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Broadcast Stand-up Comedy and Its Translation
Full text linkWith the rise of new platforms of media consumptions, aided by new digital technologies, wider audiences and a growing demand for translated materials, new audiovisual transfer modes have surfaced and with them the field of AVT “has grown exponentially, parallel to the production, consumption, interaction with and general interest in audiovisual products” [Chaume 2018: 41]. Stand-up comedy usually thrives as a live form of art. However, digital consumption has allowed comedians to reach a global audience via recording and broadcasting of their performances, and by doing so, it warranted the translation of the genre. In this study, after investigating how the audiovisual format affects comedians’ performances and their subtitling into Italian, I propose new, potentially useful concepts for a translational analysis of broadcast stand-up. Included is a discussion of the presence of audiovisual elements in the streamed specials and an inquiry of the fictionality of the scripted dialogue
nTMS-Based DTI Fiber Tracking of Motor Pathways
No full textDiffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) fiber tracking allows for a tridimensional reconstruc-tion of main white matter fascicles, including the corticospinal tract (CST). Neverthe-less, standard DTI fiber tracking (DTI-FT) is limited by the fact that is based on the selection of anatomical landmarks as seeding region of interests (ROIs) for tract com-putation. This reduces the reliability and reproducibility of DTI-FT results, especially in brain tumor patients, in which the neural plasticity induced by the tumor itself causes a reorganization of the motor network resulting in a mismatch between ana-tomical and functional landmarks. Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) provides a reliable mapping of the functional organization of the motor cortex that can be successfully used as seeding ROI for the DTI computation of the CST, im-proving the reliability and accuracy of the DTI-FT of the CST as compared to the standard DTI technique. Moreover, it provides the somatotopic organization of the CST, especially improving the visualization of fiber bundles connected to the motor cortical representation of arm and face muscles
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
Safety and feasibility of accelerated low-frequency repetitive navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rnTMS)
Full text linkAbstract
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Conti , Thomas Picht . Charite - Universita€tsmedizin Berlin, Germany;
3 University of
Bologna,
Italy;
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Low frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is capable of inducing changes in functional organization of underlying brain regions, however often at the cost of long stimulation protocols over several weeks. As these protocols can be difficult to implement in clinical settings, the aim of the present study was to show the feasibility and safety of an accelerated low-frequency rTMS protocol applying multiple sessions daily.
To this purpose, nine healthy subjects (mean age 25.4 years; 1 female) received 14 sessions of rTMS (1 Hz, 30 minutes, 110% RMT) to the hand motor hotspot. Subjects received stimulation for either 14 days once daily (classical rTMS; c-rTMS), 7 days twice-daily (accelerated rTMS; a-rTMS) or sham stimulation for 14 days once-daily (s-rTMS). Daily stimulation ses- sions in the a-rTMS group were delivered with a 90-minute break in between.
In total, 74% of rTMS sessions in the c-rTMS group, 89% in the a-rTMS group and 98% in the s-rTMS group were free of any side effects. Subjects re- ported occurrence of brief headaches in 14% of sessions in the c-rTMS group, 2% in the a-rTMS group and 0% in the s-rTMS group. Dizziness during stimulation was reported in 5% of sessions in the c-rTMS group, 2% in the a-rTMS group and 0% in the s-rTMS. Subjects reported a feeling of fatigue in the stimulated hand muscles in 2% of all sessions in the c-rTMS group, 7% in the a-rTMS group and 0% in the s-rTMS group. All side effects were reported to be at maximum mild and of short duration.
Thus, accelerated low-frequency rTMS of the motor cortex is a safe and feasible method, previously shown to induce a functional reorganisation of the motor system. By shortening treatment duration in days, this approach can potentially make rTMS protocols more accessible to a wider range of patients
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
The efficacy of 90cm-long peritoneal shunt catheters in newborns and infants
No full textVentriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is one of the options for the treatment of hydrocephalus. The aim of this study is to describe the efficacy and safety of a 90cm--long peritoneal catheter in newborns and infants treated for hydrocephalus. We analyzed the incidence of distal--related complications and the need of successive surgeries for malfunction or for lengthening of the peritoneal catheter
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