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Taglia e cuci: la chirurgia estetica tra identità e vanità
No full textIl capitolo descrive il complesso rapporto tra psicopatologia e richiesta di interventi di chirurgia estetic
The psychiatric team: a space to work and live in
No full textThe psychiatric team: a space to work and live i
Neuroenhancer use amongst Italian medical students: a survey
No full textIntroduction.
Increasing use of substances by university students to improve cognitive performance ('neuroenhacement')
has been reported. This refers not only to over-the-counter supplements, energy drinks, coffee and tobacco,
but also to psychostimulants and modafinil. Little is known about this phenomenon in Italy.
Aims.
To explore prevalence of use of substances as cognitive enhancers by Italian medical students and their
attitudes towards prescription-only medication (methylphenidate, amphetamine, atomoxetine, modafinil)
used for this purpose.
Methods
An ad hoc questionnaire was distributed to 433 medical students of the University of Modena and Reggio
Emilia. Valid response rate was 83.8% (N=363).
Results
271 students (74.7%) reported use of substances to improve cognition in the last 30 days. Coffee (73%,
N=265) and tea (33.3%, N=121) were the most used, followed by caffeinated sodas (15.7%, N=57), tobacco
(10.2%, N=37) and vitamin B supplements (8.8%, N=32). Prescription-only medicines were used by 2
students (0.6%) and, overall, only 4 students reported lifetime use (1.2%). 295 (83.3% ) students mentioned
concerns about safety and side effects as main reasons not to use. Use of cognitive enhancers as a group
in the last 30 days slightly correlated with alcohol (r = 0.124; p = 0.023) and cannabis use (r = 0.114; p =
0.036).
Conclusions
Italian medical students use many substances as cognitive enhancers, but this seems not to apply to
psychostimulants and modafinil. Cultural and regulatory differences may underlie this difference with other
Countries, which warrants further research
Consulenze, certificazioni e problematiche di genere
No full textpsichiatria di consultazione, certificazioni, sesso femminil
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
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
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