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Living Donor kidney transplant: medico-legal and insurance aspects
No full textKidney transplantation is quite a routine complex procedure, not without risks and consequences
to the donor, the recipient, and the health care professionals. Kidney-related medical
malpractice suits are growing rapidly, and for clinicians and surgeons, the risk of being sued can
be only reduced by practicing high-quality medicine and by appropriately communicating with
donors and recipients. Actually relevant guidelines are available including safety and quality
assurance standards for procurements, preservation, processing, and distribution for organs to
maximize their quality and thereby the rate of success of transplants and to minimize the risk
of such a procedure. We also find it essential that practice of living donor kidney transplant is
in line with the general rules of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and its
Additional Protocol. In this article, financial incentives and insurance aspects related with
living donors kidney transplants are also illustrated
La libertà di disporre del proprio corpo: diritto fondamentale sancito nelle convenzioni internazionali
No full textGoing 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
CBRN events in the subway system of Rome: technical-managerial solutions for risk reduction
No full textThe acronym CBRN stands for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear CBRN risks are those caused by chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear agents that can produce serious harm to persons and things. The accidents connected with this type of substances can be either due to man (industrial accidents, road accidents, human mistakes in manipulation and/or storage of materials, etc.) or natural causes, when the structures where these substances are produced or stored are damaged by natural events (earthquakes, flood, etc.). Sometimes, in cases of terrorism, man voluntarily causes this kind of incidents. In Italy, as well as in the rest of the world, subways are one of the critical infrastructures that are more at risk in case of a CBRN event. In this work, the authors will analyse the case study of the subway system of Rome and propose technical-managerial solutions to improve the response in case of release of CBRN agents. In order to evaluate the quality of the proposals, a risk analysis will be carried out, both before and after the application of the suggestions
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