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Hypercalcaemia in systemic lupus erythematosus.
No full textHypercalcaemia is found in more than 90% of the cases of primitive hyperparathyroidism and malignancies. Rarely, D hypervitaminosis, sarcoidosis, other granulomatous diseases, some drugs, and endocrine diseases may be responsible. Nine patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and hypercalcaemia, without evidence of primary hyperparathyroidism, have been previously described. Here we report the 10th patient with SLE and hypercalcaemia, along with a brief review of the literature. © 2011 The Author(s)
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Il contributo degli immigrati alla natalità nel Lazio: analisi provinciale dal 2002 al 2018
No full textAll’interno del dibattito demografico e politico sulle migrazioni in Italia, il tema della fecondità degli immigrati ha sempre suscitato notevole interesse, specialmente in relazione al calo delle nascite che il nostro Paese sta sperimentando da più di dieci anni. In questo articolo, si analizzano i dati dell'Istat sulle nascite da cittadini italiani e stranieri nel Lazio e nelle sue singole province, per capire come stiano evolvendo le dinamiche di fecondità all’interno della regione. I risultati mostrano che i cittadini stranieri residenti nel Lazio fanno sempre meno figli ormai da almeno dieci anni. La ricerca demografica ci dice che le ragioni sono da ricercare in una molteplicità di fattori, dalla crisi economica al cambiamento della composizione dei flussi migratori verso il nostro Paese. Allo stesso tempo, però, fanno meno figli anche i cittadini italiani, e il calo delle nascite caratterizza anche il Lazio e le sue province da ormai più di un decennio. In un simile contesto di bassissima fecondità dei cittadini italiani, la diminuzione del tasso di fecondità degli stranieri – misura in parte viziata dagli errori di registrazione della popolazione straniera descritti precedentemente – non basta a ridimensionare il contributo significativo che questi danno al numero totale delle nascite. Malgrado sia in continua diminuzione, il tasso di fecondità degli stranieri si mantiene visibilmente al di sopra di quello dei cittadini italiani, e questo fattore, unitamente all’aumento costante della presenza straniera nel nostro Paese e soprattutto nel Lazio, fa sì che il contributo degli stranieri alla fecondità totale assuma dimensioni sempre crescenti
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Hypertensive Disorders in Normal/Over-weight and Obese Type 2 Diabetic Pregnant Women
No full textBackground: Hypertension is one of the major complications of pregnancy. Its impact in type 2 diabetic pregnant women could be understimated because it is generally evaluated by retrospective studies and as one of the Outcome measures. Objective: Our aims were: 1) to evaluate the prevalence of hypertensive disease between type 2 diabetic and normal pregnancies; 2) to relate hypertensive disease to body weight in type 2 diabetic pregnancies; 3) to assess the impact of different types of hypertension on pregnancy Outcome in type 2 diabetic women. Study Design: Seventy-six type 2 diabetic (23 normal-weight, 26 overweight and 27 obese) and sixty normal (43, 15 and 2 respectively; x(2) 0.0001) pregnancies, matched for age and smoking habit. Hypertension was defined as >= 140/90 mmHg and classified in chronic, gestational and pre-eclampsia. Statistical Analysis: Student's t-test, x(2), simple, and/or multiple and logistic regression analysis were used when appropriate. Odds ratio was calculated for hypertension. p significant <0.05. Results: The overall prevalence of hypertension was 40.8% (18.4% chronic, 17.1% gestational and 5.3% pre-eclampsia) in type 2 diabetic pregnancies and 10% (8.3% gestational and 1.7% preeclampsia) in normal pregnancies (p<0.0001), with an odds ratio of 6.2. All the types of hypertension, significantly chronic, contributed to the higher prevalence. Only in diabetic pregnancies, hypertension was associated with a higher pregestational BMI; whenever BMI increased, chronic and gestational hypertension increased by contrast of pre-eclampsia (X(2), 0.02). Hypertensive disorders did not affect maternal-fetal outcome. Conclusions: The prevalence of hypertension was 40.8% in type 2 diabetic pregnant women whilst it was 10.0% in non diabetic controls. All hypertensive disorders, significantly chronic, were more frequent. Increasing BMI was a crucial factor for chronic and gestational but not for pre-eclampsia. Hypertensive diseases did not seem to affect pregnancy outcome
Informal childcare arrangements: a comparison between Italians and migrants
No full textAs migrants settle in their destination country, for those who reunited the family or after childbirth childcare becomes a priority. Most studies on migrants’ childcare arrangements have focused on parental use of formal childcare rather than on different informal childcare solutions by analysing only families with preschool-age children. Italy poses an interesting case study because its welfare system is characterised by a familistic model of care, based on solidarity between generations. In familistic countries, migrants’ childcare solutions are more constrained. In this study, we analysed differences in informal childcare needs and arrangements for children younger than 14 between Italians and migrants from different countries of origin. We merged two surveys conducted by the Italian National Statistics Institute in 2011–2012: ‘Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens’, a sample of households with at least one migrant with foreign citizenship, and ‘Multiscopo—Aspects of Daily Life’, a sample of households in Italy. We found that household composition and parents’ employment status play an important role in shaping informal childcare arrangements. Overall, migrants are less likely to use informal childcare, especially grandparents, than Italians but when they do, they rely more on other relatives and non-relatives than Italians. Moreover, differences emerge across migrant subgroups. This study is the first in Italy to contribute to an understanding of the role of migrant status in determining parents’ childcare arrangements for children up to 13 years
Lyposomal doxorubicin (Caelyx), cyclophosphamide - Rituximab (DC-R) plus GM-CSF as a salvage therapy in B-diffuse large cell lymphoma (B-DLCL) after autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) failure.
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