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47,XYY Karyotype and Borderline Personality Disorder: An Italian Judicial Case and a Review of the Literature
No full textDuring the 1960s and the 1970s, some studies postulated that Jacobs' Syndrome can lead to aggressive and/or
criminal behavior, but the statistical certainty was questioned. In the 1990s new discoveries in neuroscience and
genetics brought new attention to a possible biological component of deviance. In this context forensic psychiatrists
were required to express opinions about a young Italian man afflicted by 47,XYY karyotype (Jacobs’ Syndrome) and
Borderline Personality Disorder who had frequent violent behaviors against his relatives, being therefore accused of
“abuse against family members or partners” (art. 572 Italian Penal Code). The Court disposed for an evaluation of
his mental conditions, his imputability and his possible social dangerousness, analyzing the influences on behavior
from both his mental and genetic conditions
.... e Filippo disse: "un Y in più forse influisce, ma sono solo io che comando, come ho deciso di drogarmi e di fare il delinquente"
No full textThe behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia: An analysis of the literature and a case report
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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
Young women self poisoning with massive ingestion of paracetamol (acetaminophen): autopsy and histological findings
No full textWe report a case of a 26-year-old woman attempted suicide who ingested about 100 tablets of Defalgan® 1 g, which is composed by paracetamol (Acetaminophen). The young girl was recovered in Intensive Care Unit; the serum paracetamol level was 737 mg/l (normal value<20 mg/l). N-acetylcycteine infusion was started at admission, and the woman seemed to be better. The day after the clinical condition worsened and patient developed severe liver failure with alteration of coagulation factors (early developed in disseminated intravascular coagulation), acute renal failure, anemia, agranulocytosis and hypoxemic respiratory failure caused by pneumonia. The woman died five days after the self-poisoning because of multi-organ failure. We report our autopsy and histological findings, which can demonstrate the characteristic cellular damages caused by paracetamol, comparing to literature review
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