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A contribution to adequate use of freshwater sponges as a proxy in paleoenvironmental studies
No full textDocio, L., Parolin, M., Pinheiro, U. (2021): A contribution to adequate use of freshwater sponges as a proxy in paleoenvironmental studies. Zootaxa 4915 (4): 506-528, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4915.4.
Application of the Lausanne Trilogue Play Procedure to Families with Adolescent Sons: A Preliminary Study. L'Osservazione delle interazioni familiari in adolescenza: Studio preliminare sull'applicazione della procedura del Lausanne Trilogue Play.
No full textThe study focuses on the application of the Lausanne Trilogue Play (LTP) procedure for the observation of triad interaction among mother-father-child in adolescence and it intends to provide a preliminary contribution to the validation of the coding system of the procedure (FAAS 6.3). For this purpose, the LT P procedure was administered to 3 groups of families (N = 58): a group of families referred to Neuropsychiatry Unit (SC IAF), a group of families with a child admitted to residential treatment for Substance Use Disorders and a comparison group. Results indicated good levels of inter-rater reliability and clinical validity for the LT P procedure and the coding system proposed by the author
Unilateral or bilateral early nephrectomy in infants with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease? Weighing risks and benefits
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New perspectives in pediatric dialysis technologies: the case for neonates and infants with acute kidney injury
Full text linkAdvancements in pediatric dialysis generally rely on adaptation of technology originally developed for adults. However, in the last decade, particular attention has been paid to neonatal extracorporeal therapies for acute kidney care, an area in which technology has made giant strides in recent years. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is the kidney replacement therapy (KRT) of choice in the youngest age group because of its simplicity and effectiveness. However, extracorporeal blood purification provides more rapid clearance of solutes and faster fluid removal. Hemodialysis (HD) and continuous KRT (CKRT) are thus the most used dialysis modalities for pediatric acute kidney injury (AKI) in developed countries. The utilization of extracorporeal dialysis for small children is associated with a series of clinical and technical challenges which have discouraged the use of CKRT in this population. The revolution in the management of AKI in newborns has started recently with the development of new CKRT machines for small infants. These new devices have a small extracorporeal volume that potentially prevents the use of blood to prime lines and dialyzer, allow a better volume control and the use of small-sized catheter without compromising the blood flow amount. Thanks to the development of new dedicated devices, we are currently dealing with a true “scientific revolution” in the management of neonates and infants who require an acute kidney support
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
Multi-method assessment per giovani adulti con disturbo da dipendenza da sostanze: il ruolo dei fattori neuropsicologici.
Full text linkIntroduzione. L’attuale esplicarsi del fenomeno della dipendenza da sostanze si caratterizza per il progressivo coinvolgimento di soggetti giovani e il diffondersi di sostanze psicoattive di sintesi, che hanno ripercussioni a livello neurobiologico e neuropsicologico, in particolare dati i processi di evoluzione strutturale e funzionale cerebrali che dovrebbero svolgersi durante il periodo adolescenziale. Sempre più frequentemente, inoltre, si assiste alla condizione di doppia diagnosi, che implica la necessità di percorsi mirati allo scopo di programmare e attuare interventi specifici e adatti alla complessità di tali situazioni cliniche. In particolare appare utile un approccio multi- method all’assessment che prenda in considerazione non solo le variabili dinamiche e relazionali ma anche le caratteristiche cognitive e neuropsicologiche del soggetto.
Metodo. L’indagine ha riguardato l’assessment di 15 soggetti, di età compresa tra 17 e 24 anni, inseriti in Comunità Terapeutica per Tossicodipendenti da un tempo non superiore a 4 mesi. Obiettivo è quello di individuare le specificità nel funzionamento di personalità e neuropsicologico dei soggetti osservati ed eventuali relazioni tra gli aspetti rilevati. I metodi per l’assessment sono stati scelti in quanto adeguati all’età del gruppo in oggetto e replicabili longitudinalmente per il monitoraggio dell’intervento. Questi sono: SCL-90-R, Esame Neuropsicologico Breve (ENB-2), COPE-NVI, Locus of Control Scale, Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Emotional Quotient Inventory, Sensation Seeking Scale, SWAP-200.
Risultati e conclusioni. I dati sono in corso di elaborazione e saranno analizzati con lo scopo di individuare un possibile modello di interrelazione (quando non causale) tra le variabili indagate utilizzabile come quadro diagnostico in grado di orientare gli interventi svolti nell’ambito del programma comunitario e di favorire una verifica degli stessi a breve e lungo termine
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