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Un caso di albinismo in Ocnus planci (Brandt, 1835) (Echinodermata, Olothuriodea) nelle "tegnue" dell'Alto Adriatico
No full textLa gentilezza nelle attività di counselling
No full textOggi giorno si sente spesso parlare di Networking Skills. Queste riguardano quell’insieme di abilità che permettono all’individuo di crearsi una propria rete sociale a cui rivolgersi per ricevere diversi aiuti e supporti al fine di poter raggiungere i propri obiettivi (Castells, 2007). L’essere in grado di saper instaurare relazioni positive con l’altro, a nostro avviso, è importante in vari ambiti della vita umana. Harris e Williams (2014), a questo riguardo, ritengono che nella nostra società e nell’attuale mercato del lavoro sia importante riuscire a creare una propria ‘rete’, dalla quale poter ricavare informazioni che ci permettono di aumentare le probabilità di trovare un posto di lavoro, ma anche che ci stimoli a generare idee nuove e creative. Scrimin e Axia (2004) ritengono che il supporto sociale sia importante anche per poter fronteggiare le difficoltà ascrivibili all’ambito della salute. Si potrebbero riportare molti altri esempi, ma è ormai abbastanza consolidato da molti anni in letteratura che senza l’Altro non ci sarebbe un Sé (Gallup, 1997; Aronson, Wilson, e Akert, 2006)
In tutto questo, a nostro avviso, un ruolo importante può essere giocato dalla gentilezza, un punto di forza della persona che può portare dei vantaggi a sé e agli altri in quanto il praticare atti di gentilezza può aumentare il benessere e la felicità non solo in chi mette in atto i comportamenti gentili ma anche in chi li riceve. Ci piace ricordare le parole del Dalai Lama (Gyatso Tenzin), che nel suo libro “La felicità è negli altri” (Dalai Lama - Gyatso Tenzin e Victor Chan, 2014) mette in evidenza, attraverso il racconto di alcuni incontri significativi della sua vita, come l’essere gentili e compassionevoli verso gli altri può portare alla felicità. Secondo il Dalai Lama, imparare ad amare e aiutare gli altri non è sempre facile, ma la ricompensa è grande e duplice: la felicità interiore e la possibilità di costruire un mondo migliore.
Considerando che con sempre maggiore frequenza nell’ambito del counseling si ritiene essenziale dare enfasi ai punti di forza delle persone per poter migliorare la qualità della vita degli stessi (Soresi e Polo, in questo volume), abbiamo voluto approfondire il costrutto della gentilezza.
Con questo capitolo ci proponiamo, quindi, di sintetizzare una serie di riflessioni
presenti in letteratura sulla gentilezza, al fine di poter fornire delle definizioni,
presentare strumenti di indagine e descrivere alcune azioni che possono essere
considerate utili a sostenere la gentilezza anche nell’ambito del counseling
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
As inclusion is concerned, I am committed in my work to...
No full textIn developing the stimulus ‘As inclusion is concerned, I am committed in my work to...’ we were interested in highlighting and sharing the idea that achieving truly inclusive societies requires commitments and responsibilities that guide practitioners’, teachers’, and scholars’ specific choices and actions. In other words, we were interested in making explicit the commitments that those who have adhered to this initiative intend to assume so as to remove barriers to inclusion, to begin collaborations and alliances with actors
who can influence inclusive outcomes, and to implement interventions for the benefit
of inclusion. Additionally, we wanted to structure a process by which practitioners and
researchers could ‘shape’ a tacit ‘contract’, by specifying the responsibilities and commitments that will be taken to promote school, work, and social inclusion.
Our focus on a personal commitment to inclusive societies stems from the fact that
actions to achieve such outcomes emanate from individual values, beliefs, and aspirations; perceptions of one’s moral role; and how one frames one’s professional identity.
A belief in inclusive societies and actions to achieve such outcomes is inspired by one’s
moral values for and ethics of global acceptance, tolerance, and respect for others and a
drive for social justice. Additionally, such actions operationalize values of respect for the
dignity of every person and an appreciation of the critical importance of diversity, nondiscrimination, pluralism, equality of opportunity, solidarity, security, non-violence,
and full participation in society for all people, including people who are among the
most vulnerable in our societies (DESA, 2009)
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
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