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When the analyst wears Prada. Some notes on Roman Polanski's A therapy
No full textThis paper analyses Roman Polanski's advertising short film "A therapy" (2012), which is set in an analyst's consultin room at the beginning of a session. The authors discuss the formal and narrative characteristics of the film, which offers a perspicacious description of a clinical impasse due to the formation of a fetishistic attitude in the analyst towards a female patient's fur coat (the subject of the advertisement). Being so short, the film lend itself to detailed study by interpretative observation of its various relational and expressive aspects
The Double and Uncanny Ego Duplication
No full textThe enigmatic experience of the Double is considered under the point of view broadened by Otto Rank's research (1914) and according to the future psychopathological, narratological and figurative developments in the background of the post-modern identity crisis. The Double is discussed referring to autoscopy, multiple personality and to the Ego split, the latter determining the specific configuration of the Double
Editorial: state of the art body composition profiling: advances in imaging modalities and patient outcomes
Full text linkIn the last years, body composition (BC) analysis has emerged as a ground-breaking tool that can provide helpful data about nutritional status, in addition to more conventional indicators, as albumin value and body mass index. Recent data disclosed that distinct patterns of BC are associated with different outcomes, in particular in oncologic patients. Hence, we proposed this research topic, on one side, to expand knowledge about the imaging techniques to evaluate BC assessment, ranging from the most conventional ones to the most advanced (including artificial intelligence-aided techniques); on the
other, to assess the effects of BC on different outcome indicators, as post-operative or chemotherapy-related complications and survival.
In our research topic, we published eight papers: 3 focused on liver diseases, 1 on pancreatic cancer, 1 on ovarian cancer, 1 on lung cancer, 1 on breast cancer and 1 on radiotherapy, thus highlighting the wide variety of fields in which the clinical role of BC is under evaluation
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
Riflessioni su un'esperienza istituzionale con pazienti cronici: crisi dell'équipe e significato della dimissione
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Treatment of Chylothorax after Lung Resection: Indications, Timing, and Outcomes
No full textBackground Chylothorax following pulmonary resection and lymphadenectomy for cancer is a potential severe complication in thoracic surgery. In the present study, we investigated the efficacy of the nonsurgical approach as well as the need for reoperation after conservative approach failure. Methods Chylothorax was diagnosed when chylous leakage from the chest drainage was observed and confirmed by the presence of triglycerides in the pleural fluid. We initially treated all the patients conservatively with complete oral intake cessation and total parenteral nutrition; if drainage output remained more than 800 mL/d after the first 5 days or major pleural effusion was observed at chest X-ray after chest tube removal, surgical treatment of chylothorax was indicated. Results Between January 1998 and December 2018, 5,072 patients underwent standard anatomical resection and mediastinal lymph node dissection for cancer at our institution. Among them, 30 patients (0.6%) developed chylothorax: 20 patients were effectively treated only by nil per os and low-fat diet, while 10 patients (33.3%) required surgical treatment. Mean age was 63 years; there were 24 male patients (80%); right-sided chylothorax was more frequent than left-sided chylothorax (22 vs. 8, respectively) although not statistically significant (p = 0.38); the only factor that seems to influence the need for reoperation is chylothorax flow rate during conservative treatment (p = 0.06). Conclusion Conservative treatment is effective in the case of low flow-rate chylothorax (< 800 mL/d); in the case of a higher flow rate, surgical exploration is needed and thoracic duct ligation-with or without lymphatic sites clipping-provides definitive lymphostasis
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