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    Minori, consenso privacy e vulnerabilità online: riflessioni alla luce del Regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati (UE) 2016/679

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    The continuous evolution of online technologies and services, increasingly based on the datafication towards users, and the occurrence of data breaches, even against children, resulting from still insufficient protections in the latest technologies despite the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 for over a year now, raise particular concerns. While, on the one hand, the improvement of technological security measures will represent a greater guarantee for users, and in particular for minors, the current context still leads to questioning the adequacy of the privacy legislation, with specific attention to children and their new faculty to give consent to the processing of personal data in relation to information society services, based on strict age thresholds and not on the actual capacity for discernment of the data subject

    P-4 Advance care planning and e-healthcare: New perspectives

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    ACP (Advance Care Planning) is shared planning of the care process from diagnosis to end of life choices that involves patient, doctor and family. It helps patients with their decision-making capacity to guide their future health care decisions in the event that they become unable to participate directly in their own care. To recommend an innovative cost-effectiveness ICT solution that is able to: (i) improve the quality of life (QoL) through an ACP; (ii) place the patient at the core of his self-care, through a proactive approach; (iii) provide benefits for formal and informal caregivers in terms of healthcare system efficiency and costs reduction. To study and analyse possible implications in the use of ACP in an e-Health system, highlighting the emerging strengths and weaknesses in the fields involved, with particular regard to legal and ethical issues. By entering into an e-Healthcare system, ACP functions as a dynamic tool editable and able to be costantly updated. It allows the sick person to be the protagonist of the choices that relate to his or her present condition and express preferences on what might happen. It also delivers guidelines for the implementation of ethical and legal preconditions that should be met in order to increase user acceptance and adoption of the technologies

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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