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War and Health: the devastating impact of conflict on Wellbeing and Humanitarian Crises
No full textHealth is a precious asset, essential for both individuals and com‐ munities. The wars that have affected various parts of the world in recent years have had a detrimental impact on health, leading to malnutrition and an increased vulnerability to epidemic diseases among the population, especially the poorest. Hospitals and healthcare facilities themselves have become pri‐ mary strategic targets in many war zones. The destruction of infra‐ structure and hospitals, along with challenges in obtaining clean water and access to medicines, has contributed to the resurgence of epidemic diseases in countries where they had been eradicated. Additionally, the difficulty in ensuring vaccination programs for children raises the risk of these diseases spreading to areas typi‐ cally free from them. The authors reflect on the consequences of wars on the health of pop‐ ulations and the close link between health and peace, presenting the latest data on ongoing epidemics in countries affected by war
Effect of ipratropium bromide and/or sodium cromoglycate pretreatment on water-induced bronchoconstriction in asthma
No full textGoing 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
EFFECT OF IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE AND/OR SODIUM CROMOGLYCATE PRETREATMENT ON WATER -INDUCED BRONCHOCONSTRICTION IN ASTHMA
No full textEFFECT OF IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE AND/OR SODIUM CROMOGLYCATE PRETREATMENT ON WATER -INDUCED BRONCHOCONSTRICTION IN ASTHMA
No full textLe infezioni da Virus A(H1N1): update ad un anno dalla emergenza
No full textDuring 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, 925.861 cases of influenza-like syndromes (ILI) and 7.202.014 cases of acute respiratory infections (ARI) have been reported by European Influenza Surveillance Network (EISN). Whilst the site of initial infection is likely to be the upper airway, in certain hosts with unrecognized predisposing factors or for possible variants of 2009 A(H1N1) virus strains, the primary site of active viral replication may be the lower respiratory tract. Pandemic 2009 influenza A(H1N1) virus infection has been shown to affect lower airways causing serious illness and death in patients with underlying medical conditions such as asthma, obesity, heart, lung and neurological diseases and pregnancy. Similar outcomes have been reported in previously healthy individuals although predictive factors for severe disease in this patient group have not been identified.Nell’intero periodo della pandemia da virus A(H1N1) 925.861 casi di sindromi influenzali (ILI) e 7.202.014 casi di infezioni respiratorie acute (ARI) sono state riportate dalla rete europea di sorveglianza dell’influenza (EISN). Mentre il sito di infezione iniziale del virus pandemico A(H1N1) è rappresentato dalle vie aeree superiori in una parte della popolazione per fattori predisponesti non conosciuti o per possibili varianti del virus pandemico A(H1N1) il sito primario di replicazione è rappresentato dalle basse vie respiratorie. Forme gravi di infezioni e decessi sono state associate ad una serie di condizioni mediche preesistenti quali asma, obesità malattie Respiratorie cardiache e neurologiche, gravidanza. Tuttavia decorso clinico grave ed eventi fatali sono stati riscontrati anche in giovani individui sani; i possibili fattori di rischio in tale popolazione di pazienti non sono stati identificati
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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