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Are E-cigarettes a safe and good alternative to cigarette smoking?
No full textElectronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes) are devices that can vaporize a nicotine solution combined with liquid flavors instead of burning tobacco leaves. Since their emergence in 2004, E-cigarettes have become widely available, and their use has increased exponentially worldwide. E-cigarettes are aggressively advertised as a smoking cessation aid; as healthier, cheaper, and more socially acceptable than conventional cigarettes. In recent years, these claims have been evaluated in numerous studies. This review explores the development of the current E-cigarette and its market, prevalence of awareness, and use. The review also explores the beneficial and adverse effects of E-cigarettes in various aspects in accordance with recent research. The discussed aspects include smoking cessation or reduction and the health risks, social impact, and environmental consequences of E-cigarettes
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Larry O. Spencer, Conference Author Presentation
No full textGen. Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.), author of Dark Horse: A Journey from the Horseshoe to the Pentago
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
La nuova faccia della nazione? Seconde generazioni, corpo e identità nazionale
No full textLa nuova faccia della nazione? Seconde generazioni, corpo e identità nazionale
Da anni le scienze sociali hanno posto la loro attenzione di ricerca sul tema dei giovani di origine straniera, concen- trandosi prevalentemente sui processi di integrazione nella società ospite, sui percorsi di creazione e appartenenza identitaria, sulla loro riuscita scolastica, anche con un’attenzione agli aspetti della loro vita quotidiana. La questione della nazionalità e della cittadinanza dei giovani di origine straniera, le cosiddette “seconde generazioni”, le loro pra- tiche di acculturazione, assimilazione, negazione delle origini o della cultura della società ospite, e doppia identità nazionale, la cosiddetta ‘hyphenated identity’, sono state anche al centro di varie ricerche, con focus anche a pratiche quotidiane de nibili “dal basso”. Meno evidenti invece sono i contributi relativi all’appartenenza nazionale vissuta attraverso il proprio corpo (capelli, tratti somatici, colore della pelle, tatuaggi etc.). Il presente contributo interviene sul senso di nazione attivato dalle seconde generazioni per mezzo della loro coporalita’. Attraverso un’analisi condot- ta, tra marzo e dicembre 2015, con strumenti di ricerca qualitativa – analisi testuale di blog, forum, pagine facebook delle maggiori associazioni e gruppi costituiti da, o a cui partecipano le seconde generazioni (es: Rete G2-Seconde generazioni; YallaItalia, Associna, GMI, La Città Nuova de il Corriere della Sera), analisi testuale e visuale di video mu- sicali, documentari e lm di giovani di seconda generazione, interviste in profondità a testimoni privilegiati che fanno parte delle associazioni e autori dei testi, video – l’obiettivo del contributo è quello di esplorare come le diversità culturali, assunte come ricchezza, ridisegnino o meno nel quotidiano l’appartenenza nazionale e l’idea di nazione. In particolare verrà dato spazio al caso delle nappy girls attraverso le testimonianze di Evelyn attivista e blogger creatri- ce della pagina Facebook Nappytalia / Afro-Italian Nappy Girls & Boys che attraverso la loro capigliatura al naturale (nappy) ripensa il senso di appartenenza all’Italia, l’idea di nazione e nazionalità mettendone in risalto le diversità e le uguaglianza, attraverso la condivisione di un percorso prima personale e poi collettivo di consapevolezza e di ‘negoziazione’ (Frisina, Hawthorne, 2016) nella identi cazione e de nizione di ciò che è una nuova idea di italiano, multiculturale e interculturale, de nita da complesse modalità di appartenenza, e di una manifestazione estetica di questa meno razzializzata, genderizzata e classista
Randomized phase III trial of observation versus 6 courses of single agent paclitaxel in patients with advanced ovarian cancer who attained a complete response to platinum-paclitaxel based chemotherapy . An Italian study (AFTER-6 Protocol 1).
No full textAuthor Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907
No full textIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Howl, O Heav'nly Muse! -- 2. Jesus in the Theater of Socialism -- 3. Jack London's Place in American Literature -- 4. Theater of War, Theater at Home -- 5. Revolution, Evolution, and the Scene of Writing -- 6. The Jack London Show Goes on the Road -- 7. Red Atavisms and Revolution -- 8. Earthquake Apocalypse and Building the City, Boat, and House Beautiful -- 9. The Future of Socialism and the Death of the Individual -- 10. The Road Never Ends -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
اسلم کولسری کی غزل:بیان و بدیع کے تناظر میں: ASLAM KOLSARY’S GHAZAL IN THE LIGHT OF BIAN-O-BADIE
No full textAslam kolsari is new significant and potentially well-known personality for contributing to modern Urdu ghazal. Being a mindful and multidimensional literary figure he has specific fame in poetry. A distinguish diction in poetry is individuality specifically connected with his name. His ghazal contains all attributes of Research and criticism. Communication of an ordinary concept in his poetry is reflection of Aslam kolasri. In this article the author has explored how poetic characteristics distinguished Aslam kolsari
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