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The role of the admission phase in the Italian treatment setting: A research on individuating shared practices in psychotropic substance users’ communities
No full textThere are various and diversified ways of admission of a substance user into a therapeutic community. When these ways result from actions that are inconsistent with the general objective of the service, they may lead to adverse outcomes that substantially impact both therapeutic interventions efficacy and services efficiency. Consequences are multiple, concerning the substance user, other users of the service, professionals working at the service, and the center’s relationships with the service network to which the center belongs. This study aims to define and share major interactive and organizational problems concerning the admission process at CEAL accredited structures and to define and standardize a protocol of procedures aimed at managing and supervising the admission process, through specific and commonly agreed indicators. The research was carried out according to the focus group methodology and involved sixty directors of various health communities offering residential services for substance use treatment. The research was guided by a focus group moderator. The research has made it possible to identify the biases and errors in the admission process and selected those practices shared by the therapeutic communities and conducive to generating positive outcomes. The findings in the definition of a procedure, complete with precise indicators that are applicable across the therapeutic communities and to the shared activities that constitute and are conducive to the success of the admission process
Redox thermodynamics of cytochrome c adsorbed on mercaptoundecanol monolayer electrodes
No full textThe redox potentials E-0 ́ of bovine cytochrome c adsorbed on an 11-mercapto-1-undecanol/Au self-assembled monolayer electrode were studied through direct electrochemistry as a function of the temperature in non-isothermal experiments carried out in the presence of different anions and changes of the ionic strength. The thermodynamic parameters for protein reduction (DeltaH(rc)(0 ́) and DeltaS(rc)(0 ́)) re were determined for adsorbed and solution cytochrome and the differences in E-0 ́ discussed in terms of the enthalpic and entropic contributions. The adsorption process seems to remove the ability of perchlorate anion to bind to the protein surface, while a certain direct interaction is still retained in the case of chloride and phosphate. A moderate increase in E-0 ́ of adsorbed cytochrome was measured at increasing ionic strength and discussed in the light of the opposite effect observed for solution protein
Dual Diagnosis and Application Problems in the Use of the Construct: A Review of Literature
Full text linkDual diagnosis (DD) commonly identifies a condition of co-occurrence of substance use disorders and psychological or psychiatric disorders. Many scholars have tried to explain this phenomenon, yet no agreement has been found: methodologies of intervention and treatment are numerous, but there is no uniformity of methodology. Our work aims to search critical aspects linked to this fragmented framework, to facilitate those who use the construct of DD. We have elaborated a literary review focused on specific critical contributions to the theoretical and methodological complexity of the construct. Scopus, PubMed, and Scholar were used as search engines. Our research reveals significant problems around several thematic areas: Defining, Operative and Treatment; Economic and Policy; Pharmacological Approach; and Patients' Perspectives Issues. Consistent issues are discussed with regard to DD: innovation should start from its limits. Future research should look for alternative theoretical formulations and consequent intervention experiences to provide new perspectives
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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