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La storia della Misericordia e la pietà dei laici a Siena.
No full textUn’analisi storico-istituzionale della Misericordia di Siena in una prospettiva comparativa italiana
Validation of a stoma specific quality of life questionnaire in a sample of patients with colostomy or ileostomy.
Full text linkAIM: The aim of this study was to determine how socio-demographic and clinical variables affect QoL and to assess the validity of this 20-item scale in a sample of Italian subjects with colostomy, ileostomy and multiple stomata.
METHOD:A cross-sectional multicentre survey was carried out in Italy between 2009 and 2010 in 73 Stoma Centres coordinated by the University of Padova. Patients aged 18 years old and above with a history of non-temporary stoma were included in the study. The Stoma Care QoL scale was measured and validated using a Rasch model. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics were considered in the analyses.
RESULTS: Two hundred and fifty one patients were recruited for the study; mean age was 62, 58% were males, 72% had colostomy and 25% ileostomy; approximately 70% of patients had intestinal cancer requiring a stoma, 13% a complication, and 10% an inflammatory disease. No significant differences were observed throughout strata in the Stoma QoL index, except for geographical area, where subjects from South Italy showed a significantly lower index than subjects living in other parts of Italy (p<0.01). Colostomy and ileostomy patients reported very similar QoL. Cronbach's alpha for the Stoma QoL was 0.90 (95% CI 0.88-0.92). Rasch analysis supported the viability of the Stoma QoL questionnaire and showed acceptable goodness-of-fit. Three under-fitted items were observed.
CONCLUSIONS: The study confirms the validity of the 20-item Stoma Care QoL questionnaire as a research tool for stoma patients but the number of items could be reduced. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved
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
Caterina da Siena e la sua famiglia. La devozione e la santità. Mostra di documenti e immagini d'archivio nel 550° della canonizzazione
No full textIl volume raccoglie le schede relative alla documentazione esposta in occasione di una mostra allestita presso l'Archivio di Stato di Siena e legata alle celebrazioni del 550° anniversario della canonizzazione di Santa Caterina da Siena
Questo non è un "garbato incivilitore"
No full textSotto forma di nota del traduttore lo scritto si interroga sui possibili significati del titolo del volume, nell'ambito di una riflessione stimolata dai problemi posti dalla traduzione, gettando luce, da un'angolazione particolare, sul senso complessivo dell'opera
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
Noninvasive risk stratification in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
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