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La fisioterapia nella paralisi cerebrale infantile. La funzione cammino.
No full textQuesto volume riassume i principali elementi relativi alla funzione cammino nel bambino sano (sviluppo della funzione, meccanismi neurofisiologici e aspetti biomeccanici), prerequisiti fondamentali per poter comprendere i disturbi del cammino nel bambino affetto da paralisi cerebrale infantile (PCI). Vengono trattati i segni clinici tipici manifestati nel cammino dai bambini con PCI, la modalità per valutarli e interpretarli al fine di comprendere l’inquadramento diagnostico e prognostico relativo alla funzione in esame. Successivamente, vengono presentati gli ausili e le ortesi, e la loro possibile funzione all’interno del progetto riabilitativo.
Il volume si conclude con una sezione di casi clinici, che descrive il processo di costruzione della seduta fisioterapica e le modalità di svolgimento attraverso esempi concreti di setting, esercizi terapeutici e proposte di compiti finalizzati.
Il testo, rivolto principalmente ai fisioterapisti e ai terapisti della neuro-psicomotricità dell’età evolutiva e agli allievi delle lauree di I e II livello dell’area della riabilitazione, potrà destare interesse anche in altri professionisti come i tecnici ortopedici e i terapisti occupazionali
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
Perception disorder: how to identify it in children with spastic diplegia
No full textINTRODUCTION
It is well known that “movement and perception are the two sides of the same coin in Cerebral Palsy (CP)”. In PC, the alteration of perceptive system represents a crucial element for “palsy development”. Central Nervous System (CNS) isn’t able to collect, elaborate, and integrate sensitive and sensorial information to obtain representations that are coherent among them and corresponding to reality[1]. In particular the altered process of collimation between visual and proprioceptive information may produce visual-kinestesic conflict. In children with CP this is mainly expressed through intolerance to movement, emptiness and depth. It is has been surveyed that in diplegic population, the biggest group in CP, perception disorder influences in a determining way functional abilities, in particular motor autonomy and walking quality[2]. The recognition of this perception disorder represents a basic preliminary assumption for a correct diagnostic framing and for the statement of the most appropriate rehabilitation goals and choices. This study intends to research one or more pathognomonic signs of this pathologic pattern in order to identify the perception disorder in a simple, not invasive setting, easy to be applied in territorial services. From data collected in past observations, the startle resulted as one of the most recurring signs. Therefore we want to investigate its presence in a population of diplegic children walking without support and to verify if it is a pathognomonic sign of perception disorder for the group of selected patients.
METHODS
This is a retrospective blind-randomized study.
We evaluated 41 videos, realised with standard modalities, showing children with spastic diplegia while they are walking. Video are randomly selected among those of patients followed at Child Rehabilitation in RE. The inclusion criteria were: spastic diplegia supported by MRI, age between 5 and 15 years old, no surgical intervention since at least one year and no botulinum injection since at least 6 months, walking without support.
Then the studied population was divided into two groups through video observation of walking. Group A is composed of subjects presenting clinic sign of startle during the march, while Group B by subjects not showing that sign. According to the information regarding the perception disorder found in clinical documentation (realised by gold standard) the sample studied has been divided again into two groups: children with (Group C) or without (Group D) perception disorder.
To identify the importance of the startle clinic sign during walk, we evaluated whether Group A corresponded to Group C and Group B to Group D. We defined motor autonomy level of 41 patients according to the Palisano et al. classification [GMFCS] to assess the possible correlation between this one and the perception disorder.
RESULTS
Among the 14 patients, whose documentation reported the presence of perception disorder (Group C), the 100% shows startle reaction during walk without support. Among the 27 patients without disorder (Group D), only one subject has startle (3,7%). Among subjects of Group C, 6 patients out of 14 (42,86%) belong to level II of GMFCS and the remaining 8 (57,14%) to level III. In Group D, 17 children belong to level I of GMFCS (62,96%) and the remaining 10 to level II (37,04%).
DISCUSSION
Thanks to the results obtained, it is possible to assert that startle represents a pathognomonic sign of perception disorder for population able to walk without support.
It is interesting to underline how clinical documentation of the only subject from group D presenting startle during walk, highlights previous signs of perception disorder which were not relevant in the last years.
The importance of recognizing perception disorder is once again confirmed by the results regarding GMFCS. The presence of the disorder influences in a negative way motor autonomy and its identification is therefore necessary for..
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
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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