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Una conversazione con Silvia Iorio su arte, scienza, bioetica
No full textProfilo sul lavoro dell'artista e scienziata Silvia Iorio dal 1997 al 2003. In "Genetix" del 2003 Iorio ha posto l'accento sul tema delle mutazioni genetiche (per esempio a pulcini nati da uova covate industrialmente), documentando la casistica mostruosa ed imprevedibile delle mutazioni genetiche, attraverso radiografie, fotografie, elettrocardiogrammi artisticamente rielaborati. Per altro verso pone la sua riflessione sul tema di alea definita dal segno matematico x. Più in generale solleva la questione del rapporto tra arte e biotecnologia, generando interrogrativi di bioetica
Urban Health. Partecipatory action-research models contrasting socioeconomics inequalities in the urban context
No full textThis book describes and examines, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, the
relationships between the constructed environment, health and social vulnerability.
It demonstrates that spatial disintegration is quite often intertwined with health and
social inequalities; therefore, it is crucial to adopt a methodology of multidisciplinary
approach to urban health, in order to investigate the inequalities in
healthcare and medical assistance through the analysis of psycho-social–
environmental processes and the impact that these aspects can produce on objective
and perceived health. The territorial insecurity is a local translation of complex
phenomena regarding social ‘mobility’ (migration, economic crisis and development,
restructuring of physical environments, increase in population), a clear
reflection of the concept of urban divides where intra-metropolitan duality produces
areas that have high levels of quality of life and areas characterized by poverty and
spatial segregation. The first are the urban territories that, due to their characteristics,
are capable of intercepting the opportunities of the global market; the latter
are less attractive areas for investments, trade and tourism that consequently find
themselves on the outskirts of society
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
The Ascoli Piceno Case: The CCUHRE Project
No full textRegenerating the existing city and placing health at the centre of policies, plans, and projects represents an effective response to contrast the effects of climate change that impact cities and the health of inhabitants. Convinced of this need/opportunity are the World Health Organization (WHO), eminent international researchers, and public administration representatives in many European cities. Urban planning is called to play a key role in adapting cities to climate change and at the same time to improve citizens’ health and quality of life. To do this, it is necessary to review the tools for gathering knowledge and assessment, involve local communities, and welcome the support of new IoT (Internet of Things) technologies finally centred on people. CCHURE aims to define an interdisciplinary method to evaluate the effects of climate change on health and direct policies and projects for adaptation/mitigation through health-based solutions and with the support of IoT technologies and mobile crowdsensing techniques. The research project aims to reach these objectives through the contribution of many scientific disciplines, interaction with the local municipality, local health agencies, and citizen involvement
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Preface
No full textFaced with an interest in achieving meaningful, fair and lasting solutions in order to contrast and reduce health inequalities, we have worked to implement the formulation of new multidisciplinary approaches, oriented to the quality of life within an ecological model of health. This scientific initiative—which arises from the interest of the Working Group on Equity in Health, inside Sapienza University of Rome—was built with a solid multidis-ciplinary approach. There is a growing awareness that facing the complexity that today’s world increasingly presents us, requires a convergence of viewpoints and experiences, as well as the study and sharing of objectives and approaches. In this regard, we need to draw on the philosophy of SDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. More specifically, we should highlight the interdepen-dence of the Goals, and therefore, the need for coordination of the sectors concerned has launched its very important challenge. At first glance, it could therefore be said that the volume considers the interaction between Goal 3—Health and Wellbeing— and Goal 11—Sustainable Cities and Communities. This is certainly true, however, if we look closer we can see the need to consider how much the promotion of health in urban areas, or the focus chosen for this meeting, is also closely linked to Objective 16—Peace, Justice and Solid Institutions—, as well as to Objectives 6—Clean water and sanitation—, 7—Clean and accessible energy—, 9—Enterprises, innovation and infrastructure—, 12—Responsible consumption and production—, 13—Fight against climate change—. And how can we fail to invoke the more classic objectives, which in the medical-scientific literature take the name of ‘determinants of health’? That is, the 4th—Quality education—, the 8th—Decent work and economic growth, the 1st—Defeating poverty—and the 2nd—Defeating hunger. And last but certainly not least, Objective 5—Gender equality (and opportunities like this represent not only an exchange of knowledge between different areas of study and disciplines, but also lay the foundations for creating an increasingly complex network of scientific culture and operational collaboration. We therefore believe that these initiatives have the potential to transfer knowledge and also gain the attention of public opinion, influ-encing decision-makers through advocacy. In addition, given the key to the general understanding of ‘urban health’ as the quality of life and well-being in the urban and residential space that characterizes the conditions of the community to which the Sapienza research group has allocated its action-research, it is our hope that the result will also be the promotion of health protection initiatives and participation in the formulation of public interest programmes (policy-making)
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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