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Asbestos exposure and health hazards: a global emergency Epidemiological evidence and denial theories
No full textAsbestos and harmful health effects: from denial theories to epidemiological evidence
No full textThe recent episode involving Eternit, a factory in Casale Monferrato (Turin, Italy), culminated in February 2012 with a guilty verdict for the owners of the factory. The indiscriminate use of asbestos, however, continues worldwide, despite evidence of increased risk for conditions such as asbestosis and malignant pleural mesothelioma. In this study we investigate the relationship between epidemiological evidence and denial theories, over the decades and until the present time. Many countries in the world still promote the use of asbestos, with a view to profit and globalization but at the expense of public healt
Storia d'Italia e storia del lavoro. Il "riformismo" storiografico di Stefano Musso
No full textIl saggio discute, analizza e colloca il contributo degli studi storici di Stefano Musso nel contesto della storiografia sul lavoro e sulla storia d'Italia, mettendo a fuoco questioni, metodi e interpretazioni
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
Preliminary analysis of the respiratory disease, based on hospital discharge records, in the province of l'aquila, abruzzo, Italy
No full textBackground. The hospital discharge records (HDRs), integrated by other electronic health archives, besides some contra, can be a valuable and low-cost tool for monitoring public health. Methods. Throughout a retrospective cohort study, we analyzed all hospitalizations in ordinary regime from the HDRs database of the residents in the province of L'Aquila, with the exception of day hospital, rehabilitation and long-hospital stay between 2008 and 2013, with a principal diagnosis of respiratory disease of 460 to 519, according to the ICD-9-CM. We calculated number and standard hospitalization rate (SHR) for respiratory diseases in groups of diagnoses: Pneumonia, Asthma, COPD and Respiratory Insufficiency, Other diseases in the general population in the pediatric population and the over 65s, in the Province of L'Aquila and in the three areas of L'Aquila, Marsica and Peligno-Sangrina. Results. We observed different trends in SHRs in the different areas and for some of the different groups. Conclusions. Diverse possible causes of the different trends are discussed, with a specific focus on a possible relation with the earthquake of the 6th April 2009, since coherent with the related scientific literature
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