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Il ruolo dell’endoscopio nell’evoluzione del trattamento chirurgico delle principali patologie rinosinusali e del basicranio: nozioni storiche, attualità e prospettive future
La chirurgia rinosinusale è stata a lungo considerata “la cenerentola” tra le branche chirurgiche otorinolaringoiatriche probabilmente perché gli sforzi chirurgici e la loro morbilità non corrispondevano ad adeguati risultati clinici. Le scarse conoscenze di fisiopatologia nasale, gli inadeguati strumenti farmacologici e la difficoltà di visualizzazione endonasale hanno fatto sì che fino a pochi anni fa si imponessero approcci esterni a elevata morbilità con importante impatto emotivo sul paziente. Il perfezionamento dei sistemi ottici da parte di Harold Hopkins nel 1959, del sistema di trasmissione della luce messo a punto da Karl Storz nel 1960 e degli studi di fisiopatologia nasale applicata di Messerklinger negli anni successivi, hanno permesso di rivoluzionare l’approccio diagnostico e terapeutico alle affezioni rinosinusali. Successivamente, grazie all’evoluzione tecnologica, al miglioramento dell’imaging e alla collaborazione con altre discipline specialistiche quali radiologo-neuroradiologo, neurochirurgo e oftalmologo, si sono ampliate le indicazioni chirurgiche a patologie complesse quali l’atresia coanale, i mucoceli, le patologie tumorali naso-sinusali, le patologie espansive sellari, parasellari e del clivus, le fistole rinoliquorali, i meningoencefaloceli e l’oftalmopatia distiroidea.
Surgery of sinonasal tract has been considered "the cinderella"
of head and neck surgery, because of the surgical
improvement and morbidity were not followed by adequate
clinical outcomes. Up few years ago, the poor knowledge
of nasal physiopathology, medical treatment and lack of
instruments for adequate endonasal visualization have favoured
the management of sinonasal pathology through external
approaches but with a higher morbidity and low cosmetic
results. The improvement of both optic instruments by
llarold Hopkins in 1959, and transmission of the light by
Karl Strorz in 1960, with the adjunct of the new studies of
nasal physiopathology by Messerklinger, have successfully
contributed to revolutionize the diagnostic and therapeutic
management of nasal pathology. Moreover, thanks to technological
improvement of instruments, improvement of
radiological assessment and collaboration with other disciplines
such as radiology, ophthalmology and neurosurgery
have contributed to treat complex diseases such as the choanal
atresia, mucoceles, tumors of sinonasal tract, sellar and
parasellar tumors, meningoencephaloceles and Graves,
ophthalmopathy. With the help of historical hints, the aim of
this manuscript is to describe the evolution of the telescope
from the "interesting toy" of the past to the indispensable tool
in the treatment of both paranasal sinus and skull base
pathology for today head and neck surgeon
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
“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
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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