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SARS-CoV-2-related deaths in routine forensic autopsy practice: histopathological patterns
Full text linkSevere acute respiratory syndrome” (SARS) due to coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection is a well-known cause of death. Sometimes, demise can occur unexpectedly in apparently previous healthy individual after a brief period of trivial flu-like symptoms. In these doubtful cases, the forensic pathologist could be requested to define the cause of death occurred outside the hospital. In this report, the authors describe two autopsied cases of SARS-CoV-2-related deaths which occurred suddenly at home and were not preceded by hospitalization, highlighting associated histopathologic patterns and correlating them to pathophysiology of viral infectio
La professione di ortottista-assistente in oftalmologia: riconoscimento giuridico, formazione e limiti operativi
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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
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
Don Luigi Giussani nel cattolicesimo ambrosiano: persistenze e discontinuità
No full textIl saggio evidenzia il lascito della tradizione ambrosiana nel magistero di don Luigi Giussani, sottolineando notevoli motivi di continuità, ma rilevando al tempo stesso forti elementi di discontinuità che allontanano l’intuizione pedagogica del sacerdote dai vecchi moduli pedagogici del cattolicesimo ambrosiano ed italiano. Attraverso l’analisi di fonti edite ed inedite, il saggio coglie nella prospettiva di don Giussani una certa evoluzione, in parte favorita dal fatto che si colloca in un quadro temporale segnato da cambiamenti profondi. La documentazione analizzata, che risale ad alcune fasi importanti della biografia di Giussani e della vita del movimento ecclesiale di GS/CL, suggerisce che l’approccio al tema della tradizione risente nel sacerdote di un peculiare «senso della storia», che influisce in maniera significativa sul suo carisma pedagogico allontanandolo dal tradizionalismo senza che ciò significhi una confluenza nel cattolicesimo progressista post-conciliare. Il saggio, dunque, mostra un don Giussani alle prese non solo con il passato diocesano, ma con le domande che vengono dal presente, come quelle avanzate dai suoi giovani interlocutori proprio nel momento in cui la tradizione è messa in discussione dentro e fuori il mondo cattolico, a cominciare dalla seconda metà degli anni Sessanta. Ne risulta che uno dei più notevoli punti di divaricazione tra il sacerdote e alcune attitudini presenti nel cattolicesimo ambrosiano è riscontrabile nell’assenza, in don Giussani, di tentazioni ideologiche percepibili, invece, a vari livelli del mondo cattolico. In ogni caso, la lezione di don Giussani nel cattolicesimo ambrosiano esprime una singolare sinergia fra tradizione e rinnovamento, che si situa in un momento di transizione delicato, non dimenticando gli interrogativi più urgenti della contemporaneità e identificando un approccio al cristianesimo che, mentre ne recupera i tratti essenziali, continua a confrontarsi con lo sviluppo della storia.The work highlights Don Luigi Giussani’s legacy of Ambrosian teachings; it underlines significant elements of continuity as well as strong features of discontinuity, which distance the Giussani’s pedagogical intuition from that of the older pedagogical models common among the Italian and Ambrosian catholicism. Through the analysis of published and unpublished sources, the work delineates a certain evolution in Don Giussani’s approach in part stimulated by the historical timeframe itself, which was marked by profound changes. The documentation analyzed pertains to important phases both of Giussani's life and of the GS/CL ecclesiastical movement (the Student Youth movement which later became Communion and Liberation) suggesting an approach to the concept of tradition that echoes with the priest’s distinct "sense of history", which significantly influenced his pedagogical charisma, thereby distancing him from traditionalism, without this meaning a confluence into post-Vatican II progressive Catholicism. The work thus describes Don Giussani dealing not only with issues pertaining the past of ambrosian diocese, but also with current questions, like those posed by its young students and disciples at the time when tradition was being questioned inside and outside of Catholic world in the second half of the Sixties. As a result, one major deviation point between Don Giussani and the new as well as old approaches of Ambrosian Catholicism can be seen in the absence of ideological deviations in his approach, while they were clearly perceivable in the Catholic world on various levels. In any event, the teachings provided by Don Giussani in Ambrosian Catholicism express a unique synergy between tradition and renewal situated in a time of delicate transition, while not leaving to the wayside the more urgent questions of modernity and identifying an approach to Christianity that retrieves its essential traits as it continues to compare itself to historical change
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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