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    Una ricerca sulla condizione di devianza delle ragazze Romanì che accedono ai Centri di Giustizia Minorile nella Regione Lazio. Problemi emergenti e prospettive inclusive.

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    Il paper presenta i dati di un approfondimento originale sulle minori Romanì considerate “devianti” (autrici di reati). Lo studio, condotto nel corso del 2013 su dati 2011 e 2012 rilevati presso il CPA di Roma del Ministero della Giustizia, mette in evidenza come i soggetti più “marginali” tra i minori Romanì sperimentino percorsi di vita individuale legati a condizioni ambientali e di formazione scolastica ai “confini”. La ricchezza dei dati ha permesso, oltre all’analisi degli aspetti contestuali, anche una indagine del campione attraverso categorie di lettura peculiari, come: il dettaglio dei reati a carico delle giovani; l'andamento dei loro ingressi nel circuito della Giustizia minorile; la scolarizzazione; l'impegno e le attività prevalenti svolte nella giornata. I risultati emersi evidenziano le criticità relative alla realizzazione di una politica compensativa, ma soprattutto mettono in luce alcuni quesiti socio-pedagogici di importanza strategica e progettuale: Quale valore assume l'istruzione per queste giovani? Come offrire loro gli strumenti per affermare il diritto alla realizzazione personale? Quali interventi del welfare locale sono possibili per contrastare la marginalità e per garantire percorsi di integrazione e di inclusione? Ridurre le cause di esclusione, conoscendone le conseguenze, è un impegno che gli Autori del paper condividono nell’azione di conoscenza scientifica e che intendono presentare alla discussione generale

    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

    New Surgical Intervention for the Weakening of the Inferior Oblique Muscle: Equatorial Scleral Anchor

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    Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of a new surgical technique in reducing inferior oblique muscle overaction. Methods: Anterior transposition and myectomy of the inferior oblique muscle represent the gold- standard treatment in dissociated vertical deviation, including cases in which a simultaneous inferior oblique muscle overaction is also present. A new surgical procedure that consists of suturing the muscle to the sclera at the Gobin point with tendon sparing using a micro-incision to minimize the related tissue trauma and induce a faster recovery was developed. Results: Two of 8 patients with essential infant esotropia had a complete resolution of the elevation in adduction with no residual vertical imbalance. All patients experienced an improvement in lateral incomitance. Conclusions: The new "equatorial scleral anchor" surgical procedure gives a similarly good outcome when compared with the classic inferior oblique anterior transposition technique, with the advantages being simple, safe, reversible, and modular in terms of suturing

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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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