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Taking care of caregivers: enhancing proper medication management for palliative care children with polypharmacy
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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
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
GRAVAMINA CONSCIENTIAE. FISCALITÀ, DIRITTO E TEOLOGIA NELLA SPAGNA DEL SIGLO DE ORO. RICERCHE INTORNO ALLA SCUOLA DI SALAMANCA
Full text linkThis work reconstructs the main thought of the School of Salamanca with reference to the theme of tax imposition through the analyze of main Treaties such as De iustitia et iure, Consilia, Relectiones, commentaries to San Tommaso’ Secunda Saecundae, manuals for confessors, quaestiones De iure bello, cartas and Consejos about the India’s Government.
We would like to know whether and which contribution theologians –jurists belonging to the second scholasticism could offer to the Spanish Crown for the organization and management of a “ modern” and efficient fiscal system.
We found magistri who were sensible interpreters of their times, who paid attention to the fiscal reasons and at the same time strict guardian of the justice application, in that world, through the instrument of right- of iustum ius.
We reached the American coasts where Justinian sources, as interpreted by medieval jurists and as used by our theologians, demonstrated the ability to manage a government of “things never seen” , making possible a connection between far coasts.
The School of Salamanca, then, as explained by its main characters, managed to offer a good instrument of control of subjects on one hand (by affirming the moral obligation of fiscal laws); and it maintained the role of Church in taking care of things of this world, on the other hand (as long as indicating the right conditions for justice, the excommunication for the ones who break them, the use of censor as suggested in bulla in Coena Domini , the acknowledgment of the central role of theologians and confessors as interpreters of a proper fiscal obligations and experts to solve any doubt).
Finally, it was able to maintain and express a deep desire for freedom that recent conquests (of men, things and earths) put away towards the old world, on a field, the fiscal one, that is central and ambivalent for the political speech, where we saw old and new conflicts coming out
Galenic compounds used in Paediatric Palliative Care: pharmacological use and caregiver acceptance analyses
No full textreservedI pazienti pediatrici affetti da patologie non curabili, degenerative o terminali, sono caratterizzati da regimi farmacologici complessi, costituiti da numerosi farmaci, molti dei quali, per poter garantire una soddisfacente compliance, diventano oggetto di manipolazione da parte del caregiver. Per evitare, ove possibile, questo tipo di pratica, si può ricorrere all’allestimento di farmaci galenici magistrali. Questi garantiscono la possibilità di personalizzare la terapia rispetto alle esigenze del singolo individuo, minimizzando potenziali manipolazioni da parte del caregiver agevolando l’aderenza e la compliance da parte del paziente. In questo contesto, il farmacista clinico che opera in collaborazione con le Cure Palliative Pediatriche all’interno del team multidisciplinare di assistenza al paziente, ha l’importante ruolo di garantire e monitorare l’uso appropriato e sicuro dei farmaci, anche identificando il potenziale spazio di inserimento per eventuali opzioni magistrali. Questi, tuttavia, risultano spesso sottoprescritti a causa della scarsa informazione in materia e/o delle difficoltà logistico/amministrative necessarie per l’accesso a queste risorse terapeutiche. Il presente progetto mira ad analizzare il grado di percezione e di conoscenza dei farmaci galenici nella coorte dei pazienti afferenti all’UOC Hospice Pediatrico dell’Azienda Ospedale-Università Padova, al fine di mappare il grado di soddisfazione dei caregivers in questo ambito. Inoltre si vogliono comprendere i punti di criticità e di forza che caratterizzano la preparazione magistrale a livello regionale in questo specifico setting, consultando i farmacisti preparatori delle varie Aziende/ULSS Venete. Gli obiettivi sopra descritti saranno raggiunti mediante l’elaborazione dati derivante dalla compilazione di due questionari destinati ai caregivers e ai farmacisti ospedalieri responsabili dell’area galenica. Con questo tipo di indagine, ci si aspetta di ottenere un riscontro positivo da entrambe le popolazioni intervistate, con l’obiettivo finale di individuare possibili aree di miglioramento e di armonizzazione delle pratiche a livello regionale, per poter garantire a questa particolare e fragile popolazione, una risorsa terapeutica validata in più, se necessaria
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