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Promoting health, reducing gender inequalities, improving intercultural communications. Prevention of female cancer and sexually transmitted diseases
No full textImmigrant people adhere sparsely to the prevention programs, as well as female cancers and sexually transmitted diseases (still rising among young people and migrant women). The case study concerns two metropolitan cities of the Mediterranean area as Milan and Beirut: the first is characterized by a strong presence of immigrants (15%), the other by an health system based on private insurance, with a massive presence of refugees (Palestinians and Syrians) which covers more than a third of the Lebanese population. The detection of healthcare needs consists of an exploratory "integrated" research that makes use of secondary sources of quantitative data and a qualitative survey on the field (in-depth interviews with stakeholders and focus groups with female patients). The case study aims to produce a comparative analysis between different contexts of the Mediterranean, about both the policies of health prevention targeting women and young people, and the access of migrant people to healthcare and prevention services
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
Genetically modified and socially responsible foods: a significant relationship for consumer's preferences
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Nuove esigenze dei consumatori e strategie di valorizzazione integrata della carne di bufalo
No full textSustainability of well-being, food systems and environmental issues
No full textThe starting point of this article is to consider the environment as an opportunity for the food system to provide its contribution to achieving the sustainability of well-being. Today, in fact, the environment represents a limit for the pursuit of sustainability because of the constant threats to its functions but overall it represents an issue to solve, not simply for the maintenance over time and over space of its functions, but for the improvement of general individual and collective well-being.
Looking at the determinants of the sustainability of well-being, in particular, this article, aims to underline the importance to ensure replicability of the stocks of natural, human, social and economic capital through appropriate decisions and actions that see all the stakeholders of the society participating to the construction of sustainability. More precisely, greening strategies allow solving environmental issues transforming it in a lever for the pursuit of the sustainability of well-being.
From this point of view, the food system and its stakeholders have to reread their strategies in the light of new responsibilities, intercepting the interrelations with growth, the socio-economic and demographic trends and a new paradigm of wellbeing.
With this in mind, the article suggests a new approach to be considered to make the food system a vector for the edification of well-being sustainability through the implementation of a greening strategy
Sostenibilità del benessere e responsabilità
No full textThe decisions taken with respect to the determinants of sustainability, that is, with respect to growth, new paradigms of well-being and global socio-economic and demographic trends, represent the nerve center of any strategy for growth and maintenance in time and space of economic, social, environmental, territorial and generational well-being. With this in mind, this paper, having identified the principle of responsibility as a genetic factor of sustainability of the well-being highlights how the decisions taken, through a multi-level and multi-trajectories approach, they must necessarily be based on this principle in ensuring in this way, that in time and space the stock of natural, human, economic and social capital will be repeatable
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