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La zampogna a Riccia
No full textL'articolo ricostruisce la storia e il presente della zampogna nell'area molisana e in particolare nella comunità di Riccia, analizzando il rito della Novena di Natale e le sperimentazioni musicali e didattiche del musicista Giuseppe Moffa, in arte "Spedino
Non-ionizing electromagnetic radiations, emitted from cellular phone, modify cutaneous blood flow.
No full textBACKGROUND:
Our surroundings are full of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation (EMR) of different frequency and power. The non-ionizing EMRs emitted by television, computer and cellular phone (CF) sets have been increasing over the past few years.
OBJECTIVE:
The aim of our study was to assess the effects of non-ionizing EMRs (frequency 3 x 10(8) to 3 x 10(11) Hz), emitted by CFs, on cutaneous blood flow in healthy volunteers.
METHODS:
Thirty healthy volunteers (14 male and 16 female; age: 18-53 years) entered the study. Measurements of cutaneous blood flow were taken under standard conditions (temperature and humidity), using a laser Doppler He-Ne flowmeter that was applied to the ear skin by an optical fibre probe. Microflow values were recorded without CF contact with the skin (T0), with the CF turned off but in contact with the ear skin (T1), with CF contact and turned on (T2), with CF contact, turned on and receiving (T3). The microflow values were also recorded backwards: with CF contact and set turned on (T4), with CF contact and turned off (T5), without CF contact (T6).
RESULTS:
The mean value of basal microflow (T0), expressed as perfusion units (PU), was 51.26+/-11.93 PU. During the T1 phase, the microflow increase was 61.38%; in T2 it was 131.74%, in T3 157.67%, in T4 139.21% and in T5 122.90%; in T6, the microflow value was 57.58+/-10 PU (similar to the basal microflow). Statistically significant cutaneous microflow values (p<0.050) were observed comparing the T1 to T5 values with basal microflow (T0). Furthermore, in comparison with T1 values (CF turned off in contact with the ear skin), the T2, T3 and T4 data were statistically significant (T2 vs. T1: t=7.763 with p<0.050; T3 vs. T1: t=9.834 with p<0.050; T4 vs. T1: t=8.885 with p<0.050)
Breast imaging: beyond the detection
No full textBreast cancer is a heterogeneous disease nowadays, including different biological subtypes with a variety of possible treatments, which aim to achieve the best outcome in terms of response to therapy and overall survival. In recent years breast imaging has evolved considerably, and the ultimate goal is to predict these strong phenotypic differences noninvasively. Indeed, breast cancer multiparametric studies can highlight not only qualitative imaging parameters, as the presence/absence of a likely malignant finding, but also quantitative parameters, suggesting clinical-pathological features through the evaluation of imaging biomarkers. A further step has been the introduction of artificial intelligence and in particular radiogenomics, that investigates the relationship between breast cancer imaging characteristics and tumor molecular, genomic and proliferation features. In this review, we discuss the main techniques currently in use for breast imaging, their respective fields of use and their technological and diagnostic innovations
Donne vittime di violenza: la Self-compassion come strumento metodologico e clinico di promozione dell’empowerment
No full textLa violenza contro le donne ha profonde implicazioni per la salute e la qualità della vita delle vittime, che - spesso – viene ignorato. Violen-ze gravi e/o reiterate creano nella vittima un sentimento di ansia intensa o di paura generalizzata; possono costringerla in uno stato di allerta e di tensione costante, che implica un’invasione del Sé, ma anche la distru-zione della fiducia negli altri e nel mondo, nonché sentimenti di confu-sione e di vergogna, nonostante la vittima non abbia alcuna responsabi-lità in proposito.
Il presente lavoro di ricerca si propone come spunto di riflessione empirica circa lo sviluppo di competenze specifiche di empowerment nelle donne che hanno subìto violenza.
Nello specifico, il costrutto di “empowerment” (inteso come “mette-re in grado di”, “rafforzamento”, “potenziamento”, “responsabilizza-zione” e “consapevolezza”) è il principio cardine del nostro studio, ed è inteso come il processo per il superamento e la ristrutturazione del trauma subìto dalla donna-vittima.
In un’ottica di institution building, sono state previste diverse fasi per promuovere il gender empowerment.
L’approccio metodologico è quello della Terapia Focalizzata sulla Compassione (TFC), un approccio psicoterapeutico, nato nell’ ambito delle terapie cognitivo-comportamentali della terza generazione, alla base della quale si propone l’innovativo costrutto dimensionale della Self-Compassion (Neff, 2003).
Il costrutto della Self-Compassion mira a promuovere tre abilità di base:
1) la capacità di trattarsi con gentilezza, comprensione e perdono, piuttosto che con severa auto-critica;
2) la capacità di vedere le proprie esperienze negative e i propri di-fetti come aspetti condivisi dell’esperienza umana, piuttosto che come elementi “anormali”, di separazione ed isolamento dagli altri;
3) la capacità di affrontare e contenere le proprie emozioni e pen-sieri dolorosi con consapevolezza, piuttosto che con iper-coinvolgimento ed identificazione con esse
Genere e violenza linguistica nei secoli XX e XXI: analisi interdisciplinare del lessico francese e italiano dell’omosessualità maschile
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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
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