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LA TOSSICODIPENDENZA COME REFERENTE SIMBOLICO DI CRISI. PROIBIZIONISMO E FUNZIONE STRATEGICA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE ATTRAVERSO LA LEGGE
No full textL'articolo approfonidesce la discussione relativa al proibizionismo e alla punibilità delle condotte tossicofiliche e delle tossicodipendenze. In particolare, viene messo in rapporto il nesso tra punizione e marginalizzazione sociale
L'INASPERIMENTO DELLA PUNIBILITA' DELLA TOSSICODIPENDENZA E L'INVALIDAZIONE DEL LAVORO PSICOTERAPEUTICO
No full textIl presente lavoro , che rispetta l’approccio socio-costruzionista elaborato in Salvini, Testoni, Zamperini (2002), affronta il problema relativo alla revisione in senso proibizionista del DPR 390/90 in discussione in Parlamento con la bozza di disegno di legge secondo la versione del 13.11.2003 . L’articolo intende mostrare come il problema della tossicodipendenza nella società occidentale contemporanea sia un referente simbolico di crisi, ossia si accede ad esso nel dibattito politico per costruire rappresentazioni di una paura – quella provata verso tossicodipendente e il suo mondo – che, per quanto profonda, risulta sostenibile. Ricordando quanto indicato da Galimberti (2002), secondo cui la differenza tra paura e angoscia si gioca all’interno del credere di poter o non poter dominare il pericolo e che per gestire la prima la si riduce all’ambito della seconda, viene ipotizzato che siffatta operazione abbia una funzione difensiva perché permette di creare rappresentazioni ritenute gestibili per proteggersi dall’angoscia più radicale evocata da quanto di realmente pericoloso viene percepito come incontrollabile. Ma questa operazione giocata a livello di rappresentazione ha un costo elevato sulla realtà sociale, che viene pagato dai tossicodipendenti ai quali è dunque attribuita la funzione di capro espiatorio. Lasciando sullo sfondo le modalità con cui il potere dominante facilita e asseconda la costruzione della rappresentazione del “tossicodipendente da punire” per produrre effetti rassicuranti sulla popolazione, si considerano i problemi che derivano per il lavoro terapeutico allorquando tali posizioni politiche invalidino l’intervento di solidarietà sociale. In particolare si considera la vanificazione dell’intervento in Comunità Terapeutica [CT], passando attraverso le considerazioni relative alla fiducia messa in gioco nella relazione di cura, ove – nel rispetto della prospettiva della riduzione del danno – è invece lasciato al tossicodipendente il tempo per attribuire “in prima persona” il senso della propria astinenza per un progetto di vita diverso da quello prodotto dalla coazione all’identità deviante
Effectiveness of a cognitive rehabilitation program in mild dementia (MD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI): A case control study
No full textData support the evidence that neuropsychological rehabilitation is effective in Alzheimer disease (AD), to strengthen the pharmacological treatment to delay the progression of dementia. At moment, a few studies have examined the efficacy of non-pharmacological treatment in MCI. This is a controlled study that assesses the effectiveness of neuropsychological rehabilitation on cognitive and behavioral symptoms and functional status in a group of community-dwelling subjects with MCI and MD. Our results demonstrate that a systematic rehabilitation, that provides a computerized cognitive program training, produces an improvement in cognitive and affective status of patients with MCI and MD, while a rehabilitation program not providing a punctual stimulation of cognitive functions, does not have significant effects
Erythroblastic islands in the bone marrow of rheumatoid arthritis with anaemia
No full textAn increase of erythroblastic islands with recognizable central macrophages was observed in bone marrow of 6 RA patients suffering from anaemia. It is possible that this morphological finding might be an expression of the ineffective erythropoiesis observed in RA patients with anaemia
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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