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Uccidere il tiranno. Tirannicidio e resistenza in Inghilterra tra Cinquecento e Seicento
Full text linkIl 30 gennaio 1649 Carlo I Stuart, sovrano d’Inghilterra, di Scozia e d’Irlanda,
viene decapitato. La sua esecuzione costituisce un evento unico nella storia
moderna europea. Già prima di Carlo I, decine di sovrani erano stati vittime di
congiure o di morte violenta, uccisi in segreto o in pubblico, ma nessuno prima
di lui era stato decapitato sulla pubblica piazza dopo un processo pubblico e il
giudizio di una Corte Suprema di Giustizia. Inoltre, il caso di Carlo I è particolarmente
rilevante perché la sua condanna poggia proprio sull’accusa di tirannide.
In questo lavoro di tesi si analizza il dibattito scatenato da questo evento eccezionale
e il suo retroterra teorico e culturale. La tesi si articola pertanto in due
sezioni. Nella prima sezione, suddivisa in quattro capitoli, si affronta la questione
del processo e dell’esecuzione di Carlo I, facendo dialogare tra loro due
osservatori d’eccezione delle guerre civili inglesi, John Milton e Thomas Hobbes.
Mettendo a confronto le teorie politiche di questi due autori si cerca di rispondere
criticamente ad un quesito fondamentale, ovvero se l’esecuzione del
sovrano sia un atto illegittimo (si parla in tal caso di regicidio) oppure legittimo
(si tratta, invece, di tirannicidio).
La seconda sezione è dedicata, invece, all’analisi delle fonti del dibattito inglese
sul diritto di resistenza al tiranno. L’attenzione è focalizzata sulla tradizione
protestante britannica della seconda metà del Cinquecento, il cui ruolo
nel dibattito intorno alla morte di Carlo I non è stato finora adeguatamente indagato.
Prendendo spunto dalle indicazioni fornite da Milton nel suo Tenure of
Kings and Magistrates, in questa sezione, strutturata in quattro capitoli, ci si
sofferma su quattro autori considerati «monarcomachi britannici»: John Ponet,
Christopher Goodman, John Knox e George Buchanan.
In un percorso che procede dal dibattito alle fonti, questo lavoro di tesi si
propone di valutare come cambia il concetto di tirannide e come evolve, di pari
passo, il diritto di resistenza. Esaminando molteplici nuclei tematici – la distinzione
tra re e tiranno, i modelli di resistenza, la legittimità del tirannicidio – si
rintracciano le condizioni teoriche che hanno reso possibile pensare come legittima
l’uccisione di un sovrano e metterla in atto
Long-lasting clinical, radiological and immunological remission of severe nasal polyposis by means of 'reboot' surgery
Full text linkA 68-year-old woman with a long history of relapsing chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) underwent a complete reboot surgery and nasal biopsy prior to and after surgery. Remarkable improvement of symptoms and no signs of mucosal oedema and no complaints of initially worsening nasal functions were still present 12 months after reboot surgery. Biopsy demonstrated an outstanding reduction in eosinophilic infiltration and re-epithelisation of nasal mucosa with normal features after reboot approach compared with previous surgeries. Therefore, reboot approach may become an effective instrument in plurioperated patients with CRSwNP who suffer from a nasal condition that is recalcitrant to pharmacological therapies and is unsatisfactorily treated by standard surgical techniques
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
A critical analysis of the classifications of squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal vestibule
No full textSquamous cell carcinoma of the nasal vestibule (NV-SCC) has an estimated incidence of 0.4 per 100,000 inhabitants. Standard of care
includes surgery with or without adjuvant radiotherapy, or definitive radiotherapy. Different irradiation techniques are available, such as brachytherapy or external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), or a combination of both. Three are the main staging systems: the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) for non-melanomatous skin cancers (NMSC), the AJCC for cancers of nasal cavity and ethmoid sinus and the Wang system. However, there is still no uniform
consensus on which is the most appropriate to apply in cases of NV-SCC, determining uncertainties on patients’ clinical evaluation, treatment
strategies and prognosis definition. Currently these classifications are often interchangeably used in clinical practice, but many are the weak
spots that each of them displays
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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