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The origins of Georges Hébert’s Natural Method of Physical and Moral Education
No full textThis study aims to resume the founding characteristics of Georges Hébert’s Natural Method of Physical and Moral Education, observing the author at a historical and cultural level and the relationships with the various authors of the time, studying the works that characterized him and mainly analyzing his Experimental method. He devised a method that was first applied in a military environment at the «École du Bataillon de Lorient» and later in a sports en-vironment at the «Collège d’athlètes de Reims». The Method was accredited thanks to the intense activity of literary production, in particular he devoted himself to his most important work: L’Éducation physique, virile et morale par la méthode naturelle. Today we reread Georges Hébert, since he was one of the first scholars to classify human movement, defining the 10 families of «natural exercises». The reinterpretation that emerges from it finds elements that put the body and movement in the natural environment back at the center
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
Everolimus-associated interstitial pneumonia in a renal transplant patient: a case report
No full textThe mTOR inhibitors (mTORi, mammalian target of rapamycin; sirolimus and everolimus) have been recently introduced in clinical practice to improve the therapeutic strategies for maintenance of organ transplant and to slow down the progression of chronic renal failure, thanks to their good immunosuppressive properties and absence of renal toxicity. Additionally, mTORi have some antineoplastic and cardioprotective effects.
At the same time, mTORi have several collateral effects, often dose dependent and generally reversible after cessation or minimization of the drug dosage. In particular, in the last years, sirolimus-associated pulmonary toxicity has been reported.
We describe a clinical case of a young woman with a renal transplant, followed at our Renal Transplant Center, hospitalized for fever and cough unresponsive to antibiotic therapy that, at the time of admission in our renal unit, showed a chest CT scan diagnosis compatible with a drug-related organizing pneumonia or interstitial infiltrates (BOOP).
Based on the above diagnosis, we decided to significantly reduce the mTORi dosage reaching stable trough level of 2.5-3 ug/L.
After few days, we assisted at an improvement of the clinical status, defervescence and reduction of the pulmonary symptoms. Besides, the microbiological and neoplastic laboratory tests performed on bronchial washing were negative.
At day 15, a new chest CT showed a significant reduction of multiple parenchyma areas of thickening. After 3 months, the medical conditions have improved with stable renal function.
Our case report describes an everolimus-related “lung syndrome” successfully treated with a significant minimization of mTORi dosage. Our experience may be useful to help clinicians treating mTORi-related pulmonary complications
P0096- Anterior nutcracker syndrome: ausilio di criteri radiologici per una corretta diagnosi.
No full textValutazione delle misure per la diagnos
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