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Massive asymptomatic creatine kinase elevation in youth during antipsychotic drug treatment: case reports and critical review of the literature
No full textInternalizing and externalizing conditions in adolescent anorexia
No full textOBJECTIVE: To identify the prevalence of internalizing and externalizing
conditions in referred anorexic adolescents.
METHOD: Child Behavior CheckList (CBCL) and Youth Self Report (YSR) were used to
assess psychopathology: (a) in the global sample (43 adolescents); (b) in
different subtypes of anorexia; (c) considering the timing of admission after the
onset of the disease.
RESULTS: A high percentage of patients were found in the internalizing clinical
range both at CBCL and YSR. Higher mean values were found in full syndromes both
at CBCL and YSR, and in the binge-eating subtype only at the YSR. Subjects
arrived within the first year of illness showed a less severe psychopathology.
CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents with anorexia have high rates of internalizing
psychopathology. The less severe psychopathology in adolescents arrived within
the first year of illness shed light on discontinuity between anorexia and
internalizing condition. On the basis of the psychopathological severity, three
types of adolescent anorexia are proposed which could be of interest for
therapeutic decisions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Anassagora entra in Cassazione e rende strabico il risarcimento del danno non patrimoniale: commento a Cass. 25164/2020
No full textIl presente lavoro offre una lettura (critica) di una recente sentenza della Suprema Corte di Cassazione sul danno non patrimoniale derivante da lesione all’integrità psico-fisica (c.d. danno biologico). In particolare, dopo una sommaria ricostruzione della vicenda concreta e dei fatti di causa, ci si è soffermati sulle problematicità generate dal modus procedendi della Suprema Corte (e, in particolare, della III Sezione civile): l’erronea interpretazione di alcuni dati normativi e la chiara ostilità nei confronti dei precedenti giurisprudenziali pronunciati al più alto livello di legittimità (Sezioni Unite del 2008) hanno condotto a risultati non condivisibili, anche perché frutto di un percorso privo di un comune (e più ampio) momento di riflessione. La auto-referenzialità della III Sezione della Corte di Cassazione nel condurre una battaglia volta a demolire i risultati raggiunti all’esito dell’ultimo momento di vera nomofilachia mostra tutti i suoi limiti in casi come quello in esame, in quanto in palese contraddizione addirittura con alcuni tra gli argomenti che erano stati posti a fondamento delle critiche mosse ai precedenti giurisprudenziali. Il lavoro si conclude con l’auspicio di un confronto più pacato e non caratterizzato da aprioristiche prese di posizione, al fine di rendere davvero costruttiva la riflessione sul complesso tema del danno non patrimoniale.This paper offers a (critical) reading of a recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Cassation on non-pecuniary damage resulting from injury to psycho-physical integrity (so-called biological damage). In particular, after a brief reconstruction of the concrete case and the facts of cause, we have focused on the problems generated by the modus procedendi of the Supreme Court (and, in particular, the III Civil Section): the misinterpretation of some normative data and the clear hostility towards previous case law pronounced at the highest level of legitimacy (United Sections of 2008) have led to unacceptable results, also because the product of a path without a common (and wider) moment of reflection. The self-referentially of the III Section of the Court of Cassation in conducting a battle aimed at demolishing the results achieved at the outcome of the last moment of true ‘nomofilachia’ shows all its limits in cases such as the one under consideration, as in clear contradiction even with some of the arguments that were placed at the base of the critiques made to the previous jurisprudence. The work concludes with the hope of a more peaceful debate and not characterized by aprioristic stances, in order to make really constructive re ection on the complex issue of non-pecuniary damage
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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