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La vulnerabilità come ‘ritorno del rimosso’ e la nuova domanda di senso durante la pandemia da Covid-19
No full textThe great leap forward of medicine in the twentieth century contributed to the myth of the repression of vulnerability accompanied by the illusion of individual control and self-determination. However, epidemics, like major natural disasters, have continued to act as elements capable of upsetting scientific optimism. The Covid-19 pandemic, with its uncertain causes and unpredictable effects, has led to authentic demythologisation and caused a “return of the repressed”: a feeling of vulnerability along with dramatic awareness of our mortality. This phenomenon has been accompanied by a re-emerging demand for meaning, which has led to a more direct confrontation with the drama of suffering and the need for a personal relationship with the sacred, finally rediscovering the public dimension of prayer. Firstly, the article outlines in its essential features the ambiguity of the pre-pandemic cultural horizon. Secondly, it analyses the characteristics of the rise of a new sensibility, by referring also to the notion of prayer as a “political issue” coined by Jean Daniélou
“I, myself am the media.” The Aesthetics of the Self and its narrative modes in the Echo-sphere
Full text linkThe hyper-narrativity typical of our society might be conceived as a manifestation of the “Expressivist Turn,”1 previously considered a feature of modernity, now one of postmodernity “Aesthetics of the Self.”2 This phenomenon is related with a double shift: one occurring at institutional level, moving from information to communication; at individual level, from communication to expression. This paper focuses on the transformation of the concept of experience, as an effect of the social media. No longer merely reflected and narrated, experience is currently and intimately connective and immersive performance, a setting built for everyone and for every kind of event (a holiday, even a pandemic or a funeral). In this context, subject’s autonomy is limited to the ability to manage the game of mirrors among individual expressions, where the immediacy of emotions reigns and the stories are transformed into serial fragmentary, visual, spectacularised fiction, lacking a structured plot. In my view such a world can no longer be seen as an Infosphere,3 but as an Echo-sphere: a social forum, where narratives cross and collide, and concern for the objective reference to the truth of the story disappears and mutual trust declines
The dialogue between medical doctors and bioethicists: rethinking experience to improve medical education.
Full text linkMore and more seems to be necessary to find new ways of communication between medical doctors and
bioethicists in order to build a shared vocabulary and to prevent conflicts: many bioethical problems seem
to be caused by the lack of dialogue between them, which both seem to speak two different languages.
Improving this dialogue means searching new languages and innovative forms of communication: the
narration could be a really effective tool to enhance the physicians’ and bioethicist’s moral conscience, since
it facilitates reasoning on someone’s particular experience, and, ultimately, on our experience. Starting from
the results of a questionnaire administered to a group of students of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
of the University Campus Bio-Medico we present a theoretical discussion about the need for more dialogue
and for a shared vocabulary in medical experiences. In this regard, we suggest as a possible solution to the
conflicts among medical doctors and bioethicists, an educational strategy, i.e., humanities courses for medical
students, which may help them to deeply describe their practical present (and future) experience
Influence of olive cultivars and period of harvest on the contents of Cu, Cd, Pb, and Zn in virgin olive oils
No full textLevels of four of the major pollutant heavy metals were assessed by ICP-OES in virgin olive oil monocultivar samples. The data showed high variability within cultivars for lead and zinc, whereas, for cadmium and copper, no statistical difference was observed. The influence of the cultivar and the stage of ripening of olives on heavy metal content was assessed; zinc was the only metal with a great variability within the first and the second harvest. All olive samples were processed with the same milling apparatus. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Cytogenetic mapping of five YAC clones to human chromosome region 2q31--q32.1 in relation to the FRA2G common fragile site.
No full textIn this work, five YAC clones have been mapped by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) to human chromosome
region 2q31→q32.1 and ordered in relation to each other and to the FRA2G common fragile site. YAC clones
that span the fragile site have been identified.Moreover a deleted HOXD 13 gene has been identified on the 942D2
YAC.
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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
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