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Dignità e Diritti degli anziani. Il ruolo delle diverse istituzioni economiche, sociali e politiche per la costruzione di un welfare efficiente ed efficace
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Built environment impact on people with dementia (PwD) health and well-being outcomes: a systematic review of the literature
No full textBackground and aim: The number of People with Dementia (PwD) is rising worldwide and represents a complex figure because of the changes in the cognitive sphere, altering perceptions of the Built Environment (BE). Even though the role of the built environment in the health and well-being of people it's nowadays well known, few studies analyze and evaluate the impact of specific Architectural Features. To this end, this contribution provides a systematic review that will underline the impacts of BE on the Health and Well-being of PwD and set a matrix of the relationship with measurable outcomes. Methods: A literature review has been conducted on scientific databases. 40 studies that relate health outcomes and aspects of the built environment have been identified and organized on a comparison matrix that clearly shows the relationships between Architectural Features of BE and Health and Wellbeing Outcome. This matrix allows to identify which are the aspects that can impact on PwD as well as possible lacks. Results: Many aspects appear to be widely explored, such as BPSD or wandering. In addition, significant gaps in the relationship between recognized aspects of the built environment recognized as relevant to the well-being of people with dementia and the real impacts on health outcomes such as the location and personalization of spaces. Conclusions: This study collected the most recent studies to underline the relationship between BE and dementia, providing a set of outcomes and architectural features that can be analyzed to assess the quality of BE for PwD
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
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
DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS OF ALZHEIMER CAREGIVERS ARE MAINLY DUE TO PERSONAL RATHER THAN PATIENT FACTORS
No full textThe contribution shows the results of a research program about the processes of the families that have inside themselves a relative suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. A quantitative study conducted on a sample of 125 caregivers and it analyses, following a multi-factorial approach, the caregiving process in order to verifies the relationship between patient’s conditions (the primary stressors) and the presence of stress and depressive symptoms in the caregiver (the outcomes). Our analysis shows that this relationship is modulated in very important way by two elements of family functioning: the cultural orientation and the familiar control. The former carries out a protective function towards the stress; the latter has a “trigger function” towards the level of depression in the caregivers
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