1,720,974 research outputs found
Psychic euosmia and obsessive compulsive personality disorder
Full text linkPatients with obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) often refer to a prompt mood improvement upon encountering good scents in general, or fresh laundry borax on their clothes, pillows or home settings. The Authors propose the new term psychic euosmia in the mean of an overstated psychological predisposition for a real pleasant smell that elicits an immediate sense of pleasure, order and calm. The prompt reactions to a pleasant odor might be explained by the involvement of rhinencephalon and its proximity to mood-related limbic circuits, which bypass the cognitive awareness. Cleanliness may not preclude a subject to enjoy a good smell, even if we are representing smells that resemble freshness, in other words order. A potentially even more important argument is given by the continuum of personality disorders and their variability. Not all personality characteristics led to disturbed behaviors. In evolutionary perspectives having the ability to differentiate between unpleasant and pleasant odors should have made the difference in surviving. On the other hand, psychic euosmia could be considered a normal reaction, but in our clinical experience it is over-represented among OCPD subjects with marked orderliness and disgust. Therefore, detecting psychic euosmia might vicariously confirm the relevance of disgust as a cognitive driver of OCPD. Hereby we support research to characterize psychic euosmia as a feature of orderliness and cleanliness for OCPD
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
The Association of Anger with Symptom Subtypes in Severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Outpatients.
No full text[The Italian version of the Attitudes Chocolate Questionnaire: a validation study]
No full textSUMMARY. Objective. Chocolate consumption has long been associated with enjoyment and pleasure. Popular claims confer
on chocolate the properties of being a stimulant, relaxant, euphoriant, aphrodisiac, tonic and antidepressant. The aim of
our study was to validate and to verify the reliability of the Italian version of the Attitudes to Chocolate Questionnaire
(ACQ) which evaluates different dimensions of chocolate craving experience.Methods. The Italian version ofACQ was administered
to a sample consisting of 1609 adults, recruited among students of the University of L’Aquila and general population.
The subjects also completed the Stress-Related Vulnerability Scale (SVS), which assesses the level of stress and social
support received. Results. This study showed a good degree of stability and internal consistency of the two-factor model, respectively
represented by craving and sense of guilt, in comparison to previous ones. The scoring for both factors resulted
greater in women than in men. Subjects of younger age and with lower Body Mass Index (BMI) achieved higher scores in relation
to the craving dimension, while a positive correlation was observed between age and sense of guilt. Finally the total
scoring at SVS and its subscales resulted significantly interrelated with the two factors. Conclusions. Our study confirms the
validity and the reliability of the Italian version of the two-factors based ACQ scale and strongly underlines the association
between perceived stress and dysfunctional approach to chocolate consumption.RIASSUNTO. Scopo. Il consumo di cioccolato è da sempre associato a piacere e a gratificazione, grazie alle sue proprietà
euforizzanti, rilassanti, afrodisiache, stimolanti e antidepressive. Lo scopo del presente studio è stato quello di testare la validità
e l’attendibilità della versione italiana dell’Attitudes to Chocolate Questionnaire (ACQ) che valuta le dimensioni dell’esperienza
di craving per il cioccolato.Metodo. La versione italiana dell’ACQ è stata somministrata a un campione composto
da 1609 adulti, reclutati tra gli studenti dell’Università dell’Aquila e tra la popolazione generale. I soggetti hanno inoltre
compilato la Stress-Related Vulnerability Scale (SVS) che valuta il livello di stress e di supporto sociale percepito. Risultati.
Questo studio ha mostrato una certa stabilità e una buona consistenza interna del modello a due fattori, craving e senso di
colpa, rispetto al modello originale. Dallo studio è emerso che le donne hanno ottenuto punteggi significativamente superiori
rispetto agli uomini per entrambi i fattori dell’ACQ, craving e senso di colpa. I soggetti con punteggi maggiori rispetto al
fattore craving sono risultati più giovani e con indice di massa corporea (BMI) minore,mentre rispetto al fattore senso di colpa
questa relazione si è dimostrata significativa solo per l’età. Inoltre è emerso che il punteggio totale della SVS e delle rispettive
sottoscale correla significativamente con entrambi i fattori dell’ACQ. Conclusioni. Questo studio conferma la validità
e l’attendibilità della versione italiana dell’ACQ a due fattori ed evidenzia la forte associazione tra stress percepito e approccio
disfunzionale al cioccolato
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
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
- …
