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The Early Detection of Breast Cancer for Women in Bologna (IT) after the Offer Reorganization
No full textIn Italy, the establishment in 1978 of a National Health Service (NHS) providing universal coverage for comprehensive and essential healthcare services marked a clear step forward in social policies and the concrete assertion of the safeguard of health. In addition to the universality of access, the system guarantees equality of access to healthcare services and envisages financial contribution from individuals determined solely on the basis of their ability to contribute.
This study intends to present the implications for regularity of checks, quality of services (and costs) of early detection of breast cancer of the solutions adopted after 2010 to deal with the problems of waiting lists and the control of spending for the services of early detection of breast cancer, redirecting the services toward the screening of public health.
The data (2002-2016) from the Regional Health Service of Emilia-Romagna (SSR) on the access to the mammography services in the AUSLs of the region allowed to identify the different paths for the early detection of breast cancer undertaken by the women in Bologna and in the other AUSLs in Emilia-Romagna after these solutions.
In 2002, Bologna was associated with “NO screening”, although not as strongly as other AUSLs in the region. In 2016, Bologna is associated with “YES screening”, although not as strongly as other AUSLs in the region. The young women choose “YES screening”, but the older women have not completely abandoned the spontaneous access to mammography services via the general practitioner's prescription.
The effectiveness of early detection of breast cancer lies in the latest generation mammograms, in breast pathologists dedicated to the reading of mammograms. In addition, the effectiveness lies in maintaining the recommended regular intervals for mammograms and other diagnostic investigations.
With the data made available by the SSR, it is possible to define now different behavior profiles at least with respect to the intervals and regularity of the mammograms received and the quality of the mammography service which is accessed for the different age groups of women. An evaluation of the cost (of the service) and effectiveness of the different “chosen” diagnostic paths is therefore presented
Agroalimentare Idrointelligente
No full textNell'ambito dell'agricoltura regionale risaltano le colture intensive di pieno campo in pianura quali pomodoro e
mais. Si tratta di colture di pregio notoriamente assai sensibili allo stress idrico. Nell'impostazione concettuale del
progetto si prende atto che per l'irrigazione ottimale attraverso tecnologie di precision farming e' necessario 1.
mettere a sistema tutte le fasi del ciclo produttivo e 2. associare alla sperimentazione nuove tecnologie il controllo
diretto sul campo.
Questo approccio ha al cuore lo sviluppo sperimentale di una Piattaforma informatica di trattamento dei dati
acquisiti e la loro integrazione nel sistema IRRINET, i.e. l'ufficialita' del "consiglio irriguo" in Emilia Romagna. Le
fasi progettuali che determinano il flusso in ingresso nel fulcro del progetto prevedono lo sviluppo tecnologico di
dimostratori destinati alla produzione industriale di: 1. una piattaforma tecnologica innovativa composta di unita'
sensibili ai gas ed onde elettromagnetiche, 2. soluzioni integrate sensore-drone dedicate alle colture di mais e
pomodoro.
I dati di valutazione dello stress idrico forniti dalle attivita' di progetto, in ingresso in IRRINET, saranno restituiti
dallo stesso come ricetta irrigua (rateo variabile). Affinché quest'ultima possa essere somministrata in modo
efficiente e rendere credibile l'obiettivo dell'irrigazione ottimale, il progetto prevede lo sviluppo tecnologico di
dimostratori destinati alla produzione industriale di: 1. un sistema di controllo per l'interfacciamento della ricetta
irrigua con apparati di irrigazione semovente e 2. nuove combinazioni tecnologiche per il raggiungimento di una
effettiva precisione degli apparati di irrigazione a rateo variabile.
Il raggiungimento degli obiettivi di progetto introdurra' importanti innovazioni rispetto ai "consigli irrigui" oggi forniti
a piu' grande scala da IRRINET (CER) o da Societa' private (spesso privi di validazione)
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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