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Il ruolo dello spazio linguistico globale tra italiano e dialetto: scenari migratori campani in Inghilterra
No full textGoing 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
Pulse-wave velocity and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
No full textBackground: The aetiology of the BPPV is still uncertain. Some factors have been individualized that could explain partly the onset or the tendency to the recurrence, among which traumas, osteoporosis, viral infections and cardiovascular factors of risk. With particular reference to the influence that the cardiovascular factors of risk can practice on the genesis and persistence of the BPPV, it needs to keep in mind that, despite these introduces a role largely sustained in literature, it concerns considerations that hear again of very controversial interpretations however. Purpose: The objective of the study is to try to furnish a good definition of the existing relationship between the VPPB and the rigidity of the arterial tree, reliable expression of the conditions of the vascular circle and easily measurable with the appeal to recent technologies. Primary objective: the definition of possible differences of the profile of rigidity of the vascular system among subjects affections from BPPV and subjects without otologic diseases. Objective secondary: the definition of possible relationships between recidivist of BPPV and profile of vascular rigidity in a population of adults and elderly. Results: The results allow to affirm that an association exists among BPPV and increase of the arterial vascular rigidity, shown from the presence of more elevated values both of cfPWV (carotido-femoral Pulse Wave Velocity) that of differential arterial pressure or pulsatry pressure (PP) in the patients with BPPV in comparison to those measured in the healthy subjects of the same age. Moreover, an association exists between recurrence of the episodes of BPPV and increase of the arterial vascular rigidity in the patients of superior age to 60, shown by the presence of more elevated values of cfPWV in the patients with recurring BPPV in comparison to those measured in the subjects
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