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Le sfide dell'omogenitorialità
No full textIl testo raccoglie scritti di Autrici e Autori appartenenti al mondo della ricerca, dei servizi, dell'attivismo politico per delineare un quadro dell'omogenitorialità in Italia, restituendo i percorsi attraverso cui questi nuclei si strutturano e "fanno famiglia" guardando in particolare alle pratiche e ai contesti quotidiani. Sono dati importanti per mettere a fuoco la continuità con altre forme familiari, insieme alle specificità della loro condizione, che in Italia manca di un riconoscimento sociale e giuridico. Il vuoto di riconoscimento ha un impatto sulla vita delle persone, che si riverbera anche nelle relazioni che queste instaurano nei contesti formali e informali, in particolare con istituzioni come la scuola e i servizi sanitari. Il libro analizza gli strumenti che famiglie e professionisti sviluppano per gestire questi incontri, nel rispetto delle differenze e per favorire spazi reali di inclusione e adeguati a cogliere la complessità e il dinamismo familiare nel suo dispiegarsi
Costruire la genitorialità LGB nei contesti sociali. La ricerca Family Lives.
No full textIl testo raccoglie scritti di Autrici e Autori appartenenti al mondo della ricerca, dei servizi, dell'attivismo politico per delineare un quadro dell'omogenitorialità in Italia, restituendo i percorsi attraverso cui questi nuclei si strutturano e "fanno famiglia" guardando in particolare alle pratiche e ai contesti quotidiani. Sono dati importanti per mettere a fuoco la continuità con altre forme familiari, insieme alle specificità della loro condizione, che in Italia manca di un riconoscimento sociale e giuridico. Il vuoto di riconoscimento ha un impatto sulla vita delle persone, che si riverbera anche nelle relazioni che queste instaurano nei contesti formali e informali, in particolare con istituzioni come la scuola e i servizi sanitari. Il libro analizza gli strumenti che famiglie e professionisti sviluppano per gestire questi incontri, nel rispetto delle differenze e per favorire spazi reali di inclusione e adeguati a cogliere la complessità e il dinamismo familiare nel suo dispiegarsi
Frailty in Rheumatic Diseases
Full text linkFrailty is a syndrome characterized by the decline in the physiologic reserve and function of several systems, leading to increased vulnerability and adverse health outcomes. While common in the elderly, recent studies have underlined the higher prevalence of frailty in chronic diseases, independent of age. The pathophysiological mechanisms that contribute to frailty have not been completely understood, although significant progresses have recently been made. In this context, chronic inflammation is likely to play a pivotal role, both directly and indirectly through other systems, such as the musculoskeletal, endocrine, and neurological systems. Rheumatic diseases are characterized by chronic inflammation and accumulation of deficits during time. Therefore, studies have recently started to explore the link between frailty and rheumatic diseases, and in this review, we report what has been described so far. Frailty is dynamic and potentially reversible with 8.3%–17.9% of older adults spontaneously improving their frailty status over time. Muscle strength is likely the most significant influencing factor which could be improved with training thus pointing at the need to maintain physical activity. Not surprisingly, frailty is more prevalent in patients affected by rheumatic diseases than in healthy controls, regardless of age and is associated with high disease activity to affect the clinical outcomes, largely due to chronic inflammation. More importantly, the treatment of the underlying condition may prevent frailty. Scales to assess frailty in patients affected by rheumatic diseases have been proposed, but larger casuistries are needed to validate disease-specific indexes, which could allow more accurate prognostic estimates than demographic and disease-related variables alone. Frail patients can be more vulnerable and more difficult to treat, due to the risk of side effects, therefore frailty should be taken into account in clinical decisions. Clinical trials addressing frailty could identify patients who are less likely to tolerate potentially toxic medications and might benefit from more conservative regimens. In conclusion, the implementation of the concept of frailty in rheumatology will allow a better understanding of the patient global health, a finest risk stratification and a more individualized management strategy
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
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