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α-blockers and antibiotics, alone or in combination, improve symptoms in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome.
No full textSurvey on the Italian outpatient urologists regarding the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
No full textOBJECTIVES: To verify the opinion of a group of Italian Outpatient Urologists in the matter of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) diagnosis and treatment. METHODS AND RESULTS: A structured questionnaire was sent to 150 Italian Outpatient Urologists joined to the Unique Union of Italian outpatient Medicine (SUMAI) and working in public outpatient departments. The first section of the questionnaire investigated the Outpatient Urologists opinions concerning the BPH diagnostic approach. The second section of the questionnaire investigated the urologists' opinion on BPH therapeutic approaches. The majority of the urologist's that took part in the survey, believe that a first-line diagnosis of BPH, in accordance to the main guidelines, necessarily the patient's medical history, physical examination and total PSA dosage. A percentage of urologists (about 60%) always include the uroflowmetry and the pelvic ultrasound scan and about the 80% the urinalysis. With respect to the different therapeutic approaches for BPH patients with mild symptoms, the urologists suggest both the watchful waiting with changing in lifestyle and alpha-blockers therapy
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
Prevalence of erectile and ejaculatory dysfunction in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome
No full textUse of mepartricin in the treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy. Open study of 39 patients
No full textVariations 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
I processi di resilience nelle patologie croniche: uno studio con adolescenti affetti da Sclerosi Multipla
No full text"In linea con la Developmental Psychopathology (Toth, Cicchetti, 2010), riteniamo che, in presenza di patologia cronica, le traiettorie di svilupo siano caratterizzate da equifinalità e multifinalità. Un ruolo fondamentale lo giocano tanto i fattori di rischio quanto le risorse. Il focus, tuttavia, non è sulla presenza o meno di fattori di rischio e di altrettanti fattori protettivi (Masten, 2000) ma è sulle risorse, sulla competenza ad accedere e negoziare con il contesto risorse funzionali alle proprie esigenze, ovvero i processi di resilience secondo la lente della Social Ecology of Resilience (Ungar, 2012).
Una patologia che rende necessario un processo di continuo fronteggiamento di una condizione patologica è la Sclerosi Multipla, la più comune causa non traumatica di disabilità nei giovani adulti. Il decorso della malattia non è prevedibile ed il malato vive i sintomi come “attacchi” o paralisi motorie. Per queste sue caratteristiche, viene dedicato sempre più spazio all’analisi dei processi di resilience nei pazienti affetti da SM (Stewart, Tray, 2011).
L’obiettivo del presente studio, pertanto, è quello di analizzare i processi di resilience di un campione di adolescenti affetti da SM alle prese con i compiti di sviluppo tipici dell’adolescenza (Erikson, 1980).
Sono state raccolte le storie di vita, secondo il modello dell’Autobiografia guidata di McAdams (2008), di 18 adolescenti affetti da SM (età m. 20.8; d.s. 2.54). Sulle storie, trascritte verbatim, è stata condotta un’analisi tematica carta e matita volta a mettere in luce i processi di resilience nei low point, high point e turning point delle storie di vita.
L’analisi ha messo in luce le seguenti tematiche:
Relazionalità, Progettualità e Crescita, La diagnosi e l’identità, il Limite e l’Impotenza.
Risulta interessante l’articolazione di tali tematiche, in termini di resilience, con il precipuo compito di sviluppo della costruzione dell’identità
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
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