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How Cardio-Oncology is called to prove its maturity
No full textDuring the first years of its life, Cardio-Oncology, born ‘only’ to detect and treat events of cardiotoxicity, experienced a significant change of its own nature. Cardio-oncologists are nowadays called to face multiple, different and complex issues: to evaluate the cardiovascular (CV) profile of a cancer patient prior starting anticancer treatments; to estimate the risk of cardiotoxicity; how to adequately manage this eventuality, in some cases evenwithout halting the causative therapy;whether to suggest a cardiologic follow up at the end of the treatment
Takotsubo syndrome. Lonely hearts
Full text linkAlthough the nosology of takotsubo syndrome (TTS) has shifted from an acute coronary syndrome–like condition to a heart failure phenotype,
its pathology and clinical course still present many unresolved issues. This gap in our knowledge has a significant impact on the various phases
of clinical practice: from a challenging differential diagnosis to uncertain therapeutic management and prognosis
Letter regarding the article 'Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Frommechanisms to therapies' by Lamand colleagues
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The impossible quest to make cardiac amyloidosis diagnosis easy
No full textCardiac amyloidosis (CA) is an increasingly recognized myocardial infiltrative disease, causing pseudo-hypertrophy of the heart, diastolic dysfunction and heart failure. Growing efforts are ongoing to optimize screening and diagnostic algorithms for CA
I poligoni stellati: origini storiche ed implicazioni didattiche
No full textThe genesis of mathematical concepts in the evolutionary line of human thought in the long story and the genesis in individual optics possess evident analogies. Starting from this assumption, we describe an activity presented to 15-year-old students; the aim was to consolidate fundamental concepts of Euclidean geometry related to regular polygons. The experimentation has used a didactic approach based on the historical evolution of the formal definition of regular star polygon through the centuries. The activity and the results obtained in terms of internalization of the concepts in the students are showed
A plea for smoking-free policies in COVID-19 times: cardiovascular prevention as an ally in coronavirus containment
No full textThe novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
has required the whole world to adopt stringent measures of
social distancing and to change common habits in order to
prevent the spreading of the infection across the population.
The use of universal facial masking is the most emblematic
intervention currently undertaken by several countries—
and represent a simple, yet extremely efective measure to
protect the self and others from COVID-19 spreadin
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
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