The SiP half-bridge described is experimentally evaluated in a Buck converter operation. Finally, a Buck interleaved configuration to improve the output current ripple and increase the current fed is experimentally investigated. The experimental results investigation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed SiP integrated half-bridge solution for an enhanced and reliable low voltage power supply
MONITORING OF ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS SUPPLIED BY THE PHARMACY OF FRATELLI PARLAPIANO HOSPITAL, RIBERA (AG), ITALY
No full textMental disorders are among the worst and widespread health problems, they are associated with important repercussions on the psychosocial sphere and to high economic costs.
Antipsychotic drugs used in treatments of these pathologies belong to different chemical classes, but associated to biochemical
effects, pharmacological, and in part super imposable. A retrospective survey has been led on external patients, they were under antipsychotic drug treatments already in the
archive and arrived to the attention of the Pharmacy of the F.lli
Parlapiano Hospital, Ribera (AG), Italy in 2013. For each
patient have been extrapolated: gender, date of birth, place
of residence, ICD-9CM, pharmacological therapy, and prescribing
centre. Collected data have been calculated through
Microsoft Office Excel to notice: prevalent diagnosis; prescribed
drugs; prevalence by age group; gender, and off label prescribing in patients suffering from dementia. This survey is composed of 535 patients: 463 suffering from mental
disorders and 72 suffering from degenerative diseases of
SNC (especially Alzheimer). The distribution of psychic and
neurological disorders in the two genders is balanced and the
average age is 61.55. 64.7% live in the province of Agrigento and are treated at CSM of Ribera. 434 patients suffer from non organic psychosis; 14 patients suffer from organic
psychosis; 70 patients suffer from a moderate form of Alzheimer, 2 suffer from other forms of dementia, while for 25 patients no diagnosis has been noticed as the medical prescription
had been done by prescription SSN. Prescribed drugs have shown the following percentages: olanzapine
33.04%; quetiapine 33.19%, risperidone 17.97%; aripiprazole
7.4%; clozapine 4.02%; asenapine 1.69%; paliperidone 1.27%, ziprasidone 0.42%. It is a common opinion in the international scientific literature that a wise use of antipsychotic drugs of second generation gives importan
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
No full textWe 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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