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p MATRICIDE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: AN UNUSUAL CASE OF FAMILY VIOLENCE
No full textThe need to limit the spread of the virus in the population has forced many countries to impose strict measures of social distancing and home isolation. These measures, although necessary, have caused unprecedented social disruption. One of the most worrying effects of this social crisis is the increase in episodes of family violence which can be extremely serious up to the killing of family members. Matricide is a fairly rare event worldwide. Many authors have over time attempted to figure out the origins of a pathological condition - but not limited to - underlying such crimes often executed through particularly brutal criminal acts against the victims. In this study we present a case of a 66-year-old woman who was killed with multiple stab wounds from a diving knife and then burned. It was determined that the victim was murdered by her 36-year-old son, unemployed for about a year and with a history of alcohol abuse, had a suspected diagnosis of bipolar disorder in treatment with antidepressant drugs. On the victim's body there were 31 stab wounds, localized mostly to the skull, face and thorax. Some of the typical characteristics highlighted in the literature regarding individuals who commit matricide are actually found in this case. This correspondence underscores the need to recognize and, in some cases, prevent the possible occurrence of such an eventuality within a family
SPLENIC RUPTURE DURING COLONOSCOPY: COMPLICATION OR MEDICAL ERROR? CASE REPORT AND MEDICO LEGAL IMPLICATIONS
No full textDiffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
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
The protection of health in prison during the covid-19 pandemic|Tutela della salute in carcere, durante la pandemia covid-19
No full textBeing detained in jail is an acknowledged risk factor for physical and psychiatric morbidity. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the penitentiary system, already characterized by criticalities in terms of healthcare, including high infectious risk, has been considered a source of further danger within the prison and for the community. This problem has been raised by several observers, in the absence of a shared approach between states. The Italian Government enacted a series of measures aimed at penitentiary structures, to contain and manage health and safety risks. General precautions for infections prevention have been used, including frequent hands washing and environmental cleaning and disinfection procedures. Physical distancing in jail is extremely challenging, and we deem that it was still impossible to apply it, despite the release of almost 8000 detainees, among those at greater health risk. Measures have been also ordered to limit external contacts with detainees, including a substantial or absolute suspension of visits from relatives, operators and lawyers, replaced by video meetings. Quarantine and isolation of suspect cases has also been ordered, including new prisoners. Despite unfavorable premises the analysis we did on available data indicates lower infection rate and lethality rate in prison than in general population. In this paper a synthetic framework of the sanitary problems in detention will be provided, then the data will be analyzed, providing possible interpretations potentially useful for the management of the pandemic at the community level. Infectious surveillance, compliance with sanitation standards, early treatment of suspected cases, lower mean age, efficacious isolation and quarantine strategies may explain the better outcomes in Italian penitentiary system, also in the impossibility to systematically apply physical distancing
LAW n.219/17: Reflecting on shared care plan
No full textThe study in question starts from a general analysis of Law n. 219/2017 and then to deepen the patient's right to self-determination, which is exercised through the expression of an informed consent to medical therapy. The analysis refers in particular to the patient's decision-making autonomy, the professional autonomy of the doctor and his consequent responsibility
Tutela della salute in carcere, durante la pandemia Covid-19
No full textBeing detained in jail is an acknowledged risk factor for physical and psychiatric morbidity. The impact of COVID-19 pandemicon the penitentiary system, already characterized by criticalities in terms of healthcare, including high infectious risk, has beenconsidered a source of further danger within the prison and for the community. This problem has been raised by several observers, in the absence of a shared approach between states. The Italian Government enacted a series of measures aimed at penitentiary structures, to contain and manage health and safety risks. General precautions for infections prevention have been used, including frequent hands washing and environmental cleaning and disinfection procedures. Physical distancing in jail is extremely challenging, and we deem that it was still impossible to apply it, despite the release of almost 8000 detainees, among those at greater health risk. Measures have been also ordered to limit external contacts with detainees, including a substantial or absolute suspension of visits from relatives, operators and lawyers, replaced by video meetings. Quarantine and isolation of suspect cases has also been ordered, including new prisoners. Despite unfavorable premises the analysis we did on available data indicates lower infection rate and lethality rate in prison than in general population. In this paper a synthetic framework of the sanitary problems in detention will be provided, then the data will be analyzed, providing possible interpretations potentially useful for the management of the pandemic at the community level. Infectious surveillance, compliance with sanitation standards, early treatment of suspected cases, lower mean age, efficacious isolation and quarantine strategies may explain the better outcomes in Italian penitentiary system, also in the impossibility to systematically apply physical distancing. La restrizione in ambiente intramurario è un noto fattore di rischio in termini di morbidità per patologie fisiche e psichiche. L’impatto di una pandemia quale la COVID-19 sul sistema penitenziario, caratterizzato da plurime criticità in termini di gestione sanitaria, rischia potenzialmente di determinare gravi effetti sulla salute di detenuti e operatori. A livello internazionale tale problematica è stata sollevata e descritta, in assenza di un approccio condiviso tra gli stati dell’Unione Europea. In Italia, uno dei paesi maggiormente colpiti in termini di contagi e mortalità, si è assistito all’applicazione di una serie di misure dirette alle strutture penitenziarie, atte al contenimento ed alla gestione dei rischi per la salute e la sicurezza. L’ambiente carcerario, tuttavia, notoriamente caratterizzato da sovraffollamento e gravato da fattori di rischio specifici, rende problematico adottare una serie di misure che sono state invece previste per la popolazione generale. Il distanziamento fisico in carcere è estremamente problematico, e riteniamo che sia stato impossibile applicarlo, nonostante il rilascio di quasi 8000 detenuti, tra quelli a maggior rischio per la salute. Sono state inoltre disposte misure per limitare i contatti esterni con i detenuti, compresa una sospensione sostanziale o assoluta delle visite di parenti, operatori e avvocati, sostituita da videoconferenze. Sono stati ordinati anche la quarantena e l'isolamento dei casi sospetti, compresi i nuovi detenuti. Nonostante tali sfavorevoli premesse, l’analisi dei dati da noi effettuata circa i contagi ed i decessi in carcere, sino al 1° maggio 2020, indicano un tasso di infezione paragonabile alla popolazione generale, ed un tasso di letalità significativamente inferiore. Nel presente lavoro, dopo aver fornito un inquadramento sintetico delle problematiche sanitarie in ambito detentivo, si discuteranno i dati fornendo possibili interpretazioni di potenziale utilità per la gestione a livello comunitario. 
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
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